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Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance All my senses rebelunder the scrutiny of their persistent gaze. It took a lifetime to get here, a journey I'll never make again. For those who have accepted the burden of shame. For the innocent only guilt will remain and our lives will be forced to accomodate the perpetrators of our own bastard race. All my senses rebel under the scrutiny of their persistent gaze. It took a lifetime to get here, a journey I'll never make again. I stand accused of a thousand and one crimes. A witness to events that led up to this present time. These traditions, which bind our hands and keep us tied, will never survive the greater test of time. Deliver me from these feverish eyes that threaten to unbalance my state of mind. For I must confess only to the smallest of crimes. A sense of guilt. (back) From ancient times to the present daythere have been those who have claimed her as a lover. So driven by the will to move up have pursued her to the very ends of the earth. She enters into it enters into us. As the wheel spins and turns the fortunate ones are seen to emerge. She enters into it enters into us. Fortune smiles upon our heads. Mistakenly we cling to her warm embrace. How easily we seem to forgive and forget lost within the security of our new found wealth. There are those of you amongst us bearing vacant faces and empty smiles. Their fates have already been decided upon. They will leave behind them only victims of their misplaced trust. Fortune smiles upon our heads. Mistakenly we cling to her warm embrace. How easily we seem to forgive and forget when lost in the security of our new found wealth. (back) I was told of a place in a distant landwhere tortured souls often cried together in anguish, and the scenes that were shown were of a cruel and violent nature. Scenes of pain and cruelty were there to be seen. The arena, the time and the place were set for all to watch and see. I was told of a place in a distant land where the oppressor ruled with an iron hand, and of nations who sat in complacency left cold and emotionless by history. Scenes of pain and cruelty were there to be seen and all the while I should have known it was you killing me. Somewhere east of eden the designs will never change. Infected through others fear the world stops at the end of the hall. We watched the life force fade away. The eventual price you will have to pay. (Once you are dead how could the children have known) (back) These silent chances pass one bywho never knew of them at all. Resigned to the hands of fate we await her impending beck and call. Until we return, paradise interred. Spread your golden wings, et the sails unfurl. These silent chances pass one by who never knew of them at all. Resigned to the hands of fate we await her impending beck and call. Until we return, paradise interred. Spread your golden wings, let the fires burn. Well opportunities doors did not open wide. The answers remain locked away inside. So forced into labour we till the earth to sow the seeds of our own rebirth. As the days turned into years our faith overcame any doubts or fears. Are there any doubts or fears? In truth we had found the key. It's application would unravel this mystery. (back) Wild in the woods of lovewe harm those whom we adore and contrary to all good intentions we suffocate them in an alarming embrace. Listen child, try to understand, all is not what it appears to be in the world at hand. Here dreams are bought and sold for a price. The truth a burden to keep for the rest of your life. These paths that have been chosen can only lead to fear and despair. So we learn from and experience the corporeal. All is hidden in hidden meanings. All can be learned from within. We are all brothers and sisters in spirit. Wild in the woods of love we harm those whom we adore and contrary to all good intentions we suffocate them in an alarming embrace. (back) Dead Can Dance - Garden of the Arcane Delights In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated Sail on silver wings, through this stormwhat fortune love may bring, back to my arms again the love of a former golden age. I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take, for now that wheels are turning I find my faith deserting me. This night is filled with the cries of dispossessed children in search of paradise. A sign of unresolved ambition drives the pin wheel on and on. I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take, When memory bears witness to the innocents consumed in dying rage. The way lies through our love. There can be no other means to the end, or the keys to my heart you will never find. (back) Here in the garden of the arcane delights,dark shadows overwhelm us and we become blind. Blind to the needs of those who would be free from the grip of fear and the prisons of the mind. Amidst the throes of perplexity Phobia moves amongst us, in her hand is held the seed. Extermination angel stood beside the road in violent retribution for the seeds that we have sown. (back) Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal Sail to the stars on your shining desires."Reasons? there are none" cried the whisky laden brain. "When all is said and done it amounts to just the same". There in your starry eyes lie hopes that have been betrayed. The cause of your desire can also lead to your demise. When all is said and done it will be you who pays the price as countless fools are often loathe to testify "it's an illusion