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Wade Out
02:42
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I guess we could start from the start
List all that goes wrong with affairs of the heart
With this life, and this restless love
But we don’t need to push down, we’re both wounded enough
So let’s jump right in and swim out to the middle
Don’t hold your breath, if we’re lucky we might drown in this love
This battle is toe to toe and we’re so close now
The colours here change so quickly
It’s summer, it’s autumn, it’s winter, it’s spring
It’s so much laughter, it’s fucking (bloody) blue murder
But somehow it’s everything
So let’s jump right in and swim out to the middle
Don’t hold your breath, if we’re lucky we might drown in this love
This battle is toe to toe and we’re so close now
So why not wade out
Why not swim out
Just that bit further
We can’t see the land now
So why not wade out
Why not swim out
Just that bit further
We can’t see the shore…..
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Ain't it the Best
03:10
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Never thought I’d be a rolling stone,
Can’t believe it still
Can’t turn around now and I can’t go home
Days on the road to kill
Put your whole damn life in a wishing well
Shake it all round and see
The sparkling colours of this fine land
And another side of me
I’m gunna stumble and graze my knees
And you’re gunna hate me and we’ll fight like crazy
And this little kid is gunna drive us mad
Ain’t it the best that we ever had, ain’t it the best
Never thought I’d be a millionaire
I’m pretty sure I won’t
But I’ve got enough, and enough to share
If the commodity is hope
Each day I think about my dear home town
My heart is still with the
Where my mum and dad lay beneath the ground
They’re waiting there for me
And I’m gunna love just as hard as I can
Take a deep breath while the stars keep giving
The places, the spaces the good and the bad
Ain’t it the best that we’ve ever had, Aint it the best
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This Burning Fire
03:24
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Paper Heart Angel
03:19
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Just another broken boy
Sitting in a broken house
Waiting for the rain to drip in
Hoping it will wash me out
Make another stupid call
Pour myself another drink
Spend the day hoping she’ll come around and let herself in
Singing paper heart angel, the prettiest you’ve seen
Wish she would come to me, whenever I’m in need
Paper heart angel, with eyes the bluest skies
But she don’t love me
Just another broken man
Whose mother didn’t teach him right
How to talk the demons down
That keep him awake at night
Just another lonely soul
With nothing left to say
Spend the day hoping she’ll come around and make it all go away
Singing paper heart angel, the prettiest you’ve seen
Wish she would come to me, whenever I’m in need
Paper heart angel, with eyes the bluest skies
But she don’t love me
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Mr Sun
03:06
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Mr Sun’s got the key to the morning
Mr moon’s got the key to the night
Mr blues’ got the whole of the sky in his hands
But you’ve got the key to the light
The chance of your life is there waiting
For the moment you need to arise
You can take to the work of your life as you choose boy
Cause you’ve got the key to the light
Don’t let it go by
Don’t let it roll by
Don’t let it fade or rest in the shade
Don’t you let it go by
The whole wide world is watching
To see what your life can bring
To the ups and the downs of this learning to live my boy
You are everything
Don’t let it go by
Don’t let it roll by
Don’t let it fade or rest in the shade
Don’t you let it go by
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Bemboka
03:38
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I was lost back then when you were found
You were the only friend I had around
Girl coming home from the city
Boy with a smile so warm
I haven’t thought of you for 20 years and now I hear you’re gone
And my heart lies low
There’s always one that we let go
Wish them all the happiness so
My heart lies low
I was lost back then in that shitty town
They threw rocks on my rough but you held your ground
Held close in the night and the darkness fall and off to the river to pray
To the sun and the bong and the holy ghost and all of it to go away
I haven’t thought of you for 20 years and now I hear you’re gone
And my heart lies low
There’s always one that we let go
Wish them all the happiness so
My heart lies low
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7. |
Take Your Mark
04:08
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Take your mark, Point that gun right at my heart
It doesn’t hurt me
Lay me down, Remind me of my sins
You won’t convert me
Scream up loud in my face, All the things you want to say
It doesn’t scare me
Then cry your sorry tears, let them fall onto my feet
It doesn’t move me, doesn’t move me at all
Your loss, your fall
There is a light
It will come shining any day
To make things better
Like a ship in the night
I’m hoping it will guide you to calmer weather
Don’t cry your sorry tears, let them fall onto my feet
It doesn’t move me, doesn’t move me at all
Your loss, your fall
