B i o g r a p h y (by Official Press)
If Sarah Slean first appeared on the Toronto live circuit in 1997; the release of her independent debut EP Universe followed soon afterward. Already an accomplished, classically trained pianist, the Pickering, Ontario, native pursued her studies in the music program at the University of Toronto while gradually carving out a name for herself as a charismatic, ebullient live performer. When a number of relatively high-profile opening stints helped Slean sell over 4,000 copies of Universe, the major labels soon came knocking. After much deliberation and a reported bidding war, Slean eventually struck a joint deal with Warner Canada and Atlantic in the U.S. The unorthodox pact allowed Slean to release a full-length independent album before her contract kicked in; the resulting record (1999's Blue Parade, released independently on Big Brother, her own label) showcased Slean's significant maturation as a songwriter. When coupled with her wistful delivery, Slean's contemplative, piano-led pop drew immediate (and well-founded) comparisons to the work of artists like Tori Amos and, to a lesser extent, Sarah McLachlan. In independent terms, Blue Parade was an indisputable success — not only did it frequently register as Canada's most popular independent record on weekly sales charts, but it also helped Slean's burgeoning, intensely devoted fan base develop on an international level. After another slew of live shows (including a living room tour with Tory Cassis), Slean retreated to a New York studio to record her long-awaited major-label debut. An eponymous EP followed on Atlantic in the summer of 2001. And what about that much anticipated ‘debut' album? Night Bugs was released in 2002 and won critics' appraisal immediately. Sarah Slean describes the genesis of her fourth full-length album Day One as occuring in the summer of 2003 when, as she puts it, her house burnt down. It's her metaphor for those periods in life when everything seems to be crashing to the ground at once. The fallout from this particular four alarm fire was so great that it sent Slean scrambling for a change of scenery. Sensing that she needed solitude, she left her Toronto home and took residence four and half hours away, in a remote log cabin just outside of Ottawa. It was there that she spent countless evenings in total isolation, thinking, drawing and composing new material. "I had to go out with my little container to get water every day," she says proudly. "I would recommend it to anyone." By the time she returned home over four months later, she was absolutely bursting to get back into the studio. Renewed and creatively charged, she felt a far cry from the bruised and emotionally exhausted person who began the experiment eighteen weeks earlier. "I went to the woods because I had my 20s explosion," she explains. "'What am I doing, my life isn't noble, this is meaningless.' I knew I had to come back because my piano was going to die over the winter, and when I did I thought 'If I don't make a record right now, I'm gonna lose it.' It was buzzing from my fingertips to my toes." Back in the city, Slean tapped producers Pete Prilesnik (Sarah Harmer) and Dan Kurtz (of live house band The New Deal) to help with production duties. An accomplished programmer and bassist, Prilesnik's rhythmic sensibilities proved the perfect counter to Slean's melody-driven ear. "The reason I chose them was because I figured out in my cabin that what I loved about the music that I collect - Radiohead, Bjork, PJ Harvey - is its rhythmic structure," Slean says, adding that the idea came to her one night as she was dancing to music booming loudly off the cabin's wooden walls. "I had a revelation: duh, it's rhythm! And it's rhythm that I don't understand. I have harmony under my belt, I completely understand the math of it, I've studied it. Western harmony is a beautiful structure that if you understand, it's like you speak a language. But I don't understand rhythm, and Peter and Dan have that." Recorded in Toronto over a five month period with Prilesnik and Kurtz, Day One is Slean's wisest and best-realized record to date. Ranging from the torch light moodiness of opener "Pilgrim" and the cabaret-noir of "The Score" to the stunning balladry of "California" and the uptempo pop of the album's title track, Day One communicates its central themes of ruin and rebirth while still retaining a sense of optimism and playfulness. "The image I had in my head was someone who's broken down and really struggling, dirty and almost spent, crawling but still going, by the roadside," she says. "Your wings are poking out but in order to get to that stage you have to have suffered. You have to be in the mire, you have to go down into the dark and be terrified by yourself and your fears and your weakness. I wanted the whole flavour of the record to be revolutionary - a really strident awakening, one that occurs after a great amount of sorrow and destruction." Co-produced by Slean herself, Day One includes guest appearances from Toronto singer-songwriter Howie Beck and Billy Talent guitarist Ian D'Sa. Beck appears on "Vertigo," while D'Sa can be heard on the album's lead single, "Lucky Me". "I've known Howie for years and I love and respect his work, so we did a little swap," says Slean, who in turn lent string arrangements to Beck's forthcoming album. "We needed someone who could do a really aggressive guitar tone," she says of D'Sa. "Ian came in and absolutely killed it." Conceived and created entirely by Slean, the mixed media artwork that accompanies Day One is yet another product of that fruitful four month hiatus. "When I was in this cabin, I painted furiously, like I've never painted before. I couldn't believe it. And this is what I was doing - I would cut out little things from books and then I'd start drawing around it. They were all small because I wanted to finish them that sitting, and so I made piles and piles of them." The vaguely apocalyptic overtones to Slean's artwork aren't just representative of her headspace going in, but also of how she sees the world these days. As evidenced by the lyrics to "When Another Midnight," Day One isn't just about personal rebirth, it's a call for Renaissance; surely not such a bad idea, given the world's current political climate. "Five years ago I thought things were bad but they couldn't get much worse," Slean smiles. "But something's gonna happen, it's gonna be something major, and I really feel that it's going to be artists and people that love art and care about art are going to facilitate that change." "Maybe that's idealistic," she concludes. "But idealism is the only thing in the world that's ever saved anyone."
Eliot Weight Duncan St. Francis Drastic Measures Book Smart, Street Stupid Dark Room Sweet Ones Me, I'm A Thief My Invitation Bank Accounts
Black Flowers - 2009-06-02 - Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye Black Flowers I'll Never Tear You Apart Lodestar To Cry About Dandelion Wine Eyes Are The Flowers Monarch Dress Rehearsal Rag
Closer Comfortably Numb Compatriots Hear Me Out Lilac Wine Missing Me Modern Man I & II Oh Man! Parasol The difference is why Us And Them What Child Is This
Universe Weight What did I give to you What did you give to me A nothing-trail of silences that warp in the rain You said I don't really know the reason It's just not the same What a vacant breath when When you say my name And do you know the weight i'm under When everything revolves around you you you you Soon the shoulder falls All forgotten handshakes Names like falling leaves Apathy will spread like wildfire Take you away from me I'm leaning out the window Gonna catch the august rain I'm gonna fill your mouth up Make you live again And do you know the weight i'm under When everything revolves around you you you you Soon the shoulder falls I know Loud mouth, suits and ties Liars, with money and girls The kind you fit in your pocket I can't save them from this darkness My sisters, I love them all My faeries pinned against the wall I know what you want And I know what you want And I know Doll, made of paint and china Your worth lies only in these But you're real to me Little bones, will you break these legs like twigs now There's pain here you'll never have to feel Never have to feel I know what you want And I know what you want And I know And I would fight a thousand men I'd fight fire and wind and rain I'd cry a river of tears for them The bodies floating there Christ-like and bare Tell me, is that fair There are some things I can't forgive Some things I just can't forgive Some things Jesus, I thought we had an understanding The fact that you can buy a woman Makes me want to die Where were you last night Jesus, jesus Where were you And I know what you want I know it all too well And I know I know Angel I bought my angel on the fourth of july I didn't plan it, it just happend that way And I guess fate stepped in again, ‘Cause I needed him then. When I bought him they said, “are you sure No refunds, returns or exchanges because Once he's yours, he's yours for good” Now you behave like an angel should ‘Cause I saw it on tv They were selling pieces of heaven And I thought, “hey, what about me When am I considered” I chained my angel to the eavestrough It was november and I think I pissed him off He's mad but I don't care You're my angel, so there I figure it's only about sixty more years So come on angel, stop all the tears Come sing me a song or two Whatever it is you angels do ‘Cause I saw it on tv They were selling pieces of heaven And I thought, “hey what about me When can I make reservations” My pet angel's got a long lost friend Who says he's coming back when the world ends, When us humans have lost our touch... God never liked people that much ‘Cause he saw it on tv They were selling pieces of heaven And he thought, “well, how can this be What in the hell are they thinking” Me & jerome Here's a story ‘bout me and jerome I just convinced him to come out of his home Free as freedom with the highways to roam He said ‘i'll take a drink, but I don't smoke anymore, no' He loosened up when we hit tennessee Drinking bourbon and laughing at me I asked him why he disappeared so suddenly, He said ‘i ran away before they made a movie out of me' And i'm charmed, charmed, charmed Glad to take a ride. You're a song, song, song my friend At lunch we split a book and a banana pie On the interstate I ran out of gas Had a vision of the motel we passed The needle was falling, and falling fast Pulled her in the drive and the whole thing collapsed I'm charmed, chamed, chamed Glad to take a ride You're a song, song, song my friend At lunch we split a book and a banana pie He said ‘I must admit I've never done this sort of thing But I like your eyes and the way you sing It doesn't matter where you ought to be How you get there's the thing' I'm charmed, chamed, chamed Glad to take a ride You're a song, song, song my friend At lunch we split a book and a banana pie Universe Once I took the universe to dinner When she failed to yield to earth's demands ‘oh,' she said ‘you mean that little ant farm I'm alright, dear, I've got other plans' And we're sad because we think we don't belong here We're guilty ‘cause we think we should be stars Floating in a navy soup, we're sailing There you are There you are She's so bright And then she's gone Don't mind me I'm just sailing On a sunrise It's my favourite thing And when are you Going to realize I don't blame you I never have And when she talks she fills the room with sunlight She can name her babies, every one I've returned to the place of my beginning And I can see her turning off the sun And we're sad because we think we don't belong here We're guilty ‘cause we think we should be stars Floating in a navy soup, we're sailing There you are There you are She's so bright And then she's gone Don't mind me I'm just sailing On a sunrise It's my favourite thing And when are you Going to realize I don't blame you I never have Pie jesu Pie jesu domine Dona eis requiem Done eis requiem Pie jesu domine Dona eis requiem Dona eis requiem Dona dona domine Dona eis requiem Sempiternam requiem Sempiternam requiem Sempiternam requiem Pie jesu pie jesu domine Dona eis Dona eis Sempiternam requiem Sempiternam requiem John xXIII Inside the heart Of freezing boys Searching for the answer In a shiny dime Who beg for sleep And peace of mind Why must the aging page Decide Me and john the 23rd have Tasted these sour words and i Just can't shake this belief that it's not a Test of devotion, or something you read From the dawn of time They taught her why Not to ask those questions And to never cry A plate of stars Could never take the place of the Boy who swore to catch me As I run through the rye I know it's been quite a long time since I Sang a hymn without guilt in my eyes And I believe he truly wouldn't care ‘Cause if you really tried, he'd save a place for you there My weary heart Is looking, restless Not for a pardon But just one promise All the faith that one can deserve It's enough to wonder why you punish your girls Sure he's facing you now, and not the wall, but wasn't that Better than facing nothing at all
Climbing Up the Walls (Radiohead Cover)
I am the key to the lock in your house That keeps the toys in the basement And if you get too far inside You'll only see my reflection I am her face when she sleeps tonight I am the pick in the ice Do not cry out or hit the alarm 'Cause we are friends 'til we die And any way you turn I'll be there Open up your skull I'll be there Climbing up the walls Climbing up the walls It's always better when the light is off It's always best on the outside And in the crack of your waning smile Fifteen blows to your mind Oh, so tuck the kids in safe tonight And shut the eyes in the cupboard Do not cry out or hit the alarm You'll get the loneliest feeling That any way you turn I'll be there Open your skull I'll be there Climbing up the walls Climbing up the walls Climbing up the walls I am the key to the lock in your house That keeps the toys in the basement And if you get too far inside You'll only see my reflection
