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Köln
05:21
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KÖLN
Twin spires, marble skies
Air is thick, Can we survive?
Verkehr, Verkehr in the space we share
Thoughts are quick in the midnight air
Ride the U-Bahn, immer schwarz
You can’t seem to escape your past
We pay the toll with our hearts
Life goes by, running fast away, push it away…
Chequered floor, neon lights
Blue shells are in our sights
Sonic landscapes all around
Searching for the underground
Dancing in a gilded cage
Three tiered levels of dark end rage
After midnight we all meet
Ice cold nights on a smoky street
The past is over but it doesn’t go away
The past is over but it doesn’t go away
Showered in yellow sunlight to cover up the guilt
Created to carry your burden, everything covered in silt
The river is getting lower, the truth is starting to show
The ship is slowly sinking but only time will know
High on my projections in an unreal world
Propelled by false intentions installed inside a girl
She tries to see the day in night, grey matter that she can’t fight
She’s breaking out! She’s breaking out!
Away… away…
The past is over but it doesn’t go away
The past is over but it doesn’t go away
False illusions, your delusions
Wasted in my mind
Smothered in a silence
The truth just makes us blind
Re-program, stop the system, try to press ‘reboot’
Creating a distraction, while others follow the suit
Well disguised Blitz cold Eis, slip, fall, open eyes…. visions… decisions
Alone again in Cologne again… Alone again in Cologne again…
A safe place so hard to find
If only I’d escape my mind…
Ebertplatz 3am
A chance to begin again
Reinvent your intent
Nothing said is time well spent
Cars stop Venloer Straße, Fahrrad fahren faster faster
The Past is over…. away…
A chance to begin again, If only fear could be your friend
A safe place so hard to find, If only I’d escape my mind…
© B.Handley/D.C.
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Daylight...
04:29
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DAYLIGHT . . .
Look outside, daylight goes…
Look outside, daylight goes…
I walk alone…
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
We don’t feel, heart undone
We’ve got everything, we want more
We want more
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
Daylight goes…
We are nobody
Cursed is the day that drags us down
We are nobody
We live by the sound, stay underground
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
So hard to follow
Look outside, daylight goes
Daylight goes…
Daylight goes…
© B.Handley/D.C.
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LAMENT OF A LOST SOUL... (Matahari Ranch Remix)
Staring into the dark depths
Of your mind control
I wander through the steps
Darkness takes its toll
I hear your voice so near
Yet so far away I fear
Cold wind howls through bending trees
Lamenting for the long lost souls...
I walk alone at night
Through the mine shafts of my mind
Warmth and light now out of sight
Through rugged hills I wind
Searching for I know not what and
all those dreams long forgot
All the while, the chilling sounds
Calling to their long lost souls...
Drown myself in the black pond
My future it is told
Sorrows tied my hands behind
The sights I now behold
Face to face within myself
I know there’s no return
The past is lost, I bear the cost
There’s so much I’ve had to learn
I’m not free to move on
The path I tread is thin
I cannot feel, I cannot speak
Regret comes floating in
I mourn for you and yesterday
Sorrows of my past
My soul is lost, there’s no repent
I search for you, hear my lament...
© B.Handley/D.C.
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After Dark
04:08
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AFTER DARK
After Dark, After Dark
When the sun goes down
And there’s no one else around
After Dark, After Dark
When the lights go out and no one is about
I hear them calling
We are the voices of the night
I feel us falling
Down and down
We’re fading from the light
After Dark
Where we can get away
From the dwellers of the day
After Dark, After Dark
When you shut your eyes
That’s when we will arise
I hear them calling
They are the voices of the dead
I feel us falling
We walk and walk where no one else will tread
We go walking on the ocean
Beneath the purple skies
Bathing in the moonlight
We wash over our lives
Through the trees blackened branches
They’re reaching out to me
Whispering daylight’s secrets
The night time sets us free…
This is, our reality...
After Dark
See us lurking in the shadows
We’re the nightmares in your mind...
© B.Handley/D.C.
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STILL LIVES . . .
Still are our lives as life rushes past
One day like the next, unlike the last
Hindsight reflects our memories fine
Recollect with neglect the passing of time
Still are our lives
Where the day meets the night
We are still...
Still are our lives, yet still we are here
We want to go forth but held back by fear
Still are our lives and still we are not
All we have learnt is easy forgot
Still are our lives
Where the day meets the night
We are still...
Still are our lives as time rushes by
Rolls like the thunderous dance of the sky
Still was the ocean before the storm
The air grows cool as the wind is torn...
Still are our lives
Where the day meets the night
Still are our lives
Midst the terrors of night...
Still are our lives
Where the day meets the night
We are still...
© B.Handley/D.C.
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Brigitte Handley Sydney, Australia
Brigitte Handley is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from the band, the Dark Shadows. Known for her dark atmospherics and deep spellbinding vocals, Brigitte performs mesmerising solo electric shows with her black Gretsch and assortment of FX pedals combined with atmospheric video art projections... ... more
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