Burning Doves

Burning Doves by Sunwheel Psychedelic

Tracks

1. Persephone
2. Hammerblows Of Thunder
3. Wheels In The Sky
4. Burning Doves
5. Lonesome Highway
6. Sleeping, Waking
7. A Drop In THe Mirror Pool
8. Leaving My Cross
9. Lilies Of Vice
10. Temple In My Heart
11. Loaded (Straight Ahead)


Credits

Performed by Sunwheel Psychedelic
Produced by G.W. Miner
Mastered by Dan Stout at Colossal Mastering
Design/Layout: Tom Tretter
Insert Photography: Paul Thomas
Location photography shot in White Sands, New Mexico.
Release date: January 7, 2004


Lyrics

1. Persephone

Daughter of the ocean breeze
They ignored your screams and pleas
Your flesh defiled, they turned their heads away
Off to unknown worlds below
Bride to hells of pain untold
These barren fields will soon redeem your name

I wander through the waste
Through regions hidden from the sun
To dry the tears that fall upon your face
I wander through the waste
Through desert sands of shifting dust
To wipe the tears that fall upon your face

Persephone
The light of love shines in your hair
Burn me in the embers of the fire
Maiden cast my ashes to the sea
My spirit flying free

Virgin of the Nysian planes
Weeping, bound to seasons damned
By autumns end I will avenge you
And when the leaves come down again
When blowing rains have soaked the grain
These barren fields will sprout anew

Persephone
The light of love shines in your hair
Burn me in the embers of the fire
Maiden cast my ashes to the sea
My spirit flying free

(repeat)

I’ve left this world behind to walk among the legions of the dead
My bride is clothed in roses black
My weary soul to resurrect

Persephone
The light of love shines in your hair
Persephone
The light of love shines in your hair
Persephone
The light of love shines in your hair
The light of love
The light of love
The light of love
Shines in your hair

2. Hammerblows Of Thunder

Tonight we drink of nectar and dance in celebration
The scourge of darkness is dead and gone
Rising toward the heavens in our flight to touch the sun
Stealing thunder from the gods
Our will be done

We’ve borne this burden too long
With sadness in our hearts
Tonight we sing a new song
The new age has begun

Hammerblows of thunder
The dawn of revolution
With hammerblows of thunder
We break from the past
Laying waste the endless night of illusion

With the mighty pen of truth rewriting myths of old
Reclaim your place upon the earth
Bigot gods of yesteryear
Your time is running low
In this dawn of dawns
Your ashes we burn

We’ve borne this burden too long
With sadness in our hearts
Tonight we sing a new song
The new age has begun

Hammerblows of thunder
The dawn of revolution
With hammerblows of thunder
We break from the past
Laying waste the endless night of illusion
Hammerblows of thunder
A call to revolution
With hammerblows of thunder we break from the past
Laying waste the endless night of illusion

Scaling heights of summit peaks
Then down through hells below
Our will is everywhere and everything
Chorus of the angels high
Hear our song below
Lift your hearts together now and sing

Dawn of Dawns

3. Wheels In The Sky

For so long I have wandered
In these gilded streets that cut my feet like stones
For so long I have wandered
Like an angel wasted in the dust
Whose got nowhere to go

We spin like wheels
Like wheels in the sky
You know we do
(We sail the seas of time)
We spin like wheels
Like wheels in the sky

For so long I toiled the fields alone
Those seasons in the sun
They nearly brought me down
One day I burned those fields
Burned them to the ground
In death we shine like brilliant stars
No matter where we are

We spin like wheels
Like wheels in the sky
You know we do
(We sail the seas of time)
We spin like wheels
Like wheels in the sky

We spin like wheels in the sky
Rolling on and on…

4. Burning Doves

I had a vision of the days to come
One man killing another one
In this race of human waste
The beat goes on
Could you hate enough to kill a man?
Really hate enough to kill a man?
Look him dead in the eye
And shoot ‘em down?

I had a vision of the world to come
Drowning in a sea of blood
And a mother wailing for the death of her son
Rioting in the streets of madness
Hatred fueling the war machine
Before the night is through they’ll bury another one

The dove flies overhead
Crashing through the sky in a body of fire
With the weight of wicked man she starts to tire
The dream that once was freedom dying on her wings
Their ears burning as she screams

Screaming like a bird of prey

5. Lonesome Highway

Lonesome highway
Winding a thousand miles long
Yeah this lonesome highway
The only road I’ve ever known
A million souls
They scream in cages by the road
Writhing in the scorpion sands
They’re heading for the valley below

I’m spinning out where there’s no tomorrow
Down in the land of the setting sun
Twilight angels whispering in my ears
Those sweet songs of oblivion

Lonesome highway
Stretching an age inside my mind
In vast corridors of empty space
I reach for strangers in the night

I left it all
Had to get on over those city walls
Those walls of stone I built so high
I had to leave
Before they came down on me

I’m spinning out where there’s no tomorrow
Down in the land of the setting sun
Twilight angels whispering in my ears
Those sweet songs of oblivion

Twilight angels whispering in my ears
Those sweet songs of oblivion

I’ve come to lie in the haze of summer
Lay down and die like a child in wonder
Reaping the curse of a madman’s birth
Driving in a black sedan through the desert

I’ve lived my life on a lonesome highway
Yeah lived my life on a lonesome highway
Down in the land of the setting sun

6. Sleeping, Waking

Last night I awoke from a fitful sleep
Thunderstorms crashing in my head
The siren wail of yearnings
And loves lost in my bed…

