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astronauts
05:34
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Somewhere out there in the darkness
Somewhere out in fields of green and blue
Somewhere out there on the radio waves
You'll be coming through
I wish I could see an ocean
Through all this hazy gloom
I wish my hand held a magic wand
I'd wave it at you
If you're out there in the wind and rain
If you're out there with no shoes
If you can't get through on the telephone
I'll say a prayer for you
I wish I could see an ocean
I'd sit and think of all the things that I'd do
Listen for the comfort of the breaking waves
Try to catch the sound of you
If we could see the earth from above
We'd see it's fragile too
We could be lonely astronauts
Delicately balanced and bruised
We're fragile too
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2. |
that radio song
04:24
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I was born in the north of England 1965
The Hollies were at number one, singing I'm alive
Elvis had freed their bodies, Dylan freed their minds
That music on the radio shaped my life
Radio was playing all day long
Radio was playing protest songs
Radio was playing....like a rolling stone
Like a rolling stone at twelve years old,
nothin else mattered at all
With paper round money to the record store,
music papers filling up my walls
Johnny's on the TV, Elvis died alone
In seventy-seven music became my home
But Radio was playing David Soul
Radio was playing Disco
Radio weren't playing...The Sex Pistols
Radio was playing "Daddy Cool"
Radio was playing "Moody Blue"
Radio weren't playing "No future, No future for you"
No future well that's how it seemed,
When I left school with no idea
Only youth opportunities
Was dreaming through my record sleeves
Radio in the corner playing - nothing I'd believe
Eight long years trapped in the mainstream
Radio was playing all day long
Radio was playing "The chicken song"
Radio was playing Jason Donovan
Radio was playing f**kin' Bros
Radio was playing New kids on the block
Radio was playing "I should be so lucky lucky lucky in love"
That radio doesn't play no more,
No force feeding on the factory floor
Those same sad songs I'd heard before
Have disappeared with that old rapport
Only sound I wanna hear, that guitar on the wall
No radio stations I'm trying to ignore
My Radio is playing "Seven Days"
Radio is playing "Things have Changed"
Radio is playing "Bigmouth strikes again"
Radio is playing "northern sky"
Radio is playing "pale blue eyes"
Radio is playing "the biggest lie"
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3. |
satellites
05:07
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You said you've made another plan
You're getting out while you can
You don't need a pilot anymore
You're saying it'll be alright
We'll keep in touch by satellites
I won't seek a silence like before
You're somewhere out of sight
With you're lights all shining bright
We're something you and I chose to ignore
I always thought
That love conquered all
But now I fear a storm
Behind your walls
You're always in another place
You're running tryin to catch your fate
I can't keep behind you anymore
You switch me off and on again
Until I pull my head out of the sand
And I can see the future like before
You're somewhere out of sight
Underneath that same moonlight
Where we caught each others eye
Some time ago
I always thought
That love conquered all
But now I fear a storm
Behind your walls
I was always taught
That love conquers all
But now I fear a storm
Behind your walls
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4. |
devil's lullaby
08:40
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(never gonna say what you're gonna do,
never gonna do what you're gonna say)
I thought I could take you for a ride
I was wrong I guess, you'll have to decide
Everything is green again this year
Everything is green again this year
Everything is green...........this year
(never gonna say what you're gonna do,
never gonna do what you're gonna say)
Saw you in the mirror, looking at my face
Now we're both in trouble with the night's embrace
Everything is green again this year
Everything is green again this year
Everything is dreams........this year
(never gonna say what you're gonna do,
never gonna do what you're gonna say)
The sun will rise before the tide
Takes away the shadows I've slept inside
The sun will rise before the tide
There's every chance I will survive
They're only dreams in disguise
It's the Devil's Lullaby
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5. |
the light of love
06:08
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If there's a part of me that's missing
It's a part of you I find, so divine
Got a heart full of forgiveness
I wish that were mine, all the time
When the scales shift over to one side
And all the hope I have is cruelly denied
You reset the balance.... in my mind
And you'll know where to find me tonight
I'll be counting up my lucky stars, wondering why
The road is often hidden from our eyes
It's the heart that leads us naked to the light
If there's a part of you that's missing
It's a part you left behind, I can't define
And I know your heart was broken
I've seen it in your eyes, many times
When the scales shift over to one side
The balance changes, people can be unkind
I can help you, with my Healing light
......the light of love
And you'll know where to find me tonight
I'll be counting up my lucky stars, in your smile
And I'll only have to be here for a while
Until I'm stepping from the shadows to the light
......the light of love
And you'll know where to find us tonight
Counting up our lucky stars, wondering why
We can more or less begin to deny
The chance to step from shadow to light
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6. |
like wild horses
06:04
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Out there on the mountain line
Where I'll forever ride
I think of you and how we tried
To build a bridge to be denied
And all my days
They run away like wild horses
Several years from today
I took my chances in your reign
But were there chances anyway?
