MIDSUMMER
When the swaying sidewalks frame us
We stay in space
Take a chance
To find ourselves
Poetry and ink-stained photos
History and love entwined
We find a will
To hide our tells
Midsummer fires and
Flashing lights
Fast and beautiful fireworks
Heading for the sky
On my mind
Sweet and dreamy
Moments soft as your smile
Call me again
Looking at you standing
In the falling rain
I’ve got something to tell you
Oh, oh, oh, I’ve got something to tell you
Our heads alight with a city’s dreams
A run at Kingsland’s promises
Outside it’s calm,
Inside it glows
This is a house that wraps us tightly
Giving warmth to all within
Our sweet goodbyes
And you never knows
Chorus
Flashing lights
On my mind
Call me now
I’ve got something to tell you
I’ve got something to tell you
ongs
- The Line (03:55)
- Alive (03:28)
- Midsummer (02:45)
- Heartbeat (03:30)
- Stay (03:18)
- Follow (03:39)
- Ghost Life (03:48)
- Sorry (03:22)
- Breathing (04:14)
- Voices (04:18)
THE LINE
Your voice down the line
I hear you calling
Change on my mind
Where are we going?
The haze of doubt
Keeps us from seeing
The future calls loud
We sleep unknowing
I’ve been ready
I’ve been ready so long,
So long, so long
From a sky streaked with sighs
From the grey in our eyes
Our time is calling
Our time is calling
I’ve been ready
I’ve been ready
So long,
So long,
So long,
So long,
So long,
So long,
So long,
So long
ALIVE
Barely there
Staring at the ceiling
Listening to our breathing
Nothing we can do
A city bright
As love’s delivered
Floating like a river
I drift with you
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Your love, your love
Your love is an open sky
The years
We’ve left behind
No longer confined
Forever in a bind
I need you here
I need your dreaming
A life to believe in
My eyes are open wide
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Crawling out of the dark
Walking into the light
Your love, your love
Your love is an open sky
We’re alive, oh, we’re alive
We’re alive, oh, we’re alive
We’re alive, oh, we’re alive
We’re alive
Your love is an open sky
I need you here
I need your dreaming
A life to believe in
My eyes are open wide
MIDSUMMER
When the swaying sidewalks frame us
We stay in space
Take a chance
To find ourselves
Poetry and ink-stained photos
History and love entwined
We find a will
To hide our tells
Midsummer fires and
Flashing lights
Fast and beautiful fireworks
Heading for the sky
On my mind
Sweet and dreamy
Moments soft as your smile
Call me again
Looking at you standing
In the falling rain
I’ve got something to tell you
Oh, oh, oh, I’ve got something to tell you
Our heads alight with a city’s dreams
A run at Kingsland’s promises
Outside it’s calm,
Inside it glows
This is a house that wraps us tightly
Giving warmth to all within
Our sweet goodbyes
And you never knows
Chorus
Flashing lights
On my mind
Call me now
I’ve got something to tell you
I’ve got something to tell you
HEARTBEAT
You stop time for me…
When we hit the depths of night
Like a boxer under lights
You catch my fall
Life can hit so hard
We both play a part
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
Flying past so fast
Birds glide in the driving rain
They’re immune to our kind of pain
We faced seven winters
Many more will fall
I will always hear your call
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
Don’t close the door
When thoughts aren’t clear
We need some hope
A steady beat
For unsteady feet
We won’t take anything from this life
We start with just a heartbeat
A heartbeat, a heartbeat
Don’t close the door
When thoughts aren’t clear
We need some hope
A steady beat
For unsteady feet
We won’t take anything from this life
We start with just a heartbeat
A heartbeat, a heartbeat, yeah
This is where I need you most
This is where I need you most
This is where I need you most
This is where I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
This is when I need you most
STAY
We’re always falling
For things of the heart
They’re the bridge that connects us
When we’re torn apart
From the jaws of this land
To its trembling peaks
You still my shaky hands
In dreams you speak
Stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care
Everything around us
So quick to break down
The seasons endless changing
In this ever spreading town
So will you stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care
Love’s like the falling rain
Renewing life again
Love’s as warm as the sun’s rays
Over everyone
So will you stay with me now
Let me show who I am
Stay here awhile
Know that I care
I care
FOLLOW
Stumbling past the glass
Strewn along the path
Of lost hopes
And broken loves
That swore they’d be the last
And I will follow
I will follow
Though I know not where I’m led
I will follow
I will follow
Every dream I’ve ever had
Time will swallow whole
The yearning of your heart
As the fiery sun emboldened
Looks upon our past
And I will follow
I will follow
Though I know not where I’m led
I will follow
I will follow
Every dream I’ve ever had
I will follow
I will follow
Though I know not where I’m led
I will follow
I will follow
Every dream I’ve ever had
It’s a long road finding
A long road finding home
It’s a long road winding
A long road winding home
GHOST LIFE
We lost ourselves awhile
Our chance to reconcile
What we could not hear or see
You heard your heart skip twice
I had the bluest eyes
Statues in snow sat we
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of breaking free
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of haunting me
So clear away the leaves
We wrote so carefully
‘Bout life and how it was to be
We drank ourselves away
Under the canopy
Your smoky eyes evened me
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of breaking free
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of haunting me yeah
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of breaking free
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of haunting me
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of breaking free
It’s only in your mind
It has a way of haunting me
SORRY
You’re sitting smoking silently
In the afternoon
A cup of coffee fighting off the gloom
The ash from the fallout
Hanging heavy as a fog
What I get is an absent nod
How did we get here? So easily?
