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Wild Tales and Broken Hearts

by Samuel James Taylor

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1.
You had a choice You had a choice, though it was not easy You heard a voice Calling out from a choir of angels You awoke from your slumber, lying in a haze You couldn’t even recognise your own face Searching for something in the back of your mind That downtrodden fool, that you’d left behind Wild tales and broken hearts When you think you’re nearly washed up You’re just at the start You’re singing, wild tales and broken hearts Dreams can last forever Just don’t tear them apart Keep singing You had a choice Didn’t take the easy road, that’s for sure You heard a voice Love was your asylum, and you let her heal you Now you’re waiting for a phoenix, to rise from the flames Rebel against the dumbstruck in their whirlpool parade Searching for a truth, in a world full of lies The blinding sight of youth, in the sea of life Wild tales and broken hearts When you think you’re nearly washed up You’re just at the start You’re singing, wild tales and broken hearts Dreams can last forever Just don’t tear them apart Keep singing You had a choice In the bricks of this town you made your bed You heard a voice In the anchor of a home, you found your answer Recounting the years you wandered alone Talking to the wilderness, searching the globe Stood beneath the desert sky, trying to find the rain You stared into the sun, and it healed your pain Wild tales and broken hearts When you think you’re nearly washed up You’re just at the start You’re singing, wild tales and broken hearts Dreams can last forever Just don’t tear them apart Keep singing Wild tales and broken hearts When you think you’re nearly washed up You’re just at the start You’re singing, wild tales and broken hearts Dreams can last forever Just don’t tear them apart Keep singing
2.
They picked up my photograph, it was blowing in the breeze They found page or two of poetry Then they tied a rope, tight around my neck Asked me to take a leap of faith, so I jumped right off the edge I was flailing in the wind, as the ship was setting sail Still praying for a miracle, in search of the Holy Grail I sold my soul to the night games, then folded on an ace Looked inside for a memory, but there was just a strangers face No-one ever seems to really know If it’s gonna rain, if it’s gonna snow No-one ever seems to really care So if you want me, I’ll be over there I had faith and hope and fortune, but I could never really see The answer there before me, in a language I couldn’t read Now I’m stood beneath the sunset at the edge of the world Shouting out for the thunder, still trying to dive for pearls No-one ever seems to really know If it’s gonna rain, if it’s gonna snow No-one ever seems to really care So if you want me, I’ll be over there It was the last exit out and I went and missed the train Now I’m standing at the station, just the ember of a flame No-one ever seems to really know If it’s gonna rain, if it’s gonna snow No-one ever seems to really care So if you want me, I’ll be over there Yeh if you want me, I’ll be over there If you want me
3.
I’m in your childhood room, here on Churchville Avenue There’s clothes of all sorts, spread out on your floor A coat for a little girl, who grew into my world A memory, of a time, from long before From your window I see trees, Gypsy Hill Park in the breeze And your voice, it whispers on the wind It reads aloud, a note you wrote, a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt A little something, about believing in your dreams And I guess you could have stayed But the world it couldn’t wait There was something, a feeling deep inside So you left your childhood room, here on Churchville Avenue But it’s still there, every time you close your eyes Looking out into the night, I can see those Christmas lights Lighting up the the world for you and me Snow’s falling from the sky, but it’s safe and warm inside As I hold you, in my arms tonight And I’ve come to realise only this That the past is just a trick It finds a way to pull us back inside So I’m sitting in your room, here on Churchville Avenue As I open up this door into your life
4.
Little Virginia girl she's got a secret Its hidden in the wishing well Virginia girl she's got a secret But she says that she’ll never tell The flame of lucid courage Burning brighter then the stars she sees Virginia girl she's got a secret And it’s something that she jus can’t keep Little Virginia girl she got a story And she tells it oh so well Virginia girl she's got a story It’s a tale that you already know She’s playing with the theory of everything With the passion of an unchained dream Virginia girl she’s got a story It’s the one from the child in me M, m, m, my, m, my, m, m, m, my You’re in trouble now I know Just ask for the future in the palm of your hand And she’ll point to the wishing well Little Virginia girl she’s got a feeling It’s hidden deep inside Virginia girl she’s