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1. |
The Last Battle
08:28
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The Last Battle (P McMahon)
My life has been a long one with many a song to sing
I gave my heart, my sword & shield in the service of the King
But when my soul grows weary I climb up on the hill
And gaze across this land I love the place I know so well
When war calls again I am sworn to answer
All I ask is that when the fight is done
I want to come back to the place I love
I want to end my days here
I want to lie back while the stars above
Wash away the blood and the tears
And if I should fall on the blood red field
Carry my bones back home
Lay me down underneath the ground of home
I never feared the battle never feared the pain
But now I fear to fall before I see this place again
The years take their toll I grow slow and old
All I ask is that when the fight is done
Chorus
The Saxon tide is rising The beacons light the sky
And I must take up arms again to fight – perhaps to die
So here on this hill I leave my soul waiting
All I ask is that when my life is done
Chorus
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2. |
Over The River
06:16
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Over The River (P McMahon 2002)
The breath of life laid bare
The faintest flicker burning
Worn beyond repair
By the years of love and learning
Over the river you go before me
Strong in faith spirit clear
Full of purpose free of fear
This I tell you
A life that numbered days
A gift so precious but so fleeting
I never saw your face
A heart too frail to keep on beating
Over the river way beyond me
For all the things you'll never see
All you'll never grow to be
This I tell you
Every day I know you walk beside me
Now and then I hear your voice inside me
I know there will always be a part of you alive in me
And I will keep it there forever
And now it comes to me
As I am growing older
To set my spirit free
Lift this burden from my shoulder
Over the river no returning
For all the things I've left undone
Battles lost and battles won
This I tell you
Every day I will walk beside you
If you need me I'll be there to guide you
I hope there will always be a space inside your heart for me
And I will be with you forever
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3. |
The Snake
06:38
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4. |
Balder And The Mistletoe
06:53
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The Barrister And The Bargast (P McMahon) 2006
Across Paradise Square in his suit & bow tie
The Barrister strode with a gleam in his eye
His morals were low, but his fees were sky high
For he knew how to cheat & he knew how to lie
He worked late in the evening so he could charge more
For his time and his knowledge of old English law
The shadows lay deep as he walked from his door
Through the old cobbled square from a time long before
The Bargast awoke in the depths of his lair
Hidden from mortal eyes under the square
A huge ghostly dog with red eyes and black hair
He lifted his nose and he scented the air
What manner of man can give off such a smell?
The stench of corruption and Old Spice as well
It was worse than the stench in the bowels of Hell
A smell which the Bargast knew only too well
The Bargast came forth and the man stopped dead
He looked as the size of the beast and he said
"You better be licensed or woe betide you,
I'll have you put down and your master I'll sue"
The Bargast looked back with his red eyes aglow
He said "My master is no one you'd know,
I round up the guilty and I take them below,
Now it's your turn to feel my teeth in your soul"
The Barrister turned and he fled with some vigour
But expense account luncheons had fattened his figure
So the Bargast soon had the man pinned to the deck
And he opened his jaws to rip out his neck
The Barrister pleased and begged for his life
He spoke of his children and his greaving wife
The Bargast just stared the man deep in the eyes
And said "This World has heard enough of your lies"
"your children despise you they'll be glad when you go,
Your wife left you three and a half years ago,
You have all the appeal of a three week dead Cod,
And you mistress loves only the size of your wad.
"There's none that will mourn you I bid you farewell
You soul is now forfeit, your place is in Hell,
For justice and mercy you care not one Groat"
And the noble beast ripped out the Barrister's throuat
So hear me you Lawyers and learn from my tale
With your nose in the swill and your thumb on the scales
Beware of the Bargast and his sniffling snout
Or be sure that you sins will rip your throat out!
