B i o g r a p h y (by Unofficial Bio)
Vashti Bunyan is an enigma in British folk music that has only been understood in the last ten years. Following explusion from art school in 1964 Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones manager discovered her singing in London. Her music was delicate Judy Collins style folk music but Loog Oldham sought to shape her as a pop star. He got her to record a Rolling Stones song and released it on Decca and then as he formed Immediate he arranged for her to record many unreleased pop style songs. By 1968 this cynical attempt to make her a pop star left her dejected particularly as her heart was in folk music. She decided to give up her life and travel in a traditional caravan up to Scotland to join Donovan. During that year she wrote a number of highly personal songs that documented her new experiences living close to the land in isolation. After encouragement from Derroll Adams she took her songs to Joe Boyd. Joe Boyd was the natural producer for her, already a legend by then producing The Incredible String Band, John and Beverly Martyn and Nick Drake. He recorded the album and bought in sympathetic musicians from Fairport Convention and Incredible String Band to assist on some songs. The album was released in 1970 but with little support from the artist it didn't sell and languished in obscurity for thirty years. The artist lived a life of travel and isolation left alone by the music industry. Over the years it became a legendary album to many folk collectors with album prices rising to high figures. In the last couple of years Vashti has once again taken tentative steps back into some involvement in music notably performing with highly respected ambient electronic band Piano Magic. Long out-of-print and a highly-prized collectible, Just Another Diamond Day was finally reissued on CD in the summer of 2000. In 2005 she returned with Lookaftering, a reference to her years "lookaftering" her family. The album appeared on Fat Cat's DiCristina imprint and featured artwork by Vashti's daughter.
Just Another Diamond Day Glow Worms Lily Pond Timothy Grub Where I Like to Stand Swallow Song Window Over the Bay Rose Hip November Come Wind Come Rain Hebridean Sun Rainbow River Trawlerman's Song Jog Along Bess Iris's Song for Us Love Song I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind Winter Is Blue Iris's Song for Us (Version Two)
Just another diamond day
Diamond Day Just another diamond day Just a blade of grass Just another bale of hay And the horses pass. Just another field to plough Just a grain of wheat Just a sack of seed to sow And the children eat. Just another life to live Just a word to say Just another love to give And a diamond day
Glow worms Glow worms show the path we have to tread Dreamers we should be asleep in bed Moving slowly through the springtime air Holding moments in the depth of care Holding moments in the depth of care Whisper fairy stories till they're real, Wonder how the night can make us feel Loving living more with love to stay Long past sadness that was in our way Long past sadness that was in our way Dawntime mist begins reflecting light, Waking sun will soon forget our night Love me through the day and I'll with you go Into summer and the next year's snow Into summer and the next year's snow
Lily Pond In a lily pond I lay All upon a summer's day Then I chased a dragonfly All across an ancient sky Falling with a thousand stars down the Milky Way to Mars Back again in time for day In a lily pond I lay And the only thing he said to me Was 'young lady I love thee'
Timothy Grub Maurice Snail and Timothy Grub, Swanney and Blue and Emily Grub Decided one day to go into the wood And build them a house and live there if they could And they stayed there a while in the trees and the rain Till one day two Blue Men said you're all insane And to please not come here again They had a green car called 'Happiness Runs' Friday comes and Happiness runs Out of petrol and everyone gets out to push And suddenly see through a gap in the bush A real caravan, just like the one in their dreams The gypsy doesn't want it for nowadays it seems His home stays in one place and gleams He told them that he had a horse down the lane Saturday morning they went back again He showed them a shed that was built out of tin He opened the door and they all peered within And there lying on straw was a horse black as night With a star on her forehead and eyes full of light And they all fell in love at first sight They thought and they thought about having Black Bess Timothy planted some mustard and cress They lived in a cupboard and made it their home And lay there and dreamed of the days when they'd roam Up and down all the hills of the North countryside With the dogs eating buttercups on the wayside And they'd wave all the cities 'goodbye' Where I like to stand The hound bays the sheep graze i'm counting the boats in the bay As they float they seem to say-'i'm counting the waves, i'm counting the waves' The men in the boats they wave to their wives and say 'I'm counting the hours, counting the hours, counting the hours in the day' I'm counting the gulls that sit on the waves surrounding the boats in the bay I'm counting the miles till we're there where the sun and the rain and the snow Fall on the seeds and make them grow Fall on the