Isobel Campbell Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

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There’s a certain ‘beauty and the beast’ quality to the greatest male/female singer/songwriter duos… Consider Jane Birkin, the well-heeled toast of 60s society, hooking up with Serge Gainsbourg, the filthy Gallic singer/songwriter’s ever-present gauze of Gauloise smoke irreversibly clouding her reputation. Or there’s Nancy Sinatra, the golden daughter of the Chairman Of The Board, whose career was rescued from its early doldrums thanks to the intervention of producer Lee Hazlewood, who injected a gravely, cynical tone that gave Nancy’s subsequent records a disquieting, idiosyncratic charm. And so it is with Ballad Of The Broken Seas, an album length collaboration between Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan.
There’s a similar sense of contrast, between Isobel’s aching, pristine chill of a vocal, and Lanegan’s wounded, regret-stewed burr. Their musical backpages could hardly be more different; Isobel found her initial fame playing cello and singing with deftly-melodic Glaswegian indie collective Belle & Sebastian, before branching off for the lushly-orchestrated melancholia of her Gentle Waves for two LPs, and releasing her debut solo album, the acclaimed Amorino, in 2003. Lanegan, on the other hand, sang for Screaming Trees, perhaps the greatest and most underrated of all the grunge bands, until their dissolution in 2000, since when he has juggled the solo career he began while still in the Trees, and a unique role as occasional frontman of Queens Of The Stoneage. The sweet, folksy girl and the grizzled rawk guy; a classic cocktail, perhaps, but the roles are inverted, in this case.

“It’s weird,” begins Isobel, “as much as Nancy Sinatra was an influence on this album, as an artist I identify much more with Lee Hazlewood, or with Serge Gainsbourg over Jane Birkin. I’m writing most of the songs, I’m producing the music,” she laughs, “I’m in the Serge/Lee role, and Mark Lanegan is my own personal Jane or Nancy, which is a thought that amuses me greatly! “I had things I wanted to say, from a male perspective, in these songs, and it’s good to have a male voice to sing them for me.”

And what a voice… In the songs that make up Ballad Of The Broken Seas, Lanegan sounds, by turns, haunted, shipwrecked, exultant, lost. Isobel, similarly, draws the drama out of these songs with poise and subtlety, singing cautious hope and damned hopelessness as the lyrics demand. Together, the voices complete each other, the songs dialogues as much as duets. The partnership began as Isobel was working on Time Is Just The Same, an EP she released shortly after Amorino, in 2004. The title track featured Eugene Kelly, formerly of The Vaselines and Captain America/Eugenius, on guest vocals, but Kelly’s voice was too high to sing his lines on ‘Why Does My Head Hurt So’, one of the EP’s other songs. Isobel’s boyfriend at the time played her one of Lanegan’s justly-lauded solo album, and Campbell knew she’d found the voice for the song.

After sending the song to Lanegan’s label, the singer contacted Campbell while he was working on his 2004 Mark Lanegan Band album, Bubblegum, singing the song down the phone to her on their first conversation. They finally met when Queens Of The Stone Age played Glasgow’s Barrowlands that Summer, and met again when he played Scotland with his Mark Lanegan Band a couple of months later. Speeding across Glasgow in the back of someone’s car, Lanegan suggested they record an album together. “And I thought, yeah, we should,” remembers Isobel. “If he hadn’t suggested it, I wouldn’t have taken the idea seriously. But he did. We began an email conversation, I’d send him ideas and he’d send some back. He was so encouraging, so it was easy. I just felt like I wanted to do something good.”

Isobel produced the album, and wrote most of the songs, except for "Revolver," for which Lanegan wrote the lyrics and melody and Isobel arranged the strings, and "It’s Hard To Kill A Bad Thing," which Isobel’s guitarist Jim McCulloch wrote. Mark and Isobel discussed Sinatra and Hazlewood, Birkin and Gainsbourg, but when it came time to write and record the music, Isobel was entirely besotted with the elemental soul of Johnny Cash’s American Recordings, specifically the Solitary Man and The Man Comes Around volumes. “I just became obsessed with those records,” Isobel remembers. “They sound so great, so natural and so strong. I remembered telling Mark, when we began, that I wanted to record something classic sounding and timeless. It helped, having such a unique voice to work with. I used those Johnny Cash CDs as reference while we were recording, to show the engineer what I was after. “Nancy and Lee’s Some Velvet Morning was a huge influence too,” she admits, “For the contrast of the voices, for that production - it’s like dustbowl Americana, but really weird and psychedelic.” The songs of Ballad Of The Broken Seas sprawl across this very canvas Isobel was imagining, songs of betrayal and loss, of a near-cinematic richness, an exquisitely detailed high drama in love with the romance of melancholy. “There’s an atmosphere of loss, of transience,” Isobel muses, “The melancholy we can all have, as humans. But it’s magnified, made larger than life, like some kind of Brothers Grimm fantasy, with added weirdness and heightened drama.” Dreamy, beautiful, with bitterness sluicing around its insides like the dregs of a bottle of wine, Ballad Of The Broken Seas is a remarkable record. Lend it your ear, and it will steal your heart.

Make it whole
Heart and soul
Heart and soul...

Make it whole
Heart and soul
Heart and soul...

