Note: track 1 is an edit vesion of God's Monkey 3.54
Note on track 14, Forbidden Colours. On the version with Ghosts on track 15, the Forbidden Colours (acoustic version 5:54) is played, but on the version that plays Canton, the regular features Forbidden Colours (4:37). (Thanks to Kei Kinoshita for this information)
One push You fall in Born in darkness Built on shame And hurting Filled with silence Filled with silence And stars Stars Stars Find the ladder Climb the ladder To God's monkey No songs To sing That I believe in That I believe in Can't breathe the air It's too thin This far from heaven This far from heaven And stars Stars Find the ladder Climb the ladder To God's monkey.
Baby, baby I hate to go Don't leave me alone with this sorrow The body's heavy The getting's slow Lost in moments Caught in moments The night is starless And stands below And I need you by my side
Baby, baby I love you so Don't leave me alone in this hollow When brightness falls Who'll come running? When brightness falls Who'll come running in? Saved by silence Save by noise Save by lightning Saved by joy Building on emptiness And all you broken hearted people
Baby, Baby The hurt heals slow And who can believe in tomorrow? When brightness falls Who'll come running? When brightness falls Who'll come running in? The ticket's exploded Only one way out Live in lightness Lost in lightness There's nothing left to write about And time's no longer The greatest injustice of all On this new day.
I see the lines in the palm of its hand now I listen hard but no words spring to mind And it sounds so sweet, listen to its heartbeat And I'm drowning in its sea Falling at its feet Listen to my heartbeat baby
And the blood sail leaves tonight Fated in its blindness And it won't be long before help is at hand And the darkness sleeps Cushioning the heartbeat And I killed the captain, sank the fleet To liberate the heartbeat baby And it sounds so sweet And it sounds so sweet Listen to our hearts beat
And the darkness sleeps Cushioning the heartbeat And I'm drowning in its sea Falling at its feet Listen to my heartbeat baby
It speaks to ghosts and souls alike Springs to life, and doesn't think twice Wrapped in the blood sail Bathed in snow Nailed to the source and it won't let go Fed on the bible, grown from trees It opened the mind and the heart was free A home in the silence, safe from sound Where trouble sleeps and the light is found
I hold you in A sea of silence On the borderline of truth Open violence I see no sign I see no place I've loved Depending on the signs To fine the road
Blackwater take me with you To the place that I have spoken Come lead me through the darkness To the light that I long to see again
I walk with you But sleep beside her The summer came and went It passes us over
I see her cry I see the face I have loved Depending on the blind To find the road
Blackwater take me with you To the place that I have spoken Come lead me through the morning For the land that I long to see again
Standing firm on this stony ground The wind blows hard Pulls these clothes around I harbour all the same worries as most The temptations to leave or to give up the ghost I wrestle with an outlook on life That shifts between darkness and shadowy light I struggle with words for fear that they'll hear But Orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide There's a beauty here I cannot deny And bottles that tumble and crash on the stairs Are just so many people I knew never cared Down below on the wreck of the ship Are a stronghold of pleasures I couldn't regret But the baggage is swallowed up by the tide As Orpheus keeps to his promise and stays by my side
Tell me, I've still a lot to learn Understand, these fires never stop Believe me, when this joke is tired of laughing I will hear the promise of my Orpheus sing
Sleepers sleep as we row the boat Just you the weather and I gave up hope But all of the hurdles that fell in our laps Were fuel for the fire and straw for our backs Still the voices have stories to tell Of the power struggles in heaven and hell But we feel secure against such mighty dreams As Orpheus sings of the promise tomorrow may bring
Tell me, I've still a lot to learn Understand, these fires never stop Please believe, when this joke is tired of laughing I will hear the promise of my Orpheus sing
I'm waiting on the empty docks Watching the ships come in I'm waiting for the agony to stop Oh, let the happiness in I'm watching as the gulls all settle down Upon the empty vessels The faded whites of their wedding gowns The songs of hopeless selflessness
The cold December Sun A cold that blisters The hands of a working man Wasted
I'm waiting on the empty docks Watching the ships roll in I'm longing for the agony to stop Oh, let the happiness in
Oh, let the happiness in
Listen to the waves against the rocks I don't know where they've been I'm waiting for the skies to open up And let the happiness in
