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Lavender Prayers

by James Teague

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1.
Frail and sombre lover Why must you displease Your love was like the fire Now it’s taunted by the breeze Frightening fickle forest I planted all your seeds But you spat me out when strange birds Came to nest amongst your leaves I had my heart set on you… Tiny little critters Feeding from my hand Your affection is superficial But your loyalty is grand Solid like the fortress That was built out of dismay You will stand transfixed before me Beaten at your game I had my heart set on you…
2.
Turning tables and reversing chairs Lights on the ground floor in the air I can't seem to see straight the room’s a glow Feeling nauseous and I'm losing you In a hateful haze too dense to walk through And it's been so long that I've felt this low So I'll get back up on my feet Rip the leeches from my knees Cos I'm sick of letting them Have their way with me Building bridges then I'm tearing them down I'm never satisfied with what I've found I just can't let go of this crazy dream Where life's luggin' by in black and white 'Til I meet this one that blows my mind with A myriad of colours a tapestry Then into the air we bounce To a place we can't pronounce Leaving psychedelic Trails of ecstasy Don't got the money and I don't got the time To lay down my path on beer and red wine These days it's all responsibility Where will you go and what ever will you do With an empty bank account and no shoes These people must love mediocrity One day I'll pack my bags Fill up my draws with grains of sand And no one will have a clue Where to look for me All these people where the same blank expression Won't someone show me the exit sign Before my soul leaves this plain And my shell disintegrates And my brain becomes enslaved And you all forget my name I'm gonna be a part of something revolutionary Cos a tree's just a plant if it doesn't keep us breathing And the sun's just a star if it doesn't let the light in
3.
The other day I burnt a hole inside my brain and now this pain just won’t subside Well I think my mind's a-grieving it witnessed something so surreal the perfect ride It was then I knew the answers to every question every doubt that stirred my insides I felt whole for that one night just like God on the seventh day all filled with pride And now all I am is lost Waiting for some kind of sign From the great divine Running frantic circles like a blind man all misplaced without his cane While this lady’s in a dumpster telling tall tales of her prime back in the day I said love you’ve got it rough why don’t you pick yourself right up out of this waste She said son you’ve got it wrong this shanty is my home at least I know my place And it hit me like a rock Thrown from somewhere from above From the great divine Frozen in time Locked away up in the sky In the great divine Secrets we have left behind In the great divine I are you and you are I In the great divine Puzzle pieces all aligned In the great divine Where sorrow is forgotten
4.
Shaking convulsively on that hell I call my balcony I will die tonight a flask of whiskey by my side She looked at me with a sad kind of sympathy It’s been long enough to love but not quite long enough to lose her Now I’m fighting back a bed of tears Body buried in cement mouth sewed shut thoughts that torment And I am wasting away like some repressed dream We share our roles of the martyr and the misplaced soul And I’m hanging by a thread waiting on my enchantress To come and alleviate Dejected and in denial a jury of clowns judge a heart on trial Well I am innocent don’t lock me up to rust and rot And it’s so obscene when you’re surrounded but no one hears your screams And I’m dying to break free from this hold you’ve got on me But it tightens every time I pull This curse never ceases to surprise Well it crawls and creeps up behind Every time…
5.
One autumn night you tripped over my heart Caught by surprise For I did not expect to be bound by your spell You wrote ten digits on my hand Who could've guessed that patch of ink would Seep into my pores and find its home All the pallid walls ignite They turn to gold before my eyes We made a tryst among the walking dead Your eyes were grey Wounded by your dismal disposition But your hands resembled that of grace And your charm well it rendered me as Smitten as a kitten with his ball of yarn The weather in my head has cleared Sun shining from my ears... A mutual friend was once my enemy She was disguised As a devilish reaper praying upon the vulnerable and the meek But her motives never showed For every scourge that stung was another little nudge Towards the truth that I've been searching for Your cherry fingernails induce The kinda joy I can't refuse Within your trust I've stumbled on a cellar door It's where you store all your pain like aging wine Well that just don't work no that bitterness won't fade So won't you let me poor all your ailments down the drain Living like a lucid dream We'll sail to Venice live at sea
6.
