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Further Afield

by Voice Of The Rain

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1.
Prologue 00:52
This song was written for you It carries our love and my pain Now let it go where it will We'll hear its voice in the rain And it will be with us still
2.
You don't want to track my pupils You don't want to catch my eye You don't want to show you realise You won't start a conversation Won't ask a friend my name So our paths won't accidentally cross And in a way That's why I really want to know you That's why I'm dreaming the improbable That's why I really want to tell you, hey All men are not the same You don't show the slightest inkling But your aloofness is blasé You don't look like you've go much to say, to me But a manner that's defensive equally invites approach Though I doubt that I'm a subject you would care to broach That's why I really want to know you That's why I'm thinking the improbable That's why I really want to tell you, hey I'm really not the same This is the way that we find hope in despair This is the girl who changes so into yeah, yeah, yeah That's why I really want to know you That's why I'm dreaming the improbable That's why I really want to tell you, hey You're beautiful That's why I really want to know you That's why I'm dreaming the impossible That's why I really want to tell you, hey You're beautiful
3.
My waking thoughts are thoughts of you, some set scenarios That get fine tuned inside my swoon, caught in traffic I'm all she sick And at my screen I seem to see your face in Windows There's no escape, there's no release and there's no respite, try as I might So it's what I live for on a typical day Hoping to see you, hoping to say I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? And I want to be part of your life Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? And so on my way home I dream our meeting Undo the day, the choices made that got me nowhere but this same armchair And start again as if the end weren't self-defeating Because it seems I can't be seen, I'm never sighted just unrequited But it's what I live for on a typical day Hoping to see you, hoping to say I exist, I exist, I exist, Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? I go most of my life unnoticed Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? Well it's what I live for, though you're unaware You can't even hear me saying my prayer This year - next year - sometime - never Will we ever get together? Grace and all the saints above her Would it hurt her to discover I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know? And I want to be part of your life Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know?
4.
Fanmail 03:32
Jennifer, Sylvie You're my prescription, see World without end maybe just a dream I'm charmed by your face it's true But it's purely arbitrary For every sky there's a million stars I follow your footsteps Your moves in the headline world While I'm in the darkness, where I can't be seen But I love you as if I knew you And I pray for you as if you were my own But you're not and I don't know What could make us meet, bring us together, to be alone It's never who you are but who you know... Julliette, Julie I think you were made for me And maybe I'd suit you, you should try me on I don't have a lifestyle removed from the commonplace It's written on my face, can't you read the lines? They say I love you as if I knew you And I pray for you, as if you were one of my own But you're not and I don't know What could make us meet, bring us together, to be alone It's never who you are but who you know It's never who you are but who you know No it's never who you are but who you know...
5.
Mezzo Cammin 02:06
Things roll on in the self same way Life's on track from A to B And single is the way you want to stay But that's not how it's going to be 'Cause cruel convention always lies in wait You see it in the eyes of friends Who introduce you as 'confirmed' on dates To girls who want it all to end They say I really, really, really like you You'll do, you'll do, you'll do so I do Before you can say no You're being measured for your morning suit Everyone you meet must smile Relations gather with the absolute But it's too late too hide because here comes the bride up the aisle For better or for worse... You've made your vows and now You'll have to keep them if you can Annulment is the other course You may live happily forevermore But if that's not to be you can divorce
6.
Endgame 03:29
They say that breaking up is hard to do I do it all the time It's my niche, my forte Or some might say that it's my crime If something real rears its ugly head I will be long gone On that you can depend Where there's a will there is a way Where there are ways are always means All the best exits go unnoticed What's the point in parting scenes? To deliver lines that we've all heard before When there's nothing left to say And there's no-one keeping score And if sometimes all through the night I'm kept awake by guilt or shame Those scared regrets are only shadows on the wall You always want the things you don't have That are problems when you do And if one remedies the other The exact opposite is true And whose to judge, if it's all just the same? I will take my risks And I will take the blame And if sometimes, all through the night I'm kept awake by guilt or shame Those scared regrets are only shadows on the wall Shadows on the wall And if sometimes the darkness tries To make me feel the need is real I'll strike a match and blind the shadows on the wall Shadows on the wall
7.
Skyscraper 03:40
