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Prints Of Peace

by The Bond

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olariu bogdan
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olariu bogdan Superb, Geoff Mann has such a warm voice beyond comparations, beautiful, one of my fav vocalists ever

Smooth and elegant arrangements, as on previous album aswell, both are really valuable legendary albums Favorite track: Table Talk.
Alex Matheson
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Alex Matheson Bought this on cassette many, many years ago and loved it. Great music and lyrics. It is so, so good to have a digital copy of this as it brings back good thoughts and memories. Favorite track: Seriously Siblings.
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1.
Before you came and found me I was lost On Chaos's white horses turned and tossed With a word you pacified the waves Set my feet upon a road that leads to resurrection morning Gateway into Heaven, may I come through you Gateway into Heaven, no other way will do Dancing in the way you draw me near You are overwhelming draw me near Love can be alarming when it's this real Love that accepts crucifixion Just to bring us to communion Chorus You are like a treasure house a home Toward which all the lost and weary roam When we pray your spirit lifts us high Lifts us through a curtain torn from top to bottom Waving in your breeze Chorus Holy Spirit burning out so bright Illuminating even darkest night Crowning those who love you with new life O come Lord Jesus come and lead us home with you Toward the end of strife Chorus
2.
Sob Stories 04:46
You could have been something in life If you'd been healthy, or wealthy, or poor You could have made everyone laugh If you'd been funny You could have been Ghandi - if - If only you'd been born in India, yeah You could have bought the starving a meal If you'd had the cash Chorus Don't believe in your own sob stories About how life should be Like it is in your dreams Don't believe in your own sob stories You can't carry a cross On a diet of peaches and cream You could have been light for the world If you hadn't locked yourself in the basement You could have said things to revere If you'd known what they were You could have made discoveries You could have changed history You could have won medals of gold If only you'd run Chorus You talk about sin as if you had A unique view of the matter As if you have some excuse God won't recognise You talk about dying as if you had Some sort of choice in the matter As if when it comes to you You'll just close your eyes Don't think that I don't understand Or criticise you as if alien There's something of you, the fantasy fool In all of our lives But when we replace life with a dream Vision with hallucination Sleep walk ensues Wandering off in a deadly land Chorus
3.
High Ground 05:31
So, the problem of human suffering Seen from the high ground appears small With a stiff drink and the curtains drawn you can kid yourself There's hardly any problem there at all Diamonds sparkle in the disco Glitter ball sheen on all the sins Outside in the alley the party appears distant As the hungry and the homeless look for dinner in the bins Wealth is a jetty At which a ship of state may more But when Christ was born on earth It was among the poor Yes, we study economics Got to make the money make some kind of sense Having heaped it into mountains of endeavour We knock off all the peaks and spend them on defence In the ring the wars are raging To be top dog you've got to have the sharpest teeth When you've clawed your way up to the top of the scrap heap You live by barking at all the little dogs underneath Though human weakness Is what the power hungry scorns When Christ was crowned as king It was a crown of thorns We can raise a smile by sharing We're appealing and we really love to give At least until the cost of caring Cuts deep into the way we really live What is our charity So self-righteously displayed? When Christ taught us to give It was a ransom paid
4.
Seriously siblings Are you running scared, running scared, running scared Seriously siblings Are you running scared, running scared, why so scared? From a howling night we're running into daylight Down a corridor of knives From a city built on suffering and warfare We are running into life Seriously siblings Are you running hard, running hard, running hard Seriously siblings Are you running hard, running hard, running hard There's no time to stand around in acquiescence To the spirit of this age In the love of Christ find strength to resist evil In His justice all the rage Sing Hallelujah, sing loud and long Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song Sing Hallelujah, sing proud and strong Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song Seriously siblings Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now Seriously siblings Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now Well there's a mighty hand that holds us all in orbit Round His own eternal light Praise His name and by his spirit live within it In His strength fight the good fight Chorus When the anti-Christ comes roaring And you feel your love so drowned Let your heart be broken open Let your love of God's love sound Chorus Come on, seriously siblings Won't you run with joy, run with joy, run with joy
5.
