The Empty Chair Lyrics

Walking this high road are warriors from an olden time Curse on this land and the days far behind us Dragons weve slain, rescued many maidens fair And no man ever dared break our s...Read Full Lyrics

It’s all there in the gospels, the Magdalene girl Comes to pay her respects, but her mind is awhirl. When she finds the tomb empty, the stone had been rolled, Not a sign of a cor...Read Full Lyrics

In the streets around here there was nobody tougher than me, I was quick with me fists and fast with me footwork as you can plainly see, But while fighting was useful for getting...Read Full Lyrics

Sometimes in the light at the edge of the world Is the ghost of a ship with it's black sail furled And night after night she would stand on the shore And dream of the love that she...Read Full Lyrics

I saw it again this evening, Black sail in a pale yellow sky And just as before in a moment, It was gone where the grey gulls fly If it should happen again I shall worry That only...Read Full Lyrics

No earthly church has ever blessed our union No state has ever granted us permission No family bond has ever made us two No company has ever earned commission No debt was paid no ...Read Full Lyrics

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets And the chaos of cages where the crayfish ...Read Full Lyrics

Why are there women here dancing on their own? Why is there this sadness in their eyes? Why are the soldiers here Their faces fixed like stone? I can't see what it is that they dis...Read Full Lyrics

There is no rose of such virtue As is the rose that bare Jesu, Alleluia. For in this rose contained was Heaven and earth in little space, Res miranda. By that rose ...Read Full Lyrics

We rode all night across an endless desert We had no moon to light our way And though a million stars were slowly turning We lacked the consciences to pray Our horses running like...Read Full Lyrics