Now the silence shall remain
And all my days
They run away like wild horses
Like wild horses
And all my days
They run away like wild horses
Out there on the mountain line
Where I'll forever ride
I think of truth and how we tried
To wake the sleeping dogs that lie
And all my days
They run away like wild horses
Like wild horses
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7. |
cry crocodile
04:28
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I should have waited around
To catch your falling crown
How could I be the one
To bait your smoking tongue?
Cry Crocodile
You couldn't let it slide
Held back by your swollen pride
How did I engineer
The sting of your guilty tears?
Cry Crocodile
Listen, I'm telling you nothin you can't believe
Listen, I'm asking what is it you're tryin to achieve?
Dismissing my pleas with your deeds designed to deceive
Your teeth are so sharp that you're causing my poor heart to bleed
Cry Crocodile
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8. |
one way conversation
05:54
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When you get tired
Of one-way conversation When you get tired
Of all those little things
You never even asked for
'Cause you've stolen everything
There's a vacancy
For you and me
There's a kind of mercy
Everybody knows
But I can't catch every falling leaf
As the rumours grow
And if the reason that you came to be
Is the very reason I'm afraid to leave
And every reason feels the same to me
Although these hands may tremble
This heart is gentle
And it sees through every word
In this one-way conversation
That's trying to be heard
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9. |
mountain line
05:09
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High above the houses
Across the mountain line
Speeding like a bullet
On the edge of time
No one ever sees him
No one knows He's there
He's dancing on his wings.....
Without a care
Did you ever notice
A beauty in the trees?
Their whispers in the morning
balanced on the breeze
it's as if nobody hears them
They just let it be
I sense in every moment
How close you are to me....
On your wings and free....
There's places that remind me
They hold me in your spell
When I look outside your window
I find it hard to dwell
In those stolen moments
They always seem to come
It's all there ever is
said and done...
Nowhere left to run....
High above the houses
Across the mountain line
Speeding like a bullet
On the edge of time
And no one ever sees him
But I know he's there
He's dancing on his wings...
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10. |
patiens mortem
07:01
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Seventeen years old learning a trade for gold
When I found out how to lie
Amongst the hammer blows in a basement cold
I listened as they tried
To convince themselves that from this hell
They surely would escape
But all the while I drily smiled
Consigned to my fate
Ian was old at thirty eight
That much I knew
And at the end of his working day
To a drinking hole he flew
He would go and his words would flow
But they'd never be the truth
It was all just whisky talk
He had nobody fooled
Seventeen years old learning a trade for gold
And Ian was there to teach
His face it glowed with cigarettes he rolled
A slight slur in his speech
He'd tell me of his glory days
And all his friends back home
I had no reason to disbelieve him
I was naive and young
Tender and green at seventeen
I met a girl who knew
How to play, the way the cards were laid
I didn't have a clue
What she took from me, you cannot view
Thru' careless lines an' tell tale signs
I've learned to see the truth
So if you're going to lie to me
That's your choice
If I don't see it in your eyes
I'll hear it in your voice
You can tell me all I want to hear
You can tell me 'til you cry
Go on tell me some more
About your slow suicide
Go on tell me some more
About your slow suicide
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Neil Barraclough England, UK
Neil was fascinated with the recording process from an early age and has been writing songs for almost 30 years. His varied styles of songwriting are tied together by an undercurrent of melancholia and unflinching honesty in his lyrics. Other big influences have been other self producers, Elliott Smith, Mark Linkous and Mark Kozelek. ... more
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