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Toss that golden coin within your pocket into darkest, deepest Ullswater. It's never coming back --- in an amount equal to itself, or multiplied ten thousand-fold, for when it finally surfaces it will no longer be gold. You choose a lonely path when you choose to wander all alone under lofty canopies of sickly shaded sycamores among the rocky outcrops of lichen-covered stone, down into the cold valley that is waiting, gaping down below. Those who choose to settle by the shores of that freshwater rarely know the beauty of the sunshine others know. Yet the course of their own histories, lost unto the fray, has made them most familiar with the shifting wall of gray of that dark oppressive landscape; looks more and more foreboding, it’s weight sat like an omen on the skyline; a vivid warning as clouds cluster up and blacken, see how they loom ––– see how they threaten a particular brand of violence to anything below. So starts torrential downpour; batters hard upon the canvas, amplifying each and every droplet ––– each and every sound until it forms a brutish drumming lacking rhythm, lacking structure, lacking any sense of timing pounding hard upon the ground and there’s the baying of the cattle, so very sad and distant, I could lose myself to Sorrow and just stay that way forever. Makes me think of missing children lost to heavy weather, dark and gusty midnight snowfall --- wandering lost upon the edge…
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2. |
All Go
03:01
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A dream of indigo under a dark blue vista
Feeling like this lull is going to last forever
And I don’t even want to know
And I don’t even want to know
A girl with chestnut hair is going to make me better
Promises she will if I would only let her
So I do --- I did, I let my grip
Fall away --- it was never the same
All go.
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
Must the shadow of doubt always darken my day
A hungry black dog in each and every alleyway
I wonder why I feel so low
I wonder why I feel so low
Trouble in mind won’t let me settle
Worried I am yet to learn the hardest lesson
And when it hits, I swear, I will throw in the ring
I will burn myself and everything
All go.
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
I don’t see it --- I don’t feel it --- I don’t even know
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3. |
Richard's Office
03:39
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So. You've been called to Richard's office
Richard's mad and he'll make you sorry
And Richard knows your rights
Despite your tears, he'll sleep tonight
We've all been there, once or more
Silently hope to be swallowed by the floor
While his suit goes tight in rage
You swear you'll leave but you need the pay
Yet if I had a penny for every time he'd thumped his chest
Or every time he'd banged upon his desk
I’d be looking at a goldmine
And I wouldn’t ever have to come back here, I guess
I could buy this place and shut it down
And say, “Hey Richard, how’d you like it now?”
And say, “Hey Richard, how’d you like it now?”
“Hey Richard.…”
“Hey Richard.…”
“Hey Richard.… How’d you like it?”
“Hey Richard.…”
“Hey Richard.…”
“Hey Richard.… How’d you like it?”
“I know full well that I am terrible at my job
And that my conduct of late can only be described as ‘wrong’
If I put half as much effort into doing things right
I could improve my life overnight”
Still, if I had a penny for every time he'd thumped his chest
Or every time he'd banged upon his desk
I’d be looking at a goldmine
And I wouldn’t ever have to come back here, I guess
I could buy this place and shut it down
And say, “Hey Richard, how’d you like it now?”
And say, “Hey Richard, how’d you like it now?”
You've been called to Richard's office
Richard's mad and he'll make you sorry
You've been called to Richard's office
Richard's mad and he'll make you sorry
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Yes it is evening, it's always the evening. Out in the garden, I am freezing. Candle still burning, your coat on my arm, my breath in the air and the air is calm. The tiles in the bathroom, the paint on the door, the things that need mending, your clothes on the floor. You won't pick them up at all. You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
I saw a serpent biting its tail and a host of angels drowning in flame. I've seen beauty lost, un-replaced --- all I know is that I have to wait. The sky is on fire if you look to the West where the fields burn black and the city is lost. There is nowhere safe for me anymore. You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
Although I didn’t know
I didn’t know
How could I not know!?
