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For War Within

by haïku

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1.
Parthian Arrow (Haiku For Charlie) 04:25
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Verse 1 Is this the last day ever Or just the first day that I see Three hundred and sixty five days later I can’t believe the irony Chorus 1 Oh when you retreat Don’t shoot me with your arrow I will feign despair Hold me in your heart Lie I taught myself to say Innocent and rare Verse 2 I don’t know what to feel Or what to do Anymore An amalgamated mind would be a start You waltzed right through that doorway I was sitting with the glass Tightly clasped Multiple shards all joined with glue The little hammers play a folk tune They hit the strings all, one by one It’s written on a piece of paper I saw you holding when I fell Into your room Chorus 2 Oh when you depart I’ll climb into the broken Pages in my draw Sink until I fall Joy I feel cos you’re alive Doesn’t count at all Verse 3 You say, yes, this is the last day ever And it’s the first day that I see One hundred and twenty five days later Her loathing changed into a love, made out to me Thanks to God for aiding my correction of perception Of your articulated overly eloquent expression Interlude I just wanted, wanted to find you Before, the whim began to fade I just wanted, wanted to find you But you, you walk the other way Chorus 3 Oh when you set forth Felt the coin drop in the well Didn’t hear the sound Riddles posed to thee What made you so dear to me? You’re still in my head Chorus 1 Oh when you retreat Don’t shoot me with your arrow I will feign despair Hold me in your heart Lie I taught myself to say Innocent and rare
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For You 05:10
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Verse 1 Oh wait wait wait wait wait I never said I didn’t want you Oh stay stay stay stay stay How many times I’ve said to you Don’t say say say say say We never had it anyway It’s just I hate hate hate hate hate The way I always hide from, hide it all, from you Chorus You didn’t have to break your back You didn’t have to save yourself if you knew You’re skeptical without a cause And your courage fails to constitute the truth And I know it’s been a while But your eyes hold me still You’ll never know I miss you, Cos even if I’d kissed you, You’d still let them shoot you Verse 2 Oh wait wait wait wait wait These bones of mine won’t dissipate Oh stay stay stay stay stay The night will fade, I wish you’d wait Don’t hate hate hate hate hate me Because I sometimes riddle you Always wait wait wait wait waiting I didn’t want to run too soon, to you Chorus You don’t have to break yourself You don’t have to run into the flame You don’t have to bring them down You don’t have to wear that crown and bear the shame And I know it’s been a while But your eyes hold me still And oh god knows I’ve missed you, Even if I kissed you, You’d still let them shoot, you There’s a light at the centre of everything in everything I do
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Wildflower 03:39
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Verse 1 You sailed me away to the island In the centre of the lake Where we would stay, playing music To the god who sits and waits Patiently for the trees To uncover what they hide Turn your treasure map the right way up You said ‘let’s see what we can find’ Torches shining through the silhouetted leaves And breaking blackened night As the soles of our shoes Wear thin we didn’t read the signs Southern cross up above Shining brightly, guiding us Hold your breath and take the step Towards the end of where we are Chorus Would you hold me? Just one last time Before the night circles in Before the darkness wraps you up I had you But I couldn’t give myself And so I’m giving you Away to someone else Verse 2 In the clearing there we see A million fireflies like neon lights Do you remember how we used to Watch them pass us by Suddenly all I see Is an ancient hollow tree And buried deep within its core A little wooden box and nothing more You gather soil I’ll dig this seed into the ground We’ll turn around It’s just polite to close our eyes While its roots are found Old and weary moon Kiss the young and innocent assembly soon Hold the flower in your palms Wild purple petals kept us coming Would you hold me Just one last time Before the night circles in Before the darkness wraps you up I had you But I couldn’t give myself And so I’m giving you Away to someone else Don’t try to hand me what I’ve given you Because it’s yours to keep There’s still an island, still a flower Still a box without a key I’ll close the lid Seal it up And I’ll float it off to sea And maybe someday they will find it Lying still in oceans deep
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This Fleeting Love 08:08