Blue Parade Playing Cards with Judas Playing Cards with Judas in the lounge of our hotel And I ask while we're playing if he likes it there in hell Judas doesn't answer, he just laughs and plays his hand Lights another cigarette and turns toward the band I have no missionary zeal I say No armies fighting sin But I'll keep playing, I'll keep playing Until I win I always loved the blues he says from behind that grin I stack and deal them again Your friends have good intentions, But they're a thousand years too late A few buildings and commandments Won't save you from your fate. I have no missionary zeal I say I don't believe in sin But I'll keep playing, I'll keep playing Until I win Bonnie's Song Innocent Sunday Morning As Plain as the Sunday before I thought as she told me her story I don't think I can hear these anymore Charting a map of land mines Asleep in the settling dust How come we never remember How many times you picked yourself up? Hey that's the way to go We need to know pain to grow But you're right, it's a long way home By the light of Eve Broken and Bold I am reminded of Bonnie When the day breaks into dark I think there's nothing more beautiful Than a face that has come so far Hey that's the way to go We need to know pain to grow But you're right it's a long way home By the light of Eve Broken You're the bravest girl In the whole wide world Light of Eve Broken and Bold My Invitation You are what they call the human season You are all the alphabet in one You are every colour of confusion You are all the silence I've become Love me for Stupid reasons I like those most Wide-eyed but Worth believing God knows Damn the angry voice that keeps us queit The editor whose work is never done Keeping pretty words between my teeth and Sweet confessions underneath my tongue Drowsy contemplation Do I let you in This is my invitation But how do I begin? She has such an awful lot of soldiers Quite a lovely army all her own Night and day they stand before the fortress Very safe but very all alone Before Your Time Who wants a genius anyway Who worries if he's had enough sleep? I'd take the bad news anyday If it meant you were mine to keep Sweet is the certified nervous wreck Who now and then likes to appear To lecture the night and the empty space And sleep in the cradle of my ear A few pills a day keeps the anger away "The people can go," he says, "the furniture stays." Trying to find a warm place to hide Maybe born before your time How unfair to our human eyes How I wish you were alright 'Cause I worry... Hello to the ghost of the eighty-eight My favourite Canadian mess Remembered the sound of the galaxy and came here expecting no less How many nights did you lock up in side of that Terrible lonely streak and those beautiful eyes Trying to find a warm place to hide? Maybe born before your time How unfair to our human eyes How I wish you were alright 'Cause I worry about you. Habit Think I should take up smoking Maybe even cigars Think I should be leaving now I don't know who you are Have I a reason? Am I a liar? Am I poison? Am I alive? There there don't cry And I feel fine Choke and dissolve like a child I don't mind There are two drinks on the table I trace the design There are two eyes pleading But they're not mine Stiff resolution To fight to survive I maintain indifference All in favor say I You want it you want it you try And I see why You need her you love her you die When she's not Strapped to your side Twin Moon Hey Mister Paper Better get your story straight We're not from the sixties And it's Sarah with an h And, oh, sometimes The way you read things The way you see things The way you reach things Hurts my heart Oh, I fear Somehow you'll find the need To spit out my name Like a watermelon seed And, oh, sometimes I think 'what am I doing? This business of bleeding' A dime for showing My heart Oh, twin moon You are my twin moon Take me up-sky So I can kiss you Drink your starlight Oh, twin moon You are my twin moon Take me up-sky So I can kiss you Drink your start light I want to show you I want to show you I want to show you My heart Awake Soon Awake soon The mindstorm I feel I feel the stars out The fear goes I soar now As far as I can carry you As deep as deep No thief can take away from you The way you have taken from me His mouth full Of loose teeth I see I see The liar is weeping And down on his knees The light no longer terrifies The grief gone to sleep So beauty came with agony But sweet Oh every love is sweet High Always wondered why your eyes closed Don't you want to see me closing mine? Heaven, help me, I'll devour him See me drawing out his spine Hey, boy, come sleep I will turn the ocean into sky How do you keep When the love is making you high Out of sight, out of mind High You're afraid of what I'll do to you Recall the taste of something sweet Between a thousand sheets of memory I cannot be blamed because you're weak Hey, boy, come sleep I will turn the ocean into sky How do you keep When the love is making you high Out of sight, out of mind High Eliot Armies and ice and dirty green Newspapers shovels sand on the breeze I think of Eliot when I smell the street And it's sometimes wise just to shut your eyes Workers and lovers make their living space neat Bent out of shape over what to eat I dream of Eliot but I am discrete Cause its sometimes wise just to shut your eyes How sure how right Can anyone be on sight? I said I had hope I lied The city in winter, the sewage the steam You fill buildings with people And they rip at the seams And somebody's suffering infected my dreams And don't they know? It's just my old soul How sure how right Can anyone be on sight? I said I had hope I lied So calm so wise Give him the Nobel prize He said he had hope He lied Blue Parade I hear them coming The blue parade They're throwing snowflakes And singing my name In deep blue voices I hear them say There's good love out there Just you wait You wait oh hold on I'm coming Don't let anybody in He don't read stars now 'cause he's Getting old So busy neutralizing So much it leaves me cold And how could you lie How could you leave And take of my body My hands My deep blue dream Oh hold on I'm coming Don't let anybody in Oh hold on I'm ready Lock your doors and wait for me Now leaves are falling From the mercy tree The blue surrounds me So I can get some sleep and Katie calls then she'll say There's good love out there just you wait you wait Oh hold on I'm coming Don't let anybody in Oh hold on I'm ready Lock your doors and wait for me Oh hold on I'm coming Don't let anybody in Oh good love I'm ready Lock your doors and wait for me Narcolepsy Weed Look at you Broken bird Narcolepsy weed Highway-side Like a puppet cat You can't wake I can't sleep And now they've got you Stealing cars and chasing lullabies How will I drag you out of motel daydreams When will you realize? I don't make sugar promises Like dandelion seeds Lying still With open palms I'm only watching you breath They talk like they know Like they believe But I'd bet the brotherhood That if they found you here They'd leave Oh good day orphan town Peace is raining down Warm your hands On my shoulder blades My parents gave me this peace Who we are is how we love That is all I need So tell the morning Night is lifting And mauve is moving in Like the steam that rises From the garden beds Your pain finds the wind Oh Good day orphan town Peace is raining down Good day orphan town Peace is raining down I Want to be Brave (Madeleine)
Madeleine Shall her story end? With this aftermath music, My broken French? Heal her, if you can Pray the lions aren't waiting Take her hand I want to be brave, I want to be brave But the night goes up in flames The courage we need A fury to tame This madness, madness, madness No more, will I count the dead Bending gathering words I should have said When the night falls It scrapes its knees We watch the houses on fire And she says to me I want to be brave, I want to be brave But I don't think I'll love again The dark is so deep I've lost my way In this madness, madness, madness Over time, luck runs out And fate is not your friend Over time, good must go And are we safe, safe yet? Madeleine, Can I escape again? Out of a dragonfly jar Am I safe yet?
Nightbugs
Eliot
Armies and ice and dirty green Newspapers shovels sand on the breeze I think of Eliot when I smell the street And it's sometimes wise just to shut your eyes Workers and lovers make their living space neat Bent out of shape over what to eat I dream of Eliot but I am discrete Cause its sometimes wise just to shut your eyes How sure how right Can anyone be on sight? I said I had hope I lied The city in winter, the sewage the steam You fill buildings with people And they rip at the seams And somebody's suffering infected my dreams And don't they know? It's just my old soul How sure how right Can anyone be on sight? I said I had hope I lied So calm so wise Give him the Nobel prize He said he had hope He lied Weight What did I give to you, what did you give to me A nothing trail of silences that warp in the rain You said I don't really know the reason, it's just not the same Oh what a vacant breath when you say my name Do you know the weight I'm under When everything revolves around you Soon the shoulder falls All forgotten handshakes names like falling leaves Apathy will spread like wildfire, take you away from me I'm leaning out the window gonna catch the August rain I'm gonna fill your mouth up, make you live again Do you know the weight I'm under When everything revolves around you Do you know the weight I'm under When everything revolves around you Soon the shoulder falls Duncan Whatever happened to Duncan? He was a good boy they say The girls all wanted him to dance with, The boys to play, to play When the policeman came knocking She didn't know what to say Except his shoes and socks were all gone, It seems he ran away Oh you fool you fool! Don't give in to fate If this is all we've got to fight for, Rage my darling rage! Duncan good for you! Sad but on your way Well the army never turned his crank But love sure made him brave A sweeter infatuation Oh you'd be hard pressed to find He loved so deeply and madly He nearly lost his mind And oh behold the mayor's daughter She was a treat for the eye Why this is the only thing to live for Just made you want to die! Oh you fool you fool! Don't give in to fate If this is all we've got to fight for, Rage my darling rage! Duncan good for you! Sad but on your way Well the army never turned his crank But love sure made him brave This is holy war! We must fight and fight again And go a thousand times for the sake of love But never once in vain St. Francis Just like St. Francis The little birds come Lonely for a little warm You give them your music But they just want a song Oh no, I'll never learn But I'd make beautiful sounds, I'd lay you down like A lover would My pride, still standing straight But looking back I wasn't so brave I wasn't so brave Flying through tunnels At the mouth of New York Sometimes, I belong here But it's funny how leaving Turns the emptiness up The hole you never heard before Oh I laugh in my hands A kiss from that man like A melody My pride, still standing tall But looking back, I wasn't brave at all I wasn't brave at all, was I? I'd make beautiful sounds I'd lay you down like a lover would On the phone, I started to say But then I stopped I used to be brave I used to brave Here's hoping next time we'll get it right Drastic Measures I should go to drastic measures Steal enormous works of art Write a piece for eighteen violins It's no march But it's a start They rub their eyes and wake distracted Frantically they fill their days Please say I will never be like that Safe, politely dazed Politely crazed Don't you want my love It's a cloud it's a broken boat But it might make you laugh a bit Easier I'm like the trees in the midnight parks Oozing danger igniting sparks We've been left by the viaducts With the last flame Of the universe I never held a truer notion Then when my dear I held your hand May your shadow always follow you Through our getaway plan Our master plan Don't you want my love It's a cloud it's a broken boat But it might make you laugh a bit Easier I'm like the trees in the midnight parks Oozing danger igniting sparks We've been left by the viaducts With the last flame Of the Universe Crazy Don't you want my love? It's a cloud it's a broken boat But it might make you laugh a bit Easier I'm like the trees in the midnight parks Throwing tantrums igniting sparks We've been left by the viaducts With the last flame Of the universe Book Smart, Street Stupid I was born by an old streetlight Where the men lean out of Their windows at night And I was a lead in the orphan choir, And I sang with all my might Until I grew up Too high then oh, All the notes I used to play On the double bass in the b-list ballet With only the night bugs to lead me home With their sad-luck serenade The rain was never ending, The sadness in my heart Would light and glow in the dark Oh this will never change, Time just wears a prettier face I'm book smart, street stupid So don't look for me in confession booth, I'm with my paints and my pens And my dry vermouth Trying to uncover Some small truth With these cards close to my chest The rain was never ending The sadness in my heart Would light and glow in the dark Oh, this will never change Time just wears a prettier face I'm book smart, street stupid The rain still never ending The wonder in my heart Would light and glow in It still lights and glows in the dark Dark Room The town is crouching A field of windmills waits, their stupid heads turning Stirring the night's bath. Bundles of vapour hang over the factories Whose lights blink and loll like sleepy eyelids The moth in the lighthouse breathes with its prehistoric parts. I feel the night snicker. It was here, Tangled among the litter and old valentines I found my coma leaking A branch punched a hole In the quiet that was keeping me And Suddenly All the sleep fell out Rolling over the hills in a dark warm wave Vices of the orphan choirs threaten to overwhelm Speeding through the skeletons of trees Pulling their bodies bent The wind's terrible symphony tore out my longing by the toes My ears were emptied and renamed. The balm slid off like a bubble of oil and Died pitifully under the choirmaster's heel I was gutted and clinging on like a dish rag - But so on fire with believing That when the storm introduced itself I put my finger in its mouth Sweet Ones They're counting on a guilty conscience to save you But I'm banking on the deep blue eyes and the face too They always said always said always said you were easy If I could have just one piece of that I'd be sold Come over to the sweet ones baby I'll tell you where to go I can't see them when they're walking sideways I don't know I don't know Come over to my house I'll tend to you solo So fabulous and well dressed up like a talk show They always said always said always said you were easy If I could have just one piece of that I'd be sold Come over to the sweet ones baby I'll tell you where to go I can't see them when they're walking sideways I don't know I don't know Oh so sad we Love you madly Want to take you home If I could have just one piece of that I'd be sold Come over to the sweet ones baby I'll tell you where to go I can't see them when they're walking sideways I don't know I don't know Me, I'm A Thief