Make it whole
Heart and soul
Heart and soul...

This is a story
That happened long ago
I never thought love would ever find me
Only infernal pain and woe
Weeping and wailing
"Saw gold and could not drink"
(from "Season In Hell", Rimbaud)
Somnambulance eased the sea of questions
A sea of trouble brings and then

The breeze whispered your name
Long enough to hear it
Trees whispered the same
What I must do is follow you

Into the water and all the way to sea
Little fishes and eels and frogs dive after
So careless and so free
Must I abide now
Against the glassy stream
To wake or to sleep, remain forever
The strangest lily seen

And then the breeze whispered your name
Long enough to hear it
Trees whispered the same
What I must do is follow you

Tell me how I play around
So you say "I don't want you"
Go and play your little game
But still I'm going to haunt you now
Wearing your guitar
Letting your soul cry
Look into my eyes

Every time you miss the point
Yet every time you scold me
Talking so self-righteously
About everything you showed me, boy
Wearing your guitar
Letting your soul cry
Look into my eyes

And still your spirit comes to me
You were the one for life
You brightened up the sun for me
Even through all the fights

And still your spirit comes to me
You were the one for life
You brightened up the sun for me
Even through all the fights

This is not about what we see
A silhouette or colour
This is not about gaining points
But loving one and other
Boy, say you're angry now
I wonder why
You've got then round your little finger
You say you're angry now
Though I wonder why
The pattern it was in full swing
Yeah yeah yeah

Say you're angry now
I wonder why
You've got then round your little finger

Have you ever wanted to look beyond clouds and the stars
Want to know what causes the trees to burn
And what changes the darkness into light
If you talk like this, people call you crazy
But if I could figure out just one of these things
What eternity is for example
I wouldn't care if they did call me crazy

So fine, so elegant
Fun with no money spent
Each minute of the day, boy
That’s why I’m asking you
What is a girl to do
To make you notice her too

Marching to a different beat
When we walk down the street
Other girls won't alarm us
They think we're the cat's pyjamas

That’s why I’m asking you
What is a girl to do
To make you notice her too

Johnny come home

Johnny, i'm alone and i'm feeling blue
Now you're grazing on pastures new
Cut the cord and we let it go
A nightingale flying, high and on its own
When you coming home?

Words came, violently filling up the room
Lovers have their own private mood
To taste the honey, we must taste blood
The poison nectar
And if we were on fire
Why we grow so tired?

Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba

Johnny, i'm alone and i'm feeling blue
Now you're lazing on pastures new
Lost my devil and lost my saint
Waiting's like dying...

If you are alone
Darling, come back home

Da-badaba-da-ba-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba
Da-badaba-da-da-da-badaba

And now you come to me
Offering a rainbow
And now you come to me
With love for tomorrow

But now we must be wise
We have both been burnt here
I'm looking in your eyes
Yet still there's much to learn

Yours is to question why
My best occupation
Is letting life pass me by
Loving is not my thing

And yet you persevere
You mean the world to me, boy
If we don't give this thing a try
We'll wonder why

Sure as the rainbow climbs
After clouds and thunder
Sure as the sunbeam shines on fear
Because you're near

And so I come to you
Offering a rainbow
I'm giving only you
My love for tomorrow

Love used to be a stranger to me
Love was so disappointing
I was waiting for a sign
I was looking for some company
So I took a walk outside
What a lucky day

I saw the devil waiting for me
He'd bullets and green paper
He'd been walking through the earth
Swinging to and fro and down in it (from" the Book of Job" 1.6)
As I turned to walk away
That's when I saw your face

Love, there is nothing better than this
Love, think of all the chances we miss
See the people walking by
With their mobile and computer eyes
If they'd just afford the time
There is no greater gold

Love, I don't think I'll see you again
It isn't easy you say we're friends
When you opened up your heart
Just enough to make me see again
When you stopped to take my hand
It was meant this way
It was meant this way

The sun the moon
And the stars too
Fall to my feet
When I'm with you
Wilderness fades
With dark decay
December's june
November's may
This land flows with milk
This land flows with milk

Across the sea
You say today

I'm in your town, you're in the states
Even still we'll lie awake
Two thousand and one
The year of snakes

This land flows with milk
This land flows with milk

The sun the moon
And the stars too
Fall to my feet
When I'm with you
Wilderness fades
With dark decay
December's june
November's may
This land flows with milk
This land flows with milk

Take your time
Take it real slow
It takes time
You know
Do unto
As you would do
To yourself
It's not new
What you reap
Is what you sew
Work it - stop!
Now go
There are those
Who will hurt you
And this just
Won't do
And there are those
Who'll bring you love
Sweet love
Listen up!
You will grow strong
Wish you luck
Sing-song
Stars that shine
One day maybe
Yours and mine
Baby

And there are those
Who'll bring you love
Sweet love

Time Is Just The Same

Just when I think I'm getting closer
Just when I think I understand
Here comes a chaos to surround us
Of all the years without a plan
And to the spaceship from the carthorse
We play along, it's in the game

This time is just the same

They say we're too young to be lazy
And you're not going anywhere
And though I know that you'll act crazy
That doesn't mean I never care
And when you're tired of chasing rainbows
Just look me up and say my name

