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Hidden Gems Chapter 3

by Captain Of The Lost Waves

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Tom Clegg
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Tom Clegg Such a beautiful album from the Captain, full of emotion, memorable melodies and thought-provoking lyrics. ‘Noise and Amusements’ is the song of the year for me. Favorite track: Noise And Amusements.
Jan Govey
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Jan Govey This… this is not an album, it’s an immense, immersive experience. First time you listen, grab headphones & make sure you will not be disturbed. You will emerge on the far side a changed person having been on fantastic journey.
How is the Captain not a huge star?!!! Favorite track: Noise And Amusements.
martin revell
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martin revell an evolution of style indeed....still retains the essence of past works but has a new sense of modernity, great production
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1.
I’M OFTEN RATHER ENVIOUS OF CATS AND DOGS AND FOXES THEY ARE NEVER ANYTHING OTHER THAN THEMSELVES AND BEARS SNAKES PELICANS AND ALL THE KINGS MEN’S HORSES ANIMALS YOU KNOW THEY DON’T DO SHOW AND TELL PRETENDING TO BE A PERSON PRETENDING EVERYTHING’S NOT OKAY PRETENDING TO BE A PERSON I THINK I GOT AWAY WITH IT TODAY ALL MY RESPONSES AUTOMATED I’M AN ACTOR AND A FAKE I WAS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LONG BEFORE YOU KNEW IT
2.
AS WE OPEN TO THE HEAVENS THE CLOUDS INSIDE OURSELVES REMIND US THAT WE NAVIGATE SOME ROADS WITH LITTLE HELP HITCHERS ON A HIGHWAY THUMBS ALOFT AND PROUD IT SEEMS YOU'RE GOING MY WAY WHERE THE SILENCE HUMS SO LOUD FOR SURELY THOSE WHO FEEL IT TOUCH IT TASTE IT TOO THOSE WHO KNOW WITHOUT KNOWING KNEW THEY SOMEHOW KNEW THE CLAMOUR FOR ATTENTION THE NEED TO BE OBSERVED THE SKINNY APPARITIONS THE SQUAWKING OF A SNOWBIRD GENIE ON MY SHOULDER THE SKY HAS TURNED TO BLACK IT'S TIME NOW THAT YOU TRUST ME FOR THERE IS NO TURNING BACK THE SHACKLES OF ILLUSION THE PHANTOMS IN YOUR HEAD HE RESIDES IN DAYS GONE BY STILL SLEEPS IN YOUR OLD BED BUT YOU OH LIGHT OF SPLENDOUR TIDES OF GRACE YOU WHO WEARS A MILLION LIGHT BULBS 'CROSS YOUR FACE SONG OF SOLOMON YOU CAN’T BE TRACED YOU WHO WEARS A MILLION LIGHT BULBS 'CROSS YOUR FACE
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Clarabelle 05:57
