"J-Plane" -
Full Moon
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Rusted Sparkle
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Indeterminate
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Not Quite Devine
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Enough
"Manna" EP
"Weatherman"
"World Is Dead"
Compilations
2FM Session
All songs copyright control. (c) Juniper 1995. PolyGram Ireland Ltd. (p)+(c) 1998-1999.
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Insane (official lyrics)
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
Should I speak
Should I bother shaking hands
Am I weak if I leave it as it stands
I've submerged
And I've surfaced with the blame I
Guess I'm no good
...guess I'm insane
Should I go if she calls out my name
And if she bleeds
Should I wipe up the stain
If I'm low can't I drown in this rain
I guess I'm no good
...guess I'm insane
I hate when you say
I never fight for you
Sometimes you breathe all over my skin
Always end up closer than close
That's when I give in
Should I confess the actions of a hand
In my mind I betray you once again
Should I climb what is there to gain
I guess I'm no good
...guess I'm insane
I give in
And you're taking me down
Always end up closer than close
That's when I give in
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
I could take your hand-
Walk with you through Amsterdam
I could go inside reveal to you just who I am
If the stars should fall...
We could share them with the night
We could do it all...
If only I could love you tonight
I could take your hand- try and help you understand
What turns the tides inside my sea of endless ends
If the moons can shine... surely we can do the same
I could make you mine... if I could feel that way again
There's beauty in imperfection
Like a cello playing Mendelssohn
This criminal infection has broken the chords
I believe needing is getting strong
I could pretend like nothing is wrong
If you teach me how to lie to an angel
The crowd is cheering as the lights go down
But hits you later when there's no one around
So teach me how to lie to an angel
You could take my hand- try and help me understand
What changed your mind what brought this to an end
Loving you took time much too long for you to stay
When the moon was right
And there was something captured in that night
And just as I began to fall
You seemed to take control of it all
Juniper version: Paul
Noonan on vocals
I have been
I have seen
Myself from outside the periphery
Deliberations of my actions
Don't mean to bug ya baby...
I stand still to fulfil
These forces conspire to push the frames by
Still watch as he struts with new found arrogance
Oh what a mess I address
This commune of beautiful people
Free love reigned though our domain
Computations of sleeping arrangements
Oh what a clash what a mismatch
But entertaining nonetheless
All hail Brian a true divine
He came to feed the starving with his loaves and fish
Wings have sprouted through these cotton wool walls
Silence bellows my drum
Morsels of sleep fall on the mortals below
Like manna from hell
Relief (official lyrics)
Juniper version: Dave Geraghty vocals
It's getting cold outside
And it's getting in all while you sleep
I don't know who won
I know all too well who lost
And there's something going on
Next door to me
Thought I heard you laugh
Can you come to me?
These walls are crashing down
In around me
Can you relieve me?
And while you're getting love
Off someone else
I'm here by myself with everything
Down around my feet
Can you relieve me?
Released in dreams relief can please
From your life I'm excluded and blue
And there's love going on
Next door to me
Thought I heard you laugh
Can you come to me?
These walls are crashing down
In around me
Can you relief me?
Crashing down in around me
And I can't get up again
...Sitting on your cloud
Raining down on me
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
It's a beautiful night for me to be here with my empty head
I should have stayed at home and watched the weather
It's a wonderful night but it's a shame because there's an empty bed
I should have stayed at home 'til I got better
And nothing's changing
The record's scraping round and round
And nothing's changing
The people drive their cars to town
If I ask the weatherman to send a cloud my way
If I ask the weatherman by Monday
If you ask the weatherman
It's a beautiful night for me to be here now our love is dead
I should have stayed at home and watched the weather
It's a wonderful night but this is it now I've wrecked your head
I should have stayed at home 'til I got better
And nothing's changing
The record's scraping round and round
And nothing's changing
The people drive their cars to town
These people drive me...
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
There's another kind of red under the bed
We've all been branded
Barcode on my head
We can all go beep as we checkout
Your flexible friend is but a spy
Your movements mapped
Your drink link dries
I fail to see how this card is so smart
Little sister's been watching you
Little sister
So you want to walk the earth
You know she flies
She's mastered the art
Of truth and lies
To her you'll never be more than just a number
There's another kind of red under the bed
We've all been branded
We can all be read
Or is it all in my head
Kill the cowboy
Little sister's been watching you
Little sister
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
Face that I can't age, inviting sex, exciting carefully
Now hand pushing child, crushing no confessing secrecy
Paintbrush painting pleasure over pictures that sister drew
Sister taking scissors to the photograph of all she knew
The rage of all she knew, the rage
The rage of all she knew, the rage
Face that I can't age, inviting sex, igniting bare with me
Now hand pushing child, sucking open face secrecy
Paintbrush painting pleasure over pictures that sister drew
Sister taking scissors to the photograph of all she knew
The rage of all she knew, the rage
The rage of all she knew, the rage
The rage is haunting you
Holding on to find ourselves
Not enough for you the truth that child embracing
Memories tend to linger under restless eyes
For children who are blinding
The rage of all she knew, the rage
The rage of all she knew, the rage
The rage, from watching
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
Here comes the millennium
I see all scramble for your Valium
Our kids will all start drinking
In the year 2050, alcoholic milk
There's people planning big nights yeah
Oh and all of those big lights
Their fortunes of hard cash
But oh they leave it in their big crash
Obsolete and rare
The world is dead, long live the world
The world is dead, long live my world
Here's comes the millennium
We all want to be on that podium
_____ like a piece of ______
To look down on ____ fallen
Here comes the millennium
When will we three meet again
On the eve at midnight
We all get Cinderella stage fright
And throw fits
The world is dead, the world is dead
The world is dead, the world is dead
The world is dead, long live the world
The world is dead, long live my world
Long live my world, yeah it's dead
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
You fade away, fade to grey
Fade to all of these shades
When sunshine and rain
Smile at the cracks
And you smile for their hacks
And you're smiling through these days
In an addict's haze
And you climb on the wall
And you're not afraid of fall
You're scared you'll throw yourself
Over the edge of it all
You prayed for years
And you buried your fears
Now didn't your mother tell you
We'd all end in tears
You, lie beside me
You, lie in spite of me
You show break face
And your silver lace
And sugar and spice
And you're hiding your vice
And you're star in my sight
And you're thorn in the sky
And out damn spot
Is the one you forgot to lose
You're over the wall
And you're not afraid of fall
You're scared you'll throw yourself
Over the edge of it all
You prayed for years
And you buried your fears
Now didn't your mother tell you
We'd all end in tears for..
