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Lyrics to "The Shadows"

All Lyrics and Songs © 2001, Chris Busietta except Track 9 (lyrics by Michele Zappavigna). Unauthorised duplication of these lyrics prohibited.

Track Order

  1. Happy Somewhere
  2. Silence
  3. Full Circle
  4. Requiem
  5. Dreams of Spain (Instrumental)
  6. Moonlight
  7. The Pan Song (Instrumental)
  8. When the Lions Fall
  9. Swift
  10. Aurora (Instrumental)
  11. Blinding Visions
  12. Numb the Senses
  13. I See You

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1. Happy Somewhere

Album Version

Another day.
Another life flashes by
And the cool wind blows.
Now the garden's feels so light,
Another bright light,
So white it glows.

All the empty rooms are full of visions
and now it seems the past has gone by.
Christmas tree, Oh Christmas Star
Grant me this wish: I want to travel far.

When will the world call me again,
When the dust settles in my tomb?
You took away my best friend.
How can I ever live again?

Updated Version

Another day.
Another life flashes by
And the cool wind blows.
Now the garden's less alive,
Another light appears,
So white it glows.

All the empty rooms are full of visions
and it seems the past has gone by.
Christmas tree, Oh Christmas Star
Grant me this wish: I want to travel far.

When will the world call me away,
When the dust settles in my tomb?
You took away my best friend.
How can I ever live again?

Another day, another life
We will be happy somewhere

2. Silence

Silence invades my life.
Sleep tight, as extinguished light.
Where the roses grow I am waiting,
For want to look upon myself
In the quiet grove of silence.

Until my heart grows still,
When the sound is extinguished again.
Again.

Lift my head for me.
Open up thine eyes.
Fill my soul with ghostly sound
Until I seek no more silence.

Until my heart grows still,
When the sound is extinguished.
Until my heart grows still,
When the sound is extinguished again.
Again.

3. Full Circle

I'm lying on the floor of the room
Screaming for help aloud
Nobody hears, they act aloof
I never made a sound.

Is it just my destiny?
Or do I deserve less than this?

Running
With a frightening urge
Heading for the sand.
I tumble in the dirt
The knife from hand to hand.

The circle continues in the shade
My life is stuck in endless replay.

Lightning strikes
The glittering sand,
The raging surf aloud.
Lying in a shallow pool
That runneth from the cloud.
Grey and darkness far above
Mocks me in my wake
Floating in the blackness
A thin white lonely dove.

4. Requiem

How do I feel? Come my way and I'll show you
When my sight left me I used you to guide me
My heart is lost and you found it again
Like it or not I was touched forever then

When I'm lost in myself
I can hear you again
When I'm left on the shore again
I only wish I could save you

I never met you yet you inspired me
I never saw you yet I heard your voice
You called me through the hazy void
I've seen the light and now I follow

When I'm lost in my thoughts
I can hear you again
When I'm left on the shore again
I only wish I could save you

6. Moonlight

The moonlight shines in the dark
And a leaf from a tree falls in the silver pool.
And, while the wind whispers through the branches,
I will be resting in peace.

8. When the Lions Fell

There was rejoicing all around
When the lions fell,
All of a sudden peace looked nigh,
When the lions fell,

And the wind laughed
So that the leaves came tumbling down
And the cheering never stopped
On the victor's chosen ground.

I was there, huddled in my home
When the lions fell,
Scared, shamed and alone
When the lions fell.

Across my street, anger will repeat
When the lions fall,
They will sit there, watching the screen
When the lions fall.

They were listening
to a message from the news,
And the music still played
in their radio rooms.

Few will hear of our story,
Can someone learn from our mistake?
Or will history repeat again
And again and again.

We saw Milosovich pulled down,
The lion fell, yes the lion fell
In the middle east will it start again,
When the lions roar?

You forget that I saw it all,
But I never will be heard
I am old, weak and small
And I come from a tyrant's land.

People will shout up a storm,
But we haven't learned (no we haven't learned).
The radios in their rooms repeating their scorn:
"When will the lions fall?"

9. Swift

Lyrics by Michele Zappavigna

Swift were your words with the wind on the reef
You passed me before I could see you moving

Turning, you're returning to me
rising with my song over Long Reef
Waking in my arms

And I can't keep your fading breath
From taking me with you
Into wind and ocean
Taking me in to wind and ocean
You've passed me
I can't keep you

Turning, you're returning to me
rising with my song over Long Reef
Waking in my arms

11. Blinding Visions

I see the flames.
I see the ashen sky's lust.
But the vision that is most terrible
Are floating specks of flying dust.

They are lost inside this head,
These visions that appear.
Cannot see the end of them
Before the head can clear.
Like a headache in my mind,
Red and Gold held in my mind.

Kill all the cows
And poison the rivers.
We are all a part of this machine.
Business controls society's vision
Though we move with them, we act alone.
Blinded by fear of losing the crust,
We follow them to the abyss.
Lost on our own, with no-one to trust
Our power struggles lingering.

They are lost inside this head,
These visions that appear.
Cannot see the end of them
Before the head can clear.
Creatures walk this world alone,
Our self-importance not a standing stone.

Remember your dreams? Remember your dreams?
Throw them away and follow the greed!

They are lost inside this head,
These visions that appear.
Cannot see the end of them
Before the head can clear.
Stop the hatred and the fear.
Destroy the power-hungry insincere.
And do not make a mockery
Of the idea that you can live in peace.

Remember your dreams? Remember your dreams?
Throw them away and follow the greed!

12. Numb the Senses

My feelings have gone away.
My eyesight has gone away.
My hearing has gone away.
My life has gone astray.

Help to take me away.
Help me to take me away.
Struggle to away,
To away,
To away.

13. I See You

Note: This has been published in "Swag 'O' Verse" edited by Lee Emmett

I see you falling down
The lights are turbulent in the moonrise
Softly calling, screaming, calling
Rending tearing, searing mending
My mind is full of aching names
And I see the tears tumbling through

Lights are dimmer, full of glimmer
Endless soaring, Tonight kills
All the seething snakes slither
through the doorway wide and dark
Searching for the end of time
Their hole in the ground

And I see you.

A caricature of myself
Sitting dazed in this little corner
Lost like I am, calling me softly
We search for each other
I scream for the hidden name
And I fall through the chasm

And I see you

I see you falling down
The lights are turbulant in the moonrise
Softly calling, screaming, calling
Rending tearing, searing mending
My mind is full of aching names
And I see the tears tumbling through

And I see you.

I die knowing you.

Instruments used on this album:
Voice (All tracks except 5, 7 & 19)
Steel string acoustic guitar (Tracks 3,5,8, 10-13)
Nylon string classical guitar (Tracks 2,3,5,6,9-12)
Electric bass guitar (All tracks except 7,9 & 11)
Electric guitar (Tracks 1-4, 10-13)
Egg Shakers (Tracks 3,5,6,8)
Standard Rock Drum Kit (Tracks 3,6 & 13)
Flute (Tracks 6 & 9)
Piano (Tracks 3 & 6)
Various home-made drums (Track 5)
Frying pan/Spoon combo (Tracks 7)
Sequenced effects and/or drums (Tracks 1,2,4,7,8, 10-12).