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6. |
Train
05:28
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Train (C McMahon)
I woke up early with the sun in my eyes and the dream still clear in my mind
I walked out of my life and out of town, with my bags just as it started to rain
I sat right down by the railroad track just like it had been in the dream
I laid down my load, with nothing to lose and waited for the train
Now after a while my friend came by just to see what I was goin through
And we talked about the way everybody seemed to be waiting for something new
to come along and change the way we are & what we’re gonna do
and after a while she sat right down there and started waiting too
A few days later folk were stopping by and some of them would stay
we had tents & fires & music & stuff the biggest party that you ever saw
soon we were getting organized building homes & growing our food/
I thought we’d really found a new way to live, a blueprint for a better way
& I got so busy that I almost forgot just what I was waiting for
A year has come & gone and you wouldn't believe just how things have changed
everyday there’s more people here I never knew so many felt the same
But still sometimes I think about the dream & how my life would have been
on a rainy day in summertime waiting for the train
Now our kids have grown old and I’m getting tired as I look back on what we've done
we’ve schools & shops & doctors & things and a sense of who we are for sure
But there’s still no sign of change in the world or the things that we’re hoping’ll come
And sometimes I think maybe it’s all inside what we‘re waiting for
In the dead of night I sat by the track all alone as the stars unfurled
I felt younger as the world grew old and I don’t think I’ll be coming back
put my ear to the ground and I heard a rumbling sound like thunder from another world
then a blinding light and a screaming steam and the last thing I saw was the train
coming down the track
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7. |
The Awakeners
07:02
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8. |
A Call To Arms
09:04
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9. |
Wilderness Of Eden
07:17
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The Wilderness of Eden (C & P McMahon 1995)
I walked along the beach and watched the waves slip out of reach and I wonder why
I saw the serpent shrug cut the cord & pull the plug and I had to cry
I flew across the air and saw the dead ones lying there on the cenotaph
I heard the dolphins sing about the man who would be king and I had to laugh
And the glory of the world is fading
It's raining in babylon the gardens are dead
There's a full moon in avalon but it's turning blood red
And they killed the last unicorn and cut off it's mane
So the tower of babel is rising again
Here in the wilderness of Eden
I sat beneath the moon and saw the birds fly south too soon on broken wings
I stared beyond the stars who will get the phone on mars when saturn rings
I hailed a passing whale I asked him how it felt to fail he said you should know
coz dear old noah sold the ark used the cash to build a theme park there you go
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10. |
Wave
04:43
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Wave (P McMahon)
Pity the man who has everything and knows the value of nothing
Never appreciates anything always looking for something
Wanting more taking everything he can
Because he doesn't understand the world at all
If faith says that fact doesn't matter
And hate is a matter of fact
If light is just a particle waving
The least we can do is wave back
Happy the man who knows what he needs and disregards the rest
Never complains about anything doesn't insist on the best
Because he knows that it's such a stupid game
Where the winner takes the blame then takes a fall
If dreams are for lovers and children
And love is just a light in the black
If light is just a particle waving
The least we can do is wave back
When the world calls you a fool 'cos you don't understand the rules
That's perhaps because there are none
There's just what you believe and that's up to you
Thirty years on a helter skelter never reaching the end
It's no surprise that I feel so jaded washed out faded and confused
If life is a state of emotion
And death is a chance to relax
If light is just a particle waving
The least we can do is wave back
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Paranoid
03:26
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12. |
The Night
07:34
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The Night (P McMahon 1979)
Well there was never a moment when I believed that I was alone
Though I never knew I could be so sure
That when my mind was troubled I could call on you
Never doubting you would help me
How could I be so wrong? Why did I trust you?
