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No Way Out But Through

by Voice Of The Rain

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1.
It's easy now to picture you But wanting won't make wishing true I've changed a lot to stay the same Found a part, lost my way Cars are crashing, world keeps turning Just the same, it's just the same Mothers calling, children stalling Just the same, it's just the same The Autumn fields are burning now I see them throw a dying shadow But where you were there's just a space A gift you gave, a photograph, a face It's easier, to think about Than bury you There's no way out but through
2.
Lovers Lane 03:27
Do you think these shy old lyrics are a lie Well if you don't believe me then don't believe me But nearly almost every time That look of a girl's can quite unnerve me 'cause the pursuit is sweet but the rejection's killing If the spirit is weak but the body is willing Immerse yourself in me she said Well an idea like that can go to your head You will be mine completely mine Well it's the size of the task that gives me stage fright 'cause the pursuit is sweet but the rejection's killing When the spirit is weak but the flesh is willing Unfolding flowers show themselves But I'm more than willing to stay on the shelf Where every crease can tell a tale I'm my own best judge and I won't give me bail 'cause the pursuit is sweet but the rejection's killing When the spirit is weak but the body is willing I know Take me down to lovers lane I won't ever say those words again 'cause the pursuit is sweet but the rejection's killing When the spirit is weak but the body is willing I know I won't
3.
Wrapped in flowers, an earthly twist Though she dresses for nobody but herself now Painted red, lips I have kissed that now I miss One of the more things that won't come again And if I dropped this madness she wouldn't see Gone are the days when I could hold her And if I spoke a kind word she wouldn't hear For she was born to disappear and There is a crossing for every stream She's throwing herself down A bed of water wraps itself around her She's throwing herself down, sister daughter Leaving us to drown in her And if I could I'd catch her, but what's the use Gone are the days when I could hold her And if she saw the future she must have guessed There's only silence for the rest of us and There is a willow beyond my reach She's throwing herself down, too much of water Wrap your thoughts around me Throwing herself down, sister daughter Leaving me to drown here A garland for the bride I never married Wishing us goodnight Ladies goodnight, sweet ladies goodnight Dear ladies goodnight, ladies goodnight
4.
London's gonna burn, read your papers Suppose you live and learn, to expect as much I feel it in my bones, I'm getting older With nothing much to show, but a world of doubts But I have loved you And I still do Got yourself a child, found the father Gave the first away, and it became your cross And though I've never killed, I know the feeling Suppose you live and learn to accept the loss But I have loved you And I still do I loved you And I still do
5.
Cynara 05:03
Last night, ah yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine Your shadow fell, your breathe was shed, Cynara Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine, I bowed my head And I was desolate, desolate and sick Desolate and sick of an old passion I have been faithful to you, Cynara. In my fashion All night upon my heart I felt her warm heart beat Night long within my arms in love and sleep she lay, Cynara Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth was sweet But I work up to find the morning grey And I was desolate, desolate and sick Desolate and sick of an old passion Oh I have been faithful to you, Cynara. In my fashion I have forgotten much, gone with the wind Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Cynara Dancing to put your pale lost lilies out of mind Yeah all the time because the dance was long And I am desolate, desolate and sick Desolate and sick of an old passion Oh I have been faithful to you, Cynara. In my fashion I cried for madder music, and for stronger wine But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Cynara Then your shadow falls the night is yours And I am hungry for the lips of my desire And I am desolate, desolate and sick Desolate and sick of an old passion Oh I have been faithful to you, Cynara. In my fashion
6.
Cafe Culture 02:53
I may never get used to this If boredom has its own rewards then I must be rich But all my money's gone on music and paperbacks I wander aimless through the streets of my small home town And try to find a way to eke out my days Tomorrow looms and it looks much the same But in my room I find sanctuary I close my eyes and find myself in a place Where everyone seems quite content to be In conversation till the early morning hours We talk of love and put our loss in its place I even recognize some of the phrases I'll be there again tonight, with all my friends I'll be there again tonight, with all my friends We meet and invent the day The afternoon reaction sounds like a song And in the evening faces reappear We share a drink and toast our lives and before too long The café culture melts like ice into me The candles burn, the room begins to breathe I'll be there again tonight, with all my friends I'll be there again tonight, with all my friends
7.
Immortality 03:03
I've been wondering, lately drag-netting my thoughts Oh the things I've done, all the damage caused And you're my focal points all five faces I've loved There are five stories but only one ending So where's my place in your past gonna be? Will I get a window seat? If there's something I've learned it's that I never learn Moth in to a flame, I keep getting burned When it comes to the truth there's no kidding me I'm the author of my own destiny So where's my place in heaven gonna to be? Will I get a window seat? I believe that what you give you get back It's as simple as that so Where's my place in heaven gonna be? Will I get a window seat? I believe that what you give you get back And though I know it's nothing new, it's as simple as that And if we live after we die it's in the thoughts and in the minds Of the ones we've left behind us Where's my place in your heart gonna be? Therein lies my immortality
8.
