Minim

I owe my life
To a tree
That fell ahead of me
We love the beams through the branches
Silent leaves our way
Keeps me cosy at night
Keeps us safe during the day
When we climb through the canopy
We like the way it feels
With my arms around a branch
And a branch at my heels

Owe My Life

Tread Carefully

Sprout

Mouse Boy

Nimue (no vocals yet)

Colossi

in the observatory

Lok And Fa

Fulgurite

C		         G
The way a kingfisher flies
Em                          Am
Bands of copper oxidise
G	F                               G
I want to crawl through those eyes
	    C
On more time
C			G
And I sometimes think about
Em		Am    G
The drifting in and out
		F	G
Who else will live in this house
	C
after our time?
C			G
The way the sky fills with light
Em    		          Am     G
Turns the ground to fulgurite
F			G
What I would do to see that sight
C
One more time
C				G
And I don’t know how they might meet
Em			Am   G
Dancing on each other’s feet
F			G
But take me back to my old street
C
One last time
F       C
Oh a sapling grows
F       C
Between the bricks
      Em
And from beneath
       F
They start to lift
F           C
Reaching through
             F         C
The doorframe
Em 
The walls they start
F
To peel away 

C       G      Em     Am G        F       G

Fulgurite

Alone... a fever and a cold... it's sad
Alone... a fever and a cold... it's sad
I'll yearn for the sound to the films that I found
Us in the park with the snow on the ground
and I'll yearn for the walls and I'll yearn for the paintings
that fade from your eyes in the moments before waking
I'll yearn for the autumn; the leaves on the water
a cut on my forehead, I tripped hit the table
under a blanket I'll stumble on the edges
emergency appointment for butterfly stitches
Alone... a fever and a cold... it's sad
It's sad It's sad It's sad It's sad
I can't help placing my face on your face
You hum to me an insight; doesn't have to be a race
Always betrayed by the circles I perform with my feet
Transport me to a place like the long forgotten beach
You were cross with me that day but you were tired in the sun
You know I never meant for us to have to walk so far along
Always betrayed by the way my shoulders let me down
Transport me to a place where I can listen to the sound

[Repeat that last bit for ever]

Yearn for the Autumn

never saw, the northern lights
when they came down south that time
the summers end we all look up
at the grumpy norfolk sky

caught indoors,
for the best eclipse of our lifetime
little moon shapes twirl around
where the curtains meet the floor

sleepy eyes
she says did you feel that earthquake
all our beds came off the ground
I slept through it all of course

I always blink
when a shooting star goes overhead
or i look for far too long
or my eyes make sparkles of their own
​

Phenomena

5th or 7th Fret on guitar.

C			  E			Am	     G
I saw a tiny bead of light, You said the room was much too bright
F			C	         F		G
The motes of dust enticed around, a lazy arm, a lilting hand
C					E 		Am      G
No melodies will soothe your head, so, let me take your hand instead
F			C		F		G
I know a song without a single word, a lonely string that’s seldom heard

C					       E		        Am	          G
I turn this thread around my thumbs but I, I can’t remember how it’s done
F	                     C	 	      F  			G
The song begins to lose its shape, a pencil used to wind a tape,
C						    E		          Am             G
And these sacred postcards that you send, well I, I miss the start but I dread the end
F		     C		F		G
Those edges tear so easily, a gentle touch is all I need

Am Dm C Dm, Am Dm C Dm F into G

C				    E	   	     Am	       G
I have a sister half my age and I, I really miss those precious days
       F			       C		    F		           G
To draw with the freedom a child has, the more you learn the less you have
           C						E		  Am 	       G
And I may go deaf and I may go blind but some things will never leave my mind
            F		           C			F			G
Like a song without a single word, a lonely string that’s seldom heard.

No Melodies (acoustic)

The doors are closed but for a distant voice
Parade softly starts from the resting place
Passengers on a ship that never leaves the shore
The lights on the hills I saw

The dowser spoke of buried gold
Rivets and runes and stories told
tumuli they lie still with their hearts all lost
The guard he stands down at last:

Long they have worked, dark skies and billowing coats
The weight from above takes a deep and wavering note
Up above they begin to pull away the dirt
The king awakes to the shifting earth

Billy Lubach

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