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i've been here before

by lizband

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1.
amazing 03:28
oh Alone don't be afraid can't stand to see you so ashamed when you close your eyes there's a crooked mouth grinning lost in the torment of your own beginning and i know it's hard to be pulling apart what it is to be alive and it's amazing how love eludes you see how easily they fall around you just when you think you can't give another minute it comes on like a stream without a limit and i know it's hard to be pulling apart what it is to be alive oh what i would tell you if i just knew how i want to drive it home push it through bring it around i wanna let it all out outlet it all spilling my feelings up into the sky watch the color of my love surge and fly oh i'm gonna stand on the edge gonna throw myself down bashing on, bruising on rocks all the way to the bottom my little black heart in a box bursting open
2.
oh she's smiling from her cloister calling out she's my sister she told me my baby girl wasn't of me or of this world but was working for jesus oh you know she leaves a reminder wherever she walks, wherever she goes something burning in her down below you can see it glowing underneath her clothes and she's so unaware, oh when you left the carmelites when you came across the sea what kind of star aligned your nights when you vowed all those things your only jewel the need to please and your only hope a prayer sister sally ann, all laid bear seen a heavy belt, a lock and key when i heard her laughing on the underground I was on my way and she was on her way down and the the word according to me when you left the carmelites when you came across the sea what kind of star aligned your nights when you vowed all those things your only jewel the need to please and your only hope a prayer bread and bread and bread and bibles
3.
every man and woman is a Star is a Star the Universe it reaches down from out so far and it's you in me in you in me on one world revolving slipping around and in and out dissolving, dissolving away paint my belly baby paint me through the days paint my belly baby a hundred different ways you in me in you in me on one World revolving slipping around, and in and out dissolving, dissolving away paint my belly baby paint me up in lights and we will hold together all through all the Night every man and women is a Star is Star
4.
remember 02:27
i remember it was good it all unfolded the way it should have we were driving on the highway when i was with you and you were with me and i did i gave it i meant it when i said it you remember in a different way down to every terrible thing i ever did i was crying when i was lying next to you you won't forgive me when i forgive you and i did i gave it i meant it when i said it oh won't you let it go and when you do won't you let me know
5.
The sky is heavy upon my shoulder every day it's getting colder i wish i'd never been a soldier in the armies of the mind you know we're all in this together the war's been going on forever we could surrender but we'll never leave it all behind you'll get yours and i'll get mine you'll get yours and i'll get mine It's not my fault, it's not my doing you call it love, I call it ruin and it comes down to me and you and lies that we've been told some say it's cain, some say it's Abel some says it's truth some say it's fable but everybody's just looking for a label to paste upon your soul you'll get yours and i'll get mine you'll get yours and i'll get mine you know this ain't no laughing matter this ain't no time for idle chatter it's been confused and it's been scattered though all eternity and so the end has finally found us it's raining colors all around us with stroings of guilt you know they've bound us and still they say we're free you'll get yours and i'll get mine you'll get yours and i'll get mine
6.
i've always been afraid of you from another Planet, brother Moon i deny, i don't believe that it's true while round and around the orbit burns so cruel and tight so many there came before in this world of the poisoned word they are men of war and of the billions of souls that they chose and they choose mothers and babies still die on their knees and are you one of those? evolving, de-evolving around me you're a constellation, oh your countenance my darling, my enemy it's gravity, why it's so intense why i can't resist you oh yeah well i've wasted far too long waiting to be joined with someone i walk alone along a line through Space and Time and here is now, where I have arrived I have become I am the One well I wait and I wait and I wait and i give you form and I make you born you come through, you come out of me a baby boy, a boy baby and you're looking up to me
7.
