Shantell (words: S H Jones) Lyrics

We look up, silently Without quite music My face four days old You look newborn There's fear in your frown, like mine No distance away Noticing your hand Half round my head And on ...Read Full Lyrics

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 bo...Read Full Lyrics

The day flees the town with a drunkard's yell Silence from the slaughterhouse And the midnight bell Shudders down Shambles alley Slamming shutters And the market litter flies Newsp...Read Full Lyrics

The boy walked round the jagged rocks Caught between ideals and desires He sinks into oblivion And there was silence, as he sat so still Averted face stares at the floor So this is...Read Full Lyrics

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...Read Full Lyrics

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 into me Nudging ...Read Full Lyrics

Waist high in the wild oats Goose-grass burrs on his old coat A knife tears through his throat. Sunlight sparkles in the old stones by the wall Surprise in his eyes as he begins t...Read Full Lyrics

It's quarter past seven when I hold you A head floats above the sleeping town Somebody shouts to me you're calling But nobody's out there to reply It's quarter past seven and I ho...Read Full Lyrics

You stand beneath a racing sky You don't know why you came to The house of the heart You sit amongst the whitered flowers By the dry fountains You look at the barren world around T...Read Full Lyrics

As a voice beneath the millpond sings >From her past the lost June days are woken And wind across the gorse slopes call Through years, where the darkness roars Until with wirl-pool...Read Full Lyrics