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Here comes the storm
03:18
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Here comes the storm
I saw the old straw target has now grown green
They’re tearing down the archer’s house
He fought the war
He works the fields no more
He leaves with a wave of his hand
I saw the corn still stands in the cold grey field
Gulls chase a ten share plough
He was good enough to stand
For the brotherhood of man
Oh who will take a walk with me
And who will look after your children
It’s not new, everybody knew
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
I saw the birds on the highwire have no fear
If they fall then they fly
You can only run
And run like hell
You’ll never leave this world alive
I saw Jesus looking up from out of his grave
From his rest six feet down
He smiles and says
It’s too late for tears
You have destroyed your promised land
And who will look after your children
It’s not new, everybody knew
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
I saw the faithless run
To torture Galileo
With the price of everything
All this money and power
Won’t halt your final hour
Or the howling of the wind
And who will look after your children
It’s not new, everybody knew
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
Henry Sparks 2017
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Suzy and Bridey
04:38
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Suzy and Bridey
I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
Beware the hour of darkness
Beware the hour of need
Yonder comes the monkey
Tugging at my sleeve
I washed out the sheets
And the neveragain repeats
Look what you’ve done
It goes down from here
Suzy and Bridey hold the lemons for me
By next week this will all be history
The boys aren’t here, they gone to sea
And I’m going to be winning about eightyfive p
And I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
And I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
These years I have labored
Toiling in the mine
Scraping at these walls
Wasting away my time
I stumbled in the darkness
I could never walk the line
Lets get out of here
Lookslike this ships on fire
Suzy and Bridey hold the lemons for me
By next week this will all be history
The boys aren’t here, they gone to sea
And I’m going to be winning about eightyfive p
And I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
Suzy and Bridey hold the lemons for me
By next week this will all be history
The boys aren’t here, they gone to sea
And I’m going to be winning about eightyfive p
And I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
And I know I will, I know I will, and I know that I will.
Henry Sparks 2017
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Go you will go
05:11
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Go you will go...
It's so hard to say,
When I feel you pull away from my heart.
I felt that today
When I saw you fall away into the dark.
And I stood, and I stood,
And I stood quite still.
I felt your hand take my heart.
Go you will go,
How was I to know,
With my blessing on your head ,
You will go you will go.
I waved across the crowd,
Once there was nothing could keep us apart.
For once we were lovers,
I hear again that song of your heart.
And I fall, and I fall,
And I fall so far.
Hope flies from my hand.
Go you will go,
How was I to know,
With my blessing on your head ,
You will go you will go.
Go you will go,
How was I to know,
Slipping into memory,
Of years ago.
You will go.
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Sometimes she...
03:46
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Sometimes she
Sometimes she just breaks apart
Sometimes she needs another heart.
Sometimes she falls down and cries
If I had a pound for every road I’ve taken
Paths to hell and ways forsaken
I’d be rich way beyond compare
When it’s cold out side and it’s harsh and dark
I feel like the animals in Noah’s ark
Waiting for the sign but nothing’s coming soon
Too many miles across the sea
Too many years away from me
Too many lives too many faces gone
Sometimes she just breaks apart
Sometimes she needs another heart.
Sometimes she falls down and cries
I married for love and divorced in hatred
Lost a lover and now I’m a waitress
It’s eggs over easy from a heart that’s dying away
I subsist in the world of men
Empty promises but who knows when
Just how simple do you really think I am
Sometimes she just breaks apart
Sometimes she needs another heart.
Sometimes she falls down and cries
Too many miles across the sea
Too many years away from me
Too many lives too many faces gone
Don’t ever leave me all alone
Don’t ever leave and not come home
Don’t ever leave me all alone
Don’t ever leave and not come home
Don’t ever leave me all alone
Don’t ever leave and not come home
Henry Sparks 2017
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Visions of eden
04:10
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Visions of Eden
In this world of chaos
Time out of mind
In this hell we have created
In the name of mankind
And I want to swim with the Dolphins
I want to sail this crazy sea
Sing from tree to tree
With leaves where leaves should be
But that's all just the dream in my heart
It is these visions of Eden that stop me going insane
It is these visions of Eden that help me conquer pain
It is these visions of Eden that help me get up again
We have driven down the road
Which every body knows
It's a one way ticket
To the land where nothing grows
And we have our new heroin
We have our new dearth
And all the former reason
Is gone with the earth
And I want to swim with the Dolphins
I want to sail this crazy sea
Sing from tree to tree
With leaves where leaves should be
But that's all just the dream in my heart
It is these visions of Eden that stop me going insane
It is these visions of Eden that help me conquer pain
It is these visions of Eden that help me get up again
Henry Sparks 1989
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The great white queen
05:20
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The roads of liberty
04:30
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The Roads of Liberty
Jeanette has gone to Florida
Her sister she just shot herself
Her sister she just shot herself
She just stepped off the edge of the world
In this land of cars and gasoline
In this land of cars and gasoline
And we never take the time
To find out why
It’s so hard to get by with a name like Bernadette
It’s so hard to get by with a name like Bernadette
This country is bleak this country is wide
It’s just another suicide
It’s just another suicide
Here in the land of the free and strong
Behind the bars of liberty
Behind the bars of liberty
One thousand miles
Is a long way home
A voice on the phone is telling me Jeanette is gone
A voice on the phone is telling me Jeanette is gone
There’s miles and miles of bowties and cameras
Miles and miles of snowhite blindness
There’s miles of human conditional land
I thought as I saw the sign post for Saginaw
All of the dreams I hoped and I longed for
Where, Where the hell is America now?
Of sympathy there is no trace
In the masses crawling on their knees
In the masses crawling on their knees
To gaze at the holy picture gold
Tramping down the old and incompetent
Tramping down the old and incompetent
Compassion is a world
That raised a fool like me
The roads of liberty are burning around my shoes
The roads of liberty are burning around my shoes
The roads of liberty are burning around my shoes
The roads of liberty are burning around my shoes
Liberty burning around my shoes
Liberty burning around my shoes
Liberty burning around my shoes
Liberty burning around my shoes Henry Sparks 2017
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Henry Sparks Canterbury, UK
HENRY SPARKS lives in England, plays guitar, writes and sings songs.
His music is informed by experience as
a farm hand, pizza slinger, carpenter, architect and lecturer.
Folk - English and American - and a fascination with song-writing have driven his playing and creativity. He now makes music locally with Canterbury legends The Country Counts, and plays in or out at any opportunity.
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