Strawbs - Baroque & Roll [compilation] (2001) by Strawbs (보컬) on maniadb.com

I - Tears
Cousins

Where are the tears that you should be crying right now ?
I see the world weariness in your eyes
I hear your voice, soft and sad
Yet your laughter rings like carillons of bells in my ears.

Where are the tears that you should be crying right now ?
I see the world weariness in your eyes
I feel your heart beat like the wings of the wild goose
I smell your love on me
I can still taste the tears that you should be crying right now.

II - Pavan
Hudson-Ford-Cousins

Oh darling go to sleep for the night is young
There are many songs yet to be sung
Oh but I will sing them all to you
Before the night is through.

And when she lies in need of care and comforting
So as a child's toy she is caressed
And yet when cast adrift upon the changing tide
As a ship becalmed, she lies at rest

Oh darling go to sleep for the night is young
There are many songs yet to be sung
Oh but I will sing them all to you
Before the night is through.

Oh darling go to sleep for the night is young
There are many songs yet to be sung
Oh but I will sing them all to you
Before the night is through.

Hawken / Cousins

I sometimes sit and think about our evenings in the firelight
You and I when we were young
Laughing at the crazy-patterned shadows that were dancing on the wall.

Without a care, with time to spend
Hardly speaking for hours on end
That was you and I when we were young.

Walking hand in hand beside the river at the weekends, you and I
When we were young
Children with their fishing nets were laughing as they took their catches home.

Caterpillars in paper bags
Knees tied up with dirty rags
That was you and I when we were young.

Brushing through the fallen leaves together in the autumn, you and I
When we were young
Planning for the future without knowing what it held for us at all.

The road to nowhere never climbs
We changed direction a dozen times
That was you and I when we were young.

Cousins

Long gone the days, of which dreams were made
Naive in the glow of evergreen
Innocent days, of fresh airs and graces
The bruising of hearts, the losing of races.

Passionate days, remember them well
The devil may care of evergreen
We measured success in the stains on the back seat
Our tongues in your mouths, our hands on your heartbeat.

Evergreen
Sweet evergreen
You are all the love
There's ever been
You are all to me
And more sweet evergreen.

Gentle the breeze that blows through the trees
Caressing the leaves of evergreen
We married in haste, young lambs to the slaughter
We weep in the arms of a favourite daughter.

Evergreen
Sweet evergreen
You are all the love
There's ever been
You are all to me
And more sweet evergreen.

Here in the windchill years of our lives
We dwell in the shade of evergreen
Stirring the last of the slow burning embers
Counting our way through a year of Decembers.

Evergreen
Sweet evergreen
You are all the love
There's ever been
You are all to me
And more sweet evergreen
Sweet evergreen
You are all the love
There's ever been
You are all to me
And more sweet evergreen.

I - Sweet Dreams
Cousins

Go to sleep, my babies, don't you wake up
The stars will keep you company, so close your eyes
Old uncle moon will smile his dearest sweetest dreams
And hold you in his arms until the morning comes.

II - Night Light
Cousins

Dark the night, not a sound
Damp and cold, frosty ground
Above your head the lion screams
To tear you from your moonlit dreams.

Damp with sweat, mouth is dry
Twisted branches catch the eye
Beside your bed the angel stands
You cannot touch his withered hands.

III - Guardian Angel
Cousins

As the lion's eyes dance before me, they are kindly yet bloody red
I can see that he is smiling but I cannot live inside his head.

Tell me, children, are you sleeping ? Are you innocent like me ?
May you never cross the line ? I hope your dreams are not like mine.

There the needle stands before me, I climb inside it towards the light
Where the angel stands in glory, his sword of peace defends the night.

Tell me children, are you sleeping ? Are you innocent like me ?
May you never cross the line ? I hope your dreams are not like mine.

So the world is spread before me as I fly high on angel wings
But the angel is deceiving for he is weeping as he sings.

Tell me children, are you sleeping ? Are you innocent like me ?
May you never cross the line ? I hope your dreams are not like mine.

IV - Night Light (continued)
Cousins

Early birds, morning breeze
Spinning leaves, sleepy trees
Gently tap the window pane
It's good to see the sun again.

Cousins

Sadness clouds the face of Mother Nature
Children dry the tears that she has shed
We will light a candle in her darkness
Beauty in the eyes of the beloved

There will come the day
When we'll be glad
There will come the day
For celebration
The day of hope
The day of innocence
The day of destiny
The right of man

The women that were raped are bearing children
Blood seeps in the furrows that we plough
We will sow the seeds of our salvation
While grave stones line the old road to the high brow

Spirits that were crushed still sing together
The ancient village raised will be reborn
We will join our hands and sing together
We will raise our voices to a new dawn

Cousins

If the school bell had rung
Would it have rung a death knell?
Now the dark day has gone
And there isn't any bell

In the flower of their youth
How were they to know?
And now there's so few left
And not all the flowers grow

Just think how you would feel
Had one been a child of yours
And you look out every day
And still see the coal seam sores

To remind you of that day
Just you look out in the rain
And although some children p1ay
It will never be the same

