Song: ''Darkness, Darkness' by Jesse Colin Young.

All other songs - words/music by Heidi Berry 1996. © Universal Music Publishing Group.

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THE MOUNTAIN

 

If you are my true friend
Then you'll listen
You see, I've been dreaming again
Looking for something
That's been lost
And these eyes have been a camera
They hold memories clear and fine
I'm turning away 
 

And I remember
The way it was to live
Inside a small girl
To cast no shadow on the ground
But there is someone here with me
And he is tying
A red, red ribbon to a tree
 

Oh my mother
My good friend
I knew you so little then
And my sister
And my two brothers
We can still talk to each other
In the dark
 

So if today
Is such a long, lonely time away
Then I'll remember
The sound of snow
And I'll remember
The forest
And I'll remember
The Mountain

 

 

TIME

 

You put the fear behind you, yet you’re still aware

That one day you might finally cease to care

And never know it’s day or night, or if you’re hot or cold

Or if you’re growing up or growing old

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

Anyone can tell you there’s the red, and there’s the green

It’s when you lose the difference in between

Love and joy and beauty are all lost to shades of grey

It’s like a veil gets drawn against the day

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way –

 

When you wake up crying and you don’t know where you are

And fighting down a rising, cold hysteria

You don’t know where it’s come from

You don’t even know its name

But it won’t make you happy

And it won’t keep you sane

 

Time and time and time and time again

You swear you’ll never get this way again

Time and time and time and time again

You know you’ll never get this way again

 

 

HOLY GRAIL

 

This is the way you made

It’s like a desert you’ve laid it all bare

Walk if you can through these Badlands

Lean on me if you will, if you dare

Look to the sky I stand under

And I suppose you might say I’ve been blessed

Breathe in the air that is burning your face

Feel the wind that’s so heavy with dust

 

This is the way that you want it to be

Now abide by the rules that you made

Pray to the wind if you want

But you won’t be my hope or my holy grail

 

Is this not what you expected

All your labour for this consequence

No use to look for the garden

In the place of this inheritance

No you can’t reap what has never been sown

Forgive me but I’ve got to leave

Stranding you here to survey this alone

So you see that we have no common ground

 

This is the way that you want it to be

Now abide by the rules that you made

Call out my name if you want

But you won’t be my hope or my holy grail

 

Call my name

Call my name

 

This is the sound of my heartbeat

And the sound of the air that I breathe

This is the mouth that I speak with 

And the words that come so hard to me

These are the eyes that I look through

And their colours are grey, blue and green

These are the thoughts 

That burn right through my brain

Like a brand to show what I have seen

 

This is the way that you want it to be

Now abide by the rules that you made

Pray to the moon if you want

But you won’t be my hope or my holy grail

 

Call my name

Call my name

Call my name

 

 

DARKNESS, DARKNESS

Words/Music: Jesse Colin Young © BMG Rights Management

 

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow 
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your dream

Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
For the things that cannot be
Keep my mind from constant turning 
Towards the things I cannot see 
Oh the things I cannot see

Oh the things I cannot see 

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
Is the day that brings the pain
I have found the edge of sadness
I have known the depth of fear

Oh, darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill this emptiness up now
Fill the emptiness up now

Fill the emptiness up now

 

Darkness darkness, be my pillow 
Take my hand and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your dream

Oh darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with endless night
Take away the pain of lonely
Fill this emptiness up now
Fill the emptiness up now
Oh the emptiness up now

 

 

MIRACLE

 

I’m not asking any questions

That haven’t got an answer

Don’t need to know your reasons

And I don’t want to weigh you down, no

I’ll treat you like a good friend

I’ll treat you like a brother

 

Been so long

Since I felt this way

And I would be glad just to let it go away

But if there was anything in your heart for me

Would you tell me?

 

Tell it to me

Tell it to me

 

I saw you in the daylight

I saw that you’d been crying

And standing on the shoreline

Never walking on the water, no, no, no

There’s names that I might give you

In the event of – miracle

 

Been so long

Since I felt this way

And I would be glad just to let it go

But if there was anything in your heart for me

Would you tell me?

 

Tell it to me

Tell it to me

 

I want to sit at your feet

I don’t want you to console me

I don’t you to control me

I don’t need you to feel whole

I know I’ve got that sorted

 

Been so long

Since I felt this way

And I would be glad just to let it go

But if there was anything in your heart for me

Would you tell me?

 

If there was anything in your heart for me

Would you tell me?

 

Tell it to me

Tell it to me

 

 

THE CALIFORNIAN

 

You’re putting on your old fur coat

And you’re running outside in the rain

You’ve been burning those bridges

And sinking those boats

And the girl that you are

Is the girl that you were long ago

Do you know that your eyes

When you deadpan confide

That you get so confide 

That you get so confused

When you fly

 

There you go, there you go

Arrange your thoughts in a row

Round your head

Like a rainbow

First you’re small

Then you grow

It’s not only for show

That your heart is like a window

 

When you were sixteen you ran out in the sun

With your heart and your arms open wide

You weren’t running for cover or running away

You weren’t looking for someplace to hide

Love’s a lion that roars

You were testing your voice

And you know

I hear you sing in the dark

With your head full of stars

But you will be there when I call

 

There you go, there you go

Arrange your thoughts in a row

Round your head

Like a rainbow

First you’re small

Then you grow

It’s not only for show

That your heart is like a window

 

And if anyone should challenge you

Just knock ‘em down

And if anyone should ask me

I’d stand up for you

 

La, la, la…

 

There you go, there you go

There you go, there you go

 

 

QUEEN

 

She’s so high - she’s in the upper atmosphere

And she will fly – her head will brush across the sky

And then it’s down, down, down 

Down she flies

It’s down, down, down 

To drag you through the night

 

She will smile - when it is not the time to smile

She will sing – a song to lullaby the night

And then it’s down, down, down 

Down she flies

It’s down, down, down 

To drag you through the night

 

She will call – just as you lay your body down

She will crawl – in through your open window pane

And then it’s down, down, down 

Down she flies

It’s down, down, down 

To drag you through the night

 

 

ONLY HUMAN

 

And if you are just who you think you may be

Well then you’ll know, you’ll know, you’ll know

Where’s the right and wrong

If anyone could tell you

You wouldn’t listen anyway

If anyone should offer you their time

Could you take it from them

 

And you’re used to your own company

But you know, you know, you know

That’s no way to stay

If anyone should ask you

Would you tell them everything

If anyone should offer you their heart

Could you give the same way

 

You’re so afraid you’re too far gone

But you know, you know, you know

You’ll find a way to be 

If anyone can help you

Would you let them try

If anyone should open up their arms

Would you step inside

 

Nothing gets lost without something being gains

You know, you know, you know you need to change

So say you’re only human

And don’t live so all alone

And anyone that’s listening to these words

Do you recognise this?

 

 

NORTHERN COUNTRY

 

Wherever you are in the world tonight

I wonder if you feel what I feel

Wherever you go in your head tonight

I wonder if you hear what I hear

 

Say it’s only the sound of my beating heart

It’s only the sound of the long, cold night wind

 

Wherever you are lie, where you lay your head

I wonder if you ever hear my cry

And as I lie here in sleeplessness

I know I something think I hear you call

But it’s only the sound of my loneliness

It’s only the sound of the blood running round my veins

 

And if I wait for your call

Will you find me

I’m like a ghost in my own time

Living in this cold, grey northern country

 

There never could be a night so long as this

Minutes into hours into the end

But I’m listening to a music exquisite

It’s beauty is my power and my prayer

And it’s only the sound of my beating heart

It’s only song of the long, cold night wind