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Square Moon

by The Crimea

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1.
Believe in me, I believe in you. Try to stay alive The ghost of me, the ghost of you. Walking side by side You can cry all night, You can cry all night Sun still gonna come up in the morning time Petals open when reached by sunlight You can cry all night, You can cry all night Sun still gonna come up in the morning time Petals open when reached by sunlight I seek no evil, hear no evil Release me from this comedy of errors I want no trouble, seek no trouble The hand of Maradona strikes again Petals open when reached by sunlight
2.
The first leaves of autumn have fallen from space The nicotine stains Carved into my memory To your strange ways, I swore allegiance Keep travelling east so it never goes dark Follow your heart Wherever ever the damn thing goes I'm sorry, Just don't wanna be alone Ten thousand years of solitude I'm better with you, I'm better without you Be my lover Last night I dreamed we could taste victory Close to heaven, on earth heaven Last night I dreamed we were passengers on The last plane, out of Saigon
3.
Jellyfish 03:38
We speak a language no one else understands Have conversations in silence You talk to me using telepathy Then one day you stopped smiling Go back to the start Don't forget your broken heart It’s gathering dust Beneath the pawnshop counter In the twinkle of an eye disaster strikes again Always trouble in our paradise I was a jellyfish washed up on the sand Of your desert island Starved of oxygen, surrounded by oxygen I'll never see the ocean again Your eyes tell me all Your lips are too scared Your Paddington bear I was your dentist’s chair In the twinkle of an eye disaster strikes again Always trouble in our paradise For you I'd leave my body For you I'd leave my body Always trouble in our paradise Always trouble in our paradise
4.
Summer didn't stick around, To see the ship it launched go down Summer didn’t stick around, To see the ship it launched go down without a trace sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro Time, waits for no one Time, stands still for no one I was only nineteen Caught in a dream Telling anyone who'll listen I got something That no one else has That no one else believes That no one else can see But me Winter wouldn’t go away The Hudson River a skating rink Winter stuck around for centuries The cold was creeping from within our bones, Occupied our souls sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro sin a riss im bo as am bos im ro Time, waits for no one time ,stands still for no one I was only nineteen caught in a dream tellin anyone who'll listen I got something that no one else has that no one else believes that no one else can see but me Winter in my bones The old enemy Listen to seashells They know everything Bloodlines splintering Hurricanes coming Dream of emptiness Through the centuries White noise frenzy Watch the summer rain Disappear again I was only nineteen Caught in a dream
5.
By the grace of god we can sing By the grace of god we’ve got Martin Luther-King By the grace of god we are free By the grace of god we can live our wildest dreams I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll learn to laugh again I know it’s hard to imagine but our stars will cross again If I see my reflection one more time Fall asleep Dream of Caroline By the grace of god we have life By the grace of god we were born at the same time By the grace of god you were sent By the grace of god we can walk through walls again I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll learn to laugh again I know it’s hard to imagine but we’ll fall in love again If I see my reflection one more time Fall asleep Dream of Caroline Somehow
6.
Man stands Desolate Lonely as a cloud All his far-flung fantasies gone When they ripped it out When they ripped it out Climb the tallest tree Watch the bloody Mary sunset Cascade across the city Where hope has been switched off Like a fucking television, You’re still out there I don't know where But it’s killing me Every second it's killing me But behind the forced smile I was only flesh and bone to you And I will never walk up those stairs again And I will never walk up those stairs again We could go anywhere Even the stars The only living boy And only living girl And I will always be haunted by that moment Woke up and she was gone I'm not angry I'm just sad Cannot stand this planet When I was a kid I used to think everything would be ok Now I walk down the street I want to chop the head off every person I see If this is it If this all there is I don't want to play anymore The bandstand burns tonight And I'm going up with it Don’t believe in waking up each day Don’t believe in playing this game Don’t believe the written prophecies Don’t believe in my own destiny Don’t believe in miracles Strange things just happen There are no such things just happen There’s no such thing as miracles But I’ll walk up those stairs again We could go anywhere Even the stars The only living boy And only living girl We could be Adam and eve Rulers of the earth When I was in your arms The whole wide world melted away
7.