Lambert

Storms are breaking in California
From the East Coast a twister comes
She lies waiting for her lovers
A crumpled rag doll that's cast away
Then they call her on the phone
Telling lies that she can see through
So they'll live inside their hell tonight
Knowing they were saving their own skins

Signing up for high adventure
Young and innocent so alive
Mules and asses held the high ground
While the lions stood like sitting ducks
Then they drove them through the fire
With a cry of "we know better"
So they'll live inside their hell tonight
Knowing they were saving their own skins

Sailing oceans to a new life
Friends and family are tied as one
Captain's table rocks with laughter
Glasses raised to a job well done
And the market place is waiting
For the souls that can't be bought
So they'll burn inside their hell tonight
Knowing they were shaming mankind

Like a dead bird in a green field
Still and peaceful the body lay
I don't need to witness something
To confirm all my deepest fears
But I climb inside my car
And I stop the help arriving
So I'll live inside my hell tonight
Knowing I was only gloating

Cousins

The bird had silver wings, my friends, and reached out for the sky
It found its wings were broken, it had lost the right to fly
The pink-eyed salamander changed its colours for the day
It changed from white to purest gold and left the stag at bay.

Now I am but a p;oor man in the apple blossom state
I choose to fly where'er I please, the stag must needs a mate
My golden salamander, you must take me as I am
I cannot change my colours, I am but a simple man.

The golden salamander had become the rite of spring
The silver bird made promises that scarcely meant a thing
They told the wicked huntsman where the stag had run to rest
Now the elderly survivor knew this was not for the best.

He opened up his heart and prayed for peace for all mankind.
He asked a fortune teller but found out that she was blind
My golden salamander, you must take me as I am
I cannot change my colours, I am but a simple man.

The clouds were passing over, there was little sign of rain
The sun was slowly rising from its slumberdown again
The stag had run to cover in a copse beside the lake
The huntsman broke the silence and the birds began to wake.

The fortune teller smiled as the survivor spoke of fate
He thanked her for her interest but knew it was too late
My golden salamander, you must take me as I am
I cannot change my colours, I am but a simple man.

Cousins

I made a sideways motion, turning a new leaf
The single minded miner's girl was there to share my grief
I shivered in the butter wind, three times the cockerel crowed
I waited for the river but the river did not flow.

An autumn turned to silver, winter turned to gold
The weatherman said : 'Dress up' - oh but I did not feel the cold
Kids waited with toboggans as I sheltered from the snow
I waited for the river but the river did not flow.

I will drink the milk from you breasts, meld myself to you
Collect the valley lilies the worshippers once strew
My body aches with hunger, yet your belly has to grow
I waited for the river but the river did not flow.

Cousins

Maybe you think, a lot like me
Of those who live beside the sea
Who feel so free, so I surmise
With their comfortable homes and wives
Who end up drinking tea together
In the afternoon of their lives.

They build their homes upon the seashore
The quicksand castles of their dreams
Yet take no notice of the North wind
Which tears their buildings at the seams.

In their dismay and blind confusion
The weeping widows clutch their shawls
While as the sea mist ever deepens
The sailors hear the sirens' calls.

And in the maelstrom sea which follows
The lifeboat sinks without a trace
And yet there still remain survivors
To bear the shame of their disgrace.

Last night I lay in bed and held myself
Trying to remember how it once was with you
How your hands were softer.

Yesterday I found myself staring into space
Rather like the sailor in my own home surroundings
I'm not sure I know me.

If you were me, what would you do ?
Don't tell me I don't need you to
It won't help me now.

If you were me, what would you do ?
Don't tell me I don't need you to
It won't help me now.

Cousins

While seasons change in timely way
The salt sea ever flows
Where open moors lie cold and bleak
A single flower grows.

Though winter snows fall deep and long
The flower grows the while
The weary traveller passing by
Feels warmer for her smile.

Sunshine and the tender flower
Both melt the young man's heart
But he who lingers waits his turn
Must learn to play his part.

Through summer days of warmth and love
The young man tends his flower
But blinded by her colours bright
Heeds not the passing hour.

The autumn trees once clothed with gold
Now frayed and sadly worn
The flower bids a chill farewell
The young man's heart is torn.

While seasons change in timely way
The salt sea ever flows
Where open moors lie cold and bleak
A single flower grows.

Cousins

The wanderer has far to go
Humble must he constant be
Where the paths of wisdom
Distant is the shadow of the setting sun.

Bless the daytime, bless the night
Bless the sun which gives us light
Bless the thunder, bless the rain
Bless all those who cause us pain.

Yellow stars may lead the way
All diversions lead astray
While his resolution holds
Fortune and good will will surely follow him.

Bless the free man, bless the slave
Bless the hero in his grave
Bless the soldier, bless the saint
Bless all those whose hearts grow faint.

Bless the daytime, bless the night
Bless the sun which gives us light
Bless the thunder, bless the rain
Bless all those who cause us pain.

Bless the free man, bless the slave
Bless the hero in his grave
Bless the soldier, bless the saint
Bless all those whose hearts grow faint.

Bless the daytime, bless the night
Bless the sun which gives us light
Bless the thunder, bless the rain
Bless all those who cause us pain.

Bless the free man, bless the slave
Bless the hero in his grave
Bless the soldier, bless the saint
Bless all those whose hearts grow faint.

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