of life, the whole cause of our demise". Sail to the stars on your shining desires. Lucretia waits in vain for the child of her dreams. Within her aching womb there burns a funeral pyre. There in your starry eyes lie hopes that have been betrayed. The prize that you claim can never be yours to take Like castles in Spain, hope is all that will remain. Abstain from the fools paradise, it's an illusion of life, the whole cause of our demise. Fools are often loathe to testify "it's an illusion of life, the whole cause of our demise". Contemplate the world and it's traitors to the soul. The forces of derision and their legions manifold. Usurpers of the crown, all pretenders to the throne, your world is linked in chains "All in one, One in all". (back) Frail of heart renounce all fear.Locked away inside all these years. Remain in light, renounce all fears. For you have been mesmerized. Break this spell of silence. (back) Saloman hung down her headlaid bare her heart for the world to see. She craved for intimacy. Through darkened doors her aspect veiled with indecision, gazed out sea. She craved lucidity. Cast adrift from past relationships in her life, hoisted up the ideal. This was her saving grace. Seas of rage that once assailed her concern for the truth had passed her by and left her high and dry in her saviours arms. Across the sea lies the fountain of renewal, where you will find the whole cause of your loneliness can be measured in dreams that transcend all these lies and I wish and I pray that there may come a day for a saviours arms. (back) In the hour of darkness our worlds collide.Assailed by a madness that has plagued our lives. At the point of departure on the eve despair' no recourse to reason seems to make any sense at all. The light of hope shines in your eyes. Dementia has gone, purged from inside. Throughout our wanderings in a land of lies. We fell from gods grace into a sea of storms. In self renovation, celebration of love. These both are virtues we seem to have left behind. The light of hope shines in your eyes. Dementia has gone purged from inside. Lay down your heart. Induce the will of love. To restore what little faith that you may have lost. As morning brings rebirth a new day will dawn to ease our troubled minds. Turn away on your side and dream of days to come. (back) Indoctrination (a design for living) In times of great vexation when one must choose between what's right and wrongFreedom, so they say, amounts to the choices you have made. Through all the arbitrary rationale concerning liberty. Freedom, I must say, exists within unconditioned minds. Reason has come of age. How can you be satisfied with things the way they are, when all that surrounds us now and so much more remains inside the keeper's dark embrace. The insatiable thirst for power has made; Idols out of mortals, Gods into clay, Soldiers into heroes, children into slaves of damned desire, their hopes betrayed. Who will suffer their laws that say you can't decide your child's education unless you pay the price. Who will suffer the laws Who will suffer their minds Who will suffer their words Who will suffer their designs. (back) Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of ADying Sun We scale the face of reason to find at least one signthat could reveal the true dimension of life lest we forget. And maybe it's easier to withdraw from life with all of it's misery and wretched lies. Away from harm. We lay by cool clear waters and gazed into the sun. And like the moths great imperfection succumbed to her fatal charms. And maybe it's me who dreams unrequited love, the victim of fools who stand in line. Away from harm. In our vain pursuit of life for ones own end, will this crooked path ever cease to end. (back) Hey Patrice don't cry they have no reason to harm you at all.They don't realize that the angels surround you with light. They don't understand their narrow ways defeat them where they stand. They don't realize you hide your sadness behind a painted smile. Ignorance, that blind old fool who steers a wayward path, has set the course on which we sail into a night of uncertainty. Following the stars that make their way across the sky, Valuing the love that lends grace to our hearts, we sail. (back) Fair Rosanna your vagrancy's a familiar tale.Fraught with danger, the lives you led were judged profane. Hatred enfolds us, inculcates our minds with it's heresy. Laymen enfold us, clemency arise to set you free. Fate, although Xavier has prayed that life giving waters may rain down on the souls of men to cure them of their ways. These were the sins of Xavier's past, hung like jewels in the forest of veils. Deep in the heart where the mysteries emerge Eve bears the stigma of original sin. Freedom's so hard, when we are all bound by laws etched in the scheme of natures own hand, unseen by all those who fail in their pursuit of fate. Although Xavier has prayed that life giving waters may rain down on the souls of men to cure them of their ways. And as the night turns into day will the sun illuminate your way, or will your nightmares come home to stay. Xavier's love lies in chains. These were the sins of Xavier's past, hung like jewels in the forest of veils. (back) Dead Can Dance - Aion Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book Fortune presents gifts not according to the bookFortune presents gifts not according to the book When you expect whistles it's flutes When you expect flutes it's whistles What various paths are followed in distributing honours and possessions