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Two Princes
03:24
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Two princes
One for each arm
To catch and gather
To watch and wonder
To have and to hold through the night
Three days of splendour
Four nights so calm
In restful ardour
In wakeful slumber
To have and to hold for a time
Bright eyes are shining
Withholding light
Refracting diamonds
Deep in the iris
With lustre, they hold you to trial
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A Cross For All To Bear
03:24
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When truth lies below
When hammer misses stone
When seed lays scattered on unbroken soil
And guilt cannot atone
When shadow draws the drapes
When famine drenches rain
When fires from heaven defy natural rule
A song to believe in remains
And a cross for all to bear
We relinquish our name
There's a cross for all to bear
And we seek in the depths of oceans wide
To believe...there's a cross that all must bear
When forest green is bare
When pity breeds despair
When funeral procession takes all from the grave
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You Have Only Your Name
02:28
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You can tie the noose
You can take the reins
Carry forth scorched and charred remains
You can celebrate
You can saturate
Build and infiltrate
You have only your name
Send the fool a diamond
To sate his pains
Hunt the fox in hiding
For blood and game
You can desecrate
You can penetrate
Or asphyxiate
You have only your...
Name the liar, a false messiah
A savage dream in which the lost pariah
Will fall again...as he fell ten times over
In his eyes the strain
There is but one way forward
You can tie the noose
You can take the reins
You can sleep at night 'spite the guilt and shame
You can celebrate
You can saturate
Build and infiltrate
You will dominate
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Remember This Night
03:43
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We wind our way by the old canal
Indeed, the way is long
A gale blows up and a church bell chimes
And I wish that she were mine
As daylight fades on the afternoon
We break to drain our wine
Beckons me on as she clutches my hand
And I feel that I would die
She leads me into the light-less room
With praise for the victuals and praise for the moon
She kneels at the altar and takes up the knife
...says "remember this night"
I lay her down by the fireside
I show her how we breathe
Candlelight flickers, a breath of cold wind
Will I ever feel again?
I'll remember this night
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Ode To The Silence
03:08
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Ode to the silence so deftly hewn
As firs slain in rhythm...as though they knew
So cold, so callous to render them nameless
Dream another day...of one that will deny you
Dream another day...of one that will decry you
O bride of the ocean, the sun and the moon
Engaged and embattled, the voice of truth...in truth
So long did suffer prey to the shameless
To sweep through the meadows
To weep at the scaffold
And may love and justice deny you
When all along you'd known that you were benign
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In Hiding
03:14
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In wonder we watch the wall come tumbling down
And find a common ground in hiding
If ever the sirens should begin to wail
This creeping mist should veil
Our will to see
Our will to witness change
That all must die and live again
As ever the silence speaks in lonely rhyme
And beats in hollow time
And sighs its credo 'no remorse'
By year and day
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Tre Vintrarna
02:44
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Mourning Of A Golden Age
03:19
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We send our final letters home
And close our eyes
Our words as arrows and their mark
We hope will find
We take our fallen sons
And guide them through the rain
To lie in shallow graves
An omen and no name
We kneel in sight of all that glitters
Of all that is sold
We reach for heady heights unspoken
Heights untold
Cold rings and iron chains
Bite hard on limbs restrained
We mourn a golden age
With time empires must fail
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The Rainmaker's Call
03:49
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So silently fall, shadows and leaves
The rainmakers call, both, harbours and frees
To the eyes alone night follows night
Watching the wheels, they grind you to bone
Through the passage of time and glory of old
To days of decline when the heartless grow bold
So we dream alone to stave off the pain
Watching the fire, it calls out your name
As you sing the old refrain
When the need is denied again and again
When hope turns to fear
To disdain
We don't care
After all
What remains
Blinded in day and deafened in dark
The eye turns away...hidden valley so far
For the ears alone, discerning the lie
Listen! the rider seeks you where you hide
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Psalm No.IV
01:55
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In the name of all, we decree
For the sake of all, we decree
Every dream that we receive beneath the skies
Every grain that we are gifted, revives
Renewed in life
In our name
Every lie that may deceive, deceives with time
Every crust, we bequeath unto the child
Rich in life
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Den Sista Sorgen
04:20
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You, the blazing fire
With your golden curls
Just a spark ignite you
Three graves, three sullen worlds
Great kings desired you
For their hearts were cold
Traded rings to trap you
Keep the warmth from all of this world
Sweet dreams of a golden sun
Keeps the night at bay 'til dawn
When we'll rise and weep
For an aging sun
With the full moon over
They returned the keys
Livid crowds had gathered
Bound their arms and clubbed their knees
Thus the kings were branded
Though, their crowns of old -
Others rose to bear them
Keep the warmth from all of this world
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Lindsay Phillips Sweden
'Singer and songwriter' dabbling in gothic/folk/country circa 2003 - 2021. Recorded 5 full length albums (3 self produced at home in Sweden) and a bunch of Ep's and singles. Played hundreds of shows in Melbourne, around Australia as well as Canada and EU. Currently retired from service. ... more
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