LYRICS // Roots and Veins
Forever Gone // Shaun Bartlett
Life, what are you about and do I get to figure you out?
Me, a puppet on a string or something worth singing about?
Faith, I keep it in a jar, I keep it somewhere out of my way
because the demons, never very far, keep it hidden anyway
You and I will be forever, forever we’ll be gone
Our songs together, not to be unsung
Will you sing me when you see me never?
Time, echoes on a line giving me somebody’s idea
Thoughts make it to the mind, some of them covered in fear
And what about fate, are you any more than any other lottery show?
Am I a thread just aiming for the eye of the needle at the end of my road?
Will you forget me there?
Am I forgiven?
Do I run into luck?
Do I run out?
Is there some big idea that I’m not thinking clear?
Am I concluded or forever in doubt?
You and I will be forever in ways that we’ll be gone
You and I will be forever, forever we’ll be gone
Our songs together, not to be unsung
Will you sing me when you see me never?
We’ll be forever, forever we’ll be gone
Our songs together, not to be unsung
Will you sing me when you see me never?
I will sing you then and be forever
Divided by Light // Shaun Bartlett
Heaven is up there inside the mind
Memories keeping us alive
Some of us don’t know what to believe in
Most of us divided by a light
Divided by a light,
divided by a light
Dead and gone with no place to arrive
or are we gazing upon the sky from different sides?
Some of us with nowhere else to turn to
Left behind, divided by a light
Divided by a light,
divided by a light
Whatever Weather // Shaun Bartlett
Until the morning, my little one
Until the day has just begun
I hope you know that whatever weather comes
you hold within you the brightest sun
So, good night my everything
This day still needs some sinking in
Fall asleep now and let those dreams begin
where you are holding the brightest sun
You are holding the brightest sun
whatever weather comes
whatever weather comes
whatever weather comes
you hold within you the brightest sun
The Rising // Shaun Bartlett
Don’t you give up on your dreams
just because a little rain came over night
It’s how reality must sometimes look away
from those ideas that are too bright
Don’t you lose another vision or desire,
go ahead turn the other cheek
and make a promise not to hold against the world
any promises it can’t keep
The weather can change you on the inside
Sometimes it hits you like a meteor shower
from a big blue sky
and you go too many times underwater
looking for something on fire
Don’t you throw it all away
just because it didn’t turn out exactly right
Remember, things are hardly ever quite as bad as they appeared
in the first light
Don’t you run another mile in your skin, settle down,
maybe get some sleep
and make a promise not to hold against the world
any promises it can’t keep
The weather can change you on the inside
Sometimes it hits you like a meteor shower
from a big blue sky
Visions by the dozen, too many for anyone
It won’t be long before the rising sun
It won’t be long before the rising sun
It won’t be long before the rising
And you go too many times underwater
looking for something on fire
Too many times underwater
looking for something on fire
Too many times underwater
swimming away from any fire
Ghost Of Our Love // Shaun Bartlett
I came to this world
I came in peace with innocence, moving fast
Isn't it funny how memory works when the heart is broken,
beating for the past
If we wonder on these streets after we're dead and gone,
could only be that it's our love that never died
It's you and I
and the ghost
One day everything can change
but you still know what you knew
Isn't it funny how memory works when the heart is broken,
beating still for you
If we wonder on these streets after we're dead and gone,
could only be that it's our love that never died
And it's you and I
that I'm thinking of
It's you and I
and the ghost of our love
Sometimes awake from these broken dreams
Can't find my way through this heavy debris
Beautiful angel of gravity,
you've got me down
you've got me down on my knees
It's you and I
that I'm thinking of
It's you and I
and the ghost of our love
Love Can Wait // Shaun Bartlett
There used to be a fence around
a future seen as safe and sound
A family
then suddenly
a last goodbye to all of the above
except the lasting love of brothers
over oceans, overseas
Emotions over years behind
each lonely tear from mothers
and fathers
and sons
Ground full of roots
Body full of veins
Sky full of time
for everything to change
On a ground full of roots
in a body full of veins
Sky full of time,
sky full of time,
sky full of time
Love can wait
Not Your Kind // Shaun Bartlett
I am of humanity
I wake up every day
A rider in the cavalry
I want to get away,
so I get away
Some days the river runs wider
Other days twist shallow and narrow
Water falls too heavy to be denied
when I’m not your kind
Seven billion in the sea
of opinions and advice
on how to keep the sanity
when it turns to ice
when it turns to ice
Some days the river runs wider
Other days twist shallow and narrow
Water falls too heavy to be denied
when I’m not your kind
Many I have bid farewell
too sudden and too soon
Some in heaven, some in hell
Some under the moon,
some under the moon,
still under the moon
Some days the river runs wider
Other days twist shallow and narrow
Water falls too heavy to be denied
Some days the river runs wider
Other days twist shallow and narrow
Water falls too heavy to be denied
oh, when I’m not your kind
But keep me in mind
even when I' not your kind
even when I' not your kind