She gives awards to some and penitent's cloaks to others When you expect whistles it's flutes When you expect flutes it's whistles Sometimes she robs the chief goatherd of his cottage and goatpen And to whomever she fancies the lamest goat has born two kids When you expect whistles it's flutes When you expect flutes it's whistles Because in a village a poor lad has stolen one egg He swings in the sun and another gets away with a thousand crimes When you expect whistles it's flutes When you expect flutes it's whistles (back) Murder! Man on fire.Murder! I've seen the eyes of the living dead. It's the same old game. Survival. The great mass play a waiting game. Embalmed, crippled, dying in fear of pain, all sense of freedom gone. Black sun in a white world. Like having a black son in a white world. I have a son, his name is Eden. It's his birthright beyond estranged times. Give me 69 years, another season in this hell. It's all sex and death as far as eyes can tell. Like Prometheus we are bound. Chained to this rock of a brave new world. Our god forsaken lot. And I feel that's all we have ever needed to know until worlds end and the seas run cold Give me 69 years, another season in this hell. There is sex and death in mother natures plans. (back) Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth I thought that you knew it allWell you've seen it ten times before. I thought that you had it down With both your feet on the ground. I love slow...slow but deep. Feigned affections wash over me. Dream on my dear And renounce temporal obligations. Dream on my dear It's a sleep from which you may not awaken. You build me up then you knock me down. You play the fool while I play the clown. We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. You raise my hopes then you raise the odds You tell me that I dream too much Now I'm serving time in disillusionment. I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you. I thought that I knew it all I'd seen all the signs before. I thought that you were the one In darkness my heart was won. You build me up then you knock me down. You play the fool while I play the clown. We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum. You raise my hopes then you raise the odds You tell me that I dream too much Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard. I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you. Never let it be said I was untrue I never found a home inside of you. Never let it be said I was untrue I gave you all my time. (back) The Wind That Shakes The Barley I sat within the valley greenI sat me with my true love. My sad heart strove the two between The old love and the new love. The old for her the new That made me think on Ireland dearly. While the soft wind blew down the glade and shook the golden barley. 'Twas hard the woeful words to frame To break the ties that bound us. But harder still to bear the shame of foreign chains around us. And so I said the mountain glen I'll meet at morning early. And I'll join the bold united men While soft winds shook the barley. 'Twas sad I kissed away her tears My fond arm round her flinging. When a foe, man's shot burst on our ears From out the wild woods ringing. A bullet pierced my true love's side In life's young spring so early. And on my breast in blood she died While soft winds shook the barley. But blood for blood without remorse I've ta'en at oulart hollow. I've lain my true love's clay like corpse Where I full soon must follow. Around her grave I've wandered drear Noon, night, and morning early. With breaking heart when e'er I hear The wind that shakes the barley. (back) OutsideThe storm clouds gathering, Moved silently along the dusty boulevard. Where flowers turning crane their fragile necks So they can in turn Reach up and kiss the sky. They are driven by a strange desire Unseen by the human eye Someone is calling. I remember when you held my hand In the park we would play when the circus came to town. Look! Over here. Outside The circus gathering Moved silently along the rainswept boulevard. The procession moved on the shouting is over The fabulous freaks are leaving town. They are driven by a strange desire Unseen by the human eye. The carnival is over. We sat and watched As the moon rose again For the very first time. (back) Tell Me About The Forest (you once called home) Farewell now my sisterUp ahead there lies your road And your conscience walks beside you It's the best friend you will ever know And the past is now your future It bears witness to your soul Make sure that the love you offer up Does not fall on barren soil. For the wind cries of late In the whispering grass. Our way of life is held In the spinning wheels of chance. I believe in the ways of an older law When we used to dance to a different drum And we are changing are ways Yes we are taking on different roads Tell me more about the forest That you once called home. For the wind cries of late In the whispering leaves And the sun will turn to waste The heavens we build above. Father teach your children To treat our mother well If we give her back her diamonds She will offer up her pearl. But I'm not bitter no I'm surviving To face the world, to raise the future. So why don't you tell me, come on and tell me About the world you left behind. Come on and tell me. (back) How Fortunate The Man With None You saw sagacious SolomonYou know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that gave birth to him And saw that everything was vain. How great and wise was