JOURNEYS TO GLORY

Little Bruises

Little Bruises, Gary’s only solo album was released in 1995. This very beautiful album which Gary is rightly very proud off, saw him leaving the world of mainstream pop behind and experimenting with lots of new sounds including Irish folk music. In order to get the sound that he wanted Gary used many different instruments and guest musicians, including (amongst others) Donal Lunny who played the mandolin, bodhran, (a shallow one-sided Irish drum typically played using a short stick), and Bousouki (a long-necked Greek form of mandolin), and Ed Shearmur who played the Wurlitzer and Mellotron (an electronic keyboard instrument in which each key controls the playback of a single pre-recorded musical sound). Gary himself played the mandolin on the title track “Little Bruises“.

Standing In Love (lyrics)

I want to stand at the still point of a turning world; neither past nor future; neither from nor towards; To take a rest on the road and take a look into the skies; I want to stand at the still point of our lives. Standing in love, standing in love, we'll be standing in love next time .... I want to breathe in the moment of a shooting breeze, not to stare down lifetimes where I could have been. To step out of the river and sit and watch the river ride. I want to breathe in the moment of our lives. Standing in love, standing in love, we'll be standing in love next time .... We burned a hole with our passion and fell right into disaffection ... and we didn't stand in our love. Many times have I seen those eyes and fell into their grace; rushed into a future life just to fall upon my face. So hold onto the moment, like a brandy glass in your hand, look down and see just where you stand, and we'll be standing in love, we'll be standing in love next time ... We burned a hole with our passion and fell right into disaffection and ... we didn't stand in our love! 

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Brother Heart (lyrics)

When the colours of life seep out of your day, and the truth that was standing is now crumbling away; when the question is why does it spread like disease? And your rivers run dry but you're sunk to your knees. When the sun brings the priest running over the fields, and you're sick to your soul of the lies and the deals; when the moon brings the bleeding of a town in its fate, and there's no room for dreaming in the shelter of faith.Oh, beat again Brother Heart; beat again Brother Heart. When the lines of partition slash a scar through you breed, and the mouths of agreement are all muted by greed; when the lie of the land rolls into your night look into your soul and look for the light. Fly the wings of hope, take the branch to the dove; change the story line, find the truth up above. But when God seems to sleep and misses your life, and your prayers fall to Earth like shells in the night, let your broken heart weep and bleed for what's right; look into your soul and look for the light. Oh beat again Brother Heart; Beat again Brother Heart.

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An Inexperienced Man (lyrics)

Lay your head down upon my faithless arm, for one more night I'll frogive the stars. Someone said the plot decies the character; the wind that blows will force this tree to lean. you leave the ruin and feel no pity we dream of islands when we should rebuild our city; but I don't understand because I'm an inexperienced man. He walks the street a young man never felt so old; there's no more in the soil to turn, is what he's told. We're closing down, sorry things seem incomplete, and all the skills and all he knows can't even lift the sheets. They built this town on hope and glory, but now the wind blows through and tells a different story; but he just doesn't understand, and he says, "I'm an inexperienced man, a inexperienced man ..." We're so naive here, just don't understand. Lay your head down upon my faithless arm, for one more night I'll forgive the stars. And I, I, I'm an inexperienced man.

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Wasted (lyrics)

Wasted all my energy on you; wasted all this synergy on you; wasted all those shooting stars on you. Wasted all my poetry and rhymes; wasted all my party tricks and lines; wasted all those liberating times. I hope somewhere you're getting your dreams to start, but I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it. Memories leave me a prisoner to my heart, and I don't want to feel this way; so I say; wasted all my stupid heart on you; wasted all my simple dreams on you; now that we're through, girl ... I'm wasted over you. Wasted my astrology on you; wasted my philosophy on you, wasted all those cappucinos too; wasted all those times on you. Wasted so much skin upon the bed; wasted all the music in our heads; wasted all the light that we once bled, wasted all those crimes. I hope somewhere you're getting your dreams to start, but I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. Memories leave me a prisoner to my heart, and I don't want to feel this way; so I say wasted all my stupid heart on you; wasted all my simple dreams on you, now that we're through girl .... I'm wasted over you. Did you really think this out? Do you know what I'm talking about? Sorry that I feel this way but some things I just have to say. Oh no, take that back. It's just you I lack; these are just mood swings and I don't really mean these things. Wasted all my energy on you; wasted all this synergy on you; wasted all those shooting stars on you; wasted ll those years on you. Wasted all my stupid heart on you; wasted all my simple dreams on you. Oh my darling now that we're through, girl .... I'm wasted over you. And if we ever do amend ....I'd waste it all again.  

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Little Bruises (lyrics)

I've been to Hollywood, I've seen the dead wood; I'm on the plane again, you always knew I would. All the fault-lines here have split this city in two. I though of you today - I touched the ground and felt the earth move in LA. Hey Little Bruises, are you bleeding with me? Such a sweet taste in this insanity. I keep a-coming back, I keep a-coming back to this ecstasy of Little Buises and me. Oh come on dear, we're part of the food chain here, running ragged rings and fueled by fear. Like a moth that beats and beats against the window pane, I thought of you today - whatever brings you here has brought me all the way. Hey, Little Bruises, are you bleeding with me? Such a sweet taste in this insanity. I keep a-comng back, I keep a-coming back to this ecstasy of Little Bruises .... They'll suck you dry in Babylon - you're black and blue when things go wrong; drop the bomb; it won't be long 'till Summers gone. "Is it hot enough for an earthquake, love?" Did it move for you? like everyone does. This scene may need a lot of takes before we're out of here; we haven't come that favourite song was "Always Crashing in The Same Car" Hey Little Bruises are you bleeding with me Such a sweet taste in this insanity. I keep a-coming back, I keep a-coming back to this ecstasy of Little Bruises and me.

