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Raven's Feather
04:08
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These days can you hear me, babe
Are you out there listening babe
I need to find a another place
Somewhere in time and space
Will you recognise my face,babe
Are you still out there,brother
Just out of sight,brother
You were the chosen one
In days of golden sun
How did it all come undone,brother
I can hear your words inside my head
They've echoed and burned forever
They float on the wind
Settle on my skin
Black as a Raven's feather feather feather
Pale light filtered through old glass
Reflections and shadows from the past
Radio's playing down the hall
Clock's ticking on the wall
Your time is running out so fast
I wish that I could
Break the silence down
Take all these ghosts
And bury them in the ground
I guess this is where the journey ends
There is no use trying to pretend
In the morning I'll be gone
Like a long forgotten song
Silver tears on the face of a friend
I can hear your words inside my head
They've echoed and burned forever
They float on the wind
Settle on my skin
Black as a Raven's feather feather feather
Black as a Raven's feather feather feather
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2. |
Echoes
02:57
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Sometimes we stumble adrift from time's tether
Barely a mumble a breath on a feather
Hold out my cold hands to catch the warm rain
Shelter from cruel words refuge from soft pain
There's a sound on the wind I can hear the echo
Where she's gone I'll never know but I'll not forget her
Soft steps you take between all the places
Leaves at your feet winds of change will scatter
Sun on the green hills lights hidden spaces
Long lost promise of an endless ever after
There's a sound on the wind I can hear the echo
Where she's gone I'll never know but I'll not forget her
Rivers of time running to the ocean
Shifting like soft sand beneath all the water
Shadow of memory still just a notion
Wake from a dream on the wings of her laughter
There's a sound on the wind I can hear the echo
Where she's gone I'll never know but I'll not forget her
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3. |
Detainee
04:24
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Sometimes I walk at night and wonder
Is it only the moment that matters?
All my expectations have been shattered
Warm and lovely misery
At the edge of a lover’s dream
I don’t even care if they miss me
I don’t know but I can’t help feeling
It’s all going to catch right up on you
You think you found a safer way but it’s so misleading
I think I see a trace of sorrow in your eyes
Way down in a hole
Temptations winds blow
Across the cold, hard ground
Time will steal you blind
One day you’ll wake to find
Nothing but black, blue and grey
Detainee in life and love, spread your wings and fly away, to where you need to be
Detainee cut the ties that bind, run to find a lighter shade, the warmth you long to feel
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4. |
Rumour
03:31
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I hear some people talkin'
They love to speculate
Are we back together
Is it all a big mistake
No, it's just a rumour
That's all it is, a rumour
Spreading all around
Just a rumour
Sun will rise tomorrow
That's what they say
But I'm not so sure
They'll be another day
It's just a rumour
That's all it is, a rumour
Spreading all around
Just a rumour
Sometimes I feel it's getting late
Running out of time to hesitate
Am I haunting all the spaces
You and I would know
Old familiar places
From a long time ago
No, it's just a rumour
That's all it is, a rumour
Spreading all around
Just a rumour
Do I go kinda quiet
At the end of the day
Thinking about the good times
How I let them slip away
No, it's just a rumour
That's all it is, a rumour
Spreading all around
Just a rumour
No, it's just a rumour
That's all it is, a rumour
Spreading all around
Just a rumour
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5. |
My Tomorrows
03:38
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The preacher with that pious look
His hands upon the holy book
Of lies
I've seen it in your summer eyes
So I wrote it in this song of mine
Goodbye
I asked the man who truth denies
But there was still no reply
Surprise
Oh Sunday morning
Devil's dancing on my bed
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Now I'm running down an endless hall
Don't recognise this world at all
Disguised
Wrote my name in the hazy sky
Like faded shadows in my mind
Sometimes
I'm heading for my winter home
Where days are long and nights are warm
And kind
Oh Sunday morning
Devil's dancing on my bed
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
I stopped at a faded sign
Somewhere along the line
Just for a friendly face
Coffee and a breakfast plate
Thought about the nameless souls
Tilted like busted poles
Who passed by this place
Disappeared without a trace
Don't ask me for the secret code
Hidden somewhere on the road
Behind
We are heroes of this tale
But some of us are bound to fail
Alright!
Oh Sunday morning
Devil's dancing on my bed
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
Yesterday is hiding
My tomorrows up ahead
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The road remains but people change
Today's loss is tomorrow's gain
Time will pass like a river flows
Reflecting sun and polishing stones
Friends you meet, you know them well
They're going to send you straight to hell
Telegraph poles in an endless line
Bullet holes in the off ramp sign
Windscreen wide like cinemascope
Psychedelic songs for country folk
Don't stop too long, night's coming in
You can't tell how long it's been
Another day, another town
From morning's rise till the sun goes down
Broken strings on this guitar
Girl you met in a country bar
Twenty years on she's still sat there
With gold and silver in her hair
In another dream you lived that life
With a couple of kids and a pretty wife
Been running so long I've lost my way
A thousand miles in a couple of days
Little white pills can kill the pain
But you know there's a price to pay
Diamond dust and cold steel light
Endless echoes of a long lost flight
From a place where time stands still
Like an empty church on an empty hill
Praise the lord for what he gives
Who gets to die and who gets to live
The road remains but people change
Today's loss is tomorrow's gain
Time will pass like a river flows
Reflecting sun and polishing stones
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7. |
Oh Maria
03:16
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In my head I was already gone
All my decisions already decided on
Never said goodbye,no tears, no sigh
I'll lay those ghosts to rest on me night
Cos I was born where the river flows to the sea
Sometimes a blessing is so hard to see
Left with a blood red sky on the morning tide
Haunts me now to think about it
Last stop on the road to anywhere
Was a backstreet bar playing music with cheap beer
I was cold and hungry,beat up and lonely
You took my hand, your eyes burned into me
And if I'm not your kind don't tell a soul
I'm just a guy who hates being alone
Cos I was born where the river flows to the sea
Sometimes a blessing is so hard to see
Left with a blood red sky
On the morning tide
I'll lay those ghosts to rest one night
Tonight the coastline is quiet
Embers of my youth where once a fire
Oh Maria, if you could have seen me then
She just smiles and pulls me closer.