I placed all my hopes on you to be let down again
But now now I see you were never there at all
You see that I I could never doubt you
But I can live without you I'm sure I can
You see that I never needed you that was just a phase I was going through believe me
All this time and nothing left to show
But self deluding dreams than never grow
Acid thoughts bite deep into my pain
Ice cold fear drives bitterness insane
I see now what I must do I guess I always knew
And now now that all is said and done I never really cared
You see that I I knew it all along
But I took that pain and I was strong but not enough
I can face the night but when that darkness leaves
I just can't bear to face the dawn alone not alone
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13. |
The Load
08:55
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The Load (P McMahon)
silence, breathing, pulse beats slow
lifeblood courses, veins dilate
eyes stare blindly, pupils glow
cataclysm imminent
you can only wait
reason nods politely slips out by the back door
logic reels & shakes it's head & looks away
intuition sighs, it's seen this facile play before
manic laughter every mad dog has it's day
limbs work disjointedly, mouth slack in vacant dismay
a scarcely articulate puppet, the madman at play
wake look around you the walls that surround you
are padded and grey, there's no glass, there's no cutlery
external sensory input is zero
the psyche implodes, psychic shrapnel tears holes in your mind
take the strain, the power can hold back the pain
ebb and flow, alone you must carry the load
chasing rainbows
on where god knows
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14. |
Survive
07:17
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Survive (Chris & Paul McMahon)
Hello how are you it's nice ot see you, nice to talk again
It's been a while since we last met, it's good to see an old friend
I'm coming home just for a while, though I might not stay
The road it seems to follow me, I rest when it says I may
It's not easy holding on you wake to find your dream has gone
And left alone with nothing left to say
Waiting for the break of day so I can travel on, and on
Times have long since gone the feeling starts to fade
A dusty mirror cracked forgotten cold lost dark in the shade
As they creep through my window I stare into the rain
A darkened stream of wasted thoughts
Distant silver laughter mocks the pain
Cardboard people drift on by acting roles so false I have to laugh
So I came back again but it's not the same
Is there something you're trying to hide, or just that we've nothing left to say
Well I know it's not something that we could change
You know sometimes I'd like to try
Remember when I took your hand though you walked alone
Into the fading light to the sunset our refuge our home
The light it just slips away the night the coldest stone
Standing waiting for a sign though I know that it's gone
My thoughts disjointed fragmented to a string of cliched line
Like the words to this song I've tried to write so many times
And as the echoes fade crashing through a darkened sky
(And the nightmares came true)
The waves engulf my soul as it screams oh please why?
I see now that the ghost of my mind has betrayed only you
The bright light blinds my mind somehow I cannot see so clearly now
But through the dark I fear that I'll survive
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Long, Long Gone
04:58
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Long, Long Gone (Paul McMahon) 2012
I was there at the dawning, saw the birth of the day
Found the road so I shouldered my load, and set out on the way
I was young, I was young, I was young
Wandered on through the morning, felt a change in the air
Learned to choke on the bitter black smoke, felt the shape of despair
I was strong, I was strong, I was strong
Cos there's nowhere in this long forsaken work where I belong
In the heat of the noonday, at the height of the sun
On the grass there was no shadow cast, as I started to run
I was lost, I was lost, I was lost
I believed in the music, I had faith in the world
Thought the song was the place I belonged, thought that I would be heard
I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong
Cos there's nowhere in this long forsaken work where I belong
On the cusp of the darkess, on the edge of the night
Turned away from the death of the day, walked away from the light
I was gone, I was gone, I was gone
And there's nowhere in this long forsaken work where I belong
I was young, I was strong, I was lost, I was wrong, I was gone
I was long, long gone
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Tunnel Vision
05:12
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Tunnel Vision (lyrics P McMahon music C & P McMahon 1986)
Don't expect me to deny the space between us
Yet I see no reason why there should be walls
There's no nead to lock ourselves away
There's no need for us to fear
The danger that lies in strangers disguise
Let's open our eyes break out from this
chorus (haze version)
Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Vision
Seeing only the walls of our prison
chorus (world turtle version)
Black box Tunnel vision you're living in a fools prison
Black box Tunnel vision you know that's a dangerous religion
I don't ask you to believe what I believe in
But at least we could agree to disagree
There's no hate in contradiction
Ask yourself why you should fear
The danger that lies in strangers disguise
Let's open our eyes break out from this
Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Vision
Seeing only the walls of our prison
Make a start try and open up your heart
We are as the others each one just another viewpoint
