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Ballad Of Adam And Eve

by Stuart Doyle

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1.
Wait, did you ever have to wait for a while? I did, I did Hope, do you ever really think about hope? Always, there's always hope Life, life spins past you in a blink of an eye. Not always, not all the time Love, what do the angels say about us? My love, your love Waiting for the sun to hear it's call Come out, yeah come on up We're waiting Waiting for the wind to drop Waiting for the seas to come around Yeah come on now calm on down Waiting Waiting for the quietest of sounds Fear, do you ever feel fear in the night? Or some fright? Some nights Are you scared, oh don't you be scared. I'll hold you alright So our time is coming at last, and the lines that are holding us fast I let go as I write Alright? So we are alright. We set sail, set sail tonight Waiting for the sun to hear it's call Come out, yeah come on up We're waiting Waiting for the tears to fall Waiting for the wind to come around Yeah come on now calm on down Waiting Waiting for the quietest of sounds
2.
I Feel Love 04:41
Fortune falls on me and my conscience aches These four seas we sail, our love will have to wait Wind on our beam and we head southeast Through the straits of Maddalena to the Tyrreanean Sea I feel love The kind that lasts for just a day I feel love The kind that never fades away The kind that never fades away Don't fade away Seven seas I've seen and I've traveled all waves Seven people I've been if you don't count the eighth And oh, for my soul, I can' wait I feel love The kind that lasts for just a day I feel love The kind that never fades away The kind that never fades away Don't fade away
3.
Going back to Eden again Going back gonna find my friends Going back cos I never say no Going back nowhere else to go Got some credit never gonna lose Got some honey I got my blues Three nine and I don't wanna rest Give me some more gotta do my best when she rolls... Going back to Memphis this time Going back gotta find what's mine Gotta go before I die Gotta go y'all know why When I die I won't go to waste Gonna leave some light in my place Never say never cos never says no Ever say forever gonna save your soul when she rolls Cos everything's possible Not everything's so unbelievable When everything fades away Not everything, baby we're here to stay And she rolls...
4.
Still Black Lake deep and dull Water ebbs against the hull Watching time this big old boat Sitting on top of your watery cloak How many have swam your waters Have many seen your depths What’s it like way down there? Is it dark and deeply cold? Are your waters thick and black? Would I hang there never to come back From the Still Black Lake Still Black Lake never seen before Dark water laps upon your shore It was always so, from the start of time Your rivers running into mine How many have swam your waters Have many seen your depths What’s it like way down there? Is it dark and deeply cold? Are your waters thick and black? Would I hang there never to come back From the Still Black Lake
5.
My words are sentimental jokes with myself Don't believe a word, don't believe a word I say This tune tries to explain in every which way To all the girls, the girls to whom I play There's only four so give me some more The shoe fits much more than it needs to I hold her close to keep her ghost Away from me much more than I mean to And close to death I hold my breath cos Time has left me trying to run away The first, first rule you know is always the best All's fair in love, all's fair in war and love These songs exaggerate my pain from a day Long gone, and worlds away There's only four so give me some more The glue sticks much more than it needs to I hold her close to keep her ghost Away from me much more than I mean to And close to death I hold my breath cos Time has left me trying to run away My words are sentimental jokes on myself Don't believe a word, don't believe a word that I say There's only four so give me some more The glue sticks much more than it needs to I hold her close to keep her ghost Away from me much more than I mean to And close to death I hold my breath cos Time has left me trying to run away This tune don't explain much in any old way To all the girls, the girls to whom I play
6.
I've read it in the old books, even seen it in the movies They say the world is gonna end or change or something What think you of this? Now some may be disappointed if all this is untrue I don't know about t ending but it could do with a little changing What think you? Sun shine on you All the world to see the light All the love to shine bright Sun shine on you I dream I hold you all night I dream of holding you tight What dream you? What if the sea it rises, maybe it already has Will the boss be there to pay us Or has the money all collapsed So if earth's poles are shifted and the land may rise and fall I hope that you'll be lifted up to safety And you'll hear the call Sun shine on you All the world to see the light All the love to shine bright Sun shine on you I dream I hold you all night I dream of holding you tight What dream you?
7.
Lipari Blues 04:07
