John & Mary and the Valkyries - discography

10,000 Maniacs - Love Among the Ruins *(Geffen Records, 1997)*
	Jerome Augustyniak - Percussion, Drums, Backing Vocals Robert Buck - Acoustic & Electric Guitars Dennis Drew - Piano, Hammond Organ Steve Gustafson - Bass Guitar John Lombardo - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Cover Design Mary Ramsey - Viola, Vocals Jules Shear - Backing Vocals Billy Field - Assistant Engineer Chris Lord-Alge - Mixing John Keane - Guitar, Producer, Engineer Fred Maher - Percussion, Producer Doug Sax - Mastering Mike McLaughlin - Photography Lloyd Puckett - Engineer
RAINY DAY (Lombardo/10,000 Maniacs) On bended knee I've looked through every window then Touched the bottom the night a sleepless day instead A day when love came came easy like what's lost now found Beneath a blinding A blinding light that would surround We were, we were, we were, we were without, in doubt We were, we were, we were, we were without about saving for a rainy day I crashed through mirrors I crashed through floors of laughter then In a blind scene no ties would moor us to this room A day when love came came easy like what's lost now found And you would save me and I held you like you were my child We were, we were, we were, we were without, in doubt We were, we were, we were, we were without about saving for a rainy day Oh if I were you, defiant you alone upon a troubled way I would send my heart to you to save it for a rainy day
	LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (Buck/Shear/10,000 Maniacs) Love, love among the ruins The sky was falling Love, love among the ruins heaven was calling Love, love among the ruins When danger crashes Love, love among the ruins rose from the ashes Like two statues hidden inside ancient rock we were praying for the secrets to unlock And when the sun had turned its back on us Oh in the dark our love kept track of us pushed together by the lack of love We held each other tightly through our hell of dreams. I still hear the never-ending echo of those screams. But it's a life not made for reliving, it's a life that makes your soul forgiving. We sealed our bond from the beginning. Aching, affection, vulnerable protection; falling, captured, crawling, rapture.
EVEN WITH MY EYES CLOSED (Lombardo/10,000 Maniacs) Even with my eyes closed Funny how I know it's harder, it's harder now. Young girl in my young girl days, thinking I could live for always. But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside and I know. Seasons pass like sand inside a glass and nothing, nothing returns. Standing with the friends I've made, I'll race them to the grave. Well who won, won the extra days? But like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside Like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside And I know... When you take away the years toll on the waters wide, shallow high and low. In the autumn sky, happy to know I'm going home. Even with my eyes closed, funny how I know it's finally, has it finally begun? Ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside Like an ocean tide, I'm drawn back inside And I know... Oh and I know And I know...
	GIRL ON A TRAIN (Augustyniak/10,000 Maniacs) Waking on a train dreaming, charmed alone they started speaking. Captured in his artist way before the memories fade away. To remember a face, and you're home or want to. Certain they would meet soon, paint a portrait of a family. Single light on, single way, single light away. The night fell. Saw a painting on the stairwell to mourn the passing of a daughter dear. Her soul upon the train so far so near. Just close your eyes and you're home.
GREEN CHILDREN (10,000 Maniacs) An August day in the hills of Spain, a pair of children emerged from a cave. The strangest sight there alone they stood, with skin of green and words no one had heard. The girl was stronger, the boy was weak, with her new mother she learned to speak. And wove a tale of a dying sun, they had left darkness, a dark world come undone. They travelled so far. Believing they came from a star. She fell through life, through time, through parallel lives. The men of science, the men of fame, the men of letters tried to explain: Was it parallel worlds or a twist of time to make her think she'd fallen from the sky? A whirlwind spun them all alone, took them from their twilight home. Believing they came from a star.
	A ROOM FOR EVERYTHING (Drew/Ramsey/10,000 Maniacs) You were looking away from me, western skies calling you. Colors spilling, running dazzling you. I was looking the other way, voices call from the east, I saw my roots of the trees there planted at my feet. It could be I'm searching for a place so small with room for everything where worlds on worlds revolve. But how can we wait? I wouldn't hold you back. Suppose I was the clever one and words came easy to me. I could say I was writing a song about you and me. Maybe that verse is yet to be found, but waits inside of me, a secret room a tangled web to unweave. But how can we wait knowing our ways, how can we hold on, still you know it's not too late.
