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 Songs about demons and saints and voodoo and shysters and rounders and shamans - things that go bump in the night. Scary stuff. |
| 1. through galileo's eyes 2. silver stones 3. the demon haunted world 4. alexandra 5. the nature of the beast 6. mi cariño girl |
7. the walls of babylon 8. gypsy wine 9. something more 10. sail away 11. calle ontario |
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through galileo's eyes (rowland-ryland) lookin to the sky man first came to the final concern and as he pondered why he knew there were things he would never learn from the myths he'd make still the fear was great so he had to take some comfort there on a city street there's a child that runs some kind of test with anyone he meets he sees if he can take the predators best but the fangs are sharp and the flesh is weak and the ailing heart will make him see thru galileo's eyes where all the world will be opened up for him thru galileo's eyes where there's a light that can shine inside of him Conchita has never lost because she knows we're all the same she wears a broken cross 'cause heaven can't be forced it can't be gained with a marching drum no spoken psalms and no holy songs can break her now she takes you by the hand and you feel a surge of life inside you know there is no crime except the one that makes you run and hide when the judgement falls you crumble to your knees as her spirit soars you realize she sees thru galileo's eyes where all the world has been opened up for her thru galileo's eyes there's a light that shines inside of her in the land of time you could watch the moving of the sky in the land of time you can walk across the great divide you can find some fame with the holy ones or the muscle men but know they're both the same the dove's forever caught in the mortal sins of the tortured souls that like a thief will try to steal control of anyone who peeks thru galileo's eyes where all the world can be opened up for you thru galileo's eyes there's a light that can shine inside of you top
mexican skies fill my eyes desert heats upon your lips wrap me in your brown arms and hold me tight tumbleweed sails by like abandoned ships is this treasure I'm feeling is there gold in the gallions is it my heart that you're stealing do you bleed when you've found it hispaniola to vera cruz a way of life you would never choose born into freedom and under a star oh come and tell me now who you are there's a secret you're hiding a veil covers your fear and the cannons are frightening the thunder so near cortez the killer and ponce de leon packed up their worries and ran away from their home one was a butcher and one was a fool and you on that beach in1492 your chiqita tears are revealing like silver stones in the sand and the danger is appealing tall ships and distant lands top
there's footprints leading to the garden wall waiting in the rain for the spirit call gotta be sure that there have been no mistakes ya know the spirit called to joan of arc when the night was cold and the sun was dark twas the holy spirit but they still burned her at the stake it's a demon haunting it's a witches brew it's a demon haunting coming after you there's a leper prince walking on this earth marking every hide from the day of birth wearin the coat of the good self righteous man there's a darkness that is shining now through the crystals and the pyramid power blocking all the light of reasoning it's a demon haunting it's a ghoulish time it's a demon haunting haunting your mind well i'm in my circle i got all my charms and every night i check my sign but hecatee's still casting down her spells and i see my poppit full of pins and i'm turning kinda blue and green and lucifer is reaching me from hell i trusted her so adriana came to the san sebastion beach and the spanish sun we listened to the music pouring from the guitar strings i told her that i thought she was lookin kinda pale she said she'd found a new lover and a place to dwell she looked kinda hungry as we went on a moonlight swim it's a demon haunting it's an evil son it's a demon haunting haunting everyone i feel the fear when the moon is full i see the crossed bones and the broken skulls i see the holy men but all they do is kneel and pray i'm feeling kinda dizzy the room's in a spin i swear i heard some angels but it could've been men speakin in tongues and gettin me all hyped this way it's a demon haunting it's a devil king it's a demon haunting haunting all your dreams and every night i confess my sins but the sorcerers won't let me in they want to see me tremble on my knees but i learned that there is no escape when the ship you're on is about to break and everybody's got a special need oh it's a demon haunting it's the astral plane it's a demon haunting it's the dragon bones it's a demon haunting it's the evil son it's a demon haunting can't hide can't run top
if the sunsets on the morrow and your heart's still filled with sorrow and moonbeams leave you lonely oh, come and talk with me like a rat running a maze i've been lost in so many ways but i promise i will listen and give you biscuits and tea alexandra, alexandra with the moon and stars above you how your love shines alexandra on a poor old heart like mine as you travel through your time and life gives no reason or rhyme lose your fears and insecurities and throw a rope to me like a sparrow with a broken wing i've been grounded by so many things but now i see the skyline oh come and fly with me alexandra, alexandra all the heavens kneel before you how your love shines alexandra on a poor old heart like mine alexandra, alexandra i can see why men must have you for your love lies alexandra like a cure for broken lives top
