Dead Can Dance - Carnival Of Light

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Dead Can Dance - Sanvean [Live at The Mayfair Theatre]

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Dead Can Dance - Anywhere Out Of The World

We scale the face of reason
To find at least one sign
That could reveal the true dimensions
Of life lest we forget

And maybe it's easier to withdraw from life
With all of it's misery and wretched lies
Away from harm

We lay by cool still waters
And gazed into the sun
And like the moth's great imperfection
Succumbed to her fatal charm

Any maybe it's me who dreams unrequited love
The victim of fools who watch and stand in line
Away from harm

In our vain pursuit
Of life for one's own end
Will this crooked path
Ever cease to end?

Dead Can Dance - Rakim [Live at The Mayfair Theatre]

Favoured son
Turn in the garden
Shades of one
Sins forgotten

Favoured signs to find hope
In the rounds of life
Favoured rhymes to find hope
In the sands of life

Favoured son
Fence in your heart
Savoured son
Sins forgotten

Dead Can Dance - In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated

Sail on silver wings
Through this storm
What fortune love may bring
Back to my arms again
The love of a former golden age
I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take
For now that wheels are turning
I find my faith deserting me

This night is filled with cries
Of dispossesed children in search of paradise
A sign of a sign of unresolved ambition
Drives the pinwheel on and on
I am disabled by fears concerning which course to take
When memory bears witness to the innocence
Consumed in dying rage

The way lies through our love
There can be no other means to the end
Or keys to my heart
You will never find
You will never find

Dead Can Dance - Song Of The Nile

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Dead Can Dance - Severance

The birds of leaving call to us
Yet here we stand
Endowed with the fear of flight
Over land, the winds of change consume the land
While we remain in the shadow of summers now past
When all the leaves have fallen and turned to dust
will we remain entrenched within our ways
Indifference
The plague that moves throughout this land
Omen signs in the shapes of things to come
Tomorrow's child is the only child
Tomorrow's child is the only child

Dead Can Dance - Song of the Dispossessed

The river is deep and the road is long
Daylight comes and I want to go home

Awoke this morning
To find my people's tongues were tied
And in my dreams
They were given books to poison their minds

The river is deep and the mountain high
How long before the other side

We are their mortar
Their building bricks and their clay
Their gold teeth mirror
Both our joys and our pain

The river is deep and the ocean wide
Who will show us how to read the signs

The earth is our mother
She taught us to embrace the light
Now the lord is master
She suffers an eternal night

You blocked up my ears
You plucked out my eyes
You cut out my tongue
You fed me with lies

Oh lord
Oh lord
Oh lord
Oh lord

Dead Can Dance - Enigma Of The Absolute

Saloman hung down her head, laid bare her heart
For the world to see, she craved for intimacy
Through darkened doors her aspect veiled with indecision
Gazed out to sea, she craved lucidity

Cast adrift from past relationships in her life
Hoisted up the ideal, this was her saving grace
Sea's of rage that once assailed her concern for the truth
Had passed her by and left her high and dry
In her saviour's arms...

Across the sea lies the fountain of renewal
Where you will see the whole cause of your lonliness
Can be measured in dreams that transcend all these lies
And I wish and I pray that there may come a day
For a saviour's arms...

Dead Can Dance - Indus

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Dead Can Dance - Bird

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Dead Can Dance - Ullyses

John Francis Dooley
Wipe the sleep from your eyes
And embrace the light
You have slept now
For a thousand years
Beneath starless nights
And now it's time for you
To renounce the old ways
And see a new dawn rise

In former days
Masks were raised
When the god came down
From off of the mountain
And the sacrifice was made
For he knew the day of wrath
Was fast approaching
Just like yesterday before the war

John Francis Dooley
The scapegoat has run
All our sins are disowned
And now it's time for you
To take off your mask
And cross the Rubicon

If you and I were one
Within the eyes of our designs
It would still not change
The fact of our leaving
For tonight we must leave
With the first gentle breeze
For the Isles Of Ken
We are assailing

Just like Ullyses
On an open sea
On an odyssey
Of self discovery

Dead Can Dance - Devorzhum

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Dead Can Dance - Spirit

I thought I'd found a reason to live
Just like before when I was a child
Only to find dreams made of sand
Would just fall apart and slip through my hands

But the spirit of life keeps us strong
And the spirit of life is the will to carry on

Adversity
What have I done to you
To cause this reclusive silence
That has come between me and you?

And the spirit of life remains in light
And the spirit of life remains inside, inside

I never thought it would be quite like this
Living outside of mutual bliss
But as long as the veins in our arm still stand up
The spirit of life will keep living on

Dead Can Dance - Threshold

Come in here
Where it's nice
If you want
If you want
If you want

Dead Can Dance - Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book

Fortune presents gifts

Not according to the book

Fortune presents gifts

Not according to the book

When you expect whistles it's flutes

When you expect flutes it's whistles

What various paths are followed

In distributing honours and possessions

She gives awards to some

And penitent's cloaks to others

When you expect whistles it's flutes

When you expect flutes it's whistles

Sometimes she robs the chief goatherd

Of his cottage and goat pen

And to whomever she fancies

The lamest goat has born two kids

When you expect whistles it's flutes

When you expect flutes it's whistles

Because in a village a poor lad

Has stolen one egg

He swings in the sun

And another gets away with a thousand crimes

When you expect whistles it's flutes

When you expect flutes it's whistles

Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

I thought that you knew it all

Well you've seen it ten times before.

I thought that you had it down

With both your feet on the ground.

I love slow...slow but deep.

Feigned affections wash over me.

Dream on my dear

And renounce temporal obligations.

Dream on my dear

It's a sleep from which you may not awaken.

You build me up then you knock me down.

You play the fool while I play the clown.

We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum.

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds

You tell me that I dream too much

Now I'm serving time in disillusionment.

I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you.

I thought that I knew it all

I'd seen all the signs before.

I thought that you were the one

In darkness my heart was won.

You build me up then you knock me down.

You play the fool while I play the clown.

We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum.

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds

You tell me that I dream too much

Now I'm serving time in a domestic graveyard.

I don't believe you anymore...I don't believe you.

Never let it be said I was untrue

I never found a home inside of you.

Never let it be said I was untrue

I gave you all my time.

Dead Can Dance - De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow)

Embrace the love, so fair
Embrace the love, so fair

Dead Can Dance - Dance Of The Bacchantes

 

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Dead Can Dance - Summoning of the Muse

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