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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
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Faith, Hope and Fortune
03:45
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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
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Churchville Avenue
02:39
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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
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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
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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
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Exquisite Pain
04:20
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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
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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
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Rage and Fight
04:29
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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
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Map of Love
04:19
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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
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Rolling Thunder
04:09
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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
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The Best Is Yet To Come
02:30
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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
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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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Samuel James Taylor Sheffield, UK
Sheffield Troubadour
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