1. |
Painted Faces
03:47
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Painted Faces
V1
Half past ten on a Friday morning
Standing still on Turnpike Road
I look around me
And it feels like I’m falling
V2
You don’t notice you just look the other way
Passing by me as you go
It’s all written
In the words that I don’t say
Chorus
Painted faces cast in stone
Listen to the world
Through the fears they have grown
Painted faces cast in stone, in stone, in stone
V3
Changing places it’s just ordinary noise
Echo chambers in my head
Too far to travel
If I listen to your voice
Chorus
Painted faces cast in stone
Listen to the world
Through the fears they have grown
Painted faces cast in stone, in stone, in stone
Middle
Hear me, hold me, breathe me in
Take me, tell me……….
Reprise V1
Half past ten on a Friday morning
Standing still on Turnpike Road
I look around
It feels like I’m falling
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2. |
Call Off the Search
03:41
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Call Off The Search
V1
Call off the search
I’ll only come back when I’m able
Call off the search
But leave my place set at the table
Chorus
Blooms red and white
With perfumed thorns
Colours fill the night
In which you mourn
V2
Call off the search
You know that I just can’t stop running
Call off the search
It won’t change what I’m becoming
Chorus
Blooms red and white
With Perfumed thorns
Colours fill the night
In which you mourn
V3
Call off the search
Being gone’s not being lost
Call off the search
I won’t come back at any cost
Chorus
Blooms red and white
With Perfumed thorns
Colours fill the night
In which you mourn
Middle
You’re disappointed in me
Why don’t you stop and
Call off the search
Chorus
Blooms red and white
With Perfumed thorns
Colours fill the night
In which you mourn
Chorus
Blooms red and white
Perfumed thorns
Colours fill the night
In which you mourn
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3. |
One Foot In The Garden
03:21
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One Foot in the Garden
V1
Strangest feelings as I look around
Strangest echoes whisper from the ground
One foot in the garden
One foot in the door, I’ve found a way….
CHORUS
Here I am calling out your name again
My story on repeat
You’re still out of reach
Here I am calling out your name again
I’m grieving what’s been spent
Not knowing if you’re hell or heaven sent
V2
Look above me, are the stars in line?
Look inside me is my soul so blind?
One foot in the garden
One foot in the door, I’ve found a way….
CHORUS
Here I am calling out your name again
My story on repeat
You’re still out of reach
Here I am calling out your name again
I’m grieving what’s been spent
Not knowing if you’re hell or heaven sent
MIDDLE
Never really looking in the right places
Coins in a fountain
Written in the air the shape of the faces
I know that you’re counting
Losing sight of everything that I have ever known
Feel the pulse of expectation beating in my bones
CHORUS
Here I am calling out your name again
My story on repeat
You’re still out of reach
Here I am calling out your name again
I’m grieving what’s been spent
Not knowing if you’re hell or heaven sent
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4. |
Still We Wait
04:36
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Still We Wait
V1
I held you in my hand
Lifted you from the table
Turned you in my palm
Crimson mark on your face, fragile as a lamb
V2
There’s silence in the way
Things that I’ve always known
I couldn’t make you say
Intention filling up my breath, quiet as a prayer
CHORUS
Still we wait inviting conversation
Restless walls, no power to persuade
Marks that stain then let go of my mystery
Like a child who’s hiding from me
V3
There’s history in the way
Things that you’ve always carried
I couldn’t make you stay
Questions filling up my head, then you turn away
CHORUS
Still we wait inviting conversation
Restless walls, no power to persuade
Marks that stain then let go of my mystery
Like a child who’s hiding from me
MIDDLE
Just as pearls go to ground
And scatter where they fall
Just as pearls go to ground
And scatter where they fall
They scatter where they fall
V1 Reprise
I held you in my hand
Lifted you from the table
Turned you in my palm
Crimson mark on your face, fragile as a lamb
CHORUS
Still we wait inviting conversation
Restless walls, no power to persuade
Marks that stain then let go of my mystery
Like a child who’s hiding from me
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5. |
Passing Places
03:16
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Passing Places
Verse 1
Careless tourists rushing by
Gone in a moment, no alibi
They don’t stop, they don’t believe
The wreckage they leave
Verse 2
Here it started and here it ends
Smoke obscures the road ahead
Masking all that’s been and gone
Stopping you from moving on
Stopping you from moving on
Chorus
And I never thought you’d try so hard
Too little too late
Too much too soon
Too far
Verse 3
There’s flashing neon in your face
Your restless engine’s run its race
These sleeping soldiers just slow you down
Second thoughts turn you around
Second thoughts turn you around
Chorus
And I never thought you’d try so hard
Too little too late
Too much too soon
Too far
Middle
And these passing places
Are just turning pages
These passing places
Are just changing faces
Chorus
And I never thought you’d try so hard
Too little too late
Too much too soon
Too far
Chorus
No I never thought you’d try so hard
Too little too late
Too much too soon
Too far
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6. |
Every Move
03:24
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Every Move
V1
The world keeps moving
But I’m just standing still
