Anton Evans
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Produced, Engineered, Composed and Performed by Anton Evans
(unless otherwise noted)

Image credit: Alice Popkorn

 

Bare

(Evans, Blacker)

This sky is silence
The group of seven new it well
This sky is silence
Have you ever seen sombody so beautiful
They're hard to look at
Their eyes caress what's in your soul

You laid me bare
How could youknow me so well
All love lies between us
As I lay here
Knowing all that you are
I love you more than my life

These words are blindness
They see only what they mean
These words are blindness
Have you ever
Known a heart so beautiful
Their face escapes you
Their words speak to the things you love

Rod Blacker (my favourite drummer) helped me hammer this one out

Monday

(Evans)

Found the elegance to dance with you
I'm tired, so tired
The sound of fear on your breeze
Just strikes me
Drags me down to my knees

Fight fire with fire
Look into the son
Use the light of wonder
It's all been said and done
So many times

Climbed the precipice
To be safe with you
I'm high, so high
Your lines of shadow and light
Just strike me
Raise me up from my knees

It's all that I knew
To start the day with thunder
It's all that I know
Peace is in my hands

Found the evidence
In love with you
To fight fire with water
Just feel the rain coming down
It's red on me

Rod Blacker plays the Toms in the bridge

Time to Go

(Evans)

It's time to leave, got the sign to go
Stuck yellow light, glued in the snow
Song telling me,"not where you belong"
Glosses on sale, victims the song
Say what you mean, tell what you know
Stand in the light, put on your show
Time to do what's right, I'm pushing me
In winters light, can barely see

It doesn't have to be what we call mercy
It doesn't have to be anything at all
You just have to find the endless truth
The love that's inside you

Have you ever seen, Harris' mountain's forged
Lines fooling me, right beside the door
We all just stay on it
Can you knock one off, for my love and me
Fine example of, misplaced energy

Your passions are questions to be lived
The actions will lead you to the wall
The wall that's inside you.

It's time to leave, it's time to go
Seems so easy now

Choral Castle

(Evans)

The snow's almost over and I'd forgotten
How lunglike the trees are
And all of a sudden
She strokes his grey hair and wipes the spittle
Strokes his hand gently, they've gotten brittle

Because of love
She can still see him at 18
She can still feel his love, his hands, his steel
She can still hear

FLA evening
This mist is magic
It weaves tales for telling
Some of them tragic
Sing the vibrations and cut the coral
Slide the blocks gently
A castle for her

Because of love
He can still see her at 18
The magic he can sing
Builds a house of coral steel
He can still hear

Just Wanted to Know

(Evans)

How would you like to know when your gonna die
If life was easy would you even try
In these days of miracles
In these days when war is a publicists dream
Are you so cynical, you scream

Why get the Big Buck Combo
When it makes your heart explode
Where is the wisdom in science we need
Can you have commerce with morality
Why did you and mommy
fall in and out of love
Why does Paris Hilton
Make more than a Medic that can save your life

How does your religion ask you to live your life
If all was forgiven
Blind eyes would see the light

Captain

(Evans)

Sometimes in stories the heroes have eyes
That can see far and wide
When he fights it's always the good fight
But something is wrong at the end of the day
When he get's home there is no Miss Lane
Takes his mask off
And stands face to face
He's got power and glory
and a real nice cape

But he doesn't have you
To show him what the truth is
To show him what true beauty is
To show him what true love is all about

Back in the city  our stars on parade
He floats on glory and fame
Ms Mitchell will paint his face
But something is wrong at the end of the day


Craig Skala played the guitar lead.
James Burton came up with the main drum rhythm

So Far

(Evans)

Right place, right name, right time
Left her devices in the other room
Slowly, quickly show me
Pull the wool over the cover
Long face, long as lonely
She sees him wrap the rain in Hemingway
Pushes up aginst the cover

Feel the rhythm
Feel the heart of me
Songs from within
That's the love I hear
Turn me inside out
Take this love from me

Hold me, love me, save me
The lifeboat sails and she's on her way
Praying, God let him be my lover
I'll give him everything he wants and needs

This life feels so far
Forever seconds late when I'm with you
My love, my heart bleeds
A parents love left in denial
If not for you Angel, I'd be gone

Rod Blacker plays all the drums

Rise & Fall

(Evans, Blacker)

She'll pay the price of honesty
When she can afford the downfall
Kept in the safe in spite of me
She'll need it when she feels the call
Like March in the hands of Caesar
Her shelter has crumbling walls

Here's to the rise and fall
Here lies the curtain call
I like the way it makes me feel
It brings me back to you

This fool suffers complicity
I took the worst turn at Roselawn
Lied to myself implicitly
Lied and my soul was gone
Outside the first snow had started
The ground was already cold

The course was so poorly charted
The path was so full of stones and thorns
Get back to where I started


Rod wrote the chords for the middle 8
Carrie Amitage played the keyboard intro

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