IN THE STATION MASTERS HOUSE LETHARGY AND LIFELESSNESS WERE BREEDING DEVOID OF ALL SOBRIETY THE WOMB IN WHICH I GREW IT WAS NOT BREATHING CHASTITY AND SELF RESTRAINT THE DEVIL AND THE IDLE SAINT CLARABELLE SAYS “THEY BOTH WILLINGLY DANCE INSIDE YOU DISSIPATED CAST ASIDE DECEITFUL GROOMS AND BROKEN BRIDES THE ANODYNE PLIGHT IN A MARRIAGE IS WHERE I’LL FIND YOU STUNTED TREE THAT DOES NOT GROW INFINITELY NINE YEARS OLD AND WEEPING THE WILLOW SPRAWLS AND SLOUCHES THERE WHERE NO ONE LOOKS WHERE NO ONE CARES I’M SEEPING UNAROUSED BLASé COLD I DARE NOT TWIST I ALWAYS FOLD CLARABELLE COULD ANYONE EVER FIND YOU? NO SHAMELESS FORMS OF STILTED PLEAS NO CHUTZPAH OR AUDACITY CLARABELLE PLEASE DON’T LET THIS DEFINE YOU WHAT DEFINES YOU DEFINES ME A SOPORIFIC CHANGE OF GUARD ABSTINENT AND STILL NOT RIPE FOR STEALING PERSNICKETY I’M ALWAYS THERE I DO NOT AGE WHAT DOES NOT CARE REVEALING THE SWARTHY VEINS THAT LINE HER FACE BROKEN SPIDER LEGS ARE TRACED CLARABELLE SAYS “I’M THE STORM NO PLANE WOULD FLY THROUGH TINY POOLS HER SQUID INK EYES OBSIDIAN AND OF SCANT DISGUISE CLARABELLE SAYS “I’M UNREACHABLE AND NO ONE EVER EVEN DARES TO TRY TO EVER DARES TO TRY TO WHAT DEFINES YOU WHAT DEFINES ME
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HAPHAZARD AT MY BEST THE INTROVERTED EXTROVERTS CONFESS TALK THROUGH THEIR TEETH IN APOLOGETIC MUMBLES WHERE PERFECT SKIES ARE DREAMED IN ROUGE AND MAZARINE ALABASTER CLOUDS POSE AS CHESSBOARD PIECES ROTHSCHILD SLIPPER ORCHID PRAY WHERE DO YOU GROW WHAT GIVES BIRTH TO YOUR RAREST FORMS AND FEATURES? ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT KINABALU THE DANDELION SHOWN TIS THERE AT A HEIGHT OF TWELVE HUNDRED METRES COS WE’RE ALL GETAWAY GETAWAY GETAWAY GETAWAY DRIVERS IN A STOLEN CAR NOT BIG ENOUGH THE STAGE STRUTTING PEACOCKS IN A MACHIAVELLIAN RAGE HARBINGERS OF AVANT GARDE COERCION YOU LEFT ME BURNT AND SCARRED FIGHT NOT THE DRAGONS BUT OURSELVES TOO HARD TATTOOED STAINS FROM MOLTEN LAVA HANDSHAKES AN ORGY OF INDIFFERENCE ENVELOPED BY PRIDE THE LITURGY EXPOSED YOU NOW FIND COMPELLING IN THE BYZANTINE RELICS AND FRESCOES THEY HIDE THE LEVIATHANS BREATH SLOW LABOURED AND HEAVING FOR THIS IS MY MORE SOUR THAN SWEET CONFESSION DID I CARE TO MENTION I’VE NEVER BEEN GETTING IT RIGHT I WILL MUST HAVE MY WAY A SILVER COIN FROM ANCIENT ROME YOU SAY DENARIUS ONCE KNOWN AS A PENNY NO TWISTS OR CURLICUE IN THE DESIGN OF OUR TRENCHES FEW BUT MANY MASQUERADE AS PIONEERS WE ARE LEGION AND NOT SIMPLY ONE THING PERSONAS IN A BOOK OF MANY PAGES A MULTIPLICITY OF SELVES TO THIS EXISTENCE WE BRING BY ALL MEANS HAVE BUT TREASURE NOT YOUR OPINIONS COS WE’RE ALL GETAWAY DRIVERS IN A STOLEN CAR
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Quieter 04:42
