All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Elliot Gudge*
*Except 'The Raven before the Dove' - Lyrics by Elliot Gudge & Federico García Lorca / Music by Elliot Gudge
'1999' - Lyrics by Gboyega Odubanjo / Music by Elliot Gudge

Galapagos
Lyrics by Elliot Gudge

‘…the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of dreams / So various, so beautiful, so new / Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light / Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain / And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night.’
	—Matthew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’

I curse you in the morning I long for you at night
this island’s glacial and humid
nothing feels right
and I say, oh, oh, oh—all the bugles are muted
and you say, oh, oh, oh—well, everybody’s wounded

(Chorus)
The beast in me is the villain that rests in you
I looked inside my nest and found the hidden cuckoo
disenchantment points and laughs at us
I’m lost somewhere upon the Galapagos

Adaption’s a convoluted road
and it never ends I’m broaching through the threshold
writhing from the bends
and I say, oh, oh, oh—these Byzantine days are cold
and you say, oh, oh, oh—well, my heart’s been bought and sold

(Chorus)

What have you done to me?
What have I done to you?
Well, what’s become of us?

(Chorus)

Galapagos

All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Elliot Gudge*
*Except 'The Raven before the Dove' - Lyrics by Elliot Gudge & Federico García Lorca / Music by Elliot Gudge
'1999' - Lyrics by Gboyega Odubanjo / Music by Elliot Gudge

Intro (Theme from Galapagos)  

‘But that which matters, that which insists, that which will last / That! O my people, where shall you find it, how, where, where shall you listen / When all is become billboards, when, all, even silence, is spray-gunned?
	—Charles Olson, ‘Maximus of Gloucester, To You’

Instrumental

Intro (Theme From Galapagos)

In a tale never changing
with the same old tired ending
I keep polishing my cage
and turn another page

We were promised oh so much
now we never dare to touch
for I'm not rich enough to love

Did you feel the same
when the world forgot your name?
After the battle was lost and won
and your childhood was gone

Liberals love us
they send all their letters
full of sweet nothings and promises of spring
they wheel you out
and they reel me in yeah
hey just pushing skin yeah
hey thanks for Berlin yeah

At a time of election
I met an old veteran
sold his medals online
and asked me for mine

I said, 'Sir, I have none,'
he said, 'Son, what went wrong?'
oh there's nothing here worth fighting for
anymore

Did you feel the same
when the world forgot your name?
After the battle was lost and won
and all your friends were gone

The Veteran

A reflection glistening in the East River
of a boy who would come to talk
of totems and light as he held up his mirror
the greatest dream in New York

And people would come from miles around
to lose themselves only to be found
in the stories he spun
where the whole world would come undone
just to be made again

Bottle magic and release the cork
it's the wildest dream in New York
Deo gratias amen

Remember when Blondie dived off the bridge
and Jumping Jack Flash couldn't walk?
Well Betty she never quite mustered her courage
the saddest dream in New York

And the boy in the river would become a man
with a singular vision his own master plan
of failure and heartbreak
one long joyous holy mistake
oh what are we but men?

Bottle magic and release the cork
the most beautiful dream in New York
Deo gratias amen
Deo gratias amen
Deo gratias amen

The Greatest Dream in New York

Lead me to your beauty with a song no one else knows
pull me through the panic until the world around us slows
lift me up to Heaven's gate and all that lies above
lead me to the light of your love
lead me to the light of your love

Let me worship at your feet when colder nights draw in
let me bless the space in which I end and you begin
hold me like a hand secure within a silken glove
lead me to the light of your love
lead me to the light of your love

(Chorus)
H-A-R-R-I-E-T
your love your love is nothing more than everything to me
your love love love
H-A-R-R-I-E-T
your love your love is nothing more than everything to me
your love love love

Let me feel the kisses that you save for hopeful days
let me touch the longing hidden in your tender gaze
take me to that special place we never dared dream of
lead me to the light of your love
lead me to the light of your love

(Chorus)

Lead Me to the Light of Your Love

All that she sees
is all that she knows
she talks to the trees
she hears the grass grow

All that she feels
lies strewn on the floor
breaks and then keels
before the barn door

And under endless skies she knows
this is how her story goes

'Cuz in Christina's world
every heart is furled 
she touches no one tenderly

Palace and slum
rest far and away
men never come
to lead her astray

She sings as the sun
she speaks for the grain
dreams her blouse undone
in Californian rain

And under endless skies she knows
this is how her story goes

'Cuz in Christina's world
every heart is furled
she touches no one tenderly

And the gate ain't pearled
to Christina's world
her God he just won't set her free

Christina's World

All songs written, performed, recorded, and produced by Elliot Gudge.
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