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Wilderness of Life
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WILDERNESS OF LIFE
Hanging round here in the lonely parts tonight
Missed the last ride, gone in the fading of the light
Either way, either way I will carry her tonight
because these memories hurt like the twisting of a knife
In the wilderness of dreams I can still hear her cry
Running to horizons that were far beyond the visible sight
She never knew she was the one bright star over my life
I wanted so bad just to tell her it would be alright...
In a small town, closed down hearts and minds they bond
No one understood the beauty in her song
Where kindness is a curse and the damaged are the wrong
We disappear into the mirror of the place we don't belong
In the wilderness of life I can barely find my way
Sliding down the face of a cliff soaked by the rains
Out of the blue I sometimes still recall her name
Somehow someway the enigma still remains...
No more tomorrows
or wasted yesterdays
Forget the sorrows
They're just a passing phase
When did the lightning
lose its darkened sky?
If I could do the right thing
I would never ever leave
and never ever say goodbye...
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The Burning Skies
01:53
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THE BURNING SKIES
I've been told about the burning skies
Shadows travelling in holy guise
Kingdoms falling before my eyes
All I wanted was to feel alive
I am on the cliff next to you
I've come back to see this through
I am reaching into the blue
From my arms the flowers grew...
You are teacher, teach me wise
so I can use these winds to lift me high
The music is in my ears tonight
Takes me straight into the eye
I know I'll never come back down
Put both feet on the frozen ground
Set the time and remove my crown
Until the next time I'm lost within the sound...
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Wasted Eden
03:56
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WASTED EDEN
Take the tightrope across the water to the lost lands of you
Take the ladder to the skies over the flood lands of you
But it doesn't matter
You're leaving me traumatized
The whole thing is shattered
Everything that I fantasized...
Built a fortress on a lovely little island for two
Wasted Eden, through the leaves there is a paradise for two
But it doesn't matter now
You're leaving me traumatized
The whole thing has shattered
everything that I fantasized...
Maybe I should pretend it won't happen like that again
Maybe if I pretend, I'll be spellbound til the end...
Maybe I should pretend it won't happen like that again
Maybe if I pretend, I'll be spellbound til the end...
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Never Get Old
03:58
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NEVER GET OLD
You said that all the stars above are never good enough
when it's dark inside your heart
You said there's nothing left to fear
Don't make an ocean from a tear
You said I'm going away
Far as it may
Let's never get old...
While waiting for the boats to just capsize
I realised the world was falling from your eyes
I'll never let go til I know you're alright
It's going to take a whole new other life to make it all mine
before the last ride leaves us behind
A thousand dreams, so it seems,
just killing time...
There is comfort being apart
On the outside drifting far
Far away from the light
Loving the night
Never get old....
While waiting for the boats to just capsize, I realised
the world was falling from your eyes
I'll never let go til I know you're alright
It's going to take a whole new other life, to make it all mine
before the last ride leaves us behind
A thousand dreams, so it seems,
just killing time...
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Baby Dove
03:51
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BABY DOVE
I know you cannot hear my voice
from where you lay your head tonight
The day is gone, I hear a song
It penetrates through everything
Outside the moon, the heavens clear
No one's awake to see it all
You'll never know the lengths I'd go
just to be part of your life, some other time...
What can I do to protect myself?
You're beautiful but you don't know it
I'm fading out within the scene
The lights go out and the faces change
No resolution, I drank it dry
The embers in my mind
will never cease to burn
Reminders of the star that fell so far away...
I am the one, the only one
waving from the tower
The perfect dream, the space between
the heavens and the earth
You lay in bed, no tear is shed
You're sinking way beyond me
Just give me love, my baby dove
Give me sanctuary for the night
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Rain Box
03:26
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RAIN BOX
I paint these thoughts like an old grey tomb
I drank from the chasm with a spoon
I picked all the flowers that fell from the room
Echoes from a vacuum...
Freezing on a summer's day
I followed the masses and lost my way
Assured that there's never the need to be afraid
Today becomes yesterday...
Distant waters I was born to swim
But to walk on that land is a journey of sin
All I know is I'm dying within
somebody else's skin...
If there's an angel somewhere for me
Show my eyes what they can't see
Something to fight for, a reason to bleed
The fire we have to feed...
Take me now, I'm ready to go
Leave all the wreckage and ruin below
Shake me out of this dying dream that feels like home
Take me now, I'm ready to go
Leave all the wreckage and ruin below
Shake me out the dying dream I've always known...
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Nectarine
03:36
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NECTARINE
Someday together we'll have something to show
Since time began you held my hand and never let me go
We'll live forever upon a distant land
The round and clean sweet nectarine, the world is in my hands...
The window is open, we can let the air right in
to our troubled sphere, another year is written on the skin
I know by now that you'll destroy me in the end
and when it's done and the tales are spun, my devotion you'll commend...
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Invocation
02:11
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INVOCATION
I don't want to go unknowing, though I probably will
I'm not where I'm meant to be, I'm still under the spell
A scarecrow in the field of time that watches as we sleep
I'm wading in this nameless water, heading for the deep...
Another day of toil, we work our fingers to the bone
Couldn't we have worked it out before the dark came home?
One last invocation in a world of black and blue
Thunder rang the bells of heaven, crashing over you...
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Twilight Hill
05:08
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TWILIGHT HILL
Up on twilight hill
A cold November chill
Followed by the ghost
The one I feared the most
On cold star-studded night
The galaxies were bright
All horizons lead to you in the place where I stood...
Like a kite cut from its string
I remembered everything
I was feeling so alone
Up in the air with the lights below
I am my mother's son
Looking down upon
the darkness of the land and the heart of a man...
On my way back down
I marked the frozen ground
To prove I had been here
On twilight hill, my dear
What makes you fade away
and leaves you on display?
Smiling in my heart as I spiral in the dark...
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Don't Take My Stars Away
03:23
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DON'T TAKE MY STARS AWAY
Soldier, are you there?
Still waiting on a prayer?
A thousand sinking suns, and thousands more to come
The world never seems to care
Soldier, I can feel you fade
You've been dancing on a deadly blade
I know what it feels like to have the middle of the night
come at the brightest time of day
hey, hey, hey...
Sometimes the only thing left to do
is just work the whole day through
because the emptiness is vast when you're living in the past
You'll be swallowed by the blue
There are many ways to feel astray
We are losing battles every day
You can send the dark over the bay
just don't take my stars away...
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Ali Murray Scotland, UK
Ali Murray is a songwriter/musician from the cold windy Isle of Lewis in the north of
Scotland.
He writes and releases music under his own name, as well as dark introspective ambient music under the name The Lonely Bell.
THE LONELY BELL :
thelonelybell.bandcamp.com
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