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Timeless, In The Quiet Ground

by Various Artists

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1.
THE HOLY HOUR I kneel and wait in silence As one by one the people slip away Into the night The quiet and empty bodies Kiss the ground before they pray Kiss the ground And slip away I sit and listen dreamlessly A promise of salvation makes me stay Then look at your face And feel my heart pushed in As all around the children play The games they tired of yesterday They play They play I stand and hear my voice Cry out A wordless scream at ancient power It breaks against stone I softly leave you crying I cannot hold what you devour The sacrifice of penance In the holy hour
2.
PRIMARY The innocence of sleeping children Dressed in white and slowly dreaming Stops all time I slow my steps and start to blur So many years have filled my heart I never though I'd say those words Further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show The very first time I saw your face I thought of a song and quickly changed the tune The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story and rushed to reach the end too soon Oh remember Please don't change And so the fall came thirteen years A shiny ring and how I could forget your name The air no longer in my throat Another perfect lie is choked But it always feels the same So they close together Dressed in red and yellow Innocent forever Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms Still dream
3.
OTHER VOICES Whisper your name In an empty room You brush past my skin As soft as fur Taking hold I taste your scent Distant noises Other voices Pounding in my broken head Commit the sin, commit yourself And all the other voices said Change your mind you're always wrong Come around at Christmas I really have to see you Smile at me slyly Another festive compromise But I live with desertion And eight million people Distant noises Of other voices Pulsing in my swinging arms Caress the sound, so many dead And all the other voices sing Change your mind, you're always wrong
4.
ALL CATS ARE GREY I never thought that I would find myself In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves, all cats are grey In the caves, the texture coats my skin In the death cell, a single note rings on and on and on
5.
The Funeral Party Two pale figures ache in silence Timeless in the quiet ground Side by side in age and sadness I watched and acted wordlessly As piece by piece you performed your story Moving through an unknown past Dancing at the funeral party Memories of children's dreams Lie lifeless Fading lifeless Hand in hand with fear and shadows Crying at the funeral party I heard a song and turned away As piece by piece you performed your story Noiselessly across the floor Dancing at the funeral party
6.
Doubt (XU) 03:13
DOUBT Stop my flight to fight And die And take a stand to change my life So savage with red desperation I clench my hands You draw your claws A hidden rage consumes my heart As fuelled by years of wasted time I close my eyes And tense myself And screaming Throw myself in fury over the edge And into your blood Tear at flesh And rip at skin And smash at doubt I have to break you Fury drives my vicious blows I see you fall but still I strike you Again and again Your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure And gone I stop and kneel beside you Drained of everything but pain Screaming throw myself in fury Over the edge and into your blood Kiss you once and see you writhe Hold you close and hear you cry Kiss your eyes and finish your life Finish your life Again and again Your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure And gone I stop and kneel beside you Knowing I’ll murder you again tonight
7.
THE DROWNING MAN She stands twelve feet above the flood She stares Alone Across the water The loneliness grows and slowly Fills her frozen body Sliding downwards One by one her senses die The memories fade And leave her eyes Still seeing worlds that never were And one by one the bright birds leave her Starting at the violent sound She tries to turn But final Noiseless Slips and strikes her soft dark head The water bows Receives her And drowns her at its ease Drowns her at its ease I would have left the world all bleeding Could I only help you love The fleeting shapes So many years ago So young and beautiful and brave Everything was true It couldn't be a story I wish it was all true I wish it couldn't be a story The words all left me Lifeless Hoping Breathing like the drowning man Oh Fushia You leave me Breathing like the drowning man Breathing like the drowning man
8.
FAITH Catch me if I fall I’m losing hold I can’t just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me… Suddenly I see you change Everything at once The same But the mountain never moves… Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There’s nothing left but hope… Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait… If only we could stay Please Say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand Lost forever in a happy crowd… No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better… I went away alone With nothing left But faith
9.
Instrumental
10.
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES The innocence of sleeping children Dressed in white and slowly dreaming Stops all time I slow my steps and start to blur So many years have filled my heart I never though I'd say those words Further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show The very first time I saw your face I thought of a song and quickly changed the tune The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story and rushed to reach the end too soon Oh remember Please don't change And so the fall came thirteen years A shiny ring and how I could forget your name The air no longer in my throat Another perfect lie is choked But it always feels the same So they close together Dressed in red and yellow Innocent forever Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms Still dream
11.
SPLINTERED IN HER HEAD Shape is still asleep with toys As tall as men the pictures in hallway turning inside Whispers unseen jumping against the sky Slipping away, he looks for the last time

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This album is a celebration of Faith, The Cure's third album, on its 40th anniversary. It is a tribute, it is a simple act of love for music, made by independent artists for independent people. Most of all, it is a FREE DOWNLOAD, so spread the word you Cure-heads! HAVE "FAITH".

COVER ART: FRANCESCO MAMMIFERO COSSU
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MASTERING BY CARLO CONEN
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“TIMELESS, IN THE QUIET GROUND” nasce come tributo al disco in occasione del suo quarantennale, ed è una rivisitazione integrale quasi interamente “made in Sardinia”, se si fa eccezione per band come Plaisir e The Cherry Pies, con base rispettivamente a Berlino e Torino, ma nelle cui line-up “scorre” comunque sangue sardo. Ma scomodando un altro classico…. “Oh well, whatever…. nevermind….”, fossimo stati malgasci sarebbe stato un tributo Made in Madagascar.

La scaletta del tributo si estende allo strumentale “Descent” (retro del 7” di “Primary”), al singolo “Charlotte Sometimes”, che seguì di qualche mese l’uscita di “Faith”, e alla sua b-side “Splintered in her head”

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released April 14, 2021

All songs by The Cure. Words and music by Smith/Tolhurst/Gallup.
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