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Closure

by Cynosure

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1.
Winston the Weta 06:30
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It’s such a scream, if you wish to try Just lift the lid and I’ll show you Mortality always has its price; stuck with the body they gave you To deal alone with such tempered things, no privacy for the cast out So deep indeed in this hole again, down on my luck Bastards way out Higher and higher I’ll climb, from something so deep and sublime And everyday I awake, see clearer now through my mistakes Are wishes for free, are wishes for me ‘Cause I want to wish again See flies on the wall, can’t fly here at all Why not, I’m not wingless If someone should care, is someone aware In darkness, I’m drifting So pray for the night, that makes it alright, It’s alright Alright for the moment Waiting, oh waiting, for this all to end The sun has been stolen and I can’t pretend To walk in a sunshine that I’ll never know To each here’s a raincloud with teardrops of gold Come on show me who’s closest I wish I could feel without showing I wish I could learn without knowing I wish there was somewhere through time without growing old I wish I could give without losing I wish I could love without hurting I wish there was room in my mind for someone to call their home So cold now, I feel frozen In sunshine, I felt golden In times by, I could fly high One step away from your blue sky And higher and higher I’ll fly Pushed onwards since I was a child And every reason I break It’s over and now it’s too late Why such an ordeal, this habit seems real I lived and I learned and I tried To live every day without a mistake It’s over I failed and I died Now this something is escaping you We picked the winner who done it You chose the one from the sugar cane So sweet to taste in a moment Now hear my voice, hear me scream out loud Shame on all those who are closest All tucked away in this lousy hell When will we take time to notice?
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Lifer 04:25
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I don’t seem to realise why Living my life like you won’t die Tomorrow comes too easily And I don’t wanna feel like I could lose you Scared to be around What threatens to leave at any second Blink – don’t close your eyes Don’t let Him touch you! Don’t let Him hold! You’ll take with you a failed part of me All the time to promise to try Living myself – a selfish lie Maybe I’ll come another day And I don’t wanna feel like I don’t know you Life was always easy with you ushered at my side But now it seems uncertain, I’ve got nothing else to hide Forced to make decisions, I can’t make them on my own The dying light engulfs you as your spirit returns home Try to make up for lost time Now it’s too late, sever the line How quickly you were snatched away And I don’t wanna feel like My whole life is passing by Just enough time to say I will miss you
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...And She Was Gone 03:25
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Lady 1 …And she was gone but like fine wine she stayed Mature in the mind, a vintage for days …And she was gone but I never ever knew her Which is lucky I guess, so maybe less is best …And she was gone – the moment I turned my head My universe halved, my dreams left un fed …And she is well, candle in her eye Angel in her face, admirer in her sky …And she was gone Lady 2 …And she was gone off to a distant land Yet in my mind her and I stand Upon the shore of what could be Her footprints lead towards the sea Inland I go trying to think twice I palm my face and roll the dice And there she is standing there for me I turn away, turn back and see …And she was gone Lady 3 …And she was gone – is love like this? Forever chasing only to miss Can’t seize the moment, grab the day My indecision paves my way If I could change one single day It would be when you first came my way Background no more, barriers aside I’d close my eyes and you’d be mine …And I’d be gone…
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Groove Champion 04:48
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Been thinking about you since you came into my life I want to know you even though I’ve got a wife Want to feel what its like to be In someone elses hospitality I want a piece of loving you Ah… there is nothing I can do Infatuation – I’ll do anything to see your face Imagination – anything to set my heart to race Do I know what is in my dreams? Is that really everything it seems? Determination – I’ll do anything to see your face! Now that I know what its like to be A little part of your reality Been thinking about you since you came into my life!
5.
Longest Word 03:56
