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The Sculptor
03:29
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The Sculptor
This stone is cold and hard my love; your cheeks were soft and warm
I will take this block of the cold hard clay, and carve your sleeping form
The sculptor breathes a little life into unfeeling clay
But he cannot give enough to mend the life taken away
When you were a little girl, you laughed, and danced, and played
If I could only make stone move, or cruel time betray
I'd turn it back to see you flushed with all of life before you
I'd lay my chisel down and never pick it up to mourn you
I've painted china pieces, I've worked marble and carved stone
I've drawn the gods from heaven and the kings from ancient Rome
But of all the things I've made you were my greatest work of art
Stone only mocks quietly the grieving in my heart
They say you are my masterpiece, but I carve because I must
Search for your lost shape amongst the splinters and the dust
So here is my remembrance, a heavy echo of your ghost
We are weighed down like stone by losing those we love the most
We are weighed down like stone by losing those we love the most
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Ribbons
03:37
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Ribbons
When I remember you, I like to think of you
In 1952, with a ribbon in your hair
Coming down from St Thomas Fairfield
We'd had a party, for sure we'd had a party there
But when the waters rise
We cannot stop the tide
I will hang ribbons for you, every colour,
To dance in the wind
To stand bright against our bleakest hour
Because I could not hold your hand
Ribbons to remember
Until I can smile again
The years fall away, and I am back again
On some sweet summers day, down by the Pleasure Ground
When I think of you, I don't like to think of heartbreak,
Of dark days, but just of the joy we found
We watched the cricket ball spin
The future came tumbling in
Because I could not hold your hand
I hold these memories inside my head
The world moves strangely, I don't understand
So I tie ribbons for you, ribbons instead
60 ribbons, 60 ribbons, 60 stories,
60 reasons to recall
When you take away the dust and the glory,
We have only ribbons, to remember it all
Our memories set free
Become a tapestry
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Take Me Home
03:45
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Take Me Home
I was last off the bus, at the end of the line
Away, they've sent me away
There was no-one to take me, no gaze met mine
Oh, oh, take me home
From Lambeth streets, we went on a train
Away from the bombs, from my own mother's arms
From the city we came to another life
With labelled suitcases and tired eyes
I was standing alone, when I heard them call
They told me, a seed must bloom where it falls
They chose me, and took me home, down to Prospect Place
They wiped all the dirt and the tears from my face
Home is not a piece of ground
Drawn on maps and bombers' charts
Home is just the friends I've found
With strange voices and open hearts
And then I met Den, and he took me home
We wed in Emmanuel Hall, now 70 years ago
Life is a circle, it draws you around
And I've always come back to the love that here I found
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