Lyrics-Martyn Bates
<Port of Stormy Lights>
3 Weeks And After
three weeks were passing while
I was laughing
laughing in the winds playing around me
hard and cold hearted
an armour of secrets curled and wrapped for me
clinging like a skin
and she said
you will break
all this is hate
and it is not helping you
and she said
I will take all you have made and reshape it
in love of you
all for you
she tore at my face she try to erase me
I watched it happen
over and over and then
I watched it happen
she spat out my words
she threw them in my face and
I watched it happen word upon word
and then I watched happen
I watch it happening and
I walk away
three weeks are passing
and still I was laughing
watching like a hawk for your move on me
the swoop in for the slow kill
the long and ligering death-knell
hidden wistfully
in what a lover sees
those three weeks were nothing
and they never are anything
and I am always laughing
three weeks and after
She Waltzes By This Window
all of the diamonds
all of the gold that I've lost
She's taken it
she dances
past this door
and all of the jewels
and fantastic robes
have been and gone
She's taken it
She waltzes by this window
colder than stone
I am the one to tell you
this is happening
I am the one
to speak a slurred breaking tongue
a shattered word
it's happening
and I can't see where to go
Who bears this shadow
Who is pale memory
Who bays the moon down to take me
and she glides by these floors
with sick and dry violets
to shrink to this day
all dim light
and dead fire
She's taken it
She waltzes by this window
colder than stone.
Beaten Gold
and it's always you
yes it's always you
and when the sweetened days die thru
it is always you
you've a glow in you like the gold of truth
you've a glow that cut thru
and now you can know me
somehow
I can know you
somehow
I can know you
I am forsaken and I'm abused but
I want for you
Where you lead me to
ah it's got to be
true
I need to get to you
to be drowned in you
ah override me overtake me
let me know I'm only meant to be by you
proved beside you
let me never leave there again
for I want to be as you
Ways of Going
you thirsted
for new words then
you clamoured for that difference
a way of just being your own
you said
a day without me
listening
and knowing that as you are speaking
you're wishing
that you were flying above the place
above the place that I would pin you down
down to your butterfly attitude.
but
what about all we've said
what about all we've done
what about where it all was going
what about all I thought I knew
your heart is just a slave
your heart runs away
that is what you said
So many ways of going
that I will never know
so many ways of going
that is what I said
and so
searching for new meaning
we never even heard our own words
and you went your own sweet way
your love has no limit
you are looking for a mystery
some mysterious fixture
to compel you from the ways of going
ah you go only for your own love
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