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THIS IS HOW A GARDEN GROWS
Nations build their citadels, world spins like a carousel
Merry goes around again, history repeats itself
Lovers speak in poetry, prophets use allegory
Where one reaps another sows
Singing, this is how a garden grows
Throw caution to the wind, throw it all away
And leave your past behind you
When it only seeks to remind you where you failed
We’ll reap what we’ve sown
And we’ll be singing, this is how a garden grows
This is how a garden grows
Blessing and anathema - everything we’re handed down
The truth is here, for what it’s worth, deep beneath the undergrowth
Lovers speak in poetry, this one’s painting melodies
Where one reaps another sows
Singing, this is how a garden grows
This is how a garden grows
Throw caution to the wind, throw it all away
And leave your past behind you
When it only seeks to remind you that you didn’t do well at all
We’ll reap when we’ve grown
And we’ll be singing, this is how a garden grows
Singing with the angels
Situations, folks and things
All of it, we’ll leave behind
Singing...
When it’s over, said and done
Got to lay it all down
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Gatekeeper
04:59
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GATEKEEPER
Gatekeeper, where there’s no wise leader
There be no brighter lighter
But you keep letting it in
Gatekeeper, here is your read minder
There is a kinder teacher
But will you let them in?
Gatekeeper, there’ll be no rhyme reason
Hopeful the right season comes so we can begin again
We begin again; to begin we begin again and then
Gatekeeper, surely a strange kinder helper to come later
But that’s not the journey’s end
Just an ending but not the journey’s end yet
Like a city without a wall you are open to anything
Lose the government of your soul
‘Cos you’re so open to everything
Well, don’t go listening to the voice of a stranger
Don’t you go listening to that voice
Like a city without a wall you are open to everything
See you flirting in the danger zone
Trying to be all things to all men
Won’t you take your stand when you get hurt?
Haven’t learnt your lesson when you feel it burn?
Fired up? It should get you fired up
Still it’s aching? Fire up!
Got to get to you - get fired on all cylinders, yeah!
You should be a kinder teacher to me
But will you let me in? No
Will you let me in? No
Don’t fade away
Why you have to fade away?
Why you gonna have to fade away?
You don’t have to fade away
That’s not how the story was supposed to end
Let’s begin again, let’s start again
You don’t have to fade away, away
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My Rock of Ages too many nights I’ve tried
Fighting sleep with a crowded mind
Several days, all through the night
I’m sure I’ve heard the dark angels hum
With the melody groaning I couldn’t keep my rest
With the melody strong, nearly made me lose my breath
Early in the morning, meeting You in the Garden
The look of love and lust was in her eyes, yes
Hid away when she knew her shame
But I too was naked in that rising sun
And You still hear me now?
I wish I feared You more than this fear inside of me
Then I’ll be a witness; can I be a witness to someone?
There’s no darkness dark enough to hide
From You, my Rock of Ages
And would You be all I need?
Yes I believe it, despite this constant flight in me
I’m asking, would You be all I need?
Though the melody is growing strong
Thieves coming out in the night
And they’ve been trying, trying to take me out before my time
They call You Rock of Ages
All Consuming Fire, all consuming fire
A thousand times that I am falling
Will be a thousand times that I will rise
And You hear me now?
I wish I feared You more than this fear inside I see
Then I’d take a good look
I’d take a good look in Your eyes as You see through mine
Ooh, You’re my Rock of Ages
Ooh, my rock, my right, my anchor holding
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Boundaries
03:54
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BOUNDARIES
You can count, days will come without a doubt
Still working it out that everyone has their boundaries
So it goes, some grow scares while some grow cold
‘Cos it shows on everyone there are boundaries
Days are fading out, leaving it in doubt
How bold this love is when we meet drought
Somewhere in the middle
Good to go, the faster lane now seems so slow
Put on hold while all of it’s moving sideways
Very strange, you hardly give yourself away
But when it leaves me feeling like the outsider, courage vanishes
It taught us many things when we began
So hard to start again
I’ll meet you at your border
It hurts to think I’d even have to tell you that
Yet you hold my secrets safe and guarded
And that is precious in its own way
Yeah, we share a kind of common language
That’s helped us swallow all that’s tasted bitter
No, we won’t get parked in old illusions, turn away revelation
That’s a part of our design
Maybe like Joshua playing battle drums
And singing those walls down, I’m up for a fight, yeah!
