(I) old
I found a home in the darkness, found a in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, Empty stomach empty a body fills a vacant bed, And the rolls by, and the rains come, and the days gone and I wonder where I am.
Found a place in the darkness, found a in the darkness, in the darkness, home, in the darkness.
A crowded room of by and in the shadows strangers 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.
deep in the darkness, digging it deep down 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, 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 carp swirl like 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 washed away by swollen streams, Carried off with all my broken dreams.
Digging in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep down deep, deep, digging it Deep in the darkness, it deep down, down, down, down digging it Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, digging it it, digging it, in the darkness, digging it deep down, deep down, deep down, digging it.
A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the graveyard 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 tigers are out of jungle.
In the end I was tired of being if I could say that I was happy now, As if you need me to convince you everything's ok. Would you take me
Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep, down deep, deep digging it in the darkness, digging 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, 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 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 mangrove cathedrals of the islands that gather in the bay.
These are the 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 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, of your manners when you're brought down to your knees, A heid full of chocolate is all you gave to me, all you gave to me, that's all you gave to me,
A spoonful of miracles a nostril of dust a lung full of virginia the needs we have we must, A pill to put your heart right a nose out for a deal for a heid full of chocolate frogs can you give to me? What did you to me? did you give to me? What did you to me?
3- at stars.
You cracked up too soon 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, Might as well be 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 night, might as well be wishing on stars
4. dancing
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 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 left except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a 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 that died, a victim of a plague of ghosts I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep within my memories, a shelter of self-pity that I know the will wash away, I sense the storm arriving.
Raingods zippo's, a tin man rusts away and slowly falls apart, Raingods zippo's and all he leaves behind 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 the dead by a beating heart and at last I can see it all And my were opened to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame, A spark of life to 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 make it happen, we can it happen.
When I wake up, will you be there? it can be the same. If we can take our lives slowly, by step, we can be dancing in the rain, We can it happen, we can make it happen, make it happen, Forgive, forget, forever means today, make it happen, we can 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 and mark daghorn 1998 copyright fishy music ltd