Here comes again Blood in the vein Seven a.m., the cars come Gotta fly, gotta say goodbye Leave them before they leave me Turning the sheets Rolling in his sleep He wants me to go faster I know that she's somewhere underneath But I don't know how to find her Me, I'm a thief I'm a falling star I'm a photograph taken From where you are I love you still, always will Here's hoping you'll be waiting, but I Gotta fly, gotta say good bye Gotta find out what's aching Me, I'm a thief I'm a falling star I'm a photograph taken From where you are So, shed your tears That's what they're for I don't expect you to understand this war I go quietly No, you don't get me No, you don't get me Oh, me, I'm a thief I'm a falling star I'm a photograph taken From where you are Shed your tears That's what they're for I don't expect you to understand this war Me, I'm a thief I'm a falling star I'm a photograph taken From where you are Shed your tears That's what they're for I don't expect you to understand this war Me, I'm a thief Oh, I'm a falling star I'm a photograph taken From where you are So, shed your tears 'Cause that's what they're for I don't expect you to understand this war My Invitation You are what they call the human season You are all the alphabet in one You are every colour of confusion You are all the silence I've become Love me for Stupid reasons I like those most Wide-eyed but Worth believing God knows Damn the angry voice that keeps us queit The editor whose work is never done Keeping pretty words between my teeth and Sweet confessions underneath my tongue Drowsy contemplation Do I let you in This is my invitation But how do I begin? She has such an awful lot of soldiers Quite a lovely army all her own Night and day they stand before the fortress Very safe but very all alone Bank Accounts I have a future I have substantial bank accounts Make lotsa money And hope it don't run out I am a beauty It just takes me four, five hours a day Is this the game I'm supposed to know How to play? I had a dram that I Was carvin' up the inside track What a disease when I Put my faith in Welcome to Eden Hope that you'll have some time to shop While makin' investments Sleepin' your way to the top Business is business Especially this water into wine Is this the game I'm supposed to play Every time? I had a dream that I Was carvin' up the inside track What a disease when I Put my faith in All or not at all! I had a dream that I Was carvin' up the inside track What a disease when I Put my faith in these
Day One
Pilgrim A little blood and vomit on the car seat And the tooth is sitting in my lap Brother if you're hungry but not wounded Then it's time to stop and check the map Pilgrim Where's your head at? Are you paying the birds to sing? Well it won't work On the true path Where the wretched are growing wings If the ancient wisdom came in bottles I would tell my terror where to go But I don't know who would do the dishes 'Cause I'd be lying wasted in the road Pilgrim Where's your head at? Are you paying the birds to sing? Meet me On the true path I'll be dizzy from growing wings My tears My tears My kicking up the love dirt I fear It's the only way Pilgrim Whatcha lookin' at me for? My disaster has come and gone It left me By the roadside With my shadow And one more song
Lucky Me
Science wears a new suit To his coffee, toast and eggs But he has to skip the stairs now 'Cause of two broken legs Whine, whine, "I cannot climb" Every time's the same I'd be more inclined to help him If he could remember my name And you're sad, And you're sorry. Well let it all out. What are you running for? This is your chance Be ready. I'm taking my seat O Lucky Me Faith can't fill the dance hall 'Cause her powers have declined But at the beauty pageant She will always take the prize. Light, light. Easter White Roll her in the dirt, When it comes time for kneeling she'll say " You go first." And you're sad, And you're sorry. Well let it all out. What are you running for? This is your chance Be ready. I'm taking my seat O Lucky Me A wise man once tried to tell me How to sugar-coat the grave But the game is for the adults And I don't know how to play O where will I go? Toss me out to sea When the jar's all out of candy don't come blaming me. And you're sad, And you're sorry. Well let it all out. What are you running for? Tell the whole world! We're waiting. I'm taking my seat O Lucky Me
Mary
She's looking up and out to A galaxy A fateful boat trip 'cross a northern sea And on a frosty window She writes her name O daughter, this is how she became Mary Go ahead and have your little baby Mary Toughest of the tough but still a lady I've all the courage I'll ever need I wax poetic on my enemies The century is raging But so are we No matter what I know I 've got a Symphony called Mary Go ahead and have your little baby Mary Toughest of the tough but still a lady Out of dark days, stay up airplane Take my last name, stay up airplane Go ahead and have your little baby Mary Toughest of the tough but still a lady Mary Toughest of the tough
California
I went to California I met a lovely man He rubs a wedding finger Without a wedding band He knows better anyhow His kisses are just all in his eyes I know better I know better still I wish I was By your side The taxi open window The summer on the wind I'd ask about a lover But how would I begin? He knows better anyhow His kisses are just all in his eyes I know better I know better, still I wish I was By your side Day One
I put my head back Where it belongs up there in the clouds I'm spreading love like a terrorist now O what a morning O what a day to be alive Sweet hope is glowing in your glorious eyes Pushing paper ain't enough I bet you think that you're so tough But all your green won't mean a thing at all On day one Day ONE After Boy Wonder After the dream came out of the mines Bus boys and bankers Were wiping their eyes Be still my lionheart! A revolution ready to pounce All passioneers Up and out of the house! Beauty faked a heart attack, Now I feel it coming back And all your green won't mean a thing at all! On Day one Out in the Park
Don't you know what time it is? It's the new time All disciples gathering by the boats But your revolution is chasing its tail, You love to take the wind out of my sail But not this time In between commercial breaks It's a new war. Men with books have run away to the coast All the ladies quit calling them back And starting plotting a counter attack You foolish animals! She's out in the park conducting the birds Trying to remember which bicycle's hers, Filling her pockets with handfuls of dirt It's amazing Out in the park For sale, forgetfulness, At a new price I saw it advertised on T.V. But all the children were busy outside, Building sandcastles skyscraper-high You foolish animals! She's out in the park, conducting the birds Trying to remember which bicycle's hers, Filling her pockets with handfuls of dirt It's amazing Out in the park By way of the dark... The summer sun will be ours... Out in the park, fight the war! What are your hearts and your wheelbarrows for? Lean on me man, I don't keep score! Out in the park conducting the birds Covering France with the trail of her skirt! Singing a sermon to beautiful earth... Out in the park Vertigo
The heavens dropped a bag of red and white lights Pearls that keep the highway bright And it feels like being born, night driving The moon hangs a dangerous height Terrible calm, Terrible cold This dream I have, it's gold Easier now, a place to go Vertigo The faces drop like flies their memory fades Into the rushing road below I can take this night any night Just try to tell me no Terrible calm, terrible joy This dream I have, it's gold Easier now, a place to go Vertigo I am full of love and consequence Merciful the sky of coal The beauty of the cars, electric light The speed with which their destinies glow When Another Midnight
When another midnight comes to rest On the cheek of our sleeplessness All the crusaders will wake and dress Pull their flags from their pillowcases You could hear all of Eden hold its breath On this the anniversary of wonder's death Unholy occasion what a terrible mess Oh it's time for a new dress How to live a noble life In this the age of insanity When every prophet's face is turning white It's the look, the look of "Can it be?" It's shock, it's horror, it's despair! It's Socrates weeping in a wheelchair Teacher drooling, unaware "Where are my students where, oh where?" Poet to poet, nun to nun I've met a distance that I have to run No matter what madness must come undone I'm throwing down a smoking gun All the commuters will hear our words And hide in garages like frightened birds but You can't stop the moaning of the Earth And the midnight crackling of my nerves! Come out, come out! Angels of love It's just the sound of another midnight falling Come out come out It's not the end of the world It's just the sound of another midnight falling Come out come out! The time is now! The Score
Oh I Rented a motorbike And all night I had the Fear... But onward, Oh how the terrifying choice was clear So white! The moon was a wicked sight His cruel wife Had cut off an ear When the fog cleared I heard the voices of a million cheer This time The pleasure's all mine I've got your number I know the score I'd be a hopeless romantic But for the fortune I made in gold My heart bent Towards the circus tent A man in red Beckoned me near In his wild eyes I saw the faces of a million cheer He said, "This time, The pleasure's all mine I've got your number I know the score And you and your hopeless romantics Will wipe the highway I pave in gold..." In his wild eyes, Oh how the terrifying choice was clear This time... Oh the pleasure is all mine I've got your number I know the score And I'd be a hopeless romantic... But for the fortune I made The fortune I made The fortune I made in gold Your Wish is My Wish
In my mind-storm I did carry you Through the briars of disbelief Through the woods of lethargy Through a groaning dark so deep I thought I died In the fountain I did cool our feet Under red and rainless skies Singing ragged lullabies Through the grief all advertised In neon lights Baby your wish is my wish And I have only this From now on Baby your wish is my wish Keep on running to the door I hear Beauty crying in her sleep So I bent for one more kiss And her tears will turn and twist We make bliss to end all bliss And all time Baby your wish is my wish And I have only this From now on Baby - your wish is my wish Keep on running to the dawn Running to the door... Keep on running to the dawn I hear Beauty crying in her sleep Wake Up
Wake up Wake up You don't want to sleep through this Night has fallen and all the stars are coming out O the sky's a lullaby Like That sweet little light of mine Come out come out It's not like we're strangers here No more lying here waiting, the sun's coming up O that hole made of gold is Like That sweet little light of mine Somebody's Arms
Old record playing on my own radio And I know it's time to go Get up and out of this black hole I gotta get it right I gotta quit these drugs I gotta get inside Somebody's arms Tonight Can't remember who I was before Tonight Oh my heart is halfway out the door Tonight Sweet city come on give me a handful of stars I'm ready for the midnight show I'm gonna light a fire On the street I love I'm gonna get inside Somebody's arms Tonight Can't remember who I was before Tonight My heart is halfway out the door Tonight I gotta get it right I'm gonna quit these drugs I'm gonna get inside Somebody's arms Tonight Can't remember who I was before Tonight Oh my heart is halfway out My heart is halfway out the door Tonight Can't remember who I was before
Orphan Music
