The Great Departure
by Captain Of The Lost Waves
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So Hard To Reach You
04:17
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I fall like a cloud to the ground
Pain shall add pleasure to joy
Silence to sound
Disappointment flows like river to sea
It’s been so hard to reach you
Do you want to reach me
When all you want is the truth
Holding on to a language
Born in the anger of youth
Ugly words let go of I pray
It’s been so hard to reach you
Maybe maybe some day
Cool hearts closed doors
I’m pushing through
I’m pushing
If praise be the fuel that makes us stand tall
I’ve been running on empty I’m human after all
We learn from the lessons not chosen
And the chances we take
It’s been so hard to reach you
Maybe maybe some day
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No direction here
Just the driftwood that is
Swept in by the evening tide
Caress this empty room
Like the brilliant sky your dark
Fairytale unfolds
Absorbed the mirrors breathing
In a certain light
These orphaned words that I am stealing
The ones I wish were mine
Oh the tongue taste a pleasure
So simple and true
My thoughts they move through the galaxies
And stop at a planet called you
Desire will come
Try to open the eyes of the blind
Are you the first of a new breed
Or just the last of your kind?
It feels like love
It feels like love
It feels like love
Whatever love should feel like
Blurring out the light
Bodies with faces stand as tall
As my intentions used to be
And I think you look at me
In the same way they say Mary looked at Christ
With affectionate desperation
Absorbed the walls are breathing
As I cross enemy lines
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Shelter
04:40
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So far away falling asleep
I hear your heart slowly it beats
Not for tomorrow just give me today
A man without reason has nothing to say
You give me love
You give me shelter
You give me hope
You give me shelter
Poisonous thorn branch of a tree
A birth and a death one of each just for me
Not without shadows the dream fades to black
But I know that the light is the sun coming back
No one is to blame so we turn on ourselves
Like history books upon a burning shelf
And the future is benign and the past is gone
The bitterest pill that sits upon my tongue
Wish I could find the room in my head
Open my heart to the things that you said
Occupied sign I’ve been here before
As the ghosts of the past still knock at my door
Looking for peace flirting with trust
Try to find reason when some things unjust
Searching for you stopping at me
All that I am all I should be
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Don't Give Up
05:14
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The sleepy roof of the old cathedral
Is lighting up the sky
Chills the bones of
Lonely blackbird
A mortal thought that glides
Don’t give up
Please don’t stop
A crucifixion now awaits you
My autumnal sun
You walk your own road to Damascus
Do what you’ve never done
Fear and hope will ripen
Like the perfect bruise
We juggle black and purple
Then fade to powder blue
Perfume in the shadows
Of the eucalyptus trees
Can you teach me in a moment
How to gracefully disappear
Simple pleasures are always wasted
By those who cannot see
We find asylum in hidden places
Where a man is truly free
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Sunshine Love
04:18
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Hold on to the words spoken
The ones needed for a heart that’s been broken
And hold on to me this aint no sunshine love
All these mirrors cast false reflections
And heaven’s found in none of their directions
And hold on to me this aint no sunshine love
You know I’ll be here whatever the weather
Did I make it clear I’m gonna keep it together
My darlin’
Got a map to magic places
Where you won’t feel societies traces
And hold on to me this aint no sunshine love
This aint no sunshine love
Wish we could run away and be
And nature’s the only friend we need
With you I will fall asleep and sigh
Under a blanket called the sky
You’re defiantly beautiful and brave enough to…
Stand up and be counted
The words you own they deserve to be shouted
And hold on to me this aint no sunshine love
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Another century over nostalgia is cheap
As I skim like a pebble on someone else's beach
I just disappoint me inspiration falls flat
But I grow like the lotus
In the dirt with a devil on my back
You tell me...it’s just like that
If freedom should find me let resurrection begin
In the palms of my hands
I gather you up like the wind
And faith is a cycle we all ebb and flow
If we just choose to wake up
There’s a chance we could grow
You tell me...it’s just like that
As the crescent moon hovers
And the mermaids reach out
All that’s yet undiscovered
Makes the surest man doubt
And you’re patiently waiting
For no one to arrive
And the shadows of youth
Are still captured in the oldest of eyes
You tell me...it’s just like that
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Like No Other
06:22
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The surface of the moon
An itch too deep to scratch
Like a train that’s running
On someone else’s track
Take me somewhere old
Lead me somewhere new
Love me like no other
Has ever done or could ever do
Everybody wants to feel what they got is real
It’s like talking without speaking
A dream is just another view
In the starring role is you
These are thoughts that I’m not thinking
Everybody’s searching for
A little less of wanting more
It’s like getting without asking
Shadows in the midday sun
It’s the tallest we’ve become
we’re moving without breathing
Spinning like a leaf
And the autumn breeze has died
The best part of failing
Is knowing that you tried
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Youth
06:49
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No reason left to doubt you