got a feeling You can see it in her childlike eyes Been reading the rules of the way it is Back to front and upside down Virginia girl she’s got a feeling It’s a feeling that’ll spin you round M, m, m, my, m, my, m, m, m, my You’re in trouble now I know Just ask for the future in the palm of your hand And she’ll point to the wishing well M, m, m, my, m, my, m, m, m, my You’re in trouble now I know Just ask for the future in the palm of your hand And she’ll point to the wishing well Little Virginia girl she's got a secret Its hidden in the wishing well Virginia girl she's got a secret But she says that she’ll never tell The flame of lucid courage Burning brighter then the stars she sees Virginia girl she's got a secret It’s something that she jus can’t keep M, m, m, my, m, my, m, m, m, my You’re in trouble now I know Just ask for the future in the palm of your hand And she’ll point to the wishing well M, m, m, my, m, my, m, m, m, my You’re in trouble now I know Just ask for the future in the palm of your hand And she’ll point to the wishing well
5.
This is the story according to me I was out in the garden at quarter to three Watching the flowers and lying on the grass Listening to the owls, chasing the cats Summer wishes and weekend smiles Brought her out just for a while I heard her say “what you doing out here?” Then I rolled over, and just to see her Oh darling don’t leave me darling Oh darling don’t leave Cos I’ll be in the garden, just keep your eyes on me I kissed your sister by the apple tree Out in the garden where the flowers grow free Gone too soon, like a summers breeze A kiss and a moment at quarter to three Oh darling don’t leave me darling Oh darling don’t leave Cos I’ll be in the garden, right by the apple tree Oh darling don’t leave me darling Oh darling don’t leave Cos I’ll be in the garden, just keep your eyes on me
6.
I’m strong enough to set you free If I can find the words, will you help me speak? I left a boy, returned a man I was holding all the answers in the palm of my hands But it’s clear now that something’s changed Are you still my exquisite pain? So delicate, and cold like the night Confusion makes it feel so right My heart is left outside in the rain, drenched with a pain Will I ever feel again? It’s clear now that something’s changed Are you still my exquisite pain? The ones who plant the trees, to the lifelines that we need Writing words that no-one will ever read I was looking forwards, while I was standing in the past You left me like a statue made out of glass And it’s clear now that something’s changed Am I still your exquisite pain? We had a chance to spend our life With some things wrong, and some things right
7.
Through the silence and the half light, I dance with sleep in my head I picture you on a rooftop, in an un-made bed I see the country, the city’s, and those headlight drives The night’s a river flowing freely, with you, the poet of my life Then the morning comes creeping, the sun begins to rise Reaching out I close the curtains, then I close my eyes I’m overcome with a vision, I slowly drift through the past I’m not leaving this memory, as just a dream we had I’m hypnotised by an image, tomorrow is on my mind Let’s take a chance on our history, and turn back time Through the silence and the half light, I see an image of myself Looking into a mirror, the reflection of a winding road I take my mind to a coastline, fires flicker in a hotel room Oh I watch you sleeping softly, you, my only truth I’m overcome with a vision, I slowly drift through the past I’m not leaving this memory, as just a dream we had I’m hypnotised by an image, tomorrow is on my mind Let’s take a chance on our history, and turn back time I’m overcome with a vision, I slowly drift through the past I’m not leaving this memory, as just a dream we had I’m hypnotised by an image, tomorrow is on my mind Let’s take a chance on our history, and turn back time Let’s take a chance on our history, and turn back time
8.
Do you remember? It wasn’t long ago Driving cars, empty highways, winding roads Do you remember? Only you and me Seeing life ahead, holding hands, making dreams Do you recall, those endless days We’d talk of everything ahead, we weren’t afraid Do you recall, those early hours Drinking whisky, smoking cigarettes and smiles And I’m going to rage and fight Fight for love, fight for you, fight for us My girl, you’re everything You’re the light that shines, the moon at night, the birds that sing Oh you’re everything And now I know, the taste of youth The sweetest thing, the pretty lie, the living proof And now I know, it will always be You’re everything I ever hoped and all I dreamed And I’m going to rage and fight Fight for love, fight for you, fight for us My girl, you’re everything You’re the light that shines, the moon at night, the birds that sing Oh you’re everything Do you remember? It wasn’t long ago Driving cars, empty highways, winding roads And I’m going to rage and fight Fight for love, fight for you, fight for us And I’m going to rage and fight Fight for love, fight for you, fight for us My girl, you’re everything You’re the light that shines, the moon at night, the birds that sing Oh you’re everything You’re everything You’re everything
