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1.
Ellen was born in the County Antrim, Ireland,
Cold winters, snow is falling down,
The Red Coats came through and took their land away,
Exiled in 1845.
2.
Great Southern Land, eight children, desperation;
Drought and fire and famine laid them low,
Their mother sent to gaol, Ellen’s boys would find a way
To avenge the family and the Kelly name.
3.
Ellen hears the news directly from the warden—
One son shot dead the other’s going to hang,
She tells him on that day: ‘Ned die proudly, not afraid,
‘No good man ever suffered for your crimes!’
RFPTISE
Now I’m standing on the iron stairs
Where poor men took their final breath,
The hangman’s just an actor
Paid to fabricate a hero’s death.
Meanwhile, I see a mother cry
As we drink tea and preen our lives.
We make the past and raise our glass
To all the lies we think will last.
4.
I was born in a world that can’t remember,
Went to college, earned myself a name,
In the museum of my genes
I’ am Mitochondrial Eve,
And a Mother who must watch their children die.
And she will bring them life,
And watch her children die.
Bring them life
And watch her children die.
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The Universe in a Teardrop
1.
The universe in a teardrop,
The evening mists that follow me,
The draping arms of a eucalypt,
The heave and groaning of the sea.
2.
The noise and fury of the world beyond,
The captive cadence of a bluebird’s song,
The troubled times and worried minds,
We’ll leave them all behind.
CHORUS
So hush my love,
Take my hand,
Hold me close
And dream this night away.
3.
The universe in your fingertips,
The stars are shining through your eyes,
Eternity in the darkening sky,
The timeless beauty of your life.
4.
The world that whispers through your pain,
The broken prism of your faith,
The fears and tears of troubled times,
We’ll leave them all behind.
CHORUS
So hush my love,
Take my hand,
Hold me close
And dream this night away.
So hush my love,
Take my hand,
Hold me close
And dream this night away.
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Waiting
04:08
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1.
Silence
Creeps down my street,
Cold winds
That whisper your name to me.
Moonbeams,
A lock of your hair,
Stranded in cadence
With nobody there.
2.
Pleasure,
Ghosts in my room,
Thinking of you
Like a bird in a storm,
Wild winds,
The light that shines through,
Destiny breaking
This moment in you.
CHORUS
So I’m waiting for you
Eye of the storm,
I’m waiting
Like a child to be born,
I’m waiting for you
Ocean and sea,
I’ll wait until you come back
To me.
3.
Crowded
Thoughts in my head,
Turning around
When I think that you’re there;
Cling to
The time that we lose,
Everything passes
Like flowers in bloom.
CHORUS
So I’m waiting for you
Eye of the storm,
I’m waiting
Like a child to be born,
I’m waiting for you,
Ocean and sea,
I’ll wait until you come back
To me—
To me, to me, to me.
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After the End
03:57
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After the End
1.
Mists are drifting over Chula Vista plains,
There’s warm breezes from the sea,
Cathedral bells are ringing in a midnight mass,
If I could write, I’d let you know I’m here.
Oh, what’s the difference now?
Desolation seeping through my veins.
Oh, what’s the difference now?
I can never turn to you again.
2.
In this place I’m just a trace of your forgotten world,
A eulogy for you to read,
I’ll just be a picture of a creature you’ve named,
And a god who has abandoned me.
Oh, what’s the difference now?
Cold water running through my veins,
Oh, what’s the difference now?
I can never turn to you again.
BRIDGE
Now it seems as though your love’s run out,
Draining from the mountain to the sea.
Nothing left but contemplations of yourself—
What you going to do about me?
3.
Now I’m haunted by your beauty and your cruelty,
My destruction you refuse to feel,
Just a metaphor of tears in an unmarked grave,
From my beginning to eternity.
Oh, what’s the difference now?
You loved me then you turned away,
Oh, what’s the difference now?
We can never come back here again.
Never come back here again,
Never come back here again.
Never come back here…
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In Your Loving Arms
03:58
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Southbank in Spring,
Gourdon flowers in bloom,
You bought me Kenyan coffee
And a yellow balloon.
Hold on now,
This beauty overwhelming me,
Hold on now,
Will you take me in your loving arms?
2.
Walk along the Champs-Elysées
With Saint-Saens in my head,
Remember Gustav Flaubert
And the things that he said.
Oh no!
Emotion overwhelming me,
Oh no!
Please take me in your loving arms.
3
Sunset on the river,
Busy people going by,
I want to be your Gaughan nude
For the rest of my life…
Ah no,
This world is overwhelming me,
Hold on now,
Please take me in your loving arms.
BRIDGE
All at once the moon is rising,
Luminescent in my eyes,
And I imagine escape into the hollow space
Between the earth and sky.
Now you weave my life in a purple night
Embroidered by the stars,
Then our senses rise and our souls embrace
As you hold me in your arms.
4.
Southbank in spring,
Lilac flowers in bloom,
This moment floats away from me
Like a yellow balloon.
Oh no!
This love is overwhelming me,
Ah no!
Please hold me in your loving arms,
Your loving arms,
Your loving arms.
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Here She Comes
03:56
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Here She Comes
1.
