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There Be Monsters
10:24
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I sing of rings
Sparkling things, of moon beams and dreams
I spin cliches
Taunting the grey, the dull workady
Join me in schemes
Mist- distant dreams, all not as it seems
Here is Nowhere
True life (and love) is always Elsewhere
Fear not the coming night
No baggage, travel light
All will be well, come let us dwell in secrets and spells
Sail away, fade to waves, stars show the way....
Storm- tossed and starved
Star- crossed I carve
Through brine, froth and foam
My ship a joke
A paper boat within a maelstrom
Night tells me nothing new, nothing to set- course to
Salt stings my eyes
Crushed between tides and starless black skies
Sail away, fade to waves, slow decay....
I seek signposts in stars, I search for keys in the clouds
I seek kind faces in waves, I tell myself to be brave
To make my way to Cape Good Hope
There I can rest
Look to the sisters in skies to take their light as a guide
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2. |
First & Last Rites
05:31
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Dances of old
Set standards to uphold
Weathered, the wise,
with smiles there would preside
Guiding the wild
Young passion, will and drive
Render it tame
Safe, sane and somewhat lame
Yours was the blood that ran through veins that knew no shame
A mountain bursting forth with molten flame
Your soul immense you made short work of all pretence
No common sense could douse your pure essence
Unsupervised
Awake to new desire
Strong supple flesh
To all sensation fresh
Go forth, seek life
If life be appetite
All whims and vice
Permitted, at a price
It's almost free
So sweet, this new found liberty
To do and be just what you want to be
Is it quite as it seems, does it come naturally?
What consequence, as nothing is for free
We form a ring to reenact our Rites Of Spring
Reliving what we were and may have been
We didn't change a thing, nor did we kill the king
Too late we see we were the offering
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3. |
Blood In The Water
05:04
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I gasp and kick towards the faintest glow, dread in tow
Evade the current dragging down to deep, blood- red reef
Yes, there be monsters under wave and tide, caves to hide
A burial at sea, flee the crime scene, none must see
Ascend from hell below me
Must reach another story
Blood in the water draws the meanest dregs from the depths
To shallow pools to seize the slow, the tail of the School
Beset by creatures led by bestial wild appetites
Ascend from hell below me
Must reach another story
The breaking wave remade, the pattern yet stays the same
The shoal has scattered leaving none to see, just the sea
A landless mass of neither night or day, vast and grey
Ascend from hell below me
Must reach another story
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4. |
A Way Back To You
04:22
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I tried the grave, you kept a light in a cave
You were brave, you remained
While you held fast, I burned a bridge to a past
that was pain, I remained
Now we walk around the
Trip- wire tension, unclench hands to hold
We don't let go
There are seeds among the stones
There's a road that takes us home
A way back to you
You turned the page, I mapped the scale of our cage
Tried to reset our range
You glid on ice, I lit a furnace of shock and surprise, realised
Can we talk about the
Mis- steps, missing days that fell to fire
Those smouldering nights
Stumble through a dawn of smoke
Will you still throw me a rope
A way back to you
Fickle things, the doubt we bring with promises of care
Cross-hatched, coy
With broken toys
For someone to repair
Sometime we'll tire, stop by the verge, build a fire
In it's embers we'll dance
and we'll laugh about
Illicit kisses, wandering hearts and eyes
Those off- white lies
There's a mischief in your gaze
And a warmth in your embrace
A way back to you
Precious thing, a gentle swing from dead wood to new grass
Stolen treats, those dogs in heat, these things will come to pass
You down the road, I'll trace your footsteps in spring gold
With wagging tails and tales of fortune to behold
And once again I'll see you with a newborn's eyes
And when the final candle dies I'm at your side
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5. |
The Sweet & The Sour
05:08
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No, I never factored in this change
The plans had been made, foundations laid
I was safe and sure, secure
So it seemed
I struggled when there was no one else
And grown to depend upon myself
Learned to live
On basic means and simple needs - a life complete
I thought I was through with love affairs
the endless demands of being a pair
being compelled to share, and care - to be there
And all of the chaos that entails
the feelings that fling you off the rails
Damning you to compromise and speechless lies
It's been 7 days since you passed my way
Now everything's changed, my whole world is rearranged
I had been at home with being alone
But now there's no peace, there's no hiding place
Not one single space where your face won't follow me
And now I'm hunted, at war with myself
So now I sit staring at the phone
Are you on your own, are you at home?
