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No Peace For The Wicked L​.​P.

by James McKean and the Blueberry Moon

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1.
You can take it as read You can count down the days You can bury your head in the words you didn't say But in your little scarred heart Can you turn things around? Yes, I know what you've lost But do you know what you've found? Will you carry that cross (far, far away) Will you carry that cross (far, far away) Will you carry that cross - the love that you've lost 'Til you're silver city bound? I've been gathering dust Somewhere out in a dream I've been learning to trust If I know what that means But now I'm back at the start My ship's run aground You could glow in the dark, and still not see what you've found Will you carry that cross (far, far away) Will you carry that cross (far, far away) Will you carry that cross - the love that you've lost 'Til you're silver city bound?
2.
I've been trying to make a dream come true There's nothing that I wouldn't do But everything keeps going wrong No wonder I don't feel strong I cross my heart and hope to die As if I'd ever tell you lies I'm trying to make a dream come true What else can I do? Now, somewhere on the silver sands Far out in another land We're out beneath the stars so bright The stillness of a thousand nights And how we get there, who could know? But I know we don't have far to go I long to make your dreams come true I swear to God I do But still I don't know who I'm fighting Or if I'm ever going to win Through the mist and fog I wander Lord, take me somewhere I've been And how we get there, who could know? But I know we don't have far to go I long to make your dreams come true I swear to God I do
3.
Like a raven with its mind on fire I hurry up and down the land I keep looking for something in this dream of mine A paperback is in my hand Then I'll see you standing in the yard And soar up from a sea of lies I'm trying hard to reason as a child sees things Maybe that would be unwise Will you let the river answer? Will you let the river answer? Will you let the river answer? Will you be baptised? Now I'm chewing on the things you said And feeling like a grain of sand I guess there was a reason why things reached a head But clearly I don't understand So will you let the river answer? Will you let the river answer? Will you let the river answer? Will you be baptised?
4.
I was black and blue; so confused When you came upon my evening And the world stood still Where it stayed until my heart began to break Did I see you there, alone and scared? Did my mind project some meaning? Now these thoughts are mine, and all is fine Only never when I wake Hanging on my breath's a name I'd never dare to say again But still I try to put it all to tape Anyone can see that things are tougher than they need to be Take me to your dreams when sleep escapes I'd watch you sway, your perfect way 'Til your steps began to falter Now that world is lost, and our paths still cross But never so when sleep escapes
5.
I've been painting in caves since the dawning of time But still no peace I find With a heart on the staves and love in your eyes Still no peace I find I've been fighting the clock since I knew how to think But still no peace I find I've been searching for solace deep in a drink And still no peace I find Tell me, what you do when your dreams turn to dust? You try again, I suppose In a whirlpool of lies it's not easy to trust So I'll follow where the time goes I'm a face in the clouds, now, wouldn't you know? But still no peace I find When you've someone to turn to, but nowhere to go Still no peace you'll find So what you do when your dreams turn to dust? You try, try again, I suppose In a whirlpool of lies it's not easy to trust So I'll follow where my mind goes I've been painting in caves since the dawning of time But still no peace I find With my heart on the staves and love in your eyes Still no peace I find
6.
I became in a town on a river Was neither a boy nor a man Now I'm old, but I couldn't deliver No, nothing was quite as I planned Let me be borne and raised, up in a daze The blackest of thoughts on the darkest of days As we glide through the night it gets colder We're further from debts that we've paid I could carry the world on my shoulders Decisions leave me afraid Let me be borne and raised, up in a daze The blackest of thoughts on the darkest of days There are games we play, but music will save Lift me up high on the crest of a wave When I'm dead and down in my coffin Or flying as ash on the wind You can think of this song as an ending Or maybe a chance to begin Let me be borne and raised, up in a daze The blackest of thoughts on the darkest of days There are games we play, but music will save Lift me up high on the crest of a wave
7.
So far away from my secrets So misinformed is your smile So innocent, your reason So effortless, the trial I got nothing right when I was younger And I've nothing left now I'm old Will you take me back, to when we were huddled here in the cold? Where was the strength you were promised, And all the belief I had? And where should I turn for solace, When I know you're hurting bad? I got nothing right when I was younger And I've nothing left now I'm old Will you take me back, to when we were huddled here in the cold?
8.
We walk by the side of the river as the fleet leaves the harbour It's something to see In our scarves and coats we shiver, by your mother and father As you hold on to me There's blood on your knee, we've been climbing trees That always was you; too brave May sunbeams warm your heart I pray That sunbeams find you everyday When minutes feel like hours, don't you fray I'll guard your visions and dreams In the end we couldn't deliver, the spell that was on us It wasn't to be But I dreamt we were there in that river, the moonlight upon us As you hold on to me In the silvery blue, you were hungry too In the waters where we wade May sunbeams warm your heart I pray That sunbeams find you everyday When minutes feel like hours, don't you fray I'll guard your visions and dreams
9.
The Redeemer 02:35
I have no clothes I've barely eaten No one talks to me at all, But I get beaten I'm a stranger in the street, a stranger in the street I'm the redeemer Sure I get tired and I get lonely And, yes, I feel it in my bones when you disown me And it hurts me to the core It hurts me to the core of the redeemer When I look around sometimes, and I watch people live their lives Living lives they couldn't lead if it hadn't have been for me But do they know this? Do they even care? Well it hurts me to the core It really makes me sore So here I am I've been forsaken Now I'm weary to my soul, my body's aching I'm a stranger in the street, a stranger in the street I'm the redeemer I'm a stranger in the street, maybe someday soon we'll meet
10.
Lay down your heart And all your sorrows Lay down your heart And all your pain Lay down your heart I will follow To the dawn Through darkness and rain Among the mystic chords of memory Which stretch from field to field To the grave and yet In every beating chest will sing a chorus once again Lay down your heart And drown your sorrows Lay down your heart And all your pain Lay down your heart I will follow To the dawn Through darkness and rain Through darkness and rain For all the eyes upon your windowsill Your secret is safe with me To the grave and yet As sure as any bet, you'll turn to music once again Lay down your heart And all your sorrow Lay down your heart And all your pain Lay down your heart I will follow To the dawn Through darkness and rain To the dawn Through darkness and rain

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released March 25, 2016

Produced and arranged by Ross Palmer and James McKean
Engineered and mixed by Ross Palmer
Additional engineering by Jon Clayton at One Cat Studio, London
Mastered by Ben Zushi-Rhodes at Metropolis Studios, London
Cover drawing by Chloe Vallance
Design by Oliver Talkes and James McKean

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James McKean and the Blueberry Moon UK

James McKean is an Iranian-Englishman, born in Oxford and based in London.

The Blueberry Moon are:

Ross Palmer - Electric guitar
Matt Lloyd - Bass guitar
Jono Bell - Drums
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