open wide your blinkered eyes let the walls come tumbling down
We are not the only ones lets not be the lonely ones
There's no need to live with
Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Vision
Seeing only the walls of our prison
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Wolf
06:33
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Wolf (P McMahon)
The beast is out he's on the streets again
The midnight city bursts to life in petrol glass and flame
In the darkness behind the barricades
Glowing feral eyes survey the wasteland he has made
I believe he's on the hunt tonight
I believe he's coming your way
Above the storm he rises. Blood red in tooth and claw
The master of disguises The wolf is at your door
The beast parades across this war torn land
Every shell case bears the imprint of his hand
Down snipers alley where the shrapnel kisses fly
Burt out basements echo to that savage haunting cry
Front line 1999 via radio telephone
Documenting slaughter of the boys that won't get home
The ugly mindless chatter of a semi-automatic
Then screams then laboured breathing then silence pierced by static
Then a sound comes through the radio a voice as old as lies
Saying that the beast canot be conquered
It lives inside. Look inside
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Dragon Fly
07:35
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Dragonfly (P McMahon)
We will dance across the fields the reaper and the grinding wheel
The blood that falls onto the fields will bind us
As water falls onto the seed across the silent soil we bleed
We will be together when they find us
We will dance across the sea let the breakers set us free
The power of the untamed sea will grind us
You can be the air I crave I will be your tidal wave
We will be together when they find us
We will dance across the sand the prophet and the burning man
The light reflecting from the sand will blind us
The blazing sun will burn our skin and bring to life the flame within
We will be together when they find us
We will dance across the sky the eagle and the dragon fly
blaze a trail across the sky behind us
You will be my healing flame I will be your final frame
We will be together when they find us
We dance across the universe a silent scream an ageless curse
we will leave this barren earth behind us
The poetry and timeless grace the beauty of your bloodless face
We will be together when they find us
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19. |
Seven Stones
10:25
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Seven Stones (Chris & Paul McMahon)
Day breaks light into a dark world
Stars fade I see where I am
Blue skies turn to grey inside me
Flying high and into the rising sun
Don't wait for me any longer
By tomorrow things could have changes
It couldn't be the same
Seven stones seven stars above you
Dying in the courtyard there's one white tree
Memories fading from the old world
Living in a dream that's dead and gone
Don't wait for me any longer
I think already it's too late
It couldn't be the same
I'm not waiting any longer
By tomorrow things could have changed
It couldn't be the same
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20. |
Dig Them Mushrooms
09:06
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21. |
The Vice
08:42
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The Vice (lyrics P McMahon music C & P McMahon 1981)
When the vice of sleep lies broken
And the curtains of night hang torn
Unbidden thoughts are awoken
In the uncertain light of dawn you think you see
Well it can give you the strangest feeling
So gently it slips away
And the friends that you once thought so near
Seem to fade in the light of day
Well it's always been that way
And I think it's too late now
It may be too late
So much time has passed since then
I am no longer sure just how I feel
I don't know why they call time a healer
When it tears your flesh apart
Wipes out all your feelings
Squeezes tears of blood from your heart
Yes it's always been that way
And I think it's too late now
Yes I'm quite sure it's too late
Why does time take all our lives
And rip up apart it tears us apart
Hardens hearts & closes minds
As fetid hands choke life from life to dust
I was there even in your darkest hour
Fight despair only fear & hate devour
I was there even in your darkest hour
Fight despair only fear & hate devour
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22. |
Stone House
06:59
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Stone House (lyrics P McMahon music P McMahon 1987)
Line by line we build our scriptures
With the power of words shining in our hands
It's our story it's our story we live
It's our story it's our story we live
Stone by stone we lay foundations
With the strength of faith the rock on which we build
It's a labour it's a labour of love
It's a labour it's a labour of love
In the arms of the tallest mountain high above the shifting sand
In the world we build together this house of stone shall stand
Day by day we pull together
With the fires of hope burning in our eyes
It's the future it's the future we make
It's the future it's the future we make
In the eyes of a thousand children in the voices of the crowd
By the light that fills the heavens this house of stone shall stand
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Haze Sheffield, UK
Sheffield progressive rockers Haze celebrated 40 years of making music with two anniversary shows in 2018. Both shows were
recorded for CD & DVD release.
The bands first studio CD of new material since 2013 'Back To The Bones' will be released on CD & digital download on 4th July 2020
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