Archive : Londinium

Post-Rock / United-Kingdom
(1996 - Island Records)
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Lyrics


1. OLD ARTIST

(Instrumental)


2. ALL TIME

Reflecting on what's been
Though past will be future
When again yesterday to be made

For me hazy times, fume all around
Burning grass in a field of endless supplies

Tall people casting shadows on the short
Little people running circle round the wide

Lazy times, waste it well
What better to do with my mind
Crazy times, no rhythm too hard
Deep corners and people with my time

Over ground in joy
In clouds sunlit, snow untouched
Make pure silhouette, catches steam grass and dew
Rays not harm the upward gaze

Hosts bring out a game of open fields on the box
Watch the guests who bring the heat of outside
Flag of faith for boundaries to fight
The young so wise before their time
My time, your time, all time
My time, your time, all time

Over ground in joy
In clouds sunlit, snow untouched
Make pure silhouette, catches steam grass and dew
Rays not harm the upward gaze

Rhythm to your right, rhyme the other side
Expression outside and poetry inside
Pleasure to your touch, taste of heaven on your mind
And colours before your very eyes


3. SO FEW WORDS

So few words
So few words

We are movin'
Round to the hour
Force from the power
Thunder reigns down in a mass mind shower
Levellin' vibes
Unravellin' scribes
Take a venomous sting
That's unsettlin'
But consequence awaits me around the corner
Reminiscent of my twistin fate
All down to the fact it's a hard life
Travel on with the sense of a telling adventure
So as I wait for the opportune time
To create soul energy that will then enable me to realise
Analyse all aspect
Of man-made decision
The vision the many ways
Wrong turn right, right turn
Left, ain't no way back straight ahead along track
Counteract react
Higher pace embrace
Expression when written on the face
Ya babblin on flip automatic overide
So when pride gets swallowed
Check the events that follow
Interconnection bafflin coincidence
All going hand in hand
They demand supply
I deliver my peace
In what can be known as my only release
In the bellyfull beast
Tearin up and it's a cryin' shame
It remains the same
Turn the next page over

So few words
So few words

Then on straight down through the valley I roam
Lay claim my terrain through my artery vein
But first intuition
State my incondition is the
Reason why you'll never get my submission
True as I'm present in time
I'm headin for the future
Movin' with a haste from time to waste
Break loose from a goose chase
What I do I take feathers and fly in spiritual sky
Return to ground zero zero
Now for the intrepid hero
Non sense there will be no
I overrun 'cause unless I'm in a situation
I can learn a lesson in
One specimen away say a line refine
Humanity race ever being like one of a kind
Now we can never rewind
So press forward to the end
With the passionate fruit from mother nature

So few words
So few words


4. HEADSPACE

Go away, go away
You fill my head space
With evil thoughts unkind
I can do without

You move with hate
Your darkness my light cannot take
You deceive without a second thought
I receive, my heart an open world

You say you hurt yourself when you fuss around
But I feel your soul penetrate
When your gaze, your touch
With desire on another domain

I say to myself walk tall, head held high
Don't look behind, not good things to find
Go ahead taste with your eyes
Feel with your head and think with your heart

Look up to celebrate with nails blood red
See a moon halfway clear in the sky
I wonder if you do from underground


5. DARKROOM

Face in my hands
Admiring that view again
Pictures tell me
It's only my fear

So I'll try
I'll try
To hear what I like
And I'll try
To hide
What I fear

Ever moving over to the way I wanna be attract an energy
Past time stored in my memory
As we are struggling to make sense of human nature distraction
Like a fairground attraction
Communication interacts like we
So reason over remedy ready me infinitely
But lately I admit hard times have hit
But still I like knowing I'll break through it

The fluid flows the seed grows and life goes on
And the fight goes on
In this the Babylon we carry on
Surviving striving taking everyday watching time go by
And I tangle with stress feel strain from stress
Man made hell yes
In a recess less I be mistaken
I be taking all the ways life heralding the hark
I embark like a light in the dark

Define definition in my focus
Living in a room over the fear side view
I am surrounded by the border of disorder
So I oughta be stable and able to lift my hand and take an opportunity
Sinking down into quicksand time
Another number never I endeavour like time is forever expanding
Immaterial
Is the original principle
Now the icon is God
Sad case in the rat race
Erasing all the memory of something that they can't quite comprehend
I end a line to the live wire
With my entire trickle down lava flow blood fire
I attack with my brain seeing eye vision
Looking over my terrain day by day stay same
In the land of chaos and disorder
Living behind the light we're surrounded by a border in the dark room
Face in my hands
Admiring that view again
Pictures tell me
It's only my fear

So I'll try
I'll try
To hear what I like
And I'll try
To hide
What I fear


6. LONDINIUM

Energy from every pore
Make what you will

Are you with or without
The force cannot be blamed
Just the hunger or greed
Supplying the ugly drive

Dirty water
No profit to supply
That round
Travelled far too long

In every direction you turn touch fire and you burn
Earn self recognition over all the preoccupying nonsense
I plead my inner sense savour this aroma of a new experience
High intelligence bound for the underground
We burrow deep down
I originate like the word individual
Visual visionary I vary
And all others see my eye view
So multiply through the big bad city
With a human emotion running wild
Not fit for the child of all ages
Accelerate speed of life
Moving closer to the center
Enter at your own if you will
Still the hustling bustling busy bee hive is alive
And kicking I'm picking the moment
I gotta get away from this monotonous call the capital
'L' loving every minute that I'm in it