This time is just the same

With the seasons and the rung
Love is never changing, only time

And I'm not getting any younger
It is still the month of may
And where I'm going days are longer
I'm going to make it there one day
And I am not the same as you are
So wish me luck upon my way

This time is just the same

It's just the same
It's just the same
It's such a shame
It's just the same
It's such a shame
It's just the same

Deus Ibi Est

Against my will to these sad shores
An unknown force has drawn me
Bound unto a future shaped by ancestors before me
Day on day I march the beat to someone else's drum
I have searched far foreign lands there's nowhere left to run

Impending storm rise up rise up
Oh demons I shall shame you!
Look down the barrel of my gun and one by one I'll name you
Day on day my brothers leave go marching off to war
Yet we never understand for what we're fighting for

Ubi caritas et amor
(Where there is tender care and love)
Ubi caritas
(Where there is tender care)
Deus ibi est
(God is present)

Worldly desires and worldly gains
Designed for worldly men
I'm a master of the heart with ears and hands to lend
Soldiers come and soldiers go some changed by love for thee
A circle in the chain of life all fighting to be free

Ubi caritas et amor
Ubi caritas
Deus ibi est

So come my lord and we shall dance
To God's own private drum
Sweet Jesus and the holy vine
The afterlife to come
Day on day I march the the beat to someone else's drum
I have searched far foreign lands there's nowhere left to run

Ubi caritas et amor
Ubi caritas
Deus ibi est

I met a man whom I'll never doubt
Flew into the sun, our bodies on fire
Betrothed to a mate, pray it is not so
Invoke father time, then he let her go

Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true

I know a dog much blacker than night
Who lives in a house where nothing is right
All sorrow and loving riches at bay
All watching a few to the ???

Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true

Some dream of coins or some beauty's find
But I want the truth while I serve my time
Most complex and pain, I'd share it with you
The moon looks bright, so come say I'll do

Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true
Lie true lie true lie true lie true

Where have you been, my darling
Where have you been, my friend
Where have you been, my darling
Where have you been, my friend

A crow flew past my window sill
Stole me away from you until
You change your heart or change your will
Aren't you darling

Where have you been, my darling
Where have you been, my friend
Where have you been, my darling
Where have you been, my friend

And all the while that you would burn
Your tongue was working overtime
Love foregone and life's so good
Aren't you darling

In my words I cherry picked
Something fought and died today
With all our words I care not say
I need you darling

Ballad of broken seas

I bring you a tale of the broken seas
And i'm drowning in whisky and beer
My doctor reports if i don't stop soon
I'll drown in an ocean of tears

I looked to you and saw my desire
Went from the frying pan into the fire
Surrendered to sorrow and was undone
Now i'm praying that it won't be long

We fucked up the sun into kingdom come
You are under my blood and my skin
Living life at each other's throats
In the gilded sailboat of sin

Ours was an ocean to swim around in
Ours was an ocean i should have drowned in
My doctor reports that we must be strong
But i'm praying that it won't be long

Revolver

I know what you do
I will soon catch you

Now after all
Don't it feel like nothing
Like walking away
Like a mouthful of rain
At twelve o'clock
A bell starts ringing
A dog starts barking
And you're still missing
Still missing something
You've never known what it was

And I'm not one for thinking twice
But I know this much is true
The earth will turn, the pot'll burn
And you are my revolver

Just waking up
Some dogs start barking
A bell starts ringing
And you're still missing
And after all
Don't it feel like nothing
Like walking away
Like a mouthful of rain
I'm holding on
'Cause you're my revolver
And i dreamed of an ending
And flying away

(Do you wanna) come walk with me

Little girl have i told you
How you light up my life
Come and lay down beside me
Come and thrill me tonight
Do you wanna?

I'm not saying i love you
I won't say i'll be true
There's a crimson bird flying
When i go down on you

I'm so weary and lonesome
And it's cold in the night
When the path to your doorway
Is a pathway of light

Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna come walk with me?
If you do baby say it now
Though we'll both wonder anyhow

Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna?

Little girl have i told you
You're my guiding north star
And my love travels with you
Wherever you are

From the mountains to the valley
Leave the light on for me
From virginia to alaska
From sea to shining sea

Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna come walk with me?
If you do baby say it now
Though we'll both wonder anyhow

Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna come walk with me?
Do you wanna?

Saturday's Gone

If you're kind for dusty highways and such
Be alright to look her up
The faded priestess of the highways and crutch
Calling when you’re down on luck
By the disused railroad road station you go
To the house of dirty pearl
Her existential situation you know
She is not like other girls

She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave

See the sapphire in the skylines so blue
See the diamond in the dirt
When you think the subject won’t turn to you
She got demons up her skirt
It isn’t sure of her reflection at all
Is seduced by all things past
A pleasure-seeker of dejection
Gazing into her looking glass

She may ask you what you believe
But the mirror doesn’t see me

Saturday's gone, saturday's gone
Saturday's gone, saturday's gone

She may ask you, “Do you believe?”
You can’t stay, though you’ll never leave

Saturday's gone, saturday's gone
Saturday's gone, saturday's gone

Now a sundown comes, a new day for her
Tired of dress and leave the ground
You'd be a fool to ask her to lift you up
Why go up when you go down?
If you should tire of ties that bind you
Filmed on fever leaves so fast
You got trouble far behind you
Well knows nothing's made to last

Hear how God sees a lion roar
Watch the serpent crossing the floor

Saturday's gone, saturday's gone...

