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lagoon blues

by The Bathers

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Venice Shoes 04:37
Sweet Bergman unmasked Does arabesques for us unasked She melts into flight Laughs in the face Of this dusty traffic Once she held The golden east to fee She laughed in the face Laughed in the waves Of a devious sea You know unselfish love Waits to cross The impassable square With nothing to lose Nothing to prove Just her Venice shoes Once she held Once she held The golden east to fee Sweet Bergman unmasked Does arabesques for us unasked She melts into flight With nothing to lose Nothing to prove Just her Venice shoes With nothing to prove Nothing to lose No nothing to lose... Just her Venice shoes
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Gracefruit 03:37
Borne through the darkness From the beach at St Ives To the northern shore of the Western Isles Fruitgrace Trumpets return Then the Empress of hope Finds you alone Where can I find you? If I push for a rose in the night And I’ll seek you little gracefruit Yes I see you little graceful one Little gracefruit of the heart And Cupid revealed I was under his wheels And a swansong you sang on the straw coast And the red bow of Astarte Ties the moon to the car Down by Cape St. Vincent baby Under the stars Can I find you? Yes I’ll push for a rose in the night Yes I’ll see you little gracefruit Yes I’ll seek you little graceful one Fruitgrace Our streets sweeps divine Out of breath Out of time Any peaceful pose Catches you up now Get to the top And I love you little gracefruit And I’ll push for a rose in the night Yes I love you little graceful one And I’ll push for some pearls in the night Pearls in the night If this could last forever With the moon and the car Down by Cape St.Vincent Underneath the stars
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Someday she’ll blow her trumpet Someday she’ll ride the waves Walk out, blow out the candles Just dismiss, just misspell your name In the morning devour the glory She’ll follow on in your footsteps Florentine in your footsteps Fog I am in your footsteps All the way For it’s never too late No it’s never too late If you are ever to Rise like a phoenix Heady drive for the sun Trade in the horses For a home in the south Where golden-eyed girls Sway on the beach And move through the sunset On wings of desire Just last night I checked it out And I got word I heard it was Amapola on foot As you said Mahler had his Alma Yes Mahler had his Alma I saw her last You had me and I had you For it’s never too late Hey, it’s never too late Like a sunset On faraway lakes Never too late If you’re ever to Rise like a phoenix Heady drive for the south Trade in the horses For a home in the sun Where golden-eyed girls Sway on the beach They move through the sunset On wings of desire
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Fermina Fair 02:34
Bronze mistress sugar Playful in design Passion playing through her Mysterious in time Fermina in the garden Wearing sunset shades Seek her in the arbour Bring her some lemonade Even as she smiles Even as she sighs Fermina of the angels Diaphanous and wild You can see her now Down a road so muddy Through winds unclean Love your confusion Love her unseen Fermina of the angels Fermina of the dreams Fermina on the rich coast Fermina in the rye Tall and flowering In Dutch sailors’ eyes And love her as she smiles Love her as she sighs Fermina of the angels Fabulous and wild
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We’ll see you sometimes Hear your footsteps Eating ice cream Below Spanish Steps 79th & Madison Down rainbow’s end Soft trumpets plead Through Eden’s groves Down Eden’s lanes Oh, Raphael If you... See her as Natasha Laughing on the screen See her by the fountain Seraphic and serene Born in fragrant season Under old confetti bowers Shadows in the garden Will fall on every flower Furies in the mansions Serpents in the wells A golden cloak of radiance Broken like a spell Just like a spell
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Penned in a pissoir The pursuit will end For a poison flower Down rainbow’s end And all along seven bays With opium smiles She’s crouched like a sphinx On these indigo tiles Listen for me I said listen for me “Is this the face That launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium Sweet Helen Make me immortal with a kiss...” Lost on a trip On the streets of Brussels In a heliotrope haze Where acacia blossoms Forevermore I saw her last Up on Claremont Pass She came for some more She came for some more Honey at the core For a poison flower Youth will die Penned in a pissoir You cry “Do I believe in you? Do I believe in myself?” “We once had one of those In my father’s house The aperture from which the sand runs Is so tiny that at first It seems that the level In the upper glass never changes To our eyes it appears That the sand runs out Only at the end and until it does...”
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The harpies are gone Can’t you see them fly away? Flap their wings and sing Sha la la la la... Kiss some new dreams In my tired mouth Place your mystery on my lips Still you ask me if I’m so alive You must come with me Through the old Holmwood Birdsong ringing Across the orchard true And the trees so heavy With the sweetest fruit Kiss some new dreams In my tired mouth Place your mystery On my lips Hey now listen You’re so alive You must come with me Through the old Holmwood Your eyes they glisten In this wondrous night The harpies missing Blown or gone Kiss some new dreams Kiss some new dreams We’ll find mystery In the old Holmwood In the old home