Solomon. The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. It's wisdom that had brought him to this state. How fortunate the man with none. You saw courageous Caesar next You know what he became. They deified him in his life Then had him murdered just the same. And as they raised the fatal knife How loud he cried: you too my son! The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. It's courage that had brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none. You heard of honest Socrates The man who never lied: They weren't so grateful as you'd think Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the people's noble son. The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. It's honesty that brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none. Here you can see respectable folk Keeping to God's own laws. So far he hasn't taken heed. You who sit safe and warm indoors Help to relieve out bitter need. How virtuously we had begun. The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. It's fear of god that brought us to that state. How fortunate the man with none. (back) Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within I am stretched on your graveAnd will lie there forever With your hands held in mine I'd be sure we'd not sever My apple tree my brightness 'Tis time we were together For I smell of the earth And am stained by the weather When my family thinks That I'm safe in my bed From night until morning I am stretched at your head Calling out to the air With tears both hot and wild Oh I grieve for the girl That I loved as a child The priests and the friars Behold me in dread Because I still love you My love and you're dead I would still be your shelter From rain and from storm And with you in your cold grave I cannot sleep warm (back) Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall?Ever loved a man who made you feel small? If you were a sailor I'd raise the anchor To sail the sea In search of you and me And god Conjures currents to break our fragile boats And both the innocent and the damned Are swallowed up in his wake If you were a huntress I'd be your bow For your silver arrows To seek out his heart Ever loved a woman who made you feel tall? Ever loved a man who made you feel small? Who are you to complain For lack of understanding? We are all created equal In just one thing alone Alone in your thoughts that ??? you through your life They'll take you outwards to the dark edge of time And there's nothing more dangerous Than a man with nothing to lose Nothing to live for And nothing to prove (back) I need my conscience to keep watch over meTo protect me from myself So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head When I walk into the promised land We've been too long American dreaming And I think we've all lost the way Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark I'm in love with an American girl Though she's my best friend I love her surreptitious smile That hides the pain within her And we'll go dancing in the rings of laughter And live along by the shores ??? Yeah-ee, on the lea the rising wind blows Fay-hee, on the lea the rising wind blows How long how long? ??? in the grounds of ??? we've left behind Turned back by the foot of the doorway Never lost and found We've been too long American dreaming I think we've all lost the heart Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark Yeah-ee, on the lea the rising wind blows Fay-hee, on the lea the rising wind blows How long how long? (back) Oman From the body to the soulWhere our hearts lead we must go Wherever love may flow (back) Don't fade awayMy brown-eyed girl Come walk with me I'll fill your heart with joy And we'll dance through our isolation Seeking solace in the wisdom we bestow Turning thoughts to the here and everafter Consuming fears in our fiery halos Say what you mean Mean what you say I've heard that innocence Has led us all astray But don't let them make you and break you The world is filled with their broken empty dreams Silence is their only virtue Locked away inside their silent screams But for now Let us dance away This starry night Filled with the glow of fiery stars And with the dawn Our sun will rise Bringing a symphony of bird cries Don't bring me down now Let me stay here for awhile You know life's too short Let me bathe here in your smile I'm transcending The fall from the garden Goodnight (back) Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser We are the stars which singwe sing with our light; we are the birds of fire, we fly over the sky. Our light is a voice; we make a road for the spirit to pass over {algonquian indian} outò, ba mwen son ou,e, outò, ba mwen son ou,e, tanbouyè, o ba mwen son ou, solèy lève. outò, give me your sound, outò, give me your sound, drummer, give me your sound, the sun rises. {vodun invocation-haiti} (back) The river is deep and the road is long,daylight comes and I want to go home. Awoke this morning to find my people's tongues were tied and in my dreams they were given books to poison their minds. The river is deep and the mountain high, how long before the other side. We are their mortar, their building bricks and their clay. Their gold teeth mirror both our joys and our pain. The river is deep and the ocean wide, who will teach us how to read the signs. The earth is our mother she taught us to embrace the light, now the lord is master she suffers an eternal night. You blocked up my ears, you plucked out my eyes, you cut out my tongue, you fed me with lies, oh lord. (back) Brendan Perry - Eye Of The Hunter