credits
All songs written by Bahhaj Taherzadeh. © and ℗ Bahhaj Taherzadeh Music, BMI
Produced and Mixed by Will Stratton
Stereophonic Master by Timothy Stollenwerk
Artwork by Nala and Amalee Taherzadeh
Design by Carlos Esparza
The Players
Bahhaj Taherzadeh: vocals, guitars
Will Stratton: guitars, bass, piano, string arrangements
Joan Shelley: vocals on track 1
Rachel Grimes: piano on track 1
Glen Hansard: vocals, harmonium on track 4
Katie Mullins: vocals on tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Heather Sommerlad: violin on tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10
Maria Ramsey: viola on tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10
Lyrics
Lights Over London
I don’t know how it started
I don’t know how it ends
Lights over London
Swans on the Thames
You’ve come a long way
Time and time again
I don’t know where the night goes
I don’t know what the future holds
Dawn over Dublin
Rain on the lens
We’ve started over
Time and time again
Love loves to love love
Time and time again
Autumn Haze
Autumn, dry your eyes
Autumn, dry your eyes
And let go
Of the days gone by
Autumn, still your mind
Autumn, still your mind
And know
Of the worlds behind
Soon will these changing leaves be
Tumbling lost to the sky
Soon will our handful of days be
Gone by
Autumn, cast your line
Autumn, cast your line
And hold
What your longing finds
Soon will these changing leaves be
Tumbling lost to the sky
Soon will our handful of days be
Gone by
Days Outside of Time
Lost in light
Holding to the threads that tie you to the night
Watching out your window as the world goes by
Thinking of the people that you left behind
Living in the days outside of time
Liquid dreams
Spill into the cracks and fill the worlds between
The visions you’ve been told of and the ones you’ve seen
Flickering and dancing on the dusty screens
Somewhere in the shadows of your mind
Freedom we never thought would end
Long drifting in the tides
Maybe we will meet again as old friends
In the days outside of time
Empty street
Walking with the shuffle of a lonely beat
Slowing in the stillness of the summer heat
Listening to Bryter Layter on repeat
Hanging on and feeling every line
Freedom we never thought would end
Long drifting in the tides
Maybe we will meet again as old friends
In the days outside of time
In the days outside of time
In the days outside of time
Move with the Moon
You come and go
With no goodbyes
You’re laying low
In autumn’s eyes
You’re far from those
That know you well
A passing ghost
A ringing bell
Your heart is bound to everyone
You slip away, you dip and swoon
We tie our days to the sun
But you move with the moon
And morning stars
Will linger on
Fading scars
From what is gone
So dark the sound of hymnals sung
So hard to play your ancient tune
You slip away when day is done
And you move with the moon
Yes you move with the moon
Yes you move with the moon
Bicycles
Put on your coat
And meet me outside
The dusk is aglow
Let’s go for a ride
There’s hope in your heart
Could cut through a stone
There’s love in your blood
That could shatter your bones
And light lives in your hallways
And time stops for your dreams
And I think of you always
And all the magic and monsters you’ve seen
Let’s be silhouettes
Against the grey sky
We’ll burn our regrets
In the blink of an eye
We’ll face down our foes
With the strength of your stare
The threads of your soul
Will float through the air
And all your shivering wonder
Will rise over this town
And I will follow you under
And we will be both lost and found
Angela’s Heart
Silhouettes in silent glow
The empty roads, the fallen snow
Threads of thought floating slow
In her mind
Each regret a souvenir
The ending of a grieving year
Constellations flicker clear
Drawing lines
And there’s a restless yearning
Spinning worlds apart
And hidden words are burning
Down the dark
In Angela’s heart
Distant voices cut the air
Verses from some violent prayer
Sent out for some great elsewhere
To find
Broken shards of lucid dreams
Fragments drifting in the streams
Leaving all their would-be schemes
Behind
And there’s a restless yearning
Spinning worlds apart
And hidden words are burning
Down the dark
In Angela’s heart
In Angela’s heart
In Angela’s heart
Lonely Days
Lonely days are not so bad, not so bad
Lonely days need not be sad, need not be sad
You can write yourself a letter
You can set your words ablaze
You can hold yourself together through the haze
Of your lonely days
Lonely days will come and go, come and go
Lonely days so sweet and slow, so sweet and slow
In the silence of your longing
Where light in darkness plays
Your mind will find a song in every phrase
On your lonely days
Oh, lonely days
Oh, lonely days
You need not wish away
Your only lonely days
Your only lonely days
Your only lonely days
Hidden Love
Do you worry sometimes
That you’re losing your way
Do you count up your crimes
At the end of the day
Do you gather your reasons and rhymes
And find that you’ve nothing
And find that you’ve nothing
And find that you’ve nothing
To say
Do you write down your dreams
When you wake in the night
Do you follow the streams
Of your mind’s weary flight
Do you wait for the morning’s first beams
To flood all your darkness
To flood all your darkness
To flood all your darkness
With light
Well you and I
Seek a hidden love
Low and high
In the stars above
And in the desert dust
Blowing over us
Do you walk on your own
With a song in your ears
Do you travel alone
To settle your fears
Do you count all the ways you have grown
When you measure the passing
When you measure the passing
When you measure the passing
Of the years
Well you and I
Seek a hidden love
Low and high
In the stars above
And in the desert dust
Blowing over us
Blowing over us
Blowing over us
Tanworth
Do you think that I could stop a while and take
A flower from your garden
I’ve been walking to the grave of Nick Drake
In Tanworth in Arden
I’ve been traveling for three days
I’ve been losing myself in this place
And I can’t go home
I won’t go home
I can’t go home until
I have laid
A flower on his grave
Lately I have been living out my days
In some kind of slow dream
I’ve been slipping in and out of a haze
Tongue-tied and holy
I’ve been carrying an old mistake
I’ve been waiting on the silence to break
And I can’t go home
I won’t go home
I can’t go home until
I have prayed
At the grave of Nick Drake
I can’t go home
I won’t go home
I can’t go home until
I have prayed
At the side of his grave
Future Days
Standing still and running out of time
Another hill that you set out to climb
Fleeting thoughts and fading memory
What you were taught and what you fought to see
If these are not the future days you dreamed you’d have
Take a journey backwards through your distant past
Wander through the colors of your photographs
And forgive yourself
Landlocked blues and broken bottle dreams
The love you lose just wading in its streams
Silent spells and empty morning skies
Fever swells and ancient echo cries
If these are not the future days you dreamed you’d have
Take a journey backwards through your distant past
Wander through the colors of your photographs
And forgive yourself
Turn around now brother
Turn yourself around
Turn around now brother, turn
Turn, turn around
If these are not the future days you dreamed you’d have
Take a journey backwards through your distant past
Wander through the colors of your photographs
And forgive yourself
We Don’t Outgrow
Joni, I think the light’s getting through
But I’m still feeling lost
Been walking around here thinking of you
And all the rivers you crossed
You say look to the sky, the endless sky
And let your eyes adjust
‘Cause the trick of this place, is we’re floating in space
On a tiny spec of dust
So many old roads we used to explore
Now we know every inch of this town
And we don’t outgrow our shoes anymore
We just wear them down
Joni, I need you to help me believe
To show me there’s something more
Than what my feeble eyes can perceive
From down here on this floor
I know in my heart, my aching heart
We are not alone
There’s love and there’s light and there’s something inside us
More than flesh and bone
So many old roads we used to explore
Now we know every inch of this town
And we don’t outgrow our shoes anymore
We just wear them down
We don’t outgrow our shoes anymore
We just wear them down
We just wear them down
We just wear them down