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Overture
01:32
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[instrumental]
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Catherine Wheel
02:55
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Flying sparks
Satellites
Trajectory of
Spinning light
Comet tails through
Circle space
Shattered by a
Touch of grace
Arms that burn
Stay out of reach
Sirens singing
Each to each
All will shake and
Darkness breaks on the
Catherine wheel
All that we know
What lies in shadow
Will be revealed
Burn down so soon
Pour down like rain
Turning no more
Be still again
Here it comes
Around again
Returning, bound
In seasons’ chain
Flames and beauty
Together tied
Spread the fireglow
Far and wide
All will shake...
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Maybe Something
01:31
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Maybe if I grab this sheet of paper
All will tumble forth
Think again, remembering a pen
Might capture words of worth
Maybe if I step off this high table
And believe in flight
That will prove enough to stop me
Falling on my face
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Eggshells
03:03
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When it’s good, it’s sublime
A convertible drive
Together, the memories good - the injuries healed
Always miss the blind bends
Where we fly off the road
Spinning our wheels in the field
The eggshells I skirt around
Scattered like mines
Never be sure if I’ll crack one this time
Glue back the fragments
To look good as new
Then it tumbles head-first off the wall
We prefer it this way
You’d expect me to say
A forest where sun always shines
The rain plays its part
And clouds where they start from
But you already know what’s on my mind
The eggshells I skirt around...
[bridge]
Do I ask for too much?
A gossamer sculpture
Undone with an unwitting touch
Believe if you can
The breaks are no part of the plan
Hold this piece here - let’s build it anew
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Westonbirt (interlude)
04:09
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[instrumental]
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Joey
03:06
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Down The Lane
06:43
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Lost down the lane
With dried-out leaves for company
A scarecrow points directions
In his usual way
I believe my home
Cannot be far to go
Any road could take me there
Somewhere I don’t know
Wandering
To and fro
To a place
I don't know
Wondering
What I mean
What are words
But signposts?
Walk with me, just a while
And chase the west wind away
That piece of sun, a sideward smile
That holds the dusk and lengthens day
Last autumn’s leaves
Will dance and evade
The closing of the year
Twisting and turning
Their way down the lane
As if they know their home is here
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Laughing More
02:21
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Close your eyes for just a while
Pretend it’s all unreal
As all around us flies apart
The centre, holding still
Dig the diamonds from the coal
And set them in a ring
The gems that send us laughing more
Recalling everything
We cling onto - to make it well
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Waiting Room (link)
01:29
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[instrumental]
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10. |
Game Set and Match
03:02
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Slow off the blocks
Follow the rest
Opponent awaiting your serve
The plan’s on the board
The cards on the beize
Only, you must hold your nerve
The game has been set
The match has been made
The tournament we never knew we had played
A trophy that takes two winners to raise
Lies at the end of the lane
And now experience
Taught me at last
The substitute’s bench makes no home
The best way to win
Refusing to play
No longer an option alone
The game has been set…
From the start we were patient
And planned many moves
Then too soon the hours have flown
But the field is now yours
Your opponent expects you
To place down your winning last stone
The game has been set…
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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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