Summer evening Golders Green Held you close for what seemed Like an eternity I still go there in my dreams Still see you turning cartwheels In endless circles You were always the brightest kid in school Alison, Alison, Alison God knows what they've done to you Alison, Alison, Alison We were invincible back then Sunday morning, London Bridge Lost souls collided, the whole world vanished I still go there in my dreams Still find your fingerprints All across my skin You were always the brightest kid in school Alison, Alison, Alison God knows what they've done to you Alison, Alison, Alison We were invincible back then Broken, Broken, Broken, Broken You never smile for the camera You never smile for the camera You never smile for the camera You never smile for the camera
8.
Our chance lies buried with the dinosaur bones With the reluctant heroes and the moving statues Our chance lies destined for the ocean floor With the men overboard and the shopping trolleys I am a psychologist to the psychologists I am the silver moon, friend of the stars I am not the chosen one I can only do miracles when I‘m drunk I'm not the world’s funniest clown but I know how to make you laugh Our chance lies destined for the cutting room floor With the forgotten lines and the bits that weren’t funny Our chance concertinaed on the hard shoulder With the record players and the pen and paper I am a psychologist to the psychologists I am the silver moon, friend of the stars I am not the chosen one I can only do miracles when I’m drunk I'm not the world’s funniest clown But I know how to make you laugh We’ve all got our sleeping giants Vicious streaks we hide It’s always the quiet ones Einsteins in disguise I am a psychologist to the psychologists I am the silver moon, friend of the stars I am not the chosen one I can only do miracles when I’m drunk I'm not the world’s funniest clown But I know how to make you laugh
9.
Sanctus , sanctus dei Kyrie et sanctus dei Gloria domine Libere me domine This Hannibal Lecter Just crying out to be held Agnus agnus dei Hosanna in excelcis Keeps me walking through the streets at night Searching eyes for you halogen spotlights Keeps me walking through the streets at night If I live to be nine hundred and ninety nine Take me to the moon On your witches broom I’ll ride shotgun for your On your witches broom Verbe et gal aux tres aux Nous ranqons les silences Dissipes les someeille Nous ranqons les silences This burning ambition The strength to carry on Nous ranqons les silences Hosanna in excelcis Keeps me walking through the streets at night Searching eyes for you halogen spotlights Keeps me walking through the streets at night If I live to be nine hundred and ninety nine Take me to the moon On your witches broom I’ll ride shotgun for you On your witches broom I’ll be watching over you On our mission to Leave the crazies to Their sudoku There’s a person hiding in there Just crying out to be held
10.
Shredder 03:42
The tap still drips. The cactus dies Consciences bounce off satellites The spider still hangs inside the brass church bell Because the flies are attracted to the blood of Christ Still talk with a lisp, Smoke 40 a day Can’t think of what to say, ‘Til three days later When the moments passed Sailed into the sunset Drunk at the wheel of the Mary Celeste And your head Falls off like a coconut I was a prisoner At the mercy of impossible dreams My heart still screams for a human Human being Lost in your gaze, King’s Cross station Where boy meets girl Clash of titans Going thru the shredder Positive equals negative Life owes no favours and I ask for none But I lost the battle for your funny looks A torn out page in your history book All the hairs on the back of my neck stand up When I walk through the valley of your vampire love Synchronized swimming with meaningless words Cleverly disguised as the secret of the universe Dying in the arms of a praying mantis Hidden in the body of a Greek goddess I was a prisoner At the mercy of impossible dreams My heart still screams for a human Human being Lost in your gaze King’s Cross station Where boy meets girl Clash of titans Going thru the shredder If only they could speak But no one heard their screams Front London to eternity Between this world and the next You’ll never be eclipsed From London to the unwritten Lost in your gaze, Kings cross station Where boy meets girl Clash of titans Going thru the shredder
11.
Lightning strikes the elephants Beijing morning, fifteenth December I was cold and I was naked Were you there, were you anywhere Snow falls on the desert sand Love remains mystery You can star in My side of the mountain The sun goes down the last time You can star in My movie You can hear the whales singing If you listen underwater On the cliff top, I was waiting Did you care, were you ever there Snow falls on the desert sand Love remains mystery You can star in Way over the horizon The hands of god don't stretch that far You can star in My movie You can star in, you can star in, our movie You can star in, play the heroine, in our movie You can star in, you can star in, our movie You can star in; play the heroine, in our movie We're on the road to Damascus now You and me in the final scene Standing under the rain machine We're on the road to Damascus now Through the sea of tranquility Standing under the rain machine We're on the road to Damascus now You and me in the final scene Standing under the rain machine We're on the road to Damascus now You and me in the final hour You and me in the final hour
12.
