originally planned for release in december 2002 for Seahorse Records

officially released in 2007 as part of WALKING TREES box set for Ark Records (limited edition of 500 copies)

MUSIC by TREES
LYRICS by PAOLO D'ADDIO

1. ASIAN SUMMER HAIKU 1'14"

See them in the orange gloom

Angels of love, ashes of light

Breezes stir the latest blue

A fever in the air of twilight

 

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2. LOVE LIKE MANTRA 6'43"

Gold on the surface of the sea

Your hair in the breeze and your face in the sun

Starfish and shells, days on days and nights undercover

 

Asian summer sands

Asian summer sky

Days on days and night undercover

Days on days at the edge of the world

Shiva sings of love

A love like mantra

Salt on my skin, I think of you

Deep in my head your silky sound

East of the sun, west of the moon

Your fingers play like snakes of lust

Burn on me the flames of your love (now here, so real)

Tears burnin' on, ashes ungone (still glowin' on)

 

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3. THE SEA AS HORIZON 6'40"

Disease's passed, silver September

Every rhyme surrender to the healing tender

Breathe at my side, heaven's only angel

Cruel killing crime doing harm within you

(Wordslike, maybe thoughtslike) the sky moves sideways

(Loverlike, maybe ghostlike) it leads me by the hand

Desert's plains, kingdoms of ages

Every golden dune is a fragile fortune

 

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4. HEAVEN IN DISARRAY 5'39"

The doors you open you find ajar, 'cause you I await

Heaven in disarray I share with you and outside it rains so hard, so come on, please come on...

Tiresome and twisted you came and reached for me from miles away

Desperate and pure and in the mood for love you lay, so come on, please come on...

I will take it now if you give me now and if you won't at all I won't do at all

I will let it go if you want it gone and if you want it on I will let it on

And I will love you now if you want me now and if you won't at all I won't do at all

And I will let it go if you want it gone and if you want it on I will let it on

So come on, please come on...

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5. DECEMBER 6'18"

You came like December, gazing at the season change

Your mind on a sweet dream, never afraid of winter

You came like a light breeze shivering on a quiet lake

Your lips close together, never afraid of silence

And you rolled on down like river smoothing all the hard stones

Your stream never ending, never afraid of future

And you rose like a jasmine clinging to my body

Your heart clean and reckless, never afraid of loving me

Much I dreamt of you like a seed under the snow

And then you came in my awakening, maybe my deeper dream

Much I loved you, but veiled my heart remained unsaid knowin' the pain of too much tenderness

And all we have someday shall be given, sex you make sweeter with hunger and thirst

Now the wind longs to play with your hair, the bees to count your petals

So you came, so you lay, like light breeze on a quiet lake

So you clinged, so you chained, like jasmine to my days

 

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6. ALL WE DREAMERS 5'41"

Bring down the light, weave around me darkness, let it be the night with the sweetest blindness

Give my heart another chance, shall I find my love

Among the sheets her silhouette, laid and still like island

Oh, why it's just in dreams we fly? why it's just in dreams our life?

Why it's just in dreams that truth is on our side?

Why it's just in dreams the peace we feel sometimes?

All we dreamers walk balancing on the edges (head in the clouds, all we dreamers fall)

All we dreamers fantasize, boozers and on smoke dopes

(head in the clouds, slowdown-honey-slowdown)

We can tell a thousand tales, we can charm them up like snakes

We have all the stars' names, we can set the night ablaze

And if they say we need some aid, they just wanna change our mind

When they say we need some aid, sure it's just a waste of time

And if somebody turns his face, maybe he's just a jealous kind

Might somebody turn his face, sure he's just a jealous kind

Homecoming to the house of tomorrow, unexplained white silence smiling in flowers

Ecstasy is a freedom song

 

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7. BEAUTY 5'54"

When you sleep in my embrace beauty is in my arms

When I breathe life from your chest two hearts beat as one

Remember the day when we first met, lost for love to find us

Really no one was just as closest, two souls into one

Beauty is every creature faithful to a wildlife, it's senses and attraction, nothing you can't hide alike

Beauty is only nature, the guessing game of angels

Who lay on us a higher love, as blasphemous we pray on them

And when I gaze at your tempting shape beauty is in my eyes

Every new day God's country landscapes reveal in my eyes, every new day beauty is in our prayers

 

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8. TREASURE 6'13"

Eyes on fire, the world's tumbling down

Losing ourselves, love's burning bright

Pleasure to taste, asunder in waste, your lips cherry red like a bleeding scar

Consciousness confuses me, innocence, treasure and bliss

Now it's you lyin' here like the sands of a shore and me like the waves that kiss you for more

Precious you rest and smooth the day breaks, It whispers in your ears and so lift you up

Highways you find soothing my mind and sparks as the stars in the sheltering sky

Love it's you lyin' here like the sands of a shore and me like the waves that kiss you for more

Smooth the day breaks, the world's tumbling down as soon as the light's glowing

 

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9. MISTRAL 6'32"

Sail away on oceans, light's the direction

Blind faith on a fairy wind, blind faith on a mazy star

Pray for a new skin, pray for a new sky

It breathes in the sunrise, it bleeds in the sundown

You're far beyond emotions, far beyond sensations

With miles given to the wings, miles to be left behind

Blessed by a new dream, dyin' on a peace of mind

You're still in the sunshine, naked and overshy

Hours in the house of love, eyes in the eyes of love

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10. MISSING 6'10"

Away from love, away from you

Why so far? Was it so far?

Being apart and feeling just insecurity

We've been aching body and soul in synchronicity

Why so hard? was it so hard?

A call of emergency, my heart it burns, a call of emergency, my head it turns

In search of you, in need of light and it won't stop until you make it right

A call of emergency, my body shakes, a call of emergency, the moves I make

Fever's on, high and blind, and it won't heal until you make it right