well she walks so fine yeah she draws the line in the sand where you bow to her sympathy well the fire is lit and you take a hit as you wait with desire for her company and like a child or a woman she is there for you and like a pro she will lead you to release and like a fool you will hate what she does for you everybody knows it's the nature of the beast well he walks so fine yeah he tows the line can't be moved by some pride or some dignity yeah he's got the touch and you won't matter much as he climbs to the power that he wants to be he raises arms to his causes and to god above he never listens to the teachings of the priests and like a child he will never ever get enough and everybody knows it's the nature of the beast and on and on in this world we carry on always lookin for a little relief on and on we need someone to rely upon something more than just a belief well the stage is set it's either right or left getting lost we divide among the spirit kings one says find a way one says it's here today one says follow me i'll show you all you need to see and like a child we are led and then led some more never questioning or looking for disease and like a fool we will suffer and still want some more and everybody knows that it's the nature of the beast well you left me here now you're nowhere near as i ponder this condition of humanity yeah you gave your faith to this broken thief as i tried to steal away all your fantasies and now i'm sorry that i questioned all the hopes you shared but you know, well, you've never been deceased still there's something in the love that you found in there and no one seems to see it's just the nature of the beast and on and on in the world we carry on always lookin for a little relief on and on we need someone to rely upon something more than just a belief and on and on ah you know we carry on some are humbled while some learn to please and on and on in the world we carry on everybody knows it's the nature of the beast top
i woke up this morning still wearin the ball and chain the bosom of abraham has eluded me again with a red horse trailin behind and the pale horse leadin the way i climb from my bed to face another day well i tried for the great virtues but my brother refused thecall in the land of milk and honey he wanted to have it all with the blood of the innocent on the golden calf they called it a sacrement but it's just a wicked plan but i don't really care about this no the day is still so new all i want is your lovin baby all i want is your love to be true chorus listen to the nightingale sing a song of a lovers tale and gather 'round the wishing well hey hey hey and make a wish for the good good world underneath the starry light gonna take her and hold her tight gonna make everything allright hey hey hey for mi carino girl the treasure is held aloft it's noon in the marketplace the lamp of the body's cost is a price you negotiate and there's actors out in the streets their charity is everywhere and as they say please no reward their trumpets fill the air and all the men praise these deeds you can watch it on tv they think it's what we want to hear but it don't fool the land ands ea and they keep coming up to me they swear i can make it through and in their persistant ways i'll surely find what is true but i don't really care about this no it's just a ringing bell all i want is your lovin baby all i want is you to be my girl chorus as the evening falls i walk the streets alone i see a narrow gate ahead so i turn to go back home it's such a silly world fear and boredom take many forms you have to fight for something seems that's the price of being born but i'm not fighting it baby, not gonna fight it at all i learned long ago everyone must answer the call and i know what i want my banner is unfurled all i want is your lovin baby all i want is you to be my girl chorus top
spirit lights nights of fire heatin up like young desire breeze ridin in on a burning moon it comes so strong but he knows his place below the heights and above disgrace between the garden and the drunken afternoon and something in a heart of passion makes a man the man of action something in the light across her eyes falling down like all before him drifting to the muse of heaven there where the path is long inside the walls of babylon she left him there so long ago on a night in the ice and snow she told him then to let the passions end he knew the words that came before he heard the creaking of the floor he took the lonely walk in the pouring rain and on a howling night in soho he knew he'd find a way to go on but something in the light across her thighs made him turn to see her walkin through the gates of nighttime talkin soft like a whisper on the walls of babylon oil burns on lighted streets shadows cast to be discreet there's a stranger standing at the flank with a movement of the hand a glance here a hint of sand she fell in step with the mountebank and he knew he couldn't save her now the stars and spells would charm her now but still he raged against the hour glass he could hear her nervous laughing as the clock of mignight struckeach bong as she faded from the walls of babylon evil men and evil times penetrate the social climes she was always his on a balance beam he pushed himself the time was short he had heard the bad reports but he knew it was never as it seemed and somewhere high up on a mountain he'd learned the secrets of the wise men but truth was not the thing he had in mind he'd trade the wisdoms of the seers to have her back so he could hear her voice echo on top
