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Naked Trees

Release Date: July 2011
Producer: Steve Butler
Label: Green Dragon

PRICE: £12.00


1. Only For A SecondLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler
Oh from the night to the light of her bright eyes.
Something wasn't right here, or something.
She knew you well, you could tell
from the first moment.
The moment that her eyes went through you.

She would take your hand
and wrap your arms around her.
Just the glimpse of an eye
and forever falling for her.
She was the one, like a message in a bottle,
She'd have to come to you first
before you ever came across her.

Oh from the day, to the shade of her shadow,
I can never sleep out of it.
The look on her face
as she stares through the window.
Is there something out there she knows
that you don't.

She would give it away,
but it was only for a second.
You could look for a day
and you might only think you got it.
She had a way, you could read her like a letter.
But when she went away,
you wish you had known better.
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2. As Through AsleepLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

The places I have seen,
The places I have seen they all add up.
And the haze, that does turn them into dreams,
Well the time that's past has seemed to wake me up
Describe to me a place so real,
Where we could actually meet,
And tears and fears don't fall so deep,
It's there your voice appears,
and disappears from me.

Although, although I know you close,
I only know what you will let me know.
Your heart, is this abstract piece of art,
And it shows me anything I wish to be shown.

The picture she could paint for me,
Although I am alone,
Well in that painting we could meet,
And live as though asleep.

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3. SilverLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

Silver is the night.
Every now and then we see the lights.
Deeper gets the sky.
Further from the colour of our eyes.


And we'll wait upon the hour,
When memories fade
and new ones are made.
Me and my heart come alive there.
Between the day and night,
When the sun in the sky
has the moon in her eyes.
Me and my heart, between them lie.


Silver is the sun and moon
that share the sky.
Silver is the harmony of hearts alive.


So walk along the wall.
Standing there as long as I have known.
Steeper gets the fall,
For the rolling stones taken
from their thrones.


And we'll wait upon the hour,
When memories fade
and new ones are made.
Me and my heart come alive there.
Between the day and night,
When the sun in the sky
has the moon in her eyes.
Me and my heart, between them lie.


Silver is the sun and moon
that share the sky.
Silver is the harmony of hearts alive.

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4. To The Maiden Sing (Full Track)LYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

Every bird, she has a song to sing.
Born to sing a song,
The roses and the thorns.
Without voices what would we become?
A river you and I that never gets to run.


Jenny, Jenny, let us hear a song.
Your song, forever sung,
And remembered when you're gone.
But who'll remember me?
The people I have known,
or the places I have grown?


Oh me oh my I am alive.
When the blackbird sails across the sky,
And over to the other side.
Blackbird.


When arrived this melody to you?
When you sang to the king?
Or to the maiden sing?
Or was it in your soul?
I've searched the sky for mine,
And I'll sing you what I find.


Oh me oh my I am alive.
When the blackbird sails across the sky,
And over to the other side.
Blackbird.

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5. Days Gone ByLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

I saw the sun pour the morning out.
And shades of grey were now awake.
And when she falls down in the evening,
The life will fade from the sinking face
Of the day gone by.


Oh the day gone by the day gone by,
In the light I can see it, but in the night I can feel it.
The night time falls and the night time calls,
Calls the colour of my mind,
but in the day I become blind.


So watch the window turn slowly darker,
And see the view make an outline of you.
And as the hours will make you clearer,
It changes to the greens and blues
Of the day gone by.


Oh the day gone by the day gone by,
In the light I can see it, but in the night I can feel it.
The night time falls and the night time calls,
Calls the colour of my mind,
but in the day I become blind.


I know the light that the day can bring
from the fear of everything,
As clear as day.
There's a light that the night provides,
when the nature of my heart decides,
Its free from me.
That the night provides.


Oh the day gone by the day gone by,
In the light I can see it, but in the night I can feel it.
The night time falls and the night time calls,
Calls the colour of my mind,
but in the day I become blind.

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6. Fallen LeavesLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

Here we go, down the same old road
I've walked before,
With the same cold breeze in winter,
Just like a key to my mind that opens memories


How did you get so deep into a world
that no one else can see?
Well man you don't know nothing
Until you have seen what I've seen
and feel the way I feel


These fallen leaves and naked trees
Are all I got when I'm feeling lonely,
To wake me up when my mind seems to stray


My mysteries don't mean nothing really,
But they get lost in my imagination
Like something you dream but then lose control of.