You say I’ll be a loser
And I always will
Chorus
But every move is mine to make
I’m climbing a ladder
And I pray it doesn’t break
V2
Rules are for bending
So I’m picking up the pieces again
A slight of your hand
And I find I’m watching you instead
Chorus
But every move is mine to make
I’m climbing a ladder
And I pray it doesn’t break
V3
Tables are turning
But I’m not marking time
I don’t need to be winning
To know I’ll be alright
Chorus
But every move is mine to make
I’m climbing a ladder
And I pray it doesn’t break
Middle
Go ahead and blow me down
Fill up your fire
The winds will come around
Go ahead and blow me down
Fill up your fire
The winds will come around
Chorus
Cos every move is mine to make
I’m climbing a ladder
And I pray it doesn’t break
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7. |
Nothing Gold
04:12
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Nothing Gold
V1
Watching the world from where he stands
Judgement in his mind
No return, cap in hand
Recalls what he’s left behind
V2
Heading off shadows that are closing in
They draw around his face
An image of original sin
Reflects without a trace
Chorus
Swirling circles in between
What has gone and what’s to be
Knowing that his dawn goes down to day
Early frost reaching deep
Soothing sadness into sleep
Knowing that nothing gold can stay
V3
Chilled and broken like autumn rain
Night breath sweeps his heart
I don’t know where he goes but he remains
In between day and dark
Chorus
Swirling circles in between
What has gone and what’s to be
Knowing that dawn goes down to day
Early frost reaching deep
Soothing sadness into sleep
Knowing that nothing gold can stay
Reprise V1
Watching the world from where he stands
Judgement in his mind
No return, cap in hand
Recalls what’s left behind
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8. |
Close My Eyes
04:04
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Close My Eyes
Verse1
I close my eyes, lost behind
Half asleep, twice as blind
As moonless night
Verse 2
Staring down these empty halls
Voices held between these walls
I hear you cry
I hear you call
Chorus
And I fumble with your photographs
Things you’ve left behind
Solitude invading – empty rooms
Distant miles
Verse 3
And I’m watching you from another door
And we both know I’ve walked this floor
Not letting go
Chorus
And I fumble with your photographs
Things you’ve left behind
Solitude invading – empty rooms
Distant miles
Middle 1
And though all that I see are feathers
While I’m here I remember
And though all that I see are feathers
While I’m here I remember
Chorus
And I fumble with your photographs
Things you’ve left behind
Solitude invading – empty rooms
And I fumble with your photographs
Things you’ve left behind
Solitude invading – empty rooms
Distant miles
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9. |
Everything Takes Time
04:21
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Everything Takes Time
V1
Did you ever look
In mirror’s gaze?
Open up the old book
Of feathers and traces
Of lies and ungentle graces
V2
Did you ever wander
Too close to the source?
Thoughts that pull you under
That bless, or curse
Reflect a life that’s unrehearsed
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
V3
Did you really find
A ghost in this machine?
Secrets of your own mind
The time and spaces in between
Things that might still be
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
Middle
You say ‘stick to what you know’
‘Safe within your temple’
‘Paying only what you owe’
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
Reprise V1
Did you ever look
In mirror’s gaze?
Opened up the old book
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10. |
Look The Other Way
03:01
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Everything Takes Time
V1
Did you ever look
In mirror’s gaze?
Open up the old book
Of feathers and traces
Of lies and ungentle graces
V2
Did you ever wander
Too close to the source?
Thoughts that pull you under
That bless, or curse
Reflect a life that’s unrehearsed
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
V3
Did you really find
A ghost in this machine?
Secrets of your own mind
The time and spaces in between
Things that might still be
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
Middle
You say ‘stick to what you know’
‘Safe within your temple’
‘Paying only what you owe’
Chorus
Everything takes time
Simply follow nature’s sound
Don’t tell me to step in line
I’ll break your mould
I’ll break my own ground
Reprise V1
Did you ever look
In mirror’s gaze?
Opened up the old book
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11. |
Into The Light
03:31
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Into the Light
Verse 1
In your mind imagine
Dreams so full of doubt
Your coat with so many colours, you can’t even count
Verse 2
It drapes around your shoulders
The sun is on your face
Morning chill air rises,
Then fades away
Chorus
You don’t need to fly –
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Verse 3
Made from handless ruins
Her secrets kept then gone
A sorrow’s crown of sorrows
Sending her on
Verse 4
She grew up like her father
She said she’d do it all
Transforming every moment
In the name of her call
Chorus
But you don’t need to fly
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Middle
Mid the transformation
Lies her frozen form
Invisible impatience
Shielding strobic storms
Prison walls confining
Still as fallow fields
Nature re-designing
Grey and darker streams
Verse 5
And now she built a shelter
As lonely as the sun
Unravelling her future
Before it’s begun
Chorus
But you don’t need to fly
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
Into the light
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