July 26th, 2013
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THE NAKED FLAME
Before time was I knew you
In a red earth dream
Come back to me
And speak my name
How I long to hold you
In my embrace
And feel once more
Your naked face
Touch me
Taste me
Breathe my name
Cover me
Corrupt
This naked flame
Take me
Wound me
Undo all my shame
Suffer me
Save
This naked flame
Before time was I knew you
In a red earth dream
Come back to me
Come back to me
Come back to me my love
And speak my name
July 26th, 2013
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
I can almost see their faces
Floating beyond my mind
Somewhere beyond the sea mist
Just the other side of the wind
Somewhere beyond the sea mist
Just the other side of the wind
Here the painted eland dreams
Footprints across the sky
And the salt-leached light
Oh it teases the mind’s eye
The salt-leached light
It teases the mind’s eye
Hear the sound of salt and silence
Things growing slow
And the rhythm of a rubbing stone
Against the sea’s ebb and flow
And the rhythm of a rubbing stone
Against the sea’s ebb and flow
There’s a white bone taps a taut string
A note that haunts the mind
If you listen you will hear it
Just the other side of the wind
If you listen you will hear it
Just the other side of the wind
Just the other side of the wind
…Just the other side of the wind
July 19th, 2013
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JESSIE
I love you Jessie
That’s all I ever want to say
I want to write it in the sky
Hang a banner from the bridge
Across the west-bound highway
Paint a billboard full of roses
A thousand roses just for your smile
Going to set my love in neon lights
Flash it out bright neon style
Graffiti your name on every wall
Stay up all night
Write a love song in Italian on the pavement
All around the City Hall
Run a P.A. System to the rooftop
Of the Mount Nelson Hotel
And have Ferguson there with his mouth harp
To play a blue villanelle
Lean out into the night
Pray to every star I see
Tell them how I love you
How I love you – Jessie
It’s not a secret
This fire you light in me
How could I hide such a flame
When it burns-
Oh how it yearns to be free?
Day and night I hear your heartbeat
Carry the sound of your name inside of me … . inside of me
You turn me upside down girl
You turn me upside down
I want the world to know
I want the world to know
I want the world to know
I love you -
Jessie
July 12th, 2013
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TANGO MAN
Shall I play you a song, Mister
A song of sorrows
Of all my wanderings
And all my empty tomorrows
All my dreams are broken, Mister
What dream shall I play on
My torn coat, my hungry legs
Or my sad bandoneon?
Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river
Shall I tell you of despair, Mister
Of broken desire
Of a fever that burns
Without the fire
Or shall I dance, Mister?
Shall I play my bandoneon?
Shall I play you a love song, Mister?
What dream shall I play on?
Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river
Will you throw me a coin, Mister
To numb the fever
To buy a night of forgetting
Beside the silver river
July 12th, 2013
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JONNY BLUNDELL
I heard a note so blue it shamed the sky
It was looking for a place between Heaven and Hell
It sounded like a prayer at the edge of the world
Then they told me - that’s Jonny Blundell
There’s death in the blues when you know where to find it
A dark wind lives at the edge of its spell
But no-one plays a note so full of holy
As the lonely fingers - of Jonny Blundell
He can take a blue note and fill it with empty
Slide you to the roof-tops of Lonely Hotel
He’ll take you into nowhere at the edge of the world
Fill you with the blues - of Jonny Blundell
The holy dove must fly through a crack in the night
Something’s got to die to break death’s spell
But nothing comes closer to the edge of the world
Than the south wind blowing - through Jonny Blundell
I said nothing comes closer to the edge of the world
Than the south wind blowing - through Jonny Blundell