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ON THE DAY YOU CLIMB DOWN
* yr head's in the clouds/with all the words you've spoken/
& I'm down here on the ground/where all you've touched is broken - there'll come a time when I will disown you/yr head's in the clouds
with nothing to hold you ...
* I want to know just who on earth do you think you are -
I want to know just what you'll do when I walk away,
on that nearing day : the day you climb down .
* all you ever do is talk about it - yr just looking thru me/& you avoid it/ there'll come a time when I will disown you,
& yr rose coloured eyes will darken - just as mine did .
* I want to know just who on earth do you think you are -
I want to know just what you'll do when I walk away,
on that nearing day : the day you climb down .
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Snow Rages
06:36
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SNOW RAGES
* the white snow rages, fills every space/tears to my thoughts -
sobs to my words/some melting echoes, lives that I dream
are touched like a river/with tears to my thoughts .
* this night's breathing beauty to me/snow rages all the world/
falls as a sea, kindling failing flowers & leaves evergreen/
to shimmer in silver snow dropping free ...
* & I believe you never leave/you never die/yr never too far away/
for you live/you have life/you have it here in my heart/
as I live & as I breathe & as I swear upon this meeting place/
it's always love/its always here/you can never leave my thoughts -
tears to my thoughts .
* downpour white diamonds, stones of a rain/
stunning shining their dazzling ways are hauling me over -
I'm making to laugh/loving these senses/
some fears are unmasked/
and they're cast down at last ...
* & I believe that you never leave ...
* this night is breathing loving to me/
snow rages me away in music so sweet/
some flashing melody elusive & brief is touched like a river/
running in me/singing you & me .
* & I believe that you never leave ...
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City All Of Strangers
03:39
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CITY ALL OF STRANGERS
* the night has fallen here
& I need not say amen
& sleep comes as it will
& I shall not tire till then
* I shall leave behind all that leaves me blinded -
forget it, & renew me -
I love it here newly in this city, all of strangers ...
*& I can't take in all I've been told about dirt &
noise & the harsh lights that waste ...
for all this city's a blank page to write on/for me to use
& to come to know the place .
* for I won't be fallen here
& i won't be underwhelmed
should the city dwarf my steps
ah then I am not honest with myself -
this is made to be mine
& other other strangers likewise
embrace it & use it
I love it here - newly in this city, all of strangers .
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Little Days
03:02
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LITTLE DAYS
* & I have come to look to you in the eye/in time I'll come to realise why/torn from my sight/flung to the arms of where you're looking
like you'll never cry again .
* oh but I feel we've only run wide/oh & I want you to pierce my eyes,
tell me I'm alive in the only eyes that see/that I am in the only eyes
that ever mattered to me .
* you take the love back/say those were little days, little days of lack - nothing to you/you'll take the love back/speak with a bitter taste/
say those were little days - & it sounds too cruel when you say it .
* tho you may feel safe & sound on yr own/ah you must know
that when you disown/all that seems sour/you give up any hope/
& you forsake all the good & the simple love that'd grow .
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Your Jewled Footsteps
04:29
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YOUR JEWLED FOOTSTEPS
* I'm not scared to try it/I'll take it there as I find it/
I'm not scared to up & go/no, I'm not scared to follow
in yr jewled footsteps caus' you've been there - you've been there/
you help me get behind it/i'm not scared to try it .
* I'm not scared to try it/for I really don't care to live out a lie,
to be so insincere/& I'm too scared to stay where I'll wind up dead/
it blocks my head, makes me afraid .
* but I'm not scared/to walk where so many have tried & failed there/
no I'm not scared, for fear's sake/for fear of knowing heartbreak -
for yr jewled footsteps show where I'll walk can be safe/
its just a matter of trusting in some blind faith - it just is .
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For Love, Waiting To Die
03:30
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FOR LOVE, WAITING TO DIE
* summer gone, sleepy dust
tired & dark mornings
for love waiting to die
faded green/stolen time
blind & lost seasons
for love waiting to die
night-restless ways
broken wings
flowers of sorrow
for love waiting to die
silent lips
a haunted moon
a rosary breaking
for love waiting to die .