Farewell my child it's timeTo leave this all behind Exchanging the river for the sea Farewell to saturday's child Cut loose before his prime Set adrift in the city Speak to me now of isolation Feel your way home in the dark Here comes the old greay man Back bent before his time Tracing figures in the sand He has no more crosses to bear Sat upon his rocking chair Gazes out toward the sea Speak to me now of visions Seen through a looking glass mind Speak of your inhibitions You still have your mountain to climb (back) Father fatherCan you tell me Where the hours go Where time flows? It is written in the stars Upon the milky way That we must burn bright Before we fade away? Mother mother Can you tell me Where the fire goes When the flames cease? "From the ashes to the astral plain Where the setting sun meets the sea, Brendan" I live by the river Where the old gods still dream Of inner communion With the open sea Through the eye of the hunter In search of a prey Neither beast nor human In my philosophy If you don't recognise me Well it's simply because I've outgrown these old clothes Time to move on For you and I will outlive The masks life gave us When this shadowplay comes To a close (back) When all you have left are your memoriesAnd diamonds and pearls for company I'll be sailing to St. Lucia on the ocean breeze With the moon and my scars for company In your bedroom you keep an iron cage Where a blackbird sings her freedom song For you know the true value of keeping slaves They sing the saddest of songs Medusa you robbed me of my youth Abandoned me on the tropic of solitude Seducer of the shipwrecked and forlorn You told me to undress Then crowned my head with thorns Medusa you robbed me of my youth Abandoned me on the tropic of solitude Seducer of the shipwrecked and forlorn You told me to get dressed Then turned my heart to stone (back) Sometimes when I'm aloneI imagine that the world is a mirror And in minds eye behold my dark inner nature I've been waiting time on this time honoured whore 'Til I get so confused I can't see anymore And I have crawled where I should have seen the signs Dragging my feet when I could have been flying Sometimes when I'm sad I drink to the health of my torment And dance at the altar To the tune of a drunken black tango I've been waiting time on this time honoured whore 'Til I get so confused I can't see anymore Wastes my mouth trying to settle old scores Dragging my feet when I could have been flying Dragging my feet when I could have been flying Dragging my feet (back) Here I am believing words againHere I am trying to find your love again Here I am down on my knees again Praying for a love we used to know Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go Both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way But so few know what it means to fall in love And so few know how hard it is to live without it Lord I must have been blind Lord I must have been blind Lord I must have been blind Lord I must have been blind To hold something real and not believe it To live in her life and never trusting To give all you know and never feel it Hold back each day until it dies away Both of us know how hard it is to love and let it go Both of us know how hard it is to go on living that way But so few know what it means to fall in love And so few know how hard it is to live without it Lord I must have been blind Lord I must have been blind Lord I must have been blind (back) The old clock is ticking nowMarks the space between us Your memory enshrouds my heart For I am held a captive Sometimes my soul desires To take leave of this old world To spread these golden wings and fly To the city of angels But then if I close my eyes I can see you standing there Your face in permanence smiles Your lips a chalice Seems like I've loved you all my life Never thought I'd find you One day the muse may lend these words wings So I can touch you But hey! Don't worry if the feelings not strong for you I have lived my life in accordance To the windfalls of passion Though I know what it means To be loved and then forgotten I have seen too many men Driven insane by their distractions (back) Woke up this morningSet off down the road Left behind me all those years Searching for a common soul I've been looking for a thousand And one distractions To empty my mind Of thoughts of loneliness I've been looking for someone To take away my frustrations But all I find is a sea of emptiness Death will be my bride Death will be my bride Three hours from sundown I'm still on the road With those voices in my head Ringing down the years For the wind whispers my name And the leaves they lend a helping hand If I don't reach you by this time tomorrow I'll be stone cold dead in the ground Death will be my bride Death will be my bride (back) All love's lost childrenBehind us... forgotten Youth lies broken Upon the wheel of the machine Each time we kill their song Time feeds our memories We travel through past lives We are angels Part devil in disguise We sow the seeds of our own demise All love's lost children Inside us... forgotten You must open As the flower greets the sun To sing their praise with your song If you turn a blind eye To the needs of a child innner vision Then you might just find That the love you denied will desert you How long will we sing this song ? How long must we carry on ? You can break their will But they never ever will respect you If you abuse their bodies They will never come to love you How long will we sing this song ? How long must we carry on ? (back) |