Last Year's War I put this battle in a box With my military thoughts And the days where I'm almost at my end Seems to me quite clear now Now that you are here how Easily I could begin again I'm still bloody from last year's war With liars and lovers untrue And hey you with your stars out I have no angry words for you You didn't have my heart yet But you stopped before we started So now you tell me what you want me to do I can start believing I can watch you sleeping But I can't hold my breath 'til she comes back for you I'm still bloody from last year's war But no longer drowning in the flood And hey you with your stars out You've kissed again, don't you see you've already won? You're still bloody from last year's war Your bandages your bullet holes like mine And I'm here with my stars out You say you're scared well so am I
Wilderness When's it gonna come out Day or night or dream I'm hiding in the mountains Waiting for a breeze I'm no good at keeping secrets And this one's gonna bleed Gotta have a baby On my hands and knees Oh oh wilderness Where's the bird that knows the way I aim my fire at emptiness Oh I can hear the monster Scratching at the door Wake up, wake up, my little darling I'm back for more Oh I think about my nightmare One worm at a time Leaking all my courage Waiting for a sign Oh oh wilderness Where's the light that leads the way I aim my fire at emptiness I aim my fire at emptiness
Little London Night Little London night Shiny pavement Yellow, red and white Oh that I have seen this The women and the men A theatre so thin and Danced to death When do they know they mean it? A grey light in an English Room My head so full of missing you You, my lover you. My lover Say you know Oh when we are young No night's too long The boys all think they need it And then it's time to leave The starlight on the stones under our feet Did i count to ten or dream it? A grey light in an English Room My head so full of missing you You, my lover you. My lover, oh, say you know Say you know Say You know
The Baroness
Hopeful hearts So we take the path not taken Down into the fields of war Sword alone, her shield forsaken This, the right we're fighting for Hopeful hearts are moving targets I don't know how i survive We go out like birthday candles Then, like suns, we rise, we rise What's black is white the moment you fall You'll fly, give us your dead They live again in our hopeful hearts Fiends and devils in the garden Take their fill and leave me scarred But i still have my secret weapon This, my brave and hopeful heart What's black is white the moment you fall You'll fly, give us your dead They live again They live again What's black is white the moment you fall You'll fly, give us your dead They live again In our hopeful hearts Get home Well you can stay the night You can look me in the eye You can fake your way To the finish line But don't you dare profess to love me When you're lying to another That's not love That's just wishing Wish and love are not the same thing, yeah Get home Get home Take a look at her You know You know That you love her Mister masquerade You're getting good at this charade Go on fool yourself With talk of poetry Don't you dare pretend you're sorry To me you're just a tourist You got to stand next to the real ones But you know you'll never be one, yeah Get home Get home Nothing more to say You know You know That you'll never change Oh you'll never change And i don't play the game With liars and cowards Liars and cowards With liars and cowards Like you Get home Get home Nothing more to say You know You know That you'll never change Oh you'll never change And i don't play the game With liars and cowards Liars and cowards With liars and cowards Like you With liars and cowards Liars and cowards Liars and cowards Like you Euphoria Take me, love me Invade the portions of me That are dark and warm and deep Hero, oh hero I'm glad that you are here So take your love and take your leave Now how will I fall asleep? I'm onto you Euphoria You've been the maze in my lovers face I'm onto you Euphoria This state of grace I could've held him But alas the dawn compelled him To walk into the street His arms are swinging And maybe he is singing With those lips that now taste like me How am I supposed to fall asleep? I'm onto you Euphoria You've been the maze in my lovers face I'm onto you Euphoria I'm onto you Euphoria Oh you've been the maze in my lovers face I'm onto you Euphoria This state of grace Goodnight trouble I watch late night planes Leave cool, white trails And my trouble took flight Goodnight trouble Goodnight I kissed my friend And he took my hand And my trouble took flight Goodnight trouble Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight, goodnight Goodnight Free falling now In my place among the clouds Yeah my trouble, it took flight Goodnight trouble Goodnight Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight Goodnight trouble Goodnight Notes from the underground Notes from the underground With the mice who must write our lives down In the night i hear you calling out to say It's all right love, you're in good hands Tears on a borrowed bed Between walls that are painted somebody elses red If you hear me cry, i'm calling out to say It's all right love, you're in good hands Still out on the roof Howling at the moon Exile, another exile in the kingdom Still out on the roof All i need is you Exile, oh we are exiles We do Love with a love they hide Dream with a dream they cast aside Oh the truth will form and fall apart again It's all right love, you're in good hands Still out on the roof Howling at the moon Exile, another exile in the kingdom Still out on the roof All i need is you Exile, oh we are exiles We do Trust the likes of you and i They kick our purses aside But we know the road is wide That's why Still out on the roof Howling at the moon Exile, another exile in the kingdom Still out on the roof I'm a dreamer too Exile, oh we are exiles We do Sound of water Just to hear the sound of water Just to put the fire on ice I'm lying down in the shower Oh mercy, loosen the vice Sometimes the sword is so heavy Your pain has a ravenous mouth In the pits of my own making Sometimes I don't think I'll ever get out Oh the world's stroking their comas New madmen making the news Bent over like a beggar I was saying "it's no use" This ain't a world for intelligent women Unless you like swimming in your own dark sea These are times are for urgent rhymes But where, the poetry Then the light The light is hard to find When you're walking blind You only need to change your mind Your mind Wide awake and hope infected I became a glittering queen Every light in my direction Was a bright, magnificent green But go on with invisible riches I saw my stitches glowing so bright No, the burden was not heavy No, it was light When the light The light is hard to find When you're walking blind You only need to change your mind You only need to change your mind When the light The light is hard to find When you're walking, walking blind The light The light is hard to find When you're walking blind You only need to change your mind You only need to change your mind No place at all No place at all to call my own Still wandering the world And friends of mine are moving on Getting comfortable cars, getting married In someone else's neighbourhood I hear a telephone Who lives in those well lighted homes With their windows aglow, in the evening Look at me crying in my sleep No one has to rescue me No place at all The sun goes down beyond the trees No sound, no trace of wind The world is calm and beautiful But it's breaking my heart completely Look at me crying in my sleep No one has to rescue me It's plain to see I'm no place at all I'm no place at all Oh look at me crying in my sleep No one has to rescue me It's plain to see Could it be I'm following this reverie To nowhere and nobody To no place at all To no place at all Please be good to me I carried my heart unbuttoned Across the lonely stage Where all the fools and actors Circle like birds of prey But careful with the rose She knows every word and every scene Oh please be good to me I let the liar have me The forger and the cheat Love is the legal tender They tried to steal from me Tell me how you lose What you want to give away for free Oh please be good To me Where loves light shining Is where the coldest heart shake But when it's shining on you The winter melts away I don't want to know Oh so I just want to feel the heat Oh please be good to me Oh please be good Oh please be good Please be good to me Willow Willow tree By the seine Where the gods lie How I love to look at you With all my aching eye Winter comes Winter kills Let it go by There'll be better days Willow, don't cry Little stars Shine afar In the dark sky You're the one I'm wishing on With all my weary might Tell the trees If you please That it's all right There'll be better days Willow, don't cry Don't cry, don't cry River bend River sigh River so wide Wash away the worry From my weary heart tonight Love comes Lover goes Let him go by There'll be better days Willow, don't cry Don't cry, don't cry Don't cry, don't cry So many miles These feet have walked so many miles And on so many continents Still this heart is beating wild Is yet of no great consequence But oh when the rhythm is right I'll catch a wind and fly Far beyond these Paris nights Into another consciousness The fortune-teller isn't right It's scary, it's glorious And oh i know this time I'll catch a wind and fly So many miles, those days are gone You're still alive, and left us so So many miles So many miles I open up my weary eyes To gaze upon the furtherment But again I'm under foreign skies But longing's all that's permanent Oh I know this time I'll catch the wind and fly So many miles, those days are gone You're still alive, and after so So many miles So many miles And oh I know this time I'll catch the wind and fly So many miles, those days are gone You're still alive and left us so So many miles So many miles You're still alive and left us so So many miles So many miles Shadowland I have been to the shadowland They heard the empty call Of hatred, anorexia Misery and alcohol By their hearths I warmed myself To escape from the winter years Until I saw in the window, Myself crying fire coloured tears Love, the only alchemy Love, the killer of despair Love, the patient samurai Love, the armour angels wear Love And they turned away the prophet Because she was young and full of longing Instead they turned to the magistrate Who was busy yawning And they tried to sell me holy books But I can see their eyes are wild I caught them pouring shame and fear Into the perfect vessel of a child But love's the only alchemy Love, the killer of despair Love, the true nobility Love, the armour angels wear Love Love will make your eyes clear The order of the universe The only reason we are here Looking for someone I've been looking for someone But I don't know his name All the faces before me Well they all look the same But there's got to be one face And one pair of eyes That'll light me on fire When they're looking in mine Oh I'm looking for someone Oh I'm looking for someone For many good years now I've been walking alone When I know when I find him It'll feel like home When the wedding is over I'll be able to say I'm so glad that i waited For this day Oh I'm looking for someone Oh I'm looking for someone Oh I'm looking for someone Who's looking for me When the wedding is over I'll be able to say I'm so glad that I waited For this day Oh I'm looking for someone Oh I'm looking for someone Oh I'm looking for someone Who's looking for me
Lonely Side of the Moon The wind makes a terrifying sound It wants to pull the lid off Earth It wants to tear the heavens down It seems like Nature verses Man But the battle is absurd All the cards are in her hand Graceful animal How clumsy you can be I will make a mess of you If you make a mess of me But there's always the lonely side of the moon You can live on the lonely side of the moon Observe the glacier bowing out Like a brave and threatened queen Who knows there's no way out Be afeared if you think gods and men conspire The human drama burns While the stage is catching fire Deep dark ocean Cherry tree in bloom If there are no mockingbirds How will I find a tune On the lonely side of the moon If I live on the lonely side of the moon Oh so beautiful Can this be the end Let me learn your miracles If I am to start again On the lonely side of the moon When I live on the lonely side of the moon
The rose Will the birds be singing When my life is done And all the seasons of me have come and gone Plant me in the garden where the willow grows And from my sorrow, a rose How high the moon How deep the ocean I never knew ‘Til now As the curtain closes there'll be no surprise, When the anthem's playing we know to rise Every living creature was born to close their eyes But love the great magician, never dies.... How high the moon How deep the ocean I never knew till now For the years of sadness I will not mourn For in the deepest darkness courage is born How high the moon How deep the ocean.... How high the moon I never knew Til now