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I miss what never was How to come to terms with the loss But when I felt, I wasn’t alone Though my dreams never came home She blows all my mind away When she smiles I hear me say Only she can smile that way I hope that smile’s for me It was the sweetest feel but so black When I pushed it for a word, it just pushed me back I’m pleased to see us grow I just thought I should let you know Washed, now I can resume to be The constant person you would have me to be Still I am webbed up like a Fly again Double one – count it up from ten
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Salute (Ode To...) 03:40
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Time Now that you’re not around I’ll sit and wait for a sound For you to appear – I know that you’re near Mind I know just where you’re s’posed to be I pray you are looking on me When all’s said and done – what we’ve become Hand I’ve never seen so much of my life With all that was here you would laugh They lifted us high – you shone in each eye Go on Now that the smoke has all cleared We’ll sift the debris for years Keep you in the mind – we’ll still find our stride Hold me I’m not afraid to die I know where I’ll be When you come around Lonely It show’s how much we care As long as you look down We won’t run away
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Drown 05:04
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Sunburnt and blistered Hung out to dry Withered and pale like the old horse That's left to die Cracks in my river bed Dust in my well Flies gather up just to worship Lord of this smell And down is for me the way to go Under the ground that buried me Something will grow Come and drink from my water Come and swim in my lake Come and sit on this black sand shore Cause you're left to blame Come and drown in my water Come and drown in my lake One breath before you go under Last breath you take And now it seems to be some kind of revenge And it looks as if this ghost has found its end And into this watery grave I will lay And its in your nature to have your part to play Come and drown with me I'll be your friend This is your end Show you my friend Shall not pretend And I won't wallow in your selfish nature Hesitate to show I hate you Hold you up for all to see Reflecting what you did to me Taste the sand within your mouth Feel the current pull you down Claw the surface for a breath How much water can you tread? And don't wait for this Can't escape from this You can't resist My black abyss And to this watery grave I will lay Peeling back the blisters Just like holding back the years Water on the alter Ain't enough to shed these tears Roses on my grave Won't be enough to save Drown my foolish pride In the well so dusty
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Headlines 04:07
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It's funny how every time I read the morning news That all I can see is people dead and people in distress I never said I wouldn't do it I just said it wasn't fair Though my actions cause me to loose it I'm just feeling worse for wear Print the headlines in blood red And even on a typical day There's murder now across the front page No motives and no reason I could see They never asked him why he'd do it Tragedy won't disappear The people's statements definitely move me But that still won't stop their tears Paint the whole town in blood red Confusing me by the way Without even stopping to think And now I see the seven dead I hear family's scream And at this time Another life is taken away Would you please Think of something to end all this bloodshed!
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Tomorrow's World 06:04
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Wanna wake up to a brand new day? Wanna live the dreams your mind creates? Another place in time Serenity is what you’ll find Harmony moulds your soul to shape You bump and grind and bustle, breaking your will you fade away This world full of hate It’s delusion and its waste Come and flee from its sun Before it burns you So make journeys forward So take flight to air Take your sadness and your grief Throw them to the ground beneath Soul and mind as one In tomorrow’s world Come into my world, shed your skin Reborn, you let your body sing Former life pushed away No worries everyday Embrace the Spirit from within Mother earth is crying out – you hear her children shout So don’t stay there Come join us here Feel the system from within Spread your roots, let it begin You’ve got to feel it now Your inner soul pushed out Your dreams before your eyes Behind you all those lies
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Mortal 03:29
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I love my pain, it teaches me life Try to refrain from pleasure I seek my pain to balance my life Teaching me to be mortal And in your eyes I see a pain Not unlike me We share a bond, you and I Forged in this place of hurting A glance afar establishes A common ground reclining And in your eyes I see a pain Not unlike me I know your pain Bite my top lip Taste my own blood Feel mortality As I move on, I try and leave All this pain behind me But, it's too late - it has become Everything that I be