Out upon the open fields The rain is pouring down We're pulling up the sheets again Against the passing tides of love Every doubt that holds you here Will find their own way out
I will build a shelter if you call Just take my hand and walk Over mountains high and wide Bridging rivers deep inside With a will to guide you on Your heart will need no one Those days are gone
Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Lost inside of dreams that guide you on Baby, I can tell you there's no easy way out Soon the guiding moonlight will be gone
In dresses white, all set for sail A little girl dreams of taking the veil In dresses white, all set for sail A little girl dreams of taking the veil On beaches clean of sand and shell A little girl dreams of taking the veil All lightning bright and thunder loud A little girl dreams safe and sound
The lights of the ashes smoulder through hills and vales Nostalgia burns in the hearts of the strongest Picasso is painting the ships in the harbour The wind and sails These are years with a genius for living
The rope is cut, the rabbit is loose (Fire at will in this open season) The blood of a poet, the ink in the well (It's all written down in this age of reason)
The animals run through harvested fields of fire The bitterness shown on the face of the homeless Picasso is painting the flames from the houses The sudden rain These are years with a genius for living
The rope has been cut, the rabbit is loose (Fire at will in this open season) The blood of a poet, the ink in the well (It's all written down in this age of reason)
The wounds on your hands never seem to heal I thought all I needed was to believe
Here am I, a lifetime away from you The blood of Christ, or the beat of my heart My love wears forbidden colours My life believes
Senseless years thunder by Millions are willing to give their lives for you Does nothing live on?
Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me My hands in the soil, buried in side of myself My love wears forbidden colours My life believes in you once again
I'll go walking in circles While doubting the very ground beneath me Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything Here am I, a lifetime away from you The blood of Christ, or a change of heart
My love wears forbidden colours My life believes My love wears forbidden colours My life believes in you once again
G#m D#m When the room is quiet G#m D#m E The daylight almost gone C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m It seems there's something I should know G#m D#m Well, I ought to leave G#m D#m E But the rain it never stops C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | And I've no particular place to go
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E Blew wilder than the wind
G#m | D#m | G#m | D#m |
G#m D#m Well, I'm feeling nervous G#m D#m E Now I find myself alone C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m The simple life's no longer there G#m D#m G#m Once I was so sure D#m E Now the doubt inside my mind C#m(IV) D#m G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | Comes and goes but leads nowhere
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E | G#m | D#m | Blew wilder than the wind
G#m | D#m | E | C#m(IV) D#m |
G#m | D#m | G#m | D#m |
C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I think I'm winning B When I've broken every door F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m G#m Blow wilder than before C#m(IX) C#m7 B C#m(IX) C#m7 Just when I thought I could not be stopped B When my chance came to be king F#m G#m The ghosts of my life A F#m E | G#m | D#m | Blew wilder than the wind G#m D#m | G#m | D#m | G#m || Than the wind
When the room is quiet The daylight almost gone It seems there's something I should know Well, I ought to leave But the rain it never stops And I've no particular place to go
Just when I think I'm winning When I've broken every door The ghosts of my life Blow wilder than before Just when I thought I could not be stopped When my chance came to be king The ghosts of my life Blew wilder than the wind
Well, I'm feeling nervous Now I find myself alone The simple life's no longer there Once I was so sure Now the doubt inside my mind Comes and goes, but leads nowhere
This track is included because David himself said that Ghosts was the first track that indicated the new direction of his compositions after the Japan period.
Two (!) versions exist: one with track 15 playing Canton and the other playing Ghosts. The tracklist is naming Ghosts as track 15. The two versions have different matrix numbers. That's the set of numbers and letters etched on the inner groove of a CD.(Thanx Robert). Version with "Ghosts" = DPRO12805-2 MO RE1 L3917P Y 1-2-2 EMI JAX Version with "Canton" = DPRO12805-2 MO S3729F Y 1-1-3 EMI JAX
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