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Flying Not Falling

by Captain Of The Lost Waves

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1.
Happiness My Destination 06:19
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Got sick and tired of beating me up My bags are packed I’ve had enough Leaving tonight on the 10.37 Living in hell as I’m looking at heaven You spend your whole life pretending The stories they tell all have happy endings So high but I’m still in the gutter Falling to earth over sad words I splutter out Melancholia my bride I got a one way ticket to a station Thanks for being by my side Happiness my destination Disconnect me future past Wishing I could make a good thing last Confession is my only defence The next best thing to innocence It’s all part of the struggle Found me a ball called hope I can juggle Sooner or later I’m gonna have to obey her We’ll meet from time to time I know that’s true But I won’t change my mind It’s taking all of my strength just to get through I’ll stop and say hello you know that’s true But I’m letting go of you Looking up the ladder I got to climb So delicate my state of mind A promise to myself I make This time I aint gonna break Look at my undiscovered feel good felt bad Now I speak where I stuttered Growin’ just a little bit stronger Gonna be a prisoner no longer
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Discovery A Scientist's Story 05:57
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I am servant I am master Will I always be alone If god is searching for one to know him In my heart he’ll find a home A clean shirt on a washing line And the wind hasn’t blown me around this morning A short skirt on a blushing bride He don’t look my way And all his see me hear me signs Written down in someone else’s diary As I sketch for the other side With different crayons some might say I am slave to the dictator So the truth shall set you free All this knowledge that I gather Will it ever let me be A drifter on a biological highway God like Sinatra said I did it my way And if he took the knife and made the incision Exploring the wound fast forward derision The miracle folds like a cake As science opens the oven door Answers to questions I can’t fake Keep me searching for ever more Stanley whispers to his daughter Think it’s time that I let go All these years I ached and wondered Is there an after party show
3.
I Can See An Angel 05:52
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The 9.40 train is standing at the station As a crowd is throwing noise into the winter sky Arms reaching out with a sense of consolation Suddenly my farewell becomes the long goodbye 21st March 1997 I press against the glass like a loaded gun I cannot get it back the life that you have stolen Now my babies will be someone else’s daughter someone’s son Do not turn the key I am the open door I can see an angel And I know I’m sure A scream belches out like an ugly conversation From the rooftops of a city Where the suiciders come The weary and the lost Still looking for salvation Or a corner of the world where they can belong Try and catch the breeze I am the morning air I can see an angel She is standing there I cannot interfere in other peoples jigsaws When the pieces of my own never seem to fit Sometimes we are plagued by unfortunate choices And I’m clinging on to you by my finger tips
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Thank God 03:23
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Here's to the scared lost and lonely man A coward slowly rising from the floor The silent voice who’s shouting He found hope and he aint doubting Thank God I found what I’ve been looking for Here’s to the words I pray will set you free Child I know there is a greater law Be strong my gentle fighter Love is a spark ignite her Thank God I found what I’ve been looking for I think I burst the bubble I’ve seen the other side The masterpiece is beautiful It cannot be denied Cut away the plug from The place I used to plug into There is no envy here now Well it took some time that’s true Here’s to the life that each of us must live Of happiness and joy we’re never sure But as long as you’re beside me My heart will travel lightly Thank God I found what I’ve been looking for
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Some Day Soon 05:24
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Look into my face I disappeared without a trace Sailed me out on a wild and stormy sea A postcard to myself on some imaginary shelf The better version of the man I’m yet to be The curtains used to twitch with fear Every time that I came near I wished that I could be my closest friend Been a midnight sky looking for the moon And here is where my journey ends Some day soon Some day soon I’m gonna find you Not hungry when I’m satisfied My shame he changed his name to pride So little left of me I chose to share But the past is another country They do things different there I’m dislocated out of time But all these demons they are mine Like a family who say you don’t belong Make your mistakes and cover up all but the honest ones Going crazy as life gets hazy Sleepwalk through their points of view Just remember most opinions they never count If I can find some peace some truth to make complete And remember it will wipe away my doubt Been flying on a plane from pleasure through to pain It’s not too late to break the mould that made the cast Some memories are like German cars You know they’re built to last My story’s centuries old We’re all for sale and we get sold And the money’s gettin’ dirty in our hands Stumbling towards some better place Hey babe is that the promised land
