John Parkes - Bleeding Edge - Distant Past Lyrics

7/29/2019 John Parkes - Bleeding Edge - Distant Past Lyrics

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BLEEDING EDGE / DISTANT PASTBY JOHN PARKES

LYRICS FROM BLEEDING EDGE / DISTANT PAST

AAZ CD16


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BLEEDING EDGE / DISTANT PAST

TRACKLISTING

1. Brand New Day2. Dont Be Seventeen3. A Strange Affair

4. Roses / Bees5. What to Do (One True Love)6. Lincolnshire7. Cinema Pictures (Loved to Sail)8. Sleep With Me9. One Who Got Away10. Cold11. Just for Now (Baby Song)

12. My Hit Song13. Trireme 72 (All Rowed Home)


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Brand New Day

Were here, dont cryThe birds of evening singStay warm, stay dryIts time to fold your wings

Time to try to close your tired, tired eyesAnd you can fly in tomorrows sky

If weve had a good day, well have another soonIf weve had a bad day, be gone forever soon

Stay safe, stay brightAnd reach up for the skyThis love wont dieTake us through the night

Time to glide to the land of sleepTime to slide to the world of dreams

Yes weve had a good day, well have another soonWell survive a bad day, all forgotten soon

Time to try to close your tired, tired eyesAnd when you wake well have a brand new day

And every day is a brand new day

By John Parkes


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Dont Be Seventeen

Dont be seventeen again my lovecause we couldnt find our way back thenAnd the currents still too strong

Dont be leaving home again my lovecause we couldnt sail that sea againWith winter coming on

I tried to make it right but I cant save this situationIt makes no sense to fight against the time and tide and motion

The higher is our kite, the easier to let it go

The brighter is our light, the darker grow the shadows

So dont be drawing plans on me my loveEchoes twisting, smoke and airJust whispers in the wind

So yes I could feel that way againBut we let too many pieces drift awayAnd theyre not coming back

By John Parkes


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A Strange Affair

When she stays here, she stays all nightWhen it rains here, it rains all night

If I fall into a feelingIf I crash to the ceiling

If you close your eyesThe cool softness of summer leaves warms the winter air

A strange affair, I left back thereWith all my love and everything

When it snows here, it snows all nightWhen she leaves here, she leaves no light

If you call out for healingIf you stand up for kneelingWith her flame red hairThe warm wetness of winter clothes cools the summer air

A strange affair, sailed the airCaught cold by catapult and slingA strange affair, a trap and snareWaits on my weakness on the wing

I said I dont believe it

A strange affair, sailed the airCaught cold by catapult and slingA strange affair, I left back thereWith all my love and everything

By John Parkes


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Roses / Bees

You say no-one loves me moreTrailing roses round my doorYou came blindly, you came strangeDrowning pools of joy and pain

You say death is not the endYou say sex is not our friendYou have walked on holy groundYou have whispered in the crowd

You send arrows through my windowsYou put ropes around my shadowsYou see meaning in my silences

Silences and moods

Pouring scorn like boiling oilFlowing sadness down my wallsYou are the sunshine in the treesYou are the buzzing of the bees

By John Parkes


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What to Do (One True Love)

I dont know what to do with these feelings for you - and they hurtI worry, I wake and I pine and I wait - but I workcause the sky is not fallingAnd the wise are not weepingAnd the real world slips on by

I know what I feel and these feelings are real and for you

Shallow as words and obscene and absurd - but theyre trueBut how longer lasting?On the rough road where theyll be landingWhere strangers catch our eyes

Save my one true love for youSave my one true love for you

But I know this is nonsense

And when desire takes on conscienceWhole worlds fall apart

Were so, were so wise and real life, real life lies

And the world runs on bad timingAnd I only had a lifetimeAnd my lizard brain wont die

I do know what to say and I do know how to win and what worksHow fickle are feelings against the fates and the flakes and the flirts

And its all far too easyTo fall down slick and sleazyWhere endings pose as starts

Save my one true love for you

By J Parkes


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Lincolnshire

She stayed in a little town, with Lincolnshire all aroundShe stayed in this little place, in my head with the market place andgreen

I thought Id left her hereLike the pickles on her larder shelfJust waiting there

I thought Id left her thereLike wartime gas-tight bottled pearsFrom some dim remembered country fair

I forgot about cars, supermarkets, bars, satellite TV, the internet andjobsAnd changes in the world, gazing at the same starsOld men on park seats and new people on your streets

All those waves of changesAll those years of changes

It was me who stayed in that little world, and on the bed sheetsnostalgia burnsI held you in this little place, in my head with my past mistakes

I dont think I mean to patronise, I just needed to leave then, no

compromiseBut all these cities are just little towns, with meaner buses and biggercrowds

I thought Id left you thereIn the past with all my prejudice of small town worlds

Id like to make it clear, my world is no bigger than LincolnshireOr that small town girl

By John Parkes


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Cinema Pictures (Loved to Sail)

What would you gain by leaving?But what could I claim for living?We all love you in cinema picturesSailing On, Times Blue

You loved to sailWe love to hear your breathingYou loved to sailYou hoped to work with children - some day

Now what do you care for laughing?Too young, too soon - in cinema picturesIve seen you nude - in spinning home moviesTurning Off, Tiny Sue

You loved to sailYou hoped to work with childrenAnd wed die for fameWill you die for fame now fading - away

You feed the birds from a platform in the atmosphereSummer burns til the rain falls hereTurning on to the East and Southern hemispheres

Moving on where a star can shine

You loved to sailWe love to hear youre breathingAnd wed die for fameWill you die for fame now fading away

