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A Storm of Years

by Purple Avengers

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Between The Silver Rails Far along the Cosmic Trail A million miles beyond the veil Dividing night from dreams of day We’re spooning sunlight into pails Here it is the Milk of Dreams A dozen shady roadhouse scenes The gift that turns you into rain Cloud-high and down again Here between the Silver Rails A trip by stellar train We ride the comet tails And drink The stars’ infernal ale I didn’t mean To take you To the secret place Up high Here on the edge Of everything The sign says: “Here it is Eternity” Drive until we reach the sea The road beneath us burns our eyes We all live... well we all try
2.
Miranda 04:00
Miranda Miranda sex is a picnic Roll in the blankets free Burn in the insect heat Miranda sex is volcanoes Volume of lust is lost Unsubtle metaphors Miranda sex is religion Fuck all the gods you see Ours is eternity Miranda sex has a death toll Lost in the crossfire fun Two of us became one Miranda sex is a new toy Eager to unwrap bliss Cross off a birthday wish Miranda sex is a fine art Drawn in our darkest hour Critical faculties flower We hunger for touch... We are starved for delight... I don’t want to wake up feeling Nothing remains in the light Miranda sex is an instinct Join up the missing links Genetic code in winks
3.
Go! The coast is clear The cats are busy Licking all the cream No! The cats all scream The mice have taken Cheese and Liberties Whiskers twitch With richest smears Cholesterol hari-kari Safe in our own Roquefort here Dreaming of Red Leicester Square Fake the bravery The cats surprised Flee far in disbelief Break the feline tame The mice have beaten them At their own game Cats resort to dirty tricks And launch Limburger Gas Rockets Mice have all they came to steal Take to the skies In Wheels of Cheese
4.
Swarm 02:03
They came out of the sky And swarmed the night A rain in flaming points of light Their engines like a Storm of Years They landed aeons earlier than planned Bent to shake our fish-lobe hands Our blood was barely warm... it seems They kindly brought a gift Of Zip Machines Built to rip apart our genes And put their minds in Monkey Things
5.
Feeds Birds 04:10
Was a man so he said... so he said Used to fly with birds Or wanted to I guess Was a man disagreed... used to mean it Used to mean it or he wanted to I guess Feeds birds crumbs and seeds And honey-words he don’t mean Tortoise-shell… Hello friend come on in What I mean is hello live with me I guess Tortoise-shell… you got under my skin I will let you pick the furniture I guess
6.
Hirsute 1 04:52
You try to look up At what’s going down You try to look out At what’s in... You clown The Circus is a lair For the Ringmaster of Thieves But the Midgets have got the lowdown The chase is on I’m hot in pursuit The Bearded Lady Looks hot in hirsute She is lucky in love Her suitor’s cards Are on the table While I am tangled In her ladybeard While Pitiless Pete Throws knives Of deceit At Mary-Girls Tied to Fate’s spinning wheel He denies your civil liberties Three times before the cock crows Then climbs into bed With the jury
7.
Crystal Land 02:48
Drop your rocks But make your stand And take your place in Crystal Land With feeble cars on needle wheels And jagged dogs that stalk our heels Is there nowhere left to run? Will we fall into the sun? This season of dreams Has only just begun In Crystal Land alive beneath the sun In a box on the 14th floor With lots of rocks To stone the Kings of War Whose fists mean Business... Eyes the Bitter Clown If we miss This world comes crashing down Eyes on stalks that wilt with dawn A steel egg unbinds all form A field of glass... A double sun What once was two Has now been joined as one
8.
Logic Fails 04:19
Logic fails Lost all faith All belief swept away Menace in him Menace in him No telling if he’s told tales Drama to weave Drama to reap No telling if she’s told tales Knows darn well truth has failed Well-forged lies take their place Last offer Easy meat Stripped of fur Left to bleed Jester is trained Test of restraint No telling if he’s told tales Circus of Hate Circle of Apes No telling if she’s told tales That’s when Logic fails…
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Sawdust 04:15
Rockjaw Brickwall Makes a fist like pig-meat With his knuckles dragging He could be a road-sweep Catfight Wreckball Makes a mark on impact With her sawdust brain She can outthink concrete Sperm race is won By the dumbest one Willing to beg for your stupid egg Alltalk Bookboy Wears his socks in sandals With his wall of words He could be a landmark Bigwit Nofriends Leads a life on paper With her flowerpress frame She could be a bookmark Splash of fuel Keeps the friendship warm Sawdust fire on the butcher’s floor Burger meat is all eyes and paws Tender pets on the butcher’s board
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D.N.A.A.O.K 04:13
Opening line... Go out and find What you want protected Go out and play... put on display The love you collected Lousy segue... Well anyway so what does it matter? Kinks in our genes left human beings As mad as a hatter Did you know that we are mostly Just made up of water? Did you know that flies share More of our genes than they oughtta? Did you know that there’s A comical twist in our nature? Did you know that we are Really all chimps in our makeup? Just another genetic gamble I couldn’t afford to lose One final thought Now you are bored And then this is over What would you say if we could change Instead of evolving?
12.
Unlike Vera Lynn Dirty water... dirty feeling No use trying to conceal it We may not meet once again On the face of it unlike Vera Lynn Can I hang off you Like a piece of lint? Once again Keep the questions open-ended Wear me out like a new dress
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Instrumental
14.
A thousand years and rising Has taken us up so high The stars have lost their faint glow And burned their fuel to guide us Met Icarus... clipped his wings And snuffed the sun in slipstream We gorge on rich emptiness While sipping Milky Way drinks A thousand years and rising Beyond the Realms of Finite So hold my hand tight as we flee Together through the unknown
15.
Softly Came The Rain After all these years Softly came the rain To fall on all the Seeds of Hopeful Dreaming
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Hirsute 2 11:55
While Jesus wept The men slept deep sleeps The women were left To pick up the pieces Herod was harried So he hacked the heads Off the firstborn And Judas was King of His Own Defeat You got a new pair Of Gold Nosehair Ploughs To daintily sow your seed in the ground Now you’ve got a patent On that Free Will Power You can generate some interest From your friends

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released May 5, 2016

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Purple Avengers Brisbane, Australia

Formed in Brisbane, Australia 1987 & influenced by psych, heavy rock & improvisation. Lineup: vocals, guitar, organ, bass & drums.

They played & toured extensively. Phantom Records reissued their album Starlight’s Journey Home, then EPs Emma Peel Sessions & Dragonfly. SJH was remastered & released on vinyl in 2023.

3 further albums include Let The Compass Sink (Clostridium Records, Germany).
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