1. |
I Want
03:29
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I Want
Oh the world is full of shiny stuff
And I can never get enough
It’s not the only trouble that joy fades
When I have thrown the box away
And I want and I want and I want
And I want and I want
And I want and I want and I want
And I want but I…
I can’t buy a clean sky
Dripping its dawn light
A sea singing with life
A spinning autumn leaf
The breath of an oak tree
The first flower you picked me
The turn of a bird’s wing
Banking on the breeze
Do we have a program deep inside
Says if we claim it we’ll survive?
Well I’m gonna’ have to rise above it
Cause my mammal life depends upon it.
And I want and I want and I want
And I want and I want
And I want and I want and I want
And I want but I…
I can’t buy a clean sky
Dripping its dawn light
A sea singing with life
A spinning autumn leaf
The breath of an oak tree
The first flower you picked me
The turn of a bird’s wing
Banking on the breeze
What once we knew
Gathered around the fire x3
Oh the world is full of shiny stuff
And I can never get enough
It’s not the only trouble that joy fades
When I have thrown the box away
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2. |
Earthling
03:30
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But I promise now, as long as I stand
There’s fire in my blood, no sword in my hand
And a piece of my soul stitched into this land
Gonna fight for my home just as long as I can
I’m not exactly known for sticking power
It’s hard to burn so long so bright a fire
Always moving on
To another song
Making something perfect takes too long
Girl you lift the lid so I can see the stars
The cruel, the beautiful I know they’re ours
Closer to my home
Staring at the sky
Falling through its endlessness, boy you and I
But I promise now, as long as I stand
There’s fire in my blood, no sword in my hand
And a piece of my soul stitched into this land
Gonna fight for my home just as long as I can
You’re always telling me I’m such as a dreamer
I’d love to show you round, it’s fun in here.
But I am of the earth
And earth is all I am
Now I’m gonna have to be the best earthling I can.
But I promise now, as long as I stand
There’s fire in my blood, no sword in my hand
And a piece of my soul stitched into this land
Gonna fight for my home just as long as I can
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3. |
January Rain
04:23
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Caught between the amber
Of the slow rising sun
The quiet ocean floor
And the tangled roots that run
Beneath a thousand forests
She knows a thousand names
And you can hear them spoken
In the January rain
For I am only here
By the grace of her smile
Find love within
Where she walks
She walks
Breath out breath in
Where she walks
She walks
We are the joy that whispers
In the folds of dress that flow
Across the frozen landscape
All the places we don’t know
We are the broken canvas
That a thousand tears frame
but she will cry them with us
In the January rain
For I am only here
By the grace of her smile
Find love within
Where she walks
She walks
Breath out breath in
Where she walks
She walks
Find love within
Where she walks
She walks
Breath out breath in
Where she walks
She walks
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4. |
Daughter
03:24
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What would I tell I daughter
When she is grown like me
When all that I could ever want
Is a daughter to be free
To fail and fall and fail some more -
To be blind then see
To be safe in her darkness
I would gift such luxury
What would I tell a daughter
When she found how dumb is man
To set that siren sounding
And not search for safer ground?
How would I wear that question
So simple from her lips,
Could we not hear it ringing
Or did we not give a damn?
I can hear her singing
We have only got now (x4)
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5. |
Mr Podium
03:16
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Dear Mr Podium
How are we the same?
We both feel hot cold and anger
So let’s move it up the chain
So love who do you love
And loss who do you mourn?
And can you imagine a world without you
The world when you’re gone?
And when you tell a lie,
Do you know it’s a lie?
And what are you telling yourself to make it right?
And would you tell that lie,
If it were just you and I
With no one watching?
Dear disbeliever,
Physics doesn’t mind
If you, in ignorant bliss or wilfully complicit,
Dismiss rules that bind
By these rules
We put man on the moon
And by it’s rules the earth warms or cools
Physics doesn’t know dime.
And when you tell a lie,
Do you know it’s a lie?
And what are you telling yourself to make it right?
And would you tell that lie,
If it were just you and I
With no one watching?
How are we the same?
We both feel hot cold and anger
So let’s move it up the chain
So love who do you love
And loss who do you mourn?
And do you know there will be a world
When you are gone?
And when you tell a lie,
Do you know it’s a lie?
And what are you telling yourself to make it right?
And would you tell that lie,
If it were just you and I
With no one watching?
With no one watching x3
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6. |
Isyla
05:35
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They don’t speak your language
But they’ll understand you
Listen they’ll lead you, they know how to show you
The way. The way
The stars may be broken
But you’ll find a way through
No-one can stop you if you have been shown
The way. The way.
Isyla, Isyla, Isyla don’t wait to watch it rise.
A light so white so wide as to fit a soul inside
The hunter and the hunted
Underneath the moon
Hide them careful cover
Will them safer soon
At the edge of a dream
In the corners of knowing
In embers of fire so cautiously glowing
I saw her face
Pressed against darkness
Now they’ll have to trust it
Only by letting it win can they fight it
Throw in hope.
