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No Reply
03:44
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I called out to the darkness
I've been looking for my eyes
Has anybody seen them
Can anybody help I cried?
I called out to the darkness
I've been reaching for my hands
Has anybody held them
Lyrics :
Does anyone understand?
In the silence I heard my reply
And no one will ever know why
I called out to the darkness
I've been looking for myself
Can anybody find me
Is there nobody left?
I called out to the darkness
Why don't you ever hear me
And who hides behind you
Is there no way I can see?
In the silence I heard my reply
And no one will ever know why
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2. |
The Beggar & the Thief
04:46
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Lyrics :
"Help me I am helpless"
Cried the beggar to the thief
"Help me find a home again
I need safety and relief
I'm weaker than the smallest breeze
I have lost all my belief"
"Come with me" the thief replied
"I'll show you a land that's free
Where no door has ever closed
Onto the likes of you and me
For just as you cannot steal the sun
You cannot steal all that I've seen"
Roam until I roam no more
Run until I run no more
"I'll go with you" the beggar cried
"I'll follow you my friend
I'll be the shadow on your path
Round each and every bend
As I stand before you now
Naked until the end"
"All is well" the thief he laughed
"Let's hit the endless trail
You will be rewarded fast
As long as you don't fail
I’ll pick the locks upon the gates
Of heaven and in we'll sail"
Roam until I roam no more
Run until I run no more
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3. |
A New Morning
04:00
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Lyrics :
Sweet and wanting
The wind is moaning
Countless are the names she’s calling
Upon the tide
To cross the water
A gentle sleep
Will soon be falling
Seven days
Seven nights
Seven years
Seven lives
Mourning
Mourning
Bound and turning
The evening’s closing
Endless are the ties we’ve broken
Upon the bridge
The crowds are walking
Our last words will soon be spoken
Seven days
Seven nights
Seven years
Seven lives
Mourning
Mourning
New morning
New light
A new morning
New light
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Tribe
03:53
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Lyrics :
There were voices shot to the skies
There were cries sent to unblind eyes
There were downturned palms unraised
From fists to claps that drowned out in praise
There were shouts shut from the back of tongues
Swallowed down throats to choked up lungs
Joy brimming from the deepest well
From the source sprung to break the spell
How low the mighty fall
How low how low
Once a raindrop became a sea
From one seed grew a forest of trees
From two bodies generations came
To walk the ground and disappear again
Until a siren blew among the reeds
Warning of crops that no longer feed
Sending buds up to flower and bloom
Under cover of the darkest moon
How low the mighty fall
How low how low
For one embrace a whole people prayed
For one tribe a whole lament was played
Now the wind blows against the shore
This song of songs will be sung no more
From the ashes of the ruins will grow
A new time to scatter and sow
Over the desert a rainbow spans
A bridge of hope across the western lands
How low the mighty fall
How low how low
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5. |
That Cry
04:23
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Lyrics :
That cry was a bellowing cry
Up came the sails and down went the sigh
That cry was a deafening cry
A note unbroken by the lay or lie
Out to the east and out to the west
Cried out more until they cried out less
That cry was a bellowing cry
That sound was an ocean of sound
A liquid salt over water and ground
That sound was a tide of sound
The washed up mud on a burial mound
Out to the north and out to the south
Words are like pearls from a gilded mouth
That sound was an ocean of sound
So raise up your voice and shout
Shout til the crying is out
Raise up your voice and shout
Shout til the devil is out
People cry and people sing
These are the words we tell
These are the words we bring
That shout was the flame of a shout
The burnt up ashes in the dust of a drought
That shout was a fireball shout
The blackened trace from the battle and rout
Out to the east and out to the west
Cried out more until they cried out less
That shout was the flame of a shout
That wail was a piercing wail
The cold dry snap of descending hail
That wail was the peak of a wail
The very last step on an endless trail
Out to the north and out to the south
Words are like pearls from a gilded mouth
That wail was a piercing wail
So raise up your voice and shout
Shout til the crying is out
Raise up your voice and shout
Shout til the devil is out
People cry and people sing
These are the words we tell
These are the words we bring
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6. |
The Branches Grow
03:49
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Lyrics :
Turn away turn the earth over the spade
Turn away turn the mud under the clay
Digging in deep I’m digging in slow
The roots go deep but the branches grow
Turn low now the day begins to glow
Turn low take the grain and start to sow
Digging in deep I’m digging in slow
The roots go deep but the branches grow
Everyone
Everyone
Everyone
Everyone..