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I Got You 04:21
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You say love is just a word that’s used for dreamers You’re a hard headed schemer I got you And the truth is found in more places than a temple Don’t complicate what’s simple I got you I got you Like a wolf that’s howling Disappointment scratches at your door Please don’t be suspicious This could be delicious you and I both know Life will still play tough for the suddenly enlightened You’ll still end up getting frightened I got you It’s a leap of faith you’ll find no comfort in the slipstream As you’re heading towards a new dream I got you I got you Tearing down illusions and confusion as I’m sitting here This could be delicious don’t be suspicious Throw away your fear If you follow all your hearts greatest desires Many will be liars I got you From a distance you may be My water in the desert Change the spots of this leopard I got you
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Little Darling 04:47
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Fear not your time will come My little darling I’ll keep you warm just like the sun My little darling One day I pray that you’ll be free My little darling But know that you belong to me My little darling Through the wind and the rain and the driving snow Be not afraid of things that you’ve yet to know And all that you won’t understand When life don’t work out like it’s planned Forgive your foes and let them be My little darling Let go of pain and misery My little darling And appointments that you do not make My little darling Will come and some will surely break My little darling Look ahead and leave behind My little darling The dreams that you may never find My little darling Be not afraid of what you are My little darling The sky is full of different stars My little darling
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Stay With Me 05:05
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Too long I been silent Someone turned me off Like a radio that’s broken Not a word has since been spoken Desolate and needing Like a child who’s lost As the light is gently falling And my tired voice stops calling Funny how the wounded Seek other wounds to set them free Won’t you stay with me Stay with me Shivering I stumble slowly on to sleep And this strangers hand that takes me From this dream I pray nobody wakes me And I confess I’m falling and I’m in too deep I was drifting in the water You were drowning when I caught you Tempted by the darker pages of her history Won’t you stay with me Stay with me Hold on I’ll be here forever As you walk the troubled miles A journey we’ll make together I’ll pick you up and I’ll wear a smile Mouth is barely moving says her work is done Disappears behind a mountain Youth got drunk on a drink from that fountain So wear me like a dress our favourite one I’ll be midnight blue around you I’m so scared now I found you
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The Little Things You Do 06:34
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All the way to the circus A freak show with a fat bellied clown A carousel with broken horses A junkie crashed out in the lost and found So what’s your weakness? Sanson you aint got a prayer Did your Delilah creep in while you were sleeping Cut off your beautiful hair And she said come and lay a little while Let me languish in your smile And the little things you do Come on baby don’t be late Sometimes heaven just won’t wait For the little things you do In platform shoes she kicks and smashes at her old radio set Said she heard the band play the devils lullabies Baby I aint heard ‘em yet So come on ask me what’s the worse thing that I’ve ever done It was Notre Dame and I swear she lost her dress And me spilling out like a broken suitcase Nothing left to which I won’t confess I pray you will complete me tie down my restless soul And I hope that I don’t beat me like so many times before So come temptation everything I want I never need ‘Cos you lift me up so high take me to a place I’ve never been
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Flying Not Falling 05:12
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Been flying not falling all this time Been healing not stealing the past I left behind Been flying not falling all this time Been flying not falling all this time And all I had to do was just change my mind All these things that I know so many ways that I grow Like a garden I stopped learning to hate I pray it’s not too late Me I think I found him Been tasted not wasted like a vintage wine Been sampled not trampled how could I be so blind

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released April 15, 2004

All songs recorded at In A City Studios
Mastered By Twiggy at Pro-Two Studios
Produced By Shaun T Hunter and Carl Stipetic
Written By & Lyrics By Shaun T Hunter

Shaun T Hunter voice, acoustic guitar
Carl Stipetic electric guitar, keys, percussion, bass, backing vocals
David P Crickmore pedal steel
Hugh Bradley bowed double bass, mandolin
Emily Carr violin
James Moxon cello
John Fenner brushes
Mark Gowlett backing vocals
Lucy Hunter backing vocals
Marcus Jack artwork/design

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The Captain is a troubadour, storyteller and free thinking renegade. His musical offerings are inspired by the great songwriters and philosophers of yesteryear. This is visceral music for the mind and body, full of dreamy verses, life affirming choruses and sheer audacity. Where melodic invention meets alternative folk, progressive, world and ambient sounds. ... more

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