*** Thanx a lot to Cameron for this one ***
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen) I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Many loved before us, I know that we are not new In city and in forest they smiled like me and you But now it's come to distances and both of us must try Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that's no way to say goodbye I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme You know my love goes with you as your love stays with me It's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea Let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that's no way to say goodbye I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Many loved before us, I know that we are not new In city and in forest they smiled like me and you But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that's no way to say goodbye Black flowers (Lynn Miles) Well I live beside This old coal mine The whistle blows Everyday on time But the rain pours down And the wind blows hard Black flowers Grow in my yard When I lost my man Down that old coal shaft I swear I heard The devil laugh And the angels left And they took my heart Now black flowers Grow in my yard And the undertaker is a busy man He's got a clean blue shirt He's got soft pink hands He's got a paved driveway And a brand new car Black flowers Grow in my yard And when the baby cries I sing hush little one But I swear that I'm gonna come undone When the rain pours down And the wind blows hard Black flowers grow in my yard Black flowers grow in my yard Black flowers grow in my yard I'll Never Tear You Apart (Martin Tielli) The tiger waits in the bushes by the lake But I'll never tear you apart With a love so pure Our knees will shake and tremble There were tracks in the silt Where the stream becomes still I'll never rip out your heart You're such a gentle a beast You never got tough like I got tough Like I got tough The faces in the window They're just my friends I promise I won't let them in Oh, they live in the corn Where they die and they're born Where the blades go around Churn up the ground To open the over-toiled soil oh baby, oh baby, oh babe Slashed 'cross the back Your spine almost snapped I put three bullets in its face And I hung it from a tree For the other ones to see What happens if you mess with me Lodestar (Sarah Harmer) Out of the night, into the water We push the boat from shore Breaking the air and the stillness of the bay Intensity of stars reflected in the harbour Silently ignite The oar dips into oil like water And we are away Your hand won't write Not tonight But your mind may wander Into those deep lagoons that you know And your boat will go by starlight alone Da da da da da da da da You sang to the moon In the great black night With no lodestar in sight Out of the night Out of the water We pull the boat back to shore Breathe in the air and the stillness of the bay And your boat will go by starlight alone Da da da da da da da da Under the moon in the great black night With no lodestar in sight And wait for it There are only two things now This great black night And that fireglow And listen The darkness rings The darkness Listen The darkness rings And wait for it There are only two of us now This great black night, scooped out And that fireglow Listen The darkness rings The darkness Oh, listen The darkness rings The darkness Take off your things Listen To Cry About (Mary Margaret O'Hara) You take a walk I'm by your side You take my life I'll give you mine You, you give me something to cry about You're in my heart I'm in your hand You drop me off I miss you and you You give me something to cry about Oh, in a pinch you listen to me You are any scene wants to see, to see There will be a timed disaster There's no you in my hereafter But I, I still feel for you after you go You, you know better than to cry Cry about it You're in my heart I'm in your hand You drop me off I miss you and you You give me something to cry about This is your rock This is your land Take up your cross Strike up the band And I, I still feel for you after you go And you, you know better than to cry And I, I still feel for you after you go And you, you know better than to cry Cry about it Cry about it Cry about it Cry about, cry about, cry, cry Dandelion Wine (Ron Sexsmith) And when I think of her It's with the warmest thoughts I took so much from her I really learned a lot How to dust off my heart How to make it shine How to take a field of dandelions And make dandelion wine Such sweet and simple days Though bitter tasted the wine We drank it anyway For love had made it fine When the world was young When the road was bright And the morning poured Its golden light Like dandelion wine Oh I believed in us Long before deceit and lust Had lost the trust Forgive me girl Forgive me girl Now when I sing to you It's with a heavy heart I took a love that was true And tore it all apart How can I let go Of all those times With the memory of her hand in mine And dandelion wine And dandelion wine Oh I believed in us Long before deceit and lust Had lost the trust Forgive me girl Forgive me girl Now when I sing to you It's with a heavy heart I took a love that was true And tore it all apart How can I let go Of all those times With the memory of her hand in mine And dandelion wine And dandelion wine Eyes are The Flowers (John Southworth) Eyes are the flowers That I gaze into Though I may suffer From a broken moon I see a world of light I see a world I can't describe In the flowers of your eyes Eyes are the flowers So alive with spring Spring is the fire That my heart once dreamed Why on my darkest night Why when I thought that I would die Was I dreaming of your eyes And if eyes are the flowers Then your love must be the rain That will heal me And lift me to grow And if eyes are the music Then my heart must be the strings And if I can see your eyes Then I know I will be going home Why on my darkest night Why when I thought that I would die Was I dreaming of your eyes And if eyes are the flowers Then your love must be the rain That will heal me And lift me to grow And if eyes are the music Then my heart must be the strings And if I can see your eyes Then I know I will be going home And if I can see your eyes Then I know I will be going home Monarch (Feist) The Queen had a feint and had a fall Don't give me ether or open my vein I'm sane I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone Who was born and in what way All the fields and poppies ay Who was born and in what way All the fields The Queen is walking away with only her stockings on Waving having forbidden pears and song Valiant and the colours are too gold The colours of the morning old Who was born and in what way All the fields and poppies ay Who was born and in what way All the fields Monarch now lay your jeweled head Monarch now lay your jeweled head Monarch now lay your jeweled Monarch now lay your jeweled head Monarch now lay your jeweled head Monarch now lay your jeweled head The Queen saw the beast in the ribs of the garden Husband dear you are nearer to the eye Your throne places you in holy pardon So why the hand of God Why the hand of God Through you is so cruel Who was born and in what way Who was born and in what way Dress Rehearsal Rag (Leonard Cohen) Four o'clock in the afternoon And I didn't feel like very much I said to myself, "Where are you golden boy, where is your famous golden touch?" I thought you knew where all of the elephants lie down I thought you were the crown prince of all the wheels in Ivory Town Just take a look at your body now There's nothing much to save And a bitter voice in the mirror cries "Hey, Prince, you need a shave" Now if you can manage to get your trembling fingers to behave Why don't you try unwrapping a stainless steel razor blade That's right, it's come to this Yes it's come to this And wasn't it a long way down Wasn't it a strange way down There's no hot water and the cold is running thin Well, what do you expect with the kind of places you've been living in Don't drink from that cup it's all caked and cracked along the rim That's not the electric light, my friend That is your vision growing dim Cover up your face with soap, there, now you're Santa Claus And you've got a gift for anyone who will give you his applause I thought you were a racing man Ah, but you couldn't take the pace That's a funeral in the mirror And it's stopping at your face That's right, it's come to this Yes it's come to this And wasn't it a long way down Ah wasn't it a strange way down Once there was a path And a girl with chestnut hair And you passed the summers Picking all of the berries that grew there There were times she was a woman There were times she was just a child And you held her in the shadows Where the raspberries grow wild And you climbed the twilight mountains And you sang about the view And everywhere that you wandered Love seemed to go along with you That's a hard one to remember It makes you clench your fist And then the veins stand out like highways All along your wrist That's right it's come to this, It's come to this And wasn't it a long way down Wasn't it a strange way down You can still find a job Go out and talk to a friend On the back of every magazine There are those coupons you can send Why don't you join the Rosicrucians They will give you back your hope You can find your love with diagrams On a plain brown envelope But you've used up all your coupons Except the one that seems To be written on your wrist Along with several thousand dreams Now Santa Claus comes forward That's a razor in his mit And he puts on his dark glasses And he shows you where to hit And then the cameras pan The stand in stunt man Dress rehearsal rag It's just a dress rehearsal rag Just a dress rehearsal rag
Beauty lives Count me out A cup of coffee Out on the freeway I hear the morning geese I think of beaches Maybe of dying I buy a magazine Change the channels Change the bed sheets Envy my children's dreams Frozen dinner Dull conversation What does it all mean If this is the car That i'm to drive to the job That i must keep for a house And a man i don't love Then count me out Measure the minutes Wait for the weekend Something will happen then I'll drink ‘til something Comes out of hiding ‘til i believe again But then it's Change the channels Change the bed sheets Envy my children's dreams Frozen dinner Dull conversation What does it all mean Everything by The gallon Everything by the gallon Nothing at all half-way He said to me It's the only way, only way And when i meet my dying day I won't be watching the clock Cause i've heaved and wept and overslept I've squeezed out every drop Beauty lives and it's out there There'll be songs to sing, lengths to go to This is just the beginning I am on my feet i'll be dancing soon When did my fine attentions turn Away from the task at hand Drink up drink up, If you call yourself a man And when i meet my dying day I won't be watching the clock ‘cause i heaved and wept and overslept I squeezed out every drop Beauty lives and it's out there There'll be songs to sing, lengths to go to This is just the beginning I am on my feet i'll be dancing soon My song I am not beaten No not yet The fire is hot, but not blinding Vultures are circling They think i'm dead But my weary heart still beats I have my song I have my song I have my song Alone in the ocean Where's the life guard? I wait so long for a boat Endless horizon No land in sight But somehow i'm still afloat I have my song I have my song I have my song Ogoni star There's an ogoni star in the sky shining, shining bright Do you see their star in the sky shining, shining bright You can't say you're not afraid You can't say you're not afraid But if i stop to wrestle with why Dawn will come and i'll have missed the night So dance o people Dance Sing away your lonely tears Dance for freedom Dance Sing away your lonely tears Do you see their stars in the sky, shining, shining bright I see stars of my sisters in the sky, shining, shining bright You can't say you're not afraid You can't say you're not afraid But if i stop to wrestle with why Dawn will come and i'll have missed the night So dance o people Dance Sing away your lonely tears Dance for freedom Dance Sing away your lonely tears Sadie Sadie wait a while I've got to prepare the world for that sadie smile You're gonna be so strong Not like your mother who's been crying For so long You know she lets it bring her down You know she lets it bring her down Sadie i'm scared for you Sadie i'm scared for you Gonna catch all the bad guys And lock ‘em in the zoo That's what i'd do for you Sometimes i've lost your face I forgot how real you feel and i Wanted it all to go away But you're gonna be so strong Not like your mother who's been fighting For so long You know she let's it bring her down You're not gonna let it bring you down Sadie i'm scared for you Sadie i'm scared for you Gonna catch all the bad guys And lock ‘em in the zoo Sadie i'm scared for you Sadie i'm scared for you Gonna mark all the bad guys With purple tattoos That's right that's what i'd do For you Closer Why do I hide from you Why do I play this game Telling myself let go I know I know i know O I know I hear the screaming dark It's the misery of my doubt Yours are the safest arms and still i can't get out Paralyzed and freezing Your truth has left me bleeding And closer than i've ever been This body of winter bones The glacier hands I've known Have ripped up the landscape here, but You make it warm so warm Paralyzed and freezing You truth has left me bleeding And closer than I've ever been Is it that you want me Or is it that you're lonely or Closer than you've ever been Hooligans Where does the mail go when it rains Lost in the cartwheel of a plane Over the ocean blue I'm sending out my words to you Tiniest music you ever heard Tucked in the wings of silver birds I have just a little light But i'm shining with all my might To the hooligans Poking beauty with a stick again I'm mad and praying with my dirty hands That one day we'll meet Where did my mail go to the skies Lost in the trails of butterflies I've been waiting oh so long But the pain of the world comes to my dreams Blood and commercials, gasoline I have just a little light But i'm shining with all my might To the hooligans Poking beauty with a stick again Mad and praying with my dirty hands That one day we'll meet Worthy friend Let them race until they understand ‘til it's dark and all the money's spent All the money's spent Hooligans Tip your hat and raise your mighty pen We'll be raging ‘til the very end To the very end The right words You will find the right words Just you wait and see They'll be falling from the rooftops On a blossom-covered breeze And the song you need to hear It will be singing through the trees Are you listening Don't you see You are on the right path You will realize That the tears are there to leave you With a brighter pair of eyes And the pain that you've been fighting Is an angel in disguise It is love and love, Love is wise Throw your heart into the ocean Throw your heart into the sea You will find that all the right words Just come out naturally There's still time to notice Still time to believe That a door at last will open Where doubt and darkness used to be And that the paradise you long for Is underneath your feet What are you runnin' for Where've you been Throw your heart into the ocean Throw your heart into the sea You will find that all the right words Just come out naturally I do Half afraid of the stars When i gaze at the skies Oh my death is a flirt And he fills up my eyes Do you wake in the night To the eyes you don't see To the horrible sound Of your heart being weak I do know love, i do know love I do Should we listen to love The emergency there He's a man with a cane At the end of the stairs I erase my sad ways And i throw myself in I believe and believe ‘til belief wears thin I do know love, i do know love I do Glenn gould song I have my favorite shadows Ghosts and other quotes bizarre Sometimes i believe i'm your mistress Sometimes you are dying in my arms You visit when i am listening to the earth turn You ask me if i know your name I can smell the sweetness of the silence I wonder if your lips taste quite the same O love, o love bigger than i had planned Oh love, i love a stranger a lonely man Can I have a picture of your calm face You can have the space behind my eyes When we finally meet to drink some tea I somehow know it won't be a surprise Oh love, oh love, it's silly, its juvenile I love, i love a quiet, a dead man's smile Oh love, oh love, bigger than i had planned I love, i love, a stranger, a lonely man