9.
Map of Love 04:19
The day is late, later then the sun Soon the morning will wake this northern sky And you and I will rise, with the sunlight in our eyes To make a choice, a sacrifice And as we walk, through the waters on the shore Feel the rolling currents, drift across our skin And then we roll the dice, to take a chance on life We found a home in the forest of our love In the branches, the arms of our love So I write a poem in the sand, carving words into this land You’re the map of love, that guides me through this life You’re everything that’s right Beyond the stepping stones, and the endless fields of gold To the mountains, where we sheltered from the storm And now we ride the waves, of a life that we have made And we realise, that this is all it takes Pick up the kindest touch and pull yourself into my love Let the world keep turning round beneath our feet Put my name upon your lips, in the faint light of a kiss And let the waves break on yesterdays pain Let the waves break and wash away our pain So I write a poem in the sand, carving words into this land You’re the map of love, that guides me through this life You’re everything that’s right You’re everything that’s right You’re everything that’s right Everything that’s right Everything that’s right So I write a poem in the sand, carving words into this land You’re the map of love, that guides me through this life I'll write a poem in the sand, carving words into this land You’re the map of love, that guides me through this life You’re everything that’s right
10.
I’ve been watching time fall across the open bay I’ve been watching waves break, against another day I’ve been making up my mind, my minds made up with me I’ve been making up the time, and now it’s time to breathe The wind is blowing wild now, against my window pane The wind is blowing wild now, bending with the strain The rain it’s falling faster, tip tapping on my roof The rain it’s falling heavy, it’s coming for me soon Then you roll your thunder, from a hundred miles away Roll your thunder, the lighting strikes again I was shouting out and calling, searching for the truth Then I heard your rolling thunder, I saw the living proof The mountain we’ve been climbing, to try and reach the sky The mountain we’ve been climbing, it never felt so high Oh and the river that’s been rolling, tumbling through our lives The river that’s been rolling, through the valley’s oh so wide Then you roll your thunder, from a hundred miles away Roll your thunder, the lighting strikes again I was shouting out and calling, searching for the truth Then I heard your rolling thunder, I saw the living proof They ask me why the wondering, the wandering through life They ask me why the weather changes cut just like a knife They say the big bright sun, has fallen down into the day They say the big bright sun, she may never rise again Then you roll your thunder, from a hundred miles away Roll your thunder, the lighting strikes again I was shouting out and calling, searching for the truth Then I heard your rolling thunder, I saw the living proof Then you roll your thunder, from a hundred miles away Roll your thunder, the lighting strikes again I was shouting out and calling, searching for the truth Then I heard your rolling thunder, I saw the living proof
11.
It was captured in the moment’s after In the silence of a dream On the edge, under the thunder In the music of you and me We stepped out onto the dancing floor And wandered through our world Through the soft movement down a silent road In a perfect pitch you spoke And you said The best is yet to come my love The best is yet to come The best is yet to come my love The best is yet to come The best is yet to come my love The best is yet to come The best is yet to come my love The best is yet to come
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Reverie 01:41
13.
The light breaks, as the sun falls down Broken ghosts are all around The seed of youth and the taste of truth This candle flickers and burns right out The dawn wakes, as the night makes haste Turning my whole world upside down We beat in time and you show me a sign Draw my breath along your loves lifeline Time may dance around these ageing bones I’ll still be the one you used to know We’ve all felt pain, sorrow in vain Stories stitched into this patchwork life But what we seize throwing caution to the breeze Foster your light and carry all your dreams Time may dance around these ageing bones I’ll still be the one you used to know A turn of time, take a path back home My wild child on the road we roamed Time may dance around these ageing bones I’ll still be the one you used to know Time may dance around these ageing bones I’ll still be the one you used to know Time may dance around these ageing bones I’ll still be the one you used to know

