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Holloway Road

by Rich Dicas

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1.
Brought up with feet on the run I was wide-eyed and looking for the sun Caught on the breeze so young My bags in the hold and My heart longed to rest In the quiet of my chest Where love whispers peace And I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else Wrapped in the summer’s embrace The leaves hang their shadows on your face I give you my fading scars To have and to hold My heart comes to rest In the valleys of your chest Where love whispers peace I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else Love will take its time While we’re waiting let’s stand up And watch our shadows blend
2.
Bella's Song 03:40
Swollen face and bruised up eyes A stranger’s fist on a red-light night The unseen sores of a Mombasa bar I hold my breath It’s gone too far But hope holds on And drags my heart from between the sheets My ropes come undone Deep in my chest I feel its first beat I won’t let my scars dictate my path As I give up the ghosts of my wounded past And the oil on my heart is a smile and a laugh In the arms of a home where love is made to last I was a tourist’s toy with absent eyes I’d give my life just to feed my child But love came in and took my hand And wrote my name there in the sand
3.
I shuffled in the back and found an empty row Cards stuck to my chest, wouldn’t let my feelings show As this square becomes a stage for the school of angry sons Who throw thunder at the rain that turns their statues into dust Conscience to the back, tongue-tied and left alone When the heads beat the hearts all the bruises start to show In here is where the minds dig channels for the blood Of another sacred cow you never fully understood Three years takes its toll on the eyes of a naive soul And the roof crumbles under the shadows of the stone that rolled away
4.
I tried my best to show you that something isn’t right With a heart that’s either silent or looking for a fight You always kept me out of your sight The child that felt unworthy of a minute of your time Became a man that’s driven by the thorns in his side He’s always tired You are covered by the collars and the sheets You got stuck inside you’ve been living a lie too long So come and find the peace of my Father’s song Now I’m somewhat older than when I first met your eyes And I do not need your shoulders to rise above your height You never looked at me with a smile But as I read your story through the eyes of a man My anger turns to pity for a heart that understands The wounds of lack You are covered by the collars and the sheets You got stuck inside you’ve been living a lie too long So come and find the peace of my Father’s song As sounds of sacred whispers bring harmony to pain And fill your heart with meaning and melodies of grace You’ll never be the same again
5.
Stood in the shade of the forbidden tree My tears came down as you’d hidden from me You reached for the leaves covering up your shame As the autumn fell I called out your name I said, “Where are you my love, don’t hide” Open hands were scarred on the rescue tree My best laid plans to bring you back to me The weight of the world it was borne for you And the veil on your face was torn in two I said, “Look at me my love, don’t hide” You woke me up under the apple tree It seems you were born for intimacy I see my face in the mirror of your eyes In the dawn of the day our love it burns bright I said, “Come with me my love, don’t hide” I am yours and you are mine Oh my love please don’t hide
6.
When the morning broke I stepped into the road And felt the dust between my toes With a downcast face and shoulders that were braced To carry twelve years of shame The path it was closed The town alive with hope But the blood that stained my clothes Kept me stealing my glances alone Then I caught a glimpse of your face within the crowd On the way to Jairus’ house And so I pushed past until my shadow cast All it’s frame on your back My eyes they were closed Down to my last hope As I grabbed your clothes You brought healing right there on the road You called me out and you chased away my doubts With one word from your mouth As the crowd looked on you wrapped my in your cloak And sent me out on the road With a heart that’s never closed And always dares to hope That the dust on my clothes Carries healing wherever I go
7.
18th July 01:38
Borne by the breeze that brought you to me I stood with open hands, you stepped into my heart and Built us a home we’ll take when we go I’ll be the walls that stand, you’ll be the warmth of open hands Love will be our song all through the sleepless nights I will stay by your side my love
8.
Daughter 03:40
Wrapped up inside my love We grow to make some space Held by the hidden hands That mould you into shape Our love flows through your veins Like a river gathers up the rain Every morning you’ll wake up to a smile on my face And I’ll carry you into the arms of a Father’s embrace In the evening we’ll be spending our time alone In the garden so my daughter you’ll always know That where we are you’ll always find a home Breathless to think upon the fire inside your eyes Lydia you are the one I want to always be beside You stay fixed inside my head Like a river sticks to its bed Every morning we’ll wake up to a smile on her face And we’ll carry her into the arms of a Father’s embrace In the evening we’ll be spending our time alone In the garden so our daughter will always know That where we are she’ll always find a home
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10.
Without a warning my brother picked us up And drove to your side There in the hallway in shock and bleary eyed We all held on tight With a charcoal grin and such shallow skin You looked just like a ghost But the way we all hid and never talked about it That’s what haunts me the most Your eyes like bullets still waiting for the fire Arms stuck with wires Still ten years after a hollow laughter masks What’s left unsaid With a charcoal grin and such shallow skin You looked just like a ghost But the way we all hid and never talked about it That’s what haunts me the most Dad he came, and I packed my bags just the same When I saw him brake I knew, you’d done it again
11.
I face my fear with a fistful of dust I throw it in his eyes add my spit and then rub I say “Listen my fear; see who I have become I’m no longer a slave but a blood-bought son” Sink to your knees put your hands in the mud And gather up the guns of this murdered son The weapons of love that saw death come undone Was but a bucket full of tears and a fistful of dust
12.
Estenaxen 06:13
When I caught the eyes of a broken man On a cardboard bed with his gloveless hands I was taken back to that bloodstained sand In the place where love opened up his hands Oh how it hurts to be where love doesn’t sing, it screams And gives what it cannot keep to weep with the least of these I feel the warmth of that bloodstained sun As it rises up from the ash and dust Now the dawning light sheds the crimson hue And it lights the bones of this old man too Oh how it hurts to be where love doesn’t sing, it screams And gives what it cannot keep to weep with the least of these

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These songs were all written and recorded in our living room on Holloway Road in 2013-14

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released August 24, 2014

All songs written & performed by Rich di Castiglione
Recorded & produced at home by Rich di Castiglione
Keys on ‘Vernon Square’ – Rich Spens
Mixed at The Oxygen Rooms, Birmingham
Mixing Engineer - Tom Brookhouse
Artwork & Design – ‘MATTE’ – www.matte.xxx
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