The day Mount Etna swallowed the sun We started out from Lipari Under cover of darkness we'd begun Our journey to our third sea Seven days with the sun holding high Had shown our weather for a week Head to the gap at the toe of Italy To the wild Ionian sea I said to my brother A love like no other When he'll return from the other side of earth? In Lipari we had wine, we had it fine I found my brother in song The earth's fuse burned on the skyline The weather told us we must push on Eve she tilts thirty to forty-five Any more and I feel the threat I've done so much to endanger my life But I've never thought so much of death I said to my sister God knows I've missed her Singing beside me on this very stage There ain't no answer but to push on There ain't no stepping off this bus I've thought so much and I've sang so many songs Now I only can think of us I said to my mother She knows I love her For everything she's got, there ain't no words And I said to my father He knows what he's got here But I ain't written the last line yet The day Mount Etna swallowed the sun We started out from Lipari
8.
Summer wed her king on Santorini It was the best thing she did do Summer won her crown and lost her frown Set a course, a course set true When summer let me down, so gently down All I was aware of was the blue In time I see the great disguise hid in plain sight And say oh Lord I do Summer on the bow I'll tell you how The sun rose burning bright and red Turn light upon your island's eye Let the Captain decide if we're alive or if we're dead Summer all my thoughts untied their knots When it comes to you On our starboard beam Santorini smiles And said you always knew Gone sailing, here we go again Will I ever get to see my friend Gone sailing, one more time oh yeah Won't ever, never gonna be the same Summer won her crown on Santorini...
9.
Say Goodbye 05:21
Land ahoy! Oh promised land! For sure twill be grand with a beer in our hand Watching and smiling as ladies pass by We set sail from France, rolled from her coast I held my thoughts and the boat held her course For five days we sailed and the world passed below The moon follows the sun to catch up if it can High on our backs, the Captain, me and Dan But we don't don't like the look of this ominous cloud The promised lure, for sure tis a cure Sit under a tree, my honey and me Drink wine, eat fine, lay back in the grass But in comes a storm, our love is forlorn We cannot make dock, she'll take what it's got Steer her to starboard lads, lets hope she lasts Sail on sailors, sail on by Sail on ye mariners, don't you die Sail on, Lord I cry Cos never did I say goodbye
10.
Battlelines 04:23
Say hello, come find me But don't waste our time drawing battlelines You may say no even though we We had fought at each others' side 'til both of us had died If you don't know who were we, it's cos the Question isn't right, and the question isn't why Was long ago, can't you see or hear the Shoreline in your mind, the seagulls and their cries Come Find Me But don't waste our time drawing battlelines Who is to know who were we, we were Abandoned in the snow and dropped into the reeds Seeds were sown, some were weeds but there were Flowers that have grown and fed the birds and the bees We had a deal, didn't we? But it was Drawn up in the sand on a long forgotten beach Who's first to show the hint we need Unties the knots we cannot see on the ropes that we can feel Come Find Me But don't waste our time drawing battlelines Line drawn in the sand from point A to point B This line goes through your hand there's those this line can read A line of sight that's blurred by some old trickery A light so bright it blinds the eyes of you and me So say hello, come find me baby please Come Find Me But don't waste our time drawing battlelines
11.
Early one spring morning with the rising of the sun Eve she said to Adam there's a song that's to be sung I've got one little wish, I wanna swim with the fish Adam turned and said now honey, no no's, no buts, no ifs This fine day my baby we'll settle to the east I'll bring you home through the valley of the beast These four seasons have given us four seas She was called Eve she ain't called Eve anymore Eve she said to Adam, Ok so follow me Keep me in your sights now honey, at least to some degree Adam laughed and turned away a little too much south Said that girl she flaps too much, I ain't got no doubts I say one fine day we're gonna settle in far lands Land of mystery, land of shifting sands Early the next morning Adam had caught up She was called Eve she ain't called Eve anymore Left shore this morning waiting for the rain West wind was a-howling, driving us insane Too many mornings over my head hung So long to the coast, the voyage just begun This fine day we're gonna head to the east Gonna you home through the valley of the beast With a tear in my eye as I set foot on the shore She was called Eve she ain't called Eve anymore Awoke to see fine large cliffs Breaking all the rules we crossed the path of ships And just like Jonah as the whale he spat him out Adam & Eve, tempting fate, headed strait for the mouth One fine day we're gonna settle in the sun For times unknown, this story's just begun They push on harder, they gonna push on some more This boat called Eve she ain't called Eve anymore

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These are a collection of songs written by Dublin musician Stuart Doyle on the good boat Eve sailing the Mediterranean Seas in March of 2012. The journal kept on this voyage is available to read at theballadofadamandeve.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/east-to-eden/

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released December 21, 2012

Music & Lyrics by Stuart Doyle except Still Black Lake lyrics also by Liz Walsh.

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Stuart Doyle Dublin, Ireland

The ballad is a collection of tunes borne out of a four thousand mile journey across the Mediterranean's four seas. Written onboard the good ship Eve by Yukina frontman, Melted & Annoying Cloud guitarist Stuart Doyle.

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