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Ode: In Advance of Loss
03:39
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If you wanted to I would be with you
If you wanted to I would be with you
Tonight
I want to walk and talk with you
I want to walk and talk with you
Tonight
Coincidence can not be
The reason we are locked into each other’s eyes
Tonight
Foresight through the looking glass
Grants access to the past
Romance lost in advance
Still we sway a distant dance
I’m thinking of you and I wonder maybe
You could think of me too from your own world
Tonight
There’s a meeting ground that we both know
Up above the clouds where we could go
Tonight
Drifting up into the stars
Hand in hand we float beyond the earth and
Mars
Foresight through the looking glass
Grants access to the past
Romance lost in advance
Still we sway a distant dance
Foresight through the looking glass
Grants access to the past
And in the darkness of my solitude I see
The glory and the freshness of a dream
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Images
04:15
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Unknown love
In the field of daffodils
I want to tell you
What you mean to me
Wind blown hair
Both your feet are up on the dash
And I want to tell you
What you mean to me
Brisk fall air
The red leaves and the warmth from your eyes
I want to tell you
What you mean to me
Snowflakes fall
And they land on the tip of your nose
And I want to tell you
What you mean to me
These images flash
Upon my inward eye
And my heart with pleasure filled
And danced with the daffodils
Belgian block
The kaleidoscope of lines sets me off in a trance
Deviations, ruminations
Through time
Silent pain
Makes it’s way to the surface again
A dark matter
A dark matter, indeed
History
The vast structure of memories
Obliterated, re-created
Focused dreams
These images flash
Upon my inward eye
And my heart with pleasure filled And danced with the daffodils
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3. |
Too Deep For Tears
04:58
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Enter, enter
Stay, don’t go away
Let us be ourselves, you can
Drive our getaway car, drive us away
Green and grey narcotic spray
Our troubled thoughts all wash away
In Asturias
Under the rain
Some thoughts lie too deep for tears
Some thoughts cry out from beyond the years
I used to think the cosmos got it wrong
But now I know that we all sing our own song
The reservoir is both full and empty
Just like love its a two-way dream
It’s dry as a bone from the years spent alone
But somehow and at the same time its fuller than I’ve ever known
For the years spent alone
It’s no one’s fault but my own and I see chances for
Changes each day
But its so hard to break the mold and
To go out into the world and
Find the love
That I crave each day
Some thoughts lie too deep for tears
Some thoughts cry out from beyond the years
I used to think the cosmos got it wrong
But now I know that we all sing our own song
In a chorus, resounding and strong
Let’s hear the choir of one that we’ve been all along
Some thoughts lie too deep for tears
Some thoughts cry out from beyond the years
I used to think the cosmos got it wrong
But now I know that we all sing our own song
In a chorus, resounding and strong
Let’s hear the choir of one that we’ve been all along
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4. |
Whispers of the Heart
05:39
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A morning in peacetime
A recollection of a happy day
A walk along the pier
A dream of life in a new way
A love who could be the one I seek
Drawn in close enough to speak
(Into the ambush of despair)
Whispers of the heart
Whose piercing sweetness can unloose
The chains of frenzy
(Or entice a smile)
The Thrush that sings
When you pass the spot
Creates the moment between
What is silence and what is not
The grave shall open
Stolen from reverie
A love who could be the one I seek
Drawn in close enough to speak
(Into the ambush of despair)
Whispers of the heart
Whose piercing sweetness can unloose
The chains of frenzy
(Or entice a smile)
You are my ghost
A renovating virtue
To ease your mind
Suffer now, suffer later
Between all the time
What once was true
Is confirmed again, in another spot in time
After the war
I let my world down
I don’t think I’ll see you again
Here comes a crown
Love, don’t let your waters sleep
In silence and obscurity
You are my ghost
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Spots of Time
02:14
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New Eyes
05:03
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In the corner of a room
I can get inside a space
And grow smaller than I was
So when you come and shine your light
You can’t see me glow
I lived inside a place
Gone but not forgotten
Exchanged it for a new case
The old one was wrong and rotten
You don’t see me glow
I carried on as before
Taking things in and out
Convictions change as experience grows
Testing me as the story goes
I use what works and I leave what doesn’t
I’m getting ready for the show
In preparations for when I meet you
The stage is lit, the stars aglow
All aglow
My memories are blurred
But that’s not to say
That I don’t live in my imagination
Everyday
A life lived by design
Endlessly looking for what I’ll find
Endlessly, endlessly looking
Living out of time
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
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Today, 9 May
02:39
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8. |
There I'll Be
07:26
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There’s a silence inside
And a fear of speaking out
And I don’t know why
I’m waiting
There’s a stillness tonight
So I build a dream of you
But I can’t pretend
I’m healthy
Claridad lo que es necesito
La lucha se ha vuelto demasiado para mí
Ayúdame encontrar el camino para salir
La oscuridad
Even though I’m alone
I’ll make it out somehow
But for now, there I’ll be
While I rot with the rest of those whose lives are lonely too
And so I’ll bide my time
Though it seems all hope has gone
And as the walls close in
I’m breaking
But for a crack in the sky
There is starlight guiding me
And for one more day
I’m waiting
Claridad lo que es necesito
La lucha se ha vuelto demasiado para mí
Ayúdame encontrar el camino para salir
La oscuridad
Even though I’m alone
I’ll make it out somehow
But for now, there I’ll be
While I rot with the rest of those whose lives are lonely too
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