11.
Fly 03:30
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Saturday afternoon, no peaceful picnics today folks Traditional missile hurled at one of the fleet It’s nothing personal – we’ve just gotta get on with the job We gotta do what we do best Did I piss you off? Are you aware of the buzz? Doesn’t it make you mad? Wish you could fly like us? And in a minute When you think I’ve gone away I’ll be right here… We’ve got our troubles – being spider-meat is bad enough We don’t need you to jump on the bandwagon too Two-legged creatures, you make me sick! Two eyes?! And you’ve got no wings?! You look disgusting – Buzz! Buzz! Take that you fool! Fly! Do you have purpose at all?! Constant buzz drives me insane No six-legged will break me Ah! Shut up, you Fly, shut up!! Black Flag...
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Farmer 04:38
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The Farmer in the fields The Wife, she makes his meals She doesn’t like the dirt The Wife, she makes him work In the fields stands (the) tall Scarecrow The poor man watch(es) the woman go Knows not of the Scarecrows gleam But spies her caught up in a dream The Farmer’s enemy Is what she went to see Made moments, he made none Hand forced the crow laughs some Don’t leave the field The Farmer casts her out Knows not what she’s about She wanders to the Crow Something that she knows Winter passes into his life He finds the Scarecrow and his wife Crow enjoys Farmers innocence She moans, he runs for the fence Is Farmer dead today? Hoping so, for his sake Will his wife speak again? Now that she’s left the field’s frame? He won’t leave the field
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For Those Who Know 03:37
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As I lay here I feel water dropping on my eyes There is no such feeling, no better feeling For those who know what it's like to die As I force my way Into this morbid web of shame As I realise That only fools could waste such time And so nothing Could be placed in my care and stay alive Until wonderful days will be here again And we will hear the martyrs cry So don't waste my time With such pathetic reasons for crime For those who know This is the only way to go Every day Reasons change But know this is not the way Those who know They can show There's no better way to go
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Bad Air 05:43
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You're choking on your reasons Blinded by your cause Smash superficial boundaries Wax someone else's laws Such sacrifice and dedication Heading in a warped direction Ask the question - is it you?!? Through the smoke there seems to be A better life for you and me Or so you would have me believe But, you go your way, I'll go mine Don't need your causes, I'll be fine I've got a lot better things to do Your politics are boring, nothing for the test Still glamorising stories to impress the rest Society to blame you're telling me I think you are your own worst enemy What's the reason - is it you?!?
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City of the Seven Hills 06:33
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In mid-2015, Kezza was organised the end of his then next album, Teeth, and found that the next RockLords release was to be the 50th one. Aware that this auspicious occasion would be better suited with something bigger than a solo album, he began to think about what could take its place. With time constraints being an issue and not wanting to put out another compilation album so soon after the RockLords 21st, a chance discussion with Bob led to the resurrecting of an old RockLords project which utilised three ideas. 1) A handful of songs from Cynosure's 1998 album The Grey Area were unfinished, 2) Bob had also long said that by replacing the "yn" in Cynosure with an "L" spelt the word "Closure", and 3) Graham Fyfe, reviewing the two Cynosure albums in his famous Fyfeopedia, commented that between the two albums was one really good album. By taking these ideas and by attempting to finish the unfinished tracks, Closure was born.

Remastering the existing tracks in September and recording from then through until November of 2015, the 15 tracks here are partly finished, fleshed out, or simply remastered to produce not only The Grey Area as it could have been heard, but a celebration of the RockLords catalog with their 50th release!

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released November 11, 2015

Vocals by Shane Maraki, Kerry Logan and Mark Weir, guitars by Kerry Logan and Richard Allen, pianos and keyboards by Mark Weir, bass by Julian Maraki , Shane Maraki and Kerry Logan, and drums by Bobby Logan.
Produced by Kerry Logan and Cynosure.
Recorded at Rowan Studio, Kaponga in March 1996 and Avalanche Audio, New Plymouth in 1997-98. Remastered in September 2015 and extra tracks recorded September-November 2015

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