(I) old
I found a in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, Empty stomach empty head a body a vacant bed, And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the days gone and I where I am.
Found a place in the darkness, a home in the darkness, in the darkness, home, in the darkness.
A crowded of passers by and in the shadows strangers cry, and the ghosts try to hide, When the rains come, when the storms form, I wonder who I am in the darkness, Home.
(ii) deep.
deep in the darkness, digging it deep down deep down deep down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep, down, deep down digging it Deep in the darkness, it deep, down, down, down, down, digging 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 mirror In the ghost carp swirl like clouds before a storm. This is the of the rains, is incoming.
And when it came was no cover, no place to hide, Vision blurred, hard to breathe, trying hard to onto something that's real. Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open it's washed away by swollen streams, Carried off with all my broken dreams.
Digging deep in the darkness, it deep, down deep down deep, deep, digging it in the darkness, digging it deep down, down, down, down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, it digging it, digging it, Deep in the darkness, it deep down, deep down, deep down, digging it.
A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the where the lizards hang motionless as the angels of stone above them, their broken wings throwing long shadows into the grass where the scorpions hide. The are running out of jungle.
In the end I was tired of being asked if I could say I was happy now, As if you me to convince you that everything's ok. you take me back?
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down deep, digging it Deep in the darkness, it deep, down, down, down, down, down, digging it, Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, deep, deep, digging it, Deep in the darkness, down, down, down, down, down, digging it.
Are you happy now? you keep asking, asking am I happy Why can't you tell me that I'm happy now? are you now? Happy now? happy
2. frogs
The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions, pirouette and dance amongst the 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 mangrove cathedrals of the islands that gather in the bay.
These are the first arrivals on this new horizon that will be coveted by strangers 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 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 your manners when you're brought to your knees, A full of chocolate frogs is all you gave to me, That's all you gave to me, all you gave to me,
A spoonful of miracles a nostril full of a lung full of virginia the needs we have we must, A to put your heart right a nose out for a deal for a heid full of chocolate frogs what can you give to me? What did you 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 that no-one was laughing you. You were out on own, Waving at trains, waving at cars, waving bars, waving from aeroplanes, as well be waving at stars,
You called out her as the darkness hit home, raised 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, praying for time, praying for endless night, might as well be wishing on
4. dancing
Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves and the static on the radio is out the sound of raingod's dancing, Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't remember how it was before the flood all I had to do was recognise the love that's trapped inside.
I gave it all, I it back and in the end there's nothing left 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 knows the flame has gone that he'll fall apart,
So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to dreamless sleep, leave behind a life died, a victim of a plague of ghosts I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep within my memories, a shelter of 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 behind a bleeding heart.
(part ii) the wake -up (make it happen)
In the end I beginnings, not a vision, a wake up call, Raised from the dead by a heart and at last I can see it all And my eyes were to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame, A spark of life to touch the fuse and these clouds away, I can make it happen, if I to, it happen, if I try, Forgive, forget, forever never as much as it does today, Make it happen, we can it happen, we can make it happen.
When I wake up, will you be it can never be the same. If we can take our lives slowly, step by step, we can be in the rain, We can make it happen, we can make it happen, it happen, Forgive, forget, means today, make it happen, we can make it happen, We can make it happen, forgive, forget, forever today, it happen.
Plague of ghosts/chocolate frogs/ wishing on stars/raingods dancing including subsections written by derek w dick/tony turrell and mark daghorn copyright fishy music ltd