Isyla, Isyla, Isyla don’t wait to watch it rise.
A light so white so wide as to fit a soul inside
The hunter and the hunted
Underneath the moon
Hide them careful cover
Will them safer soon
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My best friend’s Dad
Says I belong in class
Skipping school’s not normal
Lying on cold ground
It’s not what I had planned
It’s hardly school formal
The children of the revolution
We never knew normal
We were only just waiting
For the bomb, bomb, bomb
For the bomb, bomb, bomb.
We never knew normal
Only just waiting.
What’s that he said
‘Got my whole life ahead’
Yeah I’m feeling that.
Where’s the will to be kind?
We’re leaving men behind
Is this who we are?
The children of the revolution
We never knew normal
We were only just waiting
For the bomb, bomb, bomb
For the bomb, bomb, bomb.
We never knew normal
Only just waiting.
Guys are you struggling to perceive the threat or its size
Just cause today its not falling from planes form the skies.
What’s that he said
‘Got my whole life ahead’
Yeah I’m feeling that.
Where’s the will to be kind?
We’re leaving men behind
Is this who we are?
The children of the revolution
We never knew normal
We were only just waiting
For the bomb, bomb, bomb
For the bomb, bomb, bomb.
We never knew normal
Only just waiting.
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8. |
2050
03:54
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Ten toes hanging over the edge
Looking down, leaning into the void
I can taste the darkness
It’s so close.
How can it be, all our clever ideas
That we ended up here?
Looking down, leaning into the void.
Take me back to the dunes
On that rising tide
Feel the now rush to meet us
And the sand move beneath us
Gotta fight harder, need to be smarter
Have to be louder, a whole heap kinder
When those plates press together
We’ll be ready to slide
Hope fades like a break in the sun
Just one cloud and it’s gone, Leaving grey
But okay I had then
I had you
And I waved my impossible dreams
Till they frayed at the seams
And I carried you and then you carried me
Take me back to the dunes
On that rising tide
Feel the now rush to meet us
And the sand move beneath us
Gotta fight harder, need to be smarter
Have to be louder, a whole heap kinder
When those plates press together
We’ll be ready to slide
So slow. The turning in on our own.
Nowhere else we could go
All those fingers of blame
Always pointing away.
I remember a world
Of shimmering seas
And shiny ideals
And that’s what I’ll see,
Looking down leaning in
Looking down leaning into the void
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9. |
Like Love
03:08
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Twenty first century obsession
Life doesn’t happen
But appears on a feed
It’s not real if a camera’s not rolling
I’m holding out
For a little heart please.
Something strange is happening to me
(This like love) The more I get the more I need
So take your your ‘like’ love
And cover it in strawberry jam
And fling it over a rainbow
Cause I’m not gonna check my Instagram
For at least two hours
Don’t need your ‘like’ love
So cover it in strawberry jam
And fling it over a rainbow
Cause I’m not gonna check my Instagram
For at least two hours
or maybe one
Twenty first century obsession
It didn’t happen if I didn’t post
My sister needs a shoulder to cry on (bloody Ryan)
But someone’s posted a puppy stealing toast
Something strange is happening to me
(This like love) The more I get the more I need
So take your your ‘like’ love
And cover it in strawberry jam
And fling it over a rainbow
Cause I’m not gonna check my Instagram
For at least two hours
Don’t need your ‘like’ love
So cover it in strawberry jam
And fling it over a rainbow
Cause I’m not gonna check my Instagram
For at least two hours
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10. |
Home
02:58
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Where is my love
So perfect and still
Over which a mighty rush of troubled water spills?
That paves a trusted path across a river deep and wide.
Stone my love is stone, ooooh
Where is my love
So wild so worn
Searching ever searching with a heart so red and torn?
To climb into the sunlight to be lost among the dust.
Roam my love does roam, oh.
It is flown away to places that our voices never reach
And it is lost among the willows and the leaves that lie beneath
And it is trampled on the hillside where the deer graze over
It flows into frozen rivers where the fish dive under.
Where is my love
At the end. At the start?
One day just a story in which I’ll play my part
And wrap with song, that when I’m gone the story ever may go on
Home my love is home, oh
It is flown away to places that our voices never reach
And it is lost among the willows and the leaves that lie beneath
And it is trampled on the hillside where the deer graze over
It flows into frozen rivers where the fish dive under.
We climb into the sunlight to be lost amongst the dust….
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ISYLA Truro, UK
ALBUM Of Blood and Star 22nd April
‘Achingly gorgeous and heartfelt, a beautiful blend of
voices and fine songwriting’ AmericanaUK
Cornwall based Lizzie, 21 and Amy, 43, though a generation apart, share much. Both had a musical up-bringing rich in folk music that underpins their love for the melodic. Most importantly the two are strongly bonded by their concern for their beautiful home, earth.
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