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Wintertime
04:04
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Wintertime
Run
around you now
the snow is falling
and you hear
the world calling
something beats in wintertime
every hill is bare
every hill is there to climb
in wintertime
in wintertime
something beats in wintertime
every hill is there to climb
Run
behind us now
a cold horizon
and we touch
the sun rising
things we hold in wintertime
a lightness in the air
it could be yours or mine
it's our wintertime
just our wintertime
things we hold in wintertime
everything is yours or mine
Run
around you now
the snow is falling
and you hear
the world calling
something beats in wintertime
every hill is bare
every hill is there to climb
in wintertime
in wintertime
every hill is there to climb
everything is yours & mine
something beats in wintertime
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2. |
The silence of birds
05:32
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The Silence of Birds
Running before you
dreams of your head
hanging around you
a shadow instead
in the morning
the silence of birds
falls like a warning
on your halo of words
CHORUS
who remembers
how remote is that smile
the cold looks you carry
mile after mile
you're wild with sorrow
you're wild with sorrow
sorrow
in the summer
we hurry time
but linger behind you
we're partners in crime
winter becomes you
the scheme of the frost
a path in the snowfall
shows where you're lost
who remembers
how remote is that smile
the cold looks you carry
mile after mile
you're wild with sorrow
you're wild with sorrow
sorrow
First break
Running before you
the dreams of your head
hanging around you
a shadow instead
in the morning
the silence of birds
falls like a warning
on your halo of words
who remembers
how remote is that smile
the cold looks you carry
mile after mile
you're wild with sorrow
you're wild with sorrow
sorrow
Instrumental outro
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3. |
Starlight company
03:35
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Starlight Company
Before the day is over
before the light is through
always in that moment
there was always you
every dream that lingered
all that hope implied
swam across your eyes again
how the image shines
oh in the night
how the stars rode high
all through the night
how the stars fell
stars fell from your eyes
repeat
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4. |
The low ground
04:10
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THE LOW GROUND
Fallin down
sweet fallin down
ever the low ground
fast on the low ground
both fallin down
hard on the ground
ever the low ground
almost below ground
Please come down with me
fading is fast you see
Always the low ground
nearly below ground
such is the way down
lonely the low ground
Come here again no more
this surely is not the thing
you've been searching for
Break
Sweet the lonely sound
music of the low ground
sweet the lonely sound
music of the low ground
sweet the lonely sound
Oh oh music of the low ground
sweet the lonely sound
music of....
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Waking When the Magpie Calls
Waking when the magpie calls
it's easy how a summer stalls
hearing music weary in my mind
what was right now seems so wrong
in some dark place these words belong
To heal a wound we press down tight
we lay in silence all the night
the last drop might be slowly kissed away
all the time we had was dear
but we kept something in the future clear
we rinsed the heavy ground where anger lay
All the stubborn season does
is write again the line we know
and lay another patch on punctured dreams
there comes a rain to wash away
the heavy banks of all their mud
in the broken castle one last column leans
World is weary, wise, unwise,
less certain than a smile implies
reflect again on what small needs we feel
turn to me & let me through
the door you're always running to -
it's a safe room where broken bodies heal
Waking when the magpie calls
it's easy how a summer stalls
hearing music weary in my mind
what was right now seems so wrong
in some dark place these words belong
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6. |
Calling
05:12
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Calling
When the lights are low
and the evening's falling
you hear them come & go
there's someone calling
all that you knew before
hits you like a sudden blow
If reason is in our head
let it go
whisper more than can be said
keep it so
words unsaid are softly said
let it go
let it go
In the light we're calling
something like the sense of falling
where the day is going
deep within the heart
a sense of growing
We whisper more than can be said
beyond the wisdom of the head
tracks where loneliness has led
let it go
let it go
let it go
Everything is glowing
in the night the water's flowing
beyond the shade a voice is calling
there's still that simple sense of falling
If reason is in our head
let it go
whisper more than can be said
something low
a face whose want is never fed
let it go let it go let it go let it go etc.