Beehive mind 03:20
The lion tamer’s irresistible whisper, the pantomime villain, is only a kitten The beckoning voices at sixes and sevens, all tomorrows mysteries written in her lipstick The flower that cannot blossom, grows at the bottom, of the mid Atlantic valley, in the mid Atlantic ocean
 Waits for that moment when the whirlpools above it, and a tunnel of light, forms clear to the sky Baby you’re the meeting of the Nile and the Amazon You are the point of no return The greatest of them all Victoria falls falling over Niagara Falls You are the honey You are the honey In my beehive mind The penniless orphan, now entering orbit, the sherbet fountains, the candy floss clouds The sugar capped mountain, the chocolate ocean, swimming with dolphins, we bleed serotonin There was a scarecrow, on a barren hillside, and I’ll wait here ‘til I die, or my conscience springs to life When the last man standing, has stood on a landmine, and a tunnel of light, forms clear to the sky Baby you’re the meeting of the Nile and the Amazon You are the point of no return The greatest of them all Victoria falls falling over Niagara Falls You are the honey You are the honey In my beehive mind
13.
When I woke up this morning there was blood on my hands There’s a look in your eye that could start Vietnam Rain is falling but there isn’t a cloud in the sky Watch the pink flamingos go in search of summertime Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer UFOs can have outer body experiences The river of life, I saw the river of life Within those fuck-me eyes Imagined orchestras dictate the music of our hearts Trembling in unison, echo back from the stars Smile if you love winter, making angels in the snow Each unique flake a miracle, a fragment of our souls Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer UFOs can have outer body experiences The river of life, I saw the river of life Within those fuck-me eyes There’s a place for people like you Called last in the human race Seek and destroy all you hold close to your Heart held together by sellotape That’s my boy follow the trickle of blood That’s my boy follow the river of pain Only Ghosts can have mid air collisions Christmas cracker jokes worn, cigarette paper thin This is my ultimatum to Laura Palmer UFOs can have outer body experiences The river of life, I saw the river of life Within those fuck-me eyes
14.
Girl I love only you, in the battle of hearts and minds, just you But we couldn’t sing in tune, shattered glass, cleared the room, Just you We stand alone at the end of it all A stone’s throw from Nirvana Ever since you went away The world will never be the same They sent an army for you They named a street after you, just you Girl I hunger for only you In the battle of hearts and minds, just you We stand alone at the end of it all A stones throw from Nirvana Ever since you went away The world will never be the same And I waited outside all night in the rain, but you never came back, so I waited again And I waited like a handprint, waited like a headstone, waited like a cactus, waited like a broken home Waited for the sun like a midwinter dawn and I saw your face on a milk carton And you looked real young, like you’d never hurt anyone I waited through the storm and I waited through the fire Waited eight miles high just to stay alive And I waited as the crows peck out my eyes And the bluebottles swarm, and their children are born And I wait ‘til my bones bleach white in the sun And I waited as Santa Anna whistles through my rib cage Scorpions hide in side my broken elevator Outside all night in the rain, ‘til my dying day I’ll wait again We stand alone at the end of it all Have symbiotic existence Ever since you went away The world will never be the same
15.
Stop When the music dies we stop Smoke hangs like a cloak over the city As silence rolls in from the sea Small wonder your eyes turn misty When you think of the years that you lost They said, that you were protected from above, But this isn't Hollywood Then they found parts of you all over London The last of the mojitos Volcanoes grows tentacles Mountains become islands In the shadows of her shadow Little changes from year to year, for lovers of the disappeared Just can’t imagine a tomorrow, on the sunny side of sorrow Where were the architects of our destruction, where was the silent revolution Where was crime scene investigation, when we were sucked into the escalator Last thing I remember was falling down stairs Still doing handbrake turns in my dreams, wondering How come the gods are all at Martha’s vineyard now When we've fallen asleep at the wheel There’s this smouldering vacuum where tomorrow was for one night only, the universe is ours From the rings of Jupiter to Hollywood Boulevard Baby tonight we are fucking in the stars The last of the mojitos The future becomes impossible Oceans unite as one In the shadow of her shadow Little changes from year to year, for lovers of the disappeared Just can’t imagine a tomorrow, on the sunny side of sorrow Where were the architects of our destruction, where was the silent revolution Where was crime scene investigation, when we were sucked into the escalator Together, together, together, together Together, together, together, together Together we will shatter on the rocks far below Together we can make it into Madame Tussaud’s Where was Howlin Wolf, where was sitting bull, where were the gods of the sun and the moon Where was Krishna, where were the Kray twins, where were Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra Where was Nostradamus and the headless horseman, your gentle love in the fragile morning The ugly ducklings and the screaming orphans, where were their fathers and there fathers before them Where was Blackbeard and the skull and crossbones where was Chaplin, where was Sherlock Holmes,,, Where was Zorro and the man from del Monte, where was Mr. Miyagi and the dead poets society Together we are greater than the second coming Together we are greater than the fire of London Together we will climb the devil’s staircase Together we will enter, smokers’ paradise
16.
