Lyrics-Martyn Bates
<Letters To A Scattered Family>
On The Day You Climb Down
your heads in the clouds
with all the words you've spoken
down here on the ground
where all you've touched in broken
there will come a time when I will disown you-
your heads is in the clouds, with nothing to
hold you
and I want to know just who on earth
do you think you are?
I want to know what you'll do when I walk away
on that nearing day, what you'll do the day
you climb down
all you ever do is
talk about it-you're just looking thru me
n you avoid it-there will come a time
(n surely you must know it)when you're rose
coloured eyes will darken, just as mine did
Snow Rages
white snow rages
it fills every space
tears
to my thoughts
sobs
to my words
some melting echoes
lives that I dream are touched
like a river with tears
to my thoughts
this night's breathing
loving to me
snow rages
all the world falls
falls as a sea kindling
failing flowers
and trees evergreen
to shimmer
in silver snow dropping free
I believe you never leave
you never die
you're never too far away
for you live
and you are life
and you have it here in my heart
as I live and as I breathe and
as I swear upon this meeting place
it is always here
it is always love
and you can never leave my thoughts
tears
to my thoughts
downpour
white diamonds
stones of a rain stunning shining
their dazzling ways hauling me over
and making to laugh
just loving these senses
some fears are unmasked
and they are cast down
at last
this night 's breathing beauty to me
snow rages me away in music so sweet
some flashing melody elusive and brief
touched like a river
running in me
singing
you and me
City, All The Strangers
the night has fallen here, and I need not
say amen, and sleep comes as it will
and I shall not tire till then
I shall leave behind
all that left me blinded-
forget it and renew me
I love it here newly in this city
all of strangers...
n I can't take in all I've been told
about dirt n noise and harshlights that waste,
for all this city's a blank page to write upon,
for me to use n to come to know the place;
for I want be fallen here, and I want be
underwhelmed,
should this city dwarf my steps, oh then I am
not honest with myself...
for this is made to be mine, and other strangers
likewise,
they'll embrace it n use it, I love it here,
so newly in this city, all the strangers...
Little Days
and I have come to look you in the eye
and in time I will come to realise why
why you are torn from my sight and flung
flung into the arms of where
where you're looking like you'll never cry again
ah but I feel we've only run wide of the mark
and I want you to pierce my eyes
and tell me
tell me I'm alive
I'm alive in the only eyes that see
that I'm in the only eyes that ever mattered to me
and that you'll take the love back
you say
those were little days little days of lack
nothing to you
you speak with a bitter taste
and say
those were little days
it sounds too cruel when you say it
and although
you may feel safe and sound on your own
you must know
when you disown all that seems sour
you give up on any hope
and you forsake
all of the good
the simple love
that would grow
ah it sounds too cruel when you say it
Your Jewled Footsteps
I'm not scared to try it
I will take it
take it there
as I find it
and I'm not scared to up and go
no I'm not scared to follow in
your jewelled footsteps
because you've been there
you've been there and it helps
me get behind it
I'm not scared to try it
I really don't care to live out a lie
and to be so insincere
and I'm too scared to stay where
I'll wind up dead
it blocks my head
it makes me afraid
I'm too scared
to walk where so many have tried and failed
no not for fear's sake
or for fear of knowing heartbreak
your jewelled footsteps show
and where I walk can be safe
it's just a matter of trusting
in some blind faith
it just is
For Love, Waiting To Die
summer gone
sleepy dust
tired and dark mornings
for love waiting to die
faded green
stolen time
blind and lost seasons
for love waiting to die
night restless ways
broken wings
flowers of sorrow
for love waiting to die
silent lips
a haunted moon
a rosary breaking
for love waiting to die
I am not choosing to bring this in greeting
I do not choose to lose this life
I will bring tears to there
I will bring rain to there to love
waiting to die
I will bring silence back
I will bring empty hands to love
waiting to die
murmured echoes
lulling cries
velvet night shrouding
for love waiting to die
escaping ships
pale horizon lights
muted evenings
for love waiting to die
retreating shade
dreams of running
eye-tired awakenings
for love waiting to die
farther places
tastes of wintering days that
erase us
all for love
waiting to die
Shuttered Night
these shuttered night
I am just my own prisoner
so wild with desire
for a view of taller skies
studded with diamond eyes
for all of the length and the breadth of the view
I've put all of love upon that viewpoint
I've put all the live I've had
and I can't see it coming back
I've put all of love on this high viewpoint
I've put all the love I've had
and I can't see it coming back
and
I'm waiting
will you save me
for I am lost
lost around the ways to give
I'm lost around the ways to love
and I am waiting
will you raise me high
I am somewhere shuttered here
I am somewhere waiting where
I am lost
lost around the ways to love my ways
these shuttered nights
these shuttered nights
I am prey to a stranger who robs me
because he knows me well
and he will realise that i'm so out of range
that I will hardly
be able
to even
tell
First And Last February
you were the man
so blue and slow walking like poetry
with a whistle that brought the world to heel
a mine of love for me
as strong as the face of the autumn leaves
blowing the breeze
too free
but it didn't matter
no
I dug that mine of love for me
that mine of love was for me
that february
the first and last time
when the world tore you down
my friend
and you let me look in you and
I saw you born anew
afraid of loving me
meet me tonight in dreams
to be tumbling in the streets
with lives of a laughing tangled soul
a mine of love for me
you'll look like a sun
too harsh to see
but you'll do it joyfully
so torn on the world that you couldn't dig
that mine of love
for me
that mine of love
all for me
This One Refrain
ah I was the thief
stealing such sweet lingering themes
robbing the towering fragrance we loved
that we loved to be
that we loved to dream
plundering all
all that we dreamed upon
with laughter like spite
with malice like wire
to choke all desire
to bereave all that we have longed to be
but
I shall keep all that we dreamed
lost to the sweet heady overpowering fragrance
once loved
in spite of this thief
who would bring us
to grief
we wil drink in desire
that encloses us in rapture
to rise
to dream in one cry
to dream all of life
to be all we could ever dream
for I would wait forever
with this one refrain to speak for me
for all of my life
and I can heal every defeat
I can make every wrong that I've done
come to light
to unstop my eyes
so I can see how to cry
to purify all I've been guilty of
with a laughter
so high that it will drown my my crying
and I will drink
drink in desire
It will be all that we've longed to be
I'd wait forever before a greater gain
I'd wait forever to be any higher
I'd wait forever
I will heal every defeat
and I will make it right
I'll Wrap Your Hopes
I recall something said long ago
you were sleeping dreaming
for love
I'm made of a danger that I hardly know
and I live alone there
always alone
I'll wrap your hopes up
I will be the one to make you sad
although it dismays me
I will crush your love
take a day
take some road and
back away
for I move like a snake
closer
closer each day
the hour pass
and tangle me
in your hair
winding
to strangle you
to take you unawares
I'll wrap your hopes up
I will be the one to make you sad
although you dismays me
I will crush your love...
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