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Damiana
05:01
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She came walking through the meadow
with a lantern in her hand
she peered over the hedge rows
searching for her man
She said "His name is John B. Wylder
and he left three days ago
I awoke one Sunday morning
and found myself this note
It reads I love you Damiana
but there's somewhere I must go
you see the good lord has called me
to his gathering of souls
There will be times when you will miss me
but please don't call my name
for no more shall I answer
for this is my dying day
Don't be blue Damiana
Don't be sad sweet Diane
I feel all the pain within you
but you don't know who I am
She weeps over her lover
and all the time that's lost
She's still carrying his family name
She's still carrying his cross
as she walks back to her cottage
the one that they called home
and she stays up with the light on
for she cannot sleep alone
And she's going through his paintings
his poetry and rhymes
She finds a poem called "Damiana"
and she reads it in her mind
I love you Damiana
and I built for you this home
where every night I'll lay beside you
and you'll never be alone
She's going through her diary
and she reads of better days
and she finds a flower he gave her
pressed between the page
She turns to find his photo
that he slipped into her book
and her heart grows cold and heavy
for he was giving her that look
Please don't cry Damiana
Please don't cry sweet Diane
for I'd take you from your sorrow
but you don't know who I am
Late one night out in the meadow
I saw a lantern light
and I knew twas Damiana
still pondering her plight
So I followed from a distance
but the light was growing small
when a shot rang out in horror
and I saw... that lantern fall
I love you Damiana
I love you sweet Diane
I would answer to your beacon
but you don't know who I am
I love you Damiana
I love you sweet Diane
I would answer to your beacon
but you don't know who I am
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2. |
Wedding Day
06:13
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In my silent room
I would whisper your name
into the shadows
blow out candles
and I'd dream of you
In the golden dawn
I would watch her spinning
her yarns for Mayfair
wash her long hair
in the golden dawn
I've known you one thousand years
and I saved you this cup of tears
and I was so hurt you did not recognize me
Like the rosary
she had lost all the faith
she had in me
I weep softly
In my silent gaze
You will see within my soul
ancient spirits
swirling violent
in my silent gaze
I sing this soliloquy
and I summon you in my sleep
but no reply
Light the festival fires
let's challenge the night
let's gather in horrorefrain
Dance in pantomime trance
This age of romance
this gathering doth conjure me
Though all good things have gone to waste
I have not gone I still remain
here within these fire flames
my ghost shall always haunt this place
My spirit has known no demise
I only forfeit my disguise
and though you cannot see my eyes
please know I still behold you
Drink the festival wine
revel in time
but please don't forget your fate
You shall mortal uncoil
ascend from the soil
and you all must leave this place
...alone
On my final day
please don't question if you will
ever see me
or I will long thee
from my lonely grave
On this wedding day
I'll submit to thee
all my life unfolding
Azrael hold me
on this wedding day
Light a candle for me
stay in your room
shut out the cold cruel world
Angel, just go to sleep
and soar into dreams
for there I'm awaiting thee
I love you still
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3. |
On My Return
02:45
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I don't want to lie here anymore
I want to be near you
I can't stay in silence anymore
I want you to hear me
Can you feel the longing of a soul
like morning aurora
I don't seem to know you anymore
I'm lost in confusion
Deep within the canyon
there's a ghost wind stirring
dancing through the ruins like
a lost soul returning to his home
Then he finds the world he'd known
no longer needs him
Then the wind grows quiet and still
and silently dying
and that's how it feels
to be lying next to you
I don't want to know you anymore
I'm spiritually dying
I don't want to see you anymore
I'm so tired of crying
I can stay in here and lock the door
without a companion
Or I could go and wander through this world
leave my old world abandoned
High above the mountains
there's a storm cloud gathering
weeping his immortal tears
on the silent forests
like an old soul hovering
so lonely, forgotten
railing in his majesty
that none will ignore him
and that's how it feels to be
dormant in your world
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4. |
Last Winter
03:29
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Firelight, the candle disputes the night
and I'm sitting on a cold floor
staring at the ceiling
counting raindrops on a winter's night
I write, and now I realize
I keep going over old times
rehearsing all my best lines
for when I see you again next time
But you're there, wind dancing in your hair
window shopping in the city
walking down the sidewalk
sprinkling your magic everywhere
And you stand, there in your fence of friends
safe where I can't touch you
I know I'm not supposed to touch you
but I'm wanting to again
And the winter she unfolds her wings
all around me
And the winter she is calling me
and I surrender
Streetlights, I'm walking home tonight
I think of all the words unspoken
and I'd really like to call you
but I won't bother you tonight
And I'd have no right
for I know you have other men
and you've taken them as lovers
then turned them into brothers
but I'm refusing to pretend
And you lie, all on your own tonight
and you don't know I can see you
but I swear that I can see you
and I know what's on your mind
And the winter she unfolds her wings
all around me
And the winter she is calling me
and I surrender
Firelight, the candle disputes the night
I'm sitting on a cold floor
staring at the ceiling
counting raindrops on a winter's night
goodnight
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5. |
One Night Stand
03:54
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I've known you forever
You've known me for just one night
Can't you see I'm frightened
I don't want to say goodbye
So wrap your arms around me
let me sleep for evermore
That's the world that's out there
so please don't open up that door
They want you, they want me
they want things that should not be
robots of society
don't let them take my life from me
I don't want to be like you
I don't want to be like you
I don't want to scare you
I don't want to make you cry
but I think you've forgotten
you and I are going to die
So why just waste the hours
why pretend to be alright
Life is so uncertain
this could be our final night
I confess, I'm afraid
I don't want to waste away
And I have taken your advice
I even prayed to Jesus Christ
but I'm still down here dying now
I'm still down here dying now
I've been to the temples
to plead my case before the lord
"God I hope you're listening
won't you open up your door?
