Albertine

Brooke Fraser Albertine歌詞
1.Shadowfeet

Walking,stumbling on these shadowfeet
toward home,a land that i've never seen
I am changing:less and less asleep
made of different stuff than when i began
and i have sensed it all along
fast approaching is the day

when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

Theres distraction buzzing in my head
saying in the shadows it's easier to stay
but I've heard rumours of true reality
whispers of a well-lit way

when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

You make all things new

when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
Every fear and accusation under my feet
when time and space are through
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
I'll be found in you
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you
when time and space are through

I'll be found in you


2.Deciphering Me

Friend, it's getting late
We should be going

We've been sat here beneath
these flickering neons for hours

while I am cracking their cracking,
you are deciphering me
for i am a mystery,
I am a locked room in a tall tower

Oh can you feel the gravity falling,
calling us home?
Oh, did you see the stars colliding,
shining just to show we belong?

Your telescope eyes see everything clearly
My vision is blurred
but i know what i heard echoing all around
while I am tuning you in,
you are deciphering me
not such a mystery,
not such a faint in a far away sound

Oh can you feel the gravity falling,
calling us home?
Oh, did you see the stars colliding,
shining just to show we belong?

It's love, it's love that holds us
We will be alright
It's truth, it's truth that shows us
If we'll walk in it's (his) light

It's love, it's love that holds us
We will be alright
It's truth, it's truth that shows us
If we'll walk in it's (his) light

Oh can you feel the gravity falling,

calling us home?
Oh, did you see the stars colliding,
shining just to show we belong?

Oh can you feel the gravity falling,
calling us home?
Oh, did you see the stars colliding,
shining just to show we belong?
Oh can you feel the gravity falling,
calling us home?
Oh, did you see the stars colliding,
shining just to show we belong?


3.Love,Where is Your Fire

Love, where is your fire?
I've been sitting here smoking away
making signals with sticks
and odd ends and bits,
but there's no sign of a flame
Imposters have been passing,
offering good-feeling glow
but I'm holding out for waht you are about
an inferno that burns to the bone
some urge me to be temperate,
lukewarm will never do

'Cos I, I wanna (know I'll) blaze with you
So i'm holding my heart out to you
Holding my heart out

Brooke Frase-Love, Where is Your Fire

So I stand, handing out torches
speaking words that are lamps to their feet
Til the tine when you come an I'm whole
and we are one and the fire in me is complete
Some tell me to be moderate
but lukewarm will never do

'Cos I, I wanna (know I'll) blaze with you
So i'm holding my heart out to you
Holding my heart out

Then a doubt comes to lie at the back of my mind
That I'll offer you me and you'll politely decline
(no thank you)
So i hasten to mute it,
I'll shout and rebuke it - 'away!'

'Cos I, I wanna (know I'll) blaze with you
So i'm holding my heart out to you

'Cos I, I wanna (know I'll) blaze with you
So i'm holding my heart out to you

Holding my heart out

Brooke Frase-Love, Where is Your Fire


4.Love is Waiting

In the autumn on the ground,
between the traffic and the ordinary sounds
I am thinking signs and seasons
while a north wind blows through
i watch as lovers pass me by
Walking stories - whos and hows and whys
Musing lazily on love
Pondering you
I'll give it time,
give it space and be still for a spell
When it's time to walk
that way we wana walk it well

I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be holding back the darkest night
Love is waiting til we're ready,
til it's right

Love is waiting

It's my caution not the cold
there's no other hand that i would rather hold
the climate changes,
im singing for the strangers about you
dont keep time, slow the pace
Honey hold on if you can
the bets are getting surer now
that you're my man

I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be holding back the darkest night
Love is waiting til we're ready,
til it's right

I could right a million songs
about the way you say my name
I could live a lifetime with you
and then do it all again
and like I can't force the sun to rise
or hasten summer's start,
neither should I rush my way into your heart

I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be holding back the darkest night
Love is waiting til we're ready,
til it's right

Love is waiting


5.Albertine

I am sitting still
I think of Angelique
her mothers voice over me
And the bullets in the wall
where it fell silent

And on a thousandth hill,
I think of albertine
there in her eyes what
i dont see with my own

rwanda

now that i have seen,
I am responsible
Faith without deeds with dead
now that i have held you in my own arms,
I cannot let go till you are

I am on a plane across a distant sea
But i carry you in me
and the dust on, the dust on,
the dust on my feet

Rwanda

now that i have seen,
I am responsible
Faith without deeds with dead
now that i have held you in my own arms,
I cannot let go till you are

I will tel the world,
I will tell them where i've been

I will keep my word
I will tell them albertine

now that i have seen,
I am responsible
Faith without deeds with dead
now that i have held you in my own arms,
I cannot let go till you are

I am on a stage,
a thouand eyes on me
I will tell them, Albertine


6.C.S. Lewis Song

If i find in myself desires
nothing in this world can satisfy,
I can only conclude
that I was not made for here
If the felsh that i fight is at best
only light and momentary,

then ofcourse I'll feel nude
when to where I'm destined I'm compared

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me

Am i lost or just found?
On the straight or on the roundabout of the wrong way?
is this a soul that stirs in me,
is it breaking free, wanting to come alive?

