1. |
American Jewel
02:53
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American Jewel
“Each god who rules in the sky
Bids from the altar, ‘Arise’”
No-one mentions
Wanted, wasted ties
Good intentions
No-one for advice
In the ring
The gloved against the world
The Furies sing
And tragedy unfurls
“Seek the truth by mountain and will
Just mortal man trying still”
Who confronts
The different roads to please
Who’ll step in front
Insist on being free
The rope to weigh
The burden, siren call
The beam, the train,
The flask to find it all
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2. |
Turnstones
03:21
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Turnstones
She waits and shelters from the rain
Counts seabirds, waiting for a train
From empty time he’s come again
We tear ourselves from other lives
Pretend we’re holding hands
Walk miles under a heavy sky
To map the border lands
Where I ask you and you reply
We try to understand
What made our lives, what filled the time
We’re turnstones on our sands
Miles that fill time on the sand
He doesn’t take her by the hand
He is a shelter from the rain
Planning when he’ll come again
On lonely trains we try to think
How change in time appears
Too far between, face indistinct
The cost of losing years
And soon we’re back to other lives
Before we’re holding hands
Remember miles of heavy sky
Leave you on border lands
Then unloved notes and you reply
And I don’t understand
You stare at walls to fill the time
No turnstone on your sand
He didn’t say he’d come again
She didn’t turn and wave to the train
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3. |
On Land 1
01:09
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4. |
Not Just Woman
04:20
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Not just woman
Not just woman, not just man
The words and shared eternal bands
And the crowd’s hearts break and see
Celebration, not just joy
A mother lost her only boy
Feels alone and lost and bleeds
Handsome, holy pair whose lives
Are filled with friends as they decide
And she wonders when there’s time
When did he become the man
Not sure she can understand
Why the hers replaced the mine
Always seemed like here to stay
Endless time that passed away
Everlasting bond was strong
Lifetime never lasted long
Girls make friends that stay for life
Boys until they find a wife
Wants his growing, good and bad
Wants the happy, wants the sad
And she waits for his return
Lives on, fills the time until
It comes back that he never will
And the incompleteness burns
Always seemed like here to stay…
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5. |
Home For Lovers
04:08
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Home for lovers
From this distance see the past
Loveless, no family, and just seventeen
Take me from this empty castle
Come with me and be my queen
Finds a soul, not meant to last
Warmth in the movements but barren and mean
Let me keep my growing passion
Nothing else should come between
New life comes and ever more
Washes and works and bears children and cleans
Don’t think you can write my story
Words unspoken, thoughts unseen
Powers change, he’s on the floor
Weathers the blows that frustrations maintain
Kneel to me and see the glory
Change the stations we have been
New love comes from years of waiting
Chained to a family and no longer free
Can’t tell you my heart is breaking
That no longer speaks to me
Living moves at her insistence
Bondage demotes him, his family tree
Can’t trust you with my existence
Stay together separately
Hungry for the love she tasted
Resigned to the smouldering anger and sees
Can’t re-live the years we wasted
Stamped the paths to what will be
Final chapter, ending hovers
Function like others so others can see
Close the door to home for lovers
Loveless in eternity
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6. |
At Sea
01:30
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7. |
Take Any Girl
02:47
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Take any girl
Take any girl you find
And hide away
You shine, she blinks
The match is made
The years of yours and mine
Are here to stay
You climb, she sinks
You’re on parade
In time you can see that she needs something better
There’s true love in the world
You can’t just take any girl
Can you honestly say you deserve any better
There’s true love in the world
You can’t just take any girl
Now she has found a place
You hide away
She climbs, you sink
It’s her parade
Through years of losing time
You want to stay
She shines, you blink
The match light fades
In time you can see that she needs something better
There’s true love in the world
You can’t just take any girl
Can you honestly say you deserve any better
There’s true love in the world
You can’t just take any girl
In time she made sure that she found something better
There’s true love in the world
You can’t just take any girl
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8. |
Hasty Heart
03:22
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Hasty heart
It hardly makes a difference now
As lights go down and wonder how
There was another way
To say what you must say
You read aloud, you loved the sound
Of cracking earth, of falling down
The ceiling hits the floor
The inner call for more
You felt it so strong
What you said was your own
And you lived with the consequence
Worked on alone
Till you saw no one there for you
Work overthrown
Looked for support
And the saviour was gone
Encouraged with no brakes applied
You write your truth, outside, inside
The purple should be grey
The jokes get in the way
Proud to be acquired taste
Arose at leisure, drowned in haste
No others need conspire
Your words are on the fire
You felt it so strong…
These end games of the hasty hearts
Who speak for truth, who live apart
The hand goes up for more
No-one now, and none before
“The intellect that made you proud
A free old rascal, laughs aloud”
“The comforters were few
A number more than true”
We said a goodbye
When your public had gone
And now here is the consequence
Die on your own
The sum of your influence
Love overdrawn
The last ones depart
And they leave and live on
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9. |
On Land 2
01:08
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10. |
Stars Collide
02:43
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Stars collide
Shining, the stars inside
Blinding, the end of light
Crying for atmosphere
Trying to disappear
Fear subsides in quiet moments
Glowing others share
Calm, confide, allow enjoyment
Breathing in the air
Lonely, a star outside
Only the end of night
Thinking that won’t conform
Sinking, a fatal storm
Fear subsides in quiet moments…
Falling, the stars collide
Calling, no end inside
Sending, a message flies
Rending, and fate decides
Calm subsides and peace explodes
Imagined worlds destroyed
Fears press, so the gates are closed
The days are robbed of joy
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That Nitrogen Thing Scotland, UK
Collaborations between two songwriters from the Scottish central lowlands, reanimating demos on occasional mornings and
afternoons, depending on availability.
Includes the 26th November 2017, the day Motherwell lost 2-0 to Celtic in the 2017-2018 Scottish League Cup Final
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