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Pilgrimage

by Penny Dreadful

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1.
Road to Oblivion Took the long road to nowhere like a doll on a string To the land where the wild poppies grow With the yoke on my shoulders, in a boat with no wheel Swept away to a world not my own Like a wretched band of pilgrims at a gate with no door Heading out for a place to call home Sowed my grain on the waters, came to harvest the sea Like the wind through the roots of a tree All the way down the freeway to the edge of the world Down to the edge of the world Took the long road to nowhere, torn apart from my soil With my bare hands I nourished the ground And the plods of my footsteps down the long muddy road As I come to the end of my rope Howling out to the desert, like a wolf in the night With no word echoing back at the rocks Down the road to oblivion, on a free one-way ride To the land where the bright sunsets go
2.
Eager Volunteers I roam the streets, an outcast in my land An alien man in my own town Among a throng of eager volunteers Who cast more shadow on the light Weak-minded pawns, their armor made of coins, The winner gets to skip the line Who said this path leads upward to the sky While one is falling straight to die? No beam of sun nor sparkle in your eyes I’m gonna set that train afire You held me chained behind those prison bars I rose my eyes over the wire Speeding along across the shiny graves With eyes wide shut you walk in line Riding a train at headlong speed to hell And still you dwell in dreams of a life divine Boasting about fat wages and success You claim to hold the key to some gold mine How do you think your sickness shall be paid? What good is faith if you trust in a lie?
3.
Haven of Grace Did you see the children crying? I can still hear them weep and demand for the sun to return Do the children lay a-sleeping? Yes, I’ve put them to bed, now they’re dreaming up high in the clouds Have you seen the children kneeling? Yes, they’re down on their knees, with a gun pointed right at their heads Did you see the children resting? Yes, they’re resting in peace somewhere safe in the realm of the night Did you see the children playing? They were riding the merry-go-round when a strike hit the ground Did you see the children digging? Yes, they’re digging a grave on the sand where they once used to play Did you hear the children singing? They were moaning in pain under ruins in the sweat of exile Did you see the children dreaming? Yes, they dreamt of a rose blooming right on the dust and the stones In the skies Haven of grace in the skies In the skies Wipe out their trace in the skies
4.
Death Blow 04:09
Death Blow Among the winds She’s gliding to the East Above the mountains and the sea A pioneer of peace She bears the gift of gentle death Hell is the final act of love And purifies the filthy streets With rivers flowing of gore and blood Death blow, death blow You strike from heaven bringing hell from the above We turn our eyes From whence with heavy roar she soars We stand beneath the trembling sky With horror in our souls Led by the mortal hand of God She’s sucking out our brains Shooting rockets from the sky There ain’t no shelter from this rain Tonight I’m yours...
5.
Naughty Games Sweet smell of desire Dark power of control Get down on your knees I’m gonna teach you how to plead for some kind of deal Strike down with your whip Make those lashes sting Twist my weary bones and tie me up with chains and beat me hard till I sing How humbly I crawl At the soft squeeze of your heels I just love to sin There’s no one that can treat a man so mean as a queen Strike hard with your blade Lick slowly my wounds I beg for relief Oh Mistress, whip me till I bleed the hell outta me Treat me good Treat me fine Just do it for fun, oh Mistress, please Go get your whip and teach me right Naught, naught, naughty boy Great Mistress of Lust Black Angel of Pain My body is a cage I’m gonna scream just hard enough to show you I’m sane Dig deep with your nails Deep into my skin Bruise me with your teeth And always keep an eye on me to see what I see
6.
Love Walks on a Wire I had a bet with the devil Love ain’t but a gambler Three hearts on a slot machine You came disguised as an angel Dropped your golden armor Ripped my heart and burned my skin You plucked my strings like a goddess Wrapped your chords around me Took me to the Promised Land Your fingers weave like a spider Crawling like a cobra Naked on a river bank Pick me up, take me high Love walks on a wire Open your arms out wide Let’s drift through the sky I’m gonna hold you tight Stand straight on the wire Come set my soul aflight Under the high moon of summer Through the desert city Gambling with the dice of love Two lovers walk on a tightrope A player and a singer Fifty feet above the ground You’re like a world full of secrets Deeper than the ocean Welling up behind your bangs Why don’t you pull back the curtains Share with me your mysteries Stand against the tides of hell
7.
Graveyard Muley When the dust hit the corn with the might of a plague And the storm came a-blowing down the fields Tossed away from my home, like an old wicked ghost Ι’ve been wandering with no place to go Like a shadow on the move, with a-nothing left to lose And the heat gnawing greedy at my skin On the wide open plains, where the sun’s setting low But I still wonder which way to go Digging holes, drawing figures in the dust Blaze a trail among the shadows of my ghosts There ain’t no line of rust and there is no soul to trust And I know it’s a long way to go I was taught that my land is the blessed ark of God But it yielded to the blazing heart of hell He ain’t comin’ back no more for to carry me home And I still wonder which way to go But ain’t nobody gonna blow Muley Graves off his home Ain’t nobody kick the wretched off from this land Not the mighty hand of God nor the devil’s filthy claws But I still got a long way to go
8.
Desert Shore 04:43
Desert Shore The pathway to the desert shore steps downward from the hills A boat awaits to carry me back home And as I wave the last goodbye and turn my face to go Yet with the long-sought answer still untold Was I the captain of my soul, the master of my fate When I sailed forth to reach uncharted trails? It’s a long way to go There ain’t no time to fall And perish like the dust before the storm Through towering walls the years roll by, unbroken in their flow Where do I find the strength to carry on? And drifting like a wounded whale I sink down to the floor With scars from all the battles I’ve fought before With withered hands I grab the oars and row back to the dock And tell my sorrows to the desert shore It’s a long way to go There ain’t no time to fall And perish like the dust before the storm It’s a long way to go There ain’t no time to fall Until my wings lay broken All powerless to unfold And perish like the dust before the storm
9.
Comes a Time 03:53
Comes a Time Comes a time, comes a dreary time When you’re on your own again Takes a time, it takes quite a time Getting on your feet again First she holds you in her arms And she whispers words of love First she blows you to the skies Then she casts you to the ground Spent a time, spent a long, long time Learning how to fly again Till her eyes, till her mellow eyes Made me drunk on life again Lifts you up and drags you down That mysterious thing called love First she blows you to the skies Then she casts you to the ground
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River of Sin 04:42
River of Sin A black space yawns under my skin Its claws I can feel deep within My heart’s growing cold, it’s all covered with mold And no love can bring me release Oh, my soul – it ain’t gonna shine No matter how hard I may try No glory-bound train, but sorrow and pain So, my soul – it ain’t gonna shine There’s still something, as long as it hurts There is hope if it painfully burns So let those walls climb up high, let them hide the blue sky Let them veil the black river of sin The sky brooding quietly on my grief My walls I have built high and thick No light’s coming in, and no light’s going out My wounds keep on feeding the clouds Been down in the valley to pray To wash all my troubles away For my soul’s adrift on the billows of sin Been down in the valley to pray (Shaken and tossed by the fires of sorrow Broken and plagued with no strength from within Nurture your soul with the love of sweet Jesus You don’t have to cross the black river of sin) Got down on my knees I couldn’t hear nobody pray Oh, my wretched soul ain’t gonna shine I’ve been trying to ride that train Lord, that glory-bound train I’ve got wings but I cannot fly away Is it dark and I can’t see? Oh, he ain’t waiting there for me I still have to cross the river all alone Cast my burden on the Lord Is this there where I belong? But my soul, but my soul ain’t gonna shine

