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BAHNHOFSTRASSE
02:19
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THE EYES THAT MOCK ME sign the way whereto I pass at eve of day/grey way whose violet signals are the trysting and the twining star/ah star of evil! star of pain!/high-hearted youth comes not again/nor old heart's wisdom yet to know the signs that mock me as i go .
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DOVE
04:34
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MY DOVE, MY BEAUTIFUL ONE/arise, arise, arise/the night dew lies upon my lips and eyes/the odourous winds are weaving a music of sighs/arise, arise, my dove, my beautiful one! / I wait by the cedar tree, my sister, my love/white breast of the dove/my breast shall be your bed/the pale dew lies like a veil on my head/my fair one, my fair dove, arise, arise! .
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DON'T YOU HAVE A WORD to show what may be done/have you never heard the way to find the sun - tell me all that you may know/show me what you have to show/won't you come and say/ if you know the way to blue . have you seen the land living by the breeze/can you understand the light among the trees - tell me all that you may know/show me what you have to show tell us all today if you know the way to blue . look through time, and find your rhyme ... tell us what you find/we will wait at your gate/hoping like the blind . can you now recall all that you have known/will you never fall when the light has flown ?
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THIS TIME
05:10
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SHOW ME anyone who would not just walk away in sorrow dazed - and i’ll show you someone with a lie upon his tongue, lies etched on his face . i would not wish to bear no blame, i would not wish/could not wish … all i wish is to remain where i was once again . this time - to make things come right . this time - to reach there so long wanted . this time - to show ourselves aright . this time is right . ah, show me where i stand - and i’ll show a sorry hand asking for your clasp . show to me yr hand - and do not reprimand, or be sad for what has passed . this time is right .
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CAME HEAR TO LOOK YOU IN THE EYE . i came here to realise why yr torn from my sight, thrown to the arms of where yr looking like you’ll never cry out loud - acting like you never needed one little word . i am hurt, but i’m not going to falter . you’re safe and sound on yr own … but when you retreat and disown what has become a problem, you also forsake the good & simple love that will grow . i came here to look you in the eye, & i implore you to take it and try to breath new life into what has shattered . for i feel like we’ve run too wide - and i want you to pierce my eyes, to tell me that i never died in the only eyes that ever mattered .
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SALLY FREE AND EASY
04:30
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Martyn Bates : Voice . acoustic guitar .
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THE TWILIGHT TURNS from amethyst/to deep and deeper blue/the lamp fills with a pale green glow/the trees of the avenue/the old piano plays an air/ sedate and slow and gay/she bends upon the yellow keys/ her head inclines this way/shy thoughts and grave wide eyes and hands that wander as they list/the twilight turns to darker blue/ with lights of amethyst .
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MORNINGSINGING
03:31
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AS DEAR AS COOLING AIR coming to me thru open windows with the morning singing - just yellowed photos curling they’re all I’ve seen of your handsome strong body last night when I lay down to sleep I dreamed I saw you walking in the world and now you seem to be close to hand behind these eyes i’m watching you as you stand straight tall once more, real to me – in some way vivid as if you were really here to see .
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ELEGY NEWS
05:45
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IT LOOKS LIKE LOVE LIVES HERE - i’m sure i’ve seen it where it’s hidden, lost on a frightened man - and, I know it’s here … somewhere waiting here, for i’ve touched the fading face that it raised high once. yes i know its here, somewhere waiting here … for i remember all the ways it was, and all the ways it held me - in younger years, when love lived here … in younger years, not long ago . some pale light beams into this room, like a fire of dusky grey that blankets feeling with shadow .
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FOR LOVE, WAITING TO DIE
03:14
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SUMMER GONE - SLEEPY DUST - tired and dark mornings … for love, waiting to die . fading green - stolen time - blind and lost seasons - night restless ways - broken wings - flowers of sorrow - silent lips - a haunted moon - a rosary breaking … for love, waiting to die .
i am not to bring this in greeting . i do not choose to lose this life . i will bring tears to there - i will rain to there - to love, waiting to die . i will bring silence back - i will empty hands to love, waiting to die . murmured echoes - lulling cries - velvet nights shrouding - escaping ships - pale horizon lights - muted evenings … for love waiting to die.
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OF NIGHT CALLING
03:01
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SALTY AIR IN MY EYES AND IN MY HAIR . the sound of night calling right thru to me, a voice i’ve learned to want, to yearn for … all down all the growing years . water clashing on the cliffs that scratch against a sky of lights … a sound that rings thru me and calm again … to say to me on some glad evening that this beauty will come again .
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LEAN OUT OF THE WINDOW
04:36
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Martyn Bates : Voice/tapes/reed organ .
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BORN AND BEGINNING
06:06
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MY FRIEND, i’m craving attention please raise up yr head . and know that i’m here in elation, in words you once said . all the times you’d shout me down … all the times you’d cut me down – and you said i was dying, but i’m born now – and i’m beginning to believe . forgive the way that i want you - it comes from older days, from all of the strength, from tall halcyon ways. ah don’t be a pale extinguished love, the barely breathing remains … ah, don’t be a worn away answer of a once searing flame…
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LONG LANKIN
09:09
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LONG LANKIN will be hanged on the gallows so high . and the false nurse will burn in the fire close close by . close by . close by .
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WHEN YOU PRAISE HER
03:22
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YOU ARE a bleak smile, worn to show the world that yr all the while winning as you run full to overbrimming with a precious whine in an empty vessel choked with dying vine and I listen to yr fevered talk and I only hear the way yr caught . you say nothing when you praise her, and yr words are empty then … all you say only betrays her, but you betray yrself the best . and yr telling me of bitter disappointments, how yr let down by here let down flat once more . you can’t see how it can be that yr responsible - yr abusing hindsight to defend yr words . and I can’t believe what i’m hearing, i cant believe i catch yr meaning.
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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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