Thinnest Hopes Magnified
by Shaun T Hunter (Quiet Rebellion)
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More Blessed Than Cursed
06:16
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Your heart's been down there for so long
You struggle for something to say
It's easier to sleep now
But i want you to keep me awake
Seems that everybody's walking talking
Dancing in their feet
I'm at a critical stage
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
That I'm more blessed than cursed
It's not another meteor that's in my way
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
Kids with muddy faces
Cuts on dirty knees
We'll abandon all attachment
To what it is we think we want
What it is we think we need
Give me steady wheels
On mile wide country roads
And a concentrated gaze
Upon the ragged fighters pose
It's just the weight of heavy optimism
Keeps on staring back
Through tinted mirrors and lies
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
That I'm more blessed than cursed
It's not another meteor that's in our sky
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
I'm not asking for protection
From ornamental seizures that stray
I'm not a slave to circumstances
Which unfortunately came here to stay
Give me uneventful solace
From the tyrants of misfortune
In their towers of shame
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
That I'm more blessed than cursed
It's not another meteor that's in my way
Waiting for something to happen
Waiting for someone to deny
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Escape
03:53
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We've got hours
I hope that someone picks you up
And takes you far away from all of this
Like a sunset
Where is your perspective
Where is your horizon
I see clouds that bellow out
With the weight of water
Lost your sense of justice
The jury's got a legion
Of cheap excuses
Waiting just to get me out of this
I hope that someone picks you up
And takes you far away from all of this
I see your conscience
Suspended hovers over
The ghosts of apparition
Children's footsteps emanate
From out behind the canvas
A myriad of colour
Assaulted by my senses
That shout and scream and say its time
You took me out of this
I hope that you find someone better
Someone's stable heart that shelters
Just someone to keep you warm
Keep you safe from harm
And take you far away
Take you far away
Take you far away
Take you far away from all of this
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Hitcher In My Soul
04:59
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Persuasive spirit shouts
A bird of prey on a roofless house
The virgin skies would never doubt
The hitcher in my soul
If you should uncover him
Where the air is still and the clouds are thin
Where i don't start but he begins
The hitcher in my soul
And i ain't seen anything finer
I ain't seen anything finer than you
Standing in the road
The restless mind is hard asleep
The dust of the heartland beneath his feet
Audacious dreams we never keep
The hitcher in my soul
You got to keep on knocking
Someone will open the door
You got to keep on walking
The roads that no one has taken before
You got the best of my worst emotions
We venture far from the roots to the tree
Go hang the global spokesman
I seek absolution in me
Our thinnest hopes are magnified
We scale the walls and climb so high
Injustice reigns and we find alibis
The hitcher in my soul
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Misha
05:53
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Someone found the smoking gun
With everybody's fingerprints emblazoned on
You said that we will raise the dead
Bang the drum not beating in our heads
You don't always need the answers friend
The difficult questions you can ask again
In lucid colours I see broken spines
Where imagination now resides
I'm still waiting
Prodigal son take that look off your face
A rebellious thought is just a hair out of place
But you're strong enough
Stronger to mask all the fear that you hide
And you've given up
Sleeping with only the wolves by your side
When the blood thirst stops
You'll dance like a child on a lake
When the ice slowly breaks
You will find your place
I know that you're strong enough
Messiah help me to begin
Undress the silhouette that's paper thin
Clusters of confusion reign
And now the blameless are the ones we blame
Afro black to astral blue
The giant bruise that lives inside of you
Only the needless things that people do
I'm still waiting waiting
A frequency lost that we never could trace
The opposite of love is indifference not hate
But you're strong enough
Stronger to mask all the fear that you hide
That you've given up
Sleeping with only the wolves by your side
When the bloodshed stops
Tempted by faith and by fear
I know you're still here
Please don't disappear
Like Misha I hope that you're strong enough
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Wouldn't you like to walk with me
A place where no one knows your name
We'll navigate the human maze
Dispossessed of memories
Now virginal the view you marinade
Inside the residue of your tired slumbering eyes
A passive submission in your face
But the subtle interventions are the ones we cannot trace
Engaged to the masters that we serve
You said that we don't live in the same moral universe
Evolution all in time the battle scars across the mind
The infinite expanding circle horizons never looked so far or wide
Solitude feels crowded hide there's empty spaces in this room
Peace of mind in turbulent unrest
The dialogue between us nestles like a thorn within my chest
Adventure is narrowed thinning out
If there's a new tomorrow be only sure of what you doubt
Obedience for all to see the closet life's fragility
That dissipates and finds its wings
This deconstruction in production
Manifests itself in language
Bathed in thoughts and words I barely used
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6. |
Alligator Smiles
04:52
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Prehistoric monster
Governed by the council of his lowest thoughts
We sit and wait
A primal scream still muted
In the stomach of our yesterdays
The dust that does not gather
Where youthful minds do battle
And they say we need more shepherds
And not more sheep
Narrow are the dreams of men
Who do not hear their neighbours speak
It's killing me
Overwhelming claustrophobia
Where confidence eroded
We used to navigate the mountain side
Now the poison climbers stand tallest
In the gardens of our paradise
It's killing me
If you have raced with men on foot
And they have worn you out
How can you compete with horses
Hysterical with laughter
They drag a nation by the hand
And make us walk the crooked miles
Look around they're everywhere
The men with alligator smiles
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Surface Water
06:15
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I slither in the void of loss anchored