Day she dim draw down the night Thoughts they turn towards the light On the homeward road You say you will make the move When your heart and mind approve The way your conscience goads But you know you need more than a desire You need the depth love alone can inspire To impart the willpower that you require To step out of the fire - Don't you wait too long! All around the jaws they clash Hungry nightmare teeth they gnash Looking you up and down Tick the time tock seconds pass Clock the forces that amass The gauntlet is thrown down But you say you'll wait 'til your youth is gone Then you say you'll wait 'til your loving is done Then you've got a career, high ambitions to be won When does the time come - Don't you wait too long? Most of say that we'll run away sometime Few get as far as the gate Some run a lifetime, ten times round the whole world End up in the same sorry state When the fact of death examines all of which we're proud Stop and think about it Doesn't it make you want to cry out loud? But to who? Who can take you to heaven? Who knows what it is to be you? Who can righteously judge between your mistakes and your sins? Tell me who said 'Except by him nobody enters in?' - Don't you wait too long!
6.
Stranded 03:34
Who would have thought you could be stranded High and dry without a friend to call upon You were so certain such disasters Were reserved for those in life Who hadn't had the sense To have been born you instead And now you're here And all the tears That you have cried Have made your vision come clear The truth remains Came the flood and your perceptions Of what's important found themselves in sink or swim mode The whole wide world of false attachment Was washed away and there you were In the boat you pushed out Sending hopeful birds of prayer And now you're here Above the fear In humility become finally sincere The truth remains Can you hear the heavens cheer? And as you take the pathway home Towards an everlasting welcome The truth remains
7.
Looking for love that heals Looking for love to make Looking for love that's real When all the rest is fake, love's reality Looking for love that stands up Looking for love that saves Looking for love that liberates Here is a world of slaves All of us are looking for love Looking for love that want's us Looking for love that cares Looking for love that teaches Love that has endless layers Each one more beautiful Looking for love that speaks out Love that does more than flirt Looking for love that seeks out All that is lost and hurt, All the world is looking for love Looking for love's bright shining Looking for love that laughs Looking for love to lead us Down the most dangerous paths To lead and not follow Looking for love that's soothing Looking for love that's strong Love that loves peace and justice Love that reveals the song as while are singing it Looking for love
8.
Table Talk 07:12
A very human feeling Comes stealing over us Once we grasp that we will die Catch it staring at us Round the corners of each joy And it fills us with a longing For a life without it there Like a song from childhood A melody we know Re-learnt every time A regret so poignant It cuts into the soul And the tears come out like blood In a flood soiled with sin I will sing this song for you A song of yearning and a prayer I will sing this song for you Your ways are not our ways So you build a bridge between us of yourself There's a knowing in us Implanted from the start That your witness might be heard Through war and dancing Through torture death and grave Still and small your voice pervades "Come out of dying into life" I will sing this song for you A song of needing as a gift I will sing this song for you Humbled and uplifted by your love You are all around us Symbol you are sign Sacrament and word You are aching beauty The source of all true life You are in us You are far, far beyond All we are I will sing this song for you Knowing you is everything And being loved is heaven I will sing this song for you We cannot be worthy We can only be invited And this bread And this wine Say we are Thank you
9.
Seriously siblings Are you running scared, running scared, running scared Seriously siblings Are you running scared, running scared, why so scared? From a howling night we're running into daylight Down a corridor of knives From a city built on suffering and warfare We are running into life Seriously siblings Are you running hard, running hard, running hard Seriously siblings Are you running hard, running hard, running hard There's no time to stand around in acquiescence To the spirit of this age In the love of Christ find strength to resist evil In His justice all the rage Sing Hallelujah, sing loud and long Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song Sing Hallelujah, sing proud and strong Sing Hallelujah, sing a new song Seriously siblings Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now Seriously siblings Why won't you come on now, come on now, come on now Well there's a mighty hand that holds us all in orbit Round His own eternal light Praise His name and by his spirit live within it In His strength fight the good fight Chorus When the anti-Christ comes roaring And you feel your love so drowned Let your heart be broken open Let your love of God's love sound Chorus Come on, seriously siblings Won't you run with joy, run with joy, run with joy

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All lyrics by Geoff Mann 1985/6/7/8
All music written and arranged by The Bond
Songs by Geoff Mann, except
'Stranded' by Geoff Mann and Steve Ridley
'Looking For Love' by Geoff Mann and Dave Mortimer

Recorded and Mixed at Twilight Sound Studio, Salford 28th March-4th April 1988
Engineered by Frank Walsh

Thanks to everyone who's helped us to become a farce to be reckoned with!

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released August 1, 1988

Geoff Mann: voice, wobbly/non-wobbly electric and acoustic guitars, drum programmes, percussion and occasional keyboards

Dave Mortimer: Ghastly Green Gibson and acoustic guitars

Steve Ridley: keyboards, backing voice and occasional drum programmes

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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