you live in a parallel universe i try to fit in but it winds up being the reverse oh i'd walk with you though i don't know how to she don't talk to me the way she talks to you i live in a parallel Universe got a few friends try to make a difference for what it's worth but i'm disconnected and i'm out of time i am in the world but the World it is not mine when you were born you opened up your eyes and there's the great big Sky did you think you'd died and gone to heaven i was born to no one Land i am a daughter of the damned i'm not awake i can't relate i'm faithless but i believe in you oh i believe in you i believe in you i believe in you and me in parallel Universe we walk the walk we talk the talk tell the story til the Truth converges we'll make a place where Time is round and time reverses where we'll be one World one World one World one world
8.
ever since i was a girl i didn't fit into this World on the outside looking in i built my castle and i took my stand and when the walls fell seen it all caving in looking back across that empty road behind me i can't see who follows but i got a Light that is looking to guide me through all of my black tomorrow it's around the corner and around the bend up the Hill down again into the distant horizon where all my blue Skies are waiting a long highway through the Night we'll get to where we're going, it's gonna alright i'm a hot nerve, on the white line got one headlight and i feel just fine i'm a rock hard, razor sharp grown up girl and there's no fucking justice in this fucking World "they used me against my will for their genetic manipulations their psychopathic investigations nothing but a cosmic lab Rat in the ever expanding laboratory of contrived evolution" ever since i was a girl i didn't fit into this World on the outside looking in gonna build another castle gonna take another stand looking back across that empty road behind me i can't see who follows but i got a light that is looking to guide me through all of my black tomorrow it's around the corner and around the bend up the Hill down again into the distant horizon where all my blue Skies are waiting all my blue Skies all my blue Skies all my blue Skies
9.
where i live 01:32
i live on the side of the Hill i look out i see my city the Sun on the windowsill my World is so pretty i'm pushing against a wall i won't live in no shadow wouldn't need to fight you at all if you could see it from my view this is where i live i live on the Isle of Human from here I can see the Ocean moving in another direction the Sky is a mirror reflection this is where i live
10.
i am greedy i am reaching upwards towards the one the Sun i am flying on gorgeous wing upon wing upon wing alive in Spring i have a sturdy stamen i am burning to know i grow aware in mid-air i am showing opening i give you everything i ooze love and molecules into the Universal groove stuck on me i am stuck on you in Bloom little hard Stone full of all i know where i let you fall that's where you'll grow and i was made i was made for i was made for lovin' you
11.
emily 03:43
oh Emily, you look like me' at least like the girl I used to be oh Emily, no Sea no Sky were bluer than your eyes on that Day, that first time when you were born the afternoon, cold december brand new i'll always remember so, Emily, we grew and grew I turned twenty you turned two living low down in the heart of the city there never was a Kid as sweet or as pretty as you and oh I will tell you the Truth the Child of a Child the Baby of a Baby when the World was wide we were so amazing the years they tumble on and on Time disappears and we keep moving look me in the yes and I know it's true some day soon I'll be looking up to you and Emily we may disagree but Life is sweet and we're still amazing and you're as strong and brave as me there's times I wonder who is raising who who is raising who who is raising who
12.
lone Star 02:53
lone Star tell me how far can i fall from here it's been a hard Night and it's a long flight and i just don't feel so secure lone Star hold me aloft i wanna get and there's no way to go but down i just got me a new name and i'm not afraid to die but if it's all the same not tonight not tonight lone Star oh i am afraid and i used to be strong and i used to be brave it doesn't seem a Human Being should be rising up so high what do i do what does it mean when i'm afraid to fly lone Star you'll shine on and on long after i'm gone through the centuries oh i wish i could become oh, more like you so far away a solitary Light and you burn so bright

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released October 10, 1998

Liz Solo - vocals, guitar
Mike Kean - bass
Marcel Levandier - guitar
Mike Clarke - drums

Recorded and mixed by Don Ellis at the Nickel Soundworks Studio March - May 1997
Mixed and Mastered by Don Ellis and Ross Murray at the Sound of One Hand Clapping Studio, Ottawa
Produced by the Lizband
cover photo by Justin Hall
all songs by Lizband
A Sniz Wreckerds/Best Dressed Records release 1998

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