Footage of performance in Paekakariki on 16 October 2011 by Kayte Edwards and band singing their adaptations of poems by local poet, Michael O'Leary. Filmed by Clare O'Leary.
Fences Fall
A / / / D7 / / /
Across the table you sit from me:
A / / / E7 / / /
Good food , good wine before us
A / / / D7 / / /
The night closes in - our talk turns to our love
A / E7 / A /
I turn to look at the dimly-lit street
Chorus
A / D7 / / / A / / / E7 / / / / A /
Fences fall, the desolation appears between us
A / D7 / / / A / / /
Fences fall, the desolation appears
A / E7 / / / A / / /
T’ween us lies the emotional wasteland
Nothing lives under these dark, deserted skies
No more do eyes light up like shining stars
What can grow on this stoney, stoney ground?
Which is between two people so close
Chorus
Fences fall, the desolation appears between us
Fences fall, the desolation appears between us
Lies the emotional wasteland
Or, if some eccentric plant grew there
Who could see, who could see it in such darkness
The slow sadness exposed by the quick word
Walls that took years to build suddenly shatter
Chorus
Fences fall, the desolation appears between us
Fences fall, the desolation appears between us
Lies the emotional wasteland
Between us lies the emotional wasteland
For that Moment
Am / / / / Em / / /
For that moment we held each other
Am / / / / Em / / /
In the embrace that transcends
G / / / Am / / / G / / / Am / / /
All differences. All differences.
The embrace we live for
And often die for, or as in so many lives
Die without ever knowing Without ever knowing
Em / / / Dm / / / Em / / /
It is not the life-destroying crunch of Hine-nui-te-po,
Em / / / Dm / / / Em / / /
Nor the flame throwing absurdity, of Hekate’s wildness,
Am - / - Em - / -
Witches hunger for revenge
But the tenderness, of that moment
And the desire which instigates
And kills love And kills love
The deluge descends from the hills above,
Drowning and leeching the goodness in its wake,
When lovers awake in darkness , lovers awake in darkness
For that moment