1. |
Something's Lost
02:11
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Talking over
Empty glasses
All that mattered
Shifts and passes
Take the bill
And split the cost
And I feel
That something's lost
I'm fading
You're falling down
Time gave us
Our tarnished crown
All we were
Is ripped and dying
All we do
Is amplifying
The tales we told ourselves
The lines we crossed
All I know
Is something's lost
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2. |
Broken Angel
02:53
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Echoes bouncing off the stone
A face I used to know
A place I used to live tonight
Is moving through my mind again
I can't believe that you're still there
Still bound when you can fly
So tonight I'll sink in concrete dreams
And I know you'll be waiting there for me
Drowning in in a memory
Can't breathe within the past
But you're sustained in time ageless
You hold on to a time decayed
Your heart behind a barricade
You fold your wings away
So tonight I'll sink into your past
And I know you'll be waiting there for me
Broken angel there to hold me tight
Gently squeeze the air away from me
Echoes bouncing off the stone
A face I used to know
A place I used to live tonight
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3. |
Don't Know
03:47
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So slowly the light left
I watched stung, the line cleft
I'll gather your treasures here
No reasons no senses
My chest locks and tenses
Unspoken your time draws near
Don't know when I'll see your face again
Take comfort from bruises
They shuddered he loses
The letters I did not send
Stayed with me unsighted
And left you benighted
We're rich but we cannot spend
Don't know when I'll see your face again
I believe that you're free
I believe you can see
Don't know when I'll see your face again
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4. |
In Gold
03:47
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Golden words seep through my senses
Binding me with you
Take me now and hold me close, love
New times coming through
Your eyes promise all I feel here
Held tight in your arms
Take your time and give me time, love
Time will keep us safe from harm tonight
I know you
I know what we can find
You're written in gold
Inside my mind
In my mind
In my sight
In my life
Here tonight
And I will call your name
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5. |
Who Made Me Smile
03:28
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I feel it's you
Who made me smile
Opened my mind
And gave me time
The moon fell down
Filled your eyes with light
Shine through the shroud
Draw me to your side
To feel your touch
I'd carve through stone
Carve from the rocks
The things you need
Fire from your eyes
Carries me to you
You made me smile
You made me smile
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6. |
Chances
03:48
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The quiet pause as dawn approached the curtain
And I recall I'd never felt so certain
The smell of coffee bitter on the table
The sinking sense that only you enable
I drew in strength from all that I'd abandoned
The shattered pieces lying in the wake
Now I slowly start to understand but still
I'm haunted by the memories that cling to me
You're everything they said that you would be
In my dreams
We're turning round in circles once again
I've heard
There's changes
and there's chances
and there's choices
yet to come
But you will not be with me here
You will not be with me here
The creeping shadows rippled round the edges
And turned the pathways into broken wedges
Anticipation for a different story
Our fading time is my memento mori
A snap, a twist, an echo through the alley
Another chance to disappoint myself
So count the costs and make another tally, fool
But I can hear the song you used to sing to me
You're everything they said that you would be
In my dreams
We're turning round in circles once again
I've heard
There's changes
and there's chances
and there's choices
yet to come
But you will not be with me here
You will not be with me
In my mind
We had our time
I walked the night for you
You are all I'm waiting for
Cut down by winds that blew me
And the way your eyes
Can look straight through me
Yesterday you knew me
I took a breath and turned around the corner
Took the chance to start a new endeavour
Realising what I always doubted
Now I know that nothing lasts forever
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7. |
Smoke
04:18
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Time is passing through our hands
Catch a piece of hope and try to understand
A furrowed brow, a cliched word
Is all we have today to make ourselves be heard
Borrowed smiles and hopeless hearts
As one life ends another starts
But when I see you falling
I lift my hands to break your fall
But you can't breathe when all you do is choke
It's never easy reeling
You carry more than you can hold
You need solid ground, you're lost in smoke
Scratches forming in your mind
Bound to memories you tried to leave behind
I wish that you could turn the page
To find yourself lit up upon a different stage
Broken wings fill you with doubt
You need the rain to end this drought
But when I see you falling
I lift my hands to break your fall
But you can't breathe when all you do is choke
It's never easy reeling
You carry more than you can hold
You need solid ground, you're lost in smoke
Replaying moments lost in time
I see you stumble blind
Lost inside your lonely labyrinth
You sink into your mind
Into your mind
Into denial
Into the haze
Off better days
Into your life
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8. |
Union
03:29
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Scattered like feathers on winds that cut me bare
Draw my coat, turn my face, hiding the scars I wear
I can barely hear
I can barely feel
But something pulls me now
To what is real
A flame
Calling me
Drawing me
To you
Living in remnants of Promise's shattered lies
Shackled down wishing for something to make me rise
A whisper in the dark
Set this creature free
My metamorphosis
Now I can be
Your flame
Calling me
Drawing me
To you
Your fire lifting me higher
You're bringing me balance
You're leading me to
This union of two
My heart was a liar
But you've taken me higher
I know that you're true
Our union of two
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9. |
I Know
03:24
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Pieces of the past are scattered on the floor
Gave them everything but still they wanted more
They hurt me, desert me
I'm left for dead
Breaking everything that kept me safe from harm
Cursed and set upon this blistered poisoned charm
Entwine me, define me
I'm bathed in red
I know
It's getting harder now
To find the difference somehow
I know
There are changes moving on the moon tonight
There's beginnings and a future hanging bright
I know this, I feel this
I need to stay
Time for everything to come to newer forms
Time to light the lamp and push away the storms
I want this, I need this
A better day
I know
It's getting harder now
To make a difference somehow
I know
I'll wait for the dawn
I'll try to believe
I know
It's getting harder now
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10. |
Fire Lullaby
03:28
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Fire's burning low
You show them all the things they want to see
Embers fly and turn the secrets deep within your mind
The fire in your eyes
Shows flickers of a possibility
So bury all the pain you're feeling leave it all behind
All the things that you want to be
Stretch out and call to me
I'll help you to see
Holding heartbeats inside of you
I know what you want to do
I know that you're true
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Heligan Bristol, UK
Heligan is the song writing work of Bristol based Mike Richards.
"Deconverting
Days", the debut album by Heligan, was released in 2021. "Deconverting Days" explores faith, atheism and deconversion from theological constraints.
Heligan’s second album, “A Slow Reply” is nearing completion and will be released early in 2024.
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