31 Juli 2010 - 05:34


This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil was een muzikaal project van Ivo Watts-Russell, stichter van het Britse platenlabel 4AD Records. Met het project bracht hij belangrijke artiesten van 4AD samen met enkele anderen die niet bij het label hoorden onder een gemeenschappelijke naam. Er waren onder andere bijdragen van Howard Devoto, Colourbox, Dead Can Dance en Cocteau Twins.
Tussen 1983 en 1991 bracht This Mortal Coil drie albums uit: It'll End in Tears, Filigree & Shadow en Blood, die elk grotendeels interpretaties bevatten van songs van artiesten uit de jaren '70, zoals Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Roy Harper, Gene Clark, en Tim Buckley.

De naam 'This Mortal Coil' komt uit het toneelstuk Hamlet en is een poëtische verwijzing naar de aardse toestand.


This Mortal Coil gaf onderstaande albums uit:

It’ll End in Tears (1984)
Filigree & Shadow (1986)
Blood(1991)

It’ll End In Tears (8 October 1984) Filigree & Shadow (1986) Blood(1991)



It’ll End In Tears (8 October 1984))
- Kangaroo
- Song To The Siren
- Holocaust
- Fyt
- Fond Affections
- The Last Ray
- Another Day
- Waves Become Wings
- Barramundi
- Dreams Made Flesh
- Not Me
- A Single Wish
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Kangaroo
I first saw you
You had on blue jeans
Your eyes couldn't hide anything
I saw you breathing, oh
I saw you staring out in space
I next saw you
You was at the party
Thought you was a queen
Oh so flirty
I came against
Didn't say excuse
Knew what I was doing
We looked very fine
'Cause we were leaving
Like Saint Joan
Doing a cool jerk
Oh, I want you
Like a kangaroo
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Song To The Siren
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang, 'Sail to me, sail to me,
Let me enfold you,
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you'
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing, 'Touch me not, touch me not,
come back tomorrow: O my heart,
O my heart shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am troubled at the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing, 'Swim to me, swim to me,
Let me enfold you,
Here I am, Here I am,
Waiting to hold you'
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Holocaust
Your eyes are almost dead
Can't get out of bed
And you can't sleep
You're sitting down to dress
And you're a mess
You look in the mirror
You look in your eyes
Say you realize
Everybody goes
Leaving those who fall behind
Everybody goes
As far as they can
They don't just care
They stood on the stairs
Laughing at your errors
Your mother's dead
She said, 'Don't be afraid'
Your mother's dead
You're on your own
She's in her bed
Everybody goes
Leaving those who fall behind
Everybody goes
As far as they can
They don't just care
You're a wasted face
You're a sad eyed lie
You're a holocaust
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Fyt
instrumental
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Fond Affections
Fond affections are never said
They're only sung in songs
I never was naive enough to know when I was wrong
There's no light at the end of it all
Let's all sit down and cry
There's no light at the beginning
Let's all sit down and cry
Now it's time to say goodbye
Now it's being forced upon you
It's just that person by your side remaining distant
Now the winter's growing close
The days are getting older
I can tell by your face
That your heart is getting colder
There's no light at the end of it all
Let's all sit down and cry
There's no light at the beginning
Let's all sit down and cry
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The Last Ray
Oh I want you, Oh I want you... Like a kangaroo.
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Another Day
The kettle's on, the sun has gone, another day
She offers me, Tibetan tea, on a flower tray
She's at the door, she's want's to score, she really needs to say:
'I once loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the winds own forget-me-nots blow, you know
But I couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth there was to know
But I wish that I had, 'cause it makes me so sad
that I never had one of your children.'
Across the room, inside a tomb, a chance is waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung-up, in each other's chains
I must take her, I must make her, while the dove domains
See the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs
As the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn
Oh really my dear, I can't see what we fear
With ourselves, sat here between us
And at the door, we can't say more, than just another day
Without a sound, I turn around, and I walk away
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Waves Become Wings
Please, stay stay.
Please stay stay.
Stay a while...
Mystery lights keep the dark inside.
