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The Good Years
03:46
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The Good Years
Wherever you are
You shall be my star
Flashing near or smouldering far
I am happy when I bask in your light
All I ask is that you may bask
In my mind I hear the sound
Of every happy fount
Fresh as fresh is found
We're singing without tears
We're clinging without fears
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Sorry
04:18
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Sorry
When your time on the mountain is over
And you fall to the earth like a leaf
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't pay for this grief
For you may lay down your guilt on the altar
You may nail your remorse to a cross
But it's not enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't pay for this loss
And if the blood on your hands turns to water
And the night in your soul turns to day
It won't be enough this time to say sorry
No, sorry won't wash it all away
You may lay down your guilt on the altar.
When you're through with the spells you've been spinning
When our hopes and our dreams have all died
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't turn back the tide
You may lay down your guilt on the altar.
And if you should desist from deceiving
And if you should confess to the crime
It won't be enough these days to say sorry
No, sorry won't save you this time
You may lay down your guilt on the altar.
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Better Things
03:52
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Better Things
So is this the best that we can do?
Oh I can think of better things - can't you?
Yes I can think of better things
That hands can make and hearts can sing
For now we deal with those for whom
A life is but a carnal tomb
In which the darkness holds no power
And neither does the final hour
We may lament the deadly art
Of tiny atoms torn apart
Of visions that we can't return
And future fires in which we fear we'll burn
Yet this is the art of those before
Who found a cure within the core
The noble mind behind the ray
That eased our earthly cares away
Is this the best...
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4. |
Rivers Run
03:08
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Rivers Run
This weary Earth we walk upon
She will endure when we are gone
While kingdoms come and kingdoms go
Rivers run and rivers flow
You know I don't believe it's true
That in this world there's nothing new
For darling you have just begun
Rivers flow and rivers run
And if those rivers should ever run dry
Somewhere the rain will still fall,
Will still fall from the sky
When I'm beguiled by the fear
That darker days are drawing near
My darling, you seduce the sun
Rivers flow and rivers run
And if the rivers.
This wounded Earth we walk upon
She will endure when we are gone
But still I pray that you may know
How rivers run and rivers flow
And if the rivers.
So I cross my heart and hope to live
Just long enough that I can give
It all to you, my darling one
Rivers flow and rivers run
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5. |
Painted It White
04:50
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Painted It White
Nobody learns, seems like everybody
turns to the screen
To watch it pass but not to ask you
"What does it mean?"
We believed.
So here we are, we're not so far
from where we could be
You've got a gun, the one
you say will keep us all free
So free that you
Can bomb a blue horizon to black
Then steal away the day
And never, never give it back
We believed.
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Firethief
03:29
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Firethief
Who stole the heart of my bonnie laddie?
All alone and aloney O
And left me another lad in his body
Down where I cannot go
Down where I cannot follow
Who stole the light from my laddie's eyes
And left me another lad in disguise?
Who stole the words that were on my laddie's tongue
And left me a rickle of skin and bone?
Who stole today? Who stole tomorrow?
And left me with nothing but doul and sorrow?
I know the name of the fire thief
But you can't grow a tree from a fallen leaf
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Behind Our Eyes
04:50
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Behind Our Eyes
Hope roams these streets at night
It's looking for a light that gleams
Inside our dreams and yearning
It's burning behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
And in the waking hours
Hope keeps its flowers concealed
It's like a field before reaping
It's sleeping behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
Behind our eyes
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The News
03:12
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The News
What if the news were nothing more
than the secrets of seashells on the seashore
whispering which way the wind will blow this night
and how everything's gonna be alright
What if the very first sound you heard
at dawn was a wild and wonderful word?
and what if a smile was your first sight?
wouldn't everything have to be alright
For everyone, everywhere
every joy, every care
Everything's gonna be alright
What if the only sign of unrest
were feathers falling form a fledgling nest
just an hour before it soars in flight
wouldn't everything have to be alright
For everyone, everywhere
every joy, every care
Everything's gonna be alright
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9. |
Sorrowlessfield
04:39
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Sorrowlessfield
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
I saw you come back to me
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
You stood under the birken tree
Through the rattle and rain
To my window you came
And where I lay silently sleeping
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
But woke to the sound of weeping
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
And we lay all day in that meadow
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
Unburdened by destiny's shadow
I surrendered my skin
Til evening blew in
Upon every joy of creation
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
But woke to a lamentation
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
The only one left without sorrow
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
You said you would see me tomorrow
Then you parted from me
Where the road splits in three
And all of those roads were for the taking
I dreamt last night of a sorrowless field
But woke to the sound of my own heart breaking
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10. |
Tongue That Cannot Lie
08:19
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Tongue That Canot Lie
I was born with a tongue that cannot lie
and how it grieves me
Each fleeting thought behind my eye
just up and leaves me
Into the wild, like a bastard child
born under a briar
Oh to be, oh to be, oh to be a liar
I've been courted by saints and by sinners
who all know the things that a tongue can tell
Whose discrete invitations for sweet revelations
Were such an enticement to sell
But the street price of secrets seduced
and reduced me to trading without any care
Oh to be a liar.
So in conscience I chose to avoid those consumed
by ambitions of earthly dominion
But even this act, the omission of fact
Just delighted The Lords of Opinion
And in retreat from it all I did fall for a man
Who swore that my words were a blessing
But for each of the beautiful daughters we bore
I betrayed all the joy in my heart
Each harmless invention or childlike convention
I brutally shattered apart
Some say love is saying the way that it is
But believe me it just isn't so
For the joy of surprises, the tooth-fairy wonder
And Halloween guises were all torn asunder
And the lovely mistruths that I so longed to utter
Dissolved in the blink of a tear just like butter
Oh to be a liar.
For a tongue that can't lie shall cause the meek to cry
cruel words to cut them through
And a tongue that can't lie
Shall cause the righteous few to silence all that is true
Oh to be a liar.
Now I wander these earthly lands from pole to pole
And from shore to lonely shore
Seeking concealment in corners but somehow
the world still descends on my door
Afflicted, addicted I pray for a potion
To take all my vision away
Oh to be a liar.
So tear out this tongue and stitch up these
barbarous eyes with which I see
And grant me the right
To spare you the cold callous cut of reality
Won't you take all this knowing
and leave me with nothing, no nothing at all
Let me speak what I will and reserve all the rest
and I'll walk through the world
Neither blighted nor blessed
For my sole modest wish now before my demise
Is to savour the sweetness and kindness of lies
Oh to be a liar.
For a tongue that can't lie.
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Karine Polwart UK
One of the finest singer-songwriters in Britain" The Guardian
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