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Pomes Pennyeach
00:45
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. the moon's grey golden meshes make all night a veil/the shore lamps in the sleeping lake laburnum tendrils trail/the sly reeds whisper to the night a name/her name/ and all my soul is a delight/ aswim of shame .
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Wishing-Songs
03:30
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. early time of love be now/be real / be amazed/be awoken from the sleeping hour the would claim the day/be open as the grasping petalled flower be, would willingly be/for now an d for always /always attuned . & not afraid/dear & awake/blowing wishing songs away/not being in such a silence/in such a dream-like state, like a distant drum that does not sound/ fragmented image/instead to thrive, be richly alive/complete, undimmed & fiery - enrich the days the you awake/enrich the days - all delicious delirium & change .
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Stars Above
03:58
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. crawling from a war of a kind/out from under wraps/blind & sorrowed, with half a mind to kill the rose in you - then you can be all you despise, numb to every hurt, to every season, every surprise/shielded from the world . yet, stars above you will rise yr patient waiting soul/to light/sp yr truly alive - sure of all that's yr own . staggering out from the blast/you want to blast them back/yet it will take you far from the land you desire so much - answer in quietness, soft & responsively/just seeing it all/just seeing this night/to let yr patient soul/ awaiting an answer so - let it be listening/ah, let it hear clearly on this night .
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War-Like
05:09
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. & you lionise all the warring cries/such violent avenging/seeking revenge in such a craven flight/so war-like/so destroyed by pride/so uncomprehending/so numbing & ending it all/so dead inside/you defy/damn yr eyes/you turn & you cry out/war-like . ah, the spit & bite/of the soul, inside/like a stranger to yourself/you hide/the crushing collusion of yr solitude . feel the knife of time/all yr beloved life/is threatening to mutiny/fighting inviolate/to be realised/you turn away/ from such insights/you blind yr eyes/war-like .
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Bethlehem
03:53
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Alone Reprise
00:36
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. the moon's grey golden meshes make all night a veil/the shore lamps in the sleeping lake laburnum tendrils trail/the sly reeds whisper to the night a name/her name/ and all my soul is a delight/ aswim of shame .
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Once Blessed
06:00
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. poor debris/careless/craving release/like a fool seeking to be flattered/curious silver-tongued lies & shadows/all the strangeness you can utter . now is not the time to be turning to me/ghosts & dead dreams are all I believe/whispering like a sleep uneasy/hanging in the air/ a drear prophecy . spent like a vision/a mirror empty/filling now with tearing/fantastic defenceless grotesques/once blessed, & now despairing .
. now is not the time to be turning to me/ghosts & dead dreams are all I believe/whispering like a sleep uneasy/hanging in the air/ a drear prophecy .
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The Heart's Song
03:21
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. heart's song/playing in a quiet place/calls to waken the midsummer's day/such a music in this loving/such as never shall decay/ hearts song open on a wedding day . heart's song/sung into the true love knot/over & over till its song is caught/as a beauty all a-flower of singing years that light the way/ a heart's song sounding on a wedding day . heart's song/ringing like the bright new sun/so deeply given/within words of love/heart & heart singing/they betoken all that touch & words won't say/heart's song joyous on a wedding day/ heart's song joyful this wedding day .
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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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