Evading glances when the light's applied.
Stay and run unto me.
Sail to me.
Come to me.
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Barramundi
instrumental
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Dreams Made Flesh
(vocal meanderings by Lisa Gerrard)
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Not Me
It may be as you say, I'll admit
But you don't sound convinced
Between the surface you and the surface me
You didn't touch me
It may be as well that
I didn't see the point
You didn't touch me
I suppose it's just hollow
No idea, no spark
But I thought that in order to survive you need to touch me
All of the me's
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A Single Wish
You and I, alone here .......
You and I,.....
It'll end in tears
.....
You know it'll end in tears
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Filigree and Shadow (20 September 1986)
- Velvet
- The Jeweller
- Ivy and Neet
- Meniscus
- Tears
- Tarantula
- My Father
- Come Here My Love
- At First And Then
- Strength Of Strings
- Morning Glory
- Inch Blue
- I Want To Live
- Mama K (1)
- Filigree & Shadow
- Firebrothers
- Thais (1)
- I Must Have Been Blind
- A Heart Of Glass
- Alone
- Mama K (2)
- The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks It’s Thumb
- Drugs
- Red Rain
- Thais (2)
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Velvet Belly
instrumental
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The Jeweller
The jeweller has a shop on the corner of the boulevard
In the night, in small spectacles, he polishes old coins
He uses spit and cloth and ashes
He makes them shine with ashes
He knows the use of ashes
He worships God with ashes
The coins are often very old by the time they reach the jeweler
With his hands and ashes, he will try the best he can
He knows that he can only shine them, cannot repair the scratches
He knows that even new coins have scars, so he just smiles
He knows the use of ashes
He worships God with ashes
In the darkest of the night
Both his hands will blister badly
They will often open painfully and the blood flows from his hands
He works to take from black coin faces, the thumbprints from so many ages
He wishes he could cure the scars
When he forgets he sometimes cries
He knows the use of ashes
He worships God with ashes
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Ivy and Neet
instrumental
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Meniscus
instrumental
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Tears
instrumental
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Tarantula
I'm living but I'm feeling numb, can see it in my stare
I wear a mask so falsely numb, and I don't know who I am
Despite the worlds inside of me, thwarting me away
I've noticed in other eyes, time's closing in
But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula
The future's looking rather grim, strange black tide
Decisions lie with stupid men, alone with my life
That choking and the hype in me, expecting me to fall
But only if I'm threatened will the tables turn
But when the thunder breaks, it breaks for you and me
Tarantula, tarantula, tarantula, tarantula
My world's under a sentence of death, I was born underground
But when the pressure gets too much for me, I bite
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My Father
My father always promised us that we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine and I would learn to dance
We lived in Ohio then, he worked in the mines
On his dreams like boats, we knew we would sail in time
All my sisters soon were gone to Denver and Cheyenne
Marrying their grownup dreams, the lilacs and the man
I stayed behind the youngest still, only danced alone
The colors of my father's dreams faded without a sound
And I live in Paris now, my children dance and dream
Hearing the ways of a miner's life in words they've never seen
I sail my memories of home like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun as it sets in my father's eyes again
My father always promised us that we would live in France
We'd go boating on the Seine and I would learn to dance
I sail my memories of home like boats across the Seine
And watch the Paris sun as it sets in my father's eyes again
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Come Here My Love
Come here my love
This feeling has me spellbound
Yet the storyline, in paragraphs, laid down the same
In fathoms of my inner mind
I'm mystified, oh, by this mood
This melancholy feeling that just don't do no good
Come here my love
And I will lift my spirits high for you
I'd like to fly away and spend a day or two
Just contemplating the fields and leaves and talking about nothing
Just layin' down in shades of effervescent, effervescent odors
And shades of time and tide
And flowing through
Become enraptured by the sights and sounds,
In intrigue of nature and beauty
Come along with me
And take it all in
Come here my love
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At First And Then
instrumental
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Strength Of Strings
'Billy, Billy, we just had a baby'
In my life the piano sings
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings
Fiery rain and Ruby's cooling sun
Now I see that my world has only begun
Notes that roll on winds with swirling wings
Brings me words that are not the strength of strings
When I'm feeling high, or I'm feeling low, or there is no change
