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Song Of The Prophet
02:41
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- SONG OF THE PROPHET -
. & the sun falls on this green land . poured from by unknown hand . the mighty heart beats its slow refrain . altho we sleep, we will awake again .
. a thousand thousand thousand years locked behind my years . ancient as the stones & bones beneath the new disguise . you can feel it upon the weald & heath . & where the dancing waters play the hills are crowned with teeth .
. this summer - this life .
. in country - alive .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric & music .
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2. |
Beauty Is Fading
03:37
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- BEAUTY IS FADING -
. beauty is fading - & a different beauty's born - born of an older skin - wings thin as glass - groaning & growing like the bright earth grows - beneath hidden flowers crouching hiding under stone - sour & sickly golden pale & yet undying so - & I am walking unawares - asleep unto the soul - to cries, to smiles, to play the light - all the beauty of my home .
. my heart, my hands, my sleeping hands : such glory-roses! - how dying-strange this subtle song , this new skin I grow - brought here in hatred, hardship willed for someone dear - as some sighing cruel fate - the cruel comfort of a snare - & many a year wandering in the footsteps of remorse - a path of unkind broken step - a broken step of dirt - a footfall in the snow like peace - like peace drooping to the earth .
song composition origination :
Martyn - lyric & music .
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3. |
All In The May
03:00
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- ALL IN THE MAY -
. we met where the breezes sigh - sigh thru the half-awakened woods - light splitting, cracks & crawls like rain - all in the may .
. fan the spark from the ancient fire - the again the burgeoning boughs burst forth .
. & in thickets splashed with spray - all in the may . casting off her mantle, all of green - from the rank black loam, earth-stars will spring - passing with here train - all in the may .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric & music .
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4. |
Darkness Rising
03:28
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- DARKNESS RISING -
. all my possessions, a bargain I will make - not for my own sake - for a moment of time - what will you give me, standing so cold & sere? - all that is in me cries to be heard again .
. now I am here, and the door is wide - once I passed inside, though I was born - is there no power, no high throne of desire - so that I could stay just a moment of time .
. once all came to greet me - now must I fall completely? - all my possessions - for a moment of time .
song composition origination :
Martyn - music .
Alan - lyric .
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5. |
Dream Of You
03:15
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- DREAM OF YOU -
. & dogs are driven wild, the sunshines in the fountain . within the eyes of a child, & the old man of the mountain . all keys turn locks . all the flowers open . when I was quite young - when I was so young .
. black clouds spit with teeth . within the realms of silence, chase the wild belief . the hovering of violence . all the light is gone . all the light is gone, all the future muddy . now I am not young - now I am not young .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric & music .
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6. |
Whitestone Day
03:10
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- WHITESTONE DAY -
. days pass . & the years rollaway like thunder . they roar in your head & the sound is the dead going under .
. there was never, never no never a time before this . when the tenebrous mist & the tender designs & the names never missed - were forever .
. my whitestone day, a heart-bloodied eagle . a sign of great portent, an omen for change . & the past though still mourned now is buried .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric & music .
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7. |
Glistening Praise
06:42
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- GLISTENING PRAISE -
. & I owe to you glistening praise . tho shadow falls between us, callous & crazed . tho fading grace is given . & no will remains . & I owe you praise
. & I want for a kindness to be given to the ways of our beautiful ruin our red running days of leaving & disbelief - such brittle shame - kindness again . yet leaves tear from trees . & salt burns from out the seas . the moon from the night sky missing . shadow cuts from sun . colour bleeds from the flowers . & full wings of flight turn stone .
. I plead for the lands we trod upon . for the warmth that shrivels beneath a colder sun . for all of the solace recognised by you as love . I weep for the land .
. broken the weave . sails are smashed by the breezes . & towering waves from the ocean perish .
. the spell of my reasoning . waves of dark & sleep . all loneliness spitting salt . from a salt tongue .
song composition origination :
Martyn - lyric & music .
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8. |
The Devil In The Grain
10:04
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- THE DEVIL IN THE GRAIN -
. light ripples . born from the dark earth . of flurried rooks . of pale blue . of glitter .
. the turning year - golden . serried ranks of deepest red . iron on leather . the gleaming arc . he sits .
. awake, the never-born . paused to strike once more . amber rainbows . buried dreams . come to nothing .
. the devil in the grain .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric
Alan/Martyn - music .
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9. |
The Hand Of Glory
02:32
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- THE HAND OF GLORY -
. in the storm-driven midnight . where the blue fire burns . the creak of the gallow, as the dead man turns .
. I offer you iron . I bargain with unsheathed knife . hand of glory will light this worthless life .
. blood slick on the water - glow sullen fire - come all & hear me, grant my desire . gather like shadows . gather like ashes . gather like the dust - gather like dust . the tally man comes, & the bargain is just .
. in the storm-driven midnight . where the blue fire burns . the creak of the gallow, as the dead man turns .
song composition origination :
Alan - lyric .
Martyn - music .
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10. |
Plea
02:24
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- PLEA -
. a room so vast of treasure & ash . such buried splendour within . for the world's a maze of such sunshine & shadow . & where am I to begin? .
. a field of light . of gold so bright . of tears a-glistening . for a world in ablaze of such sunshine & shadow . oh where shall I come to rest? .
. a cave of gems . of sparks & flames . such precious diamond eyes . for a world blinded dazzled in sunshine & shadow . how shall my choice be wise? . how shall I choose the wise? .
* song composition origination :
Martyn - lyric & music .
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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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