Here we go, to the hills I've seen
one hundred times
Before the smells of summer
Just like a photograph,
Always stays the same


Don't get to close to me
Because I'm here you see but there's two sides of me
There's the man sitting right here with you
And then there's the man in my head
Sitting where I want to be.


These fallen leaves and naked trees
Are all I got when I'm feeling lonely
To waken me up when my mind seems to stray


My mysteries don't mean nothing really,
But they get lost in my imagination
Like something you dream but then lose control of.

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7. Black Suit JacketsLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

Every man in black suit jackets,
and covering their hair.
Silence can be such a racket,
and nature so unfair.
When we know everyone we know,
And every place we go has a history unknown.
And everyone we meet. We really meet,
Has a mystery unknown.


How much time can we spend on our own,
before we are alone?
After darkened streams have run dry,
And leather shoes on stone.
When a moment in our time,
Can mean more to us than many years gone by.
And if everybody's past, by no means lasts,
It's just a mystery unknown.


How much can we learn from poets,
Before their words are worn?
How much can the written word,
Speak to ears uninformed?
When a word can be understood,
In any one of many readings of a book.
And if we never understand,
That there was no plan,
But a mystery unknown.

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8. Take A While (Take a While)LYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler
A path that I have seen
Close, but never past the green
Further I have been,
Over land, across the sea.

I could cast a stone to a land unknown, Just a few steps from my home.
Who else has been, who else has seen
these miles of blue and green.

Take a while to sit. Embrace it.
As far as eyes can see.
Take a while to hear the sound
Of silence fill up your ears,
Take a while to let it take you,
Take you away.

The Stones upon the sea,
Break the water's ruthless unrest.
One side calm and clear,
Free from the surrounding tears.

A walkway to the open sea,
a runway out from so deep,
Who else has left there foot prints on
the miles of sand and stone?

Take a while to walk along it,
Until only ocean remains.
Take a while to hear the sound,
Of wind take weight off the waves.
Take a while to let it take you,
Take you away.

You must leave this land to understand, what you have left behind.
Come back where you started from, and realise that the answer is to leave…
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9. DecemberLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

The last December breeze,
She always comes back to me.
And sings through a naked tree
with silver sleeves,
And thaws a distant memory.
And so it will today,
As long as time won't wait.
As long as a song will call the morning due,
And hours warm the afternoon.


Oh December Breeze,
Forever freeze,
May every season forget to keep,
Your silver wreath,
Your cold relief,
Will allow me to set time free,
On the breeze.


I fall into a dream.
Or so it seems.
To sleep like the land below
her sheets of snow,
That begin to wake before she goes.
And so silently she lies,
All dressed in white.
Blinding the colour from our open eyes,
But leaving out those blushing skies.


Oh December breeze,
Won't you carry me,
May my eyes forever be blind but see,
Your silver wreath,
Your cold relief,
Will allow me to set time free.
So fallen snow,
Forever show,
Or take me with you when you go.
On the breeze.

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10. Hold and TouchLYRICS +/-
Words and Music: Rory Butler

Give me something.
Give me all you've got.
When I was a child I was given a lot.
Just don't give me nothing,
it will be all I'll ever love.
All I ever love.


When I have spent my time alone.
I find somebody that I barely know.
And for a moment, they'd be all I'd ever love,
They'd be all I ever love.


I can never tell.
Was it for love I fell?
Or have I given in to the time,
That it's taken to be mine, well,
I'm somewhere in the middle,
I'm somewhere in the middle,
Between love and loved,
Hold and touch.
Between hold and touch.


Sweet the sound of whisky and folk.
We'd sit and listen have a drink have a smoke.
We'd sit and listen and it was all I ever loved.
All I ever loved.


Bitter sweet when I'm half asleep.
I will be what I want to be.
And I'd meet a woman
and she'd be all I ever need.
All I ever need.
I can never tell. Was it for love I fell?
Or have I given in to the time,
That it's taken to be mine, well,
I'm somewhere in the middle,
I'm somewhere in the middle,
Between love and loved,
Hold and touch.
Between hold and touch.

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All songs by Rory Butler © Green Dragon Songs 2011.