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Light
01:19
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Stars
02:46
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There's a pale moon a-rising but the show is in vain
When the stars don't come out in the night
No sign of a-colour it's plainer than plain
When the stars don't come out in the night
A cloak full of diamonds, a glittering show
The city's alive with the streetlight's soft glow
Lion asleep, it's got nowhere to go
When the stars don't come out in the night
Maybe its cloudy, maybe its rain
But the stars don't come out in the night
Maybe the sunlight is bright once again
And the stars are just hidden from sight
Well if I could ride out on some old satellite
Where there's nothing but space junk and meteorites
I'd look all around for a clue to our plight
When the stars don't come out in the night
Where the sun never sets and the sky never ends
The stars don't come out in the night
Will they return? Well that just depends
On whether we're treating them right
Well maybe they're hiding away from the black
Lost in a moment to never come back
Lying in space just dead on their backs
The stars don't come out in the night
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3. |
Daylight
04:02
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Lord well I’m a-higher than a mountain
So much higher than a ‘plane
You might think that I’m just sleepin'
But it feels like I’m flying once again
In the churchyard with the roses
I've got a gravestone for my bed
I’m not the Captain or the navigator
But I found a million stars above my head
I spread my wings for to take my flight
Across the sky into the deep dark night
When I reach the sun and find out old Icarus was right
Well I’ll try to fly again
In the north sea’s cold water
My feet barely touch the sand
A giant wave come crashing over my head
Well I lost the grip of your strong hand
When I try to stand up I’m in too deep
Try to swim the shoreline’s out of reach
I got chains around my ankles and concrete 'round my feet
But I’ll try to fly again
You might think that I’m preoccupied
Walking with myself along the dunes
It’ll soon be dawn and with the coming of the morning sun
The daylight illuminates my room
When I try to stand up I’m in too deep
Try to swim the shoreline’s out of reach
I got chains around my ankles and concrete ‘round my feet
But I’ll try to fly again
You might think that I’m preoccupied
Walking with myself along the dunes
It’ll soon be dawn and with the coming of the morning sun
The daylight illuminates my room
You might think that I’m preoccupied
Walking my dogs in Brigadoon
It’ll soon be dawn and with the coming of the morning sun
The daylight illuminates my room
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4. |
Time on the clock
03:44
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Well the time on the clock sayin’ you must act now
You won't get to swing anything: no way, no how
And the rise of you-know-who won't do
Time on the clock says you must come too
Or you’ll get discarded like a worn-out shoe
Cast aside on the tow-path
Everybody ends up kicking you (and that won't do)
Don't let me be the only one
The rain decides to fall upon
Staring at the setting sun
As it slips over the horizon
All I needed was more time
Told me one day I would be the future
Told me one day I could touch the sky
Taught me how to live and now I'm learning how to die
Time on the clock draws a line in the sand
You can cross it with impunity when circumstances so demand
You know in your heart of hearts that that won't do (and that’s not you)
And the snow lay light
But I feel my heart still beating
Oh! the past playing some trick inside my mind
Told me one day I would be the future
Told me one day I could touch the sky
Taught me how to live and now I'm learning how to die
The time on the clock draws this chapter to a close
Whose the winner, whose the loser here?
Well no one ever knows
But! You know in your heart of hearts and that's not you (well that won't do)
And the snow lay light on the horizon
I can feel and hear my heart still beating
The past playing some trick inside my mind
Told me one day I would be the future
Told me one day I could touch the sky
Taught me how to live and now I'm learning how to die
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Sky
03:31
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I threw back the curtain I looked at the sky
Something was wrong completely awry
Didn't know what I didn't know why
I threw back the curtain I looked at the sky
Clouds were all battered and twisted and torn
Grey upon grey so weak and forlorn
Wishing to god they'd never been born
The clouds were all battered and twisted and torn
Wind was as still as the dead in the night
Rain was just mist with no strength to fight
Air was a vacuum devoid of all might
Wind was as still as the dead in the night
Well the dreams that were sold me
Will barely console me
And the lies that were told me
Forever unfold me
We'll wake up one morning the sky will be blue
The sun will be shining like it used to do
Lies will be lies but the truth is still true
We'll wake up one morning the sky will be blue
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I'll see it through
04:11
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I'm feeling so wound up inside
My clothes they're worn my brain is fried
Nothing really matters here right now
The rain is falling down outside
Stone grey building slate grey sky
Nothing really matters here right now
But you'll know the score and you'll know the answer
But you'll know the score you know just what your chances are
Don't you tell them what it is you're thinking
Tell them what it is you're drinking
Keep your weary eyes on the ball
And all I want to do
Is see you smile
And if that takes a while
Then I'll see it through
So we act that way because we can
We tell them we don't give a damn
We a long time dead I'm told
You must keep your mind wide open
Keep your words well chosen
Keep your weary eyes on the road
And it's a-hard for me to be quite certain
Knowing what's behind the curtain
Waiting there to chill me to the bone
And all I want to do
Is see you smile
And if that takes a while
Then I'll see it through
Well the old streetlight so cold and dim now
Winter skyline caving in
On everything I once knew to be true
But all I want to do
Is see you smile
And if that takes a while
Then I'll see it through
That's all I want to do
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7. |
Where I come from
03:29
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Where I come from
People all gone
No smiling congregation in the church for to pray
But I hear all the voices
Echoing choices
Gone away, gone away, gone away
Where I come from
Is where I belong
In the trees in the starlight in the night and the day
In the lines on the faces
in cornered dark places
Gone away, gone away, gone away
But I walk this sacred ground
Where my soul can be found
When I'm six foot under will I stray?
But it's almost dawn
Am I getting older?
Only one way up
The up escalator's broken down
Where I come from
My friends all gone
Gone away, gone away, gone away
When I walk this sacred ground
Where my soul can be found
When I'm six foot under will I stray?
Where I come from
My friends all gone
Gone away, gone away, gone away, away
Gone away, gone away, gone away
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Pete Slater etc Hawes, UK
Songs produced over the decades with friends and in isolation.
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