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Thread #14661   Message #128747
Posted By: Susan-Marie
27-Oct-99 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Our Time Will Arise! (Findask)
Subject: Lyr Add: OUR TIME WILL ARISE (Findask)
M'bolo ("hi" in ynzebi") Mbo!

I've been helped so much by others answering requests like this, I'm glad I can finally return the favor.

Our Time Will Arise was done by Findask, a scots duo (Willie Lindsay and Stuart Campbell) that recorded in the '80s. I was never able to get a copy of the recording (this was several years ago, I should try again using the 'net) but I did transcribe the following from my recording of the T&S show that played it:

Ch: Our time will arise, our time will arise, our time will arise some sweet day
(repeat)

Frustration of faces, a platform that's bleak cold and staring
No more
A crowd slowly watching with eyes that are bloodshot and ?naked?
No we couldn't stay here, no we couldn't wait here
No we couldn't hold on ???? stand abuse
Abandoned to rot here like cold empty empires
Arising a monster, we slip into hatred

Chorus

We're swimming with strangers, lost in a place unfamiliar
No sound
Our lips move, no speaking, our ears are not hearing, no laughter
We're barren and leaden, infertile and wasted
Where one half is hidden and one half is dead
Our souls feel the trembling, our hearts feel the turmoil
We slip into silence, and slip into hatred

Chorus

There's no winter sunshine, no autumn leaves softly falling
No more, no
No summer breezes, no springtime believing, no calling
You're clothed in a blanket as dark as the cold night
Gone with the daylight and gone with the sun
And now riding backwards through rain-soaked and whirlwind
You're rising a monster, and slip into hatred

Chorus

Since this is merely what I thought I heard, it may be incorrect in many places. Now that I look at the lyrics, they seem pretty bleak, but it is a great song to hear.