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8. |
Sleep Alone
03:59
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She said spare me the word goodbye it's just another place another time
I said you might have to explain that to me I'm not quite sure what you mean
I'll close my eyes and try real hard
To be what you want me to be
We had something fine but now it's time
Won't see me cry only smile and wave goodbye
And I'll sleep alone
I said you were my summer fantasy but that was never gonna hold our future histories
She said my life won't be chances not taken and I still have a heart that's breaking
I'll close my eyes and try real hard
To be what I want to be
She kept on walking further on Sun setting fast
Then at last she was gone
And I'll sleep alone
I'll always be a dreamer
Adrift until the dawn no matter the crowd around me
I sleep alone
We all sleep alone
I'll always be a dreamer
Adrift until the dawn no matter the crowd around me
I sleep alone
We all sleep alone
We all sleep alone
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9. |
Way Too Long
04:09
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It's been too long since I've seen your face
Been running so hard in a winless race
Like a freight train coming down a silver track
Smoke pouring out of her moonshine stack
I was born the son of a loveless man
Howling in the dark since time began
You have the ways to ease my pain
Put me back together again
Now the suns going down on this tourist town
Penny for the side show suicide clown
If I don't get to keep the prize
Don't want to see pity in your pretty eyes
From west to east and north to south
A stream of words coming out of my mouth
Singing my songs and telling my lies
Doing what it takes just to get by
I believe you are my answered prayer
My final breath of heaven's air
Don't turn your back don't step aside
Don't disappear or run and hide
Now the suns going down on this tourist town
Penny for the side show suicide clown
If I don't get to keep the prize
Don't want to see pity in your pretty eyes
I think it's time to say farewell
Before they put me in a prison cell
Don't loose any sleep or cry salt tears
I've been riding my luck for too may years
I will always keep some space
In my rebel heart just in case
You change your mind and take my hand
Lead us to the promised land
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10. |
Hatful Of Rain
04:22
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December snow is cold on my skin
There's a hole where the truth's been blowing in
Another empty sky awakening
That old homesick feeling once again
The midday sun from a thousand sacred hours
Has bleached all the colour from the flowers
You painted on the sign by our door
But we don't walk those rooms anymore
Now I'm sitting here
Trying to explain
Why all that I have
Is this hatful of rain
A mile of golden chains cannot bind us
If I could, I'd throw away the key
Everything but the past is behind us
This is not how it was meant to be
I remember how I found you
Broken glass all around you
And the crimson spreading stain
And how I cried out your name
So take me back where the air tastes sweet
And I can feel God's earth beneath my feet
Where I can sit in my easy chair
And make believe I can see you walking there
I can feel you near
But nothing is the same
Wish I could see your face
In this hatful of rain
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Am going born a distant land to roam?
With a few old memories of where I come from
Was I born to die on this road?
A false heart alone, a story untold
My one true love stands waiting for me
In a garden of Eden that I'll never see
The touch of her hair, her skin soft and fair
She takes my hand and we start to dance
And she sings:
Bring back my blue eyed boy to me
Stars in the night lend me the light to see
Bring back my blue eyes boy to me
It's taken so long for you to come home to me
Won't you come home to me
Summer was long when I first heard the call
And Oh, how youth drifts away
1000 boys marching as one
1000 mother's all singing this song
And they sing:
My one true love...
Bring back my...
Hard ain't it hard, this long journey on
With a gun in my hand and a pain in my heart
Brothers it's getting ready to go
A band of angels are singing me home
And they sing:
Bring back my...
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12. |
Happy Song
02:30
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My friends all told me
Write a happy song
And while you're at it keep it short
Yours are way too long
Write about the sunshine
Don't write about the rain
Sing about feeling good
Don't sing about the pain
My friends all told me
Make a happy song
With a decent melody
So we can sing along
Mention all the good times
Don't talk about the bad
Make us all feel happy
You always make us sad
Ooh I can see you smiling
Oh I can see you laugh, cry, say goodbye
So here it is
My new happy song
Wrote it in 10 minutes flat
But I still think it's strong
Wrote about the silver
Drops of morning dew
The sound of distant church bells
And the laughter that we knew
Ooh I can see you smiling
Oh I can see you laugh, cry, say goodbye
Now you've all heard
My new Happy Song
All you folks said it couldn't be done
Face it, you were wrong
You can drink, dance
Throw your partner on the floor
Please enjoy it while you can
I ain't gonna write no more
Please enjoy it while you can
I ain't gonna write no more.
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