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Sitting Pretty
03:48
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Big deal, you won’t hear it on the radio,
Saw the signs but the signs never said to slow,
Try to slow my mind but it keeps quickening,
You gave me good advice but I wasn’t listening.
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Now you got me where you want me,
With my back against the wall,
And you just sit there sitting pretty,
Waiting for the fall.
I feel free but I never felt good enough,
I grew up in the middle and the middle didn’t make me tough,
I’ve seen things that I never knew I’d want to see,
Missed things sitting right in front of me.
Chorus
Bought time and I guess I had to bend the rules,
Suffered much but I knew I’d never suffer fools,
Caught me early woman, must have been an easy catch,
Didn’t know where my head or heart was at.
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Already Falling
04:08
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Ain’t it kind of funny how our lives seem to get in the way,
Ain’t it kind of funny how we all just like to waste our days,
And ain’t it kind of funny how the more we need the less we’ll say,
‘til we’re holding on to nothing and there’s a price to pay.
Chorus
It’s a mean world,
When it comes a calling,
It’s a mean world,
When you’re already falling.
Ain’t it kind of funny how the future is so easy to see,
Ain’t it kind of funny how the world is run on money and greed,
And ain’t it kind of funny how the more we see the more we need,
And we spend all of the money, just trying to be free.
Chorus
Ain’t it kind of funny how our hearts are locked away in a cage,
Ain’t it kind of funny how our hearts they seem to soften with age,
And ain’t it kind of funny how opinions fill our hearts with rage,
‘til we’re closed off from one another and the war of words we wage.
Chorus
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Daylight Savings
04:15
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Daylight savings, I see somebody frown,
Who needs daylight when the sun goes down?
I hold you closely, you pull the curtains tight,
There ain’t no shadows where there ain’t no light.
Chorus
Two hearts they run away,
The start of something the end of games,
Two hearts they run away,
In to the night we softly fall.
We find each other easily despite the dark,
Our bodies turning to matters of the heart,
You whisper something in my ear, it’s getting hot,
If life means nothing, it’s funny how it starts.
Chorus
I hold you closer, I feel your breath on mine,
Something happens where we lose all sense of time,
There’s something hidden, not visible to me,
Your heart it pulls me like the moon it pulls the sea.
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Hold On For Love
03:48
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That’s the thing about love it’s so hard to believe in,
When you’ve given your love and you’ve watched your love slowly leaving,
Find someone who will give you more than you’ll ever be needing,
Hold so tight even glimmers of light will never get between it.
Chorus
Just wait for me even if your soul feels down
Pray for me because I’ll be coming ‘round
Hold on for love
Hold on for love
Hold on for love
Hold on for love
That’s the thing about love when it’s lost you always need it,
When you’re all alone and the world feels cold and the chill you feel it,
Find someone who will give you more than you’ll ever be needing,
Huddle tight so the cold of the night can never get between it.
Chorus
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River Stone
03:08
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Life it seems you’re rolling like a river rolling like a river stone,
At first in life you start of rough until that rough old river makes you smooth,
Try to get your bearings and fight a little bit against the flow,
No going back again only one way currents go.
Chorus
Time goes so quickly when you need it to last,
Time goes so slowly when it needs to be fast,
But time will keep rolling that much is sure,
Until your bones turn to dust and you are no more.
Your soul it seems it’s blowing like the wind it’s blowing to and fro,
At first in life it seems you knew exactly where you thought your life would go,
Then the twists and turns that came made you question who you were,
Until the choices that you made were nothing but a blur.
Chorus
Love it seems it crumbles like the cliffs it crumbles to the shore,
Whole thing looks so solid until those hairline cracks they begin to form,
Try to fight the forces dragging you down to the earth,
Sometimes an ending feels something like a birth.
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Sunshine
04:41
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I spend the summer searching for the shade,
Am I the only one prefers a rainy day?
I guess I only got myself to blame,
The sunshine burns my skin and my patience away.
