1. |
Blackfin Gulls
04:51
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Blackfin Gulls
Would you take hold of a shoal
Of blackfins swaying
In time with your breath, the inner current
That brought your body to the shore
The marks we made
Left a maze on the blonde beach
How the gulls look sideways
From their highways
Metronomes keep a candid beat
While harmony hangs on our every word
I’ve coughed for years in the dust of our earth
Now the sand finds a crack and retracts
The marks we make
Will soon wash away
How the gulls look sideways
From their highways
Descend, speak of what you’ve seen
Descend, we are listening
Descend
So show me how to stand again
Yours was a call I could not ignore
Pulled from the depths, we were pulled by our necks
To lie beached, our eyes wide and wanting
The marks we make
Will soon wash away
How the gulls look sideways
From their highways
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2. |
No End To The Drum
04:27
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No End To The Drum
We went shining torches down tunnels
It is you I follow through the thick of it all
In the absence of an exit
A clear way out
When we stopped
It was a heavenly thing you said
When we stopped
What a heavenly thing to say
In the absence of an exit
A clear way out
Expecting the incision
Through the very centre of my being
In the absence of an exit
A clear way out
Theo, Theo, Theo, Theo
Obsession bring on the visions
I can't let go of your beckoning image
The lesion is so deep
I can barely see
Caught you leaning
Through the window of my sleeping
Caught you leaning
From whom have you gone missing?
The lesion is so deep
I can barely see
I watch you migrate
Transforming in mid air
Take with you
My faith and fortune
And all that keeps me here
The lesion is so deep
You must be part of me
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3. |
Giant No Good
05:57
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Giant No Good
There he stood
A giant up to no good
A weathered grin
Sat on his elephant skin
I am not afraid
I know my fate
And there’s no need
For an up tight fist fight way out of this
When you live alone
Folklore is alive in the corners of night
In your home
And prayer might reach a mighty force
It’s no use to me now
It’s no use to me at all
It’s no use to me now
It’s no use to me at all
So may the moon rattle inside its glow
Let go of a spark
A starling swooping low
And may this roof rise
Rise to let light in
All damp and hushed now
She is the brightest thing
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4. |
Hoax Of A Man
05:11
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Hoax Of A Man
River carries water
Hoax of a man
I tried to befriend him
Took the bridge’s legs
Legs they have no more
Broke the lily heads
Heads they have no more
Deer, leave the lowlands
Bury the young
In your thick coats
River comes again
And so the bridges bend
Hollows out every tree
Throws about every fish
Mother, where to now?
Our crops are gone
Our cattle drowned
One by one we lie down
And one by one we call out
One by one the Lord collects
His children from floating beds
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5. |
Hope's Departure
07:03
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Hope’s Departure
I have lost hope, she left the other day
To where I don’t know, to whom I can’t say
I followed a trail, small feet in the dirt
I knew they were hers by how they curved inward
Down through the valley of isolation
I clung to the vines of desolation
I got dealt a bad deal, I got thorns in my heel
My eyes will tell you all that I feel
I am pure and I care for virtue
No wolves can claim this kind of value
Still I sense their stare, a soiled glare
From dens dangerously inviting
Dear dark wolves
Can I come in?
Cold has taken its hold on everything
Dear dogs of burden
Can I lie down?
Just for a short while
Let me lie on the ground
Dear dark world
Can I come in?
Cold has taken its hold on everything
Dear dogs of burden
Can I lie down?
Just for a short while
Let me lie on the ground
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6. |
Mouthful Of Shells
03:15
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Mouthful Of Shells
Oh I am gone, it was long ago
That I gave up the language I owned
Where to now? Where to now?
With a mouthful of shells
That whistle and hum
A mouthful of shells
That whistle and hum
How I long for the chase
We were quicker then
I sang to myself
While you coloured in
Corners of things
So that I may see them
La la da da da da da
We have known the animal urge
The spark between sea and earth
The fight and flight
The hunt and hurt
Of asking when you should be quiet
Oh don’t ask when you should be quiet
I still long for the chase
We were kinder then
I sang to myself
While you coloured in
Corners of things
So that I may see them
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7. |
Drink Waltz
06:51
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Drink Waltz
There on the hills you’ll hear
A sound that is never fair
On any ear
A voice without clarity
A song without a melody
Is in the air
It whips the slopes according to
A map that forms the whole year through
It knows not me and knows not you
We go not where the ground is steep
Drink, drink, won’t you drink with me
In the house we filled so lovingly
Waltz, waltz, waltz, won’t you waltz with me
In the clothes that hold us so tenderly
I stitched a curtain to hide the swell
Of clouds with anchors dropping out
And dropping down
You stood etched against
The cloth, the stitch, my needle my thread
Is loosening
And the map turns back on itself
Draws a line that ties us both
And arm in arm I see us go
Oh my, oh I
Am overwhelmed, I am overwhelmed
By the imagery, by the imagery
Drink, drink, won’t you drink with me
In the house we filled so lovingly
Waltz, waltz, waltz, won’t you waltz with me
In the clothes that hold us so tenderly
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8. |
Planks
04:19
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Planks
Take me in your arms dear Lord
Take me if you will
On the day the wind stands still
There’ll be nothing more
To shape to mould to house my thoughts
Carry me across
The endless valley’s sunken brow
I’ve learnt to live with loss
Thunder brings the shepherds home
To line their rooms with wool
And how they watch the wind outside
There’s life out there still
Falcon claw and forest paw
They are the new world’s lambs
And you who sleep so well at night
Care not for their demands
On the day the wind stands still
Who will hold my hand?
Will there be a grieving man
Who hammers down the planks?
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9. |
The Wild Grips
06:00
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The Wild Grips
The wild grips again
And I am no one at last
Mankind disappears
And up comes the earth
And I am no one at last
And in being no one
You don’t have to answer
You can leave what you care for
And run
The wild grips again
And it holds on like no one can
How do I know which
Is the greater good?
The greater good
For in being no one
I found someone
Caught in the rubble
Of a life ending
And you were the first
And the only one
I would hold you forever
If you hold on to
The living
The living
The living
The living
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10. |
Karoo
00:57
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Kristin McClement Brighton, UK
Kristin's music is born of two separate worlds; the vast shapeshifting landscape of her childhood South Africa engraved with the melancholic romance of old England's sacred woodland, rivers and valleys.
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