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Beginnings
03:22
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I was sitting, and i drank real hard,
i was nervous, because change can be hard
I've been waiting.... for someone like you
So you took me, and you linked to my arm
I was glowing, I was high and disarmed.
we were walking, to the cold biting hard,
we was certain, we was crumbling fast.
And the town it just scurried on, cause it felt nothing wrong.
Do Do Do Do Do It! Do Do Do!
And you told me, better brace for the storm,
I felt no fear, I felt content and warm.
there's no hurricane, gonna halt my train.
it a one way ticket to the great escape!
and the world, it just stumbles on, cause we'd done nothing wrong.
Do Do Do Do Do It! Do Do Do!
So were hiding in and out of here and any place, the disgrace.
Hiding from them all just what we've done.
What's that on your face? it's a brand new day?
Turn that frown upside down.
Its either this or that, there's no going back! baby, So..
Do Do Do Do Do It! Do Do Do!
Get out of there, there's nothing holding you but fear for sure.
What would you do, if you were in my shoes? would you go back for more? Would you?
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Here, now
04:31
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Hey You!, why you so blue, most of the time?
Stop those thoughts from ruling your head,
send your soul back to bed.
A thoughts a thought and nothing more so,
what the hell you fighting for?
just stop... Listen to the rhythm of the rain as it washes down the gutter way, so flows away your shame,
there is no grace lost if you're crying. Thought we should be flying like we were as kids, from breathe to breathe is how we lived back then.
If here, now's impossible, then life's joys are improbable.
Just take a rest let it go by, if nothings left just say that you'll try, it opens up in time.
If time away wont wash away the abject pain you nurse each day, you've got it all so wrong my friend, its not a struggle to the end.
It opens up in time.
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You can't recall your dad but I bet if you did
He'd be saying that you are, his special kid, in your clogs and short pants, he’d wink you and smile,
Life deals bad hands you got robbed as a child.
You had big brother Hugh and two sisters too and a loving mom doing the best that she can,
So.come on let it be, and give us a smile, life comes with woes you get lost for a while.
Sound the alarms pray to god for recoveries.
You played happily unknowingly just 5 year old boy, 104.
And a cold mist settles over, the whole town dark, cold and sober. For every tear that was shed, every cold empty bed, broken hope.
You did your time for the mine, and nearly lost your life too when the roof gave you fell man, it must have been so surreal, but you know that he was there, protecting his own son, so from one son to another, dad this is your song.
Sound the alarms pray to god for recoveries.
You played happily unknowingly just 5 year old boy, 104.
And a cold mist settles over, the whole town dark, cold and sober. For every tear that was shed, every cold empty bed, broken hope.
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IV-X-MMV
04:05
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Can't stop them, no matter how i try, can't force it, no matter where you run.
Can't stop each stage of life at your door, when you've lost all hope, i'd open up and more.
Never have i wanted to stop so much, You're growing, time is marching on like it should.
Your worlds changing i fear losing touch, when chance comes to your door its surprising what it gives to you.
Then the heavens split the sky, and a band of angels happens by, October 2005, till then life had just withered ties.
I must thank you you’ve opened my eyes, i understand my parents love and maybe one day you will too, when the gift of life comes to you.
It came to me when I saw those blue eyes staring back at me. I was the first person that you ever saw, and all those stupid things I’d prized before; that i held so close suddenly dropped away. You were faultless baby you swept me away and the first time i held your hand my heart was yours for sure.
Then the heavens split the sky, and a band of angels happens by, October 2005, till then life had just withered ties.
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Forget your Regrets
05:06
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It’s been a cold day, in West Virginia, Blacksburg’s far and the devils within you baby,
And lord knows I’ve tried, to cover all sides, I’ve got to be near you.
But I cannot breathe, no I cannot talk, and you don't feel so well at all.
I thought I could save, I thought I could give life back to you
So swiftly speeding, across the districts, 2 wheels burning just to feed the hunger baby,
The faster I go, the urgency grows, to cleanse what’s within you,
No I cannot live, a life without you, we must be together in death too.
I wish I could breathe the life into you, but baby its failing to come through.
With these fears, my dear, who’d want to live forever?
No don’t say that your mine, cause you don’t mean forever,
With these words, and our fate, sealed with flames of past mistakes,
No don’t say that your mine.
The burning night sky, painted by thunder, racing hearts as dark succumbs you baby.
I will not desert, I will not forget, your my whole world with no regrets.
With these fears, my dear, who’d want to live forever?
No don’t say that your mine, cause you don’t mean forever,
With these words, and our fate, sealed with flames of past mistakes,
No don’t say that your mine.