credits

released January 31, 2017

Penny Dreadful are:

Iannis Kalifatidis: lead vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, banjo
Nikos Panagiotou: drums, percussion, chains
Dionysis Teliopoulos: electric & resonator guitars
Panos Bobolas: bass guitar

With the Fellowship of the Sacred Heart:

Flora Ioannidi: backing vocals, lead vocals on Haven of Grace
Elina Ragoussi: backing vocals, lead vocals on Love Walks on a Wire
Loukia Soupouli: backing vocals
Flora Noutsou: backing vocals
Costis Zouliatis: Fender Rhodes
John Hardy: pedal steel guitar
Dimitris Pantelias: baritone & tenor sax

© 2017 All songs by Penny Dreadful
Lyrics by Iannis Kalifatidis

Recorded, mixed and produced by Costas C. aka Digital Alkemist
at Shakti Sound Studio, July to November 2016

Assistant Engineer: Simon Nikolaides

Executive Producer: Iannis Kalifatidis

Mastered by Yiannis Christodoulatos at Sweet Spot Studios

Artwork by Petros Voulgaris

A Lenin’s Modem Release [LM002]

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Penny Dreadful Athens, Greece

PENNY DREADFUL is an expressionistic gloom 'n' roll band formed in March 2010.
Their name derives from from a 19th century British fiction publication that featured
lurid serial stories, costing a penny each.
Their sound is electric and
wild, yet still with gloomy moments.
The lyrics talk about tattered characters or deal with the experience of self-deceit.
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