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Pale Moon
05:47
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There’s a wind in my heart
There’s a sword in the air, on the ocean
I lay down, waiting for someone to love
There’s a hand in the dark
There’s a voice in the room, in the morning
I lay down, waiting for something to come
Out of the burning home
Into the fading light
Under the pale moon.
O your clouds will come through the open door
From the feral night, from the idle shore
As the morning sun wakes the sleeping wolves
I’ll be in your room; I’ll be in your home.
My dear, I have been calling out your name
All to see, there will be blood on your hands and knees
O my heart, I have been drowning all these flames
As this ends, my eyes are covered by your hands
But the moon will rise again.
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Every House Is On Fire
04:28
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I heard your voice inside the room
And O my God, I know it’s coming soon
I called your name, I called on high
But only lonely echoes did reply
I won’t run, I won’t hide
In the dark of the night
Now I know, you were right
I’ll remain in the light of the sun.
I heard your voice inside the room
As all your storming clouds came in for you
I called your name, I called on high
But everybody’s houses are on fire
I won’t run, I won’t hide
In the dark of the night
Now I know, you were right
I’ll remain in the light of the sun.
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Idle Shore
03:58
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I wasn’t born
Into my own home
I was left to be alone
Into the night
Out of the known world
Right into the island’s eye
Can you hear the voices on the shore
Rising from the dirty ocean floor?
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In A Fog
05:32
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Say what you will or say what you want me to, I’m no prize
For craving your name in the skin over my eyes
I’ve got a hand or I’ve gotta hand it to your old friends
For being the light at the end of the beaches
There is a place O there is a place for me on this shore
Away from the flames that were burning me out before
Out of the night O out of the night I saw your clouds come in
Into the room were lights have begun to dim
In the center of that storm
Me and my brothers all were born
Into a fiery home
In the dream your altars rose
Above a sea of fog and smoke
Just like quiet echo
In the night I called your name
Into the forest’s glowing flame
Hoping to hear you say
“This is the place my heart had been
Before the mighty silver wind
Blew all of your black clouds in.”
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Arrow In The Sun
04:26
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A hand at dark
Reaches for my heart
To pull me in
But man, I will not give
To the roaring flame
Dancing high above our graves
Or to the royal blood
Of the ghost of God above.
A silver moon
Pulls your tides into
The island’s eye
But no, I will not climb
Up that mountain
Just to fire an arrow in the sun
Or to the water’s edge
Of an island.
A secret hymn
Your voice on the wind
Is in my head
But I will not depend
On a ferocious king
Inside the cloud of unknowing
Or on my trembling hands
For an arrow in the sun again.
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To dream of the sea
Where I’m washed to the shore
With the clouds coming in
Like the waters before
I lift up my voice
To the ruinous waves
For the lights that once shone
Are beginning to fade
October mirage
Is a sword in the air
Or a wind in my heart
On an evening prayer
I’ve said it before
And I’ll say it again
“Every house is on fire
Every light has gone dim.”
Fire the arrows in the air, O the air
At once, at last
To the places where my lover remains
Every ocean is the same.
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Say this for me, for I have been seized
A hand in the dark has a hold onto me
It's pulling me in, into that horrible sea
“All your clouds spring from the mouth
Of night, O of the night.”
Through the wind and the rain, I will carry you off in the aeroplane
Through the fire and flame, I will carry you off in the end
O will you wait for me after I disappear?
Or will you throw, will you throw all my ashes off of this pier,
O my dear?
I’ll make it out
From the flames that burn inside of this house
To the place that we are from
This city is an old black lung.
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Over Waves
04:52
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Old fiery home
Buried under the snow
I’m covered again
By the voice of a friend
O your tides have now come
To wash up my blood
That’s dried in the sun
O I’m afraid of this heart
I’m afraid of your ghost
I’m afraid of your love
Old watery realm
On a path for myself
I held up that blade
Over all of the waves
O your violent clouds
Are a wind in this house
Where your flames have gone out
O I’m afraid of this heart
I’m afraid of your ghost
I’m afraid of your love.
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Island Eyes Vancouver, British Columbia
Island Eyes is Vancouver, BC musician Derek Janzen. He has been quietly recording and releasing homemade music from out of
his bedroom since 2008.
Over the years he has played along side some great acts including Wolf Parade, Mount Eerie, Car Seat Headrest & Frog Eyes.
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