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Can't Get You Out of My Mind
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
I can't get you out of my mind(2)
I tried so hard another love to find
But I can't get you out of my mind
I can't keep you out of my heart(2)
I even tried to make a brand new start
But I can't keep you out of my heart
I can't walk out through the door(2)
They say time is a doctor with a bag of cures
But I can't walk out through the door
And I can't go out on the street(2)
I even tried to shake the dust off my feet
But I can't go out on the street
I can't get you out of my mind(2)
I tried so hard another love to find
But I can't get you out of mind
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Wasting Time
04:13
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Wasting Time
Waiting for a sign
No life in this world of mine
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting like a rock
Stopped like a broken clock
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting for a call
No word I hear at all
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting like the sands
Walk over all my plans
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting for a friend
No one on this end
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting like the trees
Wild birds nest on me
Timewise I’m just wasting time
Waiting for her love
She promised she’ll give him up
Timewise I’m just wasting time
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Damn
04:16
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Damn
Words&Music by Pravinand Maharaj
This is the movement/ this is the moment
This is the minute I did not plan
You came from some place/ walked into my face
Now I'm still displaced
I love you damn
Where walks the mountain/ where flies the skyway
Where digs the meadow into the sand?
You were my water/ You were my laughter
Now you're my hereafter
I love you damn
Seems like I've drifted into a sleep
Seems like I've fallen beneath the deep
Seems like I've woken to another time
Seems like I'm paying for another's crime
The rain falls like acid/ the wind is a whiplash
I'm scourged like a martyr in every land
You gave me wisdom/ took away my freedom
You laugh at my kingdom
I love you damn
You opened the door to fury and wonder
You won't explain and I don't understand
You suck out my lust/ discard me like husk
I'm brittle like rust
I love you damn
Seems like I've drifted into a sleep
Seems like I've fallen beneath the deep
Seems like I've woken to another time
Seems like I'm paying for another's crime
This is the feeling you have been giving
You are the widow of every man
Someday you'll show me the way that you know me
But there's nothing you owe me
I love you damn
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4. |
Cuisine Of Madness
04:17
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Cuisine of Madness
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
The table is set my love
A table for two
This is it my love
It's just me and you
The waiter pours the wine my love
The wine that Jesus blessed
Was it for luck my love and our happiness?
Your lips are bright and wet
You try and hide a smile
You light yourself a cigarette
Your eyes are ripe and wild
Delicious food everywhere, delicious everything
You wouldn't find it in paradise or in the palace of a king
We then start to eat my love
There's something 'bout the food
Reminds us when we made love
On the fringes of the woods
I remember how you were my love
Free and crazy too
We happened to be there my love
Fools we were two
Your lips are bright and wet
You try and hide a smile
You light yourself a cigarette
Your eyes are ripe and wild
Delicious food everywhere, delicious everything
You wouldn't find it in paradise or in the palace of a king
You've come to say goodbye my love
You've come to say so long
You tip the waiter well my love
And kiss me deep and strong
Is this the end I ask my love
Will we meet again?