she crossed the street the light was green the barcelona skies were threatening she promised me a tour of the countryside she always acted restless when she lied well i should have known better but the night was young and there's never time to think when you're on the run she took me by the hand and then led the way to a litte flat behind a small cafe she said everything' is fine take off your shoes and try to unwind nothin matters here not space or time now take a little sip of this gypsy wine that night i tried to find a place where luck is good where beauty is for free and it's understood that those who choose to turn away are those who die where youth is in the heart and the soul can fly she came to find me there at ciatadella park i was listenin to the sounds of catalan at dark she whispered to me like only a lover can i lingered on her words like a starvin man she said everything' is fine take off your shoes and try to unwind nothin matters here not space or time now take a little sip of this gypsy wine the days passed slowly like in a dream there were no mistakes or so it seemed only lillies in the fields on sunny days the cracking of the walls as the guitar plays well we went and found a church but the sign said closed i could tell she was feeling kind of indisposed but i looked through the glass and i knew right then that i'd never find her love again and she said everything is fine there are many in the world who can be unkind so cruel and heartless but pay them no mind just take a little sip of this gypsy wine well we danced thru the night with the northern breeze under mediterrenean skies the moon in her face reflectin everyplace and everyone who ever laid by her side plaza real is where she left me last now i can't recall a single thing of our past i only seem to know that it's all ok still there's something missing every day and now i look out on the spanish stars i look to the future that's not so far i look to a place a face a time i look to a life without gypsy wine top
every night when the sun goes down i see the same people gathering around and every evening as the sun sinking low i see the city cast it's long shadow and there's a man sitting in his window and a woman standing in the door and you're in the alleyway and i'm on the rooftop searchin for something more my love came to me late at night to whisper to me that love was allright like a concertina it rang in my ears when the morning came my love had disappeared and there's a man standing in his shadow and a woman behind a closed door you search the highway and i'll search the sky lookin for something more down in the valley there's a war ragin on the forces of apathy are gettin so strong the wise old woman recalls these days when young girls give love and young men fight anyway and there's a man standing in the fields and a woman doing the chores and you're on the mountaintop and i'm diggin holes searchin for something more sing to me angels of clouds rolling by sing to me so sweet and fine forgotten dreams are the weave of a lie so sing to me soft and sing to me of what is mine the wheels of fortune are turning away as those in the know have nothing to say the spiritual now is the comfort zone how much to have before you go it alone and there's a man who says i'm a fool and a woman who says i'm a bore and you're in the concert hall and i sing off key searchin for something more top
we sailed that night on open seas thinking of only you and me new york a distant memory of what could be in times of need i could never seem to get it right do we love or do we fight you know i tried with all my might to hold a dream for just onenight sail away sail away there's still a part of me that longs for cafe nights and bawdy songs but then i learned the right from wrong how in your heart no one belongs sail away sail away the moon looks good off the starboard bow as i dream about the city and you somehow still by my side you know the winds have died away as to where i cannot say i know they left the very day you sailed away top
the sun sinkin low on ontario the people walk their dreams down my street they come and they go like a rainbow with their tears their fears and their smiles they walk along ontario hello may you've been sleepin the winter away are you here to pay the debt you've made in the twilight when the shadows fall and you're full of sight you try to settle everything that you owe you walk along ontario top
recorded and mixed by geoff turner at wgnsstudios in washington, d.c. mastered by mark edmondson at SouthMoon Productions. musicians:rowland - vocals, acoustic guitar / riley mcmahon- guitars,organ sven abow - drums, percussion / donovan marks - bass / diedre pascale- backup vocals, organ frank agbro - bass / lise e- backup vocals arrangements on any given song by one or more of the following: rowland, riley, sven, donovan and david ryland vocal arrangements by lisa e and riley mcmahon cover drawing by christophe tant all songs ©1996 by rowland-ryland or rowland all rights reserved
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