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Seven Horses

Seven voices - and one is screaming
and one is singing and unremarkable
through the noise I can hear that song

Everybody has their reasons
little sympathies and treasons
everybody knows a stranger's song

But you don't know what this means to me
the tears I may cry
from down so low my heart falls among the stars
but it aint as if it's real
no, it aint as if this means anything

Seven horses - and one is broken
in a vision that's undeniable
but this bridle just aint that strong

Everybody has their reasons
little sympathies and treasons
everybody knows a stranger song

words and music by D. Schramm




Here And There

There is perfect darkness
There in sympathetic rhyme
There is something that will ever keep in time
Here is not so simple
Here a different sort of lie
she's collected every sentence, every line

But I can't run away from that
I can't run away from that
So lay some coins across my eyes
I can't run away so
I won't run away

There a siren beckons
There are seven seas to cross
There is laughter from a child I had lost
Here are deadly weapons
Here a fever shuts my eye
Here is silence and a sadness I deny

But I can't run away from that
I can't run away from that
So lay some coins across my eyes
I can't run away so
I won't run away

There is perfect darkness
There, in sympathetic rhyme
There is something that will never be defined

I can't run away so
I won't run away

words and music by D. Schramm





Tell Me Again and Again

He threw stones
from a bridge beside a lane
he was walking to his lover
he went slowly, reluctantly.

To her face
there is nothing he will say
she was talking of his mother
she so loved her, her saintly ways.

Tell me again how your baby still cries
tell me I won't ever see those
smiling black eyes
and I should close mine

He threw stones
from a bridge beside a lane
he was walking to his father
or his mother, he wouldn't say

Tell me again how your baby still cries
tell me I won't ever see those
smiling black eyes
and I should close mine
smiling black eyes
I should close mine

words and music by D. Schramm





Wild Innocence

I wanna go home
take messages, unplug the phone
I wanna go home tonight

Wild innocence calls
with some notion of storming these walls
but I wanna stay home tonight

I'll live in an old theater
warm and safe
and when all my world's a stage
then nothing I'll do will mean nothing to you
and that's nothing at all

I tried to go where you go
but stagnation is setting in slow
and I wanna be home tonight

My home has a strong foundation
rock and stone
and every mason knows
that nothing I'll do will mean nothing to you
and that's nothing at all

oh....every day is yesterday

words and music by D. Schramm






She Gets the Message

She is waiting
and she's watching her TV
for a warning
tell her what it's gonna be
every evening, every day
sitting by her phone

In the morning
there's a message from above
she's explaining -
changing "service" into "love"
"here it says I'm someone new,
here it brings me hope..."

I concede you might wear the same face as me -
a lonely man, a lonely man I am
I'll never get it
So why believe in forces that no one can see
a lonely man, a lonely man I am
I'll never get it right

She is waiting
for a message from above
and explaining
"hope" will always equal "love"
"here it says I'm leaving you,
here I walk alone."
 
Don't run, run away
just take my hand
Cause everything comes to me
and later on I'll see things right

I concede you might wear the same face as me -
a lonely man, a lonely man I am
I'll never get it
So why believe in forces that no one can see
a lonely man, a lonely man I am
I'll never get it right

words and music by D. Schramm






Wild and Small

Who knows her, who knows him?
who knows a single secret thing,
easy to ignore?

He took his place at number nineteen.
beside Miss Shaw whose name, it had been
painted on this wall.

Then he rose crying
he said "Tell me one thing..,
what took her breath away?"

When silence, held in better stead,
may have meant a clearer head,
an Innocent she stands.

But with no respect for a conscienced pause
they tear at her life and find a flaw
eager to ignore.

Then she rose burning.
She said, "I'm not saying anything,
I'm not even listening..."

She took his breath away
and in a wild, small space of time
she's frozen in his mind

She took his breath away
and in a wild, small space of time
she's frozen in his mind

She took his breath away

words and music by D. Schramm




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01 june 04