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Falling Apple Sound
02:44
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Cows morning shadows
from here life is like toyland
hills behind closed eyes
slow love together
the open door is smiling
falling apple sound
wind snatching down leaves
rain on the saddest window
thoughtless I'm smiling
English rose walking
in camouflage the plain trees
a life ending day
darkness wind and rain
a heron in the stream still
as one men sit down
slow love together
the open door is smiling
falling apple sound
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2. |
Avondale
03:25
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Through the leaves go you and I
down by the river walking
it's come around just us again
once again we're walking here
wind and forest sing for us
wild music like a rolling sea
flying clouds and moonlight
once again we're walking here
Avondale
time goes leaves a ring on a tree
plough all those years
of lines on me
all our seed is come and gone
come and gone
once again we're walking through
Avondale
once again we're walking with you
Avondale
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3. |
The Silver Tassie
03:21
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Blessed by good fortune
where do I send my thank you to
kind father warm hearted mother
no beating in the schoolroom
a warm bed milk and honey
growing up on old farm land
that looks out over the sea
on this last day of heatwave
in shade with the smokers
outside the Silver Tassie
and the shiny poplar trees
and here I sit and sip my wine
sunlit fiftyseven
quick let's go
before the tarmac melts to my
wheels
and we push on
under the chesnut trees
where the streets run into the
fields
who do I send my thank you to
God or good fortune
well no conclusions
just cycle on home
and here I sit and sip my wine
sunlit fiftyseven
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4. |
Swallows and Farms
03:08
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Gaoler won't you
open up
and speak to me sometimes
through the bars
gaoler I need
a room with a view
of green hills and swallows and
farms
without you is doing time
without you is doing time
there's not much room here
in this cell
for dreaming
you locked me away
from your eyes
gaoler won't you
have a change of heart
and reach down those keys
for the lock
without you is doing time
without you is doing time
gaoler won't you
open up
and speak to me sometimes
through the bars
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5. |
Bon Voyage
04:24
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Old river how do you like this
high tide
there's a big ship turning on
the river
slips it's moorings and barely
moving
barely moving
wherever you're bound
I wish you bon voyage
bon voyage
live cargo propellers churning
ropes are in and the bows are
turning
diesel burning
me I'll stay here
by this window in the welding
flashes
and the rusting shipping
rusting away
wherever you're bound
I wish you bon voyage
bon voyage
and you're smoke goes before you
wherever you're bound
and your smoke goes before you
old river how do you like this
high tide
these old steamers no longer
useful
return to grace beneath your
surface
beneath your surface
wherever you're bound
I wish you bon voyage
bon voyage
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6. |
Philadelphus
04:32
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Long summer evenings
moths and the flowers
black dog in shadows
the silence falling on my head
and in this garden
and everything becoming one
until the insect
on my fingernail not thinking
the scent of philadelphus
hangs on the corner
the scent of philadelphus
falls timeless
darkness hides borders
leaf and vine intertwine
short life we cling to
grace fills the flowers closing up
after
the bees have come and gone
and in what dreams
to the oakleaf sweat they feed on
the scent of philadelphus
hangs on the corner
the scent of philadelphus
falls timeless
and everything is reaching
for the sun and the showers
lusting for the light
and the seeds drink in the rain
and the pollen wanders on
through the night
the scent of philadelphus
hangs on the corner
the scent of philadelphus
falls timeless
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7. |
Too Late
04:26
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Lost love of mine
dancing on the rain
corning through the clouds
on a silver plane
I've been waiting so long
I turn to blue
I fool myself with dreams
that won't come true
all the shallow romance I've been
through
all the self delusion I've been through
oh and you come back,
and you come back
too late, too late
I was doing fine
looking forward in time
knowing that is not a clever way to
climb
now everything's changed
the bells won't ring
the ropes are twisted
and the birds don't sing
fallen smashed to pieces brittle wings
oh and you come back,
and you come back
too late, too late
lost love of mine
dancing on the rain
corning through the clouds
on a silver plane
I've been waiting so long
I turn to blue
i fool myself with dreams
that won't come true
I fool myself.
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8. |
You In Yellow
02:41
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The raven is rising
and saying goodbye
to his lover on the island
and higher in spirals
and over the sea
on the heat from the island
the sailboats are racing
all over the bay
right to the horizon
and you in yellow
and the gorse in flower
and my arm is your pillow
and the gorse in flower
and the love that I feel now
could fill all those sails
and blow them on for ever
but the tide is so strong here
that the waves cannot stay
to play on the island
and you in yellow
and the gorse in flower
and my arm is your pillow
and the gorse in flower
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9. |
Sleep
03:58
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Sleep little baby
sleep pretty baby
let me rock you In the sunset
let me rock you In the sunset
go to sleep pretty one
to dreamland you will come
just your tiny fingers moving
just your tiny fingers moving
you don't know anything of pain
you just laugh in the rain
someday you'll be shining
and someday you'll be smiling
in your big man's shoes
in your big man's shoes
and I'll be with you
when the stars appear
and the moonlight
on your face so dear
till you wake up in the morning
the wonder of the morning
you don't know anything of pain
you just laugh in the rain
you're a new world
you change everything
my winter wasteland
you turn to spring
so fragile on my shoulder
dreaming on my shoulder
you don t know anything of pain
you just laugh in the rain
just your tiny fingers moving
sleep little baby
sleep pretty one
let me rock you in the sunset
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10. |
Cold Light
04:03
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Its been raining here
for three weeks now
and songs go down the drain
and cars go by
and their bow waves
leave you dripping cursing dumb
and going home I'm listening to
the silence of birds
and I'm caught in a cold light
by the moon
the trees are tired
of giving shelter
and they're leaking leaning down
the cattle standing in the ditch
their heat is rising steam
and somewhere up there I can hear
that lost homing plane
and I'm caught in a cold place
by the moon
the sea has lost
her sense of humour
and the icecap is undone
the sun can't find
its way through clouds
and the frost it rules supreme
and all the men of science do
is to prove each other wrong
and I m caught in at cold light
by the moon
and I'm caught in a cold place
by the moon
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11. |
Comes Calling
03:04
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Love comes calling every day
but it doesen't knock very loud
did'nt want to wake you
from your dreams
wind blows the curtains in
sun shines on the wall
and everything is older than before
and everything is older than before
and it's all reborn
but it's older than before
butterflies have been around
before the mountains and the towns
black eyes on wings
to keep me away
corn falls before the blade
dust rises from the wheels
I'm thinking that it's all gone round again
again
and everything is older than before
and it all comes round
but it's older than before
love comes calling every day
but doesn't knock very loud
did'nt want to wake you
from your dreams
and everything is older than before
and it's all reborn
but it's older than before
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Sonny Condell Dublin, Ireland
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