I am sorry father, if I have offended thee
but if you will not help us
then you are offending me
I know you, you know me
we've seen things we should not see
we've seen children lose their faith
and we've seen people in their graves
with no god to save them now
with no god to save them"
God is peace, God is love
but God's in heaven up above
Has he seen the tortured face
dying in the human race?
We should tear the whole thing down
We should tear the whole thing down
I've seen war, I've seen hate
I've seen murder, I've seen rape
I've seen children in the street
begging just for food to eat
yes I think we've seen enough
stop the world I'm getting off
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6. |
Coming Home
03:14
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Last night I looked up to
the center of a star
I wondered if it knew
exactly where you are
And if I followed would it
lead me to your arms
But it fell from the sky
and I searched through the night
though there were many a’light
it was the only one I’d made my wish upon
And I wonder if you’re ever coming home
The world has always said
you don’t belong with me
And there were times, I’m sure
that you must have agreed
but you can’t live life
just to please your family
If you look deep inside
you will still find my bride
and if you can’t sleep tonight
why don’t you call me on the phone
and tell me if you’re ever coming home
And I wonder if you’re ever coming home
Now every time I feel
the cold October wind
I long to hold you close
my heart just aches within
I close my eyes
hold my pillow and pretend
but it’s never the same
and I still feel the pain
and my tears fall like rain
because I’m dying all alone
and I wonder if you’re ever coming home
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Like the rosary you wore
I hang a silent metaphor
hidden in shame behind the door
And all those songs for you I wrote
they are like wings that don't unfold
They longed, but never felt the wind
I recall on the night we met
How so strangely you stared
from behind golden hair
were we really there?
How we seem just like strangers now
in our prisons of distance and sorrow and doubt
I just want to get out
Now when this garden minstrel sings
one of his sad soliloquies
he's trying to tell you everything
He's laid his plot within your soul
but he'll not reap what he has sown
he's cast his seeds upon the stone
Do you still have all the poems I wrote
all the letters and lyrics I bled from my soul
that you hid in your home
And the last night I held you tight
your body was warm, but another man's fire
is what you desired
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8. |
Mayfair Girl
02:14
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She was my Mayfair girl
with hair that fell like golden rain
She was a perfect girl
stolen from my book of dreams
stands before me shimmering
delicate un-suffering it seems
she's an offering
She was my sunny girl
hair all spun in daisy chains
She was my funny girl
with spirit of an ancient child
peering from her deep blue eyes
with soul unfolding filling up the sky
pretty butterfly
She was so serpentine
wrapped around my poetry
but then she slipped away
garden of my flower died
mother of my unborn child
I thought that you would be my bride
I cried, on the night we died
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9. |
Stars In Your Eyes
03:09
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10. |
Gypsy
03:26
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Revolution, revolution
in the house where gypsy lives
on the back porch she professes
that there's no way we can live
There's conviction in her speaking
and her eyes they look disturbed
she's got concordances and references
to back up every word
She points her narrow finger
towards the eucalyptus tree, then she says
"God is within everything you see"
She's got black potions in her pantry
Aphrodite in a can
all the symbols of the zodiac
embroidered in astrakhan
She's got a cat named Nosferatu
She drinks strange Norwegian wine
keeps a bible on the mantel
under last week's TV guide
She's got a statue of the Mary
holding on to baby Christ and she swears
finally Elvis Presley has really died
She reads tea leaves she reads Tarot
she reads candle wax and runes
she reads the dirty palms of strangers
in dim lit smokey rooms
She's got a ball made out of crystal
she keeps on her TV
and she talks to apparitions
that only she can see
She has met Morrison and Lennon
She has met Jimi Hendrix too
Well, you'd think that they'd have
better things to do
She's got tools of divination
she consults on everything
She got a star inside a circle
on her necklace, on her ring
and she's into Tantric yoga
and ritualistic sex
Kundalini meditation
charms and potions
spells and hexes
She says past life regression
is the only way to go
if you really want to
recognize your soul
She's taking of her crystal
