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The "Clay" Appreciation Thread
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down cw37frappcw37frapp
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    I love the passion in Hunters posts. The most relevant lyrics for me is Rocket. Sending my enemies away in one. They are never coming back. Clay is just lovely.
    JAMIE CARRAGHER= LEGEND
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
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    Yo! Someone with the album please post official confirmed lyrics. Thanks. :D

    hunter
  • Vote Up0Vote Down SparkySparky
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    hunter said:

    Yo! Someone with the album please post official confirmed lyrics. Thanks. :D

    hunter



    This seems to be the most accurate to date (from songmeanings)






    Words sing


    Out into the wind


    Their meaning


    Taken By Time




    Your deep seeing* eyes


    Ancient Stars




    We wanted


    Only to love


    How will I find you again


    Fate Or Chance




    A beauty 


    In uncertainty


    We fall down


    On grey wet sand


    Our shadows reframe


    Memories




    We were only to love


    Only too long


    And breathe in again


    You were waiting the night


    Longing of love


    And dreams of mine




    Oh


    Yellow angry waves of grass


    The iron sky


    Turning in the looking glass




    Your deep seeing* eyes


    Ancient Stars




    You were wonderful life


    My only love


    Sleep Well


    Goodnight




    *deep sea eyes is so much more poetic, and scans better


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  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
    Posts: 205
    So do you think those are the same lyrics written in the lyric book?

    hunter
  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
    Posts: 563
    No. Check the lyrics thread. I transcribed the vinyl lyrics (handwritten and printed inside) and they differ.
    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
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    From the vinyl: (1:1 including line breaks, lack of or weird punctuation and grammar)

    Clay

    words sail out into the wind

    their meaning taken by time

    your deep seeing eyes ancient stars

    we wanted only to love

    how will i find you again fate or chance

    a beauty in uncertainty

    WE fought them on great white sand

    our shadows reframed memories we want

    only to live only to love breathe again

    your white waves in the night

    longing i'm lost In dreams of mine

    blue billowing green waves of grass

    The Iron Sky Turning in the looking glass

    your deep seeing eyes ancient stars

    you are wonderful light

    my only love sleep well good night

    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
    Posts: 205
    Just saw that. Thank you so much.

    The lyrics are perfect...swooning (and there is "stuff" in my eyes AGAIN)...

    hunter
  • Vote Up0Vote Down SparkySparky
    Posts: 331
    That does sound more like it, but remember that the Seventh Tree boxed set lyrics contained variations from the actual recordings...

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
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    That does sound more like it, but remember that the Seventh Tree boxed set lyrics contained variations from the actual recordings...


    The same thing happenens on Tales Of Us. See the lyrics thread, first set of lyrics, comments above the transcriptions about discrepancies between the lyrics and the actual recordings.
    Post edited by Stranger at 2013-09-07 08:42:43
    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
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    SLAYED!

    hunter
  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
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    Why slayed? (And isnt it slain, technically?) ;-)
    Post edited by Stranger at 2013-09-07 08:46:16
    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
    Posts: 205
    Stranger, just listened to Clay and it matches the lyrics you transcribed perfectly (except there is an extra "and" somewhere sung in there).

    Thanks, really...I hadn't realized how much I was wanting confirmed lyrics for this one.

    hunter
  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
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    Lisen to Thea: entire parts are not written down. Ending of Annabel is missing as well as well as other tiny words and bits.
    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
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    Because slayed is how the "kids" say it. B-)

    In all seriousness. The songs subject matter and lyrics just really struck a chord with me.

    When I met Charles I was 23 and he was 20. I identified as gay, he straight, we instantly became inseparable, six months in we became physical, but didn't talk about at that time, moved in together but I kept a separate room for appearances (and slept in it when we had company), he started "dating" girls occasionally after our first year together as his friends started to call him on our "relationship", I tolerated it as I didn't believe it was my place to push him out of the closet.

    I knew he was madly in love with me as I was him and thought he would come 'round sooner or later but another 4-5 years of trying not to care about what I started to see as a massive lie, not only about who "we" were as a couple but in regards to how we interacted with the world at large. It finally came to a head, we fought, he screamed and broke stuff, I cried, left and moved to another city the next day. In some sort of fucked up retaliation, or self inflicted punishment, I'm not sure which he went back into active duty. I needed time but KNEW we would see each other again, talk...

    He was dead within 6 weeks.
    Post edited by hunter at 2013-09-07 09:09:18
  • Vote Up0Vote Down hunterhunter
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    That was 3 years ago next month. I was and am extremely close with his family (they still don't "know" that we were a couple) and couldn't even make myself go to his funeral. His mom saved me a portion of his ashes (she has to have suspicions)...I put them away and shit that chapter, told myself I'd revisit it a little later but then ended up burying it as I'm pretty sure I had NO plans on dealing...

    This song, the letter...smacked me in the face with all of this and I'm talking about it for the first time ever, three years later.

    hunter
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