rocks and make them crack into pebbles and into sand Which is where i like to stand Swallow song And there's a sunset brimming over the sky And there's a swallow teaching it's young how to fly Up on high See how fast the summer passes by And there's an oak leaf turning green into brown And there's a pine so proud of her evergreen gown Looking down See how fast the winter comes around And there's a rain cloud passing over our heads And there's a cat on the doorstep waiting to be fed Milk and bread Day is done and now it's time for bed Window over the bay I wish i had a window over the bay And a black horse grazing on the green all day I wish i had a well to draw my water from And a warm log fire for when the summer is gone I wish i had a window over the bay And a flock of white sheep to watch from where i lay I wish i had a little boat bobbing on the deep And a big wooden table all laid out for tea I wish i had a window over the bay And a dreamy eyed cow to fill my milking pail I wish i had a cockerel to raise me at dawn And a little bed to sleep in when the curtains are drawn
Rose Hip November Rose hip November - autumn I'll remember Gold landing at our door Catch one leaf and fortune will surround you evermore Pine tree very tall, waiting for snow to fall Mist hangs very still Caught by dawn in castle moats around the sleeping hill Now a pipe is heard happy is the shepherd Shepherdess and dog Father of the pastureland and mother of the flock Rosehip November, autumn I'll remember Gold landing at our door Catch one Leif and fortune will surround you Evermore Evermore Evermore Come wind come rain Come wind come rain we're off again, Our muddy boots plod down the lane The snow has snowed now the grass has growed And it's time that we were on the road. Hey ho the wind and the rain The passers by wave their arms and grin Come wind come rain we're off again Our muddy boots plod down the lane The mare is shod the miles untrod Between us and the 'land of god'.. We're on our way and everyday Is another ten miles and an armful of hay Hey ho the wind and the rain Another ten miles and a bucket of grain. Hebridean sun Travelling towards a hebridean sun To build a white tower in our heads begun The grass knows, the hills know, we all know Spring has come, the good fountain flows. Each hoof fall brings us nearer the land Of peat and seabirds and silver sand. The grass knows, the hills know, we all know Spring has come, the good fountain flows.
Rainbow River The rainbow river is a laughing stream Down in a valley by a mountain that is pine tree tall The rainbow river has a small boy fishing with a worm And a jam jar by the waterfall Don't make a sound don't disturb the ground The biggest fish you ever saw is around And the rainbow river gives a rainbow fish As one small boy goes running proudly to his mother's call The stonebuilt farmhouse is a rough stone cottage Hiding close against the hillside up a winding track The stonebuilt farmhouse has a fair-haired farmer Wearing wooden shoes and building up a new haystack Run in the door stand on the stone floor The oven opens- there's the biggest loaf you ever saw And the stonebuilt farmhouse gives a good warm welcome As he sits down in his own chair with a Windsor back The magpie meadow is a glowing evening colour Sun is setting quietly and the boy is tired The magpie meadow has a sparrow hawk who hovers Hanging on the wind preying eagle eyed Sit by the lantern watch as the years turn Slowly bringing truth for every child to learn And the magpie meadow darkens gently blue now As the family sit their faces lit by ember fire Trawlerman's song
I love coming home from far across the sea I pick my little wee wifey up And set her on my knee See how my eldest boy has grown Whilst i've been away See here's a boat i've whittled for thee, Especially for thee I've thought of you everyday I love coming home from far across the sea And taking up my walking cane And passing through the trees. I wander on the hillside, The doggie at my heel, The bracken waves a welcome to me 'Where have you been We've missed you a great deal' I love coming home from far across the sea I pick my little wee wifey up And set her on my knee
Jog Along Bess Jog along Bess hop along May Squeak along Blue it's a walk along day It's a long road and weary are we Bubble on kettle and make us all some tea Once there was a gypsy man Selling flowers from a baker's van Bess she pulled him round the town Pulled her wagon all old and brown Till one day we took her away Painted her wagon bright and gay Now she finds she's travelling North No more wandering back and forth Once there was an Afghan hound Loved by no one and pushed around Tied up in a stable yard Tangled and timid and howling hard Till one day we took her away Called her Magog shortened to May She hurt a paw made it sore Now she runs on three legs instead of four There lived a dog in London Town With one ear up and the other ear down The neighbours said he mustn't bark The only grass he knew was in Hyde Park Till one day we took him away Now Blue bounces through fields of hay But he sits and squeals like a squeaky wheel When the wheels are rolling that's how he feels Little green wagon in a deep blue sky Wheels like dandelions passing by With a picture by Sam a painting by John And a bonnie black hoss to lead you along Lucky green wagon you were raggedy brown Now there is red at the hem of your gown We brought you a pumpkin brought you a mouse We wished very hard and you gave us a house Jog along Bess hop along May Squeak along Blue it's a walk along day It's a long road and weary are we Bubble on kettle and make us all some tea