Higher and higher Let there be love, falling like a little manna Or let there be something there for us We'll catch a plane to see the sky We need it just to get that high To be that high Let there be rope, just enough for us to hang on Let there be elevator dreams They carry us into to the light We need them just to reach that high To be that high To reach so high To get that high We're stuck on the ground, earthbound And tied to what will keep us down here I reach for the keys and unlock the door This road is not my road but I will drive it Deeper and deeper and over and over Higher and higher We need it just to be so high To get that high To be so high To reach so high To be that high Or nothing at all...
8.
Byron 04:38
Living to understand in every boy there's a man And in every man a child That some things lost are gone for good And for some we must wait a while In every life in turn there's a lesson to learn One we couldn't learn before If I've been blind to many things Now I'm absolutely sure I have been looking for you from the day I was born And now that I've found you I see what life is meant for Though we don't have them around we get closer somehow To the ones we left behind I carry you everywhere I am I carry your heart in mine And I don't know why we're here or if I'll conquer my fear Or if anybody can But I had a friend and though he's gone He helped me understand, he's helping me understand That I've been in love with you for the whole of my life When I am with you I see the purpose of life And time holds no fears for me now, I'm free of its ties I've been in love with you for the whole of my life When I am with you I see the purpose of life You are a part of me now, soul, body and mind And I want to wake up beside you And know you're my wife I'm going to make you my life Gonna make you my life Gonna make you my life
9.
On The Rocks 04:00
You won't say it but I will Yeah, yeah, yeah It's gone wrong, gone wrong I see my life at this standstill Yeah, yeah, yeah For so long, so long All these years for cash and careers It's fool's gold of the dullest veneer Well it bought us our valour And sold us our fear I never flinch but now I know Yeah, yeah, yeah It's gone wrong, gone wrong I've seen my life at this cross-roads Yeah, yeah, yeah For so long, so long Unhappy the man who sticks to the plan Though two weeks on the Med. have put horns on his head He went looking for girls, afraid of the woman in his bed I see it clearly through cut glass On the rocks It's gone wrong, gone wrong I've seen my life at an impasse On the rocks For so long, too long You won't say it but I will Yeah, yeah, yeah It's gone wrong, gone wrong I see my life at this standstill Yeah, yeah, yeah For so long Raise your glasses high, it's mud in you eye, we're broken hearted Here's to absent friends and those still here taken for granted Raise your glasses high, it's mud in you eye, you? broken hearted Here's to absent friends and those still here taken for granted
10.
Ten years gone by in a blink No replay What's gone is gone or so you think For some things stay Well I used to know a girl My fingers used to trace The outline of the world On her face Whole years gone by Yet some days still stand clear Brief episodes from a life Now disappeared And things will always seem Much better then than now So we try to hold the dream safe somehow Well I used to know a girl My fingers used to trace The outline of the world On her face
11.
McCrackity 02:54
Shame That I've started falling upwards now That you're not here Shame That life that put a light in mine Has disappeared It's a shame That I always end up losing Maybe I'm too cavalier Well I didn't know just what I'd find But I never had this love in mind Everything seemed simple then Now I never want to feel again I've been hurt before now I'm back for more And it's your face That I wake up every morning too I think you know And it's your name That I can hear the whole world through My love that shows But I can't sing my dreams for you If you want to get up and go Well I didn't know just what I'd find But I never had this love in mind Everything seemed simple then Now I never want to feel again I've been hurt before now I'm back for more Tell me Can you hear me now Was I close to something Help me Long gone lover come back to me You're we're I'm meant to be Long gone lover come back to me You're we're I'm glad to be Well I didn't know just what I'd find But I never had this love in mind Well everything seemed simple then Now I never want to feel again No I really never want to feel again
12.
Klara's Hair 03:04
Klara, when you put your hair down It suits you better, it's very beautiful The grown out bob you wear becomes you Fits like a door key in whispers around you Seems I'm always looking for you Never to find you, always to miss you So now my heart has found it's target With fate's intervention, these arrows won't hit you But I want to know the things about you Little things a life amounts to How you looked before you looked at me Is it still there to see or now hidden to deep? Klara, every time I see you I fumble for words To convey how I'm feeling My hopes lie along Shiroka They're floating like bubbles, and I hope that you see them As I hope to learn the things about you Little things a life amounts to How you cried at sixteen like the rain Do you still feel the pain? Or remember his name? Klara, when you put your hair down It's the deep red of Autumn It's very Beautiful
13.
Millennium 04:17