Somehow days keep melting into the night
And there's always high on the cosmic range
I am always high, I am always low, there is always change
Hear the strings are bending in harmony
Not so far from breaking on the cosmic range
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Morning Glory
I lit my purest candle close to my
Window, hoping it would catch the eye
Of any vagabond who passed it by
And I waited in my fleeting house
Before he came I felt him drawing near
As he neared I felt the ancient fear
That he had come to wound my door and jeer
And I waited in my fleeting house
'Tell me stories,' I called to the Hobo;
'Stories of cold,' I smiled at the Hobo;
'Stories of old,' I knelt to the Hobo;
And he stood before my fleeting housev 'No,' said the Hobo, 'No more tales of time;
Don't ask me now to wash away the grime;
I can't come in 'cause it's too high a climb,'
And he walked away from my fleeting house
'Then you be damned!' I screamed to the Hobo;
'Leave me alone,' I wept to the Hobo;
'Turn into stone,' I knelt to the Hobo;
And he walked away from my fleeting house
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Inch Blue
instrumental
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I Want To Live
I've gathered all my lifetime memories of you
My lusty sentiments that made life seem true
I'm rather selfish and I mean to be unkind
And you can't imagine what it does to me inside
But where am I, I want to die
I want to live, I want to die
If I were someone I would like to be a fool
No one would know me, and I think that would be cool
I'd paint a picture of my life upon your wall
And use the colors that have made life seem small
But where am I, I want to die
I want to live, I want to die
But you've got a way of understanding me
And I just call it one of your mysteries
But you know you've got to stay close to me, close to me
But where am I, I want to die
But where am I, I want to die
I want to die, I want to give
I want to die, die die die die, die die die die
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Mama K (1)
instrumental
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Filigree & Shadow
instrumental
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Firebrothers
In the valley where the moons and lovers play
Live two children who were born on Saturday
One was dark, one was fair
Fathered by the hawk, mothered by the mare
Stranger children you have never seen
Brothers of the forest and the sea
One was land, one was air
And they kept the fires burning there
In a golden vessel and silver vase
Kept them burning in the strange enchanted place
Kept them burning to the sky
For they knew someday the sun would die
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Thais (1)
instrumental
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I Must Have Been Blind
Here I am believin' words again
Here I am tryin' to find your love again
Here I am down on my knees again
Prayin' for a love that we used to know
Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go
Both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way
When so few understand what it means to fall in love
And so few know how hard it is to live without it
Lord I must have been blind, oh, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind
Ah, to hold something real, and not believe it
To live in her life, and never trust it
To give all you know and never feel it
To hold back each day until it dies away
Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go
And both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way
When so few understand what it means to fall in love
And so few know how hard it is to live without it
Lord, I must have been blind, I must have been blind
Lord, I must have been blind, Yes, I must have been blind
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A Heart Of Glass
instrumental
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Alone
Alone, with too much generosity
A theatre mask of hostility attracts
Assaults occur, infrequently
And those who come, to conquer?
Need strength
But damage accumulates
Still moving him to tears
Retained a sense of humour
Retain a sense of humor.
Retain a sense of humor.
Return the sense of humor.
Retain a sense of humor.
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Mama K (2)
instrumental
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The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks It's Thumb
instrumental
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Drugs
And all I see is little dots
Some are smeared and some are spots
Feels like a murder but that's alright
Somebody said there's too much light
Pull down the shade and it's alright
It'll be over in a minute or two.
I'm charged up...Don't put me down
Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around
I feel mean...I feel O.K.
I'm charged up...Electricity
The boys are making a big mess
This makes the girls all start to laugh
I don't know what they're talking about
The boys are worried, the girls are shocked
They pick the sound and let it drop
Nobody know what they're talking about
I'm charged up...I'm kinda wooden
I'm barely moving...I study motion
I study myself...I fooled myself
I'm charged up...It's pretty intense.
I'm charged up...Don't put me down
Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around
I feel mean...I feel O.K.
I'm charged up...Electricity.
