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Sands
03:58
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The sleeping sands surround us
Before, beneath, behind
The only pathway to be found
Follows us upon the ground...
We look to the horizon
And pause beneath the stars
Descendants of a promise made
A past fulfilled, a future laid
And sands fall from overhead
To gather in the glass
Each one a jewel beyond a price
But time shall surely pass...
A glance exchanged, intention shared
Into the shifting sands ahead
To trust in your direction…
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Castle
04:19
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You're looking out from the walls
Expecting armies at dawn
Hurl themselves at your castle ramparts
The sudden rush from below
The strike you dreaded one day
By the setting sun, tear your world apart
This was your sanctuary
Under a banner of blue
Children played in safety by your entrance
Your kingdom now under siege
The trebuchet at your gate
Poised for destruction from a distance
Each quiet sunset just brings
Another night to endure
For sure, the reckoning you fear comes later
The helplessness that you feel
Perhaps the hardest to bear
Just watch and pray for mercy's favour
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Hold You Back
03:48
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You always live as if
There's no such word as "no"
I'm learning I should never let
"Never" into conversation
Oh, for a moment to explain why
This road may not be the one
Perhaps the weighted scales
In balance, for the best
Balloons may fly off into space
Or tethered to the earth
A flight suppressed
You'll have your time to soar
Not past the point of no return
If I ever hold you back
I see the forest's glowing eyes
The track we took is lost
In distance and in time
But further from the start we've come
Than ever I thought possible to climb
Through uplands in the sun
To the stronghold in the air
Though mists surround the peak
The summit path will lead us there
If I ever hold you back
I see the step into thin air
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Bridge Of Crows
06:56
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As the August sun sets over the hills
The night of all nights now descends
I strain my eyes across the silver stream
Where light and infinity blends
There, gradually, a silhouette forms
The bearing and grace of a queen
Now she and I, reunited once more
But for the river between
[chorus]
Magpies and crows, come fly from all sides
Carry me back to my love
We’ll meet on the bridge, stars below and above
My one and my only, my bride
The shining white way that kept us apart
For one precious night, lights your face
The morning will part us for one more long year
For now my world is your embrace
Tomorrow you’ll follow the sun to the east
I must take the opposite shore
I’ll herd my flocks while you weave tapestries
Until the day we cross once more
Magpies and crows…
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Oceandrop
04:55
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One tiny
lake forming
The tarmac bows
to catch the flow
One short span
of damp time
The surface leaps
The deep lies still
Drops in the
ocean
currents to ride
around this sea
Shore to
far shore
still the giants stride
Waves from all
directions
intertwine
A flock disturbed
Dive deeper
to cracked stones
and single cells
who know no hours
Drops in the ocean...
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Book Of Small Hours
22:59
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(I) PROCESSIONAL
[instrumental]
(II) LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND
That never-ending summer
Was nothing of the sort
I'd barely downed that lemonade
And we're back in class once more
Those weeks of sun and rockpools
Feel like a long-lost dream
That melted down in the autumn rain
Like a seaside trip's ice cream
[chorus]
Leave it all behind (x3)
Tomorrow waits for you
So many circuits round the sun
And somehow I remain
To ride the rodeo of life
Aboard the ages' train
Wiser heads than mine have talked
Of starting guns once missed
A day to lie and catch the rays
I won't cross off my list
Leave it all behind...
(III) THE GETAWAY
[instrumental]
(IV) GOLDEN AGE
Doors that never bolted
Cricket on the green
Of our imagination
The kitchen sparkling clean
Present, past and future
Not what they used to be
Stained-glass windows of the mind
Colour memory
Yearning for a simpler time
Of tea upon the lawn
The golden age they long for
May bring a golden dawn
Uniformly-shaded streets
Of pure conformity
No need for bolted doors, when minds
Gave up their liberty
Yearning for a simpler time...
(V) LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND (REPRISE)
Much further down the runway
The bird still taxi's round
Oblivious to the years long past
It should have left the ground
Now stranded by the crosswinds
That rake the landing path
Time to dream of flight with friends
Or share a tale and laugh?
Leave it all behind (x3)
Tomorrow waits for you
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TA Walker UK
Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter, often with "electronica", "lo-fi" and "prog" inclinations.
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