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Troubadour Blues
04:04
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TROUBADOUR BLUES
I'll beg like a dog for more
Scrape all the coins from the floor
They say you can't pay your way with your soul
My wealth is in love but not gold
As I live my days i'll move in ways that not all here will understand
If i can be your roaming sea I promise you I won't let you drown
This troubadour's got the blues
Guess there's just too many ways to lose
Am I a glitch in your machine?
Or the curb that you fall from to wake you from your dream?
As I live my days i'll move in ways that not all here will understand
If i can be your roaming sea I promise you I won't let you drown
I'll beg like a dog for more
Scrape up my pride from the floor
This troubadour's got the blues
I don't play your game so why should I lose?
As I live my days i'll move in ways that not all here will understand
If i can be your roaming sea I promise you I won't let you drown
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2. |
Make A Wave
04:32
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MAKE A WAVE
Hey world i'm writing to tell you we've all gone mad
The seat that I used to sit has now become a stand
And my head is filled with worry not for me but for you
I hope you find a space somewhere that you can belong to
Start a ripple we'll make a wave
Build tomorrow from yesterday
Thaw this world thats froze itself insane
Hey friend i'm trying to kind of muddle through
And if you find that space somewhere make sure theres room for a few
Start a ripple we'll make a wave
Build tomorrow from yesterday
Thaw this world thats froze itself insane
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3. |
Fall With Love
05:00
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FALL WITH LOVE
Beating pulse lawlessness cult I don't know where to turn
Find your glory's all history underneath the dirt
Tailored for your love
Humbled by your peace
Watch as they fall to their need
Roll another number, don't let it pull you under
Are you too far gone?
Reeling from this raging storm
Are you breathing though not feeling, are you near your sky?
Burn your walls and death be calling, hang your pictures high
Tailored for your love
Humbled by your peace
Watch as they fall to their need
Roll another number, don't let it pull you under
You are too far gone now, let this storm just spit you out
You've been down
Telling me that this space in the ground is a place that you see
All the falling stars, names of before
Gotta feel it all, gotta let it go
Cos you know all we are is how we feel
And how we fall with love
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4. |
Paper Aeroplanes
04:21
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PAPER AEROPLANES
It's alright down in hiding
Won't find me hear deep within my skin
Theres a rusted weathered old soul
That is closely guarded by ghosts
And a crazy word jumping of the edge of my tongue
It's ok do not worry
I know this world is such a hurried old place
But I can not compete in your race
Cos I've got nothing left here to chase
Just this crazy word thats jumping off the edge of my brain
My Thoughts they leave like paper aeroplanes
From some screwed up idea of what it takes
You can rip me apart or blow me away
But I know i'll just stay making paper aeroplanes
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5. |
Trick Of The Light
05:22
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TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Out of your head and the words in your breath they don't make no sense
Been clutching at straws as the undertow draws out a consequence
Hold your fire or leave
Hung like hunger on me
Leaf litter falls as the new dawn it calls another falls to lay
How deep is the dust does it cover the trust that you can't convey?
Hold your fire or leave
Hung like hunger on me
Don't open fire some live like a country at war
They'll turn like a tide
The shoreline you saw it was all just a trick of the light
Blink of an eye we are just passing by nothing's made to last
Clocks won't unwind all this stealing of time that we make an art
Hold your fire or leave
Hung like hunger on me
Don't open fire some live like a country at war
They'll turn like a tide
The shoreline you saw it was all just a trick of the light
Hold on, hold on………..
Don't open fire some live like a country at war
They'll turn like a tide
The shoreline you saw it was all just a trick the….
Oceans disguise you'll anchor your ship here tonight
I'll turn like a tide
Grew like a wave and you moved like a trick of the light
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6. |
Morning Skin
04:28
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MORNING SKIN
Wash away your morning skin
Time to let the future in
Wash away your morning blues
No point living in yesterdays shoes
You stand just like a man I used to know
You smile just like a child of long ago
Time goes by
With each day lived the more you die
Mirror dreams often believed
Only dreams up what it wants to see
Wash your morning skin away
Thats what she used to say
You stand just like a man I used to know
You smile just like a child of long ago
Time goes by
With each day lived the more you die
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7. |
Dancing In Our Graves
03:48
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DANCING IN OUR GRAVES
Tangled up in why's here yeah and I don't know
This situation is starting to get old
But old mother nature's got her hold on me
Don't mess with her boy she'll put you on your knee's
But I know there's a place
A basement of dreamers, downstairs dancing in their graves
I'll join the dots here just to make the lines
I'll paint a picture in the corner of your mind
But memories are nothing more than fraying rope
Pull a little harder or do I let it go?
I don't know but one day
I'll be there with them downstairs dancing in my grave
And I will miss this precious gift
But I can't leave here without you dear
So once we've lived out our days
Let's go downstairs, go down dancing in our graves
Tangled up in why's here yeah and I don't know
This generation is starting to get old
But oh mayhem maker won't you give me some peace?