Iris's song for us I climbed the peaks of glass with you And walked a world of brass with you And gladly left the glaring streets To share a bed of grass with you You made the elder burn for me And cut the bird filled thorn for me And through the ripening summer days You bade the white road turn for me Lock up the lark love And pin back the sky We need a space in which to work And sing and die I rode the dark green deep with you And drove our dreams like sheep with you And now my love please let me cross Brown boundaries of sleep with you Love song I love your eyes when you look away Thinking somewhere else of what ought to be When they're suddenly blue for a moment of time Then the colour goes when you look at me I love your hands as a part of you As they write a word just by staying still When you talk they move, painting what you say So i understand more than words can tell I love your hair in the dark it's soft In the light it moves, red and green are brown All the time it takes for a night to pass And a lifetime grows as the day comes down I love you now as you don't love me I can't let you know you're too far away But i wonder now just what did you see When you looked at me in that loveless way I'd like to walk around in your mind I'd like to walk around in your mind someday I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me I'd like to run and jump on your solitude I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me You say you just want peace and to never hurt anyone You see the end before the beginning has ever begun I would disturb your easy tranquillity I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile I'd sit there in the sun of the things i like about you I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you But most of all i'd like you to be unaware Then i'd just wander away, trailing palm leaves behind me So you don't even know i've been there. Winter is blue Winter is blue Living is gone Some are just sleeping In spring they'll go on Our love is dead Nothing but crying Love will not find even One more new morning Why must i stay here Rain comes i'm sitting here Watching love moving Away into yesterday Winter is blue Everything's leaving Fires are now burning And life has no reason I am alone Waiting for nothing If my heart freezes I won't feel the breaking Why must i stay here Rain comes i'm sitting here Watching love moving Away into yesterday
Iris's song for us (Version Two)
I climbed the peaks of glass with you And walked a world of brass with you And gladly left the glaring streets To share a bed of grass with you You made the elder burn for me And cut the bird filled thorn for me And through the ripening summer days You bade the white road turn for me Lock up the lark love And pin back the sky We need a space in which to work And sing and die I rode the dark green deep with you And drove our dreams like sheep with you And now my love please let me cross Brown boundaries of sleep with you
Lookaftering Lately
Never was much given to prayer But lately I'm pleading with the air To keep you safe from harm my dears The only things that you should keep in rows Are your perfect teeth - and the rest you know Its own sweet way will always go Add your footsteps to the wear For a tiny dent in every stair Will let them know that you've been there Here Before
Once I had a child He was wilder than moonlight He could do it all Like he'd been here before Once I had a child She was smiling like sunshine She could see it all Like she'd been here before Then I had a child Took his while like northern summer And he knows it all Like he's been here before Wayward
Didn't want to be the one The one who's left behind While the other one goes out to life And comes back home to find Me sitting pretty happily Surrounded by a house With cups in all their saucers And not a bit of dust Days going by in clouds of flour and white washing Life getting lost in a world without end I wanted to be the one With road dust on my boots And a single silver ear-ring And a suitcase full of notes And a band of wayward children With their fathers left behind All in their castles in their air And houses in their land Lives getting lost in mending gaps in their fencing All I ever wanted was a road without end Hidden
Hidden in your every move Are the words that you will never say Stars and moons are not your style I've known for a while this is not your way I hear you I do know you very well And our time will tell if I read you right It can be so very hard Looking for a dark horse in the night I see you I do know you very well And I will until you can prove me wrong Maybe i'll find you are not Anything like what i've thought all along Don't think so One day you'll say what you mean And will I be seen for a cloud of dust Now i've nothing left to say And i'll find my way by your light of touch I'm with you Against The Sky