I’m going to tear down all the walls
The battle will keep me at your border
The margin’s never wide between wrong and right
And that is why we’ll have to compromise
Not all things are black and white
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She's In The Flowers
03:10
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SHE’S IN THE FLOWERS
Slipped underground
Hers was a battle that laid her to rest
And when her body returned to the land
Seeds of her memory grew up from the earth
She’s been gone a long, long time
It’s all right now, she’s in the flowers
Queen of the shades
Seasons return though his memory fades
She is the bloom that he grips in his hands
Who knew the boy but did not know the man
She knew the boy but did not see the man
She’s been gone a long, long time
It’s all right now, she’s in the flowers
She’s been gone a long, long time
It’s all right now, she’s in the flowers
And he says,
‘I wonder, wonder if you’d be proud
Of the man, the man that I’ve become
I wonder, if you were with me now’
She’s in the flowers
She’s in the flowers
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
She’s in the flowers
It’s all right, it’s all right
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SHADES OF BLUE
Pretty darling
Make me wait, then you call, you’re still home, you forget - will you admit that
This is only
The beginning of ending a sad situation that we’ve been in?
Keep trying to tell me something
Well, your actions have spoken
This heart can be broken but you’ll never know
Think it over
What this love will endure – you’re all I know I want
What am I supposed to do?
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I’m just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
No matter how we try to
Shake it baby, break it baby
I’m just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Pretty darling
If it’s over then we’ve got to leave it and learn to let it go
This is only
‘Cos it’s wrong to deceive, never knowing will only give me hope
Keep trying to tell me something
Well, it’s so to believe when the point that you’re making isn’t serious
Think it over
So I’ll have to tell the truth, this is too much
What am I supposed to do?
Baby, baby, baby, baby
I’m just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
No matter how we try to
Shake it baby, break it baby
I’m just another shade of blue
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Can’t shake this feeling, shake this feeling down
Can’t shake this feeling, can’t shake this feeling
You’re all I know I want
Take stock of what we have got
Constantly asking you if you’re leaving me
Are you listening? Cos if you’re listening
You will know that I don’t want to be blue
Unconditional - it’s supposed to be
We’ll regret it if we don’t stop to think
And take stock of what we have got
Constantly asking you if you’re leaving me
Are you listening? …
You’re all I know I want
How can you leave me lonely, low?
Still be so lonely, lonely, solo?
How can I be so lonely, low?
Still be so lonely, lonely in your arms?
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Heroes & Villains
03:03
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HEROES & VILLAINS
Tongues on fire, speak up ‘cos the prophets seem to have gone to sleep
Make a war on terror? Well, terror is taking its war out on me
Oh, why you gonna go and put the fuel in to the middle of the fire?
It’s ablaze and the temperature is slowly getting higher
We can talk about the heroes and the villains
Here until the day is almost over
We can hear about the heroes and the villains
Here until the day is almost over
Pins and needles shooting up and down all over me
Feels like true conviction, still it’s so hard to know what to believe
It’s a game of smoke and mirrors all around me
There’s a mountain here by me
Do you know the heroes and the villains in this town? Do you, do you?
There’s a mountain here by me
We can talk about the heroes and the villains
Talk until the day is nearly over
We can hear about the heroes and the villains
Talk until the day is almost over
We can talk about, talk about, talk
But the day is almost over
We can talk about the heroes and the villains
Talk until the day is nearly over
We can hear about the heroes and the villains
Here until the day is almost over
We can hear them, we can talk about them
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To Be Remembered
03:04
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TO BE REMEMBERED
One afternoon in London you walked me through your garden
And showed those trees you planted for every love you had
All would love to be remembered
How we all would love to be remembered
I texted you on my journey, what tree would you plant for me?
You wrote back, I’d be a weeping willow
A melancholy tree but the roots grow deep underneath
Because boy, she’s a heavy feeder
All would love to be remembered
How we all would love to be remembered
Well, I’m rooted by a river to gaze at my reflection
Find it hard to let things go but I’ve finally turned the page
Be glad you’re not alone
And although you’re not with me, so glad that we have grown
And I’m not ashamed to say, it is you in these words and these melodies
Well, I hope that it meets your approval
All would love to be remembered
All would love to be remembered
How we all would love to be remembered
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9. |
Dear Evelyn
02:01
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10. |
So Long Eddy
02:41
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SO LONG EDDY
Like passing clouds drifting over
Are the many faces we meet along the way?
Start to feel like you are young
And the colours are in bloom
How they fade too soon
In a breath and then it’s gone
So long strangers, lovers and friends
Like clouds passing over
Heaven knows sky’s going to change
And only burns deep and rich as the sun
When you have loved, yes you have loved
Keep that feeling when you’re young
And the colours start to bloom
How they fade too soon
In a breath and then it’s gone
So long strangers, lovers and friends
Like clouds drifting over
Heaven knows skies always change
And only burns deep and rich as the sun
When you have loved, yes you have loved
Like passing clouds drifting over
Are the many faces we meet along the way?
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ESKA is the most talked about, revered, internationally known singer you've never heard of! Releasing her first EP in 2013, her critically acclaimed debut solo album is OUT NOW!
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