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Saint Unknown

by Frances Smith

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1.
Where Isaac Lay 03:40
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Isaac lay beside the cold wall the rain fell alongside "loneliness is a choice gone wrong" she said as she left he felt her voice inside his arms And where I saw him wasn't shown on the virtual mapping of the zone movement fell, and rose, and fell and he won't know I know where Isaac lay Chorus Love again is twisted turned and burned damaged, torn, and tortured where Isaac lay He'd been an undone song so long walking through the rooms of passion removed, remote, reinvented along the streams of fashion along the streams of fashion streams of fashion Repeat chorus where Isaac lay where Isaac lay where Isaac lay Copyright Frances Smith @2016
2.
Unkind 03:20
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Looser hung the chains and innocence was set free she wore the sweetest of her beads and chased the smiles of passers by And I was braver by the time I passed the demarcation line where she fell, she fell, she fell oh innocence you were unkind The barriers were reinforced and the laws were broken in the crush as people drank to life and change that came and drowned those left And I was braver by the time I'd reached the unfinished line drawn and undrawn and drawn oh broken you were unkind And I was braver by the time I'd wandered to the end defined where she lay, she lay, she lay oh endings you are so unkind Copyright Frances Smith @2016
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Five Minutes 03:28
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Chasing the beauty of a mayfly i went searching for the woods primitive is the new love that I laid myself upon And i saw the earth's shadow cast upon the sky come on he said let's travel without learning how to fly By the river bank I lost you I never knew that you could swim so far so fast so fleeting five minutes and I again begin And I saw the earth's shadow cast upon the sky you'll be gone before the sunset but then alive and then begin And now I am the mayfly I can see you for a while and you, you cannot catch me five minutes and I again begin And I saw the earth's shadow and I saw the earth's shadow Copyright Frances Smith @2016
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Spark In The Ashes 04:08
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There's a spark in the ashes glows orange in the night and I saw you walking and I saw you alight And if you don't love me that's a strange way to go are you burning for someone you imagined you know? There's a spark in the ashes glows orange in the night and I saw you walking and I saw you alight And if you don't want me then I really don't mind but don't hang around crying when it'll all pass with time There's a spark in the ashes amongst the greyness of night it still burns with beauty and it says you're all right Copyright Frances Smith @2016
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Underground 04:30
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Barriers built their way around him he'd lived beneath the burning bridge that carried cars across the mouth oh those drivers go so fast And he could be the better brother when the other was sunk low and he could be the unloved lover when he was living underground Over there was the doorway where he'd watched the fallen man as he lay, and lay, and lay and the rain had painted Silvertown The window had been shattered last night, and he had touched the wild man in his anger and felt the heat, the heat, the heat I am living underground now he told the woman counting change she dropped a little and she lost it as it rolled, and rolled,and rolled I thought one day I'd go to China but one day it never came I was hidden from the night's worst but the best won't find me underground And then he left the closing clubland it was later than it had been he heard the soft roar of the traffic as he walked, and walked,and walked Copyright Frances Smith @2016
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Automatic 03:24
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Administration of the dose was made as early light was showing on the western side but the window was too small There she stood her halo gold lit by the incandescent bulb and still the water fell revolved hallucinogenic, fierce, and cold The whiteness of the walls made morning seem more bold and through his sleep he saw delivery begin once more Chorus Automatic was the response automatic was the defence automatic was the rate how beautiful the sad mistake The waking of the waiting crowd was stumbling through the cloud evaporating, dried like dust and then, all emotion lost Repeat chorus Copyright Frances Smith @2016
7.
The Next Star 03:48
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On the next star where I met you you were shining in the light and you were ready for redemption and to take another flight space travel's in your soul seems like you like the burning bright then I saw you lying lost and lonely said the next stars just not right On the next star seems to want you and you seem to want it too but is there no one else can give you those illumination tools? On the next star where I met you there were demons in your life and you were chasing angels you said they cut you with a knife and the past prefers the future but the future knows no past and you were lying in the long grass with the snakes that stole your skin And on and on and on to the next star Oh the next star is your friend now and the next star and the next and you were following the next star and the next star loves you best Copyright Frances Smith @2016
8.
And Unfaithful Hero 03:28
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Against the light of day the warrior stood fighting for the war his shadow laid and unfaithful hero fade away The dust is scattered through the lanes the seasons turn the light around and unfaithful hero make no sound Winter fields are brown and dark no bird flies past eaten are the stores and unfaithful hero fall once more Copyright Frances Smith @2016
9.
All Soul's Day 02:45
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It was All Soul's day I wrote this vision fades away I am ghost, I am parting from the dancing light waves And all across the city moved the many, slept the few and he lay in the chantry need you no more, need you no more You'll have the end you offered to those who fell on their way across the market there was silence and it was All Soul's day. Copyright Frances Smith @2016
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Trouble Borrowed 04:10
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Once I had none of my own but I went searching for a loan I could have stayed on Lover's Lane but I just had to find some pain Oh, he was all that I could want he was the flower in the swamp his fragile loveliness exposed but then I moved, position closed Chorus Oh. trouble borrowed turns to sorrow trouble borrowed turns to sorrow I could have stayed at home and then I wouldn't be alone The roads are full of angry thieves who steal the meaning from the leaves who see the sunset not the moon who wake the demons with their tunes I was the seller who bet too high flexed her wings and tried to fly and he was sweet, was sweet, was sweet, was sweet but I went fighting on the streets Repeat Chorus Trouble borrowed turns to sorrow trouble borrowed turns to sorrow turns to sorrow turns to sorrow Copyright Frances Smith @2016
11.
Saint Unknown 07:03
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The falling of the hard born against the night's edge leaves the loved alone and frees the end and they walk back through the soft glow faded in the sun, and it starts to show and amber, in it's water, colours all below I thought I saw him standing there before me and he had been a shadow beneath the photocells unfolded the paper rolled, and unrolled, and rolled he'd paved, created, stayed alive, and tried to die while each bitter leaf there survives, it's still alive Chorus The stranger and the pilgrim stood like danger and willing washed by the stream of pain of saint unknown with the gambler and the wooden cross The flickering flame, orange strange, prescription lit the bending iron but could not change the game in the contract he had signed, unnamed, ungrown he pulled his body like a heavy load, low across the stones that submit to all And the laying of the long night's end had stories that won't begin again and the earth had turned itself around and I'm older now, and losing ground, then are we entering another dream Repeat chorus Bridge The heat was spinning in the doorway closed upon the morning thaw before the power was held within it's jaws exposed I faded into another view and I'm a stranger but I forgot I knew the counting down great faster above as into the street space silence dropped smashed like a fragile broken clock while time, it seemed, mattered no more and there he was, he was saint unknown The stranger and the pilgrim stood like danger and willing washed by the stream of pain of saint unknown by the stream of pain of saint unknown by the steam of pain of saint unknown with the gambler and the wooden cross Copyright Frances Smith @2016
12.
The Mill Stream Flows No More 03:39
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Green glass shine meet the ledge distorted light falls some more found fragment pale and soft dressed for duty bringing beauty oh bottle dream small and sweet visit me and the mill stream flows no more and the mill stream flows no more Segment sliced useless beauty wave no more silenced partly tree bark feathered body broken space unopened oh bottle dream slipped away never stays and the mill stream flows no more oh the mill stream flows no more the mill stream flows no more Copyright Frances Smith @2016

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released November 27, 2016

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