| Everything Is Beautiful Written and recorded with Bruce Kaphan in mid 1995, it was originally meant to be for a musical adaption of a book called "Left-handed Woman" by Peter Handke that was going to be made into a film but was never completed. It ended up being released on 60 Watt Slver Lining in March 1996. Of the songs that were written for the film this is the only one that has ever seen the light of day though the whole collection of songs was performed once at a Hollywood soundstage in August 1997. It was first performed live by Mark in London in September 1995 and was played on and off til early 1998 but not since. A four track demo version was released on a flexi disc which came with issue 38 of the Pop Culture Press magazine in 1996. |
| The thinnest rope won’t hang you
it’ll break and you’ll be just another pen stroke for the sunset or the dawn or the dawn A little girl child of x or y who doesn’t speak who doesn’t know at least at the right time and that’s all anybody wants not angel wings not invisible things And everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me Like a tower ready to fall spinning over the ground like the gorilla ride there’s moments and minutes there’s seasons and there’s dreams glued onto dreams And everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me And everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me You’re the girl in the paperweight I barely know you you’re so quiet - is there nothing in this weird perspective that’ll let me breathe in the smell of Eden in your eternally open eyes I barely see you I barely see you And everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me Yeah everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me I barely see you I barely see you I barely see you And everything’s beautiful but babe not you or me |