My friends are all scattered throughout time and space but we come together when the effort is made. I've been to more weddings than funerals to date, but I'm aware that one day that will change. Waited one Christmas for the birth of a boy in a hospital ward filled with women and noise. I'll write you your own song, until then be sure, you are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
You are the one that I've been waiting for
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5. |
Year Of The Shark
04:03
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-PART ONE-
Staring at the green of the cold North Sea with the wind beating down on the old country and I'm tired. I am tired.
And no sound comes out when I want to shout; there is a hole in my head full of bullets and lead and I'm tired. I am tired.
I see you hiding in the sea
Shimmering flecks on aquamarine
The age of Aquarius, the year of the shark
Swimming, silver, in the water --- a light bulb in the dark
And there's no way I am getting my hair wet
and there's no way I am going out there
and there's no way I am coming out to join you when I’m already drowning right here and I'm tired. I am tired.
I see you hiding in the sea
Shimmering flecks on aquamarine
The age of Aquarius, the year of the shark
Swimming, silver, in the water --- a light bulb in the dark
No, no, no, no, no. I'm drowning.
No, no, no, no, no. I'm tired.
I see you hiding in the sea
Shimmering flecks on aquamarine
The age of Aquarius, the year of the shark
Swimming, silver, in the water --- a light bulb in the dark
-PART TWO-
I shot a soldier in the hand and he'll never shoot again and the tide washes everything away
Down the barrel of gun at another human and the tide washes everything away
The enemy is within make sure that you don’t work for him --- hold that thought in your memory
There are spies everywhere, just be sure there are none here --- hold that thought in your memory
Oh, sail away from these rocks, there's many sailors lost --- hold that thought in your memory
And there's no way I'm getting my hair wet
and there's no way I'm coming out there
and there's no way I'm coming out to join you
when I'm already drowning right here and I am tired.
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6. |
Dudley Edwards Skies
03:41
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Turn off your eyes and take flight to Dudley Edwards skies
Turn off your eyes and take flight to Dudley Edwards skies
Tender dream wait for me
We could meet behind sandcastles on the sea
We’re not young but we’re free
Tender dream wait for me, wait for me
Tender dream wait for me
We could meet behind sandcastles on the sea
We’re not young but we’re free
Tender dream wait for me, wait for me
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Tossing and turning on a sea of teeth
The Girl In The Swing always helps me to sleep
And not for the first time in my whole life
But I fucked up pretty bad this time….
Here at the top of my skull, I wonder, how could it be
If hearts are little liars and are not to be believed
And you say I am insolent
Oh, I’m incomplete
I’m a forest fire on a city street
But I don’t want to be
I’ve got a life to lead
And you say I’m juvenile
I’m an awful friend
I’m a runaway train at the railroad’s end
Something I don’t want to see
That’s not even me, no
I was sailing away upon a lake of sweat
Every harbor filled with poison regret
And I wasn’t sure if I’d survive
So I brought a pistol to your knife fight
Here at the top of my skull, I wonder, how could it be
If hearts are little liars and are not to be believed
And you say I am insolent
Oh, I’m incomplete
I’m a forest fire on a city street
But I don’t want to be
I’ve got a life to lead
And you say I’m juvenile
I’m an awful friend
I’m a runaway train at the railroad’s end
Something I don’t want to see
That’s not even me, no
Some ride for a woman who has no name
Some ride for a king
Me, I ride and ride for The Girl In The Swing
Race like a phantom through fields of snow
You ask me if I know what love is, well sure I know
But hearts are little liars and must be treated so
If hearts are little liars and I don’t want to know
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8. |
No Exit Signs
02:55
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There she stands before me in a dim-lit afterlife ---
She's a devourer of worlds
As the morning breaks I surcome to the illusion
She is there for me and I for her
If you’d told me this yesterday or the day before
I would not believe it to be true
I'm absorbing all of the light so deep, you see, I,
I have lost perspective on you
Sat awake in bed for I do not dare to dream
Those visions in my head sing low
There's water all around as I slip and sink away, deep
Deep, deep down to depths untold
If you’d told me this yesterday or the day before
I would not believe it to be true
I'm absorbing all of the light so deep, you see, I,
I have lost perspective on you
Standing before me she speaks the immortal lines
There are no exit signs ---
Standing before me she speaks the immortal lines
There are no exit signs --- you're mine!
