CREWDSON & CEVANNE
BRACE LYRICS
It’s So Easy
We save another bank
We plant another flag
We fail another Borough
Test scores anomalies
Chop down another tree
Wage war on one another
Class based to educate
Jobs paid for by the state
Child care by big brother
Pay for your all medicine
Hide all their tax away
Brick up the channel tunnel
Information overload
Money n cash must always grow
Own all the bricks and mortar
Mortgages and holidays
Fine wine. A card to pay.
Premiere league away days
Cooked meat at any time
50 thousand ways to dine
Aspirin, bed and diet coke
Bag for life, a coffee shop
Eat all the fish you want
Channel hop we never stop
Two Sisters
Two sisters stand together
Each with a heart of stone
Yet they’ll be apart forever
Preserved in a fight of stone
The dead lie at their feet
Each with feet of stone
The low clouds brush their hair
They brush their hair of stone
One sister she is a bell-tower now
The other she is a spire
They share one church in eternal row
That all lancashire could admire
They say the church was made
When a sister wanted this
But the other wanted that
So the town was torn
And to end the war
They made both this and that
And so it was and wasn’t:
A two-headed church from a sister’s row
Or was it king henry’s canons that now
preserve a fight of stone
Two Machines
Two Machines
tonight I had a dream
though I'm a dumb machine
and in my dream, I fell asleep,
and had another dream
my lover had another face,
and he chased me
and so I changed shape,
and yet he found me
I hacked the wide web,
became the government
my lover he became a mole
and he cut off my head
my body kept running,
new skin, same code
until the mole became a tumour, so, I switch mode
reboot restart,
I wrote a virus in his heart
down down he did jump,
and turned his heart into a pump
I became a piston of a train
and sent a signal to her brain
and thought to see her fall in pain
but he laughed : start again,
but she laughed : start again
he held my mind in his
I held her mind in mine
he shut his eyes, and we rewrite, and we reprogram time
and I became her dream,
and he turned into mine
and I was he and he was me to run from my design
my lover had another face
so I chased him
and so he changed skin
and yet I found him
and so we laugh - start again
lover lover don't go far
fight me like a sorcerer
turn me on and off and on
and tell me I'm your 0 and 1
lover lover over here
never worry never fear
if you ever feel insane
PAUSE
it's all game
lover lover don't go far
fight me like a sorcerer
turn me on and off and on
and tell me I'm your 0 and 1
Butter Hill
The kindness between humans of a thousand years,
Will make its mark, a name to last, to quash the fears.
Come leave the bread and butter here, don't come to close,
The death that lives beyond the brow will of you dispose.
We go find, this place of ours.
Ridden of its curse.
Make this space, a place of ours,
And don't destroy our earth.
We found a fort upon the higher hill,
360 view around with soak to fill,
Sending for the reinforcements we'll stand tall,
We know our friends will come and save before we fall.
We go find, this place of ours.
Ridden of its curse.
Make this space, a place of ours,
And don't destroy our earth.
They Forgot
With a heavy heart
They buried the queen in the fertile ground
So that she may grow again
o-o-o
Each year they came.
They remembered the hill but forgot the queen
And they though there live the Fae
In many years, they’ll find her there
In many years
remember where the tale began
and gods were born
like warring Fae, and hidden bombs
o-o-o
And all forgot
When time forgot
What the hill was for
They buried their hearts in the fertile ground
So their love may grow again
Now you see her, now you don’t
Sisa’s Well
By the sea there's a well
In the well there's a house
In the house there's a heart
And all are locked, but it won't be long:
The heart hums your lover's song.
When the sea fills the well
Then your love will come home to you
When the walls walk away
Then your love will come home to you
When the heart floods with salt
Then your love will come home to you
And your heart falls to your feet
Then your love will come home to you
When the fish learn to sing
Then your love will come home to you
Sing the same hum as your heart
Then your love will come home to you
When the sea burns, sky turns
Then your love will come home
Your love will catch you up
In familiar strong arms
They'll catch you up
In familiar soft arms
And cauterise with melting kisses
And wash you clear
With waves of salt and tears
Absolved but unsolved
So, you return –
a rash ridden babe to start again
And all shall be well
when your love comes home
Two Brothers
Two brothers born below the mossy ground
must make their way towards the sea.
Their lives began so close as twins they are,
But must make their own way separately.
Cheshire calls with jobs for thee,
This salt from mine to dock you Weaver please,
Little brother I have yet a task for you,
These mills to turn before each day is through
Take care, swim far
From South to East the oldest brother went,
He was building towns along the way,
An industry long gone yet much remains
of this liquid road from yesterday.
Heading North the other brother swam,
As castles built on high over him watched,
But as he makes his way out to open sea,
A race against time until he silts up.
Take care, swim far
Their journeys end did soon come into view,
The great expanse of blue that is the Mersey,
One further upstream between hills of sandstone,
The other down towards the sea.
No longer must they spend their days apart,
As water meets with water underneath
Reunited now these brothers they shall be
As they mix and they move together in the deep.
Servant Girl
I woke in fright one summers night, A stranger at my door
There came knocking from below a noise to be explored
I ventured there to see who would awake me from bed,
Outside there was an empty space dream a wish my dread
So back to slumber I did go but tossed and turned because
the noise I did hear it again but louder than before.
The door I knew I had to go and open it once more
And this time stood a girl before me ghostly pale with fear
Servant girl won't you
Run and hide won’t you
Take yourself from here
Deep inside the wood
I invited her into the house to warm her by the fire
I noticed there were cuts around her neck bruises higher
I asked her why she was so scared she told me she was chased
A man had locked her up and used her at his pleasures taste
This house she says was in the woods, lay deep on its own.
To the wood go down the track and upon a bridge you'll come.
I went to get some drink and bandages to tend her wounds
When I returned to find her gone but a cold and empty room
So the next day I decided to try to find this house
Perhaps the girl was still in need and word need to get out.
Deep into the wood I ventured, could not find a thing,
'Till a small stone bridge came into view and a track to follow on.
I followed the track through the forest darkness everywhere
'Till an outline of a building appeared in the misty air
A house that was deserted,
No person did live here
With boarded door
And the windows smashed,
Not a home had it been for years
Lying on the ground a piece of glass from the window
The jagged edges turned my mind to the poor girls savaged throat
I ran the route back through the forest keen to be at home
'Til crossing the stone bridge a movement caused me to turn round
The girl was stood there in plain sight,
A shard of glass in hand
A fresh wound on her neck that would have killed a full grown man
I froze, I couldn't move,
The figure stood in front of me
A shadow not of flesh and blood but a spector I did see
The truth now I did understand this visit from the past did come to me
with a story she had to confide to be set free.
But though the girl is dead and gone from taking her own life,
The bridge and house they do remain as she watches from her forest grave
Servant girl won't you
Run and hide won’t you
Take yourself from here
Deep inside the wood