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Tribe
04:42
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We all burn out. We all fall down. We all come round.
We all feel doubt. We all stand out. We all dream wild.
Is this a dream?
Is this all we can know?
If this is a dream then give it room to grow and grow and grow.
I want to feel I want to see I want to try
I want to speak I want to think I want to love.
Love is the reason
love drives the season
Love is the message in cycles prescient
you send again and again and again into the blue
into the wild, wild other
that’s where we are
that’s all we are is nothing
and nothing is real
there is only Love
growing
growing my tribe
growing my tribe, growing my tribe.
We all can dream We all can sing We all can feel
We need to breathe We need to sleep We need to trust.
Here, it’s autumn again and I’m falling with the leaves
falling with the trees
swept away in seas, away in seas
seas of wonder of wonder
of wonder
We all burn out
We all come round
We all feel doubt
We all dream wild.
music & lyrics: PC & RA
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2. |
An Echo In You (Stay)
05:31
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You can look at happiness,
maybe you can feel it too
but it never holds its shape
never carries through
it’s only an echo in you
an echo in you
a reason, a meaning
a kind of light, fleeting
watching the slow door.
I love the dream I once had
I’m still in love with that dream,
something about home
something about leaving
So much to feel
I couldn’t take it all in
but it just took me over
it was all so real
You were running wild in flowers
running wild
wild in flowers
and when you were done running Love,
when you were done running Love
and I said Stay,
we knew it was love when I said Stay.
music: PC & RA
lyrics: RA
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3. |
Straight On
07:04
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Straight on,
brave the distance Rage on,
shedding all resistance
all resistance...
Straight on
I do believe your starlight
straight on, showing me the dawn.
How long before we find each other
how wrong fear keeping us apart.
I so loved that line; this land is pure wide treasure And when you sing
I can’t begin to measure
but I can feel it all turning, darling
I can feel it turning
I’ll go straight on
out to the horizon
I’ll keep straight on
where the headlights show Straight on
the road before revealing Straight on
the destination knows.
I’ll keep straight on, I’ll travel fast,
the wheels will never slow until I’m home at last
straight on, the gate swings open
... the gate swings open
music: PC & RA
lyrics: RA
(quoted line from a sonnet by Pel Doherty; used with permission)
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Do you want to go home?
Dance with me now
hold your hand in mine
I’ve always loved you
and always will
‘till my last day on this crazy earth
beckons me on to the unknown light.
The look in your eyes
shines my stars at night
to see your face when you smile
thrills the beat of my heart every day so bright
Love to you Eve.
Love to you Eve
may your days be ever warm my darlin’ Eve.
Love to you Eve.
Love to you Eve
may your days be ever warm my darlin’ Eve.
Strange isn’t it that it never really matters where we end up,
you will always dream the skies of home.
You never really leave.
words & music PC & RA
with special thanks to Germaine Greer
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5. |
Buckleboo Station 1923
05:26
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Buckleboo Station 1923
I sit, barely awake at the far southern end of the platform
The bench now cold under my hand as I stare into the infinite darkness
It is 2am, an hour since the last train departed
Indeed it’s yellowed windows sped onwards to the end of the line
And now just me in my finest suit,
dressed to the nines
The master calls upon me to join him
My slow gait wanders and shuffles back to the baggage room
The filing of tickets, his timetable checked and re-checked
He flicks the switch, the blue light turns to red
And offers me a swig of his Sherry
A pocket watch trembles in his hand.....clicking and ticking
Beating in perfect rhythm and time to the station hall clock
I can’t bear to look at him
For a face too often is a bad index to the heart
It is clearly obvious from his careful stare
That he has seen men like me before
He observes the tiny box held in my left hand
As if by telepathy I hand it over to him
Now opened,
His green grey eyes now gaze upon the golden band
That was now meant to be miles from here
Snapping it shut, he smiles,
and hands it back to me
I feel becalmed,
motionless, forsaken
If only for this one hopeless night........on Buckleboo Station
Lyrics & recitative: PC
music; RA
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6. |
Old Church Gates
08:59
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Take me home
laid at rest
I am here
feel your caress
I am here, don’t forget me I am here.
I am gold now, and flamed
unfound and untamed free
now I’m free
don’t forget me
I can see you, don’t cry
I am with you
Autumn sky
autumn sky
Summer rose growing over my rose
growing over
I am gold now, and flamed
Unfound and untamed Free,
now I’m free
don’t forget me
Free,
I am free
don’t forget me
forget me
forget me
music: RA & PC
lyrics: RA
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7. |
Skua
05:38
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Floating
the edge of land far behind me
no shoreline
no shoreline
white wings brace against
the wind rising
no shoreline
no shoreline.
There is the sky
there is the water
there a cloud billows
laden, and tragic
where others like me
and others we needed
feed
and find the seed
still fertile and magic
Looking for something, something something...
I let fall the golden ring
and watch it disappear under the waves,
under the water
where all the human cities lie hidden lie hidden
their guns finally, quiet.
Floating,
the edge of land far behind me...
music: RA with PC
lyrics: RA.
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8. |
Arc I-II-III
14:41
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I’m sorry, I’m sorry
I didn’t mean it
should not have said that
I’m sorry, I’m sorry
how could I have done that? There’s so many ways
when I’m not paying attention
I stumble and fall
and the meaning I always look for
goes by me
goes by me.
Please, please
let me wipe that tear,
chase that fear
I’ll put a bandage on the place that’s hurting
if you would just show me
there are so many ways
when you’re not paying attention
you stumble and fall
but the feeling I know you’re looking for
will always be there.
music: PC & PS with RA
lyrics: RA
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9. |
Błyskawica
05:14
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10. |
Stars At Sea
12:02
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11. |
Goodbye Orphan Wilde
05:27
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12. |
Gold Now And Flamed
08:52
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