Lyrics-Martyn Bates
<Stars Come Trembling>
Fired High
it's all over me
you say
it's because of me
you're fighting me
like a loss
fighting me like a danger
I'm listening carefully
as quietly as a scream
ah you're breaking me
like a loss
you're breaking me
like a pity
and you're looking down on me
bloated on some scheme dreamt to trip me up
dreamt to make you sacred
no
I don't want to know those ways
for it's me you're wanting
to save
with what you say is love
and now I recognise you
so feel right now
because it's your moment
but it will devour you take you over
and time in the long run
is going to make you taste defeat
even though you act so all fired high and mighty
over me
you
you're always apart from me
always aloof
and free as sky to cry your tears
like sacred water
down on me
drowning and blinding me
ah your tears of pride are ice
to freeze me
and to fix me
Her And Some Heaven
who am I
this blasted day
all lightening stricken sighs
who am I to want again
to find some way to rise again
from ashes
made of burned expiring life
so torn apart between these flames
ah I would find my way
it is her and some heaven that I'm dying of
that I chase into these flames time and time again
into the flames
where I pretend love is
she and I we became the claimed and branded loves
of fire
never seeking to be danger
we reached that wayl
for all that I idealised
I am lost to flames
so high
that I've built of a love I'm too afraid of
In The Words of The Haunted
it's morning
where have I been wandering
looking
looking low and high
I'm longing for the place that I've seen
that I know
better than I would like to know
ah once
I wanted for nothing it seems
and now I want for everything
for I found you there
where I looked into that changing world
and now
I found that I have only the one thing to need
ah your voice with mine
speaking the words of the haunted
with me
Ah love is not of this world
when it veils all
all that we see
for it flashes lasting forever
in words unheard
save by you and me
we have only the ghost of love
fleeting
fading all we've been
ah we are longing to strengthen
and touch every hour that pales
every hour that we fail
for
love is not
love is not of this world
Flashes of Sun
unsung day
that felt so strange
it seemed cold
it brought sweet change
that's the time of subtlety
when we are deepening mysteries
that's the time we change
so fast
like we're just the sands of an hourglass
but
this is the way I want it to say
this is the way to be
this is the way I want to remain
it is all I will need
it's keeping alive a love
as it rides a see-sawing story
rising to fall
something's here to wait for
to cut thru it all
stronger
for where we've been
so raise your worried face
for once again we are rising up
even tho you're eclipsing me
as I am you
in this see-sawing story
we are blanking out the sun
but when that's done
that sun will warm us so
fierce days
the elements roared
the sky fell
the earth seemed torn
but
that's the time
that's our day
such a crazy alchemy
charged by violent thunderings
and made stronger then
to come anew again
and
this is the way I want it
this way
is the way what I want it
to stay
The Gift of Lying
I have been wandering
in some place I thought lovers lived in
I have been where there seemed to be
something living again
something alive
something that can't die
and
what have I seen
it's hard to say
even for all my wandering
oh I have been wandering
in high and mighty desire again
trying to hit the dizzy heights
trying to touch
the starred sky
and all that I've seen and learned
is the gift
of lying
of keeping everything
hidden
wandering
in some place I thought lovers lived in
End of Sleep
and
is your dreaming sealed in sleep
where you can see no course
and
is your love left hungry and weak
and
make naked
to the frost
that freezes to a loveless life
forsaken frozen
ah some lost prize that sleeps
like death
then run to my desire
come awake come awake
I ask you to awaken
you are looking at the one
who will take your fear
I am asking you to come and end your sleep
and
how you have searched
for what has gone and all that you have lost
don't make your love be the price that you'd pay
don't make it count that cost
ah you've vanishing out from your love
you're sleepwalking in your struck heart
and all I say is
you can brave this day
ah come awake come awake dome awake
I ask you to awaken
and
end this sleep
Lightening Following
she breezes thru here,
a beautiful storm...tears down most everything,
n towers above it all...
fearless, laughing little a leaving train,
ripping out a part of me-
and I say, she has got it all...
have you seen her?
-shelter me summer...change the light back to a
brighter new hue; shelter me summer
thru till a forgotten thing,
drunk upon all the warmth thtat this cruel weathers
winds would block out from me-have you seen her?
...she steals upon my season, she comes n robs
my voiceless heart...she takes me over to be lost,
shutter as I fall with mad-bourne laughter to
stir the clouds n haul the firmament down...
she has got it all-have you seen her?
Later War Cries
you, brimming full and wide
and spiting your hate in a sneer...
you're see thing wild inside,
yr words are ragin' poison
n its clear that you spend so much time
decrying the world, lying to yourself 'bout
the things you fear...and all your later war crying
shows yourself to be hemmed in, as you love the
chains yr living in- for, later on when sorrow should
be over-you do nothing-
you, overflowing in spite-you dragged yourself
screaming to here...
you blame and deride anothers hand, when the very
one that steered yourself to here!
-you've spent too much time preying upon n
nurturing the passion you bring to your fear...
Glow of Sight
I'm sitting quiet now, in the glow of that
spellbound sight
and I'm soaking in the glaze as these minutes
of sheer delight are spreading, running in red,
till the dying fire's fed n the slick of the dark
melts thru to the sun's setting display,
till it takes all the day
n it shapes n it swallows n follows me, somewhere
always new...
...this nights but a glance of a fierce n caring love,
like firming hands that grip in a pattern so harsh,
so rough...like a constant of strength that will not
relent, ever telling me that I am here,
reeling under this seal, this vast n warm fear
of the nightfall, so deep n so dear...
n I watch as the dark carries its spark, lighting the glow of sight n I
wait for the day to light up its flame, raising
my spirits high-
as there are two sides of each saying
as there is change between day and night to stabilise
the scale, so there's balance to a life, likewise...
after laughter there's pain, n then laughter again,
till a sadness returns to you, in a constant of change,
in a rhythm that wakes n it animates you, gladden you...
as quiet preludes a storm n the storm brings the quiet
once more, so gladness truns to tears, then to
gladness, then to fears that soar...n to accept it as so
is a hard task n I know, but its all aI aspire to-
to be still, to be calm...in the midst of alarm, yet to
not be a passive fool...
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