QUIETER THAN THE GLOVE THAT SITS UPON A DEAD MAN’S HAND QUIETER THAN THE GHOSTS OF DESERT FATHERS IN THE SAND QUIETER THAN THE TIGER TWELVE YARDS FROM HER PREY I’M QUIETER QUIETER THAN THE PHANTOM PAIN BENEATH THE AMPUTEES RIGHT KNEE OR THAN THE MOTHER TONGUE INHABITING THE IN LAWS TERRITORY QUIETER THAN THE CIA’S DARKEST SECRET KEEPERS I’M QUIETER QUIETER THAN THE PLANELESS SKIES OF TRISTAN DA CUNHA OR THE TUMBLEWEED RESPONSE TO THE FRESH FACED STAND-UP COMEDIANS HUMOUR QUIETER THAN THE NOISELESS HUM OF BUILDING EIGHTY SEVEN I’M QUIETER QUIETER THAN THE TRUTH IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER OR THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR NORMAN BATES HEADING TOWARDS THE SHOWER QUIETER THAN THE MONKS AT LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE THEY SAY I’M QUIETER
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YOU AND I CONSTRUCTED BY THE MOST ALOOF AND DEVIOUS INTENTIONS WE SEPARATE DIVIDE AND WARP AND RECOGNISE NOT A SINGLE THING WE SEE WELL I DO NOT YEARN FOR THEIR MOST EXCLUSIVE OF SUGGESTIONS OR SUBMIT TO THE MASTERS THAT YOU SERVE BE NOT SURPRISED BY THE LACK OF YOUR EXPOSURE TO DIVERSIONS ALL THE WATERS NEVER DIVED IN OR DISTURBED WE’RE ALL ANIMALS ON AN ISLAND ALL THOSE BROKEN BRIDGES SUBMERGED FOR MILES SUFFOCATING IN THESE WIDE AND OPEN PRISONS OFFERED DREAM TICKETS BY THOSE WITH ALLIGATOR SMILES THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF UGLY OUT THERE BEQUEATHED AS BEAUTY ONE MIGHT SAY BY CURATORS AND CLOSET DICTATORS NOT A STITCH OF THEIR TAPESTRIES DARE STRAY WELL I’VE MOST OF ALL EXCELLED AT PRETENDING TO BE A PERSON ALL MY LIFE NEARLY EACH AND EVERY DAY IN THE PHARMACIES AND THE BEHEMOTHS OF THOSE FACELESS INTERVENTIONS TWAS THE RED PILL I ONLY EVER CHOSE TO TAKE EVERYTHING WAS GO UNTIL IT STOPPED YOU THOUGHT EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT UNTIL IT WAS NOT I DO NOT STRIVE TO PURPOSELY BE SO OUT OF PLACE WHILE I PRETEND TO BE A PERSON EACH AND EVERY DAY
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BETWEEN THE LAST BREATH AND EXTINCTION WHERE DID YOU GO? THE DEATH OF THE ATTENTION SPAN IT’S EVERYWHERE IN EVERYONE I KNOW THE PRIESTESS OF GINNUNGAGAPS AND ALL OUR SACRIFICIAL CHAMBERS WHERE A BLURRED CRUSADE OF RAPTORS LIKE GLITCHING SILHOUETTES THAT MAKE NO SOUND EPITAPHS ADORN LEANING GRAVESTONES THAT ARE SPELLING YOUR NAME ATOP THE PEAKS OF A BILLION BURIAL MOUNDS AS THE SKULLS OF WOLVES ARE JUGGLED BY A CONJUROR AND RENEGADE A PURPLE BLUE BRUISED OCTOPUS AT SEA LIKE A METAPHOR FOR ABSENT BRIDES NOT SLIPPING INTO DRESSES A SHADE OF JAUNDICED COTTON IVORY
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THE CROWN IS WORN BY THE IMPOSTER IN EVERYONE A SEEKER OF PRAISE AND APPLAUSE AND BONE VEINY STRANDS LIKE RIVER MAPS ON WITHERED HANDS HOLDING ALL KEYS TO THE DOORS SKINNY BALLERINA WOULD YOU WANT TO BE HER GIVEN THE CHANCE CAN YOU PIROUETTE IT AIN’T FOR EVERYBODY SURE YOU CAN DANCE? SILENCE ABATED IF NOT NOW WHEN I GET LOST IN THE NOISE AND AMUSEMENTS OF MEN INTO CORNERS WE’RE PAINTED DOUBT LOSS AND FEAR SAY “WE’RE THE LOUDEST VOICES HEARD IN HERE FOLLOWED BY LUST AND REGRET AND