When you're smiling at me, I'll believe anything you say
Even if you told me I was dead
I'm faintly aware of the trouble I'm in
But where’s the rationale in what she’s said here?
There is no rationale
No exit signs
And no way out
There’s no way out
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Dinosaurs
03:46
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So, here’s a little girl with a message for the world
But all you want to do is knock her down a peg or two
It’s all you want to do
Dinosaurs.
She will not rise to your tactics
She can see straight through your words as she is
She is straight-talking, and direct of thought
And you; Dinosaurs.
Got a sick feeling in my belly
Like a lead weight, feeling gravity’s pull
From inside me, what a time to Be
To be alive, during times like these
The audacity to breath
Dinosaurs, you’re all dinosaurs.
Get the fuck out the kitchen!
Get out of the kitchen.
Take your awful opinions
And yes, I’ve seen you on the BBC
You’re blinkered and tired
And the worst kind of liar
A Dinosaur!
Take heed of the signs
Call in Faith, call in Science
You stand to cash a bad cheque
Stand for all our regrets
Got your head in the sand
Still got feet on dry land
When the house is on fire
When the weather is wild
When the time’s set to change
When the truth is unveiled
When that lesson is learnt
All that money you earned
Put it back in the Earth
And lament what it’s really, what’s really, what’s really, really worth
So go little girl, address the leaders of the world
Despite what they’ll do, what they’ll try do to, to you
Dinosaurs
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Bad Vibrations
04:23
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It’s like the city is burning to the sound of all sin,
The stench of death in the evening and the burning of skin
When the pressure is on you must defuse, the bomb --- Defuse the bomb!
You are lost in the world
I never chose this path. Decisions I could've made.
I never thought to ask if there were other paths to take
Oh, please close the curtains, I just feel so worthless --- I feel unworthy!
I am lost in the world
Of bad thoughts and bad things --- hear alarm bells ring
I’ve been feeling negative, Darling and I can’t help but sing
Of bad thoughts and bad things --- feel the bad vibrations ---
Darker days are coming Sweetness, tomorrow will be here soon
With the tossing and turning of the things I forgot
And the things I’m still learning and the things I must not
Hey, don’t trust anyone --- know your enemies, son --- my son --- You are my son!
You are on view to the world
Between the idle and greedy, the straight and the true,
The poor and the needy, you will have to choose
Honesty is hard while covering your cards --- And your heart!
Hide them from the eyes of the world
Of bad thoughts and bad things --- hear alarm bells ring
I’ve been feeling negative, Darling and I can’t help but sing
Of bad thoughts and bad things --- feel the bad vibrations ---
Darker days are coming Sweetness, tomorrow will be here soon
Ah, yes.... the ink I bleed on these faint ruled lines
As my pen runs riot and then runs dry
Tells only of half-glimpsed scenes
But these are my thoughts; these are my dreams
I confuse them all with the life I’ve lived
And sing of things as I see fit
So you can try asking --- there isn’t always an answer to provide
I walk up and down this treble cleft
A piece of me in each note pressed
And maybe I was Eustace Grimm
But the fact remains that I’m not him
And if I was, I would never say
I’m just not honest in that way
It was just a feeling --- that was the feeling at the time…
Bad thoughts and bad things --- hear alarm bells ring
I’ve been feeling negative, Darling and I can’t help but sing
Of bad thoughts and bad things --- feel the bad vibrations ---
Darker days are coming Sweetness, tomorrow will be here soon
And yet the fever is easing, I’m awake once again
But the worry I’m feeling just won’t go away
Get it out of my throat --- bring the sponge and the soap --- Go get the hose!