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I knew a girl In her sweetheart sessions Amphetamine blown Fogged at dawn Who left here several years ago To get in the groove And maybe let the good times roll All the madder fruits Of Italian summers Down on the moonless sands In limitless nights In the rush of our delight Too honeyed to move Too smothered in pearls Dance little star Will you shine in the sky Surely baby, we’re going home tonight From Grand Hotels Grand delusions Everybody calls you Promising you reunion Grand Hotels Grand illusion Everybody making Merry in the ruins I knew a girl In her sweetheart sessions She was mahogany browned So fogged at dawn Down on the moonless sands On limitless nights On streetcars she travels In confusion through the night She stayed in Grand Hotels In Grand Hotels In grand illusion But maybe baby... we’re going home tonight Yes we are
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Lolita 01:27
Oh, Lolita Light of my life Fire of my loins She drew her dancing fingertips Across my swollen lip Half in her yellow dress Half in her mouthly caress There my brightling stood Languidly finally nude Laughing she’ll go She said... “Me faire casser le pot” Ah, Lolita Light of my life Fire of my loins Mûri au soleil
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Via D'Oro 03:20
Via D’Oro Down beneath the law Moonlight on your face Cast this mystic coast highway your spell Hired at sunset Still you look at me Laughing in a doorway Like a promise all too sweet Via D’Oro Down beneath the law Then you kissed me In your old way “Will you always feel this way? Will you always feel this way?” And you know I said Yes I will Yes I will Yes I will Yes I will Shy like horses Sky-wide tempest in blue Dreambright in garlands Tiepolo Blue Moonlight on your face Moonlight on your face Down on Via D’Oro Down in Via D’Oro Dreambright in garlands Down on Via D’Oro Down beneath the law Down on Via D’Oro Moonlight on your face Down on Via D’Oro
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Ave little Mamma Meet me at the fountain tonight Ave little Mamma Meet me at the fountain tonight Bring your Egyptian pistols And blast them in the cool of the night Two Latin leopards Moving on the shore of the bed Two Latin leopards Moving on the shore of the bed Wearing French silver fixtures You shake them from your beautiful hair Gone forever Moving down on ghostly Marie Yes she’s gone forever Moving down on ghostly Marie You used to smile like you knew something Like a rumrunner Playing Pavane in the shadows Playing Pavane in the shallows Ave little Mamma Make me chose you all night Ave little Mamma Make me chose you all night Hear the daybreak rustling Raise a smile in the teeth of the night Ave little Mamma Make me chose you all night Ave little Mamma Make me chose you all night Hear the daybreak rustling Raise a smile in the teeth of the night Ave little Mamma Run as Sophia can Ave little Mamma Trust in Sophia again Meet me when mischief befalls me From the whispering drains Two Latin leopards Moving on the shore of the bed Two Latin leopards Moving on the shore of the bed Waving blowing kisses Waving to the Beats and the Reds Ave Latin leopard Mobile in the whispering rain Ave Latin leopard Mobile in the whispering rain Mind me when mischief befalls me From the cruel and the vain Said mind me when mischief befalls me From the cruel and the vain
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Carnival 03:49
Night-time We can’t lose As we blindly tarantella Bold enough to choose Freedom’s angel is calling In the winding violins In the city night is falling Can you let the music begin? These few dying coals Cast the only light in the room And of your slender shoulders Make gold Play some tambourine Like a Spartan girl Promise me From deeper in the lanes Promise me Promise not to change Kiss me starface Across celestial miles From down the southern arbours Way down the wooden aisles Play some tambourine Let our friends glow Twist and shout Lovers on the new bridge Yes they call us with a shoutL In sweep the swallows Vital and sublime To go down to the casino gardens Play underneath the vines Play some freedom angel Play some freedom angel Play for freedom Let’s ride the streets imperious Mile after mile after mile And make the walls of Eden Tumble beneath your smile Kiss me sweetness Both vital and sublime We’ll go down the casino gardens Play underneath the vines And bring you violin In a French gown Play me out of time Yes we’ll scale the walls of Eden Yes we’ll scale them every time
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A stranger perfect In every movement In Paris singing Your Easter song You seek her purring past A phantom slender A phantom bold Ornella, you seemed to me Bright with impossible... Light with impossible dreams
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A Remixed and Remastered version of this classic album originally released on Marina Records of Hamburg in 1993.

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released August 7, 2020

Written, produced and arranged by Chris Thomson Co-produced and engineered by Keith Mitchell
String arrangements by Iain White, Mark Wilson and Chris Thomson
String arrangement on “Gracefruit” by Iain White
String arrangement on “Easter - for Edda Van Heemstra” by Paul Leonard-Morgan
Recorded at Palladium Studios, Edinburgh · Mixed at Palladium and CaVa, Glasgow · Assisted at CaVa by Tony Doogan · Additional recording and mixing at St Vincent Sound, Glasgow · Engineered by Sam Loup
Mastered by Bo Kondren @ Calyx, Berlin · Photography by Esther Haase & Lucy Vaughan
Special thanks to Sibilla Pavenstedt · Art direction & design by Stefan Kassel & Heinz-Uwe Moehlenkamp

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