Whatever pulled the wind that night It had it bring a tree down Untidy lime tree holding tight To the end of my last garden One of five against the sky An elegant surrender It broke the wall and bent the gate And warmed us through the winter Whatever pulls the wind tonight Will have the roof slates fly But rows of chimney pots don't wave Like trees against the sky The hill behind the old house I can trace it with my finger Against the sky I see it still And draw it down on paper Whatever pulled me over here You were the main contender And with the trees against the sky Another life's remembered Some evening skies are yellow And over my head they're blue What happened to the green between It happened to me Too Turning Backs
Indifference is the hardest blow It is the wind and icy snow That falls on green shoots as they grow In winter when the spring's too slow Indifference is the coldest hand It is the wave that clears the sand Of castles built by baby hands Before the gulls come in to land Indifference is the hardest ground It is the stony silent sound Of plainsong echoing unfound Until the voices have left town If I Were
If I were to go away Would you follow me To the ends of the earth To show me what your love is worth Or would you go and buy a car Shrug your shoulders say there you are She didn't love me anyway If she had she would have stayed If I were to go away Would I always look For your beautiful face In every crowd, every place Or would I go and buy a hat Turn my shoulder say that is that He didn't love me now it's clear If he had he would be here Same But Different
I'm in a boat On the sea And I see You on the shore So sure Of yourself You're in a boat On the sea And you see Me on the shore So sure Of myself We're in a boat All at sea And we see We are the same The same But different Brother
Isn't it strange Back here again The red brick house and all the trees I climbed then Nothing changed Same as before The only thing I see is you're Not here now Feet of Clay
Don't waste this dance on me my love Step and glide the way you do And let me watch the turns and move My heart if not my feet with you. Don't think about me dreaming here I will see you fly away While in my head you hold me dear And whirl me off my feet of clay Where was I when grace was given Not to fall when turning round I've no faith in earth or heaven Not to move my standing ground Don't waste your life on me my love Live and breathe the way you do No butterfly to be pinned down And kept forever through and through. But if your love should cross with mine I will be here on your side As long as you want me to be I'll not be going far or wide Running, walking, standing still, Sitting, laughing - that I can do And wishing, wishing It could be me to dance with you
Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind
Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (Jagger /Richard) Why does the sky turn grey every night Sun rise again in time Why do you think of the first love you had Somethings just stick in your mind Why does the rain fall down on the earth Why do the clouds keep crying Why do you sleep curled up like a child Some things just stick in your mind Why when the children grow up and leave Still remember their nursery rhymes Why must there be so much hate in their lives Some things just stick in their minds
I Want To Be Alone
You know there are times when I don't need you But you seem to think it means Don't love you but I do But sometimes I want to be alone Somewhere on my own I don't know why it is but I sometimes feel That I have to get away yet I know I love you But sometimes I want to be alone Somewhere on my own Don't make me stay to walk aimlessly Hand in hand Just today set me free Let me be alone Tomorrow I may feel that I can't go through Even one more lonely hour Without you, yet its true That sometimes I have to be alone Let me be alone
Train Song
Travelling north, travelling north to find you Train wheels beating, the wind in my eyes Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you Call out your name love, don't be surprised It's so many miles and so long since I've met you Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you But suddenly now, I know where I belong It's many hundred miles but it won't be long What will I do if there's someone with you Maybe someone you've always known How do I know I can come and give to you Love with no warning and find you alone It's so many miles and so long since I've met you Don't even know what I'll find when I get to you But suddenly now, I know where I belong It's many hundred miles and it won't be long
Coldest Night of the Year
(Mann/Weill) Baby baby it's late and you'd better go, It's after three Honey please have a heart, just look at that snow, Take pity on me. I can hear that north wind blowing, and the fire is oh so warm Well I know you should be going, but how can I send you out in that storm Baby its cold out there, and it's getting colder Baby it's cold out there, getting colder Matter of fact better cuddle up here It's the coldest night of the year Baby baby I know if you wanted to, You'd brave the snow But I haven't been well I might catch the flu Or a cold in my nose Lets snuggle close together While the whole world turns to ice Just the victims of the weather Sending you home now just wouldn't be nice Baby its cold out there, and it's getting colder Baby it's cold out there, getting colder Matter of fact better cuddle up here It's the coldest night of the year Ok, why not...