lights every candle in the room
and she's firing up her incense
and her eyes reflect the moon
Well, I don't know if I love her
but I'd sure like to pretend
so I proceed to tell her stories
to let her know just who I am
" I've been alien abducted
channeled voices from the stars
and it's Bigfoot that put that dent
upside my car"
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11. |
Hollow Me
03:13
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12. |
Vision On Susan Drive
03:08
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I see rain clouds
bellowing skies
December in your eyes
I see storm child
silent watching
in shadowy mezzanine
Please don't look at me
my pastel queen
Follow, fairground
princess of the carousel
I watch you spinning
round and round
White dress flowing
I'm watching from the Ferris wheel
as wind just blows your hair around
I see the man in the penny arcade
handing out tickets and making his way
up to the turnstile where you stand and wait
he gives you a smile then he opens the gate
Walk to graveyard
I sit behind your house
I'm writing poetry
beneath the stars
I can see you
running through the meadow
catching fireflies in Mason jar
to the music of the meadowlark
I follow you through the city streets down
to the cathedral and without a sound
you sit and you watch as the merchants close down
all of their shops and they're heading for home
Butterfly I think I want to follow everywhere you go
Moonlight maiden
standing in the window
of her bedroom
counting all the stars
I see you
turning off lights
closing curtains
locking all the doors
I will wait for you out in the moors
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13. |
Serpent And The Fool
05:32
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All things unseen
desire no acknowledgment
by all who concede to be trapped
in the conscious state
who cannot perceive
beyond their own element
who ostracize me
for presenting the paradox
oh, Paraclete, do comfort me
The Serpent be wise
but it only takes a fool and his flute
to deceive him unweave him
from his basket of truth
mesmerized, by the music of lies
Don't be ensnared or lured by society
please don't forget it was they
who had stolen your dreams
as a child, in exchange for the immaculate lie
like that time in your youth
you'd see things in your room and cry out
your mother rushed in turned the light
(You're only dreaming, I don't believe you)
Close your eyes it is alright
(I did not want you, I did not want you)
It's only a dream
(I never loved you, I never loved you)
She's teaching you how not to see
(I did not want you, I did not want you)
Just like her society
The institute of higher earning
seduced you from your path of learning
They say the soul is but a theory
and now your body's growing weary
But now you've got no god to pray to
for god is only human virtue
astronomically projected
unreal for science can't detect it
nor put it in an incubator
a test tube or an oscillator
subject it to mere human scrutiny
can't they see there are things
bigger than you and bigger than me
All things that live, desire continuance
All things that die, desire a reverence
All souls contained have fear of the elements
All souls released shall return to the embodiment
of all that is god and all that is man ascend
to all that is god and all that is man
The institute of higher earning
seduced you from your path of learning
They say the soul is but a theory
and now your body's growing weary
But now you've got no god to pray to
for god is only human virtue
astronomically projected
unreal for science can't detect it
nor put it in an incubator
a test tube or an oscillator
subject it to mere human scrutiny
can't they see there are things
bigger than you and bigger than me
Can't they see the god that's within
is within the god that's without
Can't they see the god that's within
is within the god that's without
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You have seen me in my makeup on the pauper's stage
You have seen me pour my soul out on a silent nation
And you just stood there watching silent as I went insane
pleading to god before man
and this world was never my friend
You had seen me in my black room writing poems of love
then you had lied beneath me wondering if I deceived you
but all I ever wanted was to die within your arms
but you thought my world was pretend
ah, the world was never my friend
You had felt my spirit urging you from your device
you had heard me psychologically dissect this life
still you all ignored me when I said your spirit dies
but you turned your backs on my death
and embraced the impotent flesh
You never saw me crying in my room alone in pain
You never knew the nights I wondered if you ever loved me
now that I am dying there is something I must say
I want to see you again
but the world was never my friend
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