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Ophelia Drowning (lyrics)

There are dreams, there are times you are drowning in my mind Ophelia. Just below, such a sin, you are underneath my skin Ophelia. I can see you through the film but I can't stop you slipping deeper still; like a tide in a bay, your thoughts just beat away, Ophelia. And there you are, smiling through the years in black and white, like shadows on a grave. And there am I am holding on to you, not knowing then that you were always drifting away. Oh you hope, desperately, but you know that this city's gonna pull you down. You feel pain in this world and so you turn away and go back underground. You could part the waves with words but some don't like to look that deep; no surprise that your life has left your sea-cold eyes. Ophelia. And there you are, painting on your face, but sinking now, like a water-colour sn. And there I am, holding on to you , not knowing then you were always drifting away. You were always drifting ....

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She Said .... (lyrics)

Impressions stay within the grain, times of love, hate, and pain; In this old house our lives are like echoing words. We're coming home, we're turning 'round seeing how it feels to be on this ground, when standing here in reverence to all that I feel, she said, "Oh just don't listen to your head you must be strong." Our footsteps stay within the snow, frozen to the stones the won't let go; the weight of the past was pulling me under the ground, when She said, "How many years can fill a head? Tomorrow is long." Don't say those words, they make me bleed, there's something here, something that I really need. Like the echoes that circle the sky , or a visin burnt into my eye, something in the air, something in the air won't die. Within the clay there is a man, you moulded me and here I stand where we belong; our roots grow so deep in the soil. I watch her move, like yesterday, and the old films begin to play; with fingertips I trace the dust of our years, when she said "Oh just don't listen to your head; you must be strong." So don't say these words, they make me bleed, there's something here , something that I really need. like the echoes that circle the sky, or a vision burnt into my eye, something in the air, something in the air won't die.

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Shadowman

Let me introduce you; I'm two of a kind; so sorry for the problem but i'm a Junas for your times. Like a black dog sleeping or creeping in my mind, oh my elemental twin, are you the symptom or the sin? You laugh becuse you're certain that you know me very well, but he flip-side of this coin could spin me down to hell. So come into my stor tonight for a large supply of double-life, and meet my backdoor man in the basement making plans. I've been looking for love in a whole lot of places, doing what I can for me and Shadowman. And I've been looking for truth in those innocent faces; gonna squeeze out your love for me and Shadowman! I'll make a pack with m personal Mephisto, sign it in blood at the alter of my ego. He never sleeps - Oh won't you ever let go! - but he's clanging with a hammer, oh my psycho doppleganger. When I was a child I heard whispers from behind, so afraid to turn round now, case he looked me in the eye. He's waiting for his moment. I'm his perfect alibi; as we walk beneath the moon he's calling out the tune .... I've been looking for love in a whole lot of places, doing what I can fro me and Shadowman. And I've been looking for truth in those innocent faces; gonna squeeze out your love for me and Shadowman! I've got to hang on to myself, oh, I've got to hand on to myself.  

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These Are The Days

Born under twins you were never really sure, one heart totally invested, the other holding out for more. Well you took your option up and a bag of fragile plans, ad I'm left lighting candles for a prayer to undersatand. These are the days, these are the times when your head goes 'round in circles and you just can't find you mind. Well I've been looking at the moon, like a mirror in the skiy, I saw a face come back to me so pale, a little madness in its eye. Well I've been sleeping on the floor, hiding from my heart, standing in your shadow - any wonder that it's dark? These are the days. Silent yearning; dreaming; turning. Well if I could run this love backwards and live it twice in symmetry, we'd finally meet on that Golden Axis where you took me to my knees. Here, as the bloom of love folds into its bud. I'd turn away from you and set you free on love. these are the days, these are the times your head goes 'round in circles, you just can't find your mind. These are the days, these are the timesyour head goes 'round in circles, around, around, around, around, around. these are the days; these are the days. these are the days now, baby, these are the days.

My Lady Soul (lyrics)

Set my ship a-sailing, she pulled me like a star, and oceans rose like castles all around. I lay below where ladders start, the rag and bone store of the heart, and waited for my ship to run a-ground. I woke upon a shore line and listened for your voice, eventually I raised my head to see; and all the clouds still glowered down and demon wings beat all around, but my faith will take me on to thee. I'm looking for My Lady Soul; when the world is empty and there's no place to go. The source of all the secrets, a figure of the infinite, the key to all the truth I need to know. Craving your affinity, will I find divinity? I just want to know My Lady Soul. I walked across the desert to the darkness of my heart, and all the storms just tore into my mind, and then I fell at last to pray I heard a voice inside me say - She has been beside you all the time. I'm looking for My Lady Soul, when the world is empty and there's no place to go. Oh come water this dry land and watch my spirit grow; with the last breath of the man that I am , I'm calling for My Lady ....Calling, I'm calling you  .... I'm looking for My Lady Soul; when the world is empty and there's no place to go. Well I drank from Tristans Cup ad now I con't let go; with the last breath of the man that I am , I'm calling for My Lady Soul. With the last breath of the man that I am , I'm calling for My Lady Soul. With the last breath of the man that I am, I'm calling for My Lady ..... 

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