THE TRUTH HAS NOT MADE IT TO A SINGLE 12 STEP MEETING SINCE WISDOM WAS REPLACED BY INTELLECT SKINNY BALLERINA WOULD YOU WANT TO BE HER GIVEN THE CHANCE CAN YOU PIROUETTE IT AIN’T FOR EVERYBODY SURE YOU CAN DANCE? SILENCE ABATED IF NOT NOW WHEN I GET LOST IN THE NOISE AND AMUSEMENTS OF MEN INTO CORNERS WE’RE PAINTED I NO LONGER SAY IF I ONLY SAY WHEN I GET LOST IN THE NOISE AND AMUSEMENTS OF MEN INTO THRALLDOM WE’VE FAINTED IN A MARRIAGE OF PERIWINKLE SAFFRON AND MALACHITE TOO LET THE NOISE AND AMUSEMENTS OF MEN PLAY OUT AS THEY DO WE’RE ALL BELEAGUERED AND TAINTED
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IN SHARDS OF ULTRAVIOLET A RED WINGED BLACKBIRD STARTS TO SING HE SAYS “YOUR SENSE OF CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE IN EVERYTHING MY BLIND SPOTS ARE MANY SO MUCH I CANNOT SEE WE ARE BEGINNERS ALL OUR LIVES AND I’M STILL LEARNING HOW BIG THE SMALL CAN BE I WALK THROUGH SUNLESS ALLEYS AS WHAT MUST BE BROKEN STARTS TO BREAK LIKE A BEFUDDLED MAN WHO YEARNS FOR COFFEE IN A MOSTLY HYPNAGOGIC STATE
10.
CURIOSITY BROUGHT YOU THUS THIS FAR AS THE BANSHEES OF PALE IMITATION PLAY SITARS YOU’RE A TREE AT THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN STOREYS HIGH WONDERFULLY GLORIOUSLY MEANINGLESS AM I CRAWL AWAY TO THE SHORELESS BAY WHERE THE BIRDS OF PREY RIDE A WAVE OF CLARITY ALL I SEEK BEYOND SURFACE DEEP MORE THAN THE PLASTIC FLOWERS FOR STONE HEARTS I CLAIM AS MY REALITY UMBRELLA CLOUDS CAST A SHADOW ‘CROSS YOUR FACE THE FOOTPRINTS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN MAKING WHERE NONE ARE TRACED YOU’RE A WOLF AT THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN STOREYS HIGH WONDERFULLY GLORIOUSLY MEANINGLESS AM I CRAWL AWAY TO THE SHORELESS BAY WHERE THE SLEEPLESS RAIN RIDES THE WAVES OF CLARITY ALL I SEEK BEYOND SURFACE DEEP MORE THAN THE PLASTIC FLOWERS FOR STONE HEARTS I CLAIM AS MY REALITY THE TRUTH ISN’T ALWAYS PRETTY OR SWEET THE TRUTH CAN BE UNCOMPROMISINGLY BLEAK THE TRUTH IS A STRANGER WHO APPEARS AT YOUR DOOR SAYING “YOU ARE THE DANCER AND THE DANCED FOREVER MORE
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I DON’T SEE YOU YOU DON’T SEE ME BEYOND THE VEIL OF THE STUBBORN SELF DIVIDED OH YOU DON’T HEAR ME WHEN YOU SAY MY WORDS CHOOSE TO BE BOTH INJURIOUS AND SLIGHTED FALLING INTO THE SPACE I AM A THORN OF REASON IN EVERY SINGLE STEP YOU TAKE OH YOU DON’T FEEL ME FOR THOSE PROJECTIONS WE SEE ARE JUST OUR TERRITORIES DEFENDED FALLING UPWARDS INTO THE SPACE YOU ARE A THORN OF REASON IN EVERY SINGLE STEP I TAKE LIKE A COLD HEARTED EMPEROR THAT’S TAKEN ALL CLOUDS BY THE REIGNS THE SISYPHUS GENE INCITED ALL OVER WHAT CAN’T BE DIVIDED IS IGNITED AGAIN WE’VE BEEN LOOKING THROUGH BLIND SPOTS ALL OF OUR DAYS I DON’T SEE YOU YOU DON’T SEE ME
12.