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7. |
Living in a Mining Town
04:41
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I Sit and watch the mist roll in tonight.
A town of widows holding their young tight.
With hopes the lamps can guide their lost ones home.
Only a tag and memories remain, void of a name.
The Crews arrive to rescue who they can,
Each one like brothers to the missing men.
The chilling cries above now fill the air.
Into the dark to dig the coal, please save them all.
If i could return and change the course of history, then maybe you could even have known me but, the price of fuel is a high one living in a mining town.
Another anxious crowd gathers by the gate.
Many more men had met their fate.
There's children crying too, there's nothing they can do.
I sit and watch the mist roll in tonight, void of life.
If i could return and change the course of history, then maybe you could even have known me but, the price of fuel is a high one living in a mining town.
Stop these thoughts, its too much to bear,
to think of you helpless down there,
my own blood line my flesh and blood.
Your family waiting in the lines of
countless people, broken down, in this old town, in this old haven.
But its too late, I'll never forget.
If i could return and change the course of history, then maybe you could even have known me but, the price of fuel is a high one living in a mining town.
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Choice, Chance, Change
04:26
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I never had you heart, you were always too good for me.
Now I write these lines it's all so clear to see
you were always going to leave
I should have known it from the very start
a girl like you would only ever break my heart.
Seems everyone but me, got from you exactly what they need,
to be wanted, not to fail and face defeat
these things were just important to me.
I should have known it from the very start
a girl like you would only ever break my heart.
When you leave here i am lost,
the shallows of pain will come to me
I retrace each step with blind frivolity
you moved on and left the dark for me.
I should have known it from the very start
a girl like you would only ever break my heart.
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9. |
Rearrange
02:40
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I'm reaching out for you.
My heart it tells me to.
I know (see how your world can shift when changing, out of the blue you're rearranging life..)
Seeing no way out, so hollow.
A daze a dream called life, I'm a shadow.
I know (see how your world can shift when changing, out of the blue you're rearranging life..)
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Broken Doll
05:02
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Someone hurt me as a child, and I’m to blame.
Theres no reason to be so uptight, we all hide the same shame.
How it hurts sometimes to recall, and where can we hide from deep seated fears?
A frozen tear. That tattoo’s on your soul, a broken doll that fractures as it falls.
Time be Time and heal the wounds that separate our hearts.
I tried my best to be perfect, time after time it falls apart.
How it hurts sometimes to be told , that i was never more than this at all.
A frozen tear, that tattoo’s on your soul, a broken doll that fractures as it falls.
Its all behind you those sensations, you're always looking back,
you build upon your reputation, who knew? who cares? who wonders anyway?
you have such a complex soul, no you don't need this at all.
A frozen tear, that tattoos on your soul, you could have been the one to change it all.
your tears will sink a thousand lonely ships,
baby, the picture is bigger than both you and I,
emotion, your world keeps distorting, the peak of the winter, the pain or retreat from the spiraling chatter you mindscape repeats to be brave.
So here we are all beat and hard, many lessons forged.
I let them go all broken and torn, they weigh to heavy on my fragile heart.
I had such a perfect soul, but my fears destroyed it all.
A frozen tear. That tattoo’s on your soul, I should have been the one to change it all.
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Nevergrow 2017
05:13
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In some years from now, thought you may not agree,
You’ll be living your own life, worlds away from me,
Left with ageing footage, showing how you’ve grown.
such a happy little girl, I watch them and recall;
Jumping on the bed, like a circus trampoline,
Piano's on your lap and and how much you mimic me
Swimming in the sunshine, ice creams on our nose,
Tuck you into bed at night, and nipping at your nose.
Jumping into puddles, your first small purple shoes.
The first hug when i'm home from work, was always from you
Times a thief times so unnerving you'll learn that, my baby.
Life will give life takes away as we build, our defences.
Some things will seem so devastating your world, keeps changing. But,
No matter what comes of you or I, you will always be my baby, girl.
So here we are now, you're still a child, when you go to bed and come back down, I'm so thrilled your still around.
I'll treasure every moment of this to me my child you're gods gift, be mindful of your every now, each moment her word her smile.
Ain't it funny how the time shifts, the moments lost as we persist, racing for i do not know? another place? another goal? I now declare enough's enough. Why have i been in such a rush? this moment! this time!
Times a thief times so unnerving you'll learn that, my baby.
Life will give life takes away as we build, our defences.
Some things will seem so devastating your world, keeps changing. But,
No matter what comes of you or I, you will always be my baby, girl.
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Martin Diamond Whitehaven, UK
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