Cos my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
An avoid the impending birth of
who I was born to become
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me


For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath,
so we better breathe it
And I, I was made to live,
I was made to love,
I was made to know you

Hope is coming for me

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan
as I wait for hope to come for me


7.Epilogue

Instrumental


8.Faithful

There's distance in the air
and I cannot make it leave
i wave my arms' round about me
and blow with all my might
I cannot sense you close,
though I know you're always here
But the comfort of you near is what i long for

When I can't feel you,
I have learned to reach out just the same
When I can't hear you,
I know you still hear everyword I pray
And i want you more than i want to live another day
And as I wait for you maybe I'm made more faithful

All the folly of the past,
though I know it is undone
i still feel the guilty one,
still trying to make it right
So i whisper soft your name,
let it roll around my tounge,
knowing you're the only one who knows me
You know me

When I can't feel you,
I have learned to reach out just the same
When I can't hear you,
I know you still hear everyword I pray
And i want you more than i want to live another day
And as I wait for you maybe I'm made more faithful

Show me how I should live this
Show me where I should walk
I count this world as loss to me
You are all I want

When I can't feel you,
I have learned to reach out just the same
When I can't hear you,
I know you still hear everyword I pray
And i want you more than i want to live another day
And as I wait for you maybe I'm made more faithful


9.Seeds

Night
Field of stars above us
You pick one,
we frame it with our fingers intertwined
Seeds of every generation between our hands
And the promise to teach you the little
i have learned so far

Child
What will you live to do?
What have i left for you?
What will we leave behind?

You
Learning as you're growing,
not yet knowing the world isn't always
quite as beautiful as it is now

is it the night

Child
What will you live to do?
What have i left for you?
What will we leave behind?

Child
What will you live to do?
What have i left for you?
What will we leave behind?


Night
Field of stars above us
I pick one and name it for you
and all who are to come


10.Hosea's Wife

I just spoke silence with the seeker next to me
She had a heart with hesitant, halting speech
That turned to mine and asked belligerently:
'What do I live for?'

I see the scars of searches everywhere I go
From hearts to wars to literature to radio
There's a question like shame no one will show:
'What do I live for?'

We are Hosea's wife
We are squandering this life
Using people like ladders
and words like knives

If we've eyes to see
If we've ears to hear
To find it in our hearts and mouths,
the word that saves is near
Shed that shallows skin
Come and live again
Leave all you were
To believe is to begin

There's truth in little corners of our lives
There are hints of it in songs and childrens eyes
It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby
What do i live for?

We are Hosea's wife
We are squandering this life
Using bodies like money and truth like lives

If we've eyes to see
If we've ears to hear
To find it in our hearts and mouths,
the word that saves is near
Shed that shallows skin
Come and live again
Leave all you were
To believe is to begin

We are more than dust
That means something
We are more than blood and emotions,
inklings and notions, atoms on oceans

We are Hosea's wife
We are squandering this life
Using people like ladders
and words like knives

If we've eyes to see
If we've ears to hear
To find it in our hearts and mouths,
the word that saves is near
Shed that shallows skin
Come and live again
Leave all you were
To believe is to begin

If we've eyes to see
If we've ears to hear
To find it in our hearts and mouths,
the word that saves is near
Shed that shallows skin
Come and live again
Leave all you were
To believe is to begin

To believe is to begin


11.The Thief

Your eyes are full
Full of the future of us
The air changes as you look across
At me in that wondering way

It is as if
I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Converging, conspiring, without giving us any say

You sing me to sleep
Talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to

You're ruining me
With secrets and gestures and looks
With sonnets in second-hand books
Playing the chords in me nobody knew how to play


You sing me to sleep
Talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to

It fits in your hand like the water in rain
Unlocks our two different selves
And shows we are the same
Rather than wait til I
Put me out for the taking
You're breaking
You're breaking into my heart
and I'm letting you


Your eyes are full
Full of the future of us...


12.Hymn

If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather
'til I only dwell in Thee?

If I flee from greenest pastures
Would you leave to look for me?
Forfeit glory to come after
'Til I only dwell in Thee


If my heart has one ambition
If my soul one goal to seek
This my solitary vision
'til I only dwell in Thee
That I only dwell in Thee
'Til I only dwell in Thee