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Live Now
04:17
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As I lay back there upon the ground
I kept my ear close to the sound
Of universes rumbling
And river swells all tumbling
Above the words that we were mumbling
And the thought it did occur to me
That O somewhat ironically
As I fight the pull of entropy
So my songs are sang more joyfully
And new poems are revealed to me
Could I start again with what I know
Could I wake up with somewhere to go
Could I lie there on a gravel beach
With the water lapping at my feet
Could I be sleeping keeping out of reach
In a place where I cannot be found
Where rivers run under the ground
And I can gaze up at the firmament
I can fall asleep inside a tent
Hey d'you wonder where the summer went?
So i shirked all ideology
And I wrote my own mythology
And it was legs and arms and arms and legs
All tangled up in double beds
Some thoughts I thought should not be said
And on the verges of a hurricane
Well we wrote a song which had no name
And then we all went down and swam the lake
And we talked about the plans we'd make
Yeah we know it takes the time it takes
See it stretches on for ever
And every day is like another one
Where you never will you always might
And it comes back to me every night
'Son, you never seem to get it right'
You said 'the universe will leave you gifts
If you keep yourself open to it'
Still trying to work out what you meant
As things are borrowed time is spent
And I wonder where the money went
Pull hard against the water's flow
Come on we'll row and row and row
There will be time for wandering and wondering and Oh!
Sing long for everyone you know
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2. |
Things In Things
04:10
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Rain in the summer
Hailstones in the spring
There is dust in the air
Diamonds in the hills
Moths in your cupboards
Ideas in your head
There are tears in your eyes
Spiders in the shed
Feelings in your fingertips
And thunder in your brain
There is smoke in your lungs
Coffee in your veins
Cracks in the pavement
Potholes in the road
There is meat in the fridge
Aching in your bones
I am a vessel
Of muscle and will
The heart beats
The heart beats
Though sometimes it is still
And though it all fits together
I know it do spill
Skeletons in your closet
And iron in your blood
There is light in the soil
Fire in the wood
Wonder in not knowing
Some beauty in the dark
There is truth in your words
Sadness in your heart
I hear a colour
And I see a tone
The heart beats
The heart beats
My legs move and I go
And it is each thing together
That maketh the whole
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3. |
Let Me Go On
02:46
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I went swimming in the lake
You know I know the time it takes
The buzzard and the old corncrake
The captain and the emerald snake
What new wonder waits for me
Beside the hollow of a tree
And there are things you cannot see
Hiding all away
Let me go on
The quiet of the daffodils
The bear crepuscular but still
He hibernated, ate his fill
And in the summer blood will spill
We got tired and we got wet
All dripping little rivulets
And the black flies settled on our sweat
And we are full of blood
Let me go on
Routes are followed routes are mapped
Where are those sandwiches you packed
All quickly eaten once unwrapped
While by the shore dark water lapped
The silver ribbon river snakes
It knows the path it has to take
Comes barreling into the lake
And I see water fall / An icy waterfall
Let me go on
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4. |
Other Ways
03:20
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Here from out of nowhere
Twixt soil and the sun
With someone else's
Rhythm in my skull
I collected in the static
Of a hundred thunderstorms
I watch them spill
Quiet and heavy to the floor
And I went out just to feel it
Still it makes no sense at all
Though I may grow well I may go
I will be gone
In the unorchestrated lurching
Of a million spinning tops
Witter away across the table
For to drop
And I know I'm right
I've known it all the time
There are other ways...
You should learn to trust your feelings
You don't need to understand
There is blood it is
Running in your hand
With an axe and a box of matches
Build a fire from the wood
To crack and split
To sing and spit into the sun
And I know I'm right
I've known it all the time
There are other ways
And I want
to get it right
And I walk
Let in the light
Say I won't
But still I might
And the empires fell
While the bone and the shell
Kept growing alone
In the dark
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5. |
Sleepy Old Snake
03:16
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Sunbeam
Burning up necks dancing on valleys
And little flies horrid and clumsy
Seek the salt within your sweat
Wake me
With a gentle shove and take me
Out in your garden come and make me
In the morning with your shade
Oh California sea
You drunk honey bee
Are you asleep on the wing
As you float there next to me?