7. MAN-MADE

(Instrumental)


8. NOTHING ELSE

My angel, clipped wings I know
Wonders in darkness on grimy ground
In a forest unclean, unsound
Everything, everything has gone wild

Make land for the cows to graze
Leaflets scattered around to advertise, sell out

A swamp, in it hands stretched out
To catch a passing dime
Donations to the rich, widened pavements for the poor
Somewhere else to lie

But my friend the carriage door stands slightly ajar
And I know clipped wings make uneasy flight
But we've got to reach

A place where the feast never ends
A moment when the music celebrates
And a time when darkness belongs to night skies
And nothing else
No, nothing else, no

Tomorrow my spirit's seen
Fears today my mind
Soul aches so deep
Always craves my body to reach

A place where the feast never ends
A moment when the music celebrates
And a time when darkness belongs to night skies
And nothing else
No, nothing else


9. SKYSCRAPER

One man climbs higher then one bites dust
Through the dark hours in dark towers we trust forever
The rays of light will energise my
Born ability mind stability much creativity
Thirty-nine steps twenty-two catch boxed in
Tales of the city we are lost in
Living in a haze I'm amazed by the ways in the days
Of forever go non stop pressure
The risking obelisks stands stable in the skyline
You will find icon is symbol and symbol is sign
Higher aspect
Looking down over the horizon
The cloud nine zero back down to the ground skyscraper
You will never feel what it's like to be
Or how it seems to me
It's all man-made material
Scribbled down by the architect
Just parallel lines on the paper

Surrounded by walls that vary in size
Still they cast an intimidating image in my eyes
But ya concrete block will never rock my stone
Inya zone I'm unbreakable able to resist
Overthe stage in timea newer age
And still I'm in a rage of dilemma
Minds eye spray gamma hammer nail
Again it presents itself
What's life like upon the top shelf
It really doesn't matter if I'm any
Lesser than your higher status
See the press haven't you heard the latest
The greatest thing about being 'I' is me
And what I really can be
I never run you never ran me
I stand my ground found solid stance
Never take a step back move forward
Remember this skyscraper ya building blocks
Will trickle down like sands of time
So roll the dice then pay the price


10. PARVANEH (BUTTERFLY)

I lie on my blue sheet so blue
Wait for sunrise and what it brings
Wait for tomorrows I look to find
So tired, sleep rest in peace

Let the wind fulfil your dreams
Let the sea heal your wounds
Tell the trees secrets so deep

On a kaftan of leaves I float
Sunrise brought me the peace I sought
I fly with no form to tie me down
I'm free to live, to live

To let the wind heal my wounds
To let the sea fulfil my dreams
Hear the trees secrets so deep

Don't let them tie you down
Fly where you please


11. BEAUTIFUL WORLD

Progress is methodic meaning step by step
Too much too long too many minds have slept
As the world grows grey throw away mass produce
What are we to do now all hell has broken loose
The noose in the gallows is shallow like the man
Who mean and selfishly brings about the master plan
So the rich get richer and the poor get suppressed
Killing off the lesser like a parasite or pest
In the beast we dwell never my soul I sell
Will I kiss and tell
Check the next episode
As the plot thickens
Minds stricken with dilemma from the hand of the wicked
The bad meaning wicked
I'm on the other frequency for the time being
Everything's okay as long as my third eye seeing scenery
Thru the retina translated by the brain
Then conveyed to the soul
We must seize control

All mistakes in the past I try and shut it out
I can't be taking it no more so won't you cut it out
All of this driving ambition I must let it out
Sometimes I gotta do for self that's what it's all about
Making light steps on the ground touch down in the west
Less I be mistaken I see many bows are breaking
But I was only shaken my cerebral stays stable
Lay my hands upon the table 'cause I'm willing and I'm able
When the time comes I travel over to the top
Climb higher embark like the spark in my veins bloodfire
Try again to try my patience and you never will succeed
My inner space attacks the master race
My profession that is the most
'Cause you're the listener and I'm the humble host
So welcome to the distorted alternative view
As the mind showing the way to the few


12. ORGAN SONG

(Instrumental)


13. LAST FIVE

Hell was a place I knew a long time ago
Where everything was dark
There were mazes all around
Here is where I am
Here is where I was
Here is where I don't want to be

Hell was a place I found by mistake
A garden's secret yet inviting door
Leading to a place I'm finding hard to let go

From the down side to the upside
From the inside to the outside
There I'll be making my vocabulary overstand this
Ain't no mountain high enough valley low enough
I will cross over the wake and take it all
Inside stride seven cracks in the walls of ya concrete
Roots to mother nature
Found the foundation
Seperating us with characterisation
Sensation in my body feel life never tires
And the ways of the world inspire
Myself an entire beeing is fact
Ancient artifact shows a generation try and understand
And a man-made decision in division all men
Then again when or why must eye reign speech
Everyone and each must reach for the step
They wanna climb to there is always time to
Lift an uplift with the gift we are all blessed
Lesson and test much more and no less
Fascinating softest shade of passion all around
Daggers left behind in rooms big with small minds
My gaze, dense leaves
Shelter on a sunny day

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