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The Unicorn

by Renata & Trev

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The Unicorn 05:16
The Unicorn I miss the place where we belonged to no one, white light streamed through the window to conjure up a unicorn’s shadow sleeping in a virgin’s lap. The hours passed and we didn’t notice. Why ask the painful question when all we needed to get to heaven was hold each other’s hand. Kiss the fingers spinning and weaving the story that will be undone at night, let’s live happily and ever after out of reality and out of sight! What am I to you and what are you to me? - A gift wrapped, beautiful break from eternity. What are you to me and what am I to you? - A point of no return where even history is new. I miss the place where I belonged to someone, we lived for one another and being alive hurt no longer in a café at the end of time. Our dreams were floating in the badly cleaned glasses, how could we delay the ending? The silver harp was already playing the cruel final seven chords.
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So Sorry 03:42
SO SORRY SO SORRY, FOR TODAY, WISH I COULD CLOSE MY EYES, AND MAKE IT ALL GO AWAY, TRY TO REMEMBER, WHAT WE USED TO BE, AND KEEP THAT MEMORY, OF ME. SO SORRY, IN EVERY WAY, DON’T WORRY, WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY, YOU’LL MAKE IT NEXT TIME, AND THIS MOMENT WILL BE, JUST A MEMORY, LIKE ME. CHORUS: MAYBE IT’S TRUE, WHAT WE’VE BEEN THROUGH, HAS BEEN ALL FOR THE BEST, I’LL NEVER REGRET BUT NEVER FORGET, WE’VE BEEN PUT TO THE TEST. INSTRUMENTAL BREAK CHORUS 3. COME TO ME, JUST FOR A WHILE, WIPE THE TEARS AWAY AND GIVE ME ONE LAST SMILE, YOU KNOW I HATE TO SEE YOU HURT, AND HE TREATS YOU LIKE DIRT, OH I’M SORRY, SO SORRY. 4.BELIEVE ME, I UNDERSTAND, EVERYTIME I LEFT YOU, HE WAS HERE TO HOLD YOUR HAND, I ONLY WISH YOU’D SEE, HE COULD NEVER LOVE YOU QUITE LIKE ME, AND I’M SORRY, SO SORRY. CHORUS
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Ej od Buchlova - a literal translation: Chorus: Ej, the wind is blowing from the town of Buchlov and it’s ruffling Kathy’s ribbons. Today a bride, tomorrow a woman, tonight you’ll start wearing the married woman’s bonnet. 1.You are Kathy a white rose, you didn’t need a man, you could have enjoyed freedom like the fish in clear water. 2.You are, Martin, a green tree, you didn’t need a wife. You could have walked around free, like a pigeon on the roof.
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EACH NIGHT IS A THIEF THE TIME WAS ALL BLACK, IN A BED THAT WAS ALL WHITE, BLACK HAD BEEN THE DAY, AND BLACK WAS THE MOMENT WHEN WE TOUCHED, WITH WORDS THAT WE TOOK OUT ON LOAN. SO LITTLE YOU KNOW, THAT WE’VE JUST DREAM'T EACH OTHER, MADE EACH OTHER UP, WITH OUR FOOLISH DESIRE, FOR MIRACLES, WHICH WEREN’T GRANTED TO US. EACH NIGHT IS A THIEF AND THE KINDEST OF GIVERS, SO CRAFTY, SO VAST, SO TENDER, WE’RE LOST IN A HOUSE,THAT BELONGS TO STRANGERS, AND WE WANT TO GO HOME. THEN A WAKING UP SONG, FROM THE DOVES IN THE BACKYARDS, WHERE A SILVER WINGED FAIRY, IS SCATTERING DAYLIGHT, ON THE GROUND, IN THE LAMPLIGHT THAT’S NOW FADING OUT. I’LL WATCH YOUR CLOSED EYES, WHILE SLEEP STILL ELUDES ME, AND I WONDER WHY, WE’RE BOTH ACTORS, ONLY PLAYING A PART, IN ONE OF THE LAUGHABLE LOVES.
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Saddest City 02:34
Saddest city Miserable is my old city crying tears that smell of my sweat grey clouds courting filthy pavements (the) saddest city is in my head I am cold and I am darker than the houses, who will light them? perhaps the sunshine in the summer or one of those handsome young men Standing alone above the city I know my aim is somewhere down there for an hour or just five minutes time is rain and waters my hair Like a fire that's dying out now flickering embers no more flame that's my city dressed in darkness and my heart is just the same Every single ember's burning feet that love has stripped of their shoes tomorrow's rain is gonna sooth them from the clouds that whisper their blues
