- A Room Lives In Lucy
I hear voices from another morning
And in the sunlight I feel the room grow,
I feel the room grow,
Windows, white curtains and the smooth walls
But the night leaves her on the floor
Of a mansion halls
And the feet on the floors,
I must get up off the floors
- Anchor Yard
She stands beneath the arch in anchor yard
And pulls her shawl around her back.
Her bandaged hands remember-
Hooks of iron hanging from the walls,
Fish guts in the blue-bricks
And the rain with the autumn falls
Around her shoulders like the night...
The strange songs they sang will always
- Angel, Devil, Man And Beast
Angel, devil, man and beast
One by one you join the song
One by one you are released
Partners in truth deceit
I love you and your reckless ways
Your stammer and your hidden grace;
- Before the power goes down
She's my saviour
But I don't know what you've come to
She's my saviour
Mona Ray
Mona Ray
Your doorsteps on a winter's day
Mona Ray
She's my saviour
- Belief In The Rose
The rose bows its head
From the hedge to the shade
In the whispering calm
Of the cool colonnade
Unravelling dreams and deeds
As it unfurls the heavy scent
I tried to reach
Its poisonous dreams so clear
- Bloodline
Down on the banks of the living stream
Not so far from our home
You never know what's waiting there.
So better not go alone
Come with me my little one
And see how time unfolds
Hear the reeds sing in the wind
All our stories unfold.
- Bullet head
Transparent babies we walk like men
Across the marshes and back again
We seek a different view
A world that's fresh and new
We wait together at twilights pose
Bodies dance forever, the cool dark pool
She craves to swallow you
Fill your lungs
- Burn Down This Town
Two women walking down the path
On the outskirts of town
People shouting out
She says she'd like to burn this place
to the ground
And the older women bows her head
And starts to laugh
- Candace
I was watching my sister
Tying back her hair
She kicked off her shoes and left them there
Beneath the slender trees
In the dry heart-shaped yellow leaves
And Caddy says -
Don't touch me don't touch me.
- Dialogue
Doves circuit the sky.
In the room where I woke
I heard them fly
Like a rush of blood
Into the endless blue,
Out into the blue.
Reflected light
Trembles on the wall
- Domed
In another land
I tried to find somebody
To tell me what I had to do,
Some way to hide away from you,
Some peace of mind of any kind
In another land
In another land
- Feeling Fine
Feeling high now
She says
She says
I'm feeling high now
She says.
She's got the wings of a swan
And she moves her arms
- Get critical
Стань опасным (перевод Максим Куваев из Красноярска)
Never beginning, never ending days,
Days when the ceiling is so low I cannot stand
And the blunted knife presses into me.
Melting in the airless heat
The walls close in on me
Nudging me this way and that
- Gone...Like the Swallows
Balancing on the wind
Leaning on the cliff edge wind, in limbo
He watched sand running through the fingers
of his left hand into the palm of his right
He sees someone walking in a hot dry wasteland
Young, hesitant steps
Recognised her crooked fring and narrow eyes
Threadbare, summer patterned, dirty cotton flowered dress
- Mary of the woods
When I woke I thought of you,
Looked out of the window at this familiar view,
I watched the kites fly high above the steeples
And the washing lines that float
With sailor's clothes.
When I woke I thought of you
In the vale there's a meadow
- Mermen Of The Lea
An owl hoots. The moon
searches from the sky.
pierced with its sister stars.
And the mermen of the lea
Sing their silken song to me
Curling down the dark wind
in green lane.
- Midnight Garden
I see it fall, I watch it fall, I let it die
No anguish just the happiness shows, on the brow
Look from these hidden angles
an unknown language prowls
I disappear, I reappear, I cannot hide
Standing in this broken view, where you surround
Dripping from the silence
- Nailed
Check suit in the breeze
Of the loosening tide,
Crossing bridge McGovern
Where the greasy river slides
Can feel the release
As I'm moving inside,
Mirror valley shiver
- Prince Rupert
Rupert lies on a bed
In a chamber and watches the weeds
And the feather headed grasses
That waver on the grey stone balcony
He sees the blood-stained silk white sky
Of another dawn arise
But Rupert knows this crimson morn
Will turn to dusk and night will fall
- Rive Droite
I felt her hand open in mine
It made me think of another time.
