Patrick Wolf - The Shadowsea * Bluebells * Pigeon Song (Live @ London Palladium, 15 November 2009)

This recording is dedicated to Carolina, because we are both children taken away by London, and we saw those rockets flying on the fifth of November.

Too many rocks
Not enough breeze
To sail on out
Of your shadowseas
Too many sails
Not enough breeze

Of your shadowseas
To sail on out
Of your shadowseas

***

Lucy, remember
The smell of that fall
The fires of fungus
And the rotting leaves

I fell off the wagon
Into your arms
Into this long month of sundays

And you were my husband
My wife, my heroine
Now this is our final December

Now deep in a forest
Losing all though of spring
And nothing can help me remember
And I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in this dream I let the compass keep spinning

And your love has come too late
Away from the garden gate
Wake me up when the blue bells are ringing

How can it be over after all that we had
A river runs through the rafters down, down, down
Does it leave me sleeping? Dreaming only of spring
The phone rings out and I remember
But I'm going nowhere fast
A darker day has hold at last
Deep in this dream I let the compass keep spinning

And your love has come too late
Now wave to the garden gate
Wake me up when the bluebells are ringing
Ringing, ringing, ringing
Wanna hear them ringing, my love
Wanna hear them ringing
Ringing.

***

london, did you have to
take my child away?
you buried him under
rent and low pay.
I've been cyling in circles
round your empty streets.
i've been searching
in the pouring rain.

I've been going alone
to the cinema
I've been stealing all my food
from the electric avenue
now the pigeons gather
round my feeding hand.
and we talk til the evening fades.

I have learnt how it goes
what you wait for never shows
and what you least wanted
holds you down like a stone.
just like a stone.

Now i feed the birds.
day after day.
only they can hear me pray for
a lighter heart. a lighter load
to be moving. moving. moving
my way home.

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[CatWolf21]

Ha ha that was me who screamed after "too many rocks" - i didn't realise it was so loud!!! I didn't mean to - i just couldn't believe he was playing The Shadowsea.

[ccr358]

<3 you.

<3 him.

<3 London.

:)