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The Sounding
04:45
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And when I wake,
I will still be dreaming.
This fever may break,
And you'll still be gone.
And when I wake,
My heart will be beating.
My quickening pulse,
Still plays the same song.
Wading into sleepless nights,
The air, it breathes like steam tonight.
I hear the distant pounding of the anvil's ring.
Bolting upright in my bed,
These knotted sheets are damp with sweat.
I hear the hollow sounding of the foundry's song.
And when I wake,
I will still be dreaming.
This fever may break,
And you'll still be gone.
And when I wake,
I will still be breathing.
The thickening air,
will thin with the dawn.
I can feel the forge aglow,
I'll weather out the hammer's blow.
It's time to take the sleep to task and carry on.
And if I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
And If I die, we'll carry on.
And we'll carry on
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Sirens
04:52
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I sat up and watched the sky,
Felt cold water as it flowed by,
And I knew nothing in the world
Could ever harm me.
I've seen hurt and I've heard their lies,
I've watched murder with open eyes,
And I've stumbled through the dark
You'll never harm me.
On a fountain in the park
There is engraved a simple rhyme,
It has come down through the ages,
Through the ages for all time.
If you lean in close to read it
Falling water all around,
You will hear a simple secret
And you'll wonder at the sound.
All these places
Like still waters of hatred
Like the fathers of great men
Fade into the moonlight
I've been witness but never cried,
As the sticks and the stones roll by,
Though they rumble through the dark
They'll never harm me.
But you wonder how this came to be
You question and you fight.
And you're searching for the secret
But the secrets not in sight
So you walk up to the devil
With this fire in your hand
All your wisdom, all your knowledge
Drys to dust and turns to sand
All these places
Like still waters of hatred
Like the fathers of great men
Fade into the moonlight
All these faces
All great fires surround me
All the sirens around me
Look like you look tonight
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Geneva
03:42
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I have stood on her cold earth shores at dawn.
I nearly drowned when the current pulled me under.
In their eyes I see the water Geneva calls
In their eyes I see the water In their eyes
I've lain awake in a stranger's bed at night.
I nearly drowned when the current pulled me under.
In their words I hear the water Geneva calls
In their words I hear the water In their words
I sink
in you
I sink in you again
I go
when she calls
I hold my breath in her arms so cold
so cold
Oh Geneva
My Geneva
I have stood on her cold earth shores at dawn.
I nearly drowned when the current pulled me under.
In their eyes I see the water Geneva calls
In their eyes I see the water In their eyes
Oh Geneva
My Geneva
I go when she calls
I sink in you again
Geneva
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The Fall
03:35
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I'll go when you call me.
We both know that this means nothing.
I feel nostalgia touching you.
I roll falling forward,
You call and I backslide to you,
I feel nostalgia touching you.
Tommorrow I will be waking
To the urge to retreat I concede
I watch my hands begin shaking
I know I'll go when you call
I wish I could resist the fall
This night we bring life to
All those memories stained on sheets,
I turn down dim lights
Wishing that I would stay
Tommorrow I will be waking
I feel the pleasure of pleasing recede
I watch my hands begin shaking
I know I'll go when you call
I wish I could resist the fall
I'll go when you call me.
We know that we both belong here.
I trust there's nothing wrong,
Your conscience clear
Your conscience clear
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5. |
A Sun Will Sing
04:11
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I fear no fate, I want no world
Sky of sky Higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
This is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
We'll speak in rhymes, we'll whisper these
Songs of love. Hold these words close to your heart as I hold them in mine.
This is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
You are my fate, you are my world.
Know you are whatever whatever a moon has meant or a sun will sing.
These are the steps that we take over broken ground.
all pleasures known to us
all reasons thrown to us
all knowing grown from life in this broken ground
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6. |
Walk Into The Night
04:26
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Walk with me tonight,
There's a need to believe all we've seen.
Walk with me tonight.
Slightly to the right,
A stroll through the woods will do you good.