MORE THAN THIS (Ferry) I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they're blowing As free as the wind And hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning More than this - there is nothing More than this - tell me one thing More than this - there is nothing It was fun for a while There was no way of knowing Like a dream in the night Who can say where we're going No care in the world Maybe I'm learning Why the sea on the tide Has no way of turning More than this - there is nothing More than this - tell me one thing More than this - there is nothing
	BIG STAR (Lombardo/Ramsey/10,000 Maniacs) I saw a big star running from me, a world from a record on my bed. Turn the tables on me, what would happen if I fell to the tune of a dreamer, to the tune of my heart? A big start running from me, I saw a world out sunning on my head. Turn the tables on me now. I would fall from heaven and ring your bell. Baby, catch me in the middle of a lie. The boys are out tonight, yeah the boys are out tonight. The big shots singin' from me, I saw a world out sunning on my head. Pity my heart signals: center of a storm inside my head. Center of my heart, center of my out of time simple mind. From the moon out my window a wink and a blink and a nod. Had a wish on a start but now it's falling. The boys are out tonight, big skies above me signal in my horoscope it said: never heed a caution, never fought a lover, never cross a street alone in the middle of a signal red, middle of a drinker's heart, middle of a big parade, a signal in my horoscope.
YOU WON'T FIND ME THERE (Shear/10,000 Maniacs) I'd like to know what makes you stay while your eyes still search for escape. You think that I don't feel the cold, but I wait while confessions unfold. You'll never make a living from reading minds or from getting your direction from exit signs. Look into your heart and you won't find me there. You won't find me where you hide and that makes us a matter of time. Like trees exposed by fall, time reveals it all. Tell me you want to do everything but you're stuck up to your knees. And I'm less likely pushed forward by ambition than a breeze. But there's a flame that must be fanned, and it appears as a beckoning hand. Don't think 'cause you're not talking you're being kind, you've been getting your direction from exit signs. Look into your heart and you won't find me there.
	ALL THAT NEVER HAPPENS (Ramsey/10,000 Maniacs) She walks alone on the brick lane, the breeze is blowing. A year had changed her forever, just like her grey home. He used to live so close here, we'd look for places I can't remember. The world was safe when she knew him, she tried to hold him, hold on forever. For all that never happens and all that never will be, a candle burning for the love we seldom keep. The earth was raw in her fingers, she overturned it. Considered planting some flowers, they wouldn't last long, no one to tend them. It's funny how these things go, you were the answer to all the questions. The memories made her weary, she shuddered slowly, she didn't want to. As a distant summer he began to whisper, and threw a smile her way. She looked into the glass, liquid surface showing that they were melding, together present past. So where can I go from here? The color fading, he didn't answer. She felt him slip from her vision. She tried to hold him, hold on forever. So close forever, in a silent frozen sleep.
SHINING LIGHT (Lombardo/10,000 Maniacs) Something was pulling me without knowing what was leading me on: your shining light. Your shining light. In my darkest hour the only way to bring the dawn was your shining light. Your shining light. But you're unaware your shining light is even on. Like with a little glance when you take me by surprise and I take a chance and see it all through your eyes. Free me from my history and show me where to draw the line, by lighting up the mystery, and you don't even know that it shines. I'm not worried now about flying too close to the sun. When December skies are cold, you know I will always run to your shining light. I won't abuse it so please just let it glow behind your smile. Let me use it, let me feel the warmth like a little child who understands your glance, though it takes me by surprise. And I take a chance and I see it all through your eyes.
	ACROSS THE FIELDS (10,000 Maniacs) Well they left then in the morning, a hundred pairs of wings in the light moved together. In the colors of the morning I looked to the clouds in the cirrus sky and they'd gone. Across the marshes, across the fields below. I fell through the vines and I hoped they would catch me below. If only to take me with them there, tell me the part that shines in your heart on the wind. And the reeds blew me in the morning. Take me along to the places you've gone when my eyes looked away. Tell me the song that you sing in the trees in the dawning. Tell me the part that shines in your heart and the rays of love forever, please take me there.