Playlist The Veils

the veils - a birthday present

Everybody think's it's something real
Right until the devil drinks it
O li O
Everything's fate and spinning wheels
Everybody wants their princes

No sense in waiting for a swift completion to come
That invitation is all I'm waiting on

The tedious thoughts of the head of state
Are seldom ever worth revealing
O li O
Indelible stains on the human race
You hideous fakes and murderers!

No sense in waiting for a swift completion that never comes
That invitation is all I'm waiting on

Everybody thinks the end is near
How sm I to tell the difference?
O li O
Wish everybody a happy new year
There are varying results predicted

No sense in waiting for a swift completion to come
That invitation is all I'm waiting on

the veils - advice for young mothers to be

She found the world embedded in the snow
Too bad the rest have made it all their own
There's got to be a better way somehow that I don't know
Wish I could find the words and heal my baby

She made a crib of blankets from the floor
Painted the bluest colour on the walls
I don't want to know the time, I don't care about that at all
Nobody knows the way to heaven, baby

This can't go on
Your advice for young mothers to be
Will never find the words
Darling, believe me

So here it is - your heart's out in the cold
The friends you kept still call you on the phone
The Vicar said it's wrong, but hey - what does he know?
He said it's wrong that the Lord forgave me

Well, I don't want your pity and your scorn
Boy, why are you preaching?
No one's listening anymore
That life of yours sickens me directly to my maternal core
No man alive has earned the right to save me

(chorus)

Now here I am - I'm pushing 24
I've got a house and a little terrace on the lawn
My baby's grown
And I'm as happy as a fawn
Now only the beauty of the world delays me

the veils - calliope

I woke this morning deep in the earth
Laying bare with the granite and the moths
Up I clambered and I was met by the sun It was then
I saw you there, down on the street

My love
You've come such a long way
With no one to comfort you
Or to tell you you're needed

You and I come from the same place
But if I were to call for you
What's there left to believe in?

So I signaled up to the high and crumbling moon
We've made it then, my love
Closed both my eyes and crawled under the sink
And as I dreamt I swear i felt you in my arms again

You've come such a long way
With no one to comfort you
Or to tell you you're needed

You and I come from the same place
But if I were to call for you

What's there left to believe in?
What's there left to believe in?
What's there left to believe in?

No way, you're looking down
Took my heart and ripped my crown
And i'm fallin' for ya, and i'm fallin' for ya,
And i'm falling for you, ah,
That's enough to believe in.

You've come such a long way
With no one to comfort you
Or to tell you you're needed

You and I come from the same place
But if I were to call for you

What's there left to believe in?
What's there left to believe in?
You're all i've left to believe in

the veils - death amp co

Oh hear me out
Hear me out inside
Oh I've been running for miles
I've been running for miles and I
I feel divine in my new lease on life
Oh I'm 16 stone, I'm 16 stone and I'm

Oh now here it comes
Here it comes again
The cry left to see
I just wanna let you know
I'm only gonna let you down

Oh I'm burning out
Burning out in style
Let me Hear both sides
Hear both sides 'cause I
I do better without
No with else inside
'cause you're always on show
Working for Death & Co

And hear it comes
Hear it comes again
The cry when I was left to die
An' I just wanna let you know
That I`m only gonna let you down
An' I just wanna let you know
That I`m only gonna let you down
An' I just wanna let you alone
But only I'm only gonna let you down.

the veils - guiding light

Guiding Light

i'm fine from within just better without
this noose around my neck is counting me out
whenever I run my beautiful sin
is calling outside it's that that reminds me of you

every last effort tried so far has been denied
it's easy to cry for love far harder to try

there goes my guiding light
farewell my guiding light

there goes my guiding light
farewell my guiding light

i fought my way in to find a way out
of this weightless regret surrounding me now
whenever i run my beautiful sin
is calling outside it's that that reminds me of you

every last effort tried so far has been denied
it's easy to cry for love far harder to try

there goes my guiding light
farewell my guiding light

there goes my guiding light
farewell my guiding light

there goes my guiding light
farewell my guiding light

the veils - house where we all live

There's an old child's swing set on the lawn
And an ivied wall lured by the years
A neckerchiefed spaniel patrols the swamp
And drinks from the garden of our tears

There are many rooms and many floows
A billion up and a billion down
I'm not sure God knows we're here
Most nights it keeps to itself

There's a widow's wing and an unloved wing
On the unwanted floor towards the rear
I've tried to memorise their names
But no sooner one dies than another appears

There were bible verses all down the halls
But they soon got replaced with explcit cartoons
There are lipstick marks on all our collars
Amd the sign on the gate reads 'Come Back Soon'

We all do our best to keep it clean
But some guy's minds are like a sieve
Sometimes It's a little hard to sleep at night
In the house where we all live

Now when I walk the grounds at dawn
I hear the sounds of far off bells
I lay my feet out in the reeds
And dream of being somewhere else

So boy, next time you are in town
Just ring the bell and I'll let you in
I don't think you're going to need directions -
Just ask for the house where we all live

the veils - jesus for the jugular

How'd you preach The Word if you don't know how to read
Where will your soul once you've signed the deed
Would the son still rise if there was no one around
Would the fox be as quick if he hadn't his hound

Let him go
Let him go
Let him go for me

The whole world spins with her feet off the ground
She'll make the stars applaud when she sits back down
There's a bulls-blood fountain in the pit of a moan
I will summon an eclipse on my way to the Lord