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Thousand Tiny Waves
03:12
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There’s a thousand tiny waves on the sea
There’s something about the way they move me
Going this way and that way and any way you like
There’s a thousand tiny waves on the sea
There’s a million broken pieces of my heart
Flying around the atmosphere
Going up town and roundabout and back along your street
There’s a million broken pieces of me
There will come a day
When there will be light you see
Washing down these walls
Were it is meant to be
But why’d you have to leave
There’s a thousand tiny waves on the sea
There’s something about the way they move me
Going this way and that way and any way you like
There’s a thousand tiny waves on the sea
There will come a day
When there will be light you see
Roaring down these tracks
Headed straight for me
But why’d you have to leave
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9. |
Heart Like This
04:01
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By Daniel Champagne (Ben and Hannah edits version)
I guess the mornings good for leaving
I guess I’ll try to tell you why
I guess we lost ourselves believing that we could chase the sky
That we could chase the sky
See the shadows danc before us
Dya feel this love melt just like snow
Dya hear the black crow flyin, calling out the end
It’s got me waiting on the breeze like it's my only friend
You said the mornings good for leaving
You tried to tell me why
You said I'd lost myself dreaming while you went to say goodbye
Did you mean to say goodbye
I think your shirts still in the hallway
I think your songs still in my fist
A cry of shame has got me tied to the hall
And I stay here silent starring at the open door
And it goes like this if we never let it fall
And we'll always wish that we had of made a call
With a heart like this you can never have it all
Till it all comes back with a wrecking ball
Can't you feel the sky way falling down
I've tried to let you know
Can't you hear the highway calling now
I’ve got to let this go
Leaving’s left a thorn in every kiss
I could not feel before
I could never hold a heart like this
I'm lost starring at the open door
Trying to hold you is like trying to fire a pistol in the dark, I missed the mark and now you’re running from the world again
I can't control this and I won't retrace our steps back to the start, you shot the heart out of our love and now it’s all fair game
I want to know you but I don't know if I can play the part and cut you out after compromising from the birth to end and I want to show how this cold wind and the highway leave their mark, got me waiting on the breeze like it’s my only friend
And it goes like this if we never let it fall
And we'll always wish that we had of made a call
With a heart like this you can never have it all
Till it all comes back with a wrecking ball
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10. |
Let Him Go
03:02
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I write you this from across the shore
Trying to find you some words of healing
From mother to mother and so much more
To a friend who knows the feeling
Ooh ooh lady
You are stronger than you’ll ever know
Ooh Ooh you made it
To the time to finally let him go
An empty bottle, a broken heart
A clock that won’t stop ticking
In their tiny smiles when they’re waking up
It’s there we find our reason
And it’s tiring and your hurting, I know
And ooh ooh my lady
You are bigger than you’ll ever know
Ooh ooh you made it
To the place to finally let it go
And ooh ooh my lady
You are stronger than you’ll ever know
Ooh oh you made it
To the chance to finally let him go
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Radios
02:53
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I work the night
You work the day time
Doesn’t seem right
Friends say they’d find the hours too hard
I know it’s hard on me
Must be hard on you
Things I do to you
Radios play such sad songs
Between the hours of 4am and 5am
Keeps me drinking
Keeps me thinking
This is what they call being alive
I leave the house
As you’re coming home to me
When you’re leaving
I often wish to be there by your side
Along for the ride
Won’t you wake up this morning
Come take me inside
Radios play such sad songs
Between the hours of 4am and 5am
Keeps me drinking
Keeps me thinking
This is what they call being alive
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12. |
Meant To Be
04:34
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Time flies by, It’s funny around here
This old town is making me dizzy
Shadows and dark lines
And memories of mine
All line up and come into view
But if we were meant to be
We would probably be today
If we turned every running tide around to make it go our way
You know I know water’s hard to hold and I could never make you stay
But if we, if we were meant to be hey?
Summer vibes sitting by the river baby
Mystery man, never sure of what to make...
of all of your attentions
But never quite enough
Still fills a magic place in my heart
But if we were meant to be
We would probably be today
If we turned every running tide around to make it go our way
You know I know water’s hard to hold and I could never make you stay
But if we, if we were meant to be hey?
But if we, if we were meant to be hey?
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