The ghost in my machine plays with my peace of mind It gives credence to my dreams, puts the matter into time Offers up its needs, physics turns it on Doesn't like beliefs; says I don't belong I hope it's wrong But I findd myself suspecting it's true, so it goes on And there's nothing much more I can do But I hope you can hear me I hope you can hear me I hope I'm getting through My nights are filled with stars and lay mans eternity Spinning endlessly through space, guessing at it's boundaries And what the future holds, say a thousand years from now I'll be sinking into soil or floating through the clouds Haven't you found That progress moves much faster than you? Well It gets me down 'Cause my favourite theories all lack proof But I hope you can hear me I hope you can hear me I hope I'm getting through I hope you can hear me I hope you can hear me And I hope that you're there, too
14.
Monday, I must learn my lesson and recuperate Tuesday, I want to shoot the world right down and you'll be home late Meet me on Sunday, At the usual place I will be counting the days Wednesday, I want to build the future out of paper and ink Thursday, when your deadlines start to loom it helps you think Meet me on Sunday, at a quarter past three Well it's the one day we're free Meet me on Sunday I know there won't be a bus But it's the one day for us Meet me on Sunday At a quarter past three Well it's the one day we're free Friday, when the weekend offers a night on different towns Saturday, when the bric-a-brac of life spins like a merry-go-round That leaves us Sunday I know there won't be a bus But it's the one day for us Meet me on Sunday At the usual place I will be counting the days
15.
Dog Years 03:53
I'm the someone on the edge of your life And though you don't know me you know what I'm like A crumpled up diviner of fate Who knows recognition will always come late And I want to sing my radio blues But no one will listen to yesterday's news And if I start up on the end of the world We're all deaf to a future we've already heard Not today, we'll keep it in mind and then wish it away But if I've known it, you'll know it You can't hang on to what you're meant to lose The dog years run away with you And I know you throw a little cash in my cup Thinking the devil take you, I feel sure he will do Now that heavens booked up We're trying to find ourselves by shedding our guilt But we've got a taste for the tragic And we're drinking our fill and singing Not today, we'll bear it in mind just to wish it away But if I've seen it, you'll see it You can't hang on to what you're meant to lose The dog years run away with you Not today, we'll keep it in mind just to wish it away But if I've learnt it, you'll learn it You can't hang on to what you're meant to lose The dog years run away with you
16.
The Survivor 03:20
Here, at the end of the world I sat down, on the brink, over the edge I looked into the stars And thought of diving into them I was broken, lost, crushed, and alone Out of hope, I looked up and I saw you And though I don't say why I immediately knew That I'd been saved, I'd been freed I'd been handed my reprieve I'd been changed by a life So much sounder than mine Here on the back of your smile, I aspire I could fly to think of you I'm not afraid of life cause no matter what I do I've been saved, I've been freed I've been handed my reprieve I've been changed by a life So much sounder than mine The ground beneath me gave, I was falling I took the hand you gave, now I'm soaring High I've been saved, I've been freed And I'm grateful for my reprieve I've been changed by a life So much sounder than mine
17.
Sometimes a look becomes a thought Keeps coming back until it's caught fire And slowly you get burned Well I've had my hand inside the flame Held out for love but it never came through And you, do you recognise the word? Well I don't think this can go on I've reached my Rubicon I need space to breathe in The cool air of evening Given I've given my self to you Broken you've broken my life in two... Can't seem to sleep this summer Caught in some undercurrent I need space to breathe in The cold air of leaving you Given I've given my self to you Broken you've broken my life in two Something to nothing is nothing new... Sometimes a look becomes a thought It keeps coming back until it's caught fire
18.
Novemberland 03:56
No way over (I've gotta get back gotta bet back somehow) No way under (I hope that we can meet this year) No way round it (Half my time is spent remembering) ? boundaries (You might not even know me now) There's no crossing (The streets all have new names) There's no bridge (I know you still feel the same) There's no tunnel (Please tell her for me) No exit (I turned around and lost myself) It's close at hand, it's close at hand Our time's at hand Novemberland No way over (All streets they have new names) No way under (I hope you still feel the same) No way round it (Please hold her for me) ? boundaries (I turned around and lost my way) There's no river (Gotta get back, gotta get back somehow) There's no ford (I hope that we can meet this year) No false ceiling (Half my time is spent regretting) No trap door (I might not even know you now) It's close at hand, it's close at hand Our time's at hand We'll make a stand, let's make a stand Change of plan, you'll understand Our time's at hand Novemberland

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The first half of the last Voice Of The Rain album. Recorded to four track MiniDisc in 1998 and mixed to D.A.T. that same year. Remastered in 2014.

We've split the original in two as thirty odd tracks and nearly two hours was a bit unwieldy for a download.

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released May 13, 2014

All songs by Robert Boole & Richard Knowles.

The digital image, Hotel de la Brinvilliers, l'empoisonneuse Rue Charles, by Eugène Atget is courtesy of the Getty's 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.

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