I've seen the tattoo on your arm, Wynona forever Brightly spelled now vaguely charmed A kind of sign in fools gold, burnt skin That love is not as safe as we think A fly keeps buzzing round my room He's lost his way in stale air, can't find the day Crash into my window pane, and again But see through lives can dull the pain So he is not as dumb as I thought
9.
Lock myself away in your bathroom so I could try your perfumes There's much to be learned of a girl from the things she keeps well hidden from view I can live with the fact that it might seem a little bit strange 'cause I'm a little like that Always broadcast a secret well it's selfish to keep it if you can't give it away And it's only love It can't curb these shady tendencies of mine Only your love It can't change my dirty water into wine On a autumn day I was reading Sade when you sat down to speak Now when your away I read your diary entries about me I can live with the guilt 'cause it really never crosses my mind And so what the hell If we share a house and share a bed we can share our thoughts as well And it's only love It doesn't feel like money falling from the sky It's only love Doesn't make me look at stars and wonder why It's only love And there's a chance that it will peter out in time And if it does Then at least we'll know we were happy for a while The love of a new man is a thing of the past Now I'm only human and I need to know you recognize The people that I am And it's only love Just a common feeling everybody knows It's only love Part of human evolution I suppose It's only love But I can't control the things it makes me do But it's only love So don't take it the wrong way when I say that I'm in love with you
10.
Taste 02:22
For just a taste, I've lived my life But time has dulled my senses well Then you were young, and you still are But old before your time Smoking cigarettes and swearing blind My vision flickers I used to think that you and I Were written in each others dreams Well my mistake, for what it's worth I think of you from time to time to time Smoking cigarettes and swearing blind Now I find I can't make out if life has some design The future flickers The wine will flow, some dreams come true But I will not have tasted you
11.
Oscar 03:29
Taught on the day he was born by his father Son you are young but you'll grow and learn to love Opera, opera, opera, nothing but the classics for you Opera, opera, opera, but he never thought much of the tunes While as a child thoughts ran wild little Oscar Found he was bound to the soundtrack of Tosca (Vissi d'arte) Son robbing banks, driving tanks these are dangerous Practise your scales and one day you'll be famous He tried but some people don't have the voice Would have given up but never go given the choice Green, never seen in his teens he was guileless Sex, was a word never heard on the wireless (Un bel dio) Son learn the part off by heart pray for stardom Then, maybe they'll let you play Covent Garden He tried but new it was never to be Would have much preferred his father to like r'n'b Would he never be free, or know the love of a women of beauty Then on day to his fathers dismay he lost his heart to a girl Who new nothing of Cosi Fan Tutti How he was proud of his new sense of freedom But before long she was gone, didn't need him (Si chiamo andranno) Son you're a fool, back to school and forget her See in a couple of weeks you'll feel better He tried but knew it was never to be And for all his practice he never got near a high C Would he never be free, from all the scores and the endless librettos Then one day, to his fathers dismay, he ran away From all the divas and fat rigolletos It's not all over till fat lady sings Now he has sons of his own need I tell you They play their favourite songs at full volume Opera, opera, opera, nothing but classics will do (free he will never be free) Opera, opera, opera, but he never thought much of the tunes
12.
Arundel 01:54
I see your face, I guess that you are smiling Funny how things can turn out that way Down the road I will be waiting Where or when, that nobody can say Everything is becoming clearer As everything is beginning to fade We're through it all, and I know that we are stronger Forget the past and remembered the day Down the road I will be waiting Down the road not so far away
13.
The end of another year and my thoughts all turn back to you You were my girl when everything was changing You were my girl but honey do you blame me For letting it go like I did, when the truth is that's not what I wanted It was out of my hands though I know that that's to easy Try and understand I need you to believe me I got so confused and I grew colder But I was younger then now I'm older The days just slip away like water through sand Now I work just to fill my time, but I can't keep you out of my mind You were my girl and I was someone you had faith in Now how in the world could I have let the rain in Now I've got to be true to myself, 'cause the fact is that nobody else will Now I'm alone I see things in the new way Maybe I've grown used to being someone nobody could pin a hope on But I was so confused and I grew colder I was younger then now I'm older Maybe you and I could get together We can only try or else we'll never know 'cause the days are slipping by like water through sand Now I've got to be true to myself, 'cause the fact is that nobody else will Now I'm alone I see things in a new way Maybe I've grown used to being someone nobody could pin a hope on Oh darling listen to me I got so confused and I grew colder But I was younger then now I'm older Maybe you and I could get together We can only try or else we'll never know 'cause the days are slipping by and there's no denying That's something I can't change for all my trying Now I'm alone I need you with me Darling, darling, darling forgive me, forgive me 'cause the days just slip away Like water through sand, lke sand through your hands

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Caveat Emptor.

This 1994 effort is a mixed bag of curates' eggs containing some of Voice Of The Rain's best songs but suffering from being done in even more of a rush than normal.

Remastered after a fashion in January 2015.

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released January 27, 2015

Words & Music by Robert Boole & Richard Knowles

The photograph Café, 25 Rue des Blancs Manteaux 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.

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