Land & sea Life Nights, nights, of the ice age When soft, the land was asleep Like the ice, ice in our memories Melting finally In the fire of life Life Oh, a heat divine Life This fire that created universes Life, life... Their old world in ruins The dreamers fell to their knees No common war to arrange them They dreamt of common peace It's the end, end of an empire No more lines in the sand And the dawn dawn of a new world Gone, imperial man In the fire of life Life Oh, a heat divine Life This fire that created universes Life, life The day we Saved the world This place Was in horrible shape And no one wanted to see That's when Hope rose up again To shake us all from our sleep And we woke up singing Get up get up there's time there's time Get up get up and fight and fight Get up get up and see the light That was on the day, The day we saved the world One day You will have to face The same emergency days Believe now That your heart will know how To make the magical change And we'll all start singing Get up get up there's time there's time Get up get up and fight and fight Get up get up and see the light That was on the day The day we saved the world I remember the waters rising again I remember the fields of green I remember the windmills turning around When blind What a beast is mankind What a god when he sees And when we all start singing Set it free Woman in present danger Banking on some lost puzzle piece Somebody rearrange her Tell her she's got all she needs But what do I do with my sorrow Well if you're asking me Set it free Throw it into the sea Get it under your feet Oh let go of the leash You gotta set if free Runnin' your poor self ragged Trying to outrace these stubborn blues Baby put down that baggage! Oh that story's old news But what do i do with my sorrow Well if you're asking me So what's the use Untie the noose Feel it, it's just a moment away Imagine the peace When you set it free So please... Everybody's on tv Oh divided young Cat has got your tongue You don't say anything When all around you the clock is ticking Don't know what to say Say it anyway It's all an opera With your aria not yet written And now we're lining up to see The movie of our vanity Everybody Everybody Everybody's on tv Doctor doctor please It's still the same disease But it's hard to operate When the patient's alive and kickin' How to slow us down Enough to look around ‘cause the unexamined life Well it's certainly not worth living Now we're lining up to see The movie of our vanity! Everybody Everybody Everybody's on tv So beautiful a screen From the sublime to the obscene In the land of tv Who needs a life to lead When you can watch it all for free Amen Tired of this game Tired of this race Tired of these chains That bind me Wanna be free Free to let go Let all that is good Inspire me And I I keep running on empty Thinking maybe I'll see a sign That if I open up my heart will someone say Amen Tired of this scene And all that it means No company cool Will define me Tired of this screen Staring at me No radiant box Can confine me And I I keep running on empty Thinking maybe I'll see a sign If I open up my heart someone will say Amen And out of the dark, the darkest night I want to follow my heart into the light So what am I waiting for I keep running on empty Thinking maybe I'll see a sign And if I open up my heart someone will say Amen I am a light All are deserving of This love so great great great It's inexhaustible So give it all away And don't ask anymore What is my way way way You are a miracle So let it play play play I am a light I am a light A light a light a light There is no hurry now I take it slow - ow – ow I don't need anything I am the one I love But it's hilarious ‘Cause all the while-ile-ile All I can dream about Is how to make you smile I am a light I am a light A light a light a light The source of everything Is in our eye-eye-eyes I see the good in yours Seeing the good in mine I am a light I am a light A light a light a light New pair of eyes Everything's tender again The veil fell apart in my hands Every tree in the city is marvelling with me We're watching the miracle dance Everything's coming alive Strangers are meeting my eyes It's like a ray of sun Shines out of everyone And I I have a new pair of eyes And oh, I Love how the world, oh it shines It came for me there in the dark Where everything luminous starts I whisper at last, and though i know it must pass The sails have come out in my heart A mystery man came to my door He said “all that you wanted is yours Throw out your jars of tears All of the useless fears, You won't need them anymore!” Girls hating girls You don't really wanna know me, do you No, you'd rather overthrow me, it's alright I can see it in your mannered lack of manners Thirty-something can be one big high school I knew that before i came here, but tonight I don't care Line ‘em up, line ‘em up Knock ‘em down, knock ‘em down The words we use to light the fuse Girls hating girls Line ‘em up, line ‘em up Knock ‘em down, knock ‘em down I've seen your kind a thousand times Girls hating girls All the ones who wanna tear you down are Always coulda woulda should haves, it's alright I don't blame you for the mannered lack of manners But I'm not in the demolition business So you take your party elsewhere ‘cause tonight I don't care When you've got lovely friends like these I ask you who needs enemies You shoot to kill I aim to please Line ‘em up, line ‘em up Knock ‘em down, knock ‘em down The words we use to light the fuse Girls hating girls Line ‘em up, line ‘em up Knock ‘em down, knock ‘em down I've seen your kind a thousand times Girls hating girls A game, a crime, a waste of time Girls hating girls Society song Please don't waste your pity votes on me I have riches you could never see So fix your sad eye On someone worthier I've got somethin' better up my sleeve Tuesday night down at the monster's ball I've got dirty laundry on them all And I'd crack the whip and burn down this house of cards But my inner-cinderella calls Sing your society song It never changes I will not sing along But how did you get it so wrong In a room of strangers I'm glad i don't belong I'm not one to rage against the scene A nicer girl there's surely never been But you take the grand prize In ego-tist-icat-acrobatic master of conceit Too much for me Sing your society song It never changes I will not sing along But how did you get it so wrong In a room of strangers I'm glad I don't belong I take it as it comes No shakin' in my shoes That's for you and truth of Just who you have become The company you keep Bittersweet on the tongue The cosmic ballet One said april is the cruelest month When worn out promises return But there's more wisdom in the iris bud Than all our centuries of words See as the flower opens What is there to say Oh, hear the vow unspoken In its sweet decay This eternity of ebb and flowing Oh the cosmic ballet All my life I tried to kill this longing Tried to cure it, make it right But how it tugs me to my destined places Like a moon upon the tides How can the dream be broken If the dreamer learns These are the fires I poke in But I'm never burned Ebb and flowing of an ancient ocean... Oh the cosmic ballet Sweet dancing Sweet dancing A dancer you must be Sick woman in a sick bed waiting Light fast fading in her eyes Somewhere else another light is forming Turning into newborn cries On the wind is sighing Calling out our names Saying no, no there is no dying Only changing face You my darling are the rest and motion Of the cosmic ballet Sweet dancing Sweet dancing And dancers you shall be Everything by The gallon Everything by the gallon Nothing at all half-way He said to me It's the only way, only way And when I meet my dying day I won't be watching the clock ‘Cause I've heaved and wept and overslept I've squeezed out every drop Beauty lives and it's out there There'll be songs to sing lengths to go to This is just the beginning I am on my feet I'll be dancing soon When did my fine attentions turn Away from the task at hand Drink up drink up If you call yourself a man And when I meet my dying day I won't be watching the clock ‘Cause I heaved and wept and overslept I squeezed out every drop Beauty lives and it's out there There'll be songs to sing lengths to go to This is just the beginning I am on my feet I'll be dancing soon The devil & the dove One tall tree in the meadow One bright bloom on the bough All of life is this longing To lay your body down One hand holding the devil's One hand holding the dove Fools will bet on their horses Wise men learn to love Oh, deep Oh, deep is love One path grows in the distance One path now overgrown It can seem too rough for the walking But you never walk alone Endless boats all arriving On an ever widening shore There is no door to the kingdom The kingdom is the door Oh, deep Oh, deep is love Napoleon Under great golden statues There is an ancient grave The emperor's foot is restless There's something he wants to say To the princes of lazy science And merchants of holy war He had but one instruction Be careful with metaphor So every nation be warned As soon as the last one is mourned Another tyrant is born To the pirates that came to follow Itchin' to wrench on the reigns of force Napoleon sent a message Don't get high on your only horse Mother I've fear of madness ‘Cause I've heard him call my name I followed his ghostly finger I saw the world in flames Attention archers Attention archers, a soldier down He ran off with a dancer from out of town Now I'm a widow but I'm not taken out It's the way you dance, not the gown I came to death's door and turned the key But over my shoulder, a symphony Do i hear music, is life not done with me Back to earth you go, one two three Dip your feet in the ocean Warm your hands by the fire Do not cry any longer I am on your side My dear the mission is incomplete Of course you can cry but you can't retreat Where is your wisdom, where is the laugh so sweet In this marching band, you can't miss a beat Dip your feet in the ocean Warm your hands by the fire Do not cry any longer I am on your side Do not cry any longer I am on your side I'm on your side You're not alone Endeavour to go into it Until sign appears Don't be afraid of anything You are guided It will never be as we imagine it Unless we imagine it to be I wonder where you are now I hear you calling me I'm telling you you're not alone A kind of light flows through it all I hear a voice inside my own Like a waking dream No you're not alone You cannot see or listen to The very heart of life It isn't there, then suddenly You feel it Going no direction it is everywhere Knowing every word it makes no sound I was no believer But I am certain now Certain that we're not alone A kind of light flows through it all I hear a voice inside my own Like a waking dream No you're not alone There isn't time for anything but mercy Everything is giving birth to everything Nothing in the world is as it seems Light upon the water That is the light in me And it's telling me you're not alone A kind of light flows through it all I hear a voice inside my own Like a waking dream And no you're not alone The one true love All across the battlefield Bells of death and sorrow peeled But in the air above the silence There were birds A song that rose from the earth A song of mourning The yearning Yearning of the one true love The world, at last, our only church We bow to thank the universe For blessings and distressing revelations Every word Every whisper you heard Even the darkness is burning Burning with the one true love The magic wand of empathy Said I am you and you are me But somewhere on the way we have forgotten Who we are And we drifted so far But now and ever Returning, turning to the one true Love undoes the mystery Of time before and yet to be The axle of a wheel that's ever-turning is now As within, so without Feel it in you, the yearning Yearning of the one true love Let us sing a final verse Lovers dance it unrehearsed The beating of their hearts is an ovation For God This name we give to it all Wherein the names all dissolve And turn into the one true love The right words You will find the right words Just you wait and see They'll be falling from the rooftops On a blossom covered breeze And the song you need to hear It will be singing through the trees Are you listening Don't you see You are on the right path You will realize The tears are there to leave you With a brighter pair of eyes And the pain that you've been fighting Is an angel in disguise It is love And love is wise Throw your heart into the ocean Throw your heart into the sea You will find that all the right words Just come out naturally There's still time to notice Still time to believe That a door at last will open where doubt and Darkness used to be And that the paradise you long for It's underneath your feet Whatcha runnin for Where've you been My eyes & your eyes Party of all parties we're in the middle of the whirl Laughing, dancing, music and champagne My eyes and your eyes, we are the axis of the world And it's turning, turning And if I die tonight my heart will be overfull This is almost too much beautiful My eyes and your eyes closing underneath the stars And you kiss me, kiss me Your mind touches my mind and there's A fireworks display Still burning, burning
