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 The London Music Archives - 2001 Swimming and Singing Last Days Of Life I See Angels You Clean Me Up Picture I've Heard Mermaids Singing and Playing My Guitar Zero Black Ticket Changes Free Mood Elevator The Return Of The Guitar |
Steve Vachon - drums Greg (Eggy) Rinehart - bass guitar Ernest Leitch - guitar and vocals Jeffrey Deibert-Patterson - Vocals and guitar Recorded between May and July 2001 Produced by Ernest Leitch and Ten Heads Recorded and engineered by Andy Magoffin LYRICS Fading Cut Shivering restlessly Clinging desperately Sobbing quietly Fading slowly Fading out like a candle out of air Flickering your despair away And you don't want to stay Is there an easier way Old friends kneel and pray to the powers that be To set you free And you've got the right to be You're going to be free Retiring expiring Who put you here Who's plan's not too clear to you All the pain it put you through What little is there left to do but wait For the hands of fate to seal the pearly gates And you know you're getting late You're going to be great Dying to know why you were here Those who would hold you near the end The return of along lost friend' The break that never ends Hoping to meet again on the other side When worlds collide You're going for a ride You're going to fly high Last Days Of Life Sitting in observance of minor regulations is this how you want to spend the last days of life The last few hours I feel so sure we're doing ourselves in I think it's time for counting our blessings Counting our lucky stars Our last few hours Is this how you want to spend the last days of life Is this how you want to spend The last few hours can't be called hours The last lucky star shines way after midnight Standing on the former banks of an empty river bed Is this where you want to be at the end of the earth We've shot so many bullets Enough to shoot down the sun Now we've got to learn to count out our lives Staring at the hourglass I see Angels You be the call I'll be the wire You be the spark I'll be the fire I'll be the wind fanning your flame You be the flower I'll be the rain You be the water I'll be the thirst for you Incredible journey we'll be the first the best and the last You be song I'll beat the drum You be the chord I'll be your strum You'll be the tune that I'll always hum When we know where we're going we know where we're from I see angels singing next to gushing fountains I see you higher than wings high above the mountains You be the ship I'll be your sail You be the trip I'll tell your tale You be mystery I'll be the veil We'll remake history we got the world by the tail I see angels singing next to gushing fountains I see you higher than wings high above the mountains I see you higher than high higher than high ever could have been high You Clean Me Up Little girl my little girl Don't hang around in this town Telephone it's ringing ringing Little girl my little girl Don't talk too much in this town People here wanna hurt you Little girl my little girl I'm too old for you in this town Need to go need to go now Little girl my little girl So much love to touch when I'm down Can't sleep can't sleep You clean me up when I'm fallen Little girl my little girl Don't mess around in this town Telephone it's ringing ringing Little girl my little girl Don't talk too much in this town People here wanna hurt you You clean me up when I'm falling You clean me up when I take the wrong things You clean me up You clean me up You dean me up When I'm falling When I'm falling When I'm fallen Like a killing ground Every man in this town has it out for me But I hear your voice and I see you coming Why can't you belong to me Picture I was looking at a picture of us from 1985 When we were the ones keeping punk rock alive Dogs of capital kept artists in check A lot of wreckage A lot of records came out that were totally pathetic You were young idealistic brilliant and intense Smashing the state made the only sense 1 stole barbed wire from fallow field We raised our fists and swore we'd never yield Was that so ridiculous Over fence poses over steeples over hills Across the moon across the sun across the stars A crowbar a wedge hatchet sledgehammer A foolish man made a child a wife The mistake that haunted the rest of his life Were we so destroyed Were we the nation that was overthrown And room by room we set the castle in flames Chanting sing songs we swore we'd never change The charred brave face of the modern world Ranting about the truth with our hopes so high Rogue bandit renegade heroes in our own minds We'd never surrender or be taken alive I've Heard The Mermaids Singing And Playing My Guitar In the dim still light after sundown Motionless twilight in the water On the floating platform I played I serenaded you With the sweetest melody Then you were gone I was alone I saw my guitar sinking down Under the