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1. |
Mirage
07:17
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Mirage (lyrics P McMahon music C & P McMahon 1979)
All alone beyond the hills
Beneath a cloudless sky
All the things I thought had gone
Are right before my eyes
Sun beats down relentlessly
My eyes are filled with sand
How can this be happening
How can I understand
The nameless evil has been stirred
The mutant march can now be heard
Black the tide advancing on
Death lies in it's wake
Icy whirlpool draws me down
Pray for my soul's sake
My brain is screaming without sound
I feel I'm slowly going down
Beneath dark waters now I drown
I see so clearly now
I am no longer alone
If you could see somehow
If the truth could be known
You will come here someday
But you have nothing to fear
You feel alone but come what may
Those that we love are so near
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2. |
Portrait
03:57
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Portrait (P McMahon)
with the passing of an age
a swift repainting of the world
now to new gods people pray
new banners are unfurled
to keep the peace with god & man
we have to compromise
between our conscience and our will
self righteousness or lies - surprise
stories change & pictures fade
leaving legends strewn behind
orphaned children of the past
living thoughts of long dead minds
one day today will be
fading dust upon the shelf
all of us that can survive
is in our lives our loves our selves - not wealth
so what can you be, if not yourself, and you will see
it's not what you have, but what you are, it's clear to me
the substance iwll fade, only emotion will survive
so have faith in life, and you will find the time
it's something in the eyes, that lies deep, behind the smile
that says you could find, the other side, of your life
so don't hide behind, a fading memory of your life
come into the light, and you will find the time
time bestrides the narrow world
like a colossus and we
run about between its legs
to find ourselves unfulfilled graves - not saved
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3. |
Ophelia
07:41
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Ophelia (lyrics P Chisnell music P Chisnell, C & P McMahon 1985)
At the waters edge I stand
A figure in blue etched in the sand
I look for your face
To subdue my craving mind
All I see is myself
My feelings for you you never knew
Try as I might I was bound to lose
I need you touch to satisfy the ache inside
All I feel is your loss
Oh Ophelia were you brave
Or did your love denied
Become more than life itself
Time & tide rise over my head
My silent searching now at an end
I see your face
Death worth the dying
You are forever mine
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4. |
Survive
06:08
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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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5. |
Dragon Fly
05:43
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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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6. |
Fallen Leaves
04:41
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Fallen Leaves (by Paul Chisnell, Paul McMahon, Chris McMahon & Rob Heeley)
Leaves long since fallen have been blown into the roadside
Their veins bleached a blatant silver against the reds and golds of autumn
By winter's frosty hand
Fallen Leaves
The warm room beckons shuttered windows blazing fires
Forlorn we shelter against the late of glowring gales
Laughing in glee as it hesitates and destroys the delicate web
Woven by the summers evening in my head
Fallen Leaves
A glass of cider sitting on the warm earth
Dust of countless feet treading on towards the autumn
Where the leaves have long since fallen
Fallen Leaves
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7. |
Over The River
06:07
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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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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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9. |
The Edge Of Heaven
06:29
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The Edge Of Heaven (Paul McMahon)
Gently falls the night through my window on the world
Diamonds in velvet skies shine in heaven for you
As you sleep tonight starliht finds you
I don't know where you are but I want to be there
I need to be there
You have been my inspiration
You will be my rainbows end
At the edge of heaven we shall stand
Soft as angels wings deeper than the ocean
Footprints on sacred ground side by side
Side by side
You have been my inspiration
You will be my rainbows end
At the edge of heaven we shall stand
Lead me by silent waters stay by my side
I can't deny this feeling it will never die
This will never die
You have been my inspiration
You will be my rainbows end
At the edge of heaven we shall stand
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10. |
The Last Battle
07:26
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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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11. |
The Load
07:57
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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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12. |
The Vice
08:29
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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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Changes In Time
16:00
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Changes In Time (C&P McMahon)
Come the tide is turning
Sail away to the sun for which our hearts are burning
Travellers on the sea of time
Call us to their home
Self made child of self made gods
Is leaving home
Don't take the choice so lightly
About the way that you should go
for what you scorn and what you cast aside today
you will dream about tomorrow
Changes in time change the rhyme
you can change the world around you
changes in faith change the place
that we arew going to
This is your destiny
Ordained so long ago
To sail forgotten seas
Where angels fear to go
no time to sleep no time to cry
no time to wonder why
lead the blind and the child
through the hole in the sky
Don't take the choice so lightly
About the way that you should go
for what you scorn and what you cast aside today
you will dream about tomorrow
This is your destiny
Ordained so long ago
To sail forgotten seas
Where angels fear to go
Travel on to find the door
Don't you know you've been here before
All your life and all your dreams
Washed away in the silver strean
Lonely souls shun the light
turn your thoughts from dreams tonight
to the eye in the sky
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14. |
Seven Stones
08:06
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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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15. |
Dig Them Mushrooms
05:31
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16. |
Mountain
11:35
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Mountain (lyrics P McMahon music P Chisnell, C & P McMahon 1984)
High touching everything
Light guild the eagles wing
Touching the moments reflecting the light
Reaching the fountain reeling in the height
Hide in the shadew of a mountain
Core eroding marrow to bone
The seeds of silence are sown
Living behind breezes cooling in fie
Rising to capture the flames of desire
Light in the shape of a mountain
Flash revealing tendon & bone
Betraying framework of stone
Leaving behind in the stone of the pyre
Picture portrayed in the heart of the fire
Fly down the face of of a mountain
Light replacing muscle & bone
Behold the blood of the stone
High seeing everything
Might sear the granite ring
The mountain rises in fire
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17. |
The Night
06:58
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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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18. |
Last Orders
05:23
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Last Orders (lyrics P McMahon music P McMahon 1986)
As the lights go out in England
Gentle breeze blows through the trees
Sighing in a voice like winter
Last Orders please
Last Orders please
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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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