Sunday bells float through my house
On the steady wind that's blowing to the south
Trails of smoke rise in the air
From the bonfires in the orchards
I see you standing on the stairs
- Scarlet Arch
Lie
In the pale summer heat
Find a clock as it ticks
Oh, to never, never sleep
But the clock ticks so loud
Like the cracking of whips
Till the sun slowly heaves
From the blood hungry land
- sea change
Sea change
No one can change my life
But the days seemed endless
And the burning embers
Of their fire remain.
And there were times
When I dreamed of youth
And there were times
- Shrine
Material folds
>From rough, modest clothes
Slabs of cold sacred stone
The peasant girl kneels
In strips of feeble water light
Slim fingers clasped
Warm steady, precise
The unwanted love for a murder
- Slow pulse boy
Somewhere the blast furnace explodes
Plumes of amber in the night sky,
Each explosion bounces
From horizon to horizon,
From horizon to horizon,
And for a while the slow pulse boy
Stood by the window
And let the fire sink into his skin
- Stay Away From The Accordion Girl
If you see the accordion girl
Better walk the other way
Underneath the viaduct
Might be where you'll hear her play
If you see the accordion girl
I'll give you some advice
Avoid her eyes and walk away
- The beautiful silence
I came upon a house
In a place I'd never been before
All painted white and open doors
With the sunlight dancing on the floor,
I saw the wind in the spring trees
Smelt the poplar and the sun's heat
And the meadows lie sleeping
- The Dutchman
With the grace of God
And the gift of peace,,
The strain of timbers
Beneath my feet.
Beneath my feet.
As I sail alone
These uncharted seas
- The Flatlands
She knew in time that
The gate would swing
She knew in time that
She would look up and see him...
Behind the elms
The snow clouds were gathering
Into the winter
Her voice would sing.
- The Knave
When I came to your house
With the wind from the south
The daybreak's on the hill
Where I stood
The key turns
With a sound that you know by now
When I walked with you deep
In the wood
- The Pear Tree
She hung her gown from the pear tree
And watched it swing,
Above the daisies ox-eyes
Like the flapping of wings
Through the blue marbled sky,
From her chest...
And the trickling of sweat.
- The Soul Driver
The rain was fresh on the streets
The camber of the road
Hissed beneath
The soft caressing seat
Sucked me back.
The town arose above me
Through the tunnel
Like a dream.
- The Tease The Tear
Your features
Looking so happy inside
Don't let them see down through the floors
Ignores the quetionnaires and smiles
Plays ignorant to words today
The blind could not ignore your smiles
Hear in your features anger talks
Jagged, haggered they talk
- The way the land lies
The old man's come to see
The way the land lies over,
Come to see the way the clouds roll,
He wants to know if cowslips still grow
On the hill where he kissed his girl
And if the sky turns just the same
When the wind blows from the west
Above the old town in the distance
- There Was A Man Of Double Deed
There was a man of double deed
Sowed his garden full of seed.
When the seed began to grow,
'Twas like a garden full of snow;
When the snow began to melt,
'Twas like a ship without a bell;
When the ship began to sail,
'Twas like a bird without a tail;
- Under the stars
Take off your coat, girl,
Leave it by the stairs,
Pick up the telephone
There's a star outside
Shining bright
And the moonlight falls
On the apple tree
- Virus Meadow
Rattled chime, slow ringing echo
Roll around in virus meadow
Suck enchanted nightshade twine
Hear the bells beneath us chime
Sinking sermon, priest head murmurs
Holy words across the meadows
Kissed the plagues' black rolling hand
Through his lips the virus sang