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Life is amazing! Just look at what we’ve got
Life is spectacular - only one shot
My world is heavenly, cause I know who we are
Living in harmony under a halo of stars
Blue and gold
The sky and the sun
Circles of friends and I won't lose the one
Our lives are heaven sent
We know who we are
Under my halo of stars
Our lives are heaven-sent - we know who we are
Shining celestial under the halo of stars
Life is amazing! Just look at what we’ve got
Life is spectacular- only one shot
My world is heavenly, cause I know who we are
Living in harmony under a halo of stars
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Breakthrough
03:32
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I’ve got one dream
Just one hope
And I’ll be the first to laugh
If it all becomes a joke
If I get a life
I’d be free
If I didn’t have this deep desire
Burning up in me
I’ll break through x 4
It takes years
It might take me years
In my dreams
There are castles in the air
I’ll build them to the skies
If I can get my share
In this life
I know that nothing’s for free
But I’ve always had this deep desire
Burning up in me
I’ll break through x 4
It takes years
I’ll break through x 4
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Raise the Roof
03:35
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I Can Feel The Winds Of Change A Blowing
When You Walk In The Room
My Heart Starts A Jumping
Jumping...
Going Boom Boom Boom
Armageddon Time,
It's Far Too Late To Save My Soul
You Took My Breath Away
Not The Only Thing You Stole
I Used To Have A Heart
A Heart That Was Mine All Mine
Now It Rattles Like A Stun Gun
Blowing Empty Shells Across The Thin Red Line
Take It, Make It, Break It, Don’t Fake It
If Love Is Sleeping Wake It
Make Your Cake And Bake It
Sing Hallelujah
Sing The Song
Tell The Truth, Aint that the truth
Praise Creation
Sing Along
It’s time to move,
Let’s Raise The Roof
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Hide and Seek
02:49
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Refrain:
You’ll never find me
I’m playing hide and seek
You’ll never find me
I’m playing hide and seek
I’m in the city and everything's so chic
Lying undercover, too drunk to speak
You’ll never see me hiding in the trunk
Laying low, breathing slow, ready for the funk
Wait for the city to close its eyes and go to sleep
Let’s count to ten now
Let’s get invisible
And worry bout the wheres and the whens
All over again
Let’s get invisible
And worry bout the wheres and the whens
Now and then
Refrain:
You hide behind the curtains
You put a gun to my head
But think about the mess you’ll leave
When I’m lying down there dead
It raps against my temple
Leaves grooves upon my skin
It's a hair-trigger roulette wheel
Are you out or are you in?
And hey...
Is this really real? x 4
Refrain:
So Continentale!
Dancing cheek to cheek
One in a million
A love unique
I'd like to take take a secret look
'cause your x-ray eyes leave me weak
But you’ll never find me
I’m playing hide and seek
You’ll never find me
I’m playing hide and seek
You think you’re cool
But I can see just who you are
You're a crack in the clouds
In a saucerful of stars
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Chalk Marks in the Rain
03:37
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Time is graffiti scrawled on a wall
Marks leave their traces on us all
Washing away leaving their stains
Wraps itself around us and runs down the drain
Like chalk marks in the rain
I knew that it was coming from the day that I was born
Heard it in the rhythm, ‘cause my heartbeats torn
Might have been a hurricane – the eye of the storm
Might have been the sound of the rustling corn
Like chalk marks in the rain
Sixty seconds to the crash and burn
Sixty seconds and it’s gone
One small sound that decays and dies
Time…
One moment in time that we forgot to count…
One moment in time that we forgot
It’s deep in the night and no-one’s asleep
I bump and grind in my winding-sheet
Cat’s on the rampage, scratching in heat
Tattoos on the retina, beating retreat
Repos on the boulevard, Dems hit the beat
Like chalk marks in the rain
(The best of memories are pure imagination
Seated on the terrace of the crumbling cafe
The sun is sinking faster than the watery stones
And the small change in my pocket
Rolls away like chalk marks in the rain
Like chalk marks in the rain)
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Immortals
03:59
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If Armageddon’s on the way there’s nowhere we can hide
La, la, la's and pillow dark won’t help to stem the tide
So we try to cling to good things that nothing bad can change:
That we lived our little lifetimes through a bright and golden age
And love, love, love will hear our trembling hearts
And in this strange cold day of winter at the sheathing of the knives
I give thanks to love and nature for keeping us alive
I don’t know where we’re headed in this labyrinth of life
So let’s break the walls of darkness down and step into the light
And let love, love, love heal our frightened hearts
We are like marble
We are like granite
We are like air
Like the sphere of a planet
Like the arc of a rainbow rising up to the sky
We are immortal and immortals never die.
And when the winter creeps toward us, at the evening of our lives
The love we shared without a care was learning to survive
I’ll listen for sweet music as my soul takes flight
Walking down familiar pathways, welcoming the light…
And love will fill our overflowing hearts
We are like diamonds
The core of the sun
Like the stars in the heavens
We are second to none
The arc of a rainbow rising up to the sky
We are immortal and immortals never die.
