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Bush Of Thorns
03:12
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Alone in the desert in a bush of thorns
And the thorns have no mercy on my naked limbs
I can't move forward and I can't move back
And my blood stains the desert sands red.
She dances lonely in the desert in a bush of thorns
Where the bones of her friends lie scattered in the sand
They couldn't move forward and they couldn't move back
So they hung on the thorns till they were dead
Ay ohhhhh... Outi Outi Outi oh
Ay ohhhhh... Ay ay ay ay ay
Cause she's happy in the desert with her bush of thorns
So happy with the blood and the sand and the bones
And she won't move forward, she won't move back
She just counts all the men she owns
Ay ohhhhh... Outi Outi Outi oh
Ay ohhhhh... Ay ay ay ay ay
Alone in the desert in a bush of thorns
And the thorns have no mercy on my naked limbs
I can't move forward and I can't move back
And she stands there and grins.
Ay ohhhhh... Outi Outi Outi oh
Ay ohhhhh... Outi Outi Outi oh
Ay ohhhhh... Outi Outi Outi oh
Ay ohhhhh... Ay ay ay ay ay
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sleeping beauty and the beast communed in telepathic messages
looks and smiles, looks away, anything but words
sleeping beauty and the beast went flying...
went flying, flying with the birds
the birds all turned and smiled at beauty - “why this merry dance you lead your beast
do you not know for sure what you may yet unmask?”
to the beast they twittered easy words of encouragement
quite what he thought his goal they could not bear to ask
beauty and the beast – ooh woah ohh
sleeping beauty and the beast
beauty and the beast – ay ay ooh
sleeping beauty and the beast
for beauty cannot be awakened but by one true kiss from one true prince
who cuts the one true way through her defence
the beast meanwhile can barely smile since Belle gave up on him and wed another
sleeping beauty and the beast - that don't make sense
no sense at all, nor logic – these matters are of love and of the heart
as it is spoken, it is written, it is done
sleeping beauty and the beast must dance this minuet in different guises
for all eternity until the lesson's done
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Dark Eyes
02:49
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dark eyes burning deep with power
growing stronger by the hour
light the path where i must go
beyond the evening undertow
back into the rolling water
mother ocean, river daughter
where all things change and flow
beyond the evening undertow
stand still - moments leave you
no-one ever will deceive you
only time and tide will know
beyond the evening undertow
tear starred eyes of joy and sorrow
looking out beyond tomorrow
let the lessons learned all go
beyond the evening undertow
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While the ghost of Emma Goldman watches over us in silence
From the Chinese restaurant across the road
The ghost of Emma Goldman watches over us in silence
From the Chinese restaurant across the road
By the things you didn't say you taught me all there is to know about forgetting...
With a look so far away I couldn't see your eyes at all beneath the shine
While the real and imaginary histories co-mingle
In our small-talk, our evasion and our trying to be gentle
You find it hard to take boys seriously and I love you...
I say nothing
While the ghost of Emma Goldman watches over us in silence
From the Chinese restaurant across the road
The ghost of Emma Goldman watches over us in silence
From the Chinese restaurant across the road
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Mistress Song
01:59
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by turns my mistress harsh and gentle
wrapped in unfamiliar mantle
trapped by all she cannot see
beneath the grey forbidding sky
by choice my mistress for a song
will sell her secrets to the one
who bids the best but not the highest
burning bridges in the forest
bring my mistress poison ivy
she will make from it a gravy
for the evening sacrifice
and throw the plate back in your face
by turns my mistress gentle, harsh
and loving, with the simple force
of one whose right is always wrong
will answer every bell you rang
by choice my mistress in the sea
did cast away her jewels so
earned her keep another day
and let the leaning lesson lie
now bring my mistress finest wines
to wash her face as evening wanes
to splash upon your carpet floor
break the glass and disappear
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When The Penny Dropped
01:31
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And when the penny dropped
It rolled between my feet
Ran halfway down the street
Up to your smile and stopped.
I saw your eyebrows raise
I did not understand
I didn't take your hand
I just damned you with faint praise.
And when the penny fell
I'd left it far too late
There was no way you'd wait
No now now now I must just get well.
And when the penny dropped
It rolled between my feet
Ran halfway down the street
Up to your smile and stopped.
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Chez Tina
03:35
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hang the clouds down low upon me
let wind blow softly on me
where the river meets the sea
in whispered evening melody
sunset on the beach betrays me
sand and stone will not upraise me
angel voices come to guide me
where the harmony will hide me
chez Tina
chaque soir
on decouvre
l'espoir
now the rolling rocks are ringing
run right through by Tina singing
joy and pain and dancing, spinning
back again to the beginning
chez Tina
chaque soir
on decouvre
l'espoir
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8. |
Irish Coffee Blues
03:44
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Irish coffee makes me smile
Irish coffee makes me smile
Irish coffee makes me smile – only for a little while
Lay me down and pass me by
Lay me down and pass me by
Lay me down and pass me by – blue-green diamonds all in your eye
Gonna wander me alone tonight
Wander me alone tonight
Wander me alone tonight – making time, got to make it right
Sweet, hot and strong I choose
Sweet, hot and strong I choose
Sweet, hot and strong I choose – I got those old Irish coffee blues
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Fit and the Conniptions London
I'm Wayne Myers, a singer-songwriter from London, now in St Leonards. I've been recording and performing increasingly misnamed bluesy folk-rock under the name Fit and the Conniptions since December 2005.
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