water 'neath the nightfall And then I was with you on higher dry land All is calm we are quiet But my guitar is out there at the bottom of the ocean We must wait for daylight to dive A mermaids chorus bursts into gales Reaching from the depths the voices prevail Nigh above the clouds Shower down sparkles like stars On the murky waters dark Dark waters black It's too dark to get my guitar back The mermaids have found my muse They're making song with my guitar in protection I'm resting easy just listening Ten thousand mermaids voices with my strings Zero Black When I'm in zero black There's no going back The cloak of heaven is a circle without a door Under covers Viewing slides Things I didn't say have I lost the day again (yeah) two black No colour under When the walls close in I fade to Zero black... Zero black When I'm in zero black No dolphins can swim No flowers bloom Deep lidded eyes ache in the gloom There was an open door first glimmer of light Slammed shut in my face Before I could escape I own zero black (this colours over it) And when the shaking starts And my mind circles like feeding sharks Ticket Cold wind blows over the hill Pictures of you are standing still My love like fire has run aground My one way ride has turned around fought so hard to get this far and we don't even know Love lies waiting you're hesitating When reasons seem real enough for you Love falls to sleeping hidden for safe keeping What do you do when it's hidden from you and it's One ticket to hold A trip into the cold fought so hard to get this far And we don't even know where we are Cold wind blows in my face Pictures of our happy place Memories yellow with age Time to turn the page Changes Changes and changes the change has come Night time has changed into the rising sun Riding and tumbling coming undone Facing the change trying to have fun Pulling the string untying a knot What's wishful thinking what have we got Hanging onto fibers thinner than a hair Might as well be in chains we're not going anywhere Pulling the strings it's out of our hands All we ever wanted all we had planned Tangled web wove expectations betray Fearfully bound to bygone ways Changes and changes change never ends We're out of our tree right around the bend Praying to heaven the message we send God help us now sand us a friend Pulling the strings untying a shoe Kicking my feet up I've got nothing to do Waiting for light is quiet and slow The more I perceive the less I know Free Some day this trial by fire is going to end So don't get burned by the searing heat of the final argument It won't be said that we cowered and hid when we got too close to the flame But how do you live on regrets and despair humiliation and shame Free-we will be So if we're hiding in the light When the aliens come Tomorrow we'll be back to fight Until this battle's won So stand tall sonny you can't quit now It's coming down to the final blow Hold on honey put your hand in mine some day we're going to make it home free-you and me There are those who'd said our love would be dead in less than just a year How can they speak now we've reached the peak and we're the only ones here I say to the people who would have retreated you can never say die Because if we get together then I know We're going to live forever free free-we will be Mood Elevator Found it in a coal mine Making tea for porcupines The cat's in the birdcage Dreaming 'bout the old days Looking for the surf guide Pushing on the panic button Can't believe it's so hard Sister where'd it come from The master's in the mainframe Screaming at the ball game The empty headed street gang Don't know how to shoot shoot! Daddy's heads a porch light Illuminating dog fights Lost it in a moose hunt Drinking with the right front The tattooed sails are blowing But I don't know where I'm going Mood elevator My sky escalator Mood elevator My mood elevator So can you put me in a dark place Shining up my dad's face Gimme all the hard tack 'Cause Jonah wants it all back Travel on a swan's back Lifting Adirondiracks Counting as the time goes Tickets for a no show The master lost his seal pin Counting gold for Rasputin Armageddon you're so sweet I get tingles at your feet I'm looking for the right room Where the wind is blowing soon St. Somebody broke his forearm I woke up And I need this Return Of The Guitar My guitar gets wet every time I forget Every time I fall in love with you again My guitar surfaces and floats on a wave When I think of the times and all the love we've made But I remember that you are far away So I pick up my guitar and play Sing my song for you My guitar floats up and heads for shore My sweating hands fret once more And love and love alive the mermaids sing Behind the gentle ringing shining strings Sing my song for you This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine Shining on shining Let it shine on you My guitar gets wet Every time I forget |