How is there you, if there’s no me?
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Sometimes it’s hard to tell
Who’s whiskey, who is ice
I always dream in those dark eyes
The seasons call their time on all of us
Both false and true
Tumbling down into the deep
Relief is found in you
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Love, it’s coming clear
As the skies open before us
Love, give me your hands
Let’s leave the past behind us
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
You better know that I am sorry
You should know that I am
Please know that I am sorry
Please know that I am
Please know that I am
BREATHING
Breathing, together
Walking in our sleep
Staying in circles
We talk but never meet
Life moves so fast
We drive without the brakes
The wounded around us
In everything we take
What are we here for
If not for love?
I need you closer
Than ever before
As change finds us
Behind every door
Love breaks the walls
We build in fear and grief
Could you help me
When I cannot see
What we are here for
If not for love
What are we here for?
If not for love?
Breathing out
Breathing in
Breathing out
Breathing out
Breathing in
Breathing out
Breathing in
Oooh
What are we here for?
What are we here for?
If not for love
If not for love
What are we here for?
If not for love
What are we here for?
If not for love?
What are we here for?
VOICES
The lies we’re told
The lies we’re told
They won’t let go
They won’t let go
A man in the pillowed rain walks tall
Every brick a falsehood in the wall
His house million-dollar grey
He worked it hard, and it paid its way
If hope was in his mind
If life could be more kind
Be more kind
Truth falls as hard as rain
Echoing in the streets again
Though his shadow ties her hands
Her new love’s a freer land
If hope could change her mind
If life could be more kind
Be more kind
Voices will rise
Voices arise
Voices arise
We will cry out in the darkest of the night…
Songs
- Little Darling (03:21)
- Again & Again (03:10)
- Stones, Birds & Aces (03:14)
- Every Part Of Me (05:05)
- Runaway (03:31)
- Tillsammans, Futaride (04:43)
- Come, Sweet Sleep (05:02)
- Trouble Is (06:07)
- Together (interlude) (01:42)
- In The Pines (04:03)
- Everything, You (03:53)
LITTLE DARLING
Little Darling, just hold my hand
Keep close now, this is foreign land
Little darling, hold onto your heart
Stay close now lest we’re torn apart
If you’re smart you’ll laugh at the devil
And dance on his grave
You might just save
Save your soul
Little darling, I see the tears in your eyes
Little darling, keep close to my side
The thief might strike so take my hand
The thief is not a myth any more than the righteous man
AGAIN & AGAIN
Dear son of Peter, we’ve got a fight on our hands
Everybody’s trying to stay away from the can
But there ain’t enough room on the bandwagon
For everyone Pretty soon we’ll see we’ve run out of oil
And the smarmy rich guys who’re making us toil
Will fall on their faces at the shame of it all
Oh, what fun!