You, lie beside me
You, lie in spite of me
You, you, lost in twenty-something
Lost in twenty-something
Lost in twenty-something
Lost in twen-ty-some-thing
You, lie beside me
You, you lie in spite of me
You, lie beside me
You, You, you lie in spite of me
In spite of me, twenty-something
I met my fate, in the orchard
She made me part of her nature
I plucked the branch, spoiled the fruit
I taste the pain when I look at you
I was once was drowned in a river
She made me swim even deeper
She filled my soul with heavy breath
She held me down with love like lead
I was once was drowned in your river
You made me swim even deep
You filled my soul with your water
You held me down your love like lead
(Mann/Weil)
I just can't help believin'
When she smiles up soft and gentle,
With a trace of misty morning
And a promise of tomorrow in her eyes
I just can't help believin'
When she's lying close beside me,
And my heart beats with the rhythm
Of her sighs
This time the girl is gonna stay,
This time the girl is gonna stay
For more than just a day
Oh, I just can't help believin'
When she slips her hand in my hand,
And it feel so small and helpless
That my fingers fold around it like a glove
I just can't help believin'
When she's whisperin' her magic,
And her tears are shinin'
Honey sweet with love
This time the girl is gonna stay,
This time the girl is gonna stay
For more than just a day
For more than just a day
Oh, I just can't help believin'
When she's whispering her magic,
And her tears are shinin'
Honey sweet with love
This time the girl is gonna stay,
This time the girl is gonna stay
For more than just a day
The finer things
Are made of these:
Define your needs.
I watched the sky
And after you
Nothing so beautiful
Came down on me.
Try your mind
And disreply:
Define your needs
To show your mind
More than imply
Make best of this life:
'Cause when we two are down
We never get around to build us back up.
The finer things
Are made of these:
Define your needs.
I watched the sky
And after you
Nothing so beautiful
Came down on me.
'Cause when we two are down.
We never get around to build it back up.
Build it back up.
Build it back up.
Build us back up.
Build us back up.
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
Among the afflictions
With which I've been marked
I'm not so pretentious
And not quite so dark
I get the feeling you're bored with me
And not through habit or frequency
Did your mother have you easily?
And if there's someplace else you'd rather be
Then go, then go
Then go, then go
Among the intentions
Which have been sought
Numbered and labelled
But none of them bought
I get the feeling you're bored with me
Not through habit or frequency
Did your mother have you easily?
And if there's someplace else you'd rather be
Then go, then go
Then go, then go
It seems so deca tree
Stares blindingly with melted time
Leaning over, it's only... oh...
Then go
Then go, then go
Then go, then go...
Juniper version:
Damien Rice on vocals
You left it.
I sent it.
I want it back.
You left it.
I sent it.
I want it back.
If I had you here
I'd clip your wings,
Snap you up,
And leave you sprawling
On my pen.
This plan of mine
Is "Oh, so very" lame.
Can't you see
The grass is greener
Where it rains?
And you left:
I died.
I wept:
You cried.
You came:
I think.
But I never really know.
Now I've served my time.
I've watched you climb
The wrong incline.
But you never really know.
Accept it.
Don't let it
Fuck you up.
Accept it.
Don't let it
Fuck you up.
This applies equally
To you and I:
The only thing
We've shared
Is the same sky.
These empty metaphors:
They're all in vain.
Can't you see
The grass is greener
Where it rains?
And you left:
I died.
I wept:
You cried.
You came:
I think.
But I never really know.
Now I've served my time.
I've watched you climb
The wrong...
You left it.
I sent it.
I want it back.
You never really know.
Accept it:
Don't let it
Fuck you up.
You never really know.
You left:
I died.
I wept:
You cried.
You came:
I think.
You never really know.
I've served my time.
I've watched you climb
The wrong incline.
You never really know.
You never really know.
You never really know.
Nature's first green is gold.
Her hardest hue to hold.
Spring's early flower.
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
Eden sank to grief.
As night turns into day.
Nothing gold can stay. Yeah.
The messenger boys are panting,
They've run all the way.
There's been a pile-up
On the information highway, yeah
The truth recovered from the wreckage
The truth recovered from the wreckage
Gives me deliverance.
Deliverance.
Fire's first flame is bright.
Flames leap to a height.
They gather to fuel its heat.
It warms with smile's sweet greet.
Yeah.
Ashes overflow.
Flame gives way to a glow.
All is lost, we say:
Nothing gold can stay.
The messenger boys are panting
They've run all the way
There's been a pile-up
On the information highway, yeah.
The truth recovered from the wreckage
The truth recovered from the wreckage
Gives me deliverance.
Deliverance.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing. Nothing.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nothing gold can stay.
Stay.
Stay.
Reference:
Robert Frost poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Nature's first green
is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
All songs copyright control. (c) Juniper 1995. PolyGram Ireland Ltd. (p)+(c) 1998-1999. | 