I am naked and on view to the world
I am naked and on view to the world
I am naked and on view to the world
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In The Dark
03:55
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Hello my Lady, I can see you're shaken and cold ---
Lying there lonely, like you're alone.
I know there's twilight scratching at your door ---
I see your problem; I see what you're fearful for,
But you are still young, anyway.
Hello my Lady, I can see you're shattered and scared ---
Lying there lonely, oh, it's not fair.
I hear there's trouble between you and the Lord ---
So melancholy just lying there, flawed,
But your time’s not done, anyway.
Welcome to the realm of sadness --- we see many tourists like you
Come feed the monsters in their cages as you pass through
This forsaken place could be your end like many travelers before
Beasts and demons wait in the dark to snatch you if you fall.
Hello my Lady, I can see you're shaken and cold ---
Lying there lonely, like you're alone.
I know there's twilight scratching at your door ---
I see your problem; I see what you're fearful for,
But you're still young, anyway
And your time is not done, anyway.
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Our Flame
04:11
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The two of us dancing through the humid dark
Wildly swinging this torch in a bright burning arc
To let our love be seen from all the highest hills
We set those beacons burning --- may they burn there still
But what’s a good old-fashioned fire to do?
Except burn through me and burn through you
And all of the things from which we fashioned our lives
And the things that keep us safe in the darkness of night
Still you can burn all the negatives. Burn all the proof
I am both lost and found when I’m with you
But what’s a good old-fashioned fire to do?
Except burn through me and burn through you
Everything echoing out in the dark
No sound comes back as reply
Oh the worry of it all
No, we mustn’t tell a soul ---
Lovers are not welcome anymore
So say you’ll take me with you when you go
You are the brightest flame
In the darkest place I know
I’ll forever say your name
So say you’ll take me with you when you go
To the place where the glowing tongues of candles sing your praise
A blinding light so bright and white where my soul is claimed. Yeah,
Say you’ll take me with you when you go
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William
03:38
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“William, will you let me ride to war with you? I’ve seen your flags, I’ve seen your infantry blue, so say you’ll let me ride to war you. Summer’s over and the harvest’s through and I would surely make good company too.”
“Oh, let your heart be stilled.
Christ alive”, I cried
And died once more inside
You close the door
and let Death pass you by
Distant on the breeze
Distant on the breeze
It comes, it comes ---
“Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” ---
Voices of the people gathered there
Gathered to wave away the dead
“Brother, I won’t have you ride to war with me. Work your land while you are still free.
Keep the home fires bright for me. Your death is not something that I want to see on the blood-soaked mud of the low valley.”
“Oh, let your heart be stilled.
Christ alive”, I cried
And died once more inside
You close the door…
Distant on the breeze
Distant on the breeze
It comes it comes ---
“Hallelujah! Hallelujah!” ---
Voices of the people gathered there
Gathered to wave away the dead
Gathered to wave away the dead
Gathered to wave away the dead
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14. |
All By Myself
02:25
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When they come, looking for me
I’ll be entirely still, I’ll try not to breathe
They will come, beating their drum,
Take me under your wing, I’ll pay you in kind
All by myself --- in sickness and health
All by myself --- there are no words
In the sun, the wonders of love, life, death;
Fill up my head, the picture erodes
When they come looking for me
I’ll be, entirely still, I’ll try not to breathe
All by myself --- in sickness and health
All by myself --- there are no words
My thesaurus has burned
I’ve learned what I’ve learned for you
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Never understood how
I got so worn out
Became so boring ---
Once was exciting
All seems like yesterday
Did it all just sublimate?