*** Thanx a lot to Orangenish for this one ***

Honey child what can I do

Wishin', hopin', for that old familiar feeling
That takes you miles above, yeah it's called love
Would you do it for me
'Cause i'm feelin' lonely

Prayin', hopin', and i leave the door wide open
I see you and you catch your spill
But come and sit by me
'Cause i'm feelin' lonely

Maybe i'm a stupid fool
Chasin' butterflies like you
On these days they seem so cruel
But honey, child what can i do

Maybe i'm a stupid fool
Chasin' butterflies like you
On these days they seem so cruel
But honey, child what can I do

Honey, child what can I do

Dusty Wreath

Oh dusty wreath
Your loving was everything
Oh dusty wreath
Your loving was everything to me

The party's over now
So draw the curtains down
Your secret's safe to keep
Unzip your velvet gown
And let your hair hang loose
Kick off your satin shoes
Throw back the ida down
Farewell to Friday’s clown

The circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby, roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby, dry your eyes

Fix up something to heap
Still water still run deep
The dogs are barking now
Get back out on the street

The circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby, roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
So Ruby, dry your eyes

The party is over now
Stop howling at the moon
You need a different beat
You need a different tune

Remember that old song
We heard when we were young
Life was an empty page
The world would ride upon

Do you recall the meadow past
We sit and watch the hours pass
You were such a good girl then
Oh ruby dry your eyes

Circus is leaving town
Oh Ruby, roll your stockins down
Circus is leaving town
So Ruby, dry your eyes

You’re searching when you walk
You’re searching when you talk
You could make me believe
That the sun sets in the east
The sun sets in the east
The sun sets in the east

O love is teasing and love is pleasing
And love's a pleasure when first it is new
But as love grows older it still grows colder
And fades away like the morning dew

Come all you fair maids, now take a warning
Don't ever heed what a young man say
He's like a star on some foggy morning
You think he's near he's far away

I left my father, I left my mother
I left my brothers and sisters too.
I left my home and my fond relations,
Oh my young man, for the sake of you

O love is pleasing and love is teasing
And love's a pleasure when first it is new
But as love grows older, it soon grows colder
And fades away like the morning dew

( Paul Giovanni / Arranged Campbell )

Hey ho
Who is there
No one but me my dear
Please come
Say how do
The things I'll give to you,
A stroke as gentle as a feather

Hey ho
I am here
Am I not young and fair,
Please come
Say how do
The things I'll show to you
Would you have a wondrous sight
The midday sun at midnight

Fair maid
White and red
Comb you smooth and stroke your hair

My heart is yearning
My heart is yearning

Dreams are for knowing
Seeds are for sewing
Ebbing and flowing
While my love is growing
My heart is yearning

My heart is yearning
My heart is yearning

Dreams are for knowing
Seeds are for sewing
Ebbing and flowing
While my love is growing
Sure as an acorn grows from a seed
Father provide me with all that I seek
My heart is yearning

Dreams are for knowing
Seeds are for sewing
Ebbing and flowing
While my love is growing
Sure as a river flows from the sea
Father provide me with all that I see
My heart is yearning

And the mountain knows it is so
And the newborn knows it is so
And the old man knows it is so
And I always pray it is so
My heart is yearning

Hori Horo

( Traditional )

Hori horo, my bonnie young man
Hori horo, my rare one
And won't you come with me my love?
To me my own - my fair one

Smiling the land, smiling the sea
Sweet as a wind in the heather
Would we lay yonder, just you and me?
The two of us together

Hori horo, my bonnie young man
Hori horo, my rare one
And won't you come with me my love?
To be my own - my fair one

Reynardine

( Traditional / Arranged Campbell )

One evening as I rambled
Among the spring in time
I overheard a young woman
Converse with Reynardine

Her hair was black and her eyes were blue
Her lips as red as wine
And he smiled to gaze upon her
Did the sly, bold Reynardine

He said, "if by chance you should look for me
Perhaps you'll not me find
But i'll be in my castle
Inquire for Reynardine

Sun and dark she followed him
His eyes did brightly shine
And he led her over the mountain
Did the sly, bold Reynardine

Cachel Wood

There is a birch in Cachel Wood
The silverest I've seen
With mystery as a maiden's bed
With mystery as a dream
I dream to find my own true love
An everlasting fire
Imperishing when leaves decay
T'would be my heart's desire

Follow the burn to the sea
How my poor heart weeps for thee
Weeps for thee

Then nature sent my own true love
When apple blossom fell
He sang beneath the mighty oak
And courted me so well
He spoke the pleasures of the flesh
Of married life to come
I loved him then in Cachel Wood
T'was then I was undone

Follow the burn to the sea
How my poor heart weeps for thee
Weeps for thee
Follow the burn to the sea
How my poor heart weeps for thee

The berries on the rowan tree
With child and in full bloom
He proved to be a false young man
A most unworthy groom
A fish swims in the ocean deep
A bird lives in the sky
And fleetingly they intertwine
And fleetingly they sigh