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7. |
My Wilderness
03:23
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Lyrics :
Cursed and run from town to town
His shadow stays like a dog heel down
Through the smoke and through the flames
From the highest mountains to the lowest plain
Redemption brings the final cost
He's the walking ghost of your lover lost
There are always people who
Need someone and now it’s you
Here was sorrow and here was I
Here was anger and here was my
Wilderness where I'd remain
Emptiness forever retain
So count with me the battle scars
They're our memories behind the bars
Sister sister tell me it's true
Do you need someone like I want you
There are always people who
Need someone and now it’s you
Sister sister tell me it’s true
Do you need someone like I want you
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Dreamer
03:36
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Lyrics :
I dreamt the dreamer was lying
I dreamt that the dreamer was wrong
I dreamt the dreamer was dying
I woke and the dream was gone
I saw the blackest star
Swallowing up the ground
I saw towering flames
When it crashing down
I saw a stranger's eye
Or was it my own
I saw the mirror break
And I was left alone
I dreamt the dreamer was lying
I dreamt that the dreamer was wrong
I dreamt the dreamer was dying
I woke and the dream was gone
I saw great pillars fall
Opening up the skies
I saw foundations razed
Saw it with my own eyes
I saw my own head wound
Strangely bathed in light
I saw the patterns dance
Like birds into the night
I dreamt the dreamer was lying
I dreamt that the dreamer was wrong
I dreamt the dreamer was dying
I woke and the dream was gone
I heard silence fall
When the noise was drowned
Under the sliding ground
I heard the quiet resound
I've dreamt a hundred times
Each time the same
And tonight when I dream
I'll dream it all again
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9. |
Say But Don't Say
04:18
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Lyrics :
Say but don't say
Say that you'll stay
Say but don't say
Say that you'll stay
One step today
Is further away
One step today
Is further away
To this fate we are all exposed
But lives made of stone grow cold
Are we young or are we old?
Say you don't know
Say you won’t go
Say you don't know
Say you won’t go
For one step today
Is further away
One step today
Is further away
In this way we all get exposed
But lives made of stone turn cold
Are we young or are we old?
One step today
Is further away
One step today
Is further away
In this light truth gets exposed
Lives made of stone turn cold
Are we young or are we old?
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10. |
Strange Is The Man
04:24
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Lyrics :
Fast to the edge
Close to the south
The remains of the sky
Are woven into shrouds
Broken and wild
Charcoal in black
The promise of rain
Is swollen in the clouds
Strange is the man free in his heart
Strange is the man unchained at last
Clear is the sap
Under the bark
Carried from the root
It opens the bud
Dry is the tongue
Cracked at the mouth
He trembles in thanks
As he drinks from the cup
Strange is the man free in his heart
Strange is the man unchained at last
Over at the seam
Red to the vein
He's whispering soft
All the names of the dead
Laughing to himself
Unbound and set
Now the wind is his pillow
And the skies are his bed
Strange is the man free in his heart
Strange is the man unchained at last
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And Still The Calling
04:05
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Lyrics :
I heard mute voices mouthing prayers to unknown ones
Whose mouths had once prayed to gods in the songs of broken tongues
I heard drum breaks roll from the edge of the falling heights
Cascading sounds colliding devouring up by the night
I heard the snap of wings beat as the flocks spread west
I stood and listened to the silent echo that it left
Calling you calling me
I heard the poison moaning inside the depths of me
I felt it turning like driftwood on dead seas
Until I heard it take root and branch fruit against the skies
For my empty hands to pick them free of claps and of cries
And overcome and overrun I remembered once again the fear
The fear of being alone the fear of never leaving here
Calling me calling you
Still it takes and still it holds
And still it comes it opens and folds
And still I wait and still I lie
And still the rope around me is tied
And so the voices guide me between tension and release
And so the voices throw me between turmoil and relief
And the voices inside voices speak to this voice that remains
Until our voices join together for one last refrain
Calling me calling you
And still it takes and still it holds
And still it comes it opens and folds
And still I wait and still I lie
And still the rope around me is tied
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12. |
Drowning In My Sleep
03:46
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Lyrics :
I'm drowning in my sleep
I waded into deep
I'm drowning in my sleep
I waded into deep
And this world or so it seems
When it unfolds is a perfect dream
There's no one here but me
Out on the open sea
There's no one here but me
Out on the open sea
And the many names that I have been
Are all the same across an empty screen
There's no one here it's strange
I'm moving out of range
There's nothing here it's strange
I'm moving out of range
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Three Times Betrayed
05:57
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Lyrics :
I heard you say stay by my side
I heard you say stay by my side
Don’t leave me here
Don’t leave me here
Don’t leave me here alone
They said that I was there with you
They said that I was there with you
But I denied
But I denied
Three times I denied
I heard the whisper of my name
I heard the whisper of my name
And then I ran
And then I ran
Three times I ran
Oh I fled when the sun came up
Oh I fled when the sun came up
I tried to hide
I tried to hide
To hang my head and hide
Oh I’ll regret til the end of my days
Oh I’ll regret til the end of my days
How I betrayed
How I betrayed
Three times I betrayed
I covered myself in shame
I covered myself in shame
I lied
I lied
Three times I lied
Blind
Blind I walk
Everywhere I search
I search for you
Alone
Alone I walk
Everywhere I seek
I seek for you
Everywhere I search
I search for you
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Piers Faccini France
If my songs were maps I'd want them to stretch from the English moors to the Saharan dunes via the plains of the Mediterranean.
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