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Shades of Time
07:10
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Time’s passed since the golden years
Apple trees swaying in the breeze
Daughter rambles across the broken stones
Ghostly voices in the hallowed homes
Waiting on the shades of time…
Half light on the silver fields
Young love, something to believe
Preacher’s son heals the deaf and blind
Couples dance among the shaking vines
Waiting on the shades of time…
Light a flame for the cities past
Burning now, nothing ever lasts
Always searching, secrets never found
Drifting by on this passing sound
Waiting on the shades of time…
Waiting on the shades of time…
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Prometheus Blues
03:18
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If you go looking for a secret place
Or a ticket into hyperspace
The memory of an ancient race
Just might come crashing down
They say it’s all been done before
Like rover tracks on the desert floor
So don’t come knocking on my door
Or you might come crashing down
When the sky itself has split in two
Machines start talking back to you
Billions worth less than a few
You might come crashing down
Buried ‘neath your splintered grace
Shedding skin without a trace
Now I’ve memorised your face
I can come crashing down
There’s nothing left to cling onto
So let somebody be kind to you
And go out dancing by the light of the moon
While it all comes crashing down
Sailing on a western wind
Wishing upon a bottled djinn
To come and take away this sin
Before it all comes crashing down
Drank next to the Irish Sea
Walked back to the monastery
I’ll keep that in my memory
While it all comes crashing down
There’s nothing left to cling onto
So let somebody be kind to you
And go out dancing by the light of the moon
While it all comes crashing down
Nothing here has gone to plan
I spend my days with a travelling band
Now I’m walking through a sacred land
Trying my best to understand
Why kings and queens in every age
Kept songbirds in a golden cage
Singing from a crumbling page
While it all comes crumbling down
So if you go looking for a secret place
Or a ticket into hyperspace
Just remember that an ancient race
Said it might come crashing down
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Weight of the World
03:56
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In the world's darkest valley
Where the boys and the girls
Hide the weight of the world
'Neath the dew dappled ferns
Through the spring and the summer
They will grow proud and tall
'Til the autumn and winter
Knock the wind from their shawls
On the world's deepest ocean
Under monstrous command
We have sailed through the maelstrom
Into strange distant lands
With the best of our virtue
And the worst of us all
We betrayed all the stories
That we took through the storm
And we'll know when we fall
That this world was enough
We'll sing with the blackbirds
And roll with the rough
On the world's tallest mountain
Under trembling skies
With the crows and the ravens
And the all seeing eye
And the noose and the hartrow
And the owls distant call
We'll remember the fathers
And the mothers of us all
Through the worlds never ending
And forever being born
I have seen through the future
In the rose and it's thorn
I have wandered the willows
Drank the clear morning dew
Walked the sands of the desert
Just to get home to you
And we'll know when we fall
That this world was enough
We'll sing with the blackbirds
And roll with the rough
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The Great Escape
06:13
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The hidden valleys, the forest caves
The endless skyways, the falling rain
It don't make a difference where you are placed
When all you long for is a great escape
But there's no way out of here
The lights have blown out my dear
So I fall back on my bed
Send a letter to myself
It tells me to stay inside, lock the doors, turn out the lights
There's no reason to hang around the empty spaces of this town
Give me an acre, a place to stay
I'll work from sun up to the close of day
I'll build a coffin, this earth will be my grave
And all I'll long for is my great escape
But there's no way out of here
The lights have blown out my dear
So I fall back on my bed
Send a message to myself
It tells me to stay inside, lock the doors, turn out the lights
There's no reason to hang around the empty spaces of this town
I have been beaten and burnt by the sun
Tied underwater, but I came undone
I'm tired of punching above my weight
All I wanted was a great escape
But there's no way out of here
Words are spinning out my dear
So fall back on my bed
Take a moment to yourself
Don't call me in the night, there is no second sight
Or reason to hang around the empty spaces of this town
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Early Train
03:13
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Leaving on an early train, salt water in my veins
Coffee in my cup - I think I've had enough of this
Lockdown city life, these uptight city types
Want to lay in an open field, listen to an old melody
Been sleeping in my room, dream rivers, silver spoons
Walking in a haze, living these hard luck days
With my lover and my friend, met her at the river bend
Down where the green grass grows, where it ends nobody knows
Everybody's moving, there's too much confusion
A state of disaster - ice melting faster
Riding that endless railway into another day
Leaving you behind, I almost lost my mind
But there's always light, even in the darkest night
I'll keep your memory right here next to me
Everybody's moving, there's too much confusion
A state of disaster - ice melting faster
Leaving on an early train, salt water in my veins
Coffee in my cup - I think I've had enough
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Last Song of Summer
04:05
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It's the last song of summer
When young hearts break
Last drinks at the Art House
So we drive home to the lake
Where the first leaves of Autumn
Fall under our feet
Last song of summer
Where old friends still meet
Now I've a hazy recollection
Of a summer long ago
We lay upon the warm sand
Watched the waves from the shore
And I'm sometimes reminded
When the salt sea covers me
Of my afternoon companions
And a gentle melody
Singing last song of summer
When young hearts break
Last drinks at the Old Bar
So we drive home to the lake
Where the first leaves of Autumn
Fall under our feet
Last song of summer
Where old friends still meet
If you ever go searching
Through the beaches in your mind
Won't you keep one eye open
And tell me what you find
If you see a sea shell waiting
Please listen in for me
I'll be somewhere in there singing
This gentle melody
Singing last song of summer
When young hearts break
Last drinks at the Poet
So we drive home to the lake
Where the first leaves of Autumn
Fall under our feet
Last song of summer
Where old friends still meet
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All I Need
03:32
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Agapanthus, honey mead
Milk of thistle, poppy seed
Golden wattle, secret leaf
Widow's dragon, Irish tea
That's all I need
That's all I need
Drop of hemlock, bittersweet
Ruled by eye of mercury
Bracken water, tongue of moss
Angel hair, a touch of frost
That's all I need
That's all I need
One for sorrow - time will tell
Two for waiting by wishing wells
Three for ringing the New Year bells
Belladonna, apple trees
Thunder rolling on the sea
Always searching, never found
Stillness in a passing sound
That's all I need
That's all I need
One for sorrow - time will tell
Two for waiting by wishing wells
Three for ringing the New Year bells
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Double Dream
08:02
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Night flight across the frozen fields
Moonshine is calling out to me
Dark times, forgetting everything
No lies when truth has no meaning
And I'm a little bit scared about what it means
Living through all the sights I've seen
Never knew this would stay with me
Walking through a haze in a double dream
Waves roll across the wine dark sea
Old souls are calling out me
Ships lost and no-one's in command
Strange times in a strange land
And I'm a little bit scared about what it means
Living through all the sights I've seen
Never knew this would stay with me
Walking through a haze in a double dream
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Sunset Stranger Melbourne, Australia
Alt-country, folk and blues guitarist and singer/songwriter from Melbourne, Australia
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