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THE QUILL LYRICS
"The Quill" (1995)
1. Dry
2. Homespun
3. Lodestar
4. From Where I Am
5. The Flood
6. In My Shed
7. A Sinner's Fame (Trouble cover)
8. Not a Single Soul
9. In the Sunlight I Drown
10. I Lost a World Today
11. Sweetly
1. Dry
What I see before my eyes is a man that'll never be
Wandering the freedom trail, don't let this man be me
Wipe the dust from bloodstained skin but failing to stand tall
Sit and watch the wise roll by, please save a wicked soul
Searching high and low 'cause my spirit is moaning
I'm on my way to higher ground
All I need to know is where the water is flowing
Before the well inside of me is running dry
There is so much left to say no time for dying down
I n this muddy waterhole one sip could make me drown
Gimme strenght to carry on to waters rushing free
Lay me out on fertile ground, somewhere I can be me
If there's water flowing
Fill me 'cause I'm running dry
2. Homespun
Come rest your soul beside the water
Here is your home beside the water
S urrender your burden to me
I can hardly see, the light is turning low
I'm fading into black and white so let myh spirit flow
I'm homespun, native son, longing for the hills
Coming home again to kiss the sea
Let the light shine down on me
Well I'm sinking slowly to the bottom of your ocean
Some would crush the searchlight, well I won't
Homespun - here's my naked skin to see
Undone - I come crawling after me
Shiny silver skies wherever I will go
In the shape of a butterfly I'll let my spirit flow
Humble is my soul and humble I will be
Coming home again to kiss the sea
Let the light shine down on me
We'll I'm pushing forward but I'm back to yesterday
Some would like a blindfold, well I don't
3. Lodestar
Here's what remains of a man, only ashes
N othing but dust in my hand
Taken to nowhere to ease up the flame
Left him to bleed in the sand
The bridge that you choose can be fragile as crystal
Suddenly you are no more
Never the man you swore should be someone
P laced on a hill to adore
Here's what remains, here's what remains of a man
Lodestar, my lodestar is hidden in haze
Maybe tomorrow will bring me a place
Free from the faces painted upon
People proclaiming their lodestar is gone
4. From Where I Am
I've been speeding like a train to find myself again
But I've stumbled on my homeward bound
I've been sailing every sea to find pieces out of me
But I always seem to run aground
Hey now everywhere I go
In search for the perfect flow
I end up as the same old Godforsaken man
So long, just sound of rain
pouring down my windowpane
It's sad but I can see no sun from where I am
Oh Mother holding all my reins won't you fill up all my veins
Though my body's full of bullet holes
There's no need sewing up my skin 'cause things that shouldn't
Be within traded places with my soul
I can see no sun from where I am
What's the reason save a man
A s long as no one understands
A soul as flat as a leaf, a body fragile as glass
5. The Flood
If I could climb over the mountainside
What would I find
The things I never seem to find
If I swim that poison river
I could do most anything
A man can travel all throughout space and time
But still we're so fucked up
Inside our wandering minds
If I swim that poison river
I could do most anything
Let the rythm carry you
Away from what they do
Who's the one to wade
Across the flood
6. In My Shed
Save me mother please, I'm begging on my bended knees
I've done my days of crying in the shed
Won't you save me mother please, I need a remedy for my disease
A shelter from the voices in my head
I'm letting out whatever is inside,
I'll burn it down to clear my state of mind
I'm about to leave my shed
In my shed I thought I had the things to make my fly
But I know now I won't come too far
No wonder why I burned my shed down
I'm reaching out my hand, grab it, save a shapeless man
Broken wings no reason not to fly
I'm reaching out my han, Mother try to understand
Even if I'm blind I'm free to cry
7. A Sinner's Fame (Trouble cover)
8. Not a Single Soul
My freedom is missing I'm a man in a hole
No way to get up soon I'm ashes of bones
God bless the true soul of a man without name
God bless the loser on stagnation train
Here I am, I'm a man down in a hole
No one cares no not a single soul
Here I am, I'm a man tied to a pole
No one cares no not a single soul
Save me from sinking down this bottomless hole
Throw me a lifeline, 'cause I'm losing control
God bless the sighted who has slowly gone blind
God bless the poet of the wicked kind
9. In the Sunlight I Drown
I tumble over stone and weed
As I wander over human wasteland
'cause I've become a piece of wood
I'm drifting into nothingness to slowly drown
Please have mercy upon me
When I set out for the sun
Have mercy on my very soul
In the sunlight I drown
In the sunlight men like me drown
I'm stuck here like a stiff on earth
I steer my ship on oceans dried out
Spirit of tomorrow I'll do anything
To please you if you set my wreck ashore
What kind of a place
What kind of a place
Have I found, have I found
In sunlight I drown
10. I Lost a World Today
Lay down your load it is dreamtime season
To follow a dream you never need a reason
You have to kill for the crown
Or you'll find that the only road leads down
Shine on down the road to freedom
We're all riding the same wave
I said shine, 'cause we're heading for Eden
I guess your right I lost a world today
Bring up the dust time to leave your quarters
Kick in the mud for some holy water
You have to kill for the crown
Or you'll find that the only road leads down
11. Sweetly
I'm a wreck doing time, I'm a swamp you're my crime
You're a waterhole in desert land
the difference of me being a man or wreck
I'm dirt, you're a peach, you're the state I can reach
You're a waterhole in desert land
The reason of me being a man or wreck
You're a waterhole I cannot find
The reason I am doing time
I wish I was here to see the things you had done to me
I wish I was here to see when you drowned me sweetly
Let me drink poison slow
Fill my mouth 'cause I know....
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