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Call Me Ishmael

by Voice Of The Rain

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1.
Unattainable 04:11
I talk and never do and that's my weakness But she's the kind of girl that leaves me speechless Every time she walks in to my view You know I'm struck by her completeness She dresses like a model in some brochure But she remains immune to every overture I change my route so I can pass her in the street But fall apart as I approach her Can you imagine what it would be like to be her passion Something of value in her life It would be heaven to the likes and love of me But I don't even think she knows of my existence I browse but never buy and that's my stupor But she's the kind of girl to sell your soul for Every time I catch a glimpse of her is not enough I always want more Can you imagine what it would be like to be her passion Something of value in her life It would be heaven for the likes and love of me But I'm not sure that she's aware of my existence My heart could miss a beat it's met its measure She's not the kind of girl to love at leisure Every night I visualise her face And guess at all those hidden pleasures Can you imagine what it would be like to be her passion Something of value in her life It would be heaven for the likes and love of me But I'm quite certain that it's never going to be Can you imagine what it would be like to be her passion Something of value in her life It would be heaven to the likes and love of me But I'm quite sure she's unaware of my existence
2.
Before you came in to my life indulgence was my map With you I only understood the poverty of what I had Now those insecurities have drifted clear away The shadow of uncertainty has gone and it kept me at bay But I can't swim to save my life Though I might try if I could reach your island You've taken me from where unkind opinions chipped away Now I don't really care to much what anybody says The button hole of my life where I pulled through all my dreams Turned out to be fragile without you was ripping at the seams And I can't sew to save my life Now it might show but I would dress your silence And I can't swim to save my life Though I might try if I could reach your island Deep deep water. All this deep deep water Love is deep deep water. All this deep deep water To some it seems so easy just to give their hearts away But I find it so difficult and who knows who's to blame The picture I've been working on for years with such intent Has not begun to show the only thing I want to represent 'cause I can't paint to save my life Though I would try if I could catch your likeness And I can't swim to save my life Though I might try if I could reach your island
3.
Me with you, well that's a deal falling through Now you've got to tell me something I won't understand Till it's something that I'm old enough to do And we said our goodbyes and I waved you down our street Something in me died, something was released I can still hear the lie I want to be with you, I want stay with you, but now I've gotta go I want to be with you, I want stay with you, but now I've gotta go Tears and smiles, the day my life began, though still a child I've travelled down the years in search of something that you took from me What it is to be a man And I've tried to forgive, but it's the hardest thing to do And I understood why they will never forgive you We can still hear the lie I want to be with you, I want stay with you, but now I've gotta go I want to be with you, I want stay with you, but now I've gotta go I can still hear the lie I want to be with you, I want stay with you, but now I've gotta go
4.
The other side of love, the little things she does, that only I can see Things that maybe pass you by but seem to catch my eye And hold it on a string she pulls it in so I can Watch the way she moves, I love the way she breathes the same air as me And the first time we met Prince was on the jukebox She walked up to me and said, "Can we have Rip It Up instead" And we all wanted to know you, buy you drinks and show you The dreams we felt at home to A hand brushed through your hair and suddenly I was there And I knew what to do I wave my fears goodbye for Tania's mouth, God it was wide open It took me all those years to work it out how the spell is spoken 'cause I was bored in a world that had no meaning Bitten lips bleeding and numb from the feeling And the first time I walked you home the cars all passed us by I looked at you and you smiled and I felt painfully shy A hand brushed through your hair and suddenly I was there And I knew what to do I kiss my fears away on Tania's mouth, God it was wide open It took me all those years to find out how the first spell is spoken I kiss my deepest fears away on Tania's mouth, God it is wide open It took me all these years to find, to find but now it is here that I'm hoping You're not choking on me
5.
White Hotel 04:09
Speak yourself where there are words to fill up the silence Be yourself whatever else you do Stake a claim to all the ground that lies in between us But be yourself there is a place called you Here you are where you can meet the friends and the ghosts of your past Where all your broken themes come together at last Where you will find the fears that no time can erase But can you find your way to the Place you've always been and you've always known Hiding something is a trick and we do it well It's the last defence the White Hotel 'cause deep inside us there are things that no charm dispels So many rooms in the White Hotel It's by a lake where there are trees and trapdoors and lightning And fallen stars ah did you see them too This childhood air has lulled us all to sleep But the building goes up in flames there is a place called you Here you are where you can meet the friends and the ghosts of your past Where all your broken themes come together at last Where you will find the fears that no time can erase But can you find your way to the Place you've always been and you've always known Hiding something is a trick and we do it well It's the last defence the White Hotel 'cause deep inside us there are things that no charm dispels So many rooms in the White Hotel Hiding something is a trick and we do it well (What does it profit a man) It's the last defence the White Hotel (to gain the whole world) 'cause deep inside us there are things that no charm dispels So many rooms in the White Hotel White hotel, so many rooms, you've always known