In the blinking of an eye ---
One of two that’re so tired
And all I say now is
Can’t understand how…
But Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
All the days of my life
Lined up in a neat line
Where I kissed my first love
The house where I grew up
All the friends I once had
Came and went like fickle fads
Gone into the shadows
Left for Time to swallow
What then do I know?
It’s the Henry Boring Show!
But Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
When the war was all won
Couldn't stand what I'd done
But it was only orders
Perimeters, borders….
What about my children?
What did I teach them?
When did I lose them?
What would I say to them?
Something quite awful
Makes me uncomfortable
But, Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Nothing really matters
In the unravelling of Time
Love lies in tatters
Shreds of gold throughout my life
All precious Memory
So don’t you worry
Don’t you worry about
Worry about me.
I love this old town
But something broke down
Still so much happening
Always gently humming
Behind a white piano
It's a song we all know
It's sad and real slow
Just stops when we’re old
But let me be clear
I’ve lived and died here
So Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
Baby, don't you worry ‘bout me.
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16. |
Let Us Go Back
03:19
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At the turn of the century
Things weren’t so great
It was kind of barbaric ---
The poverty into which I came
A social order
From another age
It shackled me tight
And would have suppressed me to the grave
I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.
And I try to remember my mother
She was… gentle and kind
Unlike my brute of a father ---
An aggressive drunkard, most of the time
I must have been around ten
When it really hit home
That this was no life here
And one day I would kill him or go
I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.
So I let it be known
That I was leaving home
This place --- had a sickness
That through the years, I had come to know
And I knew there’d be hell on
When he got back
But I boarded that train anyway
And I, I never looked back
I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.
I ran
For Dear Life
I ran
And I closed my eyes.
Tight.
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So you're stuck here, polishing trinkets that you know will never sell
While the sun goes down behind the shutters, this town is cold and, out of season, it's hell
And all the lovers have left town
The streets are empty now
And you're stuck here.
Once again, as the waves go out, you wonder if they'll return
Just another doubt --- but of course they do, they always do and that's the only lesson you've learned
And all the lovers have left town
It's nearly Christmas now
And you're stuck here
All in all, a pretty bad year
But you're here because they pay you, Dear,
and I know your heart is dulling ---
they say worse things happen at sea
so strike up your courage
and leave
Because all the lovers have left town
It's unrecognisable now
And you're stuck here
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Friends
03:04
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Tried to party all night but I crashed out 'round twelve-thirty
Tried to party all night but I really wasn't thirsty
And I wasn't going to go, I tried to stay at home but they made me
Yeah, there's something going on but I'm a stay-in Stacey
And if I don't get back alive
Or if I don't make thirty-five
I’ve had a wonderful time, thanks for coming to see me
Had a wonderful time, but I read the signs, I'm leaving
And I wasn't going to go, ‘cos I’ve forgotten how to partáy
Tried to party all night but I threw up outside Carpe
And if I don't get back alive
Or if I don't make thirty-five
Keep holding on
Keep holding on
Keep holding ever-shifting shapes and bodies out in space, anon
Hey, that’s friends, holding on
And if I don't get back alive
Or if I don't make thirty-five
Keep holding on
Keep holding on
Keep holding ever-shifting shapes and bodies out in space, anon
Hey, that’s friends, holding on
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19. |
Song For Dave
02:00
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Tonight, I’m going out murderin’
With my doctor’s coat and my doctor’s hat
And my doctor’s tools in my doctor’s bag
And it’s only ‘cos I’m lonely tonight
Tonight, I’m going out stranglin’
Got my stranglin’ scarf and my stranglin’ gloves
My strangler’s stare and my strangler’s clutch
And it’s only ‘cos I’m lonely tonight
Will you be there when I call?
