Name: Came Here To Look You In The Eye (demo)
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: * demo recorded/engineered by Chris Westerman, mid '88 .

Came Here To Look You In The Eye (demo)

from Love Smashed On A Rock (plus e.p/demos/etc) by Martyn Bates

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* demo recorded/engineered by Chris Westerman, mid '88 .

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CAME HEAR TO LOOK YOU IN THE EYE . to see . to learn . to find out . to see only what I thought I'd find . to see what I wanted to see .

* 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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from Love Smashed On A Rock (plus e.p/demos/etc), released April 6, 2023

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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 ... more

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