(I) old
I a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, stomach empty head a body fills a vacant bed, And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the days and I wonder where I am.
a place in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, in the darkness, home, in the darkness.
A crowded room of passers by and in the shadows strangers cry, and the try to hide, When the come, when the storms form, when I wonder who I am in the darkness, Home.
(ii) deep.
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep deep down deep down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down, down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, it Deep in the darkness, digging it down, down, deep, down deep digging it
We watched an insect stray to the edge of world, a lily pad stretched over a green mirror In which the ghost carp swirl like before a storm. This is the of the rains, is incoming.
And it came their was no cover, no place to hide, Vision blurred, to breathe, trying hard to hold onto something that's real. Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road it's washed by swollen streams, Carried off downriver with all my dreams.
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down down deep, deep, digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it down, down, down, down digging it in the darkness, digging it deep, digging 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 graveyard where the lizards hang motionless as the angels of stone above them, their broken wings throwing long shadows the grass where the scorpions hide. The tigers are out of jungle.
In the end I was tired of asked if I could say that I was happy now, As if you need me to convince you everything's ok. you take me back?
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, 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, down it.
Are you happy now? you keep asking, am I happy now? Why can't you tell me I'm happy now? are you happy now? Happy now? now?
2. chocolate
The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions, pirouette and 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 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 while pray the frogs will chant in the darkness
A heid full of chocolate frogs, a body full of rush, a pocketful of and a skinfull of bush, An eyefull of the future and a belly full of the past, how beautiful the present when you it cannae last.
A tumblerful of voddie, two in a glass, a handful of promises, a heart full of remorse, of your manners when you're brought down to your knees, A heid full of 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 pill to put your 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 up too soon before the punchline hit home and at the end of the joke did you notice that no-one was laughing with you. You were out on own, Waving at trains, waving at cars, from bars, waving from aeroplanes, as well be waving at stars,
You called out her name as the darkness hit home, raised up your zippo and opened the 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 night, might as well be wishing on stars
4. dancing
Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves and the static on the is drowning out the sound of raingod's dancing, Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't remember how it was the flood when all I had to do was recognise the love that's trapped inside.
I gave it all, I took it back and in the end nothing left except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain, I see my shining.
with zippo's, a tinman 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 that died, a victim of a plague of I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep 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 falls apart, with zippo's and all he leaves behind a bleeding broken heart.
(part ii) the -up call (make it happen)
In the end I found beginnings, not a vision, a up call, Raised from the by a beating 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 to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away, I can it happen, if I want 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 up, will you be there? it can never be the same. If we can our lives slowly, step by step, we can be dancing in the rain, We can it happen, we can make it happen, make it happen, Forgive, forget, forever today, make it happen, we can make it happen, We can make it happen, forgive, forget, means 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 1998 copyright fishy ltd