A Stairway To The Stars (named after a certain ballroom era song) is the 2nd Caretaker album. Made in 2001, it is more of the same of the previous album.

Songs

We Cannot Escape The Past

Cloudy Since You Went Away

Emptiness

Consigned To A Yesterday

Masquerade Ball

Malign Forces Of The Occult

On The Edge Of Breakdown

Robins And Roses

Date With An Angel

It's All Forgotten Now

Each Today Doesn't Lead To A Tomorrow

Home

Friends Past Reunited

A Stairway To The Stars

Lyrics

We Cannot Escape The Past

To save our souls from bitter shame and mourning

Thou dearest lord base treachery and scoring

From lure of gain or gold, save us we pray to thee

Least we betray thee

Cloudy Since You Went Away

Nights are cloudy, days are cloudy

Since you went away

Been downhearted since we parted

I can't go on this way!

Things are cloudy, oh so cloudy

Hear me while I say,

"Need the kissin' I've been missin'

To drive those clouds away!"

Emptiness

The Lamb is dumb before His shearer

In patient love His lips are sealed x2

In patient love His lips are sealed, in love

In patient love His lips are sealed

O teach us Lord, all wrath for bearing

Thy calm endurance

Thy calm endurance meekly sharing

For malice nought but love to yield x2

On The Edge Of Breakdown

And Jesus came out

And went, as He was won't, to the Mount of Olives;

And His disciples also followed Him

And when He was at the place

He said unto them

"Pray ye that ye enter not into temptation"

Lead us not into temptation

But deliver us from evil

And-

Robins And Roses

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Reversed to be normal

Robins and roses

And maybe a tree

A few morning glories

A cottage two stories high

Robins and roses

And your love for me

To live on forever

And my love to never die

A place where neighbors may drop in

And smile when they see

An armchair to flop in

We can add to their glee serving afternoon tea

Mid robins and roses

And then life will be

A poem by Kipling

While troubles go rippling by

It's All Forgotten Now

It's all forgotten now, the trouble and the pain

Forgotten, every word I said

Forgotten, every tear you shed

We're still in love

It's all forgiven now, we're back in Lover's Lane

And though we wandered from our way

The corner's turned and we can say

We're still in love

For you and I, and everybody

Must learn to give and take

We'll find, like everybody

It's worth it for happiness' sake

It's all forgotten now, we're happy once again

Our trouble gone beyond recall

And making up is best of all

We're still in love

Home

When shadows fall and trees whisper day is ending

My thoughts are ever wending home

When crickets call, my heart is forever yearning

Once more to be returning home

When the hills conceal the setting sun

Stars begin unpeeping one by one

Night covers all and though fortune may forsake me

Sweet dreams will never take me home

Friends Past Reunited

O Jesu Christ

Thy Cross doth call me

O Jesu Christ

Thy Cross doth call me

For thou did'st give

Thy life for mine

Thou did'st give

Thy life, for mine

O Jesu Christ

Thy Cross doth call me

For Thou did'st give

Thy life for mine

Jesu Christ, Jesu Christ

O Jesu Christ

Thy Cross doth call me

For Thou did'st give

Thy life for mine

For Thou did'st give

Thy life, for mine

Thy Sacred Heart

For me is breaking

Thy Sacred Heart

For me is breaking

For Thee my love at last is waking

For Thee, my love is waking

My life for ever more be thine x2

Samples

We Cannot Escape The Past, Emptiness, On The Edge Of Breakdown, and Friends Past Reunited all come from Leyland's rare St. Luke Passion vinyl. More info here

Cloudy Since You Went Away uses Cloudy by Andy Kirk from the album "The Golden Age Of British Dance Bands". There's also an unknown background noise. It is reused in Recollected Memories From The Museum Of Garden History.

Consigned To A Yesterday uses the "A Song Of Sunshine" part of Leyland's rare Organ Music Record. More info here.

Masquerade Ball uses Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta by Bela Bartok (0:00 - 4:28) from The Shining soundtrack. It's in reverse.

Malign Forces Of The Occult is a reversed version of Softly As In A Morning Sunrise by Jesse Crawford from the album "The Best Of Jesse Crawford".

Robins And Roses is a reversed version of Robins And Roses by Sydney Lipton from the albun "And The Bands Played On". It's reused in the weirdcore and primavera live performances.

Date With An Angel is a super slowed down version of the first 5 seconds of Got A Date With An Angel by Ray Noble from the album "The Dance Band Years". It loops 8 times. It's reused in Fact Mix 45.

It's All Forgotten Now uses It's All Forgotten Now by Ray Noble (0:13 - 2:48) from the album "Ray Noble Plays Ray Noble". It's reused in the french live performance, Post Awareness Confusions 2, and each song in stage 5.

Each Today Doesn't Lead To A Tomorrow uses the first few seconds of Atmospheres by Gyorgy Ligeti from a vinyl release of 2001: A Space Odyssey's soundtrack. It's reused in Recollected Memories From The Museum Of Garden History & Fact Mix 45.

Home uses Home by Henry Hall (1:25 - 3:15) from the album "And The Bands Played On".

A Stairway To The Stars uses Meditation From Thias by Jesse Crawford from the album "The Best Of Jesse Crawford". It's reused in Recollected Memories From The Museum Of Garden History, Synapse Retrogenesis, and A Confusion So Thick You Forget Forgetting.

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