You make me forget where I am
As the world turns on its head
If I had another chance
I’d choose you again & again
Finding a rhythm takes half the time
Working to the bone and we’re out of line
So I’ll work my way through another wine
And get moving on
Break me off another piece
Of a memory of skinned knees
Half are birds, the rest are bees
We could be anything
Someday life will feel as it should
We’ll see the trees and not just the woods
Unchain ourselves from these screens
STONES, BIRDS & ACES
He was the light
The sea that churned
In her heart
He turned out false
Killed her lover’s pulse
Broke her love apart
That fire seethed
Inside her mind
Burnt out her eyes
I won’t forget her name
Won’t forget how she
Could play a winning game
They say
Sticks and stones
Will break her bones
But she holds some aces
She could use her words
To invoke the birds
To sort out their faces
As the scene came on
The players played
In the smoking town
Beer and beef
Butts and ash
They brought the curtains down
She placed herself
On the highest shelf
To get out of hell
Something to calm her nerves
Something to take control
That could make her whole
She got all their names
On a shortlist
She won’t forget their faces
Don’t leave her high
Or leave her low
Or her fuse will blow
EVERY PART OF ME
Lover, my heart is heavy
My burden’s draggin’ me down
So long I’ve had this dream
That’s fallin’ apart at the seams
Buried without a trace
How can I escape?
No matter where I turn
I’m haunted by disgrace
And I know I have laid It all at your feet
And I know that you took
Every part of me
Every part of me
I feel that the hardest part
Is yet to come
Oh Lord, where is my peace now
In the silence of a gun
What is there to give
And what can I take?
It all becomes a mystery
A shadow inside a lake
And I know I have laid
It all at your feet
And I know that you took
Every part of me
Every part of me
RUNAWAY
So much talk from the Fed is doing my head
All about the ceiling and how the system’s dead
It feels every night is intertwined with day
Soon all the colour in my life will turn grey
I want to get out, get out with you
Let’s runaway from all that’s due
I want to get out, get out with you
Let’s runaway to something new
All of the time we’ve been trying to find
A little escape, pulling the mat
Out from the feet of the bureaucrats
Who just talk of money as if it’s all that
Give me some truth!
TILLSAMMANS, FUTARIDE
Light in the breeze,
The lovers on the streets
We breathe in the night
As history repeats
What would I give to be with you
In a house resting by the sea?
What would I give to be with you?
We wind down the land
Towards the western coves
Songs in the wind
Through the shady groves
High as the sun,
As long as we can see
Life is all you
Is everywhere I want to be
COME, SWEET SLEEP
Wake, oh wake, my love
Drag me from this sleep
If I slip under the water
Please come, sweet sleep
Grey, grey cold land
Has pushed him to his knees
Ice that seeped into his veins
He says come rescue me
Empires come and go
Loved and cursed in turn
Calloused hands, bleeding brows
Please, come rescue me
If I had a keeper
If all was under lock and key
An abandoned house, lost to all
Would you find me?
I heard he’d gone from here
On a path from city to sea
Who will come begging now
When I fall so deep?
Wake, oh wake, my love
Drag me from this sleep
If I slip under the water
Please come, sweet sleep
If I slip under the water
Please come, sweet sleep
TROUBLE IS
Our masks have come off
All of the lost moments, concealed in dreams
A name that’s no longer right
Disguised behind walls, running from what it seems
The trouble is I was blind before I could see
And I was someone else before I was me
Trouble is I was lost before I won
I gave up before I’d begun
Blood, blood on my hands
Bloodied my hands with something
That I thought was hard work
But it was all pain without any gain
It was just bright searing light
Grain against the wood
Fury without good
The trouble is I was blind before I could see
And I was someone else before I was me
Trouble is I was lost before I won
I gave up before I’d begun
The trouble is I was blind before I could see
And I was someone else before I was me
Trouble is I was lost before I won
I gave up before I’d begun
IN THE PINES
– A cover of a song by Leadbelly, which we do with the following alternate lyrics.
My girl, my girl don’t lie to me
Where did you sleep last night?
In the pines, in the pines where the sun don’t ever shine
We’d shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl where will you go?
I’m going where the cold wind blows I
n the pines, in the pines where the sun don’t ever shine
We’d shiver the whole night through
Her husband was a hard workin’ man
He lived about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never appeared
My girl, my girl, where will you go?
I’m going where the cold wind blows
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don’t ever shine
We’d shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl don’t lie to me
Where did you sleep last night?
In the pines, in the pines where the sun don’t ever shine
We’d shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl don’t lie to me
Where did you sleep last night?
In the pines, in the pines where the sun don’t ever shine
We’d shiver the whole night through
EVERYTHING, YOU
Long is the night
High is the moon
Green grass blows my name
Across the plains
Into your room
To speak to you
Full and sweet
Your body’s in the wine
Everything we taste
Is our delight
I drink it in the wine
I taste it in the night
In every song I write
Would you care for me when I’m sick and old and grey?
