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Saul
03:38
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I've seen Jesus through a smoke ring
Must have been a sign
Through he's rarely recognises me
Enough to say hi
Was I the lost apostle?
Was he just my brothers' confrere?
Had he influenced my leaving by
Tipping 'cut your hair'?
Just for a day
It was just for a day
Just for a day
Should I be that other guy or
should I search my box of stars?
The silence sounds like thunder
Like the spaces between bars
They appear to me like pictures
Through it's me who has been framed
And now that I'm way older
Could it be they felt the same?
Just for a day
It was just for a day
Just for a day
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Woody
04:33
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Waiting for the Greyhound six sixty six
Top up the grubstake find me a fix
I'd swapped orange overalls for whipcord cotton garms
Flicking the fruit flies from farm to farm
Hollyhock fields of Oklahoma are blurring through like a Dodge Daytona
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
So I'm waiting for some life to comein to view
If I stay here I'll die here haunt my own ghost
Got two stops to bear in this glass house at most
The tears from the crown sting my heavy eyes
I'll ask a passenger to wake me by five
Poppy fields of my Sonora are blurring through like Appaloosas
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
But a mac's no good if you got no hood
So I'm waiting for some life to comein to view
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Alice
03:49
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We have nothing left to fear except for fear itself, and all we have to change is the world
Then maybe we'll change ourselves
How long, do we have alone? How wrong? Our body's overthrown by being
Fill your boots let the desert flowers deepen their roots
Flies they hover over us and it's inevitably our time. If I ever were in trouble it's now
We hear, the whipping lines up on the tracks
Yet the kids they know just where it's at. You're not the world's problem, the world is
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Sam
03:25
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We're steady in the pink helm of our script but life charms only the verses;
Navigates us into the light
Spiders in a web flies in a bind gathering the jars of corpses
Only for the crows to heist
A person who's nothing to lose has nothing the live for so is it ok to take it to the lam?
Every day I'm born I am Matthew's law a lasso of roots being pulled from the filth into faith's war
Lose weight for our jumpsuits rollin' ste-el for the man: Just a footprint in time so says Sam
Seeing hide nor hair when the black dog's back in town whenever Sam is around
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Sally
04:06
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Stood unstirred behind the fence
High alert armed every sense
The shuffled grass
The foiled paths
Some delays have dangerous means
Slumping clouds, so as to breach
A window of time
To meet their demise
La maison est le chasseur
Ce qui est à moi est à toi
La maison est le chasseur
Ce qui est à moi est à toi
La maison est le chasseur
Ce qui est à moi est à toi
Undeterred by the wave of sibilance
And the hounds, the hounds in blue marking territory
Scaling the fence
There is movement way over there
She waits holding one arm in the air
Strikes as he sleeps
Rips the nape with her teeth
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Santiago
03:25
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The lighthouse underneath the sea how- it came -to be
How- it came -to be
Some nights you can see the trembling swells -of light - bright purls
Flickers 'mongst the swirl
We're designed to see and hear everything we've ever feared
Blood is thicker than the sea we are just somewhere in-between
Same mistakes and brand new morning brand new morning same mistakes
Standing at the pantheon all we have is zeros and ones
If you stay headland you may wake from - rumbling diaphone
Gentle rattled bones
Maybe it's some kind of nexus- what's approaching- no one knows
Nobody knows
We're designed to see and hear everything we've ever feared
Blood is thicker than the sea we are just somewhere in-between
Same mistakes and brand new morning brand new morning same mistakes
Standing at the pantheon all we have is zeros and ones
There's different horses
for different courses
We're just the sum of our parts
Someone's trash is
Another's riches
We're just the sum of our parts
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Thomas
02:54
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I stare into an empty glass viewing wasted skin
And say Would God it came to pass, my heart hangs from a string
Only for then I un-dis-trest, growing cold to me
Could lonely wait my endless rest? It's lonely all at sea
As I look into my glass
What if fire and faith within us
Men who march, no tears can win us
Joy- stoking up the fire
Fill up our glass- bring on home the Pires
Two thousand years of solid mass
Only a man harrowing clods- In a silent walk
A stumbled horse and with it nods- sleeping as they stalk
I stare into an empty glass viewing wasted skin
And say Would God it came to pass, my heart hangs from a string
Joy- stoking up the fire
Fill up our glass- bring on home the Pires
Two thousand years of solid mass
All we have is poisoned gas
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Roman
03:04
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O let me hear you talking
In an accent clear and still
Above the storms of passion
The murmurs of self-will
Speak with reassurance
To quicken and control
Speak and make me listen
The guardian of my soul
And I think you know what I know
Let the lifting of our hands
Be admission to be alive
Set a watch before our mouths
No man is justified
And I think you know what I know
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SPANISH CASTLES- AKA James Summerfield England, UK
James Summerfield returns after a few years of side-project distraction. There’s a new line up and a 7th studio album, THEM
(Say ‘Aargh’ Records 2023)
James’ music career began in the band Buick 6, later renamed The Toques. They recorded 2 John Peel.
James would go on to release 7 studio albums and played with the likes of Alistair Roberts, John Renbourne, Scott Matthews and Joanna Newsom.
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