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Forever On My Way Home
04:09
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i took you down the river, a desire line to the sea
i let you run the railway back, we were making tracks for free
but in return you told me of the city lights i lacked
lured me to these city streets and i never found my way back
but if my soul were to wander, away may it roam
i’m given to the wonder, i’m forever on my way home
yellow country morning, out across the farm
telling you a little sunshine’s not gonna do you any harm
but you maintained about living the country life you had your doubts
lured me to these city streets and i never found my way out
and if you thinking i’m staying, well let me make it known
there’ll be no more delaying, i’m forever on my way home
don’t you try to sway it
don’t even say it
won’t take much and i’m away
down and through such a hullabaloo you agreed to take a chance
so i took you for our next rendezvous to the village barn dance
still you said to the cities tendencies you were prone
lured me to these cities streets and i’m still trying to find my way home
back to where my home town doesn’t dwell in a zone
i’m located in the lost and found, i’m forever on my way home
don’t you try to sway it
don’t even say it
won’t take much and i’m away
now in play in buildings, i often say ‘i’ve got to run’
i live for the evenings, it’s a different kind of fun
i’ve donned black leather trainers, i swapped them for my boots
i walk upon these city streets but won’t forget my country roots
but if one day i go running you’ll know where i’m goin’
back to the life that i’ve been shunning, i’m forever on my way home
don’t you try to sway it
don’t even say it
won’t take much and i’m away
you’d be a fool to question my desire
to make a thousand shadows
it only takes one fire
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I Need You Here
03:00
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it's a strong medicine gonna numb this attack
fire's in my belly, thunder's on my back now
dark cloud round my head, and my legs feel like weights
nothing i can do, not much i can say now
and a tone of voice don't tell the real story
talking to you trying to make out that you bore me
but take a little look inside my mind
this understatement says it don't seem fine now
janie oh
this time my baby's gone away
and i don't know what to feel or how to say
that i want you here here, or at least near
this is not a drink but some kind of potion
the water in my brain is a stormy ocean now
out with friends just to self destruct
trying to pretend that i'm up on my luck
but look a little closer, delve a little deep
and i'll be bending your ear to tell you all that i keep
inside
like these weird dreams that i have and these thoughts so incomplete
and completely imaginary that keep me trapped and keep me free
its not a timepiece but a sea that spins you round churns you in
til you don't the end from the beginning and then it spits you out
and you wake up wondering where you’ve been
and what the hell that was all about anyway
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wonder, we might wonder
how the world falls around us this way
don't breath out, just think about
how any actions you do might make a change
as if whatever you're doing right now
might affect someone else somewhere somehow
oh sweet woman of mine
how your words they play on my mind
walking, where am i walking
is this is a street that i have walked before
and talking, was i not talking
a voice of one man is easy to ignore
but our voices can be heard as one
like raindrops become an ocean
oh sweet woman of mine
how your words they play on my mind
when revolution radio
play's the songs that we all know
i'll be standing with my girl
living in a better world
for inside our little heads
is a galaxy of dreams
and a mind that won't go to bed
that's bursting at the seams
oh sweet woman of mine
how your words they play on my mind
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Did We Lose The Fight?
05:19
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is a cigarette burn a sign from someone you love
when i was going out of my mind for this new love
what’s a blazing row in the street or a push and shove
or when you whisper ironically that we’re through love
and that scene in the v&a with everyone around
heads were turning, people asking what’s that sound
a dispute can seem so small next to the dalai lama
both asking how’d we end up with such a charmer
well my only surprise by the way you’d carry on
is they didn’t throw us out of that restaurant
and after you’ve called me nearly every word under the sun
i’d indifferently enquire if you were done
but we don’t fight like that no more no more
can it be that we’ve both got nothing left to say
we don’t fight anymore no more
well i presume we’ll be going our separate ways
well a scratch mark’s nothing more than a battle scar
when you tell me to get out and walk no matter how far
well you can call me what you want but don’t insult my moustache
when a quiet few in a bar turns into quite the car crash
well i’d down my drink cos i can’t stand this anymore
then i’d drink until i can’t stand anymore
oh the sky’s much clearer now the storm has blown away
but i admit that i still long for those days
but we don’t fight like that no more no more
can it be that we’ve both got nothing left to say
we don’t fight anymore no more
well i presume we’ll be going our separate ways
hey lover, did we lose the fight?
in each sense of the word but will we ever get it right?
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Carry The Fire
04:55
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the river goes on instinct, wild and free
it knows where it's going, not where it's meant to be
if you try to tell the river to change it's ways
cos you're building something bigger, i think i know what it will say
what you give with your right hand with your left you take away
can't you see what you're giving takes so much more away
well you can't put a price now, no way, on saving evergreens not pulling them down
when you realise all the money in the world won't mean nothing in a ghost town
must the natural world make way for our human habitat
but every little thing that we displace well you know it ain't ever coming back
what you give with your right hand with your left you take away
can't you see what you're giving takes so much more away
the river flows as the moon makes the sea move
the sun’s seen everything, do you think it would disapprove
oak trees breath life, knowing all that we’ve done
but it’s the little things that we’ll all miss when all this is gone
what you give with your right hand with your left you take away
can't you see what you're giving takes so much more away
carry the fire, feel the flames as they warm me
shut my eyes as the waves crash upon me
carry the fire, feel the flames as they warm me
shut my eyes as the rain falls down on me
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the situation has arrived at the point
where time and distance separates what once was joint
in silence along the cobbled stones where we were walking
i felt the need to speak but i didn’t feel like talking
but now i’m ready to be relieved of this protective mask
for the winds holding sway of my heart are warming to the task
then within reach of her room she removed her disguise
as her eyes turned to me in watery surprise
tender as the temperature shivered through my bones
confidence claimed that our paths would cross but how could it have known
but now i’m ready to respond in earnest to anything she asks
for the wind holding sway of my heart are warming to the task
oh no time doesn’t wait, clocks relentlessly-a-tick
feel like my heart’s getting broken but i guess that’s a bit dramatic
like sunshine on a cloudy day you think it’s not gonna last
but i like this one a lot more than others gone past
and in this new-found glory i am set to bask
for the winds holding sway of my heart are warming to the task
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Jeremy Tuplin London, UK
Jeremy Tuplin is an indie singer-songwriter from Somerset
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