1. |
No Need
03:14
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No Need
Just a body, suffocating with design
I can see the peace and the pain in your lines
Maybe, we’ll lose our purpose, someday
Heaven or not, you leave all that can stay
All I want is the opening it seems
But there’s a mortal, there’s a mortal in my way
He sank, into the roots, the open fields
With fragile health and nature’s asylum reveals
And for now, I’ll watch this summer breathe
For a lifetime spent is all I can recede
Maybe, we’ll lose our purpose, someday
Heaven or not, you leave all that can stay
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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2. |
Passers By
03:30
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Passers By
I put out fresh flowers by honesty today
I let evil see how deep it was
Peace knows that it is forever fleeting
And vanity is as ugly as it’s lost
And love, well it must be there
Every sin draws from the cold
God it must be, don’t they ever feel?
Well my eyes reside in my father’s pride
My mother’s unsullied voice
The grip of hate, the vice of love
Confuses the soul with choice
And love, well it must be there
The earth it does not forget
God it must be, don’t they ever feel?
Should I kiss the ones who usurp me or are my lips my only voice?
Should I flirt with man, it’s killing him from outside?
Is evolution only about choice?
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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3. |
Never Alone
03:45
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Never Alone
A constant touch, of our own worth
Have we been decided, a trivial joke
The loss now permits, for us to commit the sin
Of destroying anything and everything
One and weak, I can see the eyes need sleep
Perished in beauty; I’m lost without her gaze
Never alone
Before your birth there was just earth
No different, you slept in your eternity
Loathed but a victim, a gentle abyss
Let the mirror devour your looks from within
One and weak, I can see the eyes need sleep
Perished in beauty; I’m lost without her gaze
Never alone
I sense a jealousy, so ripe it bleeds
When heroes wither, I mourned for belief
So nice to please the lives like mine
Never alone, here for you but not for long
Never alone, here for you but not for long
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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4. |
Love's Wasteland
03:32
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Love's Wasteland
Lonely, lying or standing down
Inside amongst your lost and found
Say something to clear summers hope
All my favourite worlds they have closed
How is winter in your head?
Half a soul, half silently ends
Shadows parade, desperate friends
Take from them; you can make your amends
And still I see, love's wasteland
A body unwanted, too high, too high
Assassinate the colours in time
An endless hope, an endless climb
Draining out the memories
I feel much safer with apologies
Caught grey, caught mid-alone
Level out this dubious tone
All I hear is his vanity, I hear her voice
I retreat inside no choice
And still I see, love's wasteland
A body unwanted, too high, too high
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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5. |
Serenade The Damned
03:20
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Serenade The Damned
A mind gone, vanishing friends
The drowning words, of all men
So I ask, what is pleasure?
Abandon, made to measure
You’re no desert island fraud
Freeing prisoners to guide the bored
All that’s left to do is
Serenade the damned
Bruised together, alone I am God
Just discovered that people can’t talk
There’s a fear among our titans
We’d see daylight instead of horizons
Let the child even the void
Wisdom until lust's heart dawns
All that’s left to do is
Serenade the damned
Let the child even the void
Wisdom until lusts heart dawns
All that’s left to do is
Serenade the damned
A mind gone, vanishing friends
The drowning words, of all men
So I ask, what is pleasure?
Abandon, made to measure
You’re no desert island fraud
Freeing prisoners to guide the bored
All that’s left to do is
Serenade the damned
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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6. |
Reunion
02:19
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7. |
Soul Of Man
04:48
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Soul Of Man
Time, time to think about
The millions that mean nothing
Uncertain, uncertainty
Is the future you cannot see
Please pay and you’ll receive
Oh, finding the words so much to say
So little time to consider
And when you’ve found the love and your wealth is gone
You lose everything to the highest bidder
I’m safe my dreams are within the soul of man
Alive, alive but screaming alone
Will you still be there tomorrow?
And what happens, when you’re still alive,
Will it mean something or is it just a life?
I’d rather believe than exist
Oh, can the books save you
Your paintings that lived, so you had to die
And when the wind whispers for you
And the rain cuts you hard
Is it all a lie?
I know my dreams are within the soul of man
Oh, finding the words so much to say
So little time to consider
And when you’ve found the love and your wealth is gone
You lose everything to the highest bidder
I’m safe my dreams are within the soul of man
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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8. |
War Of Dreams
02:25
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War Of Dreams
Is it because, it’s already doubt?
Inside the laughter, it can’t help us be friends
You go this way and it’s the end
There’s nothing to be content about
The window becomes, your view of life
Watching the enemy steal all of your light
A soldier kills so you don’t have to
There’s nothing new to dream about
Your body, your art, you’re free to choose
There’s nothing new to be cruel about
Among every prey, there’s a scent of you
The wind howls satisfied and now you plan to
Extinction so pure, with nothing to lose
There’s something new to be content about
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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9. |
Wait For Me
04:59
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Wait For Me
Not for nothing or no purpose, I’ve made myself
The vanished thoughts lay out like prayer books, on winter rooms
He is upright but falling down
The body and its empire are dying
Turns to a force that outstretched long ago
The wild regrets the strangled sweat, will thirst
He dreams alone with so many
This is a lie to me but you
See all this mess as beauty
How can you be so seduced by imperfect tones?
So pleased to gaze dull light, than see shadows born
Lock myself in, if I fail I shall be alone
My Christ is something that I can reach out and hold
Among the clouds is my image of man
And what she carries is what destroyed us all
Passion and crimes they will punish
Us all for what we perceive
Human wisdom to be
I got lost in perfection, mind and memory ran away
Self-abuse for a vacant illusion brought a thousand yesterdays
He dreams alone with so many
This is a lie to me but you
See all this mess as beauty
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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10. |
We Sleep Alone
03:53
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We Sleep Alone
The sight of yonder youth
A greeting from truth
Grieving for the absolute
Absent in everyone
Everything is for you
The laughter and loss, now vanity
We alienate everyone
We sleep alone
He is with her now
Their loss but a memory
A vacancy for a friend
A degree in intimacy
Everything is for you
The laughter and loss, now vanity
We alienate everyone
We sleep alone
This is our, last summer
Pristine and unharmed
Their love is unlike
Benign and unknown
This is our, last summer
Benign and unknown
We Sleep Alone
More memories for the jails, we sleep alone
Against our dreams, we sleep alone
Words by James Parkinson ©2013
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11. |
The Sheltering Sleep
03:57
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The Sheltering Sleep
Under the breaths of wider heaven
I saw the flocks of faces
So many faces, memories of fields
Behind each mournful gaze
Beauty above us, a silent frame
Human confetti, scattered again
The sound of your name
Distant as my birth
Holes in the clouds where I saw you fall
The sheltering sleep keeps us warm
We descend together to a silent warm dark
That runs in our veins and softens our bones
Words are so pretty that each
Is a neon sign on the street
Holes in the clouds where I saw you fall
The sheltering sleep keeps us warm
Warm
Miss your skin
Miss your scent
Miss your colour
Words by James Brookes Buckley ©2013
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One Cure For Man England, UK
One Cure For Man is James Parkinson. An English alt-rock artist, poet and illustrator combining intricate, heartbreaking guitars with rich vocals tinted with loss and introspective, thoughtful lyrics.
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