To another set of cut throat circumstances
Your narrative is neither clear or true
All I hear is the ragged resistance
In the sound of words that fall
Ruthlessly rhythmic your pulsating hands
Like bullets that bark and then bite on command
In apocalyptic mirrors reflections we see
But cannot decipher
If this is no more than a slim victory
The hollow my name you carved out on a tree
In the pools of my eyes what do you see but
On empty platforms we bleed and stray as
Another wreckage of a runaway train dies slowly
Within the gravity of the falling rain I hear
Untried and still untested
In the midst of me making my grandest mistake
Neither instinct or prowess aware of my fate
Another cautionary tale in these wide open spaces
The sonically sweet architecture of sound
Will blaze this impervious wall to the ground
In the pools of my eyes neither lost nor found
What do you see
Surface water
But the dreams you have they still wont go away
There just ageing and growing old
Disgracefully you cover up the grey
Besieged by dogs alpha male against the glass
A transient thought
Can’t separate future from the past
Let it go
Your rousing heart
Will tiptoe poised with the
Idle apprehension in the debris of
Nostalgia unhinged for I am the broken door
As the symmetry of reason in the wings lays waiting
Predators circle the carousel sky
Serendipity said she's reluctant to try
Optimism is sullen stretched out and thin
The alchemist slowly advancing
Stifled propelling your breath finds a way
To push out the words you been trying to say
With a slack jawed disbelief you read the contours
Of my face and all you see
Surface water
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8. |
Long Black Limousine
06:21
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Another word becomes another line
For the dog eared pages of a diary blowing
In my mind
If you defy definition you'll be hard to find
I see the long black limousine
Euphoria sails on the tail wind of my soul tonight
My pelvic bone judders
And my spinal cord's tight
Possession is easy but it's time for letting go
Lady why don't you tell them from me
You're in the pages of my history
I'll keep you in my heart dear lady
Breaking down the monolith and raising Cain
Trembling at the thought that I'm here again
An arrow in the heart of one man’s criminal pain
I see the long black limousine
My advancing years married to the ills of this
Modern life
The closing chapter is autumnal I might
Where commas only ghosted now the full stop
He wears a stain
And lady why don't I tell them like I should
Everything you ever did for me was good
I'll keep you in my heart dear lady
Tentative my future steps keep looking back
You said some memories like German cars
They were built to last
Adam whispers that his Eve is gone
The atheist shouts out I've one less god to call upon
Minor bird whistles a major key song the
Long black limousine
Logic falls and like some unexpected guest
The lukewarm invitation is saddled up and he
Gallops out west
The best of his worst emotions
Just for a moment they found him out
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9. |
Look Back In Wonder
05:17
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Still chasing rainbows out beyond the clouds
See the light that hits the ground
Exulted by the space
Diminishing like tremors
Ecstatically you move towards me
With a ballerinas grace
Mournful indecision's fade
Manifests in hidden pages
Waiting to be read
But the wounded beast tormented
By the bullet in his body
Will slowly come to rest
Hope you look back in wonder
At all those things you've done
May you look back in wonder
See how far you've come
An air of contradiction finds
In the resolute and open mind
A door that's still ajar
So many years I've travelled
So many things I've witnessed
Have we really come so far
Irrational suspicion gauged
In the throaty laboured cough
That strays undoing what's been done
Are you distinguishing the anger
Virginal the silence
From the fornicating tongue
May the uneasy wind that blows inside you
Be gone
The wheezing trains that screech towards the
Platform of our memories
There's a submarine in hidden depths
Pushing ripples to the surface of my eyes
A tiny magnanimous thing
The opening and closing of butterfly wings
The collective gasp within us is now at peace
With our goodbye
Dissolving in a strangers tears
Fists unclenched there is no fear
The monstrosity got out
For naivety and all her wilful charms that
Now possess you
No longer married to your doubt
The cavities inside of me
They grow so deep just let it be
If i should disappear
For something new has happened
Something new is happening and its
Happening right here
Make the uneasy wind that blows
Inside you be gone
Be gone
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From the battered armchair to the floor
Guarded speech or muted tongue
Is what I've known you for
Here by default and not command
Infatuation possesses your naked hands
With an effervescent luminosity
They spiral out of control all over me
Ambiguity is raining down
A seed of doubt beneath the ground
Unearthed the hollow sound of your soul
Out of control
The slow assassin with his gun
The seamless dress is clinging on
Memories more shallow grave than deep
A rival of not a disciple of
You know there are no corners here
Where I can bow my head in fear
Only the swollen tides of opinion
That drown me slowly
In the lazy detour I will find
Stark revelations empty mind
Withered hands that struggle to applause
Say please go gently
The orphaned child upon his knees
Polarized by desperate need
Your ill fitting harmonies still out of time
This adolescent urge is wearing thin
Where you must try most everything
All this time you've been a rival of
Not a disciple of
Shapeless faces fill the dreamless sleep
With blunted finger nails
You've been trying to carve out a niche
I know without knowing how I know
I’m not killing time
Only holding her hostage it seems
A false declaration serves nobody here
Least of all me
Build an ark before the flood happens
Not during or after it my friend
Is a mans compulsion to do the wrong thing
Only compulsive because it is wrong
As I let you down again
In the vortex of a swirling possibility you said
All in time
Shadows that still trip me over
Are ones that aren't made by the sun
It matters not that you get everything right
Only that you know how to handle things
Going wrong
What if the idea
Was better than the execution
Stilted dialogue from your crooked mouth
Breath shivers in the contours of your neck
For if grief never grows old I'll watch your
Instincts collapse
Like the lungs short of breath
Age has blunted the sharpest of your features
Except your tongue
A truth too cruel unauthorised asks
What if the idea
Was better than the execution
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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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