Oh yeah, of course, I disconnected the phones
AAnd I know full well you are home
Because I can see through your windows
And it’s only ‘cos I’m lonely tonight
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20. |
The Line That Divides
03:18
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I went out hunting in the wintertime ---
Nobody saw my arrow pierce his heart
Nobody else saw him die
Our breath hung silent in the frozen air ---
My arrow held, suspended in the light
As I took the glint from his eye
And in that moment, everything is life
Then, in a bygone time I saw you
Standing in the kitchen, making bread
The house alive with lavender oil
And I remember what you said ---
About the line that divides the living and the dead
And in that moment, everything is life
And I wonder if I can really go on
As I shuffle closer to the edge
Of something new, something dangerous
And I remember what you said ---
About the line that divides the living and the dead
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21. |
Song For My Forefathers
03:36
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Beneath a big black cloud in a dreamless sleep
There is nothing but earth receding
Falling from my feet and I too will fall
My body will fail, and I will fall, and I hear you call out
--- “Hey, don’t you go, before I can get to you…”
And then the Coroner sighs a great big sigh.
She’s sighed it many, many, many, many times
And it falls out of her mouth
Expressed instinctively as a big black cloud
You can call it Death if you want to speak it out loud
Here I sing in the open West ---
I’m just trying to pay my spiritual debts
Strike up the funeral band.
Wreaths and coloured garlands, warm clasped hands
Forefathers, friends and family ---
I’m just trying to pay those spiritual debts
“Everything turns back to sand”.
Wreaths and coloured garlands, warm clasped hands
The rigors of Time, so indifferent.
Consistent. Relentless, pure and simple
In the back of my mind it features,
Always in the middle distance.
Look back at the love in life I built up as resistance
Do ones who went before me wait for me to come
And the ones I knew in life come to greet me when I’m done?
Oh yeah, if you see the Glory before I do
Will you meet me at the station when my train comes through?
When my train, oh, when my train comes through
When my train, oh, when my train comes through
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22. |
Medicine
03:42
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Baby take your medicine, don’t you go again. Saw you take to the air, fell like leaves down the stairs and since then we've both been slipping away. Clinging hard to these shapes from which our bodies are made but you're looking at me like a ghost.
Above the noise in the street, you wake in soaking sheets again. I try cool your brow as you lie back down looking like you are dead, apart from beads of sweat on your pretty forehead. I get such a deep sense of dread.
You’re so far away, I can't reach, I can’t take it.
You’re so far away. I can't reach.
In the canticles of love there must be reference to, somewhere, this heavy-handed blackness that has driven a wedge so firmly between me and you --- a constant companion always bearing his teeth, whispering false wisdom and grief
Oh, where your mind's been I can hardly begin to believe --- you tried to soar in the air like a bird on a prayer, and for a moment, you were free of your cares only you tumbled down so hard to the ground --- and your sadness is destroying me!
Because you’re so far away, I can't reach, I can’t take it.
You’re so far away. I can't reach.
But I’ll stay by your side and that’s how it must be anyway. So come on do your worst, I can share in the hurt and I’ll try keep firm my beliefs despite your two eyes like burning coals in the night --- oh, please take your medicine for me!
Maybe lessen the sound of the world falling down all around --- try pull the thorn from your side, lift the veil from your eyes. Baby, I want all of you! Not just the tears in my eyes long after you've died --- me and you, we belong in this life
But you’re so far away, I can't reach, I can’t take it.
You’re so far away, I can't reach.
You’re so far away, I can't reach, I can’t take it.
You’re so far away. I can't reach you….
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23. |
My Fear
03:30
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I’m sorry to tell you, I’ve forgotten your story
The one that you told me a long time ago
The memories have faded, like ink on the pages
The stone has eroded, the words have been lost
An edit, a rewrite, a change to the tempo
Familiar shapes moulded, to fit a new dream
Voices escaping from under the covers
Telling a story that once was unseen
‘Cause tomorrow will soon come
And you’ll think about what you’ve done
In the calm, before the fears set in
And you look into their eyes, and realise
You can’t save them
I didn’t want to stay here
It wasn’t my idea
And so I locked the door
And locked away my fear
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24. |
Low In The Morning
02:58
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Low…… in the morning, in the morning….