You laugh and say when restaurants
Let poor beggars in
Your lips are bright and wet
You try and hide a smile
You light yourself a cigarette
Your eyes are ripe and wild
Delicious food everywhere, delicious everything
You wouldn't find it in paradise or in the palace of a king
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5. |
Looking For You
04:37
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Looking for You
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
I've been up all night thinking of
Whether she loves or not
And I'm not the type to go astray
'Cos I've never really found the way
One more night, one more dream
One more light the morning brings
And I'm looking for you
All the flowers of my youth
Fade the same way as truth
And all the lovers of my past
Move on to greener grass
One more town, one more mile
One more round of time to while
And I'm looking for you
And I show your picture everywhere
They've seen your face here and there
But no one seems to really know
Where you stay or where you go
And I'm looking for you
I may go to another land
It will be the same wherever I am
'Cos every shadow and every sound
Will make it clear you're not around
One more time, one more wish
One more sign that it's you I'll kiss
And I'm looking for you
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6. |
Cathedral
05:06
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Cathedral
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
Running from the fire
Run on streets of gold
Running from desire
Run with a heart turned cold
Nothing ever moves you
Nothing ever thrills
The way they want to soothe you
You might as well take a pill
I'm leaving the cathedral of the fellowship of saints
I'm going where the windows are not stained glass panes
Maybe in Palestine
I will find
Something of the good man
Time left behind
Running like a fugitive
Looking for relief
Running like you're pursued
Looking like a thief
There's poison in the chalice
They poured the bitter wine
You never thought that malice
Could have a heart so kind
I'm leaving the cathedral of the fellowship of saints
I'm going where the windows are not stained glass panes
Maybe in Palestine
I will find
Something of the good man
Time left behind
You see the river of life
and you can't come out alive
You cry for help, and the only help
is to be crucified
Everything's a symbol
Everything's a sign
Nothing is for real
Except the man from Palestine
I'm leaving the cathedral of the fellowship of saints
I'm going where the windows are not stained glass panes
Maybe in Palestine
I will find
Something of the good man
Time left behind
Running home to glory
Running from her bed
Without her in the story
Everything is dead
You think that God is envy
That God cannot approve
Of giving her such pleasure
That will make the heavens move
I'm leaving the cathedral of the fellowship of saints
I'm going where the windows are not stained glass panes
Maybe in Palestine
I will find
Something of the good man
Time left behind
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7. |
The Only One
04:52
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The Only One
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
You struck my cheek, I gave my coat
I blessed the meek, I cast my vote
I took a chance, I lived the dream
And our romance lost the theme
Blame it on Jesus Christ
On the burning sun
Blame it on the freezing ice
You're the only one
The wheel of life turning round
Couldn't decide sky or ground
For thirty pieces I sold my mind
Faith releases and turns you blind
Blame it on Jesus Christ
On the burning sun
Blame it on the freezing ice
You're the only one
The days are getting shorter
The nights are going wild
The woman of the martyr
Is dressing up, is dressing up
Is dressing up in style
I ate the bread, you drank the wine
You're in my head, I'm on your mind
From God to man, from Man to hell
On desert sands it's hard to tell
Blame it on Jesus Christ
On the burning sun
Blame it on the freezing ice
You're the only one
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The Ghost In Your Reflection
Words & Music: Pravinand Maharaj
Late afternoon sunlight
Shadows deep and long
Leading to the window
Where she keeps her songs
You can sing in silence
You can sing aloud
On the midnight blanket
You learn that two's a crowd
And there is no sin too proud
Across the line in the afterlife
Were you a victim of deception
Was it her who was your wife
Or the ghost in your reflection?
I am on this occasion
born but without form
Broken by my yearning
Scattered by the storm
You call me to the window
To see what you have found
That I must be this foolish
And hear your phantom sounds
The proud must wear a crown
In the afterlife across the line
To meet you at reception
Without chains of space and time
Like the ghost in your reflection
I see your face
I hear your songs
I've found the place where you belong
I feel your heart
I feel your hand
We cannot part
this is the plan
Dust to dust
Flame to flame
Who offers you protection
The only thing death cannot claim
Is the ghost in your reflection
Curse the night descending
Pray the day will spark
Every light returning
Consents with the dark
When will I be chosen
To have you while you're here
The end of my awakening
Lengthens and draws near
The crown of pride is fear
Beyond the stars
Beneath the sea
Returning to conception
Giving breath you cannot breathe
To the ghost in your reflection
The only truth is rumour
Everything must bend
What we learned as children
We re-learn with our friends
And you of form and spirit
In the watery light of old
Standing barely naked
Neither warm nor cold
The hands of fear we hold
Across the line
The great divide
A glimpse of recollection
Waiting there on the other side
Is the ghost in your reflection
In the afterlife will you find
By the law of no exception
Standing there before your time
The ghost in your reflection
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