snakes & ladders cd cover



'snakes & ladders', ostensibly an accoustic 4 song demo to get my sorry ass some gigs,  was recorded in September '99.  It was recorded by Brad Armstrong at 'Home Cookin' and was mixed by Nik and Brad.  Neil Gardiner layed down the trombone on 'Beauty Rises' and Allan Davis did all the percussion on the same tune.  Special special thanks to my dear dear bro James who put up the cash for the recording!
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MP-3s

Not in Kansas

No Denying


Apocalypso

Beauty Rises






Not in Kansas

Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Hurricane came tearing down
and sucked me out of my back door.

Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
No ground under my feet,
the carpet's pulled out from the floor.

Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Something tells me
I'm not in Kansas anymore.
Eve you got suckered by that snake,
now behind there's a flaming sword.

Well I'm whirling round and round,
yeah whirling round and round.
Whirling round and round,
yeah whirling round and round.
No ground, I've got no ground,
 yeah I'm whirling round and round.
I'm on the back of a snail shell
spyring in towards the core.

Something tells me
I'm in the land of Nod.
Something tells me
I'm in the land of Nod.
Wandering through each landscape
between hell and kingdom come.

Well I'm dancing on the waves, up and down,
I'm dancing on the waves, in and out.
Assymetrical symmetry, disordered order, I'm dancing on the waves.
Well don't get settled in 'cause this is no place to stay,
but you can't get away, either.

Something tells me we couldn't stay in Kansas, anymore.
Something tells me we couldn't, no we couldn't stay.
Eve knew we had to leave that place
and set out for the other shore.
 

 

 




Beauty Rises


Strange and unexpected as I climbed higher the ladder of the gyre
It wasn't brighter but darker.
Strange and unexpected that as I strove towards
the cool clear detached immortal ether
I burned alive on fire,
Burned alive on fire…

He said that such bloodless ecstasy was too easy,
Anyone can climb high and far away,
You're climbing not because you love me,
But because you don't like to bleed,
You don't like to bleed…

The coiled ladder collapsed, unwound,
and I plummeted headlong to the ground,
and from the broken bones and shards he taught me a truth,
that beauty only rises from your cracks and wounds,
beauty only rises from your cracks and wounds…
beauty only rises from your cracks and wounds…
 











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