Spent my life looking at the past,
Trying to figure a way to make the good things last,
The chip upon my shoulder’s now across my back,
It’s hard to lose your way when you’re always off track.
Chorus
And I’m stuck here in the middle and I need some light,
I’m stuck here in the middle and I need a sign,
I lost it all before but not this time,
Trying to find a way, any way is fine,
Any way is fine.
Spend my nights searching through my dreams,
Trying to find something that makes sense to me,
But when I wake up nothing’s as it seems,
It looks just like before but the world it leans.
Chorus
Like a shadow moving ‘cross the night,
Staring into space as the souls take flight,
You leave behind something you needed in life,
And take with you the love, leave the trouble and the strife.#
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Always The Same
03:49
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I saw your eyes, it was pretty clear to me you’d been crying,
But since you left, my soul it kind of felt like it was dying,
I’ve got to say, I’d be fibbing if I said I’d been trying,
To forget all the times, baby, I caught your ass lying.
Chorus
It’s always the same,
It’s always the same,
Two ends of a tightrope,
Holding each other’s gaze.
Saw the guy who’d been holding your hand since I’d been gone,
Seems to me that sometimes two rights somehow make a wrong,
I’ve got to say I’d be fibbing if I said I’d been alone,
That’s not to say I haven’t wasted hours by the phone.
Chorus
So I guess for a time, baby, we’ll go our separate ways,
‘Cus often love it doesn’t always stick but is sways,
But missing you, heavily upon my heart it weighs,
This time girl when you’re home it’s home you’re gonna stay.
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Around The Seams
03:24
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Around the seams is where it ends,
Forget the dreams, the will it bends,
Forget the sorrow, hold the light,
It’s you and me, here tonight.
Chorus
You get where you’re coming down,
You wonder what it means,
Like you’re the only one around,
But it’s only how it seems,
How it seems.
The things you see, they make you blind,
To all the good, the daily grind,
You long for silence, to hear her breath,
It’s you and me and whatever’s left.
Chorus
You get the feeling, you were here before,
What once was true, ain’t true no more,
You followed reason, it followed you,
It’s you and me, who needs proof?
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Winning's Something
03:41
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Winning’s something, losing’s tough,
You said this life was never enough,
I said, “Why do you always find things so hard?”
Minds they wonder, hearts they roam,
You said this house was never your home,
I said, “Why let the days turn into years?”
Chorus
Why let the days,
Why let the days,
Turn into years?
Past it’s broken, future’s changed,
The map of my heart rearranged,
Things left unwritten and things I shouldn’t have said.
You can turn your back and I won’t turn mine,
Most things in life just a matter of time,
I just won’t let the days turn into years.
Chorus
Why let the days,
Why let the days,
Turn into years?
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10. |
Summer Air
02:52
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The summer breeze through the summer air,
The same old worries without the care,
The girls walk by and the boys they stare,
The boys they know they haven’t got a prayer.
Chorus
And you know,
You know it will be over some day soon,
But you know,
Forget the future for one afternoon,
As the clouds they seem to part for me and you.
The twilight sky of the day’s sweet end,
Lights the path of the souls that lend,
All the time on the Earth they’ll spend,
All the lives that their love will mend.
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11. |
Downside
04:05
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Always waiting for the upside to come callin’,
There you are on the downside and you’re fallin’,
Spend your life like the crow flies and you’re soarin,
Crumpled wings and a few lies and you’re crawlin.
Chorus
So it goes like a river,
So it goes like the tide,
So it goes like the wind,
Like a thought that blows right through your mind,
Like a thought that blows right through your mind.
Something lost in the low light and you’re thinkin’,
Why you always holding so tight and you’re sinkin’,
Hide your problems ‘til you realise, you’re dreamin’,
Something lost from your own life and you’re seein’.
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Small Mountain Lake Coventry, UK
Singer songwriter from Coventry.
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