Walk into the night.
And I don't have the answers or directions.
Walk into the night.
And I'd like to dance upon these questions.
Walk into the night.
Walking under light after light in the night in the streets in the suburbs,
Sounds reach my ears as the yawning lawns settle for sleep.
In the glow of a lamp post alive with the dance of the glass tapping beetles and moths,
I see the number. And as I uncurl the page that I tore from the telephone book,
I'm growing number. Not a moment for a second look, I'm growing number.
And I don't have the answers or directions.
Walk into the night.
And I'd like to dance upon these questions.
Walk into the night.
Walk with me tonight,
There's a need to believe all we've seen.
Walk with me tonight.
Slightly to the right,
A stroll through the woods will do you good.
Walk into the night.
And I don't have the answers or directions.
Walk into the night.
And I'd like to dance upon these questions.
Walk into the night.
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A Passion Not Known
04:57
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Needles pierce my shaking legs,
The steel is in my mouth and yours.
The Latin god has come again,
And I'm the only one he's told.
Midnight rides when we are one,
We bask in glory rarely known.
Sweat and steel will fly and flash,
And I'll die on your heaving back.
Passion is what passion does
Passion has no goal in sight
Real Passion keeps itself alive
Passion doesn't need to fight
I keep your blinders by my eyes,
Remove your feet from sacred shoes.
Take these chains and lay them down,
In nakedness you are my god.
I do my job and clean your room,
Your picture hangs above my bed.
Noone knows, they'll never know,
They'd lie about it anyway.
Passion is what passion does
Passion has no goal in sight
Real Passion keeps itself alive
Passion doesn't need to fight
I keep your blinders by my eyes,
But practical has come about.
I'm torn apart by future lives,
And Latin gods and midnight rides.
You see me sin and in your house,
I stop for you but it's too late.
I will not tell my passion lies,
I gouge your eyes and die inside.
Passion isn't paved with bricks ,
Or wearing three piece suits and ties.
It pumps inside our hearts and souls,
A passion not known.
Passion is what passion does
Passion has no goal in sight
Real Passion keeps itself alive
Passion doesn't need to fight
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Through broken halls, cracks in the tile,
well with the words that rang through these rooms.
This falling house with boards on the shutters,
was built for the bride as a gift from the groom.
In the Howling-wise
How the sighs resound
Through this heartless ground
Though this broken ground
This aging man still walks in the garden,
his head in his hands that memory's marked.
The life in this ground is gone but the man is still
sowing these seeds from dawn until dark.
In the Howling-wise
How the sighs resound
Through this heartless ground
Though this broken ground
Through broken ground the house has been falling
He reaps his rage from a coppice of cares.
He harvests this home that harbors his trial,
Threshing the thorns that his bitterness bears.
In the Howling-wise
How the sighs resound
Through this heartless ground
Though this broken ground
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9. |
The Long Winter
04:40
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So many things I never said,
I had so many things to say.
It was always so easy just to pretend,
There'd always be other days.
I wanted to show you all the little things
That are so easy to pass by.
I wanted to tell you all of my secrets,
I never had the time.
And what I knew, I knew for you.
And what I'd do, I'd do for you.
I would not mind.
I wanted to take you far into places,
Noone had been before.
I wanted to try to make you understand,
I never asked for more.
And what I knew, I knew for you.
And what I'd do, I'd do for you.
I would not mind.
I wanted to show you all the little things
That are so easy to pass by.
Then you were gone,
And winter came.
And what I knew, I knew for you.
And what I'd do, I'd do for you.
I would not mind.
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The Affordable Floors Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Affordable Floors formed in 1981 and performed with acts including Shriekback, The Hoodoo Gurus, Til Tuesday, Human League, They Might Be Giants, Sinead O'Connor, The Posies and Trent Reznor, before taking a hiatus until the 2018 collaboration on their upcoming new e.p. Every Broken Heart Will Mend. ... more
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