Lyrics-Martyn Bates
<Arriving Fire>
Arriving Fire
and I look out after you, and into you
I am learning from your gaze,
for it's there that you live, in your quietness
reeling in music and colour ablaze.
arriving fire, awaiting lights,
fire of mind, fire of soul-
a breaking mask, a body alive
a cry surprised, and a wakening soul
I see you now, as if for the first time
and yr not as I believed
moving out into unexpected darkness
the nightlight fills every step you take to me.
Flight
Who were you?
I never knew your face
I looked straight thru you,
I never knew your grace
Who was I?
I burned false, like the dead fire
to take yr promise for vanity, for spite.
night and caos bring me comfort of a kind
from all that's lost fallen far from my mind
loveless i shift drugged in sleep
now i pray for your gifts
come set my bad faith free,
free from out of all of this.
Port of Stormy Lights
there is no brighter land
where is the young man
who waked where love roams?
I am that young man - I understand
and know there is no brighter land
come tomorrow this will stand
come tomorrow this word stands
where is the young man
all troubled sea n unquiet storm
I am the young man
I bear the name that answers the love
come tomorrow this will stand
there is no brighter land
Skirting the Shores of Sunrise
I am running here
with a reason
wondering just why
I was born,
So alive with a meaning
and why must I wonder-
if hunger gauged all I could learn
then I could break
someone's dying blow by blow
someone's rising...Who is killing who?
remember me, I am favourite face
amazed amazed to be given away
by every lie
We both betray the dreams
that liars make
Fragment Glad Fright
enter yr life-enter the room
suspended in light
distanced from you
y fracture n light
write y whole world
like the sour air
sure as your word
you will be loved, and then
you will learn
yr world is yr key
yr words is yr lock
yr door is shut tight
be sure as yr word
enter yr life
Past Tense / Eclipse
I walked thru yr door then
n I looked to yr words
and I saw yr fight again
just as once before
listening envisioning
clamouring for more
conjuring before again
caught up in yr cause
live in the shadow
I mirrored that world once
I lived within the wall
I stood within that light once
and how I love it all
believing then just vanishing
a waning disbelief
withering to nothing then
blotted out in grief
yr beautiful story
yr beautiful song
I mirrored that world once.
Pity Winter
it may be that I'm prisoner
of all that I believe...
it may be I've been captured
'n yet I claim I'm free
still I wont leave yr memory
to strangers that would sneer
at gifts that you are leaving
and all the things you bequeath
it may be I'm a prisoner
right here where I was born,
in some way undivided
from passing time careworn...
for all that I'm born into,
this world that I receive
(I'm)born to fare and fortune
not of my own hand or beliefs,
cruel rain-winter black
harsh night-to break yr back,
this won't to be yr fortune-
for I won't allow you that
this fortune I shall fight
this pity, this winter blight...
tho black star and doomed fate
be on yr head, I'll turn it away,
it wont to be yr fortune
for I wont allow you that fate.
The Rhyme of Miracles
a miracle, a miracle-I lost my way
a miracle, a butterfly a-flying by,
a miracle a melody strange,
fluttering, a miracle, a blur unrhymed
flying by, a butterfly, a miracle
all a blaze of colour in my eyes...
all I want is to shake off this rhyme
this melody that charms my life
and all I want is to break the time
a mracle,
I never should have shown you there
a miracle
I never should have taken you there.
I never should have let you see
into there, into me,
I never shold have let you see
into there, into me,
I never should have let you see, my miracles,
the miracle in the solitary heart of me....
all I want is to forsake this rhyme
this melody that charms thru my life
it lingers on fettering, fluttering wings,
it pins me down, when I should soar and sing.
Liar's Roses
you seemed a rushing n warm summer rain
so new, so strange, a rushing n tearing love
no one could claimed that I tried-that I failed
attending n sheltering
n reaching for full bloom
to flower, yet to be poisoning
yet to be clinging to you
you bring liar's roses
withered so, and blue
like I never knew
you bring liar's roses
you make it
so that it will all fall thru
for me n you
yr making it true, too true
who took the trust from you?
who took it away?
where it remains, hidden?
who stole it out from you?
who broke yr day to an echo
where it won't return?
consumed and entangling,
you weathered not at thing
yr a swallowed n dying love
and that's all that you bring-
liar's roses.
World's Eye
I searched so long, I looked so deep,
such beauty'd tales you told me
I kept you close, for my world alone,
the more that you'd belong to me
I entered yr life-loneliness
I asked for nothing -loneliness
now the day is breaking
lonliness comes down-it comes down
and I can't speak for sudden sorrow
and I can sense that come tomorrow
you leave me, and I leave you
breaking in the world's eye
sleep eludes me in this room,
I can't find my way there
I'm lost, incomplete
there's no centre to me
I'm circling, spiralling nowhere
and in vain I'm watcing-loneliness
and yr sleeping, sighing-all loneliness
I'm beside you lying-just loneliness
it comes now-its coming now
all the hungered soul of love is sleeping
all the morning light is leaving
you leave me, I leave you searching the world.
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