(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 fills a bed, And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the days gone and I wonder 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 strangers cry, and the try to hide, When the rains come, 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 in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it down, down, deep, down deep digging it
We watched an stray to the edge of it's world, a lily pad stretched over a green mirror In which the ghost carp swirl clouds before a storm. is the season of the rains, is incoming.
And when it their was no cover, no place to hide, Vision blurred, hard to breathe, trying hard to hold onto that's real. Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road washed away by swollen streams, Carried off downriver with all my dreams.
Digging deep in the darkness, it deep, down deep down deep, deep, digging it Deep in the darkness, it deep down, down, down, down digging it in the darkness, digging it deep, digging it digging it, digging it, Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, 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 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 asked if I could say that 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, deep it Deep in the darkness, it deep, down, down, down, down, down, digging it, Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep down, deep, deep, 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? now? happy now?
2. frogs
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 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 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 when you know it cannae last.
A tumblerful of voddie, two fingers in a glass, a of promises, a heart full of remorse, Mindful of your manners you're brought down 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 of miracles a nostril full of dust 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? did you give to me? What did you to me? What did you to me?
3- at stars.
You cracked up too soon before the punchline hit home and at the end of the joke did you that 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, raised up your zippo and opened the skies till the crowd 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 on stars
4. dancing
Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves and the static on the radio is drowning out the of raingod's dancing, Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can't how it was before 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 there's nothing except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain, I see my shining.
Raingods zippo's, a tinman hides a broken heart, Raingods with zippo's, he knows the flame has gone that soon fall apart,
So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to dreamless sleep, behind a life that died, a victim of a plague of ghosts I was wrapped up in my buried 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 away and slowly falls apart, Raingods with zippo's and all he leaves behind a broken heart.
(part ii) the wake -up (make it happen)
In the end I found beginnings, not a vision, a up call, Raised from the dead by a beating heart and at I can see it all And my eyes opened to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame, A spark of to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away, I can make it happen, if I to, it happen, if I try, Forgive, forget, never means as much as it does today, it happen, we can make it happen, we can make it happen.
When I wake up, will you be it can never be the same. If we can our lives slowly, step by step, we can be dancing in the rain, We can make it happen, we can it happen, make it happen, Forgive, forget, forever today, make 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 turrell and mark daghorn 1998 fishy music ltd