FAR TOO MUCH OF THAT NOT ENOUGH OF THIS ALL THE THINGS I DEARLY CARE ABOUT IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION THE LIKES OF MY KIND ENDANGERED TOO INTO THE BRUISING BUBBLED SUNSETS LEAVE NO TRAIL AND MAKE NO SOUND WE ARE PAPER AEROPLANES NO PURPOSE FEINTEST OF DIRECTIONS LAND WHERE WE LEAST OF ALL HOPED WE’D DO REMINDED MORE THAN JUST THE ONCE OR TWICE THAT WE ARE BEGINNERS ALL OUR LIVES FOR THE GREATEST PART OF FAILING’S KNOWING THAT YOU’VE TRIED WE ARE BEGINNERS ALL OUR LIVES FAR TOO MUCH OF THIS AND NOT ENOUGH OF THAT THEY SAY THE PRESENT IS A GIFT BUT THE BEAST UNWRAPPED NO LONGER BREATHING DEEP SEA DREAM DIVERS ON THE T-REX’S BACK PAPER AEROPLANES PAPER AEROPLANES LEAVE NO TRAIL AND MAKE NO SOUND WITH AN EASTERN HEART AND A WESTERN MIND YOU FOUND WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR THEN CLAIM IT CAN’T BE FOUND

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released May 23, 2022

THANKS CREDITS
“CAPTAINS COUNTER CULTURE WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF SO MANY OF YOU OUT THERE.
THE KINDNESS I’VE HAD OVER THE YEARS HAS OFTEN LEFT ME OVERWHELMED.
STAGGERED FROM SO MANY WIDE AND VARIED PARTS OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND OVERSEAS, I AM FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT.
THERE CONTINUES TO BE ONGOING ACTS OF SUCH GENEROSITY, THAT OFTEN REMIND ME OF THE FACT THAT MY ARDENT FOLLOWERS SUPPORT IS INDEED UNIQUELY BESPOKE,
THOUGH IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF FERVENT AND GLORIOUSLY MAGNANIMOUS.
THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CROWDFUNDERS WHO HELPED MAKE THIS RECORD A REALITY, PAYING FOR RECORDING, PRODUCTION, DESIGN, ENGINEERING, MASTERING AND REPLICATION OF THE PHYSICAL GIFT YOU NOW HOLD IN YOUR HANDS.
THIS SIMPLY EQUATES AS MY BEING ABLE TO PAY THOSE OTHER ARTISTS WHO SHARED THEIR VAST ARRAY OF SUPERBLY HONED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE.
TOGETHER WE LABOURED, IN THE JOURNEY OF THIS RECORD BEING BORN.
WITHOUT YOU, THERE WOULDN’T BE THIS...
WE GOT TO FINALLY EXECUTE THE VISION, THIS,
THE TRILOGY CLOSER.
SIX YEARS AFTER CHAPTER ONE EMERGED, I WOULD LIKE TO REFLECT & THANK EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN A PART OF THE CAPTAIN'S JOURNEY. MUSICIANS, DESIGNERS, ILLUSTRATORS, ENGINEERS, COLLABORATORS, FRIENDS.
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY THAT I REMEMBER EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU.
I TRUST & PRAY THAT YOU WILL FIND JOY IN THIS.
HUMBLED AND ETERNALLY YOURS, CAPTAIN

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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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