Metaphysics
Perfect sky The injured pilot performs inspection She turns the dials and Waits for perfection The wind is howling all around her She wants a moment she will never find Don't wait for the perfect sky The injured dancer can't find a rhythm Something's broken, but it's within him The dance is real and it never falters You cannot see it because you've Closed your eyes Don't wait, don't wait – fly! Don't wait for the perfect sky The time is never right Aim for the higher height You may not reach it O but you might you might So take that second guess And turn it into yes Even though it's It's never a perfect sky The writer weeps for her faded glory She is burdened by her story So write a new one, let it begin with The injured warrior walking into fire Don't wait, don't wait – fly! Don't wait for the perfect sky The time is never right Aim for the higher height You may not reach it O but you might you might So take that second guess And turn it into yes Even though it's It's never a perfect sky Every rhythm is the beat When we are calling revolution Do we know just what it means It means inner transformation A truth that sets you free Glory glory hallelujah It's happening to me All our blood, it is the same blood Every rhythm is the beat One body blown to pieces One light, the light of us One god in all religion One love, one love This is the cracking of the egg shell The shedding of the skin No, there is no saviour out there The saviour is within We're gonna break apart our own hearts So that everyone can see Our blood, it is the same blood, Every rhythm is the beat One body blown to pieces One light, the light of us One god in all religion One love, one love One body bathed in glory Light of the universe One god and no religion One love, one love The dark We turn up our receivers And we point them to the sky And then we wonder, Is the emptiness alive? I can feel it coming in like Fire in the belly, Like a prayer in the blood Working in you, the machinery of love I can feel it coming in from Infinite ways, infinite directions Infinite ways, infinite directions The dark Endless dark And the whirling stars Where is love But the human heart? We turn up our receivers And we listen to the mind Deep in our bones there is A factory of light I can feel it coming in like Fire in the belly, Like a thunder in the skull O relentless, the machinery of love I can feel it coming in from Infinite ways, infinite directions Infinite ways, infinite directions The dark Endless dark And the whirling stars Where is love But the human heart? If there is something more And i matter to it With my love let my heart Build a ladder to it Sarah Sarah Gone are the days of the Lonesome dove, so solitary You are tangled in love now with Layers so deep and a reach so wide You can't escape it and so Goodbye, ya it hurts like hell But you could not love him And not lie to yourself Sarah Sarah Falling apart at the seams This time you lost your bearings So put roots in the earth now and Close up the windows the rain is come And tears will follow, so Bear down through the winter cold Come next summer this phoenix Will unfold Sarah This is not the end You will be loved again Sarah Be not afraid of the wounded one Who comes with poems And to drink from the fountain of The little you know about love and god And letting go but oh He's been to the shadowlands Still you want to love him, Want to hold those hands And hear him say, Sarah This is not the end You will be loved again This is not the end You will be loved again Loved well Pretty good walls and bones To the heart i'm in Windows and doors where The light gets in If i get bombed out i can build it Back up again ‘cause i've been Loved well I had a mother and father Who held hands Lovers who loved me and real friends Had a ride home, a shoulder, A second chance, I was Loved well But hey, despite all of this How i have my brokenness It's as certain as the moon But you've got no walls to keep The winter out You're bleeding a trail into The frozen ground Going from woman to woman And town to town, you weren't Loved well You had no one to hold you When the hard rain fell Too early on caught a glimpse of hell And the heat of your heart Turned upon itself, you weren't Loved well But hey, it ain't over yet There's so much of the movie left It's as certain as the moon You can build a new heart And a new house And the best part is when you come out So much will be waiting for you You can build a new heart And a new house Gonna take some time But when you come out So much of everything will be Waiting for you Build that new heart Out of new things now The bricks and the mortar are all around Hear it whispering in the rain As it's falling down you've been Loved well By the light of the morning, The sighing trees, Even by the dark when You were on your knees By that look in her eyes When she begs you Please, let me love you well Maybe the story goes Some things only suffering knows It's as certain as the moon You can build a new heart And a new house And the best part is when you come out So much will be waiting for you You can build a new heart And a new house Gonna take some time But when you come out So much of everything Will be waiting for you A thousand butterflies He lifts the roses of her secrets deftly They leave a perfume in the air He climbs the mountain of her hesitation Then he reaches for her there And she feels a thousand butterflies Alight and fill the room Desire, a flame, a fire in the garden All of her is in bloom O the things his hands can do She walks the meadow of his Lonesome dreaming While the willows stand and wait She makes a wreath of every Bending sorrow He is watching at the gate And he feels a thousand butterflies Alight and fill his mind Desire aflame, a fire in the garden All of him feels alive She does it with her eyes Love has a way of destroying The deep disguise You're not the wind you're the tree And the way it sighs We've been broken, broken open, Like a thousand butterflies Desire, a flame, a fire in the garden There's nowhere left to hide Desire, a flame, a fire in the garden Where are we going to hide? We've been broken, broken open, Like a thousand butterflies Holy ground God is looking in the mirror Into the fathomless depths of your eyes Whose tears are the only holy water By which you will kneel and be baptized There ain't nobody sicker than the seeker Who hardens himself against love Perhaps that's what i see in him And i want to heal in him Because i see it in myself Song of sacred places raining down Everywhere you wander is holy ground The streets, the streets are brimming And the beggar is walking with the king They're groping in the dark for it But never in the heart for it Where the only kingdom is And the kingdom is… Song of sacred places raining down Everywhere you wander is holy ground Not in vain Thirty-one, i'd had my fun, I wore my wedding shoes It's time i said and i filled my head With all the other lies we use All that night, the storm outside, The pounding of the rain And in my heart i knew one day We'd go our separate ways The more you cried the more i tried But i could not let him go Like the dress i wore those years before When he kissed me deep and slow But i was tired of longing, tired of Dreaming, tired of fantasy So i walked the aisle with a wounded Smile hoping you could set me free And i see, as the years go by, The mistakes that we both made I don't need to defend or blame, But i need to say that it was not in vain Along the way the trials we fail Come 'round and 'round again But if your love has made me kinder It was not in vain And i see, as the years go by, The mistakes that we both made I don't need to defend or blame, But i need to say that it was not in vain The gypsy Her skirts unfolding Her graceful profile The sound of mourning In her sigh No words of wisdom, No hallelujahs Only silence In her eyes She says come with me I will show thee No mercy No mercy Breathe again He's drowning In drunken roses Darkly blooming On the vine He must surrender He begs forgiveness And she takes him To the night She says come with me I will show thee No mercy No mercy Breathe again Is there hatred to your love? So take your hunger Down to the gypsy She will teach you How to die But can you dance with The queen of shadows And be transparent To the light? She says come with me I will show thee No mercy No mercy Breathe again Is there hatred to your love? Nothing but the light Standing alone now Standing at last After the war and the Winter have passed Blood in the fields And trembling fires But all, all is forgiven Breathe, breathe Turn your face toward the sky There's nothing but the light When you were falling You were held When all was burning There were bells Sing out a new song the old one is gone And love, love is beside you Breathe, breathe All the seeming darkness is disguise There's nothing but the light So this is a schoolyard and No one survives The terrible beauty of being alive Let it move you, let it come through The stream is never-ending Breathe, breathe Eternity is written into time There's nothing but the light
When this is over It's hard to know when this is over When life is clearly beyond repair And quite impossible, my love It's hard to know when it is time to go To start afresh, to never look back To call it a day, my love It's hard to know when this is over My love It's hard to know when this crazy world will end When the only things left Are belated regrets and memories Too painful to sustain, my love It's hard to know when this crazy world will end My love I need to forget you and I don't know what to do I have tried so hard to let you go But your shadow calls me home to you I feel your shadow always stalking me I feel your eyes burning on my back But when I turn around you're gone What strange dimension are you calling from How can I get there, how can you get here How can we get back together I feel your shadow always stalking me My love I need to forget you I need to forget you I need to forget you I need to forget you My love I know you're gone and I must follow you I must muster the strength To forsake all the things that hold me earthbound And flee from the pain my love I know you're gone and I must follow you My love I tried to forget you but I don't know how to I don't want to ever let you go Let your shadow guide me home to you My Song It's morning, it's morning again The world comes alive outside the window Children circle around an old song, The song we had forgotten all along. Good morning. Good morning again. Your shadow fades next to my pillow Light takes away your gentle fire Brings in a world I don't desire Sometimes I wake up And I see dark fields blooming I reach out to touch you In the mist of the dawn And when I am connected With your boundless energy The whole world becomes you And nothing at all can go wrong This morning, this morning is new New like the snow that turns the world white New like this void you left behind Nothing can fill my troubled mind I'm calling, I'm calling to you I dream of when we're reunited When all floats in everlasting light Transforming the darkness of this night Sometimes I wake up And I see dark fields blooming I reach out to touch you In the mist of the dawn And when I am connected With your boundless energy The whole world becomes you And I find the strength in my song In my song Despair I often wonder what an abrupt exit must feel like How hard can it be to just pull the plug And why all things dark must be experienced After I'm born and before I die I feel conflicted by the cries of dying loons Under insurgent moons The anthropology of pain Runs in my veins I feel abandoned, even when surrounded by friends I fear a nothingness, which nothing transcends Oh why is that point in my centre so frail Precarious, out of control And when I think that I've regained control at last I'm lost inside my past The love that haunted me back then My bitter end foreshadows Relentlessly pushing me over the edge Remember me Now I am always medicated; Chemically contaminated; My thoughts subdued; my angst abated The urge for self-destruction rated low Waiting sedated for the blow A white-washed mind in an asylum Controlled with current and with Valium In monochrome white dominion Slowly dissolving