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Intro
02:52
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I just took a break from life
I just took some time to get it straight
My mind's been in such a perplexing place
I couldn't tell you if I tried
You wouldn't know if I took your eyes
And made you look at all that's behind me
I think I need to move away
I'll build a cabin in some sad place
I'll get a dog and I'll walk it every day
Just give me the chance
I bear the burden of a spiritual nihilist
I'd worship God but I just can't find him
At all
At all
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A song to sing at the end of the day
A golden light to illuminate the way
A tear to fall at the end of the day
Just show me off and then I'll be on my way
I think I've got my philosophy straight
To let the love in instead of the hate
And I guess that I'm doing pretty well
But how long that lasts only time will tell
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I lean on a tampered wind
Refrain from looking in
The summer sky, pushing down
Eternal sigh, breathing out
For you
I'm creeping to the sea but the tide is going out
Bearing my doubts
Wearing a frown
And I am sadly bound to a feeling I have found
Within and without
The beautiful sound
Of pollen in the air
The sense that I can't care
All my flaws laid bare
I hope you get there
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Of Love
06:36
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And I am sure
It won't be long till I am free
And I am pure
At least I am within my dreams
Can we slow down
I need a place to rest my head
I'm so worn out
Let sunshine fields become my bed
Waiting for a summer creek
Waiting for my god to speak
Waiting for a lover to arrive
Waiting for the feeling in my life
Of love
If you knew what I had known
And seen what I had seen
If you reaped what I had sown
And been where I had been
If you thought what I had thought
And felt what I had felt
If you sought what I had sought
The shapes that I had smelled
Found myself at the garden door
Guarded by an angel with a flaming sword
Found myself in a dark night of the soul
With nothing but a bucket and a wooden bowl
Holding on to what wasn't true
Letting go of the things that I thought I knew
Found myself at a sad point in my life
Feeding ducks in the river just to try and feel the light
I had this feeling when the spring arrived
That all my life I'd been killing time until I came online
Something subtle seemed to spring from inside
A synaesthesic intimation of the English countryside
I felt like Blake among the dark satanic mills
I felt like Jesus preaching on the olive hill
I felt like Buddha sitting by the bodhi tree
I felt like Hoffman synthesising LSD
I felt like Zarathustra coming from his cave
I felt like Aldous Huxley at perception's gates
I felt like everything was made of love
I felt like everything was made of love
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Riverside
05:11
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Spring came again
Flowers blooming
Warmth in the air
A season to sigh
No need to know why
Peace in the fall
Nothing at all
And here I am again
My love is blooming
There's wind in my hair
Sun in my eyes
Feelings I hide
A desperate call
To no one at all
Out here by the ocean
Biding my time
Out here by the ocean
In this strange light
Out here by the ocean
Finding my way
Out here by the ocean
Crossing the bay
Cold night
Wind is blowing
Long night
Morning's glow is soon
Soon
Sad night
Endless wandering
Cruel night
Ceaseless suffering
Soon
Crossing the threshold
Seeing what lies in the fog
Feeling this pressure
Pushing my endlessly on
Plucking my mole hairs
Seeing if they hold the truth
Bearing my burdens
Waiting for some breakthrough
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For Autumn to Blow Away
04:11
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I can see the sun but I can't feel it
So I lean into the wind
Just let it blow
And I can smell the air but I can't breathe it
So I let it be
Just let it flow
And I am moving on
Letting the sun shine
Making sense of it all
Before the day breaks
And the time will surely come
Where I truly realise
I'm just another leaf
For autumn to blow away
Away
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I Am Who I Am
03:47
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But it just doesn't feel right to me
So I just write another harmony
Harmony
And I wanna see you, do you wanna see me?
Or is that not what's meant to be?
Ooh yeah I'm a red wine man
But I couldn't kick it off coz I couldn't get a plan down
Ooh girl take my hand
Coz my life was long but the sand is slipping out now
Ooh yeah my little lamb
I kinda wanted you to stay but I know you've got plans
Ooh my it's all a sham
But it doesn't matter now
I am who I am
I am who I am
And could you be a light for me?
Or should I just write another harmony?
Harmony
And I wanna know you, do you wanna know me?
Or should I keep myself to me
Ooh yeah I'm a red wine man
But I couldn't kick it off coz I couldn't get a plan down
Ooh girl take my hand
Coz my life was long but the sand is slipping out now
Ooh yeah my little lamb
I kinda wanted you to stay but I know you've got plans
Ooh my it's all a sham
But it doesn't matter now
I am who I am
I am who I am
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I Know
02:57
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On a whim
I look in
Hear my heart as it pounds
A testament to all the love that abounds
And in the shade
My mind is made
Put my soul to the floor
Feed me to the ground till my body's no more
Push me down
And I know
That when summer fades
I'll remain much the same
And I know
That my love is true
And one day I'll have someone I can give it to
And I know
That when all is said and done
I'll feel the sun on me
And I know, and I know, and I know, and I know, and I know
And in the trees
I'll be free
Sing a hymn to the sky
And wonder why I couldn't care if I tried
And in the dark
A light will spark
Drench my soul in its glow
Take me to a place that I needed to go
And I know
That when summer fades
My gratitude will stay the same
And I know
That my love is true
And one day it will get the chance to truly bloom
And I know
That when all is said and done
Peace will come to me
And I know, and I know, and I know, and I know, and I know
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Seaside Town
08:11
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So here I am, letting go
My adolescence stuck to my shoe
Heading southwards
Through the trees
To the flowers
Of the sea
Give me a light, give me song
Give me a reason, give me the right
To go onwards
Into the night
Grant me peace, Lord
Before I die
I moved to a seaside town
You can see the ocean from the sink
And it seems that I don't do that much
These days except to sit and think
I've spent some time to learn piano
Fumbling away at the keys
And each day I'll try to meditate
And I'll admit that I've been feeling the peace
I was obsessed with finding rhyme or reason
To even keep existing at all
But if you can't feel it in the cool sea breeze
Then I hate to say it you're a fool
And in a few months the spring will come around
But I'll be much the same as I am now
Because I've learned to love the winter air
And how the night creeps up without a sound
And this verse is getting pretty long
But there's still so much that I could say
I could write a million words and not be done
I could write until the stars go grey
I guess we all must spend our fleeting lives
Knowing no one more than what they show
Except in brief glimpses into strangers' eyes
Where for a second it's as if you know
You know what I mean
I hope you know what I mean
I'm waiting for that golden tinge
To the trees
Like I have seen
Before
I'm waiting for some time to draw
Nothing more
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12. |
Slow Are the Seasons
05:35
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