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The Wolf Who Snared The Moon

by Norman Lamont

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I took a plane To a faraway country I knew at once I had made a mistake Something in the tired air Cut me off from my family No matter how lonely the desert The desert was better than this I found my niche Writing threats and reprisals My claws were long And my overheads low Drinking at the World's End With some thugs from the borders No matter how ugly the desert The desert was better than this Miles away I was miles away when it happened Standing watching the quiet river Standing watching the quiet river Freeze The knives were out When we came to Linlithgow The memories long And the weaknesses few With the rain and the razor blades These days I don't get out much No matter how empty the desert The desert was better than this
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I had a horse, she was a real fine mare She had a power that I grew to love I used to ride her to the ends of the earth Where the sky cast wide above But it's one twist too many in the road One more dried up river bed This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead People used to come admire my horse When I rode her into town She was high and she was strong And she put her good foot down But now everybody’s got their own little pony Doubts run around my head This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead I used to wake in the middle of the night With a nudging in my side She would take me to the great outdoors And we would ride baby ride But all that riding took baby nowhere And now I just stay in bed This horse don’t walk no more Guess it’s dead This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead I used to sing thesesongs For the money, for the fun Now it all seems too much like work I guess my singing days are done I just let the wind blow away the tunes And all the clever things I said This horse don’t walk no more - Dead dead dead dead This horse don’t walk no more This horse is dead And I’m not saying you’re to blame It’s nobody’s fault but mine A horse can only run so far And then the horse runs out of time But you can wave to me baby from the river bank I’m going to sail my boat instead This horse don’t walk no more Bye Bye This horse don’t walk no more Bye Bye Bye Bye
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Polecats came into my house last night They rearranged my books They turned the chairs to face the wall And I don’t like how that looks They read my business letters They helped themselves to wine And they cast their eyes, their little eyes Over everything that’s mine. Now I don’t know where polecats live In nests or in the ground I only know I’ll find them If they can be found It’s become a debt of honour And one I must fulfil Disordered books must be avenged And they will
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See - in the woods In a clearing there stretches a wall Flaking with ages and claimed By the gently closing hand of ivy There we stand As the moon yellow stains on the night Howling our prayers to the night Till our shadows Overshadow us Night has you Silence has you Memory has you Conversations overheard Fantasy has you Heroes have you And I will have you And I intend to be the one, the Wolf Who Snared the Moon Sleep has you Waking has you Chance can have you The fear of death too soon Longing has you Shame has you And I will have you And I intend to be the one, the Wolf Who Snared the Moon
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It was in autumn time The wind was a dusty line Shifting the broken leaves Under my feet I walked a forest trail The afternoon sky grew pale A woman with grey-black hair I chanced to meet She had a stranger's eye Started to pass me by I reached out and stopped her short My hand on her arm The wind whispered through the wood I knew she understood Better than me I'd do her no harm We held each other's gaze As daylight began to haze Maybe an hour had passed As the light turned to grey The wind became restless then I came to myself again 'God protect you' she said And turned away All through the winter freeze Into the late spring breeze I searched that forest trail For a glimpse of her face All through the summer's light I hid in my room till night I could not sleep I could not eat I went back to that place Under a tree I sat Close to that very spot Where I once reached out my hand I still don't know why Under the broken moon Winter is coming soon Under these falling leaves I come and I cry.
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Why don't you call back, fall back on me? Why don't you call back, fall back on me? There was once a time You didn't seem to mind Asking for me And I'd do the best I could That was understood You'd just ask for me The ever open door you could run through ... Why don't you call back, fall back on me? Why don't you call back, fall back on me? Now I don't see you these days We've gone our separate ways You've got your man And we meet from time to time When you find the time You've got your man And the velvet world is closing around you two... Why don't you call back, fall back on me? Why don't you call back, fall back on me? There was once a time You didn't seem to mind Asking for me But when it falls apart When he breaks your heart You'll ask for me When you need all the hands you can Hold on to...hold on to ... Why don't you call back, fall back on me? Why don't you call back, fall back on me?
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New Eyes 05:35
It’s a sunny day But the sky is grey There’s nothing really in the weather I’m still missing you But that’s nothing new And I think that might be about to change I keep on catching glimpses The way the sunlight falls on things I keep on catching something new When I think of how you see New eyes, new eyes Made for the sunrise New eyes, new eyes Made for the sunrise Now I’m filling books With my scribbled looks At all the things I took for granted That’s a cup of tea That’s my old TV That’s a pair of shoes in the corner Why can’t I keep on looking Till the sun no longer shines I keep on catching something new When I think of how you see She left a canvas at my place - she left a lot of things. Some sort of unfinished landscape. Beautiful and pitiless in her new clothes, she left. One afternoon, nursing the wounds on my chest where she’d torn herself away I picked up the canvas, ran my fingers across it, the surface rough and firm. I could feel something underneath, so I picked up a tiny silver knife and cut it open. Very strange - a pair of eyes, blue-grey like hers, glistening and clearly still alive. I pressed them into my sockets, dry and empty from nights of tears. It felt strange at first, but slowly over days came a new world of form and ground, of light and shade, of shape and line; colour active, like a conversation unheard by the old eyes. The way a book lay on a desk The way a tree leaned in the wind Like something true That had been true forever true forever true forever true forever true forever Why can’t I keep on looking Till the sun no longer shines I keep on catching something new When I think of how you see New eyes, new eyes Made for the sunrise New eyes, new eyes Made for the sunrise
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released January 4, 2004

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Norman Lamont Edinburgh, UK

Norman Lamont has been delighting audiences on the Edinburgh songwriter scene since 1990. His trademarks are the diversity of his musical styles, emotionally honest lyrics and a droll sense of humour.

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