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Of Abandonment
02:00
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Pack all your things in a casket
Take a limousine, the subway, or a jet-plane
Leave and don’t return…I’ll be waiting
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Exile
03:54
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You walked among us and the many lapped at your feet
No words of comfort issued, nor ever did you speak
The laws of silence govern the ways in which we hear
And so all hope, then, is nailed to so few
It’s not yours to decide
It’s not ours to decide
But it’s for God to decide
If we were born here to live or to die
Deep doubt drove herds and hands forlorn on their way
Disturbing echoes of the past, unchecked and unnamed
“We’re all deserving of our bread” calls the refrain
“O to taste such pleasures once again”
We cross your chapels and your temples on our path
We hear your sermons and your message built to last
We see your windows and your walls built to confine
As we fade out of knowledge and of time
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We're A Mystery
04:06
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Two souls on board with leaving at hand
In a world of plenty and no joy to be found
He said “breathe in me as I’ve breathed in you
Let us find one another…let our love start anew
Believe in me
Believe in me
We’re a mystery
And I’ll meet you if you’ll meet me”
The world still turns, and the oceans trace the moon
But the silence gathers where once there were two
He’d said “breathe in me as I’ve breathed in you
Let us find peace together, let us start life anew”
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Moments grow over moments as moss to stone
As your wound fallen prey to spores and crosses
Stones you’ve thrown cross the water and plague your home
You were warned that your words betray the ice in your veins
You, whom Hades corrupted, deny
‘Neath the bleak and malevolent skies
You choke on the ashes of bridges you’ve burned
Centuries wash the blood of the fathers’ deeds
And you take to the blade with mirth and vigour
Stones you’ve thrown shattered glass and fractured bone
In a war of hard words you run a second to none
You smile yet you won’t see the clouds that gather
Or the wind storm collecting your words which scatter as debris
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Abandonment and estrangement
At the end of days
Like the maker I give life
And I take away
Your light burns low and your fuse shorts out
Left to drift away
And you fall to earth like silt
And form a mound of grey
And all you left reminds me
That the hand was held but a sacrifice away
Behind your eyes and your vacant smile
There sings a maid
Of her home where war once raged
And she’s home to stay
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Covenant
02:28
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If you promise me all the ills that plague your mind and your heart
Then I’d swallow them whole and expire
If you promise me that this world is mine in all of its charm
Then l’d take it and tear it all apart
At that moment you’ll wake from your dreams
Alone and unharmed
If you promise me
Yet you tell me in soft and whispered tones a truth and a lie
And the damage cannot be denied
If you’d promise me that all you need is to love and to survive
To be gathered in the arms of the Lord of light
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The Stitches Come Undone
03:57
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There’s a layer of dust upon the throne
And a row of stitches come undone
If they’d held together tightly
There’d be no purpose for a song
Or the drapes that shut the daylight from a home
Lady Grey is justified in red
In an oak wood coffin, in her bed
In her mind it makes no difference
If she’s defiant or dethroned
Or the secretary-general to the dead
California, leaving all behind
For deep cuts, hard labour in the mines
Disenchanted with the vision
Of them that toiled so long and hard
From the crossroads, the lost highway runs the miles
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Sans Light
01:54
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Only You (And The Lord)
03:46
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Break your bread on the stone
This world is unknown
It’s a frightening thing
Only you, you and the Lord
Knows where you’ve been
Fire, baptism alive
We render the past
A forgettable thing
Shades of death urge you on
To your spiritual home
The utopian dream
Fire, baptism alive
We forget the past
As a regrettable thing
Caught on the fences
Fell into the pit
Tied to the pendulum
Painted with sin
Led into the forest
And the struggle within
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Our Final Song
02:37
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Tensions rising high
They burn with fear and sting our eyes
But the water won’t be long
Sweet relief arrives to carry us to grave and stone
Shield you from the night
In dreams we wake to find
That the walls are not so strong
Though we’re married to our promise they won’t hold for long
Here we bleed in uncertainty
For the old and young
And our final song
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The Wolves Close In
02:46
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Don’t leave me now, don’t leave me now
For our time together has only begun
I raised you as an only child
In a room for two as your father did run
I worked for you and I bled for you
I taught you with love, but you opted for the gun
And the wolves close in on you by day
And they say that the gallows, for you, does await
What, my darling? What have you done?
Did you murder them children with dog and with gun?
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Martyrs & Saints
02:30
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As the fallen give way
Just as night eyes seek day
With the mind of a child
And its terminal smile
Can we right all the wrongs?
Can we sing all the songs?
As we dance over graves
Of our martyrs and saints
Let the candle burn down
Let the warning bell sound
Let us drink to decay
And the end of all days
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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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