Dare I think you think of me - can't believe
I'm back in that place of desperate hope
A playful pup straining at a rope, who would jump
Into your arms as into (self) harm
It's been 7 days since you passed my way
Now everything's changed, my whole world is rearranged
I had been at home with being alone
But now there's no peace, there's no hiding place
Not one single space where your face won't follow me
And now I'm hunted, at war with myself
It's been longer than I would care to say
And I've grown accustomed to life as disarray
A mess of sorrows with sprinklings of joy
It's hard to believe we withstand the strain
And work our way through every fatuous display
Rather than shudder - And run for cover
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6. |
Under Dust
04:53
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The love that hides
From tired and defensive eyes
Under dust of "everyday" and "no surprise"
Still binds the hearts of those who may have grown apart
Dwell in shells of chances lost to passion's cost
Now bound by need
To keep the peace and shield from strife
Singing songs of silence for a quite life
The comforts cold
And laid upon a bed of stone
Still, it gives some shelter
It is still a home
But it brings you down, remember now
How good it felt, to share yourself
Lying unafraid in the embrace of love's gaze
There was a dream
But sadly now it's what has been
Keenly felt sensations soon become routine
And second- guessed
A mystery so long undressed
Nests in skins of habit
Like a grape long pressed
But it brings you down, remember now
How good it felt, to share yourself
Lying unafraid in the embrace of love's gaze
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7. |
She's There
04:27
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Thought that I heard her sweet song in my sleep
Felt her faint breath on my cheek
Moon sketched her shadow in Willowy trees
Traced her footsteps through the leaves
Morning came lame and reluctant to claim
Me from this feverish dream
Leaden and pinioned a weight on my chest
Undead yet haunted by the ghost of myself
Slender arms coiled around my neck
From the depths of the dawn's drowning bed
Listless with night- long unrest
Hopeless I wait, long since swallowed the bait
Hook cast, I gasp as a fish on a string
Helpless as she draws me in
Why do you haunt me, call from the margins of sleep
Why do you haunt me, just out of sight out of reach
Under her gaze in the shape- shifting clouds
Her fleeting form in a crowd
A sudden sprite in the corners of sight
Shading my vision in spectral light
Shrouding my day with her night
Why do you haunt me, call from the margins of sleep
Why do you haunt me, just out of sight out of reach
She pollenates the core of my landscape
Nestling in deep secret space
Replicates sorrows and fears I though gone
Dousing the day long before it's begun
My own eclipse of the sun
Why do you haunt me, call from the margins of sleep
Why do you haunt me, just out of sight out of reach
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8. |
Sorrow Knows
05:11
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Child - that small self held inside
Concealed from caustic words
A multitude of hurts, so clear to eyes of
Love - this fragile web of dreams
Of hope and dread and need
And endless tenderness
Of scars that seldom heal
Of one that can't reveal themselves to all
Pain - is patient, pain will wait
Without need to lay bait
As all will pass it's way and each one is it's
Prey - the path is paved with thorns
And hedged by beasts with horns
Beset by phantoms pass
A teaming mass of masks, of fleeting comfort
Pass, bewildered and alone
This secret is your own, where no one else can go
Somewhere that sorrow knows
I - would shield you from distress
Make sweet the bitterness
I'd fall upon your sword
Ensure your voice is heard
But I can't slay your fears
Nor shed your stock of tears
No, I must stand aside
But stand beside you while
your fortunes fall and rise
Accept this plight as mine
A secret of my own, where no one else can go
Somewhere that sorrow knows
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