I’ve got no time for feeling empty
I’ve got no time for feeling sad
Leave it all behind me now
Gonna push on through somehow
Gonna push on through until the dawn yeah

Yes I’ve got to carry on
(Gotta keep on rolling along)
Yes I’ve got to find my way
(Keep pushing for the higher ground)
Yes I’ve got to carry on
(Gotta roll on, gotta roll on)

Now I know the dreaded night of dreams
Windswept deserts of the soul
The sound of footsteps in the hall
And the chilling fearful grip
Of hopes crashing on the shore
I’ve stood and watched them
One and all

Wheeling through the sky
This hooked cross now rolling by
To soon be coming around the bend
And then again
My soul in movement around the sun
I will return again
The axis spinning
The dawn of new beginnings
And with no fear of death

Yes I’ve got to carry on
(Gotta keep on rolling along)
Yes I’ve got to find my way
(Keep pushing for the higher ground)
Yes I’ve got to carry on
Gotta roll on,
Gotta roll on

This morning I awake
Plucking fruit from the orchard trees
Gentle winds blowing me downstream
Onward ever moving
Upward ever reaching
Rising skyward on beams of light

7. A Drop In The Mirror Pool

A drop in the mirror pool
Then silence
A flicker
And the candle’s flame
Extinguished

My time is running low
But I don’t mind no
I’m looking forward to a new beginning

I’ve known the hour of madness
Done my time on bended knees
Embraced the hand of fear like an old friend
I’ve cheated death so many times
What cruel fate has spared my life?
I’ve slipped the hangman’s noose
But he’ll get me yet

My time is running low
But I don’t mind no
I’m looking forward to a new beginning

The dawn of blissful dreams is here
The dawn of blissful dreams…

8. Leaving My Cross

I’m leaving my cross behind baby
I’m leaving my cross behind
I’m looking to ease my mind yeah yeah
I’m leaving my cross behind

The war is never over
Every day I feel the weight upon me
Feel like I’m getting nowhere
And I push away the ones who love me
I push them away
Yeah I push them all away

I ain’t the chosen one
Feel like a man on the run
Running a race that’s never won

(repeat)

I’m leaving my cross behind baby
I’m leaving my cross behind
I’m looking to ease my mind yeah yeah
I’m leaving my cross

Running through the jungles and the killing fields
Where the souls of men are buried alive now
I don’t give a damn
Gonna do all I can
Gonna claw and scratch and fight to survive now
Yeah Yeah
Yeah I’m going all the way

I ain’t the chosen one
Feel like a man on the run
Running a race that’s never won

(repeat)

I’m leaving my cross behind baby
I’m leaving my cross behind
I’m looking to ease my mind yeah yeah
I’m leaving my cross behind

I’m leaving my cross

9. Lilies Of Vice

I watched a mountain of gold
Slipping through my hands
Like a great city fallen
Into grains of sand
I saw the end of the dream
In the waning of the moon
A the flame of my youth
A brief candle
Fading too soon

I watched a snail crawling on a razor’s edge
And the walls of the madhouse close around my head
In fields of blood I saw the death throes of an age
Alone and unknown
Another soldier ending his days

Have I been losing my way
With these dreams of mine?
Have I been led astray
By these lilies of vice?

These lilies of vice

I ride my horse over the edge of the cliff
As an offering to the flame that consumes my soul
In pursuit of the ideal I give my life and my name
A cruel mistress she drives me
And I do it all again
I do it all again

Have I been losing my way
With these dreams of mine?
Have I been led astray
By these lilies of vice?
These love letters to oblivion
Like thunder from the skies
These spasms of creation
In the dead of night
This lust for dominion
Stirring shadows in my mind
A cruel mistress she drives me
These lilies of vice

A cruel mistress
She binds me

10. Temple In My Heart

I know sometimes it’s not easy
They’ll be times when all my strength is gone
But I just gotta go on believing
‘Cuz I won’t stop until its done
This temple in my heart

I founded a temple in my heart
Now I’m burning it down
Gonna start again and build another one
I’m building a temple in my heart yeah
Build it up from the ground
Gonna make it stronger than the last one

I know sometimes it’s not easy
They’ll be times when all my strength is gone
Just gotta go on believing
‘Cuz I won’t stop until its done

This temple in my heart
Yeah this temple in my heart

I’m learning to let it go
I’m learning to take it slow
I’ve had enough of vain ambitions
I’m learning to understand
I’m learning to be a man
My will is strong through all vexations

I know sometimes it’s not easy
They’ll be times when all my strength is gone
Just gotta go on believing
‘Cuz I won’t stop until its done

This temple in my heart
This temple in my heart
I built this temple in my heart

11. Loaded (Straight Ahead)

Give me all your lovin’ in the back of my car
Give me all the things I never needed
Give me one and then all the others
Gotta get another
Yeah, you’re gonna be my dream

Loaded at the wheel of my car
And I feel alright

Running and a-running like a river
I’ve got fire ripping through my veins
Radio burning
Wheels are turning
Don’t give a damn if I go up in flames

Keep on moving straight ahead
Through all the hustle and the noise on the street
Gotta keep on moving straight ahead
Through all the bullshit from the people I meet

Give me all your lovin’
Take a hold of my heart
Tell me all the things I need to hear now
Say you’ll be my lover
Tell me there’s no other
Yeah, say we’ll always be

Loaded at the wheel of my car
You better stay out of sight

Running and a-running like a river
And desire burning through my brain
Lie in my bed
Go to my head
Love me ‘till I go insane

Keep on moving straight ahead
Through all the hustle and the noise on the street
Gotta keep on moving straight ahead
Through all the bullshit from the people I meet