If I have too much to say,
If I die without a dime?
My love is free
Careless as a youth
Open to you
My love is free
Careless as a youth
Open to you
It’s everywhere I look
In every brimming brook
Everything, you
Everything, you
SOLID GROUND
Here I stand,
Tears fall down
Tears fall on the solid ground
As pages turn,
My walls falls down
While I stand on solid ground
If the tide turns, if the mist lifts
We’ll strike at the waves, we’ll break through the rift
Lines will be drawn, we will stand tall
We’ll rebuild our lives, rebuild it all
The armour’s on, the wheels turn round
The soldiers turn towards the sound
The master speaks, a slave is born
The battle lines are marked and drawn
The board has been set, the traps have been laid
The game is up, the debt’s been paid
We will never give up the ghost
We will never forget the lost
If the tide turns, if the mist lifts
We’ll strike at the waves, we’ll break through the rift
Lines will be drawn, we will stand tall
We’ll rebuild our lives, rebuild it all
Here I stand,
Tears fell down
Tears fell on the solid ground
As pages turned,
My walls fells down
But I stand on solid ground
LOVE, SPREAD YOUR WINGS
Love, Spread Your Wings
Love, Spread Your Wings
Love, Spread Your Wings
Come, take me home
翼をひろげ、
いま飛びたとう 愛のこえ、
いま響かそう
(Spread your wings
And fly
Let the voice
Of love resound)
Songs
- Take No Uta (1:09)
- All My Life (4:17)
- Isolation (3:43)
- Oh, Love! (4:32)
- Little Darling (3:02)
- Hold Onto You (Naomi’s Song) (3:45)
- Leaving the Heaviness (6:08)
TAKE NO UTA
Instrumental
ALL MY LIFE
All my life I have been waiting for this time
Love so pure, like fruit from a vine
As heady as new wine
Here I will come
When the day is gone
Here I will stay
When the night it comes
Here in your arms
I will find my peace
Here by your side
I will never leave
All my life my soul has sung this song
A melody from the start
From the first tremor of my heart
I will never leave
ISOLATION
You heard me through the din
A crying voice amongst the crowd
A hand that touched the cloak
The silent shouts over loud
I’m no good in isolation
It gnaws at me
And ringing buzzing silences
They grate on me
An empty room is no solace
If you leave me be I lose my way alone
So… come be with me
You call this sweet relief
Well, it’s a pain to me
Inextricably bound by reason I’m all at sea
Well I’m never who you think I am
Just a small doses person
Well I hear that faith heals
When pride crumbles
OH, LOVE!
Oh love
Just one final kiss
You’ve got a hold
You make me high
Line up for the fine
Just one eye open wide
You shovel the metal,
I showed all I wanted to be
Oh, love!
You set me free
Oh, love!
It’s just you and me
Oh, love!
You set me free
Oh, love!
We’re meant to be
We’re two close souls
Sitting, thinking
Are we going
To seed?
My head cloudy
When the darkness comes
Descends on me
You’re all that I need, my love
LITTLE DARLING
Little Darling, just hold my hand
Keep close now, this is foreign land
Little darling, hold onto your heart
Stay close now lest we’re torn apart
If you’re smart you’ll laugh at the devil
And dance on his grave
You might just save
Save your soul
Little darling, I see the tears in your eyes
Little darling, keep close to my side
The thief might strike so take my hand
The thief is not a myth any more than the righteous man
HOLD ONTO YOU (NAOMI’S SONG)
A bell tolls in the harbour
A ship pulls into port
The clouds let the sun break through
Nature in rhapsody
A harmonic symphony
All reminds me of you
On this journey of life
I want to sail with you
On the purest ocean blue
Sailing here in the storm
Or in the calmest deep
I will hold onto you
Standing in the tide
With hands entwined
With the water lapping our feet
On our loneliness
The bell has tolled
What can’t love defeat?
LEAVING THE HEAVINESS
Six long years
In a treeless forest
So many people cut down
To build this fortress town
I’m leaving the heaviness
As I turn my back away
I’m leaving the heaviness
Of all my yesterdays
Did you see a glimpse
Of who you’re meant to be?
In the grip of doubts
And mediocrity
So hard to drive away
From what you thought were dreams
But I will let the weeds
Crawl into the wall’s seams
Lyrics and music copyright Paper Cranes 折り鶴 2012