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I. Verse 1 Under your skin There is a cage Made of bones Or is it a fortress Or it is a home And all that you have You try to feel from within That’s not an organ When you feel your heart sing Chorus This fleeting love It’s fleeting like My hope is tried Oh wash me out Your dead beat mind Your weary eyes And i’m trying I am trying You wash me out This fleeting love It’s fleeting like My hope if tired Verse 2 In fourty nights The great city will fall You said nothing compares To a high barbed-wire wall Unless you realize Like Jonah did find That the whale isn’t prison If you open your eyes That there’s shade from the east wind If you water the vine Chorus This fleeting love It’s fleeting like My hope is tired Oh wash me out Your dead beat mind Your weary eyes I am trying I am trying You wash me out My hope is gone This fleeting love This fleeting love It’s fleeting like II. Everyone wakes up To the sound of the heart Beats alive, alive And if truth, love, life Are just words you recite You are blind, they’re alive And it calls If you fall Light the night III. You wear your, you wear your Skin down to your toes We sometimes, we sometimes Fight what we don’t know But in your dead beat eyes I can see that you You sometimes, you sometimes See the holy ghost Sitting on the shore I’d be waiting I’d be waiting for The great city to fall Then the great teacher He comes preaching to me ‘brother, where you been? You’re hiding in your skin Oh won’t you fight For this city of mine’ Your heart sinks low Your hope was gone IV. Oh wash me out Your dead beat mind Your weary eyes They wash me out My hope is lost My hope is gone This fleeting love Its fleeting like My hope is tired Your weary eyes Your dead beat mind They wash me out Oh wash me out This heart of mind Your weary mind
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The Animals Built Babel 03:27
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How do you awake from gnashing dreams Thunderous loud he calls you in your sleep Upon the small, crafted figures Clothed in thick soft skins Of brown and white and pink And calling he thus does From his chamber in the morning Till the darkness falls They know not what they seek How do we teach the animals Who built a tower high Teeming like gnats they climbed Until the swore it rose to sky And into blueness they did find The mystery of thee O darkness, o the darkest night Calls softly ‘to thy knee’ They rest their heads with bated breath And frost upon their lips ‘Tis kiss of death and youths first pierce Which rankled in my chest ‘For war within’ I hear him cry ‘A swordsman to the heart Strike hammer to the iron hot blade To stab and tear apart’ ‘This death you bring’ so curiously They ask without a start ‘Does it hurt the mind, the nerve, The arteries, the heart?’ ‘Brings pleasure’, says the darkest knight ‘Oh solemn song for thee, I do not bring you peace or wholeness Merely gravity’ But these small words are uttered As the figures stare at dust Their minds are all a-cluttered With red diamonds, silk and musk For gravity pulls downward Only in towards the ground And the animals who built their Babels And their cities soon were found Swarming in the undergrowth Of damp and rotten roots Gnawing at its aching branches Sawing at the tooth The swordsman and the darkest knight Ride out in victory For with small words and darkness They had conquered liberty Building prisons out of freedom Singing songs to death The animals see hollow bows And praise them for their strength O darkness, o the darkest night Calls softly ‘to thy knee’ They rest their heads with bated breath And frost upon their lips ‘Tis kiss of death and youths first pierce Which rankled in my chest ‘For war within’ I hear him cry ‘A swordsman to the heart Strike hammer to the iron hot blade To stab and tear apart’ ‘This death you bring’ so curiously They ask without a start ‘Does it hurt the mind, the nerve, The arteries, the heart?’ ‘This death you bring’ so curiously They ask without a start ‘Does it hurt the mind, the nerve, The arteries, the heart?’
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Love, For The Day Is Near 05:33
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I do the things I do not want to do And I feel the things I know I’m not supposed to feel If I hate what I do If I turn and run to you Will you fight for me There’s a battle In a parallel universe For your soul You can’t say it isn’t real Because these particles We don’t know Love, for the day is near No longer slaves To a freedom that we fear O the depth O the riches Of our freedom Who would’ve thought That your freedom Was your prison If I see The things the devil Tries to hide from me Jealousy, bitterness and envy Eats your heart out Till you’re asleep Till you’re a hoax Synthetic sham A hollow shell, persistently Rummaging for your soul Amongst the dead, dark sea I want to be held Because you’re dying to show How much your heart beats for me I won’t believe this world Is just the fallacy that we see Love, must be sincere Or you’ll be enslaved By a freedom that you fear O the depth O the wonder of wisdom Who would’ve thought That your freedom was your prison Love, the day is near No longer slaves To a freedom that we fear O the depth O the riches of our freedom Who would’ve thought that your freedom was your prison Who would’ve thought that your freedom was your prison Who would’ve thought that your freedom was your prison

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Recorded by Simon Brock.

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released April 28, 2013

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haïku Melbourne, Australia

Wild. Melancholy. Keatsian. Raw. A little bit tribal; a little bit classical; a little bit indie; a little bit rock; a little bit folk.

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