6.
Had enough of the big wheel Now I'm old enough to get on the rides Found myself a new big deal Somewhere where I saw a new self come alive The loudest noise and the most people you have ever seen Invest in the same dream They play my favourite song It doesn't say much but the rhythm is strong And it means a lot to me I like to dance in my room when I'm alone and it's late Hey it reminds me of you Spinning me round the room my head was spinning me round the room Give me love at the rave Smile and the world will smile with you But cry and they just won't want to know As long as you know what's expected of you You'll feel a part, feel accepted, feel at home The loudest noise and the most people you have ever seen Sharing the same dream They play my favourite song It doesn't say much but the rhythm is strong And it means a lot to me I like to dance in my room when I'm alone and it's late Hey it reminds me of you Spinning me round the room my head was spinning me round the room Give me love at the rave Oh I was blind before But now I think I see
7.
Collar Me 03:55
To every choice I give the lie Though dead and buried long ago this myth survives To live in time is to live with fate Go left or right it sidetracks every choice we make Consequently we're deaf, blind and dumb Trying to give significance to things we've not done And I don't know what to do when it all comes to nothing Can I ask this of you? Shackled thoughts are harnessed fire All channelled forms of our desires Rid my life of this desperate need to be free Collar me We take the chains off one for all But we'd you jump to if you can't predict the fall True I can't see the cage I'm in A dream escapes but they no longer mean a thing Consequently I'm deaf, dumb and blind Trying to see my limits as my weak states of mind But I don't know what to see when it amounts to nothing Is there something of me Shackled thoughts are harnessed fire All channelled forms of our desires Rid my life of this desperate need to be free Collar me
8.
Hammerpond 02:54
Here's a happy day to banish all that's sad Started out quite bad but I've ended up ok Put another way I love the love I have And that is something to say Here's the photograph of our first day together And here's the place we'll argue till three Here's the hammerpond where I'll write you a letter I like you do you think you like me And here's a sky of blue to chase away the grey I never think to pray but I'm happy if you do 'cause maybe you'll get through So maybe I should say that I'm in league with you Here's the photograph of our first day together And here's the place we'll argue till three Here's the hammerpond where I'll write you a letter I like you do you think you like me And here's a little drink to smooth away your nerves And for what it's worth don't worry about him It's not an easy thing and we won't be the first To hear alarm bells ring Here's the photograph of our first day together And here's the place we'll argue till three Here's the hammerpond where I'll write you a letter I like you do you think you like me
9.
Modigliani 02:39
Here where my sun shone Clear unbroken Tamed my instincts, chained my feelings Codified my dreams Now it seems a very pale light Here where I made my first mistake I still hear those voices Chain your instincts, tame your feelings Change your dreams Well I want nothing but blue skies Nothing but new skies and my Life like a river Life like a river
10.
Key Largo 05:54
Do you feel this, on a big scale We are strangers, are we about to be changed Do you hear it, does it bring it all back Like a snapshot Are we about to be framed? Our thoughts projected this bigger picture We're almost dreaming another place And do you see it, is it getting closer Are we focused, well there is much to be shown All these colours, slowly bleeding through us We are drowning Are we about to be saved? Our thoughts projected this bigger picture We're almost dreaming another place From the towers, to the ground below us, open spaces Are we about to be lost? In these cities, in these burning heart lines We are strangers Can we carry this cross to Key Largo Harbour, this bigger picture We're almost dreaming American dreams Hear the catcalls whistle down the world falls I can feel us gaining speed Here's a new day looking for a new way Helpless when you don't believe And we can't believe in something we have never even felt But the longer we are exposed something in the blood flows Out of us to somewhere else Key Largo Harbour, this bigger picture We're almost dreaming American dreams Big sky big ideas, we are out of place in here Here's a new day looking to this new way We're about to be changed... Hear the catcalls whistle down the worlds falls I can feel us gaining speed We've been given nothing for religion It's hopeless when you don't believe And we can't believe in something we have never really felt But the longer we are exposed something in the blood flows Out of us to somewhere else Key Largo harbours, this bigger picture We're almost dreaming another place Key Largo Harbour, this bigger picture We're almost dreaming American dreams Well if the night is young and we don't need the rest (Do you feel this on a big scale) We can't describe exactly how we're expressed (We are strangers are we about to be changed) She'll pander to some very strange requests (Do you here it, does it bring it all back) Anything, I suggest (Like a snapshot, are we about to be framed?) Key Largo harbours, this bigger picture Key Largo harbours these dreams Key Largo harbours, this bigger picture Key Largo harbours these dreams
11.

about

We had a few weeks going spare in the summer of 1993 so knocked out three albums and fifty songs. One of the releases filled up both sides of a C90 cassette so we've split it into two, not least so I can fit all the songs titles on one page. This is the second half.

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released February 2, 2015

Words & Music by Robert Boole & Richard Knowles

The digital image, ‘St. Cloud’ by Eugène Atget is courtesy of the Getty Trust Open Content Program.

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Voice Of The Rain Horsham, UK

Faute de Mieux

1980s, 1990s, 2015.

Mainly of an acoustic bent but known to wind up the distortion on occasion.

The further adventures of one half of the duo are linked to below.
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