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Overture (A beginning)
08:15
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Promises
09:15
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Promises
When you’re sitting on your own in the universe
The pain of being slips away
You wonder who you really are and where you’re going
About the things you do and say
I make promises to myself
I break promises to myself
I make promises to you
I break promises to you
I make promises to myself
I make promises to you
I break promises to myself
I break promises to you
I make promises to myself
I break promises to you
You find you are a child again, you ride the days like flotsam
There’s nothing you can call your own
You observe the world and you bear witness
You think you’re learning right from wrong
Gradually you take control, test your power
You take the punches, learn to roll
And it gets harder to hear above the clamour
Your sense of self lost in the crowd
(Promises …)
The wolves are hunting me – I have to face the fear
The wolves are hunting me – I have to face the fear
I don’t want to be like this – I don’t want to live like this
The wolves are mine – I have to face the fear
I don’t want to be like this – I don’t want to live like this
I don’t want to be like this – I don’t want to live this way
You want to know what life is, you want to live it
Facing it and facing all your fears
You want to know what love is, you want to give it
But the many wounds you suffer cannot heal
All your masquerades, your wiles and guiles
Your sly advances
All your excuses breaking down
And everything you think you have, all you fought for
You have to ask, is any of it real … ?
(Promises …)
Break the carapace, break the mould
Let it go, loosen your hold
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The Spaces In Between
08:10
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Mother and Child
05:51
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Mother and Child
"Death’s kisses are indelible, like love" (Wendy Ruthroff)
Yesterday the sunlight sparkled in her hair
Death’s kisses are indelible, like love
The sunlight sparkled in her hair
I sleep and wake and sleep again, in a maze of dreaming
I sleep and wake and sleep again, in a maze of dreaming
We drove down to see the Hepworths – The Mother and the Child
I was sure that I saw Wendy there – The Mother and the Child
And the places where we lost ourselves – The Mother and the Child
I picked up the needle and followed the thread to my heart
- The Mother and the Child
“The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable
knowledge accessible to man.” (Tolstoy)
“But what a woman desires, she can imagine into life. She can birth.” (Hepburn)
From the desperation of the act can come a resurrection,
a cycle, a birth of a form.
From the devastation of the act can come a resurrection,
a cycle, the birth of a song.
We’re searching for redemption and love
amongst the ruins of the ones we have lost
The weight of our existence falls
on our descendants, to their cost
We struggle, run, we fight and scream in a maze of Dreaming
Until we learn to dream the Dream, it’s a maze of our own making
Till we awaken
You never were rejected – The Mother and the Child
There was nothing more expected of – The Mother and the Child
But the bond of love protecting us – The Mother and the Child
As we go with the cycle of living, decaying and giving back to Life
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Moon
06:08
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Moon
Kneeling on my pillow at the bedroom window
I used to gaze at the moon, through my Dad’s old binoculars
I brought her into the room.
I’m not sure when it all began, but I was in your arms
You held me close and told me the tale
of the man in the moon.
The man in the moon
The man in the moon
Then I left and your eyes began to cloud
but the moon watched over us
She watched over you
and drew us back together again, when we were apolune
We come back into orbit and then, “I copy you”
Feel the pulling of tide and time, dancing like molecules
Yesterday could be aeons ago, when I kneel in the dark
You are the man in my heart
You are my man in the moon
My man in the moon
Man in the moon
In the void the stars implode and fold into themselves
drawing everything into the dark
I can feel my molecules vibrate and come apart
and a lifetime spilling from my heart
Kneeling on my pillow at the bedroom window
I still gaze at the moon, through my Dad’s old binoculars
I bring him into the room
It’s my way of remembering when I was in your arms
I was in your arms,
gazing up at the moon
The moon
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False Flags (An ending?)
12:11
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False Flags
I’ve been told I have an honest face
and my features are plain and commonplace
I’m an ideal choice to fit in anywhere
just your average guy … Who me? A spy … ?
I’ll infiltrate any organisation
I’ll even perpetrate an act of war
and attribute it to an enemy nation
in an act of intentional misrepresentation
It’s just a false flag operation
We’re all hiding behind deceitful masks
to carry out a strategy of tension
instilling fear into the population
The goal is chaos and confusion
The media channels all broadcast blame
Fanning the flame of paranoia
Domestic oppression, foreign military aggression
We have to shout above the rabble
We have to make our hearts ignite
a chain reaction of rebellion
Hold up a torch – some kind of guiding light
How could we let it get so far?
We’ve seen enough blood and so-called Holy Wars
Humanity hell-bent on winning at all costs
We’re shooting ourselves! We’re shooting ourselves!
Tear off the masks! Tear off the masks!
Tear down the flags! Tear down the flags!
Everyone is a conspiracy theorist
Feeding off a climate of fear
The new evangelicals peddle their terror
Political aims behind the slick veneer
Power and control from chaos and confusion
The demagogues mobilise mass compliance
Their policies strangling opposition
under false flags of truce and reconciliation
Hacktivist agents with AI for hire
make manifest fears and then fuel the desire
for stronger security, government clamp downs
The pacifists blamed, their houses are burned down
How do we cut through this tangle of lies
and halt the aggression – offense as defence
the knee-jerk reaction we have under threat
If we’re all under siege then we have to ask Why?
Tear off the masks! Tear off the masks!
Tear down the flags! Tear down the flags!
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7. |
Earthsong
04:04
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Earthsong
I am of the world
all the life around me
every creature on earth
in the air and the sea
All I hold in my heart
woven in DNA
double helix of giving
and taking away
We are the miracle
the spark and the flow
A universe within us all
newborn and old
the aeons unfold
Oh, I love you
Oh my love
My love
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Not for Pussies Perth, UK
Not for Pussies came into being in 2008, although Brian and Janette Kidd have been together - and playing music together
(and with others) for much, much longer.
We felt we're into an era in our lives where Bette Davis' quote about getting older (it's "not for pussies") felt very apt - and our music reflects this - and the experience of having lived a little! ...
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