Discography
Albums
One House left standing 1971
October 1972
Stage Door Johnnies 1974
Abracadabra 19 75
Touchpaper 1984
Voices 1986
Love in the Afternoon 1988
Summer with Andrew Warren 1997
The Lost and the Lovers 2004
The Minor Fall the Major Lift 2007
The Meeting of the Waters 2012
When Daylight Arrives 2015
Singles
When I was a child 1971
Smile your blues away 1971
Speedbreaker 1973
Geronimmo's Cadillac 1974
Rory 1975
First Night in New York 1980
The Moon is a Powerful Lover 1982
Awaken:larkrise 1986
Glastonbury 1988
Domesday/Jerusalem 1989
Someday we'll all be together 1989
The Moon is a Powerful Lover re-mix 1998
When are Wars Won? EP 2004
Claire performing with her Northern band
Lyrics
Over dark apples that grow into heather
And down to the ocean that leads to the world
And doves coo a greeting announcing our meeting
As we step on sea shells that gather in baskets
Aimlessly looking to see distant boats
And seagulls are shrieking to warn of our meeting
And we step on blindly no care for the future for we'll take our chances and join in the dance
For we still live in hope that someone will throw us a rope
We walk to the path that leads through the grasses and over the sand
Our hearts are coming,they follow our footsteps
Our hearts in our hands
And then comes the waiting and which one will reach out
Will it be you? Will it be me?
The seagulls are shrieking along the path down to the sea
I wait for the weekend then reach for the phone
Too tired of the fear of being alone
For love has a mind of its own..........
And then come the brushes that lift through the lashes
We stumble yet smile through the tentative looks
And we spend sweet hours and you give me flowers
We smooth the shadows and put down our burdens
And step through the heather that grows near my home
And you come inside
For love has a mind of its own...........
About the song
The search for love is an endless one .From the moment we feel that first kiss,the one that thrills us,we know that life will never be the same. Some of us get lucky,we find that special person who we can't possibly let get away and we build a life of contentment together .Some of us are not so fortunate and we are rejected or we feel trapped and have to get away.
Can we ,dare we go through it all again? Can we put all those little pieces of our heart back together in some form,long enough to convince ourselves that yes,this time that special someone will be there,out there,aimlessly looking to see distant boats? Looking for us...
We must smooth the shadows and put down our burdens.We have to go where our hearts take us
For love has a mind of its own....