Shoelaces 03:19
For all the world to see From dusk to dawn you count along The speaking clock on speakerphone Can’t live on lucky strike and lucky strike alone You can’t play scissor paper stone on your own You were just goin through the motions Couldn't even tie your own shoe laces The door to your cage was open But you were too scared to fly out, and away All day every day the fat lady sings One arm tied on with a piece of string Girl you’ll be a woman before you can count to ten You can’t make little rabbits on the wall, when the night falls You were just goin through the motions Couldn't even tie your own shoe laces The door to your cage was open But you were too scared to fly out, and away Spell out her name in the clouds, Aeroplane, aeroplane Spell out her name in the clouds, Aeroplane, aeroplane For all the world to see
17.
Someone switch the moonlight on In the graveyard, the graveyard of champions tonight Nine lives lost in the battle for life There’s a threatening sky, a threatening sky above the world tonight If you think that this is the end If you think you have reached happiness At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence This woman I love, this woman I trust Just can’t be apart You were a black belt in breaking hearts Any fool can make the connection You were a weapon of mass destruction You were a black belt in breaking hearts You were the moment of impact I am the silver dust you scratch off the losing ticket You tasted just like victory Rocky three, rocky three, sweet hill sixteen If you think that this is the end If you think you have reached happiness At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence This woman I love, this woman I trust Just can’t be apart You were a black belt in breaking hearts Any fool can make the connection You were a weapon of mass destruction You were a black belt in breaking hearts At the end of the rainbow, there’s a barbed wire fence, No no On that hill in cowboy heaven That’s where I’ll wait for you Where we used to lie and watch the ocean Swallowing the sun like a sidewalk magician That’s where ill wait for you When the jukebox plays our favourite tune That’s where ill wait for you Yesterdays long gone Someone switch the moonlight on
18.
There's a battle we once fought, our Stalingrad The moment when my lips, touched your lips But we don't talk about that now, our Nazareth The moment when my kiss, found your kiss It doesn't take a scientist To figure out No-one loves the boy who cried wolf now Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way Here's hopin, we live to fight another day On the cliff above Brighton beach, you frightened me The moment when my love, reached your love All our Eastern promises, turn to cosmic dust The moment when my blood, touched your blood It doesn't take a scientist To figure out No-one loves the boy who cried wolf now Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way Here's hopin, we live to fight another day Tete a tete Breath to breath Jesus wept Insanity crept From belly to belly From death to glory Sid to Nancy Johnny to June Nightingale to Siegfried Sassoon Matching tattoos to jealous moon Army of me to army of you Eternal youth to eternal youth Chainsmoking, chainsmoking, chainsmoking, chainsmoking Cause there’s no one else like you in the world All I wanna do is cry cry cry, Oh oh o ho oh Cause there’s no one else like you in the world All I wanna do is cry cry cry, Oh oh o ho oh Only Judas, can save us from everything we've done Here's hopin, we live to see the rising sun, only Judas loves you, I'm sorry it happened this way Here's hopin, we live to fight another day
19.
Millionaire 02:57
You could be a millionaire Just take a bath and cut your hair You could be a millionaire Better wake up now, sleepyhead You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand The tree where we carved our names, is all that remains You could be a millionaire Just brush your teeth and say your prayers You could be a millionaire A circle in a world of squares You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand The tree where we carved our names, is all that remains We could be millionaires We could be millionaires You're always gonna be there, a space invader in my hula hoop head I'll always be your milky bar kid, your desert island disc Just as long as the big hand, chases the little hand In heaven or on terra firma, we lost the argument
20.
