Here's to those we could not save​.​.​.

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released 12 January 2012
Recorded at home in the summer and fall of 2011.

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Solo avatar of Laurent Leemans, singer in Ceilí Moss since 1995, who, after years of playing uptempo folkrock, felt a deep ... more urge to do something more austere, introspective and personal, under the patronage of Nick Cave, Morrissey, David Eugene Edwards or Gavin Friday. less

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Track Name: The hands that guide
I don't know if I was meant to love you
I don't think that it was written somewhere
You know I don't believe fate drives us through
Still it's strange how I feel driven somewhere

I never believed in a big book with our names
And our stories written from the womb to the grave
And our lot decided before we were even conceived
But every road ever led to you unless I'm deceived

I always thought what I did was my own choice
But how come I was that bewitched by your voice

Are there forces I cannot perceive?
Is my soul too clouded to believe?
Though I didn't even know you name
I knew I never would be the same

I don't know if I was meant to be your lover
I guess there ain't and I'll never find the answer
Track Name: Keerbergen
How well I do remember these days in the summertime
Us playing in the garden all day under towering pines
The house it was dark but it felt so warm
And with you by my side, I did never feel low

Chorus:
The feeling is close though it's so long ago
You were a kind of first love to me, do you know?

I never felt as safe as behind the curtain of trees
Each care would just flutter away in the gentle breeze
Blissfully unware of the storms outside
Of all the shame the grownups did try to hide

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No, I don't think I'll ever return to the summerhouse
Seems I'm the only one who didn't see what everybody saw
I don't want my memories maimed and unmade
I'd rather keep them safe in the back of my head

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Track Name: Fine flowers in the valley
She sat down below a thorn,
Fine flowers in the valley,
And there she has her sweet babe born
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

Smile na sae sweet, by bonie babe
Fine flowers in the valley,
And ye smile sae sweet, ye'll smile me dead
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

She's taen out her little penknife
Fine flowers in the valley,
And twinn'd the sweet babe o' its life,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

She's howket a grave by the light o' the moon,
Fine flowers in the valley,
And there she's buried her sweet babe in,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

As she was going to the church,
Fine flowers in the valley,
She saw a sweet babe in the porch,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

O sweet babe and thou were mine,
Fine flowers in the valley,
I wad cleed thee in the silk so fine
And the green leaves they grow rarely.

O cruel mother, when I was thine,
Fine flowers in the valley,
You did na prove to me sae kind,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.
Track Name: Electric lights
take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after midnight
take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after sun dies

you'll hear a temple burning,
you'll feel the temperature rising,
you'll hear the sirens wailing for you
for you and only you

when you take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after midnight
take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after sun dies

take a deep breath and dive in,
it won't be long 'til you're king
and little death is calling to you
to you and only you

take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after midnight
take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after sun dies

all around hang the colours,
so tempting and you're so bored
so what is wrong in taking it all?
taking what's shown

when you take a little walk out there
listen to the streets in electric lights
taking many walks out there
you are claiming "i want what's mine"

and as you're coming on top
so suddenly you just drop
just like the priest said when you were young
don't you recall the sound

everytime you take a little walk out there
listen to the streets in electric lights
take a little walk out there
listen to the streets after sun dies