Here she comes,
Torchlight on her tongue,
You wait for her to take you
When she finds you on your own.
So serene,
(Not quite what you mean),
You know she’s going to break you down,,
And cut you down,
And bring you to your knees.
2.
You’re staring at the moon,
She takes you to her room,
You find her body soothing
As she’s moving through her wounds.
Turquoise on her feet,
Bleeding on the sheets,
You know she’s going to break you down,
And cut you down,
And bring you to your knees.
BRIDGE
Look out where you walk,
Don’t turn around when you hear her talk,
Find somewhere to hide,
She’ll leave you howling in the morning light.
3.
Mercy without peace,
Heaven in the street,
Angels at the corner store
Won’t ask for more than you give.
Your footfall’s out of time,
In words that you can’t rhyme;
You’re never going to keep her,
But you’ll weep
For her in your sleep.
You know she’s going to break you down,
And cut you down,
And bring you to your knees.
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Flowers
03:06
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Flowers
1.
She comes from the mountains in cold morning air,
The song in her voice gently calling.
The ice in the river, the swift in the sky,
The leaves that are softly falling.
Chorus
Flowers bend in the wind
And rise to the sun.
2.
The soldier returning, his head hanging down,
The soles of his feet are bleeding,
He looks to the Heavens, he looks to the sky,
Touches the earth that is weeping.
Chorus
3.
The scent of the roses, the bed of her love,
A prayer to St Mary’s Salvation,
The moon in the window, the frost on the ground,
The blush on his cheeks slowly fading.
Chorus
Chorus
Flowers, Sunshine
Flowers, sun.
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Fragments of My Life
04:25
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Daylight,
Changing weather,
The card that you sent to me,
Makes no sense at all.
Crystals,
Broken coffee cups,
Your drugs on the window sill,
The cracks in the wall.
Chorus
These are the fragments of my life,
Pray You’ll never lose this time.
2.
Mother,
Perfect innocence,
The body you broke for me,
The pain I returned.
Father,
With your cloak of steel,
The freedom they took from you,
You never revealed.
Chorus
These are the fragments of my life,
Pray you’ll never lose this time.
3.
Jerusalem,
Where you took my hand,
The pathway to Paradise,
A room of our own.
Travelling,
And our roads diverge,
The card that you sent to me,
I’ll never return.
Chorus
These are the fragments of my life,
Pray you’ll never lose this time.
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Girl Against the Tyrant
03:41
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I saw you climbing The Tower of Babel,
But you’re unable
To reach the top.
Your pride delights you,
God’s fury strikes you,
But you believe that you’re the Chosen One.
CHORUS
What you gonna do when
The kings and the queens desert you?
What you gonna do when
The pieces fall apart?
Who you gonna love when
Her arms no longer hold you?
Standing on the street
In your sheets
With a broken heart.
2.
Falling, forever falling,
I hear you call
As you tumble down.
People you preyed on,
The drugs you stayed on—
No-one to save you when you hit the ground.
CHORUS
What you gonna do when
The kings and the queens desert you?
What you gonna do when
The pieces fall apart?
Who you gonna love when
Her arms no longer hold you?
Standing on the street
In your sheets
With a broken heart.
BRIDGE
Hallelujah!
Time’s not made of stone…
She’ll see right through ya
Throw off your Hollow Crown.
Hallelujah!
You’re in this Passion Play,
It’s quite peculiar,
You don’t know what to say.
3.
Shaking,
Your body’s breaking,
Your soul is fading like a winter sun.
You say you’re crying,
I know you’re lying,
The Tower of Babel falls in Babylon.
CHORUS
What you gonna do when
The kings and the queens desert you?
What you gonna do when
The pieces fall apart?
Who you gonna love when
Her arms no longer hold you?
Standing on the street
In your sheets
With a broken heart.
CODA
Hallelujah!
Time’s not made of stone…
She’ll see right through ya
Thrw off your Hollow Crown.
Hallelujah!
You’re in this Passion Play,
It’s quite peculiar,
You don’t know what to say.
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The Woman of Ukraine
04:08
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There’s thunder rolling through the streets,
The sound of their artillery,
There’s fighting on the border.
More hate and blood and slaughter,
They’ll soon be coming after me.
2.
Brutal power and violent men,
Scattering the fields with carrion,
They burned our houses
And took away our gods,
Leaving nothing but our dream of revenge!
Chorus
Feel like Revelation is coming,
Feel like Revelation is coming,
Feels like Revelation is coming,
Feels like Revelation is coming.
3.
In our Homeland we become exiles,
Exhausted by the fear and fight,
We live in the forest
With God’s beauty all around us,
Scavenging our food to survive.
4.
So we hide in the lost trails of light,
Where we evade and raid our enemies at night,
And your guns alone won’t save us
From the powers that enslave us,
To deny the sanctity of our lives!
Chorus
Feel like Revelation is coming,
Feel like Revelation is coming,
Feels like Revelations is coming,
Feels like Revelations is coming.
Coda
Sacred Places,
Sacred Places,
Sacred Places,
Sacred Places.
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'Sexy, smart, poetic—Joustene is a unique artist. One of the best singer-songwriters of the current era.' Felipe Rollins (The Musicians' Journal, June, 2023).
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