Touching the Edge: Beggars Opera.
RGS 9475
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Another collection of surreal songs containing remasters of some older songs / new songs and Auschwitz.
...." here Gardiner's riffs often sound as urban as his late '70s work with Bowie and Pop. Thus, "Dancer In The Wind" sets the tone for a nervy trip, its raw funk bristling under Scott's indie-shaped voice, to crystallize in the majestic coldness of "Escalator Of Tall Stories"......."Frozen On An Eye" and the Eastern-flavored "I Lie There" are snowblindingly lyrical, while "Million Miles" hides a folky drone and light skank in its core. The resolve to such a crypticism comes with "Auschwitz" that seems to not belong here, but shows some strangely satisfying logic: recorded ten years earlier, the epic underlines the tragedy inherent to our times, yet from its progressive guitar flight and Dante's verses a ray of hope shines. The epitome of it is "River Over Me", sax-splashed and rocking, and it's easy to get along with the flow and touch the edge."
Let it Rock Dmitry Epstein.
2009.
Ricky Gardiner ; Guitars
Virginia Scott : Keys and Vox
Tom Gardiner: Drums
TOUCHING THE EDGE : LYRICS by Virginia Scott
MILLION MILES
Did you see her that day when I left you
Did you see what she could do to you?
I know you could show me even though
You never felt that it was true
I just changed and you didn't want to know
I ran, I ran a million miles to find you
When I saw that she was still there staring
At you with those eyes
Eyes of hyena wild and keen for the kill
I just cried to you in the night Ill never forget
I ran, I ran a million miles to find you
I littered my mind with conscientious thoughts of crime
And jealousy rose in a tempestuous confusion
Sharp incisions lasting in the pain of you.
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I WANTED TO TELL YOU
Sad words on the internet pages grey with lies
But who's out there reading them
When you wish it was no one
Cool head in the chaos don't die out in the tank
With soft illusion to the heart.
Wearing a sleeveless gown
Darting your precious silken hair
In the folds of a madder than rose love you knot
Mirror image
Mirror image on the wall
So long, not so long since I saw you exhibiting
A keen sense of self expression haunting for adoration
I wanted to tell you
I saw you arranging how time goes on
I think I believe you but I'm not so sure
Of this intractable love
It could have been easy
No way can I have you
The deep shadows are telling me.
This canvas like some bandages laid out in front of me
Stretching a soul out
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ATTRACTION GAZE
Will this necessarily combine into special feelings
I can not see I find it better not to think
It's worth just going for the experiential abrasion
Then it heals.
Beauty, animal.
No re appearance
No whisper in your ear
No hand on your leg
Where to be in case it attracts
Attraction gaze?
Utter face expression need appearance
Suggestion, extreme defense away
Pretend it's not there
But how you not do it when it's deep inside you
Let it turn
Song sense height activity
Lean over cliff edge ability
No combination, read the sign of coming in your eyes
Falling over the heels of wonder
Go forward walk into the desert
Fear doesn't mean you can't do it
Only that you still thinking
Climbing into the clear blue Dali sky
Anonymous shells try bells
Let it turn.
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FROZEN ON AN EYE
Those eyes see those sounds come
The cry in the dark in it's intensity wasn't even heard
Arrest this image frozen on an eye
Somewhere held in the palm of the overlooking standing in this space
And the eyes are telling me what
I don't want to know
Going to it all nothing can come of it
Sign side image rolling over the waves
Of the land and the waters of shore
Those eyes see those sounds come
Lapping into the bodies
Of all the dead memories
Left in shell bells of a love dream fantasia
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ESCALATOR OF TALL STORIES
Freak your self with a dose of Africa
Love the way you song to me
And priested my way with solemnly chosen words
And ways of lengthy introduction
That took my breath away
Entering my space so unobtrusively
As if you needed to be there
For you - only you
What comes on you, to look at me that way
When your so disquiet
But I couldn`t love you anyway
Yes, I could somehow look interested
But just for one day night
Don`t let this go up into the escalator of tall stories
It was that way, no frame day
So sing say everything I wanted
To drive on was in the automatic
What`s come on you, to look at me that way,
When your so disquiet
That I couldn`t love you any way
Yes, I could look somehow interested but
Just for one day -night
No, don`t let this go up into the escalator of tall stories
Quick cold mirror screen give me what you feel
I can`t help the sun it`s so blind
It can`t engage this driving in the dark
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DREAMTIME
Jimmy I'm sending you a picture come along with me
Craze me till the hills roll away with the mist song
Love you, love me with you're neat smile and your abandon
The vdu won't hit you 'cos you run too fast
Give me dream time
Hey look at you, look at me sing swimming and waving
At the clock radiation century glow
No information relay looking at the vdu injury
Creeping into electrical sensitivity
Give me dream time
Take over the screen you talk like an angel
Kiss me till your blue and don't revive me
Till dream time
The de-electrification of the 21st century
Is coming towards us
The angst crated and boxed to a pop-star far away
With long blond hair and the see through trousers
Leaping on our screen like a chinese dragon
Selling our song
Give me dream time
Love me all over magic all around you
In the love you make me feel hang it on the wall
Make me feel dream time
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I LIE THERE
Kissing you in the back of the world,
Loving you in the shades of my mind
Beautiful hands wonderful eyes
Looking to see if your looking at me.
No response in your calm
Till an ocean creates you.
I lie there I be you
Suckling on the tears of my fantasies.
Drawing breathe from these incredible suspicions
When I kissed your body and felt you smile
And the far away reality
Touching the edge
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DANCER IN THE WIND
I lied to you for I love you
I lied to you cos I wanted me to seem
Like a dancer in the wind
Edges, edges push me over into a sensational end
Caught in the surreal sorcery that
Was the sensational end
Always blind to the nocturnes and sky
Was the sensational end
Running wild to catch to be caught
Was the sensational end
Fear and nakedness torture trapped in love
Was the sensational end
Senseless paradise summerly closing
Was the sensational end.
Did you look at her?
Was she drawing you ?
Was she drawing you into her day ?
Cos you did it once before
Cos you found a lasting reason
It was all that you needed to do it once again
All those edges all these dances
Leading into the dark spite
Dozing in the stolen dreamer images of you
In the lie I told you
For I lied to you
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RIVER OVER ME
This is the end river over me
This is the end river over me
The rainbow of your lips is so soft and so sorrowful
Into my dreams in the storm of our love
Kisses are like energy communications
Transactions just for you
To love into dark dawn look to the sky star
The rainbow of your lips is so soft and so sorrowful
River of love sky of infinity
This is the end river over me
Up two down one close to the sun
Up two down one belonging to me
Up two down one close to the sun
I love the way you
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AUSCHWITZ: INSTRUMENTAL
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