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7. |
The day before it falls
03:47
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The Day Before it Falls
long intro
Everything you need
is in your hand somehow
everything you're losing
then you must know the reason now
every summer stalling on the moment
slowly stalling on the moment
when the waters came
now you give up everything
everything the heart can bleed -
the day before it falls
everything you say
is lost in silence now
everything you take
you mark a loving hand somehow
all the summers leaning on the moment
slowly leaning on the moment
when the waters came
now you've given everything
everything the heart can bleed
the day before it falls
Break
Everything you need
is in your hand somehow
everything you're losing
then you must know the reason now
every summer stalling on the moment
slowly stalling on the moment
when the waters came
now you've given everything
everything the heart can bleed
the day before it falls
the day before it falls
the day before it falls
the day before it falls
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8. |
Song for Mathias
05:24
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Song for Mathias
Running before me
never a straight line
don't hold it against me
I tried to get there on time
over the mountain
a slope to the sea
behind cries & the shouting
help is following me
heaven is lonely
hell is the place to be
star of truth rises slowly
but who will look down & see
over the mountain
a slope to the sea
behind cries & the shouting
help is following me
following me
(interlude in the night-time wood)
before & behind me
I watch their torches shine
if I move on them slowly
the only hands burnt are mine
over the mountain
a slope to the sea
cries & the shouting
help is following me
following me
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9. |
Lights
04:00
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Lights
All the moments that you gave
every living word you said
all the dreams that made you cry
in my head we smile goodbye
every moment that you saved
every lingering thought you made
in the madness of the day
never a one to say
every path that leads us on
shapes a world that's born then gone
in the shadows where we stay
secret lives are blown away
all the memories in my head
dust the sentences unsaid
one smile
to borrow
one tomorrow
the box of sorrow
open it there
all the lights are in our head
worlds in darkness put to bed
give us meaning, give us joy,
and our hearts employ
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10. |
Bring your sadness
02:54
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Bring your Sadness
When the midnight comes
and the maddest day is gone
then the night with its guns & drums
entertains till the morning comes
entertains till the morning comes
bring your sadness along to me
bring it all along
When your best is done
and the day is on the run
you're holding tight within in each hand
an emptiness you don't understand
an empty space you don't understand
bring your sadness along to me
bring it all along
A dusty road is hard to bear
and the track leads on & on
there's not an easy face walks there
not a stone to rest upon
When the midnight comes
and the maddest day is gone
then the night with its guns & drums
entertains till the morning comes
entertains till the morning comes
bring your sadness along to me
bring it all along
bring your sadness along to me
bring it all along
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Fires
We saw the frost-fire rise
like smoke across the sky
we watched the red sun lift
where frozen waters lie
never again my dear
shall they push us out of here
never again
shall we leave, shall we leave
Oh no - born to be denied
Oh no - denied
We watched real houses burn
saw shadows in the trees
faces of sadness
in a land dragged to its knees
Never again my dear
Shall we steal away from here
never again shall we leave
shall we leave
We saw the frost-fires burn
smoke rising in the sky
a red....... sun.........lifts
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12. |
Summer song
05:20
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Summer Song
Moving along where you belong
keeping the sun on your arm
letting you know now
letting you see how
the light it enters the dark
Where you belong
where you feel strong
where you catch light in the dark
together we see now
together we know how
the tinder catches the spark
There's a line in the sand
you trace with your hand
that quickly closes up with the sea
whatever we feel now
whatever is real now
shapes into a lost memory
Moving along
where you belong
keeping the sun on your arm
letting you know now
letting you see how
the light so clearly enters the dark
Where you belong
where you feel strong
where you catch light in the dark
together we see now
together we know how
the tinder catches the spark
there's a line in the sand
you trace with your hand
that quickly closes up with the sea
whatever we feel now
whatever is real now
shapes into a lost memory.
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13. |
Perfect angle
03:53
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Perfect Angle
Came the light in a perfect angle
came your shape into the room
the music shrank to a lone triangle
a single bass drums quick boom-boom
CHORUS:
Through it all you let me
step on the snare you set me
smile like you've never met me
on & on & on & on
Ohhh
So loud the silence grows
You shape your mouth & I lean to listen
but you turn your head so no-one can hear
in the line of your neck a small drop glistens
- is it the light of hate or fear?
REPEAT CHORUS:
All in all it's a perfect angle
all in all it's a perfect room
the music's great with its lone triangle
heavy & loud the bass drum's big boom-boom
REPEAT CHORUS:
on & on & on & on
& on & on
Ohhh so loud the silence grows
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Waking When the Magpie Calls
Waking when the magpie calls
it's easy how a summer stalls
what was right now seems so wrong
in some dark place these words belong
To heal a wound we press down tight
we lay in silence all the night
all the time we had was dear
we kept something in the future clear
All the stubborn season does
is write again the line we know
and lay another patch on punctured dreams
there comes a rain to wash away
the heavy banks of all their mud
in the broken castle one last column leans
World is weary, wise, unwise,
less certain than a smile implies
turn to me & let me through
the door you're always running to -
Waking when the magpie calls
it's easy how a summer stalls
what was right now seems so wrong
in some dark place these words belong
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The Sheiling Aberystwyth, UK
Formed in 2000, THE SHEILING have primarily been a recording band and have produced a number of albums on their miniature
UMBRELLA HEAD label – ranging from the folksy ‘A Touch of Rain’ (2000) to the entirely self-penned 'Undiscerned' (2014) . Currently THE SHEILING is
the songwriting duo Steve Blaquire & Dylan Jones.
Work emanates from a wooden shed in mid-Wales, serenaded by owls & robin-song.
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