Let him go
Let him go
Let him go for me

Jesus for the jugular
One at a time
Ain't nobody ever gonna ever have to die

the veils - lavinia

See my love is asleep on the floor
In a pose that's familiar
See my sun will just send you to war
If the battle won't kill you
But I've a change in mind
Calling all the time
That I don't want to live in your side
Though the rose is vermillion
And I find it so hard to survive
Without when within you
My sweet Lavinia
My sweet Lavinia
All the years buried under the floors
And the wounds in the parlour
Would have come up to greet us before
If it weren't for my heart because
I've her name in mine
And it's calling all the time
For my sweet Lavinia

the veils - more heat than light

The imperial disaster's in a furious decline
They've been burning down the ghettos burning down the ghettos
crossing all of the lines
And everyone gets so excited as it all starts to rise
All the time all the time radiating
More heat than light
More heat than light
They've been spitting on the mirage in the back of the van
If he can do it if he can do it if he can do it
I think anybody can
They've been polishing the dolphin you've never seen a beast so bright
All the time all the time radiating
More heat than light
More heat than light
All you funny little men
With that fever in your eyes
You say put them with the others put them with the others-
Your should never analyse
He fucked the watermelon women like a thief in the night
All the time all the time radiating
More heat than light
More heat than light

the veils - night thoughts of a tired surgeon

I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real

Take the scalpel, Miss Ivonne
Time of death is 1 am
The blood is going to my head,
By God, I?ll never touch another?s heart again

I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real
I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real

Pass that ashtray, Miss Ivonne
I?m gonna stick it into his ear
Let?s dance the night away in peace my love
Come in we?ll flee like hounds in search of something [lessen sincere](?)

I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real
I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real

But this is all I?ve ever known
No one does it like I do
There must be something in my blood
?Cause all I know right now is that I love you still

I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real
I?ve been brought back to life so many times I don?t know what?s real

the veils - not yet

Mama when she'd ride that horse
Buried out in Wilson fields
Mama'd tell me all she thought
Mama'd tell me all how riding feels

And I thought
Not Yet

Then when Mama got too old
No one ever rode that horse
Until one night I stole her key
And I did ride it all night 'til dawn

When I thought
Not Yet

It looks an ugly world out there
Of girl-guides and disease and war
I love my little velvet bed
I never want to leave it anymore

At least
Not Yet

Charlie was the first I caught
And Charlie was the first I begged
To lay his anchor in my heart
He was running his fingers down the inside of my legs

When I thought
Not Yet

All my fears will come to me in dreams
Maybe the end ain't as far as it seems
Not yet revived but not yet mourned
Not quite denied just not yet born

the veils - nux vomica

What Say you, Lord
For the olive boys down in the house of corrections
As they try for love and any form of ascension
Am I on the right train headed in the wrong direction?
What say you Lord
What say you Lord

Do you think it wrong
Do you see a long road with no one on it
And the right of men that you only learnt to forget
You see my sad wife and my high margin of profit
But you don't care at all
You don't care

What say you Lord
Now that they're breeding all our animals insane
And the remedy is growing harder to obtain
There's a white horse running wild through the switch-cane
I can hear him now
And I fear him

'Til Kingdom come
Cauight in this frenzy of elimination
Such an irreparable disintergration
My body's twitching with a ready expectation
For Kingdom come
My Kingdom!

What say you Lord
Why is the truth of this so hard to unveil?
Though it's true I never knew what this would entail
From the hands of Christ to the head of the Daily Mail
I'll see you all
And I'll raise you

What say you Lord
I wonder when this light is brought up for sale
With the weight of love and the grace of the Baleen Whale
Will the severed Heads of State be at all curtailed
Will they be here at all -
Will they be dead and gone?

What say you Lord
Of the serpent-talied, forbidden fish of the harbour
And the ready-men, defiant drinkers and charmers
All lost and summoning the face of their fathers
Can you see him now?
I can see him

What say you all
Do I believe it if I do not want it
Do I lie alone and keeps my cold hands off it
Honey, it ain't hard to loose your grip in the midst of all of this
But it ain't far to fall
It's not far at all

the veils - one night on earth

I shook from my dream I wasn't here
To shake from my own sight
Shake, ache from the light of everything
Shake for that which sinks but can't drown

Your face
It will not be back again
Oh fate, your face
To summon it away is to back down

I'm not so alone in here tonight
The light shines off the pennies in the street
And love feels such a plausible delight
And now I've learnt the lyrics in full to Auld Lang Sine

Oh fate, Your face
It will not be back again
Oh fate, your face
To summon it away

Oh fate, Your face
It will not be back again
Oh fate, your face
To summon it away is to back down

Now the wolves all howl
And the birds all sing it:
"He backed down"

the veils - the leavers dance

Berenice
my hands my feet are worn
as much as yours are
and though my head my hands my heart are forming
they still feel worlds apart
Berenice
beneath it all youre golden
and thats all im feeding on
and though my head my hands are growing colder
we move in circles now

Berenice
theres no release at all thats not worth dying for
and its not for our desires but our design that we all fall apart

the veils - the nowhere man

I wonder where the junkies go to die
Were you a friend our just some passer by
Because lately it feels like I might need some time

If you want me then you've found me
With time out of mind

Lately I've wondered how many eyes there are in mine
Because if this aint real then what's the point in trying
And lately it feels like I might need some time

If you want me then you've found me
With time out of mind

Darling I wonder how many signs you'll find tonight
That we all know it's the longest ties that bind
And still lately it feels like I might need some time

If you want me then you've found me
With time out of mind

Im the nowhere man
And I'm nowhere now but where I stand

If you want me then you've found me
With time out of mind

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