Follow the bird to the sea
How my poor heart weeps for thee
Weeps for thee
Follow the bird to the sea
How my poor heart weeps for thee

Beggar, Wiseman or Thief

Early one day
On a Tuesday
Met a wolf king across a plain
And I kissed him
I caressed him
Will I see you again
I shall roam far across the land
If you shan't be my husband

Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman, or thief

So he led her
'Cross the river
To his kingdom
And back again
Played a fine lute
And as night fell
They returned to the plain
"Sweetest maid you are right for me
Though God wills me be free
Sweetest maid let a human beau
Gather roses for thee
To a wolf you cannot be wed
Choose a young man instead

Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman, or thief

No other I'll find
I'd rather be blind
Missed your eyes of robin egg blue
You have caused me
Much despair, Sir
Since I lay here with you
To a beggar I shan't be wed
Wisemen live in their head
Dearest wolf king
Thou art the thief
Who has loved me so brief

And as night fell
Some folks will tell
She crossed a river
Down by the plain
'Twas there the current
Held her under
Never to be seen again

On the plain sprang
A red rose tree
The wolf was never so free
Now he roams far across the land
Howling for his bride-to-be
He shall roam far across the land
For he shan't be a husband

Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman
Beggar, wiseman or thief

Loving Hannah

( Traditional / Arranged Campbell )

I rode to church on Sunday
My true love passed me by
I knew her mind was achanging
By the roving of her eye
By the roving of her eye
By the roving of her eye
I knew her mind was achanging
By the roving of her eye

My love's fair and proper
Her waist is neat and small
And she is quite good-looking
And that's the best of all
And that's the best of all
And that's the best of all
And she is quite good-looking
And that's the best of all

Oh, Hannah, loving Hannah
Come give to me your hand
You swore if ever you married
That I would be the one
That I would be the one
That I would be the one
You swore if ever you married
That I would be the one

I'll go down by the river
When everyone's asleep
I'll think of loving Hannah
And then sit down and weep
And then sit down and weep
And then sit down and weep
I'll think of loving Hannah
And then sit down and weep

I went to church on Sunday
My true love she passed me by
I knew her mind was achanging
By the roving of her eye
By the roving of her eye
By the roving of her eye
I knew her mind was achanging
By the roving of her eye

Are you going to leave me

( Traditional / Arranged Campbell )

Are you going to leave me, love
Are you going to leave me
Would you give up your own love true
To go with a girl you never knew

My true love stands in the bower door
Combing down his yellow hair
His bonnie face I like to see
I wonder if my love thinks of me

When I wore my apron low
Couldn't keep you from my door
But now my apron's to my shin
You pass me by and won't come in

I wish my baby - it was born
Smiling on his daddy's knee
And I a poor girl - dead and gone
And the green grass growing over me

Now there's a bird in your church yard
They say he's blind and cannot see
I wish it had been the same with me
Before I kept your company

I wish, I wish, but it's all in vain
I wish I was a maid again
But a maid again I will never be
Since that young man lay still with me

Are you going to leave me, love
Are you going to leave me
Would you give up your own love true
To go with a girl you never knew

Thursday's Child

Twenty-five years living in a fantasy
Twenty-five years, better choose reality
Took a trip searching in your house of fun
Couldn't go there with almost anyone

Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
No regrets
Thursday's child
Won't forget

Bought a ticket, waltzed on the ferris wheel
Take this longing and make it something real
Until then she will be a slave to trust
Before it's ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
No regrets
Thursday's child
Won't forget

Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
No regrets
Thursday's child
Won't forget

Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
Far to go
Thursday's child
No regrets
Thursday's child
Won't forget

Bird in the Wood

( Hidden Track )

High mass, wise ass
Bird in the wood
Equal measure:
Evil and good
????
????
See no footprints
When I take thy
Goodnight

Seafaring Song

I have travelled the world around
Wondered far from home
Sailed the ocean in foreign skies
Still further to go
Back into my babies arms
From this world of woe
That was such a long long time ago

Captain hollered the Cabin Boy
Stared into the sun
Shadows waltzing so close behind
Ever far I run
Back into my babies arms
Safe from this world of woe
That was such a long long time ago

Sirens capture my trembling heart
What's to be will be
Moon is hidden, the deal is done
Spread your wings for me
Back into my babies arms
Rising soft and low
That was such a long long time ago

The Raven

And in the dawning of the day in late September
There came a weeping from outside my chamber door
Weary from fever I rose up ??
A Raven with a broken wing yet nothing more

I turn my head the once and bird become a damsel
With lips of cherry, ivory skin and lustrous hair
Open the doorway wide and smile for her to enter
Not in my lifetime seen a beast so rare

Sweet thighs of ruin how I loved her, and I loved her
She muttered low and helped me to her infant breasts
Deliverance was long and strong as god's my witness
Babylon burning sorrow known with each caress

And let the night in
For you were broken
Too ill to touch
Too much

And with the medal Eguinal had done their duty
The morning glory lying awoke with duly low
I breathed my last the day the warning bell was knelling
She smoothed her feathers down and flew out my window

And let the night in
But you were broken
Too ill to touch
Too much

And let the night in
For you were broken
Too ill to touch
Too much

And let the night in
For you were broken
Too ill to touch
Too much

Salvation

Salvation, Salvation
I never really want it to believe
I always thought you flattered to deceive

