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WALLFLOWER
03:47
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WALLFLOWER
Wallflower you are so gaudy
Wallflower you are so lovely
Why do you hide yourself up against the wall?
Wallflower is it seemly
Making your home in broken masonry
Dressed in such gorgeous, velvet, multi-coloured motley?
Take me where your dressmaker fashions your clothing
And did I hear the wallflower reply...
I live as I please. I dance with the breeze
Nobody tells me where to grow
No-one takes too much notice of me
Except the bees, except the bees, except the bees.
And the bees will love me forever, far better than you
Wouldn't you like to be as beautiful as me?
I am the mistress of my days
Catch the scent of me, catch the sight of me
Drifting through summer's embraces
And then watch me fade, watch me fade
Said the wallflower, wallflower
Wallflower, wallflower.
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WALK ON WATER
04:16
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WALK ON WATER
And I was drowning in your almond eyes
And the stars on your brow
Were shining like the moon on the water
Ooh will you walk on water Do you believe we can
Ooh, will you walk on water, do you believe we can?
Do you remember when planketon lit the midnight waves
Our feet made constellations in the sand
And the sea was like a mirror
And I have tried to mirror
And I have walked that silver path
And still now darling will you follow? Will you walk on water
Because we can walk on water if we believe we can
Ooh will you walk on water Do you believe we can?
Ooh will you walk on water Do you believe we can?
I remember the first time you touched me
Your fingers lit me like a meteor shower
You sparked me like a Van der Graff filled my veins with fire
And lead me down that silver path
And you said darling will you follow Will you walk on water
Because we can walk on water if we believe we can
And I was drowning in your almond eyes
And the stars on your brow
Were shining like the moon on the water
Oh oh then the rain came down
I have never seen such rain
And the sea was black as anger
And we washed up and stranded
And oh we lost that silver path
But still now darling will you follow
Will you walk on water,
Because we can walk on water
If we believe we can, if we believe we can If we believe……
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ARIEL'S SONG
03:11
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ARIEL'S SONG
ARIEL'S SONG
words from The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fa-a-ade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell
Ding dong ding dong
Ding dong ding dong ding dong
Ding dong bell
Ding dong ding dong
Ding dong ding dong ding dong
Ding dong bell
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EINSTEIN IN THE PATENT OFFICE
There are some flowers in this crown of thorn
Some beauty woven through the pain
There is excitement in a dangerous place
We weigh the loss against the gain
We weigh the loss against the gain
Both owls and flowers have taken flight in me
Beating their petal-driven wings
Revolving endlessly inside my skul
The circle ends where it begin
The circle ends where it begins
And Einstein is in the patent office
Unsynchronising time (unsynchronising time)
And Mr Jones is getting hyper in the wings and
Debbie is just hanging on the telephone line
Timing is everything but time's a bitch
Sneaking up to pass you by
Fast or slow it runs but which is which?
While minutes crawl the years fly
While minutes crawl the years are flying by
And Einstein is in the patent office
Unsynchronising time, unsynchronising time
And Mr Jones is sniffing cocaine in the wings
Debbie's going mental on the telephone line
Both owls and flowers in this crown of thorns
Some beauty woven through the pain
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THIS SALTY DOG
03:09
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THIS SALTY DOG
Salty dog howled the whole night long
Salty dog sang a mournful song
Salty dog wouldn't let me sleep
Salty dog swam the cripple creek
And he went woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo- ooo, woo -ooo
In the night when the north wind screams
In the night in your troubled dreams
In the night you can hear him wail
Through the night till the sky turns pale
And he goes woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo- ooo, woo -ooo
Salty dog's never seen the sea
Salty dog lives in you and me
Salty dog gets to every part
Salty dog penetrates your heart
He goes woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo woo woo woo-oo woo
Woo- ooo, woo -ooo
Salty dog Salty dog
Won't you go to sleep
Won't you go to sleep
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THE PASSING BELL
04:23
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THE PASSING BELL
I heard them singing in the abbey by the sea
Caught the lilt of their plainsong flowing free
The gulls were circling round me in the summer sky
And the centuries fell backwards, so did I.
The past lives all around us
But the future will not tell
And time just keeps on ringing
like a bell, ringing the passing bell
Oh I felt his yearning to lie in homely ground
And I saw his sad eyes burning, flaming up through the mound
The wind that blew up from the river and it shook the leafless wood
And the centuries fell backwards where I stood
The past lives all around us
But the future will not tell
And time is ringing out
Like a bell, ringing the passing bell
Ringing(ringing ringing) the passing bell
Ringing(ringing ringing) the passing bell
Ringing (ringing ringing) the passing bell
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IT'S ALL OUT THERE
03:51
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IT'S ALL OUT THERE
Lines on a map, crossing the borders
Where's here? Where's there?
In this insulator, incubator
We breathe other people's air
It's inconsistent, the only constant is distance
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
Seen from the air glacial snow
Long gone, far below
Blanching rotor bones, frozen debris ,
Littering the scree
It's inconsistent, the only constant is distance
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
No place is our place, not anywhere
Who knows where
Misplaced, displaced we only know
We must keep going, crawling over the surface
Moving in and out of focus It's all...
Ant trails in the forest
Checkpoints and fences
Lines in the sand
This land
That land
No man's land
It's inconsistent, the only constant is distance
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
It's all out there moving in and out of focus
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EllY Tree Ipswich, UK
Original art-indie-folk. All songs composed by Helen Woodbridge and arranged by the band.
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