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Onto The Bridge (demo)
03:32
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And so we left the earth
On a ladder to the air
The other side lost in the mist
Some follow shooting stars
To see them fall to earth
How long will we need
To process what we lost
And identify the same
When winners of the world
Act like they lost their souls
How quickly some forget
On the bridge of fifty days
Before they reach the other side
I find it easier to know
You found the gates more easily
How long were you here?
A frame or maybe two
In wide eternity
Painstakingly restored
How you were always meant to be
[bridge]
Where we bade farewell
To what was left behind
Like a coat required no more
The greatest gift to us
The lighting of the way
For when we leave the earth
On a ladder to the air
We have the steps you took before
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Seven Days (demo)
02:57
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I have no idea
How we found ourselves here
A hotel room somewhere unknown
Two days ago
We’d no way to know
To these forests we would have flown
In stumbling words
The nights toss and turn
The days making sense of the same
One thing is assured
No ropes yet secured
This river - a packed shipping lane
A rest none foresaw
Beneath flaming leaves
A gift of a view
To each other we cling
And pray for the king
To pardon what we have not done
Here too short a time
Until our wings climb
Toward a new welcoming sun
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Make Them More (demo)
02:47
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First breeze in the canopy
Of tomorrow's storm offshore
Look for the battens to batten down
But do they make them any more
That steeple further down the road
It's seen off tempests by the score
We find its permanence assuring
But do they make them any more
[bridge]
As we change, do we stay the same
In all the ways which matter most
Do we hold steady to the pillars
Or lurch between the posts
Nests built inbetween the boughs
In the end fall to the floor
Perhaps the birds learn sundry lessons
But still they make them all the more
First breeze in the canopy
Of tomorrow's storm offshore
Look for the battens to batten down
But do they make them...
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[instrumental]
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Duvet Day (demo)
02:11
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I think our shed just blew away
So this sounds like a duvet day
Let me finish in the shower
Then back to sleep for one more hour
The gale is howling in the eaves
May I suggest that no-one leaves
Our safety is the first thing on my mind…
How lucky there’s no work today
So together we can stay
I’ll pop downstairs for coffees two
And later we’ll take in the view
Of flying fences, next door’s greens
Plastic chairs and trampolines
Watch them whirling round and round
While we grin smugly on the ground
Then realise our shed’s there too
Executing loop-the-loops
We shrug it off and laughing more, we say
It’s a duvet day...
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Some Song (demo)
02:19
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I’d like to entertain you with some song
Conjured out of magic air
But it hid somewhere
Excuse me for a moment, or two, or three
I’ll take a bus, ride into town
And hope to track it down
Perhaps this song knows, it has an audience
Not feeling ready for one who listens
Can I convince it otherwise
I have to try…
I’d like to entertain you with some song
Please give a cheer - I’ll tell you why
She’s a little shy
I hope we entertained you with this song
Why some won’t come, I can’t explain
And so I’ll try again
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All That You Know (demo)
00:59
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Storms in the winter
That seem never-ending
Burn off in the spring
The leaves of the summer
And fruits of the autumn
And what the lark sings
Eternal in moments
Yet moments in eternity
All that you know and you hold
Flowers will fall
And even rocks wear
But hold fast to that which is true
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Castle View (demo)
00:59
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[instrumental]
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Odd Couples (demo)
00:53
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Sausage and pancakes
Salt-caramel milkshakes
Ukulele and tuba
Snooker and scuba-diving
Who would believe
These would go together
Opposites pulling
Each other to where the
Other had never dreamed
To go
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Kitchen Table (demo)
00:58
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[instrumental]
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I see eyes of black
And clouds of floof
An earnest face
That always tells truth
And I think to myself
“What a wonderful dog”
And when we go for “walkies”
In the park or on the street
The best part for our canine
Is the others that she meets
I see pals wagging tails
And sniffing rear ends
Maybe they teach me
We all need friends...
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12. |
Sundown (demo)
00:57
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[instrumental]
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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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