Salvation, Salvation
My blood is flowing like the tide
And blood is thick and so's my own grey hide

Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
And I went out in that bad old world to roam
And I was like a stranger coming home

Salvation, Salvation
I'm fortunes son and I took what I could get
I loved you dear and never will forget

Salvation, Salvation
When my bridges burned all I saw was you
On the other side too good to be true

Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
Got to get up and moan
And I went out in that bad old world to roam
And I was like a stranger coming home
And I went out in that bad old world to roam
And I was like a stranger coming home

Who Built The Road

Who built the road
That left in my self esteem
Twisted and crunched
Black metal and bones

Who passed the buck
Who pressed flesh to yours
Spilling like wine
And sweeter than tears

(Oh, I'll do more than survive
With trembling visions that terrify)

So who built the road
Who turned it all around
Picked through the wreck
Scrambled in the dust

So who built the road
Who was the foolish one
Stepped out of time
Two hearts in the fire

Who lit the touch
Who fanned the flame
With sparks in the dust
Spent rivers of desire

(Oh, why don't we learn from mistakes
We stumble along with so many more to make)

So who built the road
Who could foresee
The answers we sought
Were many miles to go

We were so lonely at times
Fading away
Sitting side by side
Now we built the road
We were the chain gang
We crossed that at war
The devil at my side
Dark angel within
The ever lasting fire

Come On Over (Turn Me On)

Like a thief
Crawling through the night
Like a drunk
Brawling in a fight
How she gonna know what is
Right from wrong

Come on over, turn me on

Sunday best
You're my favourite suit
You make the team
You're no substitute
I know baby I'm your
Favourite son, listen up babe

Come on over, turn me on

Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
I lay awake all night
Is it any wonder
On a Sunday soon
I see the light

Tell me baby
Tell me pretty lies
See the spider
Been out catching flies
Will you leave me I know it
Won't be long before you

Come on over, turn me on

Is it any wonder
Is it any wonder
I lay awake all night
Is it any wonder
On a Sunday soon
I see the light

Like a blind man
Driving at the wheel
Like a hound dog
Scratching out a meal
You and I both know it
You belong

Come on over, turn me on

Back Burner

Back Burner
Back Burner
Back Burner…

Put it on a back burner momma
I ain't gonna let you down
Put it on a back burner momma
Promise you I'll stick around

Everybody up and sliding
Bump and grinding
I ain't gonna let you down
Promise you I'll stick around

Put it on a back burner momma
I ain't gonna let you down
Put it on a back burner momma
Promise you I'll stick around

Ain't gonna be back sliding
Up and out again
I ain't gonna let you down
Promise you I'll stick around

Everybody up and sliding
Bump and grinding
I ain't gonna let you down
Promise you I'll stick around

The Flame That Burns

The flame that burns
Flame that burns
The flame that burns
Flame that burns
The flame that burns
Flame that burns

???
Can't stop the tears when they fall from me

The flame that burns
Flame that burns

Beware my child
Beware
To take care my friend
Got to take care

You don't know who to love
Don't know who to trust
Might hurt so bad
But goes where it must

The flame that burns
Flame that burns

Repay we shall
We shall be free
The stars look down
Like dust

Have heart my child
Oh but you must

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( Billie holiday cover 'Left Alone' / ghost of yesterday EP )

Where's the love that's made to fill my heart
Where's the one from whom I'll never part
First they hurt me, then desert me
I'm left alone, all alone

There's no house that I can call my home
There's no place from which I'll never roam
Town or city, it's a pity
I'm left alone, all alone

Seek and find they always say
But up to now it's not that way
Maybe fate has let him pass me by
Or perhaps we'll meet before I die
Hearts will open, but until then
I'm left alone, all alone

Bang bang

( Nancy Sinatra Cover / Time Is Just The Same EP )

I was five and he was six
We rode on horses made of sticks
He wore black and I wore white
He would always win the fight

Bang bang
He shot me down, bang bang
I hit the ground, bang bang
That awful sound, bang bang
My baby shot me down

Seasons came and changed the time
When I grew up, I called him mine
He would always laugh and say
Remember when we used to play

Bang bang
I shot you down, bang bang
You hit the ground, bang bang
That awful sound, bang bang
I used to shoot you down

Music played and people sang
Just for me the church bells rang

Now he's gone I don't know why
'Till this day some times I cry
He didn't even say goodbye
He didn't take the time to lie

Bang bang
He shot me down, bang bang
I hit the ground , bang bang
That awful sound, bang bang
My baby shot me down

( Original title: Barbara Allen / O love is teasin' Exclusive Album )

It was in the merry, merry month of May
When the green buds, they were swelling
Young William green on his deathbed lay
For the love of Barbara Ellen

He sent his servant to her town
To the place where she was dwelling
Saying master's sick and he sends for you
If your name is Barbara Ellen

So slowly, slowly she got up
And slowly she came nigh him
And all she said when she got there
“Young man, I believe you're dying”

"Oh yes, I'm low, I am very low
And death is on me dwelling
No better, no better I ever will be
For I can't get Barbara Ellen"

