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Steady The Bow
03:35
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Get ready to go
Get ready
Then steady the bow
Stay steady
Wake up it’s the morning
Good fortune may come calling
Lace up your shoes dear
They’ll be knocking on your door by the new year
We’re all growing older
We’ll never see this day again
It’s all over your shoulder
You can’t change what happened then
So get ready to go
Get ready
Then steady the bow
Stay steady
For the dark will descend again and again
You know the dark will descend again and again
Step out into the daylight
See the road stretch far beyond your sight
To places you have never been
Beyond your wildest dream
We’re all growing older
We’ll never see this day again
It’s all over your shoulder
You can’t change what happened then
So get ready to go
Get ready
Then steady the bow
Stay steady
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2. |
The Journey
02:55
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The train swaying gently
Lulls like the womb
that rocked me to sleep
Way back in the deep
Before I could speak
The carriage takes me
Further than I have ever been
Under a changing sky
The journey rushing by
There is a sound pulsing like a heart
And there is a rattling
As if something is coming apart
And there is a shaking and a stuttering and a muttering
The sky is darkening
We are nearing our destination
Approaching the station
I alight
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The Severed Head
02:59
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Can you see the bag I’m carrying around with me
It has a severed head inside and it’s so heavy
I’m looking for a place to bury it, to bury it
Where no-one will ever find it, they’ll never find it
I’ll dig a hole in the soil, the soil
Oh the toil, the toil
I’ll dig a hole in the soil, the soil
Oh the toil, the toil
But I can never dig a hole far enough down
I fear the shallow grave will one day be found
Someone will come along and dig it up again
And I will have to face the severed head my old friend
So I will make a fire, a fire
Oh I tire, I tire
I will make a fire, a fire
Oh I tire, I tire
In the field where I stand
Make a fire with my hands
It will leave a mark on the land
Like a bruise on the face of a woman
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Alison
03:16
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The sun rises for a new day
Radios in cars play
The city makes the usual sounds
Normal life going round
Alison I’ve been away
I came back home today
I’d like to see you sometime
I could go to yours
Or you could come to mine
Here in this quiet afternoon
Spinning in an unchanging room
The reflection holds truths to reveal
And when you see me then I will be real
Alison I’ve been away
I came back home today
I’d like to see you sometime
I could go to yours
Or you could come to mine
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Golden Fox
02:48
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Golden fox in the garden oh
Don’t be afraid oh don’t you go
Your wildness holds the mystery
And I just want to be free
I watch you as you are curled asleep
You are unaware of me
This life’s a long and misty dream
And I just want to be free
Suddenly your eyes open
And you see me
Suddenly your eyes open
And you freeze
Then you run away
Golden fox in the garden oh
Don’t be afraid oh don’t you go
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Clearing
03:20
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When the fog cleared
I saw the colour of the sky
Clear blue forever held me
Like a mother carrying me through
Over sea and land
I’ve travelled all these days
And the sight of the mountain steadied me
Like a father who knows just what to do
A moment in time
Cycling by
The sun dance on the river was golden
Like a daughter innocent and new
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This is the Road
03:47
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I hide your name
The sound contained
I hear a hum
There is no other way
This is the road
I can carry the pain
Now I know
There is no other way
For your name is part of me
There is no other way
This is the road
And this is freedom
The road goes on and on
Past the cycle of thought
The traps where I am caught
To where the world is bright
Beyond the fight
Through the eyes of the witness
I find forgiveness
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8. |
Lost Balloon
02:56
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Stolen by the wind
I’m flying
I see my home below and my loved ones
And I didn’t want to go
When I come down to land
With them I will stand
But I’m so far away
Like a fading thought from yesterday
Rising higher
Rising higher
Rising higher
And now I’m so high
Like a lost balloon
That once belonged to a child
Now I’m so high
like a lost balloon
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Pieces of Me
03:17
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Like a stone shaped by rolling waves
I have been shaped by all my days
All those pieces of me
All washed out to sea
Like the sand thrown by a hurricane
I have been thrown by your disdain
All those pieces of me
Just thrown out to sea
Pieces of me
Just when I think
There is nothing left to feel
Another layer is revealed
Raw and real
Another layer is revealed
Raw and real
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The Caretaker
03:42
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I will never go
I will never go back
Eyes on the road
Keep on the right track
A faded photograph
Of us in the ruin
A smiling face
Always in trouble
Looking for love
Got to find love
I will never go
I will never go back
Eyes on the road
Keep on the right track
There was a fire in our home
And no-one could find the caretaker
Now there is a riddle in our lives
And no-one can find the codebreaker
No-one could find the caretaker
No-one could find the caretaker
A hazy memory
Of us in the snow in Glasgow
On a plastic sledge speeding downhill
Steering round trees through the big freeze
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Antidote
03:41
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Your ghost goes right through me
On the highway home
True you never knew
I walk the streets of stone
The void surrounds me
On the way home
Your absence dumbfounds me
I feel so alone
But the green pushes up
Through the gaps in the concrete
The green pushes up
Through the cracks in the stone
And my fate is not sealed
I am protected by a shield
I wear my hope like a coat
And this is my antidote
No need to be afraid
I see it’s different now
No need to fly away
I’m here it’s different now
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Amy Duncan Glasgow, UK
"The Scottish multi-instrumentalist's eighth album sits between Cocteau Twins and the Blue Nile, its broad cinematic sweep, folktronic textures, crystalline vocals and lyrics imbued with introspection and memory-lane inventory-taking yielding moments of breathtaking beauty." Dan Cairns, The Sunday Times ... more
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