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Angels in the Cinnamon Tree

by BAAN

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1.
Angels 04:20
The stars that twinkle up above Speak of eternity, not love But if God put them there Like the silver in your hair There's nothing left in this world you need fear But angels shoot up drugs at the foot of my stair They can never die so what do they care The good they do themselves Will lead us straight to Hell And that's why your guardian angel is never there He don't feel the warming of the air He don't need to know the things you don't want to share I hear there's a place thrives on love It doesn't seem possible in this world We started down the track It ain't easy going back When the air you breathe catches in your throat We can't see the dimming of the light Angels walk us hand in hand into the night
2.
Is there an ice age coming? It's already here The pyramid is falling down In a million years they'll find us Stuck in harm's way Frozen to the same day She said, come up to bed Baby, what's wrong? Turned out his heart was broken to the bone Stuck in harm's way Frozen to the same day His father was a hero Just like the songs Winston Churchill killed him on the phone They got a war to win boy, so don't be long Stuck in harm's way Frozen to the same day
3.
Sea Glass 03:36
Sea glass It turned out his heart was broken Before a word was ever spoken He dropped the cup upon the stone It shattered there just like a twisted bone So, we fell under his spell Like little children Sea glass It turned out his heart was made of steel The kind that pumps the blood but does not feel He dropped the words onto the burning page Quite sincere but all he felt was the rage It turned out his heart was just like yours But he couldn't keep it beating And all the doctor said was, "It's one of these things." So, we fell under his spell Like little children Sea glass
4.
You're filled up with the ghostly light of angels And the storm rages outside The flood comes, running down the valley Too late you see there's nowhere you can hide You turn to meet your maker, and find empty space Where once there was a garden, in some other place Some other place All that's left is desolation, no saving grace The villages have burned, and still they burn There's smoke under clouds, over the fields of corn No-one is left to tend the land The work is done, the people all have gone Where are they now, please understand We didn't leave you, we love you still But time is all we have to share Come seek our houses, we built upon the hill Journey back to find us there Black skinned girls and boys playing Overhead the jets of white men fly In the churches of the free world they are praying While flower blossoms flame upon the sky You run to meet your god, and find his empty face Once there was a garden, but in some other place Some other place Some other place
5.
You wanna know the truth about me Bring me the fruit of the cinnamon tree I believe it makes us free It leads from here to eternity So, I make this noise for all you girls and boys And what you fear is what the word destroys How can you get through all of this Recalling the tenderness of the fatal kiss No-one listens to you anyway They don't give a fuck about the things you say So, you make a noise for all the girls and boys And what they fear is what the word destroys And the word is love [There's a daffodil on my wall, and a piece of glass from New Mexico] Some of you will never be The things you think you wanna be Don't let nature make you frown Don't let the number crunchers bring you down Make your noise for all the girls and boys And don't you fear what the world destroys Because the world is love
6.
There is a tree, it stands alone With bitter bark and time upon its bones Do you think that trees don't fall? They seem to last forever after all To a tree the world goes rushing by The sun is just a bright line in the sky Humanity (a madness) rules the world By chainsaw and flame, without face or name When the old tree goes, pointing up his toes The soil will eat his soul, God only knows The seeds that sprout, the bugs that crawl Mushrooms grow along the wall Where lovers once stood tall beneath the rain Sheltered from the sky They will stand there again When time delivers all his promises When you cut him down for tables and for chairs And sailing ships and roofs and stairs Touch wood you say to bring you fortune But nothing can prepare you for the fall that comes too soon Run swiftly from the tide, hiding from the Moon
7.
Moondust 03:20
There's a man who burns up water Burning up the ocean To save the world And if you don't know what he's doing You might believe it's true That he can save the world But when the big rock hits Canada tomorrow And your teeth are hurting And all you feel is sorrow You hate the Moon A dozen of us went there And came back empty handed Pictures of the few who were first Where the Eagle landed There we stay Looking for Jesus' footprints in the Moondust And if the sky falls upon my head I will remember everything you said You hate the Moon And when the lunatics take over the asylum And the tide runs in my head I stand beside them And they're burning up the Sea of Tranquillity I look out at the ocean And everything in motion We hate the Moon
8.
Faith in You 03:27
Stumble down the drifting days Past is gone, the good man prays I don't quite know what happened here Was it luck or some kind of fear That stayed my hand That drew me back From the promised land And turned my future black? When a little rain comes Falling up from the ground Turtle swimming in the rain Turning round and around His head is in the clouds He's avoiding the crowds He swims with the tide It's an easy ride He put his faith in you Faith in you Here we are, just like before Something crazy lurks behind the door We gonna pull one another through Count it out with me 5, 4, 3, 2 I put my faith in you
9.
Cathedral gods reverberate City gates regurgitate The singer and his song Forever on and on What use is any of this Perpetual state of eternal bliss If not to steal from destiny The final days of our history And they don't send poets into space If they did we'd look upon the face Of everything there ever was And we'd look there just because, just because, just because Half of you would understand You'd be the ones to take my hand And walk me down the garden path I'd stop to sing, and you'd make me laugh All the demons gathered around Tremble as we make those sounds And the city gates reverberate We'd leave those others to their fate It's never too late, says the child to the man Forget your schemes and those stupid plans Everything you thought you had The weight of days will drive you mad But don't look down, the child is dead The sand beneath your feet is red And when the singer stands on Mars On Mons Olympus, ringed by stars The rain falls down from eternity Fish are drowning to fill the sea When everything that was is past We know ourselves at last They don't send poets into space But if they did we'd look upon the face Of everything there ever was We'd look there just because, just because, just because Just because
10.
There's a hole where the world should be Borrowed your heart from Destiny Only sky where the ground should be We're falling into the mystery When we hit the ground I kinda hope you're still around You got wings, you got fire You got the courage to fly higher Queen of the sky There is an island with a shattered sun Where jealousy ends before it's begun Where one good truth serves everyone No-one hurts, no-one has to run When you sail too close to the mirror The people you love will remember you
11.
When the caterpillar dreams of sleeping She folds herself into herself And all she wants whilst she is dreaming Is to become what she imagines A butterfly to be Cigarettes, pills and potions There's a baby coming up from the ocean She didn't ask for this, neither did he It's not exactly what they imagined Their butterflies would be But he remembers all the times they didn't try The spiteful words that always made him cry Now her baby dreams of summers gone And how his doom was sealed by fate They should have given him away To follow his path down to the gate Where the butterfly will be Butterfly wings Burn like paper
12.
When all the words have been written When all the songs have been sung When all the drums have been beaten When all our voices are heard When all the records are broken When all the art has been burned When all the files are deleted When all the singers are silent When all these instruments fade When all who have listened are mute When all the windows are dark When all the stars have gone out When all the dogs are sleeping When all the sinners have won When all your secrets are tokens When all that was has begun When all the dreamers have woken

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Recorded and produced by Peri Urban in East Lothian February, March and April 2019.
All songs by Largy Baan and Peri Urban.

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released February 7, 2019

Largy Baan - vocals, piano, acoustic guitar.
DD Strang - bass
Henrik Peter - drums
Peri Urban - keyboards.
with Anthony Quebec - violin on Queen of the Sky

Lily Urban - sonic QC.

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Peri Urban UK

Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more

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