I'll shed the load here if you just let me be
A nomad, I'll find my way
Another basement dreamer, downstairs dancing in our graves
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8. |
Puppet Of Fear
04:01
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PUPPET OF FEAR
Wet eyes leak a jealous mind and you're giving up too soon
He stands a hollowed man he's not letting go of you
Help me i'm falling back again
They come and leave with everything
And I hope you hear this
Too far it's gone too far and you're body aches out a tear
No strings controlling him cos you are a puppet of fear
Help me i'm falling back again
They come and leave with everything
And I hope you hear this
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9. |
My Appraiser
04:31
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My Appraiser
Find myself here just locking horns, never settle any score
You go your way and i'll go mine, like a shadow cast by your light
Navogator tied to the wheel, swollen ocean salt wounds to heel
Move in ways they don't understand, an anchored notion tied to the man
Climbed so high to fall in love, got it all but not enough
This disco world we danced alone, one thousand hands, not one to hold
Climbed so high to fall in love, got it all but not enough
This disco world we danced alone, one thousand hands not one to hold
My appraisers got a heart of gold, pay the ransom though nothings sold
You go your way and i'll go mine, like a shadow cast by your light
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10. |
His Days Have No Sound
04:17
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HIS DAYS HAVE NO SOUND
So you sold your soul, played truth or dare and lost it all
It's only wafer thin this so called confidence that we live in
And it goes round, his days have no sound
How could I contain corrosive thoughts within a rusting brain?
It's only paper thin this so called confidence you wrap me in
And it goes round, his days have no sound
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11. |
Whiskey Mouth
04:07
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WHISKEY MOUTH
Your insults they always taste like your whiskey mouth
Have as much substance as the bottle in your hand
No empathy, no nothing seems to relieve what you're on
Oh your bad breath has carried for far too long
It's not my way, it's not me
You're magnifying everything wherever you go
The further you run as they're loading their gun
You know the harder that you're gonna fall
It's now or never, it's all or nothing
It's us V them you and me
Picture yourself, now picture the world then fit everything in-between
It's not my way, it's not me
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12. |
Mea Culpa
04:59
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MEA CULPA
I have a confession, i'm lost sometimes
Can't see no reason with these lonely eyes
And I don't mean no wrong but i'm not always right
Where ever there are shadows behind there must be light
Don't go fading, I lost my head
Don't break down on me cos you know….
Mea Culpa but I can explain cos sponges get heavy in the rain
Pride makes for bare feet across your stoney ground
I'm treading so carefully I hope I don't fall down
Mistakes I have many like many men I know
But if my pride it wilts my conscience builds a path from your stones
Don't go fading, I lost my head
Don't break down on me cos you know….
Mea Culpa but I can explain cos sponges get heavy in the rain
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13. |
A Cider Dream
03:47
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A CIDER DREAM
Fill my glass with the past we're gonna drink this night away
It used to be a drunken dream by the seafronts crashing ways
Those days have gone and some moved on through a higher open door
But some remain just the same just where they were before
We all got caught up in a cider dream
Didn't know I was awake until I had to leave
Those days are bottled and they're washed up on the shore
Memories they fade out we gotta make some more
You climb aboard just before the band wagon pulls away
A shallow grin is so fitting for what you had to say
Her honest face looks out of place down in this part of town
And watch them crawl from their holes just waiting to bring you down
We all got caught up in a cider dream
Didn't know I was awake until I had to leave
Those days are bottled and they're washed up on the shore
Memories they fade out we gotta make some more
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DESIRE LINES (TURN A LEAF)
Don't waste your time directing me cos desire lines thats where i'll be
Both got the script just a different page & I'll turn a leaf in the hope that you will do the same
Society's footprints leave a trace of basement dreams
Scented marks they line the walls, pointing finger became your downfall
Oh they come with dirty knives, cloak & dagger Ceaser style
A hoarders dream behind the door, in your head you're waging civil war
Don't waste your time directing me cos desire lines thats where i'll be
Both got the script just a different page & I'll turn a leaf in the hope that you will do the same
Tap that dripped became a flood gotta get it back to good
Heavy feet came wading in, hungry hands just keep on taking
Oh your ways are growing old, coin a phrase to buy a soul
Lighting struck your money tree, through your hands you lost infinity
Don't waste your time directing me cos desire lines thats where i'll be
Both got the script just a different page & I'll turn a leaf in the hope that you will do the same
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Spike Oatley Cork, Ireland
Born & raised on an Island steeped in musical Heritage Spike Oatley is a Singer Songwriter that is very much a product of his environment. Much like his native Isle of Wight just off of the South coast of England his songs are a place to go to, a sanctuary or simply an old friend. ... more
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