"Oh yes, you're low, you are very low
And death is on you dwelling
No better, no better you ever will be
For you can't get Barbara Ellen"

Oh don't you remember in yonder's town
In yonder's town a drinking
You raised your glass all around
And you slighted Barbara Ellen

Oh yes, I remember in yonder's town
In yonder's town a drinking
I gave my health to the ladies all around
But my heart to Barbara Ellen

He turned his pale face to the wall
For death was on him dwelling
"Adieu, adieu, good neighbors all
Adieu sweet Barbara Ellen"

As she was going across the fields
She heard those death bells knelling
And every stroke the dead-bell gave
"Hard-hearted Barbara Ellen"

"Oh mother, Mother, make my bed
Go make it long and narrow
Young William's died for me today
And I'll die for him tomorrow"

Oh, she was laid in the old church wall
And he was buried nigh her
And out of his bosom grew a red, red rose
And out of hers a briar

They grew, they grew up the old church tower
Till they could grow no higher
They locked and they tied in a true lover's knot
The red rose around the briar

( Irish song / O love is teasin' Exclusive Album )

Oh black is the colour of my true love's hair
His face is softly, wonder's fair
The prettiest eyes and the neatest hands
I love the ground whereon he stands

I love my love and well he knows
I love the ground whereon he goes
You on earth, no more I see
I can't serve you as you have me

The winter's passed and the leaves are green
Time has passed that we have seen
But still I hope the time will come
When you and I shall be as one

I go to the Clyde for to mourn, to weep
For satisfied I never can sleep
I write to you in a few little lines
And suffer death ten thousand times

Oh black is the colour of my true love's hair
His face is soft, wonder's fair
The prettiest hopes and the neatest hands
I love the ground whereon he stands

She says nobody comes with a guarantee
And she's talking to you and she's talking to me
The night is long and you're so all alone
Follow the trail of scent if you roam
Where the men are fools and the girls so wise
Act your age, not your shoe size, not your shoe size

Turn left at the station and right past the bend
Wait for a signal softly and then climb the stairs to their final peak
Step inside, only talk is cheap
Under look and key, take a chance on me
Slowly make you feel fine
Kiss you where the sun don't shine
Kiss you where the sun don't shine
Kiss you where the sun don't shine

Masculine women and feminine men
You be the rooster and I'll be the hen
You be the rooster and I'll be the hen
Call me your lover, don't call me a friend

Don't want to be your mother
Don't want to be your little girl
In this man's world, man's world
A woman's world in a man's world
Got to stand on your feet, rise up to defeat
If you tell a lie, I'll spit on your eye
If you want to fight, going to show you right
We all pay a price with a spin of the dice
Nothing in this god-forsaken world is free
Let's go little boy, won't you come with me

Now we skip to the finest hour
Pink colours and sunshine and rhythms and flowers
No Jack cums with a guarantee
I'm talking to you and you're talking to me
The night plays tricks when you're all alone
The lights are on, but no one's home
I'm not ornamental, it's elemental
"If you cross the line, then you're out this time"
Initiate, initiate, dominate, dominate
Communicate, don't implicate
Didn't ask to be born, might as well get along
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong
Yet don't take fright at John's trombone song
Are you all alone

( Traditional / O love is teasin' Exclusive Album )

Oh, where are you going to, my pretty little dear
With your red rosie cheeks and your
"I'm going a milking, kind sir" she answered me
"For it's dabbling in the dew that makes the milkmaids fair"

Suppose I were to buy you, my pretty little dear,
A green silken gown and a ruby for your ear
"Oh no, kind sir, with that I don't agree
For it's dabbling in the dew that makes the milkmaids fair"

Suppose I were to buy you, my pretty little dear,
Lalalalala and a curly black hair
"Oh no, kind sir, with that I don't agree
For it's dabbling in the dew that makes the milkmaids fair"

Suppose I were to wet you, my pretty little dear,
With your red rosie cheeks and your coal black hair
"Oh, then I'd be a wag, kind sir", she answered me
"And it's dabbling in the dew that makes the milkmaids fair"

Further into the night

( Ramblin' Man 7" version )

Horses riding
Angels guiding
Secrets hiding
Souls colliding

Ghost of yesterday
Stalking 'round my room
All night long you stay
Walk around in profound gloom
When the darkness falls
When I've gone to bed
Weirdly come your calls
Mournfully, scornfully dead

Folly of a love I strangled
Pulsing heart I thought was gone
Gives no peace
Will not cease
Prowling 'round till dawn

Ghost of yesterday
Every night you're here
Whispering away
"Might have been, might have been, oh, my dear"
Foolish heart must pay
Ghost of yesterday
Yesterday

( The Everly Brothers Cover / Live )

Love hurts, love scars
Love wounds, and marks
Any heart, not tough
Or strong, enough
To take a lot of pain
Take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts
Oh love hurts

I’m young, I know
But even so
I know a thing, or two
I learned, from you
I really learned a lot
Really learned a lot
Love is like a flame
It burns you when it’s hot
Love hurts
Oh love hurts

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
They’re not foolin’ me

I know it isn’t true
I know it isn’t true
Love is just a lie,
Made to make you blue
Love hurts
Oh love hurts

Oh love hurts...