into a trillion Tiny particles of light Dreading the next insurgent night I know the time nears When all options will have played out And no more prizes within my reach I dread that day of reckoning Mercifully postponed for When I am laid in earth... When all memory suddenly disappears Like it was never there Every recollection gone Forever gone When no destiny lying beyond the grave Beyond all hope Can be called to play the role Of saving grace. Remember me Your thoughts alone Will keep me alive When I am laid in earth Let my wrongs create No trouble in thy breast Remember me But, ah, forget my fate Love Soaring over the rooftops And oozing under doors Dancing in the oak trees By long forgotten shores Surging into cities Hospitals and halls Roaring through the subway And crowded shopping malls Tenderly destroying All that is untrue O Love, Love is looking for you Floating in the lamplight That falls upon the page Forming in the womb of A yet undiscovered age Falling down in dewdrops Upon the sleeping farms In the heart of every killer, In reluctant mothers' arms Endlessly it follows, No matter where you’re running to O Love, love is looking for you Calling in the voices That echo in the yard Shining in the faces Of the beaten and the scarred Teeming in your bloodstream There behind your eyes Burning in your middle Sweet between your thighs You heard it in the willows It felt like something true O Love, love is looking for you Gushing out of children In joy too great to bear Breathing like a bellows in The poet's deep despair Behold the wild horses The evening sky aflame The beauty and the violence The wonder and the shame After every horror A day begins anew O Love, love is looking for you Logos A sequence Leaps from the everyday Unsuspecting agents deliver the perfect code And the meters of Grace align Suddenly The present moment bursts from its fog Turning slowly before me Like the earth on its axis Massive, significant, silent All other tenses Of all verbs Flake away Dead petals There is a magnificent jewel I cannot see within myself Unless it is glittering In another Whose eyes I have entered With love And nothing else I need not know you, nor you, me For the original fire is beyond such things Time cannot reach its light Then, a kind of laughter In recognition that there was never anything but this The murmuring clock returns And the Self with its heavy cloak And the codes click back into illegible density As the grand chess match continues Pieces cross paths At precise, deliberate moments In a formal dance To decorate this hiddenness And then it is good to know That the game is still on Full of bishops and queens And patterns And squares to visit Only by these edges Can I perceive forever Or that fiery jewel Barely containing its bounty Bhakti Bhakti Bhakti Bhakti Flower of life It opens like a fiery lily (in me) Christ-flower Blossom of fire, Radiating furious dawn O wondrous angels In whose clear and shining blood teems the transparent heritage of light Empty Empty Empty It opens like a glowing lotus (in me) Buddha-flower Thundering void Where the immensity of mercy rings O towering angels Out your heaven-blackened eyes sees the first and only mind The one hidden in all
Non Albums Tracks
Closer
Why do I hide from you? Why do I play this game? Telling myself let go I know I know I know I know I know Oh I know I hear the screaming dark It's the misery of my doubt Yours are the safest arms and still I can't get out Paralyzed and freezing your Truth has left me bleeding and Closer than I've ever been This body of winter bones The glacier hands I've known Ripped up the landscape here but you make it warm, so warm. Paralyzed and freezing your Truth has left me bleeding and Closer than I've ever been
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd cover / Pink Floyd Redux LP) Hello Is there anybody in there Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home Come on now I hear you're feeling down I can ease your pain Get you on your feet again Relax I need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts There is no pain, you are receding A distant ships smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I cant hear what you're saying When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons And now I got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand This is not how I am And I have become comfortably numb Ok Just a little pinprick There'll be no more But you may feel a little sick Can you stand up I do believe it's working good That'll keep you going for the show Come on, it's time to go There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, the dream is gone And I have become comfortably numb
Compatriots (The Baroness Redecorates EP) I saw my compatriots walking that nightfall Soccer games blaring from every cafe It's amazing how life can go somehow unnoticed Somehow so loud it rattles your brain My eyes digesting the infinite parcels Beauty and ugliness, matter and light Oh saint, oh sinner Oh ancient beginner Oh trembling river of life Forgive me sir I know not the magic words Is it the fever first And then the fire The neighbour above me is slamming his windows Insults bounce off me like peppercorn rain I'll answer him later, return the favour When I have perfected Parisian disdain The city is bristling, biting its fingers Bellies are full of the same butterflies Countdown the seconds in twenty-five languages Oh the millions of eyes Forgive me sir I know not the magic words Is it the fever first And then the fire Forgive me sir I know not the magic words Is it the fever first And then the fire Forgive me sir I know not the magic words Is it the fever first And then the fire I know not the magic words Is it the fever first And then the fire And then the fire
Hear Me Out (The Baroness Redecorates EP) I used to know the way inside How to mend the broken look in your eye But now the look is out of reach I can only see the trust you don't have in me Hear me out, I'm not your enemy If there's doubt, there doesn't need to be I'm around, I'm always going to be So, before you go, hear me out Think that you're the only one There's something in your heart blocking out the sun Everytime the fire went out I would always go to you Now I don't know how Hear me out, I'm not your enemy If there's doubt, there doesn't need to be I'm around, I'm always going to be So, before you go, hear me out Hear me out, I'm not your enemy If there's doubt, there doesn't need to be I'm on your side, that's where I want to be So, before you go Hear me out, I'm not your enemy If there's doubt, there doesn't need to be I'm around, I'm always going to be So, before you go Hear me out, I'm not your enemy There doesn't need to be I'm on your side, that's where I want to be So, before you go, hear me out I used to know the way inside
Lilac Wine (Words by J. Shelton / Live) I lost myself on a cool damp night I gave myself in that misty light Was hypnotized by a strange delight Under a lilac tree I made wine from the lilac tree Put my heart in its recipe It makes me see what I want to see And be what I want to be I drink more than I ought to drink I do things I never should do I think much more than I ought to think Because it brings me back you Lilac wine is sweet and heady Like my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady Where's my love Listen to me, I cannot see clearly Isn't that she coming to me Nearly here Lilac wine is sweet and heady Like my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady Where's my love Listen to me, why is everything so hazy Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love I feel unready for my love
Missing Me (The Breithaupt Brothers feat. Sarah Slean / Just Passing Through: The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Vol. II LP) I miss the way I was with you A better person - hey, it's true I miss the funny way you'd cock your head When kissing me I even miss our usual fight The making up by candlelight Bu tmore than anything I'd have to say I'm missing me I miss that sense of deja vu The first times I was with you I miss the way you sometimes laughed While you were kissing me I miss the woman I'd have been If I had really let you in Yeah, most of all I guess I'd have to say I'm missing me And how I would have held you now And what you might have said How I'd have made hat solemn vow If I could just If I could only, only If I could just get out of my head And how I would have held you now And what you might have said How I'd have made hat solemn vow If I could just If I could only, only I miss those big ideas and dreams The lazy nighs, the crazy schemes I miss the way you held my hand While you were kissing me I miss our Sunday Scrabble game Your picture in that picture frame I'm missing you and can't help wonder Are you missing me
Modern Man I & II (The Baroness Redecorates EP) This is modern man Leaning out a window Lonely for the music of A ferris wheel or birthday party Time will take his hand Lead him to the gate and When he turns around, he knows He can't go back He can't have Eden, no The road is overgrown At the end of words At the end of mathematics Mystery absurd At once both fascinates and terrifies and Oh but nevermind He's working on the numbers Take apart the door, he longs To quantify the miracle But oh There are those things that he will never know Though he can feel them Pearl of blue and white Dangling like an orchid From the unseen fishing rod Of some amazing architect Or not Is this the truth we knew and then forgot Maybe the lies are all that we've got But aren't they beautiful
Oh Man! Oh man, I think I did it again Oh man I think I messed up the plan And he calls whenever he please And I'll get on my knees Oh man, oh man, oh man Oh jees, here come the secret police The rochester peeps, they've got no time for me And he calls whenever he please And I'll get on my knees Oh man, oh man, oh man Oh no, we're at the sarah harmer show She's coming up next you know What else rhymes with show? And he calls whenever he please I'll get on my knees Oh man, oh man, oh man Oh no, oh no oh no! Oh man, Oh man, Oh man…
Parasol ( Exclusive Track when preordering The Baroness ) Long neck, shipwrecked terrified swan Lies in her mind left a burner on We crowd into the grand salon We're watching the mansion burn And I'm not quite down with the way they roll They throw knives from their eyes at my parasol And I'm only human after all Go easy on me Oh it's not like a country lane A day on the beach in Spain I'm courting a madness I cannot explain Oh Virginia We didn't know you had it in you Oh Sweet Virginia And I coughed this up in a sooty perfume Out of my mouth like a feather plume And now here's one more crazy tune Adversity rings my bell And the wound came loose with a terrible stench The pain left a stain on my piano bench And I chased it with a monkey wrench Cursing in my broken French It's not like a country lane A day on the beach in Spain I'm courting a madness I cannot explain Oh Virginia We didn't know you had it in you Oh Sweet Virginia And no you can't play that in this serious hall Only apes wearing capes get the curtain call Your invitation to the ball Must be lost in the mail And I don't quite feel like working this crowd The rest has requested that I dumb it down They'll run your circus right out of town If you won't abide, but it's suicide Not like a country lane A day on the beach in Spain I'm courting a madness I cannot explain Oh Virginia We didn't know you had it in you Oh Sweet Virginia We didn't know you had it in you Oh Sweet Virginia
The difference is why ( Lenny Kravitz Cover / Live )
I'm just a human I never said I was God And each day I wonder where you are How could our lives once be so together Now we're apart I know we can make it But where do we start Sometimes the scales get unbalanced Don't you know the reason why The difference is why, the difference is why You say you can't trust me Have you tried You say you don't love me That's a lie There are so many so many rainbows That we were to climb But baby baby why can't we survive We've got to get our heads untangled And free our state of mind The difference is why, Hey yeah, hou!, the difference is why Sometimes the scales get unbalanced Don't you know the reason why The difference is why Yeah ! , the difference is why Does this have to mean goodbye
Us And Them (Pink Floyd cover / Pink Floyd Redux LP) Us And them And after all We're only ordinary men Me And you God only knows It's not what we would choose to do Forward he cried from the rear And the front rank died The general sat and the lines on the map Moved from side to side Black And blue And who knows which is which And who is who Up And down But in the end It's only round and round Haven't you heard It's a battle of words The poster bearer cried Listen son, said the man with the gun There's room for you inside Down And out It can't be helped But there's a lot of it about With without And who'll deny It's what the fighting's all about Out of the way It's a busy day I've got things on my mind For the want of the price Of tea and a slice The old man died
What Child Is This (Christmas carol) What child is this who laid to rest On Mary's lap is sleeping Whom angels greet with anthems sweet While shepherds watch are keeping This, this is Christ the King Whom shepherds guard and angels sing Haste, haste to bring Him laud The Babe, the Son of Mary So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh Come, peasant, king to praise Him The King of kings salvation brings Let loving hearts enthrone him Raise, raise a song on high The Virgin sings her lullaby Joy, joy for Christ is born The babe, the Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son, the Son, the Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son of Mary The Son of Mary