Song Lyrics

(All lyrics by Paul Dennis)

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 A Legion in Morocco

Captivating the Café girls with tales of Arabian Knights

Showing off the scars that mark a thousand different fights

Check in; check out their rooms until you hear the call

“Change mounts and hope that we’re not riding for a fall”

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On and on we rode until the sand was in our eyes

Visions of a garden which were cunningly disguised

“Close up, prepare, I think there’s trouble in the air”

If I die will someone please remember me somewhere?

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Here we are in Tangiers, drinking wine

Desert’s far behind us now and we’re alive

“Take me in your arms, show me how

I can learn to live second time around”

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July 1920, I went home

I couldn’t stand the pace of life or the tone

Found my thoughts were turning, now I know

There’s one place for me

A legion In Morocco

Arctic Life

 I don’t know where to begin

Here on the edge of the world where the Eskimos say

“Ah, live for today”

Spending a life on the ice

Living in darkness till summer approaches once more

Oh show me the door

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Looking for something to eat

Seal’s on the menu I’m hunting through half of the night

I’m getting uptight

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Waiting for ships with supplies

Snowed in for months and the time is just dragging so slow

Nowhere to go

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I never felt like this before

I’m all at Sea

Just to carry on a few months more

I need you here with me

Buddha

 Laughing sounds I hear, reaching me

Incense burns thrown into the breeze

They can’t see me, I’m far away

But they sense something, look my way

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Down to Earth I come, see my sheep

Watch my offerings waste, people weep

Call me gently, I’m always here

But respect me or live in fear

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Why can’t I say to you, the things you want me to?

I want to say it to you

I want to say it!

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Laughing sounds I hear, reaching me

Incense burns thrown into the breeze

They can’t see me, I’m far away

But they sense something, look my way

Different Forms

 The cup has overflowed, the table’s red, no word is said

Who’s looking anyway?

Listen for the door, the echoes died out long before

Stagnating in decay

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A life that was a burning spark has turned to ashes in the dark

To be swept up when we’re not watching

Put the candles out, the stars are bright enough for you

Feel the need for someone touching

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It wasn’t always so, the days were short, the worries few

And money flowed like a waterfall

Companions like a field of corn, they stood so upright and so tall

The days of Halcyon were numbered

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The shadow on the wall is moving closer, standing tall

It’s taking on a different form

It takes you backwards through the years, removes the pressures and the fears

Resembles someone soft and warm

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Take me in your, take me in your arms

Take me in your, take me in your arms

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The lights are fading fast; no echoes now disturb the past

You’re lying undisturbed

The vision stands there with her arms; she’s reaching out with outstretched palms

And calling you in different voices

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Take me in your, take me in your arms

Take me in your, take me in your arms

Hidden Mysteries

 You can see me crying, I won’t let you know I’m dying

I can see you sleeping; you won’t let me know you’re weeping

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I can carry on if I’m feeling strong

I can make it; I can take it from you

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Endless piercing questions, looks with dark suggestions

Tragic hidden mysteries, poisoned secret histories

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I can carry on if I’m feeling strong

I can make it; I can take it from you

Messages

Communicating with the makers of Earth whose lives we cannot see

Accept from us a virginal gift to do with as you please

“Remember child you take to the skies a message from us all

The stroke is swift; you won’t feel a thing nor see the blade that falls”

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Another gift approaches it’s the spirit of appeal

When will they ever learn that I have had my fill?

They sacrifice to me the very flower of their youth

I cannot be responsible for the ignorance of you

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“Before you take my life I’d like to have my say

I’m willing to go if Baal receives me in his name

But if I’m wrong I’m throwing hope into the wind

Pray for my soul and let your consciences begin”

Necrosleep

 Someone’s knocking at my window but the air is cold outside

I’m not ready, I’m not ready, to leave

Why do you tell me, it’s so easy, when you never lied before?

Go steady, all I need is time to breathe

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There’s a figure in the doorway and it’s calling out the time

“Leave your packing; nothing’s needed where you’re going”

So we travelled to the city, where the sunlight never shines

And the people see their pleasures ever flowing

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I never thought it could be like this

A dreamless sleep I’d rather miss

A hundred faces with those eyes that weep

They’re drifting on a necrosleep

Sahara

 Shifting sand to confuse the travellers’ way

Cold night air that freezes on the face

Images mirage before the eyes

Hostile forces to cut you down to size

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These and many other trials I’ve lived and died through

But I’d sell my soul to get back to Sahara

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You fight the flies to protect your sanity

You chew on leather that protects you from the heat

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These and many other trials I’ve lived and died through

But I’d sell my soul to get back to Sahara

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All that’s left is a memory of a view

Hypnotised with a heart left on the dunes

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These and many other trials I’ve lived and died through

But I’d sell my soul to get back to Sahara

Séance

 I’ve never seen such sights, thought my eyes were blind

In the crystal, scarlet glows, fill receptive minds

I ain’t never disbelieving again, leaving it to chance

Scepticism I won’t entertain, I’m taking a second glance

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Gazed through misty veils, images appear

There she sits, arms outstretched, towards the silent sphere

“Are you with us, are you hearing me, let me know you are here?”

Distant faces in the shining globe, wonder turns to fear.

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She straightens, lights go dim,

Tingling is in my spine

She’s changing, changing shape

Features aquiline

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Her head is fading fast

Replaced by someone else

A man’s face lights the gloom

I draw within myself

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He’s taking over

She’s moving over, she’s moving over

He’s getting stronger, he’s getting stronger

I don’t want to stay here for ever

If she loses, I’d better forget her

The Last Voyage

 A friendly wave, a silent tear is all that’s seen

Amongst the crowd the brightest jewel there’s ever been

Never, never to part we said, but we’re still standing here

Looking out for miracles that never will appear

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And now it’s time to take this country by the hand

Too bad it’s only now you start to understand

I don’t want to go down to see the World from down below

Take a chance and visit me if you would like to know

The Silent Room

You say it’s in my mind

For forty long years, I’ve been blind

Locked up in a padded cell I’m waiting for the day

I can pour my heart out to you

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Giving all my thoughts away, the World looks strange to me

Giving all my thoughts away, the World looks strange to me

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All I want to do yeah, is lead a normal life

All I want to do yeah, is lead a normal life

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The Silent Room

The Silent Room

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Maybe after all this time, outside is not the same

Maybe after all this time, they’ll use a different name

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All I want to do yeah, is lead a normal life

All I want to do yeah, is lead a normal life

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The Silent Room

The Silent Room