* I am not choosing to bring this in greeting
I do not choose to loose this life -
I will bring tears to there
I will bring rain to there
to love, waiting to die
I will bring since back
I will bring empty hands to love waiting to die .
* murmured echoes
lulling cries
velvet nights shrouding
for love waiting to die
escaping ships
pale horizon lights
muted evenings
for love waiting to die
retreating shade
dreams of running
eye-tired awakenings
for love waiting to die
farther places
tastes of wintering days that erase us
for love waiting to die .
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Shuttered Nights
04:07
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SHUTTERED NIGHTS
* these shuttered nights i'm just my own prisoner -
so wild with desire
for a view of taller skies,
studded with diamond eyes -
for all of the length & the breadth of the view .
* i've built all of love upon that viewpoint,
i've put all the love i've had -
& I can't see it coming back .
I've put all of love upon that viewpoint -
& now I'm the only man these shuttered nights hide ...
* & I am waiting, shall you save me? ...
I'm lost around the ways to give,
I'm lost around the way to love ...
I am waiting - will you raise me high? -
I am somewhere shuttered here,
I am someone waiting where
I'm lost around the way to love my ways - these shuttered nights .
* these shuttered nights I'm prey to a stranger
who robs me because he knows me well -
he'll realise I'm so out of range I will hardly be able to tell .
* 'caus i've built all love on this high viewpoint -
Ive put all the love I've had
& I can't see it coming back .
I've put all of love upon this viewpoint -
I've put all the love I've had
& now I'm the only man these shuttered nights hide ...
* I am waiting - shall you save me? ...
I'm lost around the ways to give,
I'm lost around the way to love ...
I am waiting - will you raise me high?
I am somewhere shuttered here -
I am someone waiting where
I'm lost around the way to love my ways - these shuttered nights .
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First & Last February
03:02
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FIRST & LAST FEBRUARY
* you were that man so blue & slow, walking like poetry/
with a whistle that brought the world to heel/a mine of love for me .
* strong as the face of autumn leaves/blowing the breeze too free/
but it didn't matter none, I dig that mine of love for me -
that mine of love's for me .
* that february, the first & last time when the world tore you down
my friend -
that february - you let me look in you & I saw you born anew -
afraid of loving me .
*ah, meet me tonight in dreams to be tumbling in the streets/
with lives of a laughing tangled soul/
a mine of love for me -
you'll look like a sun - too harsh too watch/
but you'll do it joyfully -
so torn on the world you couldn't dig that mine of love for me -
that mine of love was for me .
* that february - the first & last time
when the world tore you down my friend/
that february - you let me look in you/
& I saw you born anew - afraid of loving me .
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This One Refrain
03:59
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THIS ONE REFRAIN
* I was the thief/stealing such sweet lingering themes/
robbing the towering fragrance we loved, that we loved to be/
that we loved to dream/plundering all the we dreamed upon .
* with laughter like spite/& malice like wire/to choke our desire/
to bereave all that we longed to be .
* but, I shall keep all that we dreamed/
lost to the sweet heady overpowering fragrance once loved -
in spite of the thief who would bring us to grief/
we'll drink in desire that encloses us ...
* In rapture to rise/to dream in one cry/to dream all of life/
to be all that we could ever dream .
& I'd wait forever to taste it again/i'd wait forever to try/
i'd wait forever with this one refrain to speak for me all of my life .
& I can heal every defeat/
& I can make every wrong that I've done come to light/
to unstop my eyes/
so I can see how to cry/
to purify all I've been guilty of ...
* with laughter so high it'll drown any crying/
& drink in desire/it'll be all that we've longed to be ...
& I will heal every defeat -
& l'll make right every wrong that I've done in your eyes .
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I'll Wrap Your Hopes Up
04:08
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I'LL WRAP YOUR HOPES UP
* I recall something said long ago ...
you were sleeping,
dreaming for love : "I'm made of a danger I hardly know -
& I live alone there, always alone ...
I'll wrap yr hopes up/
I will be the one to make you sad -
& tho it dismays me,
I will crush your love ...
* take a day/
take some road/
back away/
for I move like a snake,
closer each day -
I'm made of a danger
/that I hardly know/
& I live alone there/
always alone ...
I'll wrap yr hopes up/
I will be the one to make you sad -
& tho it dismays me,
I will crush your love".
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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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