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literal translation: Wide and deep are the pools of the Moldau River, I had a sweetheart but now my hear is aching. I had a sweetheart, I had her for two years, now they took her away, our love is finished. I walked all over, trudged in mud, yet I never got you, my dear girl. I walked all over, trudged down rocky roads, yet I never got you, my pleasure.
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YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE. STOOD IN THE CORNER AND WATCHED THE PROCEEDINGS, GLARED AT YOU DANCING, I SAW YOU BOTH LEAVING, WHY ARE YOU GOING WITH HIM, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE? OUT IN THE GARDEN I’D FOLLOWED DISCREETLY, HE HELD YOU TIGHTLY, YOU KISSED HIM SWEETLY, WHY ARE YOU OBVIOUSLY HIS, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE? I WANT TO DIE, THAT’S FOR CERTAIN, CAN’T SEEM TO HIDE HOW MUCH IT’S HURTING ME, I SAW YOU DANCING WITH HIM, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE. I KNEW YOU LIKE HIM, I’D SEEN YOU TOGETHER, I EVEN ASKED YOU AND YOU SAID YOU’D NEVER, FIND LOVE WITH ANYONE ELSE AND YOU’D ALWAYS BE MINE. I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS, HOW COULD YOU DECEIVE ME? NOT EVEN TELL ME, JUST WALK OUT AND LEAVE ME, I SAW YOU DANCING WITH HIM, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE. I WANT TO DIE, THAT’S FOR CERTAIN, CAN’T SEEM TO HIDE HOW MUCH IT’S HURTING ME, I SAW YOU DANCING WITH HIM, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE, I SAW YOU DANCING WITH HIM, WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MINE.
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THANKS FOR THE WINGS 1. Thanks for the wings but I’ll take them back to the shop in the clouds. Thanks for the wings but the angels can put them back on the shelf. CH: I don’t need your love to guide me anymore. I don’t need your love to hold me anymore. 2. I’m back in the mud but it’s squelching so softly around as I dance. I’ve lost both my shoes, but it’s soft and it’s warm and I can feel the ground. CH: I don’t need your love to guide me anymore I don’t need your love to hold me anymore. I found a ribbon by my bed that used to tie your hair. I wonder how you wear it now and I know I shouldn’t care. 3. The walls that keep rising before me have lots of beautiful cracks. Now that I cannot fly over I’m learning to climb and you see: CH: I don’t need your love to guide me anymore I don’t need your love to hold me anymore. 4. I feel the storm coming and I’m scared of the wind that’s bending the trees. But I keep walking and the cornet is playing a recurrent thought: CH: I don’t need your love to guide me anymore I don’t need your love to hold me anymore. I wish we’d been living in a place where everything would just stay. The rain is laughing in my face – we can’t stop – panta rei 5. The dreams in my street have secretly opened their windows and doors. And somewhere there on the old wall there is a bronze plaque that reads: CH: : I don’t need your love to guide me anymore I don’t need your love to hold me anymore. 2x Thanks for the wings….

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released June 2, 2014

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Renata & Trev Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

We are an intenational duo. We enjoy singing harmonies and we play a variety of styles, mostly on guitars but also on a range of other instruments. We are both songwriters but apart from our own songs we also perform traditional folk music and we also like to do covers of folk, rock, pop, blues, c/w and other musical genres. ... more

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