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Red Rain
Oh Maria..
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Thais (2)
instrumental
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Blood (22 April 1991)
- The Lacemaker
- Mr Somewhere
- Andialu
- With Tomorrow
- Loose Joints
- You And Your Sister
- Nature's Way
- I Come And Stand At Every Door
- Bitter
- Baby Ray Baby
- Several Times
- The Lacemaker II
- Late Night
- Ruddy And Wretched
- Help Me Lift You Up
- Carolyn's Song
- D. D. And E.
- ’Til I Gain Control Again
- Dreams Ara Like Water
- I Am The Cosmos
- (Nothing But) Blood
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The Lacemaker
Dreams are like water
Colourless and dangerous
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Mr Somewhere
Day comes up sicker than a cat
Something's wrong that is that
Mr. somewhere missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
A boat from the river takes you out
'Cross the other side of town, to get out,
To get out you take the tide, any tide,
Any tide like there isn't gonna be any tide
Mr. somewhere missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
A world like tomorrow wears things out
It's hard enough to get what's yours for now
And the hardest words are spoken softly,
Softly look, no hands upon
Mr. somewhere missing somewhere,
Never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
Now the milkman beats you to the door
That was once a home, home no more
Mr. Somewhere, missing somewhere
Couldn't get the calendar to stop
Missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
Missing somewhere
Never will admit just how much
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Andialu
instrumental
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With Tomorrow
It was more like a dream than reality
I must have thought it was a dream while she was here with me
When she was near I didn't think she would leave
When she was gone it was too much to believe
So with tomorrow, I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream, and another
With tomorrow
So with the sun there won't be time just to look behind
There won't be reasons, no descriptions for my place and mind
There was so much I was told, it was not real
So many things that I could not taste, but I could feel
So with tomorrow, I will borrow
Another moment of joy and sorrow
And another dream, and another
With tomorrow
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Loose Joints
instrumental
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You And Your Sister
They say my love for you ain't real
But you don't know how real it feels
All I want to do
Is to spend some time with you
So I can hold you, hold you
Your sister says that I'm no good
I'd reassure her if I could
All I want to do
Is to spend some time with you
So I can hold you, hold you
Plans fail every day
I want to hear you say
Your love (run, run) won't be leaving (run, run)
Your eyes (run, run) ain't deceiving (run, run)
Fears will soon fade away
Smile now, don't be afraid
All I want to do
Is to spend some time with you
So I can hold you, hold you
And let me whisper in your ear
Don't you worry, they can't hear
All I want to do
Is to spend some time with you
So I can hold you
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Nature's Way
'You know what we never did? We never danced.'
It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you in a song
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you summer breeze
It's nature's way of telling you dying trees
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way, It's nature's way
It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
It's nature's way of telling you in a song
It's nature's way of receiving you
It's nature's way of retrieving you
It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong
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I Come And Stand At Every Door
I come and stand at every door
But no one hears my silent dread
I knock and yet remain unseen
For I am dead, for I am dead
I'm only seven although I've died
In Hiroshima long ago
I'm seven now as I was then
When children die they do not grow
My hair was scorched by swirling flame
My eyes grew dim, my eyes grew blind
Death came and turned my bones to dust
And that was scattered by the wind
I need no fruit, I need no rice
I need no sweet, nor even bread
I ask for nothing for myself
For I am dead, for I am dead
All that I ask is that for peace
You fight today, you fight today
So that the children of this world
May live and grow, and laugh and play
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Bitter
How many ways can you say goodbye?
That was nothing
Just a little something.
How many days were in dreaming?
In many ways just a lie.
In better days I'd be dreaming.
As my life passed me by, by.
Now pardon me for trying.
Trying to tear apart.
And pardon me for lying.
It's just easy, so easy, to start.
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Baby Ray Baby
(baby talk)
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Several Times
Several times I looked in your eyes
Several times I saw you wishing to stop this
Ways much longer than, than we could see before
We started to walk, well actually we tried to go forward and...