Goldmine 03:41
There’s a square moon in the sky tonight There’s a ghost train with your name in lights There’s a dark past catching up with you There’s a boomerang you've forgotten you once threw You kiss me like a Hollywood movie you kiss me We make love in the forest while the trees slow dance above us I return there, I return alone to the scene of our euphoria Desecration, emptiness, loneliness cuts like a chainsaw This one for the fat and the ugly This one goes out to all the nobodies Lost souls, weirdos and frankensteins We are standing on a fucking goldmine There are sharks coming from miles around There are big cats on your paper round There’s a town called nobody cares for you There’s a victory parade waiting there for you Earth calling, is there anyone, we just got out we just got born Before my eyes, like Lazarus, you disappear, you turn to dust I never knew such nothingness, tyrannosaurus nothingness Just take me now, just call my bluff, I've seen too much, I've seen enough This one for the fat and the ugly This one goes out to all the nobodies Lost souls, wierdos and frankensteins We are standing on a fucking goldmine
21.
That girl she hated the telephone Smashed it off the wall like it was her kid brother The endless voices, stolen kisses, like desert orchids You were all my Christmases As long as there’s still blood in my veins I’ll tear down mountains ‘Til I reach your mountain of strange You’ll never fall asleep with your head on my chest again I promise that Ill wave to you When I’m going round the bend Butterfly wings Stagger drunk in the halogen Moonlight in the The lost cities of your caress The unexplained mysteries There’s a stranger in your favourite jeans There was a signpost pointing to the sky Ill never reach your dizzy heights Not in a thousand lifetimes The endless winters in the whites of your eyes There was a signpost pointing to the sky Butterfly wings Stagger drunk in the halogen The lost cities of your caress The unexplained mysteries There’s a stranger in your favourite jeans You don’t have to be in prison to be in prison Any creed any colour any religion Man, woman and the little children in the London dungeons There’s people hanging upside down Beneath cites bridges and underpasses Forming stalactites of tears like human chandeliers This is not the heaven that we saw on television Where was Steve McQueen where was Marillion Where was Roman Polanski and his amazing rain machine Seven million goldfish swimming in vicious circles in vicious streets Where were the virgins as far as the eye could see Butterfly wings Stagger drunk in the halogen Moonlight in the spider webs In the burnt out cinema Your ghost still plays the Wurlitzer We’re falling off the radar screens We’re falling off the radar screens Way out where the sunset ends Beyond our logic and comprehension
22.
You promised me shared destiny, you promised centuries Told of riches unspeakable, beyond my wildest dreams No more the man I used to be, before you got your claws into me Your eyes like flying saucers, my bloody Mary And every day was Christmas day, from that moment on You promised me slave’s loyalty, you promised the cotton fields But the Christmas tree stood naked, as the day it was first born A halo of needles, circle its skeleton Promise me Tarzan and Jane, Anthony and Cleopatra Promise Adam and Eve, and I still won’t believe Promise Hiroshima, promise Casablanca And I still won’t get born, and I still won’t be human Regiments of warrior hooded crows swoop low, to watch the end unfold Vampires scream into the night, feasting on our souls Beneath the silent disco glitter ball, we waltz on eternally And I turn to spaghetti, when she breathed on me God watches safe from a hill above the all lopsided battle Tommy machine gun tongues crackle like the fifth of November, I remember the stealing from grandmothers years, often-times I can’t sleep I paint a portrait of her ashes, of my shadow boxer’s dreams Promise me Tarzan and Jane, Anthony and Cleopatra Promise Adam and eve, and I still won’t believe Promise Hiroshima, promise Casablanca And I still won’t get born, and I still won’t be human Promise Atlantis, Lupara Bianca Promise Valhalla, promise moonlight sonatas Promise her witches fingernails, draw blood along my spine And I still won’t have blood, and I still won’t have feelings Promise the dream, napoleon and Josephine And I still can't be killed, and I’ll still be immortal Promise the force, will be with us wherever we go And the nightmare crescendos and we still can’t be woken You dragged me by the hair, took me by the scruff of the neck A thousand drunken nights we played kiss-chase to the death I played the starving peasants, I played Mary Antoinette Your snow white skin like porcelain, You promised me the end

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This is our newest and final album by featuring 22 original tracks

Q magazine ★★★★ 'A treasure trove' 'The Crimea...at the top of their game'

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released July 29, 2013

Written by Davey Macmanus & The Crimea
Produced by Davey Macmanus
Mixed by Tom McFall
Recorded at No-sun studios, London
Mixed in Cranford House, Dublin

The Crimea are:
Owen Hopkin, Davey Macmanus, Andrew Stafford and Joe Udwin with additional vocals by Tara Blaise

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