They say the soul can fly
As I’m spluttering in neutral on the ground
And sometimes being lost
Can be a journey in itself
A step towards the art of getting found
As the moon lights up the corners of theses desperate streets
Where lust and love like warriors must still compete
Fighting with the drones of aimless appetite
These teeth they are my own but not prepared to bite
Youth’s got it’s own direction
So just let it be
Hold on to your dreams and desires
Then let them run free
There’s an elegance in exile to travel without fear
Migrant bird that strays through foreign skies
A sermon on the mount with nothing to confess
Just metaphors and lazy alibis
Like the greatest crime your clues are buried deep
As you slowly stumble on to sleep
A million different words I know that I could use
And not s single one of them will ever do
An avalanche of evening falls heavy in your lap
My knowing fingers slate upon your spine
Glistening with sandalwood geranium and musk
In the heavyweight aroma we will find
Shimmer in the afterglow of the morning rain
The sun plays out her cameo she’s gone again
And as you slowly stumble on to sleep
You whisper even the shallow parts of me are deep
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Dragonfly
05:53
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Nothing left to say
Departure lounge is crowded and unforgiving
As all we love must turn to dust
All you can trust in is giving
The odours we’re embracing
There’s a stillness in the air
The circus may have ended
But I’m looking for the fair
A whisper on the breeze
A scent of lavender in bloom
As me and that dragonfly
Cast shadows against the moon
And I hope that you can dance
Beautiful flower
Hold you in my arms given half a chance
Every second of every minute of every hour
Me and that dragonfly cast
Me and that dragonfly cast
Me and that dragonfly cast
As me and that dragonfly cast shadows against the moon
Where there is truth love shall follow
Joining up the stars September morning
So all good things must come to pass
Mostly without warning
You’re climbing up a stairway
The one I cannot take
And you tell me not to worry
And you tell me not to break
You’ll see me in your baby's eyes
And lavender in bloom
As me and that dragonfly
Cast shadows ‘gainst the moon
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There are doorways to places we leave behind
As I stumble across a region in my mind
A part of me no one could ever find
To the lighthouse in your heart
Where the ocean’s cold and dark
A magnolia breeze is filling up your mouth
Inflated with a sense of hope and all your oldest doubts
It’s what we don’t say that really shouts
To the lighthouse in your heart
Where the ocean’s cold and dark
No two snowflakes are alike
Are you prepared to fight
But you know that discovery
Is thinking what no one yet has thought
And seeing what everyone has seen
Have you got the fuel
The journey can be cruel
I’m all that I’m meant to be
For this is my destiny
So what was I thinking before I was thinking
And what was I doing all this time
If love is the answer then what was the question
In sweet deviation I will find
Sirius in the night time sky that once was you
Now the embers of youth that burn are sparse and few
If silence is a detour and no other road to choose
To the lighthouse in your heart
Where the ocean’s cold and dark
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11. |
The Great Departure
07:00
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My tongue is dancing
Ghosting across a crowd of primitive faces
The dark side of this mountain
Like the tallest building
You fall slow to the ground
Drift over here
Watch them appear…
Angels are amongst us
I’ve seen them at the bar
They order virgin marys
Whilst smoking fat cigars
Natural Evolution
Some were made to sit stand and observe
Some to spread their wings and fly
Polar bear on a glacier
Euphoric the hollow
The voice of some distant past that cries
Drift over here
Watch them appear…
Been knocking on old friends doors
Looking for strangers
The seed of disappointment grows up way too fast
If pleasure is a car then you’re running out of gas
But you you you glorious flower
Your colours didn’t fade your petals didn’t die
But sometimes it’s the truth masquerading as a lie
In the mouths of deceivers
Too busy getting lost to be found
So come the great departure
Come like a prairie wind that blows through my soul
Barefoot bareback and naked
Upon this black stallion
Let it ride let it ride into the blue velvet sky
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about
All songs recorded at In A City Studios
Mastered by Dallas Simpson at Dallas Masters
Produced by Shaun T Hunter and Carl Stipetic
Written By & Lyrics By Shaun T Hunter
Shaun T Hunter voice, acoustic guitars, percussion
Carl Stipetic bass, keyboards, appalachian dulcimer
Hugh Bradley mandolin
James Moxon cello
Gary Stewart cajon,tabla,percussion
David P Crickmore pedal steel guitar,dobro
Alex Eden harmonica, resonator guitar
Liz Nicholas flute, backing vocals
Greg Nicholas flugelhorn, muted trumpet
Darren Ibbetson violin
Lucy Hunter backing vocals
Harry James Hunter the last word
Marcus Jack artwork/design
Mastered by Dallas Simpson at Dallas Masters
Produced by Shaun T Hunter and Carl Stipetic
Written By & Lyrics By Shaun T Hunter
Shaun T Hunter voice, acoustic guitars, percussion
Carl Stipetic bass, keyboards, appalachian dulcimer
Hugh Bradley mandolin
James Moxon cello
Gary Stewart cajon,tabla,percussion
David P Crickmore pedal steel guitar,dobro
Alex Eden harmonica, resonator guitar
Liz Nicholas flute, backing vocals
Greg Nicholas flugelhorn, muted trumpet
Darren Ibbetson violin
Lucy Hunter backing vocals
Harry James Hunter the last word
Marcus Jack artwork/design
credits
released July 5, 2007
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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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