Girl's Song In Winter
There was a man when I was young He lived a year with me But the year was up and that song was sung And his wish was to be free His wish was to be free I was in love when I was young And I've never been free again That's a promised fruit when you've first begun That ripens into pain I had a child when I was young The last gift that man gave I wish that he could hold his son And the snow in the air lie on my grave The snow lie on my grave
If In Winter (100 Lovers)
If in winter he should change and leave me I'd let him go and learn to do without him Oh I'd have a hundred lovers And my heart would not be broken And all the lies he's spoken I'd whisper to the others Oh it's winter now and he has changed and left me I let him go and now I am without him I don't want a hundred lovers And my heart it is so broken And all that lies he's spoken I whisper to myself
Wishwanderer
You ask me where I live Don't you know I live here now But where is my one real home This minute with you now Home is where I stayed last night Tomorrow's anywhere If you let me stay with you tonight Tomorrow's home will be here Home has been so many roads That I walk down in my sleeping Here with you I'm home at last But it's not home for my keeping You won't miss me when I'm gone This isn't my place And my loves are few and don't belong To any one lover's face So don't ask me where I'll go If you do I will lie to you But I'll tell you of the place that is never my home Where I've lived all my life Where I sing A wishwanderer's song A wishwanderer's song A wishwanderer's song Don't Believe
You say that you'll always love me That you'll never leave me blue Don't you know that that's all fallacy Don't you know it's not true You may want the love they talk about But it isn't like they say You will find that come tomorrow You won't feel this way When you say that you're in love with me Do you really know what you mean Or are you saying it because you've heard of it Or because of something you've seen Oh don't believe that love brings happiness Gone tomorrow here today Love involves so much unhappiness Don't believe what they say
Pink Sugar Elephants
I saw seventeen pink sugar elephants Sitting under a chestnut tree I said good morning pink sugar elephants But they wouldn’t speak to me Each had two eyes but they couldn’t see me there Each had four legs but they couldn’t go anywhere And so we just sat That early autumn morning Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere I walked up to one pink sugar elephant Asked why wouldn’t he speak to me But he was a factory-made pink sugar elephant Given to children for treats after tea He had two eyes but he couldn’t see me there He had four legs but he couldn’t go anywhere And so we just sat That early autumn morning Sun not yet risen and magic everywhere
I won't say
(On limited edition only) I won’t say come with me everywhere I go I won’t say where are you please I’ve got to know You’ve got your life and I’ve got mine I’ve got no right to call you mine When I know you can’t give your life to me I won’t say please love me every single day I won’t try to stop your freedom in any way I’ve got my life and You’ve got yours I didn’t realise this beforen ow I know You can’t give your life to me And you can’t say you will love me forever Say you will leave me never If I don’t know what tomorrow will bring I can’t ask you for everything I won’t say come with me everywhere I go I won’t say come with me please I’ve got to know You’ve got your life and I’ve got mine I’ve got no right to call you mine When I know you can’t give your life to me
Autumn Leaves
In the morning when I walk along And it's been raining all night It seems the rain is all the tears that I cried last night When I walk along through autumn leaves That must have fallen last night It seems the leaves are all the tears that I cried at night If he doesn't come back soon The streets will never be dry If he doesn't come back- the road-sweeper Will never clear away my tears And I know I just won't sleep tonight I'll watch the rain and hear the wind Blowing all my tears down to the street
Leave Me
When you said you would leave me I thought that I would die I thought I couldn't live anymore If you weren't here by my side But now go, and leave me I don't care anymore I don't care if I never see you no more I'll always think of you And of the love we knew But I don't care anymore When you said you would leave me I didn't know what to do I couldn't face the thought Of living my life without you But now go, and leave me I don't care anymore I don't care if I never see you no more I'll always think of you And of the love we knew But I don't care any more I don't care anymore I don't care anymore How Do I Know
How do I know that those mountains aren't cardboard How do I know that the world is round Why should I know just because you've told me There's molten rock underneath my ground How do I know there's a god in the sky Looking down and hearing me Why should you say I can't love any man Have his children and still be free Go on voting, striking and fighting Go on searching, hiding and laughing I can't change you I can't even try But let me live like I think I can Then when it's time for me to say goodbye I'll have lived just a part of man Go on voting, striking and fighting Go on searching, hiding and laughing I can't change you I can't even try But let me live like I think I can Then when it's time for me to simply die I'll have lived just a part of man Find My Heart Again