( Traditional / O love is teasin' Exclusive Album )

In Nottamun Town
Not a soul would look up
Not a soul would look up
Not a soul would look down
Not a soul would look up
Not a soul would look down
To show me the way to fair Nottamun Town

I rode a big horse that was called the grey mare
Grey mane and grey tail, green stripes down her back
Grey mane and grey tail, green stripes down her back
There ain't a hair on her be-what was coal black

She stood so still, she threw me to the dirt
She tored at my hide and bruised my shirt
From saddle to stirrup I mounted again
And on my ten toes I rode over the plain

So the King and the Queen
And the company of men
A-walking behind and riding before
Now a stark naked drummer
Come riding along
With his hands in his bosom
Always beating his drum

I bought me a quart to drive gladness away
And to stifle the dust, for it rained the whole day

Sat down on a hard, hot cold frozen stone
Ten thousand stood around me
Yet I was alone
Took my hat in my hand
For to keep my head warm
Ten thousand got drownded that never were born

( Snow Patrol feat. Isobel Campbell / Songs For Polarbears LP )

Is this on
Is this on
Is this on
Is this on

I am so too
I am so too
I am so too
I am so

Is this on
Is this on
Is this on
Is this on

I am so too
I am so too
I am so too
I am so

I could take you there
But I don't know how to get there
I could take you there
But I don't know where to go

I am so too
I am so too
I am so too
I am so

Is this on
Is this on
Is this on
Is this on

Is this on
Is this on
Is this on
Is this on

I am so too
I am so too
I am so too
I am so

I could take you there
But I don't know how to get there
I could take you there
But I don't know where to go
I could take you there
But I don't know how to get there
I could take you there
But I don't know where to go
I could take you there
But I don't know how to get there
I could take you there
But I don't know where to go

Please Don't Do It In Here

( Billie holiday cover 'Left Alone' / ghost of yesterday EP )

Take all the money
Steal all the clothes
Shoot off your pistol
Cause anything goes
Please don't do it in here

Break down the door
Chop up the floor
Kick out the ceilin'
And anything more
Please don't do it in here

Kick off the roof
Break out the panes
Smash in the walls
And bust out your brains
Please don't do it in here

Take all the money
Steal all the clothes
Shoot off your pistol
Cause anything goes
Please don't do it in here

Somebody's on my mind
Like an old sweet song
"The Lasting Time"
Somebody's on my mind
So I'm walking on clouds
On a silver line

To dream my dream
Could be my mistake
But I'd rather be wrong
And sleep right along than wake

Love may be blind I'll take a chance
That it cares this affair, my real romance
That's why you'll find somebody's on my mind

( Ramblin' Man EP / Traditional )

I went down to St. James Infirmary
I heard my baby groan
And I felt so broken hearted
She used to be my
Used to be my very own

And I tried so hard to keep from crying
My heart felt just like lead
She was all that I had to live for
I just can wish it
Can wish that it was me instead

Now she's gone
She's gone, may God bless her
Wherever she may be
She has searched the whole wide world over
She'll never find
Never find another man like me

Tell me more and more and then some
You know how I love that stuff
Whisper on from now 'til Doomsday
But I never will hear enough

The Beat Goes On

( Sonny and Cher cover / Not Alone Compilation )

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

And the beat goes on
And the beat goes on

Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
The grocery store's the supermart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score

And the beat goes on
And the beat goes on...

( Arab Strap feat. Isobel Campbell / The Week Never Starts Round Here LP )

Oh, she always used to be the same
She'd be loose with a straight dark facial frame
And now the things that used to turn me off, I find endearing
And they laugh behind the trees as she lies naked in the clearing

I adore her, but I ignore her
See, I know it won't last as I reflect upon my past
But on severance she made no difference
There's things I won't let her know, as we're perfecting our show
I want to own her - I think I'll phone her
I can't explore her if I ignore her

And now the things that used to turn me off, I find endearing
And they laugh behind the trees as she lies naked in the clearing

But she won't beckon - is what I reckon
She may adore me, but she'll ignore me
Put on a show there, we're getting nowhere
She helps my snoring, so it never gets boring
And she always used to be the same
She'd be loose with a straight dark facial frame

And now the things that used to turn me off, I find endearing
And they laugh behind the trees as she lies naked in the clearing

Who Needs You

If you ever need me
You know where to call me
If you ever need me
You know where to write me

But you never call me
No, you never write me

I need you
Who needs you

Take a pen and pencil
A handy letter ????
Or the telephone, dear
Why you want to find them

How much can it cost to you
Why then you can lost, dear

I need you
Who needs you

When I really want you
You just can't be found, dear
When I really need you
You know where around, dear
So all this prediction
Leads to one deduction

I need you
Who needs you

( Time Is Just The Same EP )

Baby, tell me why does it feel so bad
Tell me baby, why does my head hurt so
I wish I never knew why
I wish I never heard those voices calling me

It's been a long time wandering all around the city square
Picking up nothing but garbage in the dirty rain
I get so tired of trying
Sometimes my only wish is to be blind

Always the same playground
Swinging around and around
Always the same faces
Never an up or down

Baby, tell me why did I drift so far
Tell me baby, why do I fall so hard
I wish I never knew why
Sometimes I wish I were blind
Why does my head hurt so