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From Gravesend
04:23
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In a town so small it barely had a name
The Fates weighed quiet anchor on the shore.
While ancient trees stood darkly in our way:
the tide went out.
Even History is surprised that she should be here
And her footprints look like questions in the sand.
She looks at Death and wonders what he'll give her
and the tide goes out.
And Duty takes my hand and wears me grey
while clouds make weightless exit over sea.
With all the letters never sent, yours never came
And the tide goes out.
The tide goes out again.
Here, the smell of winter
Isn't one I used to know.
And all these trees retain their colour
Though the endless rain
Should wash them through.
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2. |
The Michaelangelo
02:51
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This song has no lyrics
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3. |
The Witness
03:58
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Your eyes shine wet in the dark
And I'm
murderous.
The southern wind fills this mast and
Takes this cargo safely to
a nowhere town
To make nothing of them
They make me watch you and ask
I am
Murderous.
The ocean chews at the earth
Will they pull you down under crashing waves
and violent sea?
I'd make a story for you:
Murder.
You'll find ways
Of dragging seconds out
Into days.
Don't let it come to that
You heard:
Don't let it come to that
3 faces that whisper at me:
"murderess murderess"
so where is Death when I ask to be
over you?
Please ask him
please ask him to
bear you out down in steady hands
with no requiem.
What would I say?
Murder
You'll ask for home
Till every little echo of her is
thin and worn.
I only wait here
and Say: "it is so".
Say: "it is so".
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4. |
The Brave
04:34
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There's a black dog from the Fenian Rd
He follows everywhere I ever go.
When the earth is bare and nothing grows
He is company and we, will turn the stones.
When the men are gone and the women speak
O her pretty eyes turn blind to me.
Though we mark the earth as we mark the time
Still she'll look at us, look at us as if we're nothing.
But maybe, we are the Brave.
Though I know she'll never say.
Maybe we are the Brave
but she'll leave here, all the same
Theres a dark man on Umere Rd
He speaks the native tongue none of us knows.
And of all her men, and all their deeds
She never speaks a word of his to me
But Maybe we are the Brave
Though I know she'll never say.
Maybe we are the Brave
She will leave here, all the same
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5. |
The Dead
04:26
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I'd pay the wind to turn it off
You make an ice age from a dry dock.
I'll sit here and
wait
for the steamers to sail.
The quiet earth turns in its sleep
And mountains fall into the sea.
There is nothing else but
waiting.
Waiting.
As History shook her tired head
I spoke with a man who was already dead
Through yellow clouds of nicotine
He waved dismissive hands at me
He said:
You don't know that you're nothing.
I don't like words that talk of pain
And I'm really only waiting.
But it feels like
something.
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There's only 6 miles of bad road between you and I.
Only 6 miles of Bad Road and blue sky
If he gets there fast, you won't feel his breath
You won't catch my eye
But I count the time and I watch the days
Till he helps you fly.
There's only 3 feet of shallow water between you and I.
So it isn't deep – but its just enough to make sure that I..
O if you swam to the edge of things,
Where the earth meets the sky.
He will meet you there in the setting sun
With his empty eyes.
It's a short, sharp drop, past 3 flights of stairs between you and I.
So it isn't far, but you'd get there fast cos you're so fragile
Will he see me smile, as you taste his tongue?
As you vanish by
You will feel his hands, and they're cold like bone
But they're gone with time
How do you like your blue eyed boy?
How do you like your blue eyed boy?
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Ghosts (Lest we Forget)
06:55
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In autumn you left with the evening
Cold hands held
Shivering.
Time runs slow, imagining
Warms arms round me in the rain.
While the sea keeps burying your name
The tide will bare its teeth to you
Sirens call the lonely.
Stars don't keep their promises and
God couldn't follow
all this way.
I
asked him to bring you here again.
But there's noone in the sky.
There's noone in the fog.
There is
noone in the sky.
There is
Noone at all.
Today the breezes sent for me.
They brushed my face with kisses.
If I close my eyes would you
be there.
When I open them
Again.
I will
sing your name into the wind
But there's noone in the sky
Noone in the fog.
Noone in the sky
Noone at all.
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8. |
Blood
03:54
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This is where the waiting stops and I
get to move again.
Like the ribs of wrecks worn bare by sea, you will
be forgotten.
This is where the smell of blood on the air runs like music through me
And a thousand men will meet their deaths
when I take them down
to Boer with me
I wish you wouldn't wait susannh, cos
the ships don't ever come.
Hope is something that will drive you twisted
in the end.
Now I get to take the broken stories
of Kitcheners dead.
And mix them with the graves and names of lives
so bravely wasted.
This is where I laugh at gestures that I never understood
How could you have let the quiet sink so deeply into you?
I don't have to wave susannah, but ill smile instead.
Then Ill throw away your name and the names
of all your kindred.
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Remembering the Dead
04:43
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You wouldn't wait for me
You wouldn't wait for me.
Time can only
bury me.
In a borrowed grave
Under nameless trees.
While the empty face of your certainty, is
Clothed in sky, and dressed to leave
For the bloodstained tales
Of victory.
And if I were your jailor
I'd have carried your freed to you
So you'd always remember
All the glory
It won't allow you.
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Jordan Reyne Karlsruhe, Germany
Known recently as the Resident Evil 7 vocalist (trailer track, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"), Jordan is described by New Zealand's National Radio as the pioneer of a new sound, Jordan's music is a blend of irish/ celtic rock, steam-era machine noise, and Grimms fairytale-eske lyrics. Imagine PJ Harvey trapped in the workhouses of Industrial Revolution era England, with only Nine Inch Nails for company. ... more
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