By John Parkes


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Sleep With Me

Please sleep with me, Id be proud to love and leave youLose my lust then leave your life alonePlease sleep with me, while Im on my best behaviourOne of the things I cant keep up for too long

Please sleep with me, before you get to know meLearn my habits and I lose my mysteryPlease sleep with me, dont lets stop and think this overPut this one down to irresponsibility

And all youll hear as you lie here is youre beautiful to meLets keep it clear that youre not here to waste your life with me

Please sleep with me, while were neither not quite soberPleasure plays before reason gets arousedPlease sleep with me, though not a soul mate nor a saviourStay the night and Ill try to make your day

Please sleep with me, I will love you ever afterThough nothing physical like standing by your sidePlease sleep with me, before I disappoint youMeet your mother and learn to criticise

And all I fear is our lives steer clear of the best things in life they say arefreeAnd if all I feel are your hard high heels its a learning curve for me

Unlock the cages that are labelled right and wrongLet out the monkeys and the cats a whileRe-write the pages that would tell you how its doneThough I wont argue if you run a mile


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Please sleep with me, before we even think of going shoppingWhile my job is to soil not wash your underwearPlease sleep with me - and thank you for not noticing Im a little olderGive a life a linger longer lay

And all youll hear as you lie here is youre beautiful to me

Lets keep it clear that youre not here to waste your life with me

By John Parkes


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One Who Got Away

You are slightly cold on summer daysYou only have so much faithYou can never quite meet me hereHolding something back

And everyone has got a one who got awayAnyone can get it wrong and run away

Everyone can take summer on and turn it grey

So even though its raining starsEven though the sunlight poursThis little piece of dark is yours

There is only drought in a cloudless skyToo much sunlight makes you blindSoft sand burns without some shade

And we can only build on hard ground

And everyone has got a one who got awayAnyone can get it wrong and run awayEveryone can take summer on and turn it grey

But its not written in the starsTheres no fate or God or lawThat says this piece of dark is yours

Watch them all carry on with confidence and summer skirts and bicyclebellsA kind of pain that feels the rain, the dark of loveThe blood of life that makes it all realLeaves you free to fall

Everyone has got a one who got awayAnyone can get it wrong and run away

Everyone can take summer on and turn it grey

By John Parkes


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Cold

Walking from the station here, turn the face I wear round townTo the grey stone war memorial, the closed down shopping mallAn open mic comedian, in a pool of dark and noiseDelusions I enunciate, how I could change the world

To sing in a bar an insane abroadTo shout at a wall a man over-bored

The cold throws me home to the northern lights I knowCold blows me home on a train through rain and snow

An over-bright night take-away I stand out on my ownVoluntary euthanasia takes my hope and soulSo I dont show those feelings that grow cold

No streets of gold, no white lines on this road

To walk in a park until the mist soaks up the dawnOr to be taken home by a girl that I dont know

The cold throws me home to the northern lights I knowCold blows me home on a train through rain and snow

This is no kiss and tell

This is no kiss and tell

By John Parkes


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Just for Now (Baby Song)

Dont know where you came from, where were you before?But youll never be alone as long as Im hereWe dont have a bedroom, we dont have a plancept to always do for you, whatever we can

But just for now, I cant wait to see youJust for now I cant wait to touch you

Just for now I hope that you safely are bornAnd in your mothers arms

I hope that youre happy, I hope that youre strongAnd youll never knowingly hurt anyoneI hope you climb mountains, I hope you sail seasAnd I hope youll always find whatever you need

But in the end, we cant know the future

In the end we cant live life for youIn the end we cant build our castles in airAir...

I hope youll have lovers, I hope youll sing songsAnd I hope well all admit when we are wrongAnd I will go with you, as far as I canAnd I hope that you will stay forever young

But just for now, I cant wait to see youJust for now I cant wait to touch youJust for now I hope that you safely are bornAnd in your mothers arms

And I will go with you, as far as I can

By John Parkes


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My Hit Song

My hit song, on the tip of my tongueIts been to the moon, words, a tune be here soon to entertain youBut thats not what I do, an aberration its trueAmbition and money and contracts and foolsIll give house room

My hit song is for true believersMy hit song, for fantasists and losers

My hit verse, lifting the curse or skirtsSex, drugs and money in a colour ball burst - hey I can cope nowSo stick it up fashion, stick it up fate, sweeter than ever for turning uplateIts a doozy

My fey fairy way with melody wins businessMy old hurtful ways youll read in media studies

Its going to be fun with the beautiful onesMy cynical songs will be soothed with the balm that success bringsBut Im not ready yet, my demands are not metThis song about a song for nows what you getHave to do now

Its cynical birth is a seed in the earthIts worth every penny you paidAnd Id just like to thank you

My hit song is for true believersMy hit song, for fantasists and losersMy hit song

By John Parkes


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Trireme 72 (All Rowed Home)

With your Latin temperament and your Dutch cap youll go farIn Arctic winters the Gomorrah sinnerWith the monocle and duelling scarWe all rowed home in a trireme 72We all rowed home somehow

An English rose with Irish eyes and a spoonful of Spanish flyWhile Chinese whispers and French letter blistersThey make the Latin lovers cryWe all rode home on Arabian horse and nightsWe all rode home somehow

Kicking our heels in the killing fields on a Portuguese man-o-warWith Celtic crosses we cut our losses and followed the Northern Star

In a Viennese whirl in an Indian summer with a skin full of GermanbeerThree score and ten with God and a friend, we all ended up righthere

We all rowed home in a trireme 72We all rowed home somehow

By John Parkes

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