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To Give Painless Light

by Mark Carey and The Fnords

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Crazy Cloud 04:18
Crazy Cloud Petals are falling on north terrace at dawn A feeling so old like you’ve just been born Coming down From a night on the town But I could still walk for miles yet & nowhere yet I have to get I was down in the park Writing verse chorus verse Relegislating the universe Watched the fireball spiral philharmonic inferno Smile on the face of the night from beneath an old tree away from the streetlights Marvels by the minute went cheap My tongue slept to speak Of the visionary vast vaults Of that vibrating deep Caught beat of the black swans’ feet & the timing & rhyme of the primes Danced in a lavender lane With my mind aflame and my eyes ashine talking aloud to no-one near blessing all that’s yet to fall & all still to appear and a morning glory told me it’s story as the first light first shone clear In another century I would have worn clogs and threadbare shroud And wandered this country Like a crazy cloud A foam of forms a fountain of filaments A harmonic garden A music of mountains A catastrophe of shattered dew drops A bordello of bassoons An overflow of autumn An unsigned poem Unmown forests A foliage of fireworks Gasseous glass spiders A helium beach All for you my love
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Goldwater Rain Goldwater - A mixture of concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids. A highly corrosive liquid that will dissolve gold and other resistant substances. Running through the evening Running through the day The river of Fate In the Ocean of Space In a million years Meteors pelt the beaches Lay me down In the cold reaches Goldwater Rain Goldwater Rain What became of the loves become photographs? Earthquakes silent to the seismograph I see you across the room I see you across the world Under Berlin’s Glass Clouds You were 5ft 10” tall A perfect smile On a perfect body & I feel like I’m missing Memories faded to extinction Pieces of sleep A pale landscape Desert heat stunned in the unbearable light Like the blast of the full-noon sun at midnight Goldwater Rain Goldwater Rain The future disappears With it’s harvests of blood & harvests of roses I leave no footprint No last wishes
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Fission Chips I was brighter I was better They Picked me out Snowed me under Took the high road Makes me wonder The broken bodies Ploughed them under The bombers line up on their run A blow of the finger on the drum & Toy soldiers Tumble down Of course I lied Did what I thought was right Put it out of mind It was all justified At the time Spoken: At Ground Zero Watching the falling leaves at Abssolute zero this is the plaugue of thebes Road side reflectors Crosses & flowers Vanished between point A & point B My lovers search the autumn leaves for peices of me (Background: Windows open all across the world Demons crawling through the firewall) To every man is given The keys to the gates of heaven & that same Key opens The gates to hell Take apart the jugganaught Let it rust (x 3)
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In The Shoes Of Absolute Zero If you can smile, break the spell sail through my brain Each wave washes the marks of the last The Deep forgets, it's all the same If I could escape From all we’ve been Strange days breed yet stranger dreams Carry on, Let it go I want to lie Buried in the tide Mistakes are made, lives are changed In the blink of an eye Please forgive me It wasn’t me just somehing rattling my cage. Carry on, Let it go Carry on, Let it go
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The International Travel Avant Garde I’ll take you higher In this little bird of gears & wires Around the world in just one day Oh, why so sad ? Everyhing you need you have Every colour, every shape
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Longship 03:30
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Stella maris 05:50
Stella Maris Stella Maris -a female protector or guiding spirit at sea (a title sometimes given to the Virgin Mary). ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘star of the sea.’ Wipe the sleep from the ice my love are you sad tonight? aroura singoirina burning sodium balerina white dove the love I never knew A man adrift on a slim spar He shrinks to nothing from afar Slow light makes new memories Shares secrets in the breathing chrome Now we could just drift forever Just on inertia You wait here Until you are pure Open the wings to catch the rays Open the wings to catch the waves & there’s a home for the little children far above the bright blue sky among the God strewn galaxies that raise no walls. A life beyond What we ‘ve known as life Open the wings to catch the rays Open the wings to catch the waves

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An eclectic album of folk electronica which is a total sonic and lyrical journey from beginning to end. The first album of the Fnords from 2010.

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released June 9, 2016

Musicians: Mark Carey, Gavin Lane, Yani, Laura May, Paul Barrington
Produced by: Julian Barnett

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