Ever since you said goodbye I haven't known what to do 'Cause I haven't wanted to try To find myself someone new 'Cause I just want to be with you How can I give myself to somebody else yet So I'll just stay alone Until I get over you and the love we knew And I find my heart again I know it wouldn't be fair To love someone new 'Cause I'd only want you to be there And make believe he was you 'Cause I just want to be with you How can I give myself to somebody else yet So I'll just stay alone Until I get over you and the love we knew And I find my heart again Go Before Dawn
Go before the dawn starts a breaking And my eyes show the sun how much I cried Go before my arms start their aching To have you once again right by my side The more you stay the more you remind me My love for you was never meant to be Let me leave these memories behind me So I can let my loneliness go free Thought I'd never want to be apart from you But all I ever got was a broken heart from you Oh go on your way I'll forget you Don't lie to me through one more hurting day I'll believe I never even met you I know we'll both be happier that way I Don't Know What Love Is
I don't know what love is, I can't say What it is that makes me feel this way But when I look at you it's then I know That I could follow you wherever you go Oh I don't know what love is but it seems That every night you creep into my dreams Then comes bright new morning and in my heart I know it's one day closer to when we will part But then you come And then I know That I won't ever want you to go Oh I don't know what love is, I never will But when you're gone from me I know I'll still Want you to be with me and wonder why There never was a love for you and I Love You Now
I don't say I'll love you forever baby I don't say I'll love you forever But I know that I love you now Dunno what tomorrow will bring baby Dunno what tomorrow will bring But I hope it can be like now When you're near me I want it to stay that way But if a new dawn breaks Please understand baby I can't say I'll love you forever Though I want to love you forever I can only say that I love you now I Know
Don't tell me you're going away I know And don't say what you're going to say I know Don't expect me to cry Don't even say goodbye And don't say life's like that you know I know And don't tell me I'm just a kid I know And how you loved the things we did I know Don't say that it's a shame And that life's just a game Just pack your case And turn your face And go For I am not the same when you're not with me Take away the bank and I will flow And don't tell me that flowers must die I know And that the cup runs dry sometimes I know But I have drunk my fill And quite fulfilled my will And now there's nothing left to spill Or show Oh darling I am not the same without you You just light the fuse and I will blow All you have to do my love Is go Someday
I love you, you love me But somehow we're not happy So it seems if we don't part We'll stay in love unhappy But if I leave you and you leave me We'll start to want each other And we'll think back to the love we had And we'll think of it as happy So it will go on, Til' the day we realize That love needn't always mean happiness So think of all the time to come Other things can make us happy And with no illusions our love will live And someday, someday, someday, someday we'll be happy
Non Albums Tracks
Dark ages (Piano Magic feat. Vashti Bunyan / Saint Marie EP)
None of us are what we were I know you've heard this all before I know you've heard this all before But none of us are what we were But it's a dark age, a dangerous time I'm on the last page, the end of the line But it's a dark age, a dangerous time I'm on the last train, the end of the line Outside the bar on the road to the madrid A curious frost settled down on my ribs These were the badlands, the sad lands I wanted to leave but i wanted to give Whispered in song in the tops of the trees "Tears are the only rain that we see" Whispered in song in the tops of the trees "Tears are the only rain that we see" I get up too late to wave off the night I get up too late to wave off the night
How Could You Let Me Go (Madelynn Von Ritz a.k.a. Lynn Castle cover / Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart / Light In The Attic & Friends LP) I held you like you were my link to Heaven God, I love you so The moon and stars I could see forever You're my angel on Earth, you know How could you let me go Can I really dream that far-off limits Could I feel that much alone To fool myself with all that beauty Will I ever seem to know How could you let me go How could you let me go Maybe I'm just having a bad dream I wouldn't stake my life Cross my heart, hope to die, you were one It never dawned on me The possibility you'd be gone Baby, I'm so wild and crazy Crazy about you It was as if my breath depended on you As I'd wait for your call ? Christmas song and forever It's time that you'd come through my door How could you let me go How could you let me go Maybe I'm just having a bad dream I couldn't believe when you told me That you're not the one, not the one Baby, I'm so wild and crazy about you Could I really dream that far-off limits Could I feel that much alone To fool myself with all that beauty Will I ever seem to know How could you let me go...