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Eighteen shots ring out across the estuary dawn
The white horse runs unbridled ‘cross the sands
The devil fills the night with his moonshine breath
And your precious time runs quickly through the fingers of his hands
Now you’re barefoot in the park
Hiding in the shadows and the doorways
Now you’re helpless in the dark
Lost between the devil and the highway
Take me home to the straggling river
Where the curlews call and the reed beds shiver
As bitter cold as a New York whore
Abandon me to my destiny
On that heron-priested shore
Send me some token that my hope may live
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest
Send me some honey to make sweet my hive
That in my passions I may hope the best
Send me nor this, send me nor that to ever increase my store
But swear though think’st 'I love thee', and no more
Take me home to the straggling river
Where the oysters sprawl in the salt-bed shimmer
As bitter cold as a New York whore
Abandon me to my destiny
On that heron-priested shore
Eighteen shots ring out across the estuary dawn
The white horse runs unbridled ‘cross the sands
The devil deals the deck with a hand of death
To the funeral march of a Chapel band
Now you’re barefoot in the park
Hiding in the shadows and the doorways
Now you’re helpless in the dark
Lost between the devil and the highway
Take me home to the straggling river
Where the redshanks trawl as the seasons wither
As bitter cold as a New York whore
Abandon me to Eternity
On that heron-priested shore
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Bumping into Clouds
03:45
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It took a little time
Just a second or two
I knew that you’d be mine
Cause my heart chose you
The heavens kind of opened
With a bolt from the blue
Now all I ever think about is you
Bumping into clouds
Stumbling into rainbows
Crashing into snow
You left me without nowhere
Nowhere to go
Now I’m bumping into clouds
Black, black coffee
Stirring up trouble
Stickier than toffee
The climate is changing
Gonna bump in the night
The ice caps are melting at the very sight of you
You’re hot, hot, hot!
On a cold cold night
And our love is still smouldering in the morning light
Bumping into clouds
Running into rain
Watching my lonely days
Running down the drain
Bumping into clouds
Boom Boom Crash!
Jump into the deep end
For a bigger splash
Now everywhere I go I stumble and fall
Bumping into clouds hitting that wall
Boom boom thunder crashing all about my head
Boom boom lightning flashing in and out of bed
Bumping into clouds
I’m bumping into clouds
Running into rain
Watching my lonely days
Running down the drain
The climate is changing
Bump in the night
The ice caps are melting at the very sight of you
You’re hot, hot, hot!
On a cold cold night
And our love is still smouldering in the morning light
Now I’m bumping into clouds
Drinking black, black coffee
Stirring up trouble
Stickier than toffee
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Crush Hour
03:04
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Stuck in a jam, don’t know where to turn
Head out to the highway, there’s rubber to burn
Shifting gears, but I can’t move on
Radio’s stuck on the same old song
Crush Hour
This old truck is battered and worn
I was lost in love but now I’m reborn
Back on track, I’ve found the plot
Stake my claim in your parking lot
Where love’s concerned I’ve got a lot to learn
Your Car Crash Man is waiting his turn
Crush Hour
Driving’s neat, your kisses are sweet
Got me maniac driving down a wrong way street
I look into the mirror and I can’t quite see
If it’s rain on the pane or your tears on me
My brain is numb from pushing these wheels
My heartbeat pumps as the Dunlop squeals
But my lonely bunk in the back of the truck
Is an empty nest cos I’m all out of luck
Where love’s concerned I’ve got a lot to learn
Your Car Crash Man is waiting his turn
Crush Hour
Stuck in a jam, don’t know where to turn
Head out to the highway, there’s rubber to burn
Shifting gears, but I can’t move on
Radio’s stuck on the same old song
Where love’s concerned I’ve got a lot to learn
Your Car Crash Man is waiting his turn
Crush Hour
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Breathless
04:19
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Breathless
With every beat of my heart
Every moment apart
You leave me breathless
Breathless,
Breathless
Remember my kiss
Long after I’m gone
And though silence is bliss
Remember my song
And when darkness descends
And stars pierce the night
I’ll always be there
In the shadows and light
Remember our dreams
The worlds that we drew
The sum of our lives
The me, and the you
Remember the sights
Remember the sounds
Remember the lost
Remember the found
Remember the still
Remember the noise
Tumbling words
Scattering toys
Remember the fool
Remember the boy
Remember the tears
Remember the joy
Remember it all
When we run out of time
Walking the walk
Climbing the climb
And should memory fade
Like black holes in the sky
I’ll always be there
At the back of your mind
You leave me breathless
Breathless
With every beat of my heart
Every moment apart
You leave me breathless
Breathless,
Breathless
Breathless
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Hold On
04:31
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I was greener back in those early days
But you set my soul on fire
Your touch ravaged my existence
With so much more than your desire
I cannot think about a future
Where you and I divide
I'll keep you close, close to my heart
Close by my side
So hold on to me
Don't ever let me go
The passion that burns in the core of me
Melts the ice in your stony heart
And sometimes, I get to thinking
That the only way to live with you is to tear this love apart
I warned you from the outset of this wild and crazy show
That our time will run like rivers
Unless we stop the flow
So hold on to me
Don't ever let me go
So hold on to me
Don't you ever let me go
So hold on to me
Don't ever let me go
I gaze out at the fragile balance our world
The yin and the yang
There can be no day without the darkest night
It’s all part of nature's plan
And even now, as I run my fingers through your burning sands
And watch it trickle through my calloused hands
Now those fire rage through the rain kissed leaves in the forests of the light
That last kiss might be the final touch
Unless we change the wrongs to right
So hold on to me...
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David Philip Ireland England, UK
David Philip Ireland is a writer, poet, musician, broadcaster and experimentalist.
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