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arcflight
04:36
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Think at a tangent
Maybe you’ll catch a small glimpse of me
I’m waiting here for you
I’ve been here for some time - I’ll be here a little longer
And so I sit here with my strange philosophy
And my dreams of innocence, but I can’t portray myself
I am writer, I am speaker; what stands in my way
I shall spend all of my days out in search of this
Thinking outside the box, trespass your borders
Now you’re awakening
A wave sanctifies you, new colours enrich you
Novelty welcomes your embassy
A stranger amazed on these unconquered shores
Some see as affliction
But cast me adrift, I can only be free - we aspire to be angels
If I would fill another man’s shoes would that make me worthy
I am here to be doubtful - strong in my certain uncertainties
This freedom consumes me
So will you excuse if I seem so distracted
I want to enlighten you
Look on me – witness my new way of thinking
And dare not to follow
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joy
03:49
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Have I been asleep all of my life
Have I just wished that all my days roll away
I have tried to leave a thousand times
Now all I want to do is stay, if I may
Unmake me should I discourage you
Forsake me, just do what you’ve got to do
Deface me and deconstruct me
I don’t know where I’m going these days
So bewildered, disorientated, now rebuild me
Embrace me, let me discover you
So grace me, and let the greyness be made anew
Joy is mine and joy shall be mine again
The resonation, how it fills and completes me
Recognise that it will always be here
Bring me the heads of my failings
I shall lose them, I will cast them aside
I long to meet your expectation
Match the actual me with the image in you
To make you proud, to hold your chin up high
I long to enhance you
As you nourish me, so I will nourish you
And return the joy too
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where I stand
03:44
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Ah we've been here before - why do we never learn
The same mistakes that we always make
Why can't we break this dreary cycle
And I'm so tired of the endless repetition
I stepped into the arms of a dream - I felt myself falling through
It should have been the time that I realised all I've been working to
I trusted in my instincts, I trusted the way I felt, I trusted the fates, I trusted you
Well I see where that trust has got me
Wish that I could trust that I will never again be such a fool
So what the hell is going on with you these days
Cos I've heard so many times just the same old lines
Now the words keep on turning
Words keep on turning around my head
Can't be sure if I'm better alive or dead - I guess better ask you instead
Well if he could see us now well would he laugh or cry
Or would he stop and stay, maybe ask us why
Or let us carry on – it’s what he had planned for us
Well at least for today it’s beyond me to say
And I just glad to make my way
You hold me for a moment, but I will get the upper hand
And I will lose it once again - this ain't the life that I had planned
But if we keep on making circles at least I'll know just where I stand
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blister
03:46
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I stumbled like a drunkard
For the promise you won’t keep
Will never let me sleep
Now I feel like I have died before
But I guess I could be wrong
Cos I’m still alive, still going strong
Though it sometimes seems it won’t be long
Cos you have got your eye on me today
You move too fast for me
Cold blooded reptile, shameless snake
You fight not for survival
But just a score in that game you play
When are you gonna share the rules
When you gonna start to play fair
When am I gonna get that break from you
And it can’t be long now I’ll sing of freedom
And you, you shall not touch me anymore
Because your damage is too damage is too deep
Discard me for another plaything
Such cruelty
You're always vying for new weakness in me
And I despise that I still worship you
But I’ve burst the blister – it always forms again
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hemlock
03:23
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It defeats me
Shoots me down
And brings me emptiness
One more end, but no more after this
Time to stop and space cease to exist
Never know I was here
Welcome shadow
Take me with you
To a different place
Carry me into another race
This one’s over – I must change my face
Leave it all and I can disappear
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son of machine
03:56
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So what are we about, why must we scream and shout
The future's come sooner - rise up to the call
You know it's no good asking can we find Eden again
Those days are gone, we should let them go
Release our ghosts, move undisturbed
We should be more alive –
Give thanks to what has passed
It made us what we are - let it rest in peace
And we seem so unsure what we do this for
With all the gains we we're making
Can we be blind, we're moving out of sight
Take the baton that our fathers left us
Stand it in the soil of another land
And it’s against our nature not to make it so
We have always known movement –
the urge has always been with us
We choke it we destroy ourselves
We want to fly, but we’ve tied our wings behind our back
We made ourselves into such cowards –
Let’s be brave again
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rain
04:10
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Never thought I’d see the world in this way
Oh, but it’s happened now
And I must keep on all the while bits and pieces fall off me now
I have lost myself within your eyes
There was no pretence; there is no defence
There is no escape and I embrace this
Let it wash me to the detriment of all else
I am leached away from all I’ve known
My memories melt and fade
Build me up again; I’ve been stood out in the pouring rain
Never knew until now what it was to be taken to shelter
Bless the stars that helped things fall this way - simplify me
I’m a lucky man, I choose this death
And sink into the warm confusion
Knowing resurrection waits for me
Every breath I lose is one step closer
The nearer that I get the more emphatic I become
And I delight in my surrender, and I wave myself goodbye
And find myself wreathed in smiles
If I knew sorrow, or sat in fear or turmoil
If tears were bartered for a measurement of solace
How can I regret this? - they brought me here
Let me live again, let me live again,
Let me live
Let me live
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Forgive, see me not as deceiver
I am the screen – I reflect your desire
All I’ve ever wanted is the world to go
And leave me just with you
See yourself when you look at me
As I look you
And I see me in you too
For the want of affection I would desecrate my soul
Take me, I’m conquered - I’m yours to command
You don’t want to escape me
We’re linked by more than mere love
See now we number the blessed
As angels now here we make our stand
See how we resonate – hear my pumping heart
Yearning to keep your time
As it forsakes that’s life in mine
The need to worship you consumes me
Seeking deliverance my passion defeats me
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no dice
03:19
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Let me tell you ‘bout a stranger
He walked right in, sat down before me
There was no surprise cos I knew he was on his way
Cos I was changing, I was getting ready for him
Sound blossomed within my head
They came before him, his own dawn chorus
No other fanfare, no shouting squires
So I looked on . . .
He said I’d seen his face a thousand times before
Though I didn’t recognise him
There was something so familiar
He said he knew De Niro
And debated with the Caesars
He gave no explanation, I took it at face value
And though it seemed unlikely
I knew that I should trust him
And he held his hands up to the skies
And he struck the stars off one by one
And he said that we would go there
It was time for leaving home
Then he told me of my duty, I must strive to make it so
Then he made as if to leave me
So I said, “Before you go
Will you tell me what your name is?”
He said, “I think you already know”
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She talks in her sleep of wishes, of second chances and lovers lost
What could have been?
If she resigned to losing what was the cost?
What did she gain in the end? -
A phantom or a shadow of a dream
What is the use of wisdom gained? - you cannot change the past
Settled down in her jaded palace, she has her wealth, she her riches
She has dissatisfaction
And nothing can keep her from tasting a loss
So bitter, so sour, so unsustaining
Her love has lost its lustre
There was a world she set out to conquer
Instead she accepted her corner
Now she longs to step over the border
She missed out on the glory days
She tried to catch the sun but fell back to earth
Into the arms of a mortal
He brought her comfort at a time when she was broken
And everything was good for a while
Her head was full of song and nothing seemed to touch her
Her step was so light upon the earth
A shared future beckoned – she welcomed it to her
And as the glamour faded so the man who gave her succour
His glory diminished in her eyes, she cried to the skies above,
“What has happened to my love, to my love”
But shame kept her tied to her saviour
Though her heart only yearned for the end
And would wish for that day, godspeed to decay
And praying for the fall of Rome
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