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Hailing from the land of seven hills, a blue-eyed steel town boy returns with his latest offering to the world - a love letter to life, to art, to music, to love itself, to the journeys that take us away from ourselves and back again.

After trading in the electric hum of capital city lights to run away into the sunset with a circus queen, he travelled the world, documenting his journey in an EP anthology entitled Tales From A Troubadour before finally taking pause in the quiet landscape of his home in the English countryside. As it sometimes happens with extended journeys, life gives us diversions in the road we weren’t prepared for, and for Samuel this manifested itself in an autoimmune diagnosis, forcing him to hit the breaks on a life of long tours, late nights and heavy lifting. “I couldn’t continue at the pace I was going, it was time to take a step back. I needed to prioritise my health and work out how I was going to move forwards from here.”

In the introspective years that followed, came time for self reflection and questioning. “There was period of time when I considered giving it all up,” says Taylor. “I couldn’t find myself in my music for the first time in my life. I was always playing shows, touring, connecting with people, I felt lost without that human connection. It was an isolating and lonely place. I wasn’t really sure how to get out of it and, for a while, I questioned whether it would be easier just to let it all go.”

But, as is often the case with stories of love and passion, sometimes the pull of the heart is too strong. Born out of the freedom from expectation that surrounds live performance, Samuel found his muse again. Songs were written, an album formed. “With time away from the constant shuffle and go, I found a new voice, or maybe it was the voice that was there all along. I spent a lot of time listening to the albums that had first inspired me to become a songwriter, albums I remember singing to in the back of the car as a child. I opened up a door to my past through Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Carole King, James Taylor… artists that began the journey for me. I knew it was time to get back in the studio again and I knew exactly how I wanted to make the record.”

Following what seemed like an eternity away from music, Samuel travelled to Nashville in December 2021 to record a full length live album with friend and Grammy nominated producer Neilson Hubbard.

The album, ‘Wild Tales and Broken Hearts’ is a 13 track album that will be released through UK record label Ki An Projects in October 2022. The album was recorded live over three days at Skinny Elephant Studios in Nashville, TN (USA). The band features musicians Michael Rinne (Miranda Lambert), Juan Solorzano (Ruston Kelly), Neilson Hubbard (Mary Gautier, Amy Speace, Ben Glover) and Rebecca Van Cleave. The album was also engineered by Dylan Alldredge.

After a long journey to the ends of himself and back again, Samuel James Taylor, it seems, is finally bringing it all back home.

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released October 21, 2022

All songs and lyrics written by Samuel James Taylor

Producer: Neilson Hubbard
Mixed By: Neilson Hubbard
Engineer: Dylan Alldredge
Mastering Engineer: Dean Honer

Musicians:
Samuel James Taylor: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Rebecca Van Cleave: Vocals
Neilson Hubbard: Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Mellotron
Michael Rinne: Bass
Juan Solorzano: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Hammond Organ

© & ℗ Samuel James Taylor under exclusive license to Ki An Projects, 2022. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited. All songs written by Samuel James Taylor. Produced and Mixed by Neilson Hubbard. Engineered by Dylan Alldredge at Skinny Elephant Studios, Nashville. Mastered by Dean Honer at Bowling Green Mastering, Sheffield.

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