Travelling
And watch the rivers all unravelling
And every summer that you have seen
Becomes another summer gone
Oh this year
I'll be around yeah i'll be back here
Soaking up sun swim in the cold mere
In the morning in your wake
You giant redwood tree
You Patterdale peak
You just sit there and sing
And I fling all the weight off me
And now I see
The river moans the river speaks
And there's nothing here
That I can do without
And in the valley by the lake
And if you keep me awake
We'll live forever in the things
We talked about
Sunbeam
Burning up necks dancing on valleys
And every summer that you have seen
Becomes another summer gone
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And like a river in the sun
I'll keep running on and on
Til all the song in me is gone
TIl all the things to do are done
The wind is filled with ancient sound
Scatters the pebbles on the ground
And so some things get written down
Some things are born some things are found
A shadow soaked across a hill
Like some indelible inkspill
And I will watch it as I will
Across the air so soft and still
A ring of hilly brothers stare
back at the water we found there
I feel your fingers in my hair
And mystery upon the air
Come see the silent water soft and sweet
The soil sleeping at your feet
The grains that make the gravel beach
Some things are near yet out of reach
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7. |
Fingernails
04:19
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He got the graveyard shift
Down at the National Trust
And he's a sleeping policeman he's a
A little out of touch
I remember how the sun was going down
Dripping golden buttering the roofs in town
And he's a regular feature
Out on the Catalan scene
He got his pockets full he packing
Acres of polythene
It was hot the sweat was running in my skin
Clinging on to anyone and anything
Oh the hackles on my neck
My follicles tickled in the sick and sour breath
Everything happened at once
When I looked in to his eyes
It's there on my sight
Oh it's with me everywhere I go
And when he's on the floor
It's a frenzy of life
He knows that everyone's watching him they're
Like moths around the light
in the morning everything had disappeared
And I just walked around and felt a little weird
No now when our lips align
Oh honey i'm looking at the space behind your eyes
Everything happened at once
When I let go of his hand
It remains in my veins
Oh it's with me everywhere I go
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8. |
Islands Fold
02:43
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Sitting in the van
Revolver is on
And I like
The Lennon ones
We listen to your tape
As we are on our way
The summit in the storm
Is hid in cloud
But we are sleeping late
We don't wake for hours
Back out in the wood
We get high
And this is
The second time
Back to the Islands Fold
The summit in the storm is here now
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9. |
Song Of The Green Man
05:18
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I am a head disgorging
I am black iron forging
Smoke rise up ahead
Making presents for the dead
I live on rotting apples
I make the rotting happen
Deep down in the loam
I see you pass on your way home
I burn like forest fires
I hide among church spires
Leering out at you
Misericord under the pew
My fingers dead-leaf fisted
My songs grow gnarled and twisted
My eyes burn berry bright
I make a bower for the night
The vines and leaves unspool me
A vegetable jewellery
Tree bark crowns my head
Bringing presents for the dead
The leaves grow all around me
Leaked from the mouth to drown me
Coloured chlorophyll
Come my daughters welcome in
I am the green-gold spectre
I work in the environmental sector
And I watch over you
I drink your footprints in the dew
I am the shady patches
The creak of lifted latches
Gold-leaf summer gleam
I disappear into the green
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10. |
You Are All I Need
02:47
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You are all I need
Your open eyes
Words settle on your tongue
And I reach out to your side
And I do it all the time
So I might find
A space between your ribs
That I might see a way inside
Your body wore a bruise
you bore us fruit
See it lightening
See it severed at the root
Have you seen the bloody moon?
An open wound
I see it too
You are all I need
You come in waves
If we burn the furniture
We can both get through the day
There is nothing in the way
We made a space
Shoulder to shoulder
A ring of hills around a lake
Eyes open in the gloom
We lie cocooned
Speak to me only
And I am severed from the room
The little grasses pushing through
They grow with you
And you grow too
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11. |
Slow Burn
02:25
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I thought I could do it
But I found there's more to it
Hey slowburner
What fuel are you using?
My heart beats harder
My blood flows heated
And all movements repeated
What went up has come down
Melting rocks on the old ground
What was once a dark secret
Becomes a regular feature
Galaxies moving
Universally growing
And satellites glowing
And the ancients are turning
Into fuel for our burning
And as I am speaking
Down through porous rocks they're leaking
And heavy erosion
Brings a black sticky potion
And it feeds the earth's motion
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FELL London, UK
Fell is Nicolas Burrows, an artist, illustrator and musician living in London, with band members Jon Rulton (Bear Driver, Dream Giant), Dav Shiel (Beth Jeans-Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny) and Matt Giraudeau (Dogtanion).
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