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Arriving Fire
05:30
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ARRIVING FIRE : and I look out, after you, and into you .../I am learning from your gaze, for it’s there that you live, in a quietness/reeling in music and colour ablaze.
arriving fire, awaiting lights, fire of mind, fire of soul – /a breaking mask, a body alive/a cry surprised, and a wakening soul .
I see you now, as if for the first time/and yr not as I believed .../moving out into unexpected darkness the nightlight fills every step you take to me .
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Flight
02:49
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FLIGHT : who were you?... I never knew your face .../I looked straight thru you/I never knew your grace .../who was I? ... I burned false, like the dead fire -/to take yr promise for vanity, for spite.
... night and chaos bring me comfort of a kind/from all that’s lost, fallen far from my mind/loveless i shift - drugged in sleep/... and now I pray for your gifts: come set my bad faith free/free, from out of all of this .
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Port Of Stormy Lights
03:58
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PORT OF STORMY LIGHTS : there is no higher land - oh where is the young man who walked where love roams? I am that young man - I understand/and know/there's no higher land.
come tomorrow this will stand -come tomorrow this word stands :
ah, where is the young man all troubled sea and unquiet storm? ...
I am that young man/and I bear the name that answers to love .
come tomorrow this will stand – for there is no higher land .
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Past Tense/Eclipse
03:34
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PAST TENSE / ECLIPSE : I walked thru yr door then –n I looked to yr words/and I saw yr fight again/just as once before/listening envisioning /clamouring for more/conjuring belief again /caught up in yr cause -/live in the shadow./i mirrored that world once/i lived within its walls/I stood within that light once/and how I loved it all/believing then just vanishing /a waning disbelief/withering to nothing then,/blotted out /in grief -/live in the shadow./yr beautiful story /yr beautiful song/I mirrored that world once .
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SKIRTING THE SHORES OF SUNRISE : I’m running here/with a reason
/wondering why just why /I was born so alive with a meaning/and why must I wonder -/if hunger gauged all I could learn then I would break -/someone’s dying, blow by blow …/someone’s rising … who is killing who? ... remember me?... I’m a favourite face/amazed amazed to be given away/by every lie . we both betray the dreams/that liars make .
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Pity Winter
02:45
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PITY WINTER : it may be that I’m a prisoner of all that I believe/it may be I’ve been captured ‘n yet i claim I’m free/still I wont leave yr memory /to strangers that would sneer/at gifts that you are leaving/and all the things you bequeath. it may be I’m a prisoner/right here where I was born/in some way undivided/from passing time careworn … /for all that i’m born into,/this world that i receive i’m born to a fate and fortune/not of my own hand or beliefs . cruel rain – winter black/harsh night – to break yr back,/this won’t be yr fortune – for I wont allow you that . this fortune I shall fight – this pity, this winter blight … tho black star and doomed fate/be on yr head, I’ll turn it away, it wont be yr fortune – /for I wont allow you that fate .
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Fragment/Glad
03:18
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FRAGMENT / GLAD FLIGHT : enter yr life - enter the room/suspended in light, distanced from you … y fracture n fight - write y whole world/like the sour air - sure as yr word ... yet you will be loved, and then/you will learn . yr word is yr key/yr word is yr lock/yr door is shut tight/be sure as yr word -/enter yr life .
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The Rhyme Of Miracles
05:03
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THE RHYME OF MIRACLES . a miracle, a miracle – I lost my way/a miracle - a butterfly flying by ... /a miracle a melody strange/fluttering, a miracle, a blur unrhymed /flying by, a butterfly, a miracle /all a blaze of colour in my eyes …/all I want is to shake off this rhyme/this melody that charms my life/and all I want is to break the time./a miracle, /I never should have shown you there -/a miracle, /I never should have taken you there/I never should have let you see/into there, into me, /I never should have let you see, /my miracle, /the miracle in the solitary heart of me …/all I want is to forsake this rhyme/this melody that charms thru my life/it lingers on, fettering fluttering wings,/it pins me down, when I should soar and sing .
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More
03:34
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MORE : you’ll be like the spring, a powerful time/quiet new life running riot/but travelling wide/stepping aside/in denial/yr reasoning is answering/giving the lie/taking all,/banishing emptiness and pride./you’ll be like the sun, rising in light - consuming the days,/bringing the night - illuminating sight/yr reasoning is answering, giving the lie,/taking all, banishing emptiness and spite .
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Liar's Roses
03:56
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LIAR’S ROSES : you seemed a rushing n warm summer rain/
so new, so strange/a rushing n tearing love no one could claim/that I tried - that I failed . attending n shelterin /n reaching for full bloom/to flower, yet be poisoning/yet be clinging to you - you bring liar’s roses, withered so /and blue, like I never knew ... /you bring liar’s roses -you make it so that it all fall thru/for me n you/and yr making it true, too true . who took the trust from you?/who took it away?/where it remains, hidden?/who stole it out from you/who broke yr day to an echo /where it won’t return?/consumed and entangling, /you weathered not at thing /yr a swallowed n dying love/and that’s all that you bring . you bring liar’s roses .
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Two Voices
04:02
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TWO VOICES : i remember childhood like a flame/as a day that burned/until it raged/like a thirst that never falters/that never seems to alter/time and again/as you blazed yr slowly killing ways /for a child watched over/stunned afraid of all tender words/that should allay/all fears /for good -/and not be betrayed . from time to time, memory fades/memory fades away . I remember nights of lightning shake /and almost drown the lies you made/I remember sleepless slumber /rain of tears and thunder nights, days/from time to time, memory fades/memory fades away .
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Close Of A Song
04:51
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CLOSE OF A SONG : I stood and felt every breath/when everything had fled …/I stood and I watched as it passed me by …/I knew it for every step, I knew it for mine, for then, for all those fallen times . tide rolls in, tide rolls out – summer’s gone - give yr love lightly as the winter frosts . what a time it was – and now that time is lost/I heard the close of day/day draws in - day draws out – autumn’s turned . you don’t belong – its come and gone - it won’t return . the spring shall pass – time outlasts yr every word . I heard the close of a song, and it was you .
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World's Eye
04:22
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WORLD’S EYE : I searched so long, I looked so deep ... such beauty’d tales you told me/I kept you close, for my world alone -the more that you’d belong to me ...
and I entered yr life – loneliness -and I asked for nothing – loneliness -/now the day is breaking - loneliness comes down – it comes down .
... and I can’t speak for sudden sorro -/and I can sense that come tomorrow you leave me and I leave you, breaking in the world’s eye .
sleep eludes me in this room, I can’t find my way there -I’m lost, incomplete – there’s no centre to me - I’m circling, spiralling nowhere ...and in vain I’m watching – loneliness -as yr sleeping/sighing - all loneliness - n I’m beside you lying - just loneliness - it comes now - its coming now ...
and, all the hungered soul of love is sleeping - all the morning light is leaving -you leave me/I leave you - searching the world .
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Martyn Bates UK
(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980,
Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com
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