Several times I looked in your eyes
Several times I saw you wishing to stop this
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The Lacemaker II
instrumental
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Late Night
When I woke up today
And you weren't there to play
Then I wanted to be with you
When you showed me your eyes
Whispered love at the skies
Then I wanted to stay with you
Inside me I feel alone and unreal
And the way you kiss will always be
A very special thing to me
When I lay still at night
Seeing stars high and light
Then I wanted to be with you
When the rooftops shone dark
All alone saw a spark
Spark of love just to stay with you
Inside me I feel alone and unreal
And the way you kiss will always be
A very special thing to me
If I mention your name
Turn around on a chain
Then the sky opens for you
When we grew very tall
When I saw you so small
Then I wanted to stay with you
Inside me I feel alone and unreal
And the way you kiss will always be
A very special thing to me
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Ruddy And Wretched
instrumental
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Help Me Lift You Up
I don't have to tell you that you're all alone
Hear what you will, you're not gone
You'll have to be with your kind
I'll have to stay with my own kind
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up
So sorry if I can't stop pretending
So sorry if I don't let you go
Like this, but not like this is ending
I think you know, I think you know
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up
I have a dream, it's very clear
You're all around, but never near
Help me lift you up, help me lift you up
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Carolyn's Song
I heard that you said that you feel all alone
Do you think that they could understand
When they told you go ahead
Is it in your head are you upside down
You drive around feeling sad
And I wish you everything I ever said
Do you understand, are you feeling dead?
Are you lost, are you sad?
Did I leave you alone?
Do you think that I don't understand?
What it's like to feel all alone?
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D. D. And E.
Daylight, dreams, and echos
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'Til I Gain Control Again
Just like the sun over the mountain top
You know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning times
Like sunlight dancing on your skin
I've never gone so wrong as for telling lies to you
What you've seen is what I've been
There is nothing I could hide from you
You see me better than I can
Out on the road that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
'Til I can gain control again
Like a lighthouse you must stand alone
And mark a sailors' journey end
No matter what seas I have been sailing on
I'll always row this way again
Out on the roads that lies before me now
There are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now
'Til I can gain control again
I only hope that you can hold me now
'Til I can gain control again
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Dreams Ara Like Water
The air was blue. You could hold it in your hand, blue.
Remember me, I once told you and I tried to.
Said to realize that nothing lasts forever.
Golden heart, You'll always be a child.
We cried as we kissed, it was too new.
We died and we lived, it was too new.
Too strong still too much.
When you were a child unhappiness took the place of dreams.
Dreams are like water, colorless and dangerous.
Without the strength to love, way beyond fear.
You could care less if you could care at all.
We cried as we kissed, it was too new.
We died and we lived, it was too new.
Too strong still too much.
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I Am The Cosmos
Every night I tell myself
'I am the cosmos, I am the wind'
But that don't get you back again
Just when I was starting to feel okay
You're on the phone
I never wanna be alone
Never wanna be alone
I hate to have to take you home
Want you too much to say no, no,
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Never wanna be alone
I hate to have to take you home
Want you too much to say no, no
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
My feeling's always happening
Something I couldn't hide
I can't confide
Don't know what's going on inside
So every night I tell myself
'I am the cosmos, I am the wind'
But that don't get you back again
I'd really like to see you again
I really wanna see you again
Really wanna see you again
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(Nothing But) Blood
Should have been enough to change your mind.
Could have been enough to take my breath away.
Should have been enough to change your mind.
Could have been enough to take my breath away.
Oooh, amazing bird hide, too shy.
Should have been enough to change your mind.
Could have been enough to take my breath away.
Should have been enough to change your mind.
Could have been enough to take my breath away.
Oooh, amazing bird hide, too shy.
Should have been enough to change your mind
Could have been enough to take your breath away
Should have been enough to change your mind
Could have been enough to take your breath away
Oooh, amazing bird hide, too shy
No matter how you try.
No matter how many times it takes.
No matter how you try.
No matter how many times it takes.
?????
The light it start to sing.
Goodnight.
The air was blue you could hold it in your hand blue.
It's now or never.
Mind's eyes they start to grow.
The half moon is aching.
The light it start to sing.
The air was blue you could hold it in your hand blue
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