Sickness and poison are doing me in, canvas opinion from saints
As you cry your desert dream goes by
Buy it in bottles dispense at a whim, feel like a badly made film
In your corduroy skin you feel so
Low…… in the morning, in the morning….
Low…… in the morning, in the morning….
And I’ll take to the streets with my message,
Even though it may be hard to defend
This I’ll do with my life yet to spend
And you’re looking at me and I’m finding it hard to even pretend
That I will still be here in the end
I get so low in the mornings sometimes, my friend
Passion of intellect, liberty, books, across the hill seabirds agree
You are what the world is waiting for
Forget the hollow, the training of skulls, demand our attention again
I think then you might not feel so
Low…… in the morning, in the morning….
Low…… in the morning, in the morning….
Low……
Low……
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25. |
Running
03:40
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Hear the carrion call
On the westward wind
As a new tear forms
And rolls down your skin
Always the trouble is
O, the time that it takes
To kill a man with your bare hands ---
A choice you should never have had to make
There’s blood on your sleeve and you’re running to me
There’s blood on your sleeve and you’re running to me
For a days on end a hard rain falls
As your mind explodes with fearful thoughts
Through the mud of the fields and the moss of the trees
Don’t get caught --- keep up your speed
With the wind at your back they are hard on your heels
You have so far to go but you know how it feels
To be young and in love but there’s blood on your sleeve
And you’re running to me
There’s blood on your sleeve and you’re running to me
There’s blood on your sleeve and you’re running to me
I will keep you safe
O, I will keep you safe
There is nothing in this world that would cause my arms to break
Once they wrap around you --- you out there in the dark
O, keep running to me
(((...I can hear your heart...)))
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26. |
The Lighthouse
04:24
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A silent and dark light streaks over the edge of the abyss
Searching for that lost thought, nightmare or forgotten sin.
With an abstract ability to conjure, manifest, form and bring to the minds eye nothing but wicked thought and Satan prayer…..
It pirouettes independently in the desolate vacuum of thought. Seeking. Always seeking.
Beneath the waters edge, a foam and raging angst which batters relentlessly at jagged rocks while formations of serenity dance, translucent in the misty dark
A forgotten poem, a song, the memory of a child; only to trickle away as the darkness, never forgiving, forces them down into the drink
Clarity; shrouded in dark, dense blacken fog; silent, is ever searching for the other side of the darkness but can only ever muster sadness, just like the missing children lost to heavy weather in deepest, darkest Ullswater
It is weak, it has no strength or purchase, it is easily dissuaded and the darkness knows it, it loses purpose or reason and slips even when it hears a happy song no matter how loud or how beautiful
Instead, it fades away into a sad voice which hangs in the air like a led zeppelin awaiting its inevitable fiery doom
It’s a constant battle akin to a scene from Paradise Lost, secretly knowing Satan is the real hero. A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Then, suddenly and without warning, the darkness lifts and clarity, sanity and serenity reveals itself
Like a never-ending photographer’s flash or a bolt of lightning which stays in the dark clouds forever, the light which has been missing for an aeon, finally arrives
Relief, happiness, a weight lifted, forgotten kind words between friends come flooding back
Only the joy which should soar doesn’t last for long, but not because darkness triumphs over light, but because I feel lost without it
I miss the darkness, I long for the searchlight of misery to hunt out those torturous tales and past sorrows
Without the weight of sadness upon my shoulders, I feel like I could lift off at any time
A lucid dream, clutching on to the coattails of a nightmare
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Silverlode Leeds, UK
Silverlode is a folksome indie rock band from Leeds.
A folk band in the broadest sense of
the word; dogs of pop; self-taught musical ruffians who play to their own traditions. Reinventors of self and prone to playing their songs in a myriad of ways, join Silverlode on their mythological journey through history, future, fantasy and good times via their ever-evolving music.
DIY since 2001.
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