Lyrics-Martyn Bates
<The Return of The Quiet>
Love Fell Silent
tell me of then
so longed for when
to know you
for a friend
was to take for granted
like an ocean wave
rolling far away
I never saw it stop
like an ocean wave
we can rise up again
don't tell me we cannot
love fell to silence for me
then to secrets once again
I'm begging you to tell
love fell to silence for me then
for love won't waste
a breath to speak of all the lie
that is left the lie
that only you knew
tell me of then with only
laughing and sighs
unthinking
we could warm to a friend
like an old year fades
into new year again
I never saw it stop
tho' the old year fades
can't the new still be the same
don't tell me that it cannot
love fell silent
Last Chapel Picnic
you're taking something
caught close to the heart
that snares everything
breaking it apart
you're taking something
to be where you are
and it leaves all that's been
to die among the dark
and I'm feeling how I couldn't break
and tear away
all I knew
dare I look upon the place
where I'd be swallowed overwhelmed
like cold empty sorrow left here
by your flight
you fear something
you fear to understand
and you colour it all
and read it like it's damned
and this fear's
a fear of trust that hangs
above us like a knife
ready for our hands
and it's knowing there's nothing that's safe
that slow-poisons feeling
twisting to avert a gaze
that tells you're fashioned all
that remains;
cold empty sorrow to light
a darkening flame
now that you've run away
you've escaped the chain of fools.
from you I've learned the way
I can break the chain
I can break this chain too.
At The Return of The Quiet
the return of the quiet...
I don't belong without her...
when I sleep without her,
then my heart is all fire...
once again
the return of the quiet...
I don't belong without her...
and I long to be fire...
once again
oh bring me round...
my dreams are long, softly waiting,
gently waiting to return to the quiet.
I don't belong without her
for my heart is all fire
once again
at the return of the quiet...
She Will Know
somehow shaken from sleep
and made for to wake
altho' the night cut you down
you'll deny it
you'll defy it
and you will rise and turn your life around...
something's here to wait for
there's something here for you
there's somthing here worth staying for
and she will know just like you
somehow taken from dreams of sleep
to the dreams you want to shape
and you've found
dreams once hidden so deep
in slumber and now
the sleep of years is unbound...
something's here to wait for
there's something here for you
there's something here worth staying for
and she will know just like you
to feel you never want to linger
no more, to feel you never want
to hesitate more
for you know there is much you can do
you will rise and you'll shape it all
somehow made now to wake
and made now to shake the world
to shake your world down
you aspire to take
the liar in you and trun you life
all around.
You've Got To Farewell
once there was a day
so far away
of better things to come,
that day has passed
but it may be tomorrow
our fear is understood-
once there was a day
to steal a way thru all the things long gone...
that day's passed on
and I'm frightened to follow our fear,
for fear we'll fall...
so run away
run away with this high promise
let me run away
because from today
all I'll say will be dishonest
and my words will fade away
once there was a day
when all we'd say
would stand up
oh so strong
that day has passed on for
there is no tomorrow
that much we've understood
once there was a day
we passed away in promises
and song...
that day is sung and the words just ring
hollow
that much is understood-
once there was a day.
July Late Afternoon
although they have passed by,
all those years they have not gone
forever.
and I'm shaken to watch as they rise
again and again
to take me to days to places that fall harsh
together
to swallow and steal me and call me to task
once again
when all was waiting there for me
like a curse that I breathed by,
ah, the thought never occurred to me
that the curse could not be mine...
I know the thief that is stealing the prize
and all those days seem like some dream
shot with lies
although it's long gone by
all that time's somehow
damningly present
when I cannot shake clear of this grip
that claws down my name
and I damn myself strike myself down
just for being wherever
everything's wanting
to start to live on
to live once again
and all is waiting there for me
like a trip wire solely mine
and the thought never occurs to me
that the curse cannot be mine
for I know the thief
that is stealing the prize...
and all those days seem like a dream
hard with lies.
Sad Song of Almost
hush o hush now dear
quiet your cires away
for all you let me hear
is all that I hear today
I know you very well
oh so very long
I know you very well
o most sad
I'd like very much
to take you up into both my hands
but I know you...
hush o hush now dear
you know so very well
long years have passed since those days
that love sweet love passed away...
I know you very well
o so very long
I know you very well
o most sad
I'd like very much to take you up into both
my hands
but I now you;
o if I asked you to brighten my summer,
to take from me roses deep red as your
blood
all that you'd answer is "there is another,
another whose love cannot greet me..."
what if I asked you?
The Look of Love
The look of love
Is in your eyes
The look your smile can't disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more
Than just words could ever
say
And what my heart has heard
Well it takes my breath away
I
can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have
waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You've
got the look of love
It's on your face
A look that time can't erase
Be mine tonight
Let this be just the start
Of so many nights like
this
Let's take a lover's vow
And then seal it with a kiss
I can
hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
Don't ever go
Donft ever go
I love you so
ETC Angel
stop the words I try to say
that aim to steer us from this place
this place we loved
and swore upon to never come to waste
stop the words that taste so sour
and make them
come to sweetness now
and make them all appear like it has never
been away.
never o and never
no not never once again
don't ever fade away.
take the words that I've allowed
to pass my lips in anger now
so sorry like a fool who walks in sleep
still unawake
take those words shall last for I swear
I promise we shall never
come to waste.
never fade don't ever fade away
from knowing what need mens.
never.
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