(I) old
I found a home in the darkness, a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, Empty empty head a body fills a vacant bed, And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the gone and I wonder where I am.
Found a place in the darkness, a home in the darkness, in the darkness, home, in the darkness.
A crowded room of passers by and in the shadows cry, and the ghosts try to hide, When the rains come, the storms form, when I wonder who I am in the darkness, Home.
(ii) deep.
Digging in the darkness, digging it deep down deep down deep down digging it in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down, deep down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, it Deep in the darkness, digging it down, deep down, deep, down deep it
We watched an insect stray to the edge of it's world, a lily pad stretched over a green In which the ghost swirl like clouds before a storm. is the season of the rains, is incoming.
And when it came their was no cover, no to hide, Vision blurred, hard to breathe, trying hard to hold something that's real. Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road it's washed away by streams, off downriver with all my broken dreams.
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep down deep, deep, digging it in the darkness, digging it deep down, down, down, down digging it Deep in the darkness, it deep, digging it digging it, digging it, Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, deep down, deep down, it.
A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the graveyard where the lizards motionless as the angels of stone above them, their broken wings throwing long shadows into the grass where the scorpions hide. The tigers are out of jungle.
In the end I was tired of being asked if I could say that I was now, As if you need me to convince you that ok. you take me back?
Digging deep in the darkness, it deep, down deep, down deep, deep digging it in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, down, digging it, Deep in the darkness, it deep, deep down, deep, deep, digging it, Deep in the darkness, down, down, down, down, down, digging it.
Are you now? you keep asking, asking am I happy now? Why can't you tell me that I'm now? are you happy now? Happy now? happy
2. chocolate
The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions, pirouette and dance amongst the swirls and eddies in their final procession down the muddy river to the delta where they're thrown up by the surf onto sterile beaches or are trapped in the roots of cathedrals of the islands that gather in the bay.
These are the first arrivals on this new horizon that will be coveted by who will deposit themselves on these shores to build towers to the heavens. the storm will come and the rains will fall and remove their dreams and hopes once again to the waters that surround them. and while they pray the frogs will chant in the darkness
A heid full of chocolate frogs, a body full of rush, a pocketful of shrapnel and a of bush, An eyefull of the future and a belly full of the past, how beautiful the present when you know it last.
A tumblerful of voddie, two fingers in a glass, a of promises, a heart full of remorse, Mindful of manners when you're brought down to your knees, A heid full of chocolate is all you gave to me, That's all you gave to me, all you gave to me,
A spoonful of miracles a full of dust a lung full of virginia the needs we have we must, A pill to put your heart right a out for a deal for a heid full of chocolate frogs what can you give to me? did you give to me? What did you to me? did you give to me?
3- at stars.
You cracked up too soon before the punchline hit home and at the end of the joke did you notice no-one was laughing with you. You out on your own, Waving at trains, at cars, waving from bars, waving from aeroplanes, as well be waving at stars,
You called out her name as the darkness hit home, up your zippo and opened the skies till the crowd melts away, at the end of the day, you ran out of light, Praying for rain, praying for signs, for time, praying for endless night, might as well be wishing on stars
4. raingods
Empty churches, empty pews, in the nothing moves and the static on the radio is drowning out the sound of raingod's dancing, Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't remember how it was before the flood when all I had to do was recognise the that's trapped inside.
I gave it all, I took it back and in the end there's nothing except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain, I see my shining.
Raingods with zippo's, a hides a broken heart, Raingods with zippo's, he the flame has gone that soon he'll fall apart,
So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to sleep, leave behind a life that died, a victim of a plague of ghosts I was wrapped up in my guilt deep within my memories, a shelter of self-pity that I know the rain will wash away, I sense the storm arriving.
Raingods with zippo's, a tin man rusts away and slowly apart, Raingods with zippo's and all he leaves a bleeding broken heart.
(part ii) the -up call (make it happen)
In the end I beginnings, not a vision, a wake up call, Raised from the dead by a beating and at last I can see it all And my eyes were to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame, A of life to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away, I can make it happen, if I to, it happen, if I try, Forgive, forget, forever means as much as it does today, Make it happen, we can make it happen, we can it happen.
I wake up, will you be there? it can never be the same. If we can take our lives slowly, step by step, we can be in the rain, We can it happen, we can make it happen, make it happen, Forgive, forget, forever means today, it happen, we can make it happen, We can it happen, forgive, forget, forever means today, it happen.
Plague of ghosts/chocolate frogs/ wishing on stars/raingods dancing including subsections written by derek w dick/tony and mark daghorn 1998 copyright fishy music ltd