Spring in my hair exuding pollen Lavender prayers reprieve from boredom I will walk on the air and you my love shall attend Once we’re woken to find this merciful dream was a scheme set by powers unknown Then it’s down the spirally snakes canal Into a dark omniscient hole Microscope eyes exposing wonder Bugs main and might extracting boulders Mountains are moved with your will and rain drops are frozen and stilled Once the spell has expired the tears that’ve seared from within will then make themselves known Then it’s down the spirally snakes canal Into a cave of languid waste The graves are aligned now moribund misery Frivolously floating in rapturous reverie Contemplating the marvel of fortune that falls at our feet When the drought surely comes the sun his esurient smile will then conquer the throne Then it’s down the spirally snakes canal But it’s all a hoax some elaborate smoke Gliding over the clouds with seasoned eyes The sky stretched out to wrap ‘round your mind Evil’s tongue quivers in your ear then recoils in fear Failing to frazzle your stout and resilient hive
7.
Fire melting your brain You gotta put it out Thoughts just like a bad taste You gotta spit ‘em out Delusions seek to deprave You better snuff them out Seduction makes you her slave And now you’re bowing down Sauntering through the valley of restrain… Keep a blade at your thighs And recite your vows For the beast that glowers inside Is salivating gaping mouth Come away from the door And kill the lights Surrender may have its rewards Until you’re signing your demise Sauntering through the valley of restrain… When the sun begins to bleed Will you beg bite kick or flee Or will you just sing Sauntering through the valley of restrain…
8.
Sorry son You don’t belong The lies they’ve spun Will leave you Tangled… Sorry son You don’t belong You fought but they won Now raise your flag And crumble… Naked eyes Try to compromise With deluded minds Screaming Desire… City mundane Why won’t you rain Flood out every stain That keeps me Anchored… Where’s your head Did you bury it again Smell their poison- wake up Give birth to your inner self Oh solid solitude I am safe in your rule No perception skewed Can distract me from Desertion…
9.
Cleverly concealed Spin 'round those eyes Describe what you find Every lie revealed Raped of all rights Lost and deprived Left alone to heal Child traumatised Cast out from the light A mask that starts to peel Triggering her ploy To sabotage and destroy Her heart it never breaks She just runs away Spreading like a germ Enclosed in a frame Identity chained Not even she discerns Mind in a maze Chameleon's slave Induced into her words No one remains Within her refrain A tongue that sounds absurd To earnest ears of ignorance Her motive is blurred This girl don't know her place She just runs away Hold on Measure your haste lover It'll drill you down to your grave Is that where you really want to spend your days Heaven help her now Sways with the trees Impetuously Jesus hold her down Cloaked with defeat Split at the seams Cumbrous crown of doubt Journal of dreams Washed out to sea And I tried to pull her out The hounds they claimed her soul From under my nose The girl without a face Who just runs away Composed with all her pain She just runs away
10.
Are you indestructible Or is this just a dream That makes you so intangible And so hard to believe Cloaked man no identity Warned me of disease But blind with foolish ignorance And this poison chemistry Pointless paths cross over Trailing mystery To unveil the inevitable Tragedy And it's so sad How we wait for things to go bad Well I guess sometimes it's best Just to turn your back Are you irresistible Or are you even there Emotions manifesting From loneliness and despair
11.
11:11pm 06:03
Forget what you see darling These eyes only project deceit But you won't No you won't It’s a sin I will repeat darling From the depths of anxiety But you won't No you won't And I will let you down over and over I’m blood-shot high baby You don't even know this game But you will Oh you will There’s a war inside my brain You don't even know this pain But you will I promise you will And I will let you down you over and over I’m changing my sheets girl These ones smell of someone else But don't fret She’s just a memory that just won't rest And I will let you down you over and over I will break you over and over Dark are the caves That exists within the corners of my mind That you won't ever find And I will let you down you over and over Forget it now It’s over…

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released March 16, 2012

All songs written, arranged and produced by James Teague

Recorded by Donovan De Souza at Pemberton Mill Hall

Mixed by Melvin Tree at The Treehouse and Laurie McCallum at Sumo Studios

Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio Mastering

Contributing musicians:

Andrew Williams- bass, backing vocals
John Brown- drums, bongo, backing vocals
Michael Nutt- Hammond organ, keys, electric sitar
Jake Chaloner- guitar, assistant engineer
David Craft- banjo
Jesse Woodward- mandolin, violin
Tristan Parr- cello
Lyndon Blue- violin
Andy Hopkins- guitar
Nathalie Pavlovic- backing vocals

Artwork by Luisa Hansal
Design by Leigh Craft

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James Teague Melbourne, Australia

...his music is as complex as the self; one moment whimsical and dreamy, with shades of 60s psychedelia and 70s progressive folk – the next, they’re wrought with mortal gloom and adorned with hints of jazz and howling blues. It’s difficult to describe Teague’s style, but it usually consists of unpredictable melodies that stray, intricate, dynamic arrangements and a soaring, vocal tremolo. ... more

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