Like A Blanket (David Garland feat. Vashti Bunyan / Conversations With The Cinnamon Skeleton LP) Time will tell, but who will it tell Its quiet voice demands an ear But I won't hear it You used to need To know what I was thinking Without your need my thoughts stay vague I've gotten good at hiding I know, I know, I know Like a blanket my warmth is made of yours Like a blanket my warmth is made of yours Like a blanket my warmth is made of yours Like a blanket my warmth Is made Of you I speak to you in the tender tones of mother You might not know what I say But you're invited Wind, stones, and trees Are all I have for language I'd stroke your hair But I'm only there in hints and whispers I know, I know, I know, I know Only (Jono McCleery feat. Vashti Bunyan / There Is LP) So my love Open your mind to see Only the finest tear Only the words you hear Even the fallen drops Keeping the thought on hold Kept in the open side Only a reason why Hold me in Don't let the rain begin Under the roses we're Letting the fire breathe Keeping the sound alive Catching the fallen drops Tucked in around your head Only the sound of them Open your mind Only the fine Only a word Even the fall Keeping the thought Kept in the side Using your mind
Penduli Pendulum (Bobbie Gentry cover / Mercury Rev feat. Vashti Bunyan & Kaela Sinclair / Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited LP) Penduli pendulum Swing around, beat the drum In July, I'll deny The illusion I'll be gone, beat the drum There I go, here I come And goodbye means good try No conclusion Pendulum Like perfect rhyme Always in predicted time Penduli When will I learn Departure means a sure return Slice the pie, leave a crumb What have I now become When the lie is just some Sad inducement Stifled cry will become Just a sigh, so hum-drum When goodbye serves as my One amusement Penduli pendulum Swing around, beat the drum In July, I'll deny The illusion
Rejoicing in the hands
(Devendra Banhart feat. Vashti Bunyan / Rejoicing In The Hands LP)
In the dark we are without her empress light In the dark we are without a light Half asleep we're calmly waiting through her night Half asleep we wait 'til she arrives Clouds of birds are governing her dark blue sky Clouds of birds are governing her sky A rush of wind is gently playing with their wings And yellow stones are standing on her eyes All rejoice we are in her hands When in here hands all rejoice Owl eyes her sun will rise and light the land All rejoice we are in her hands The Long View (David Garland feat. Vashti Bunyan / Conversations With The Cinnamon Skeleton LP) In private You can whisper all your plans To the fog From Olympus the Gods observe us They're crossing wires And setting fires But they can't see us for the clouds Machinations Provide a latticework of work and words So climb aboard The long view; hard to see Past me, past you; the long view Things to come; gone from; gone through The long view; past the end Still can't see around the bend Or through disguise; it's a surprise In private Confide your little wounds and wins To the wind In Valhalla, Odin's angry He's distracted by some infraction Of the rules for Gods The Trees Agreed (David Garland feat. Vashti Bunyan / Conversations With The Cinnamon Skeleton LP) You were a young lieutenant, and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy And the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best Which Will (Nick Drake cover / Way To Blue: The Songs Of Nick Drake LP) Which will you go for Which will you love Which will you choose from From the stars above Which will you answer Which will you call Which will you take for For your one and all Tell me now Which will you love The best Which do you dance for Which makes you shine Which will you choose now If you won't choose mine Which will you hope for Which can it be Which will you take now If you won't take me Tell me now Which will you love The best Tell me now Which will you love The best
Will I See You Tonight (Devendra Banhart feat. Vashti Bunyan / MA LP) Will I see you tonight Been waiting my whole life I've had this dream inside Of looking in your eyes In this far away place Where just saying your name Gets me drunk on distance And every night feels the same Now I'm longing for the word The one I've never known A vast solstice of flowers That are all rightfully yours And I love you the way I want everyone to know How very much I love them But never told them so Your soul is where the light Goes begging door to door Goes begging door to door Goes begging door to door