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Let You Be
03:12
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Eddie was a common boy
He grew up in a town far in the west
His father was a modest man
His mother tried to help him as she could
In his vision he was growing really fast
Like a goldfish who can’t swim in his small tank
He decided he was meant for bigger things
In the end
He just left
Now he’s stuck up in New York
A fancy job is mostly what he does
He has a wife, a car, a dog
But never talks about seeing the world
In his vision needed to become a man
To release those bigger plans for he was meant
Sure to find that happiness along the road
In a trice
He grew old
How much time we spend up thinking what is wrong
While our lives just moving on
Every sunrise, every mountain, every sea
These the things that let you be
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2. |
One Day
04:49
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One day
Would I be the same?
Build a home where the sky is not so grey
I’ll grow staying by my window
On a world that keeps me out of line
Have to find a loop
That plays for all the show
And pretend to know
It’s gonna work for more
One day would you be like them?
Watching love like people used to say
A fool tinker with his tools
Trying to fix all the scraps with no more fail
I could find a screen to throw my marked dreams
Face and hold the fears
And learn the taste of tears
I will love, play the game
But don’t need no words today
I won’t ask, hear the answer from your breathing
Now the ship is coming fast
It’s not the time to get some rest
Where I’ll float, never know but need to make it on my own
One day I’ll be led away
In a place where I have ever been
But now I’m hanging around
To the bright lights of a twinkling town
And I stand alone
A fire in my eyes
A ticket in my hands
Could let me reach the sky
I will love, play the game
But don’t need no words today
I won’t ask, hear the answer from your breathing
Now the ship is coming fast
Is not the time to get some rest
Where I’ll float, never know but need to make it on my own
I will love, play the game
But don’t need no words today
I won’t ask, hear the answer from your breathing
Now the ship is coming fast
Is not the time to get some rest
Where I’ll float, never know but need to make it on my own
Just need to make it on my own
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3. |
Pleatings on the Waters
04:28
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Once I’ve seen you
Captured in your world
And I’ve offered
A penny for your thoughts
Still remember
I couldn’t see deep inside
I was taken
By the ghosts in my mind
You must have spent hours on a night train
Where there’s no way to forget about the time
And we will be like pleatings on the waters of Rio Grande
Running wild
'Til the time
They’ll be dead
Someone told me
Connections might be odd
‘‘Let the time flow
and it wiil do the job’’
How about trying
To put the pride apart?
I’m so sorry
The distance now is done
You must have spent hours on a night train
Where there’s no way to forget about the time
And we will be like pleatings on the waters of Rio Grande
Running wild
'Til the time
They’ll be dead
I can see how
Our love has now got lost
But nobody
Has to be that strong
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4. |
Song for Nick
05:22
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Caught me asleep
This feeling of anxiety
It lives with me
A shipwreck at the bottom of the sea
And you show me
The ways how a man can be
Before embarking on the longest trip
The captain was chased
To learn about the ocean and its waves
And if I let go
They'll swamp me with the fury of a storm
Oh, I should have known
You were holding on
We are the hollow men, the citizens
Hiding in the lies
To see our homeland weary and disowned
All the hopes and dreams are buried in the ground
The saddest of days
When sat on the bow counting the pain
And it can't be real
Don't know how to feel
We are the hollow men, the citizens
Hiding in the lies
To see our homeland weary and disowned
All the hopes and dreams are buried in the ground
Now you're gone and left my heart cold and strung out
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Pale lady from the coast
Cold heart and lonely soul
Your perspective
Uneven as a stone
Your truth is still unknown
The past a burden brought
Like a sketch line
Engraved inside your bones
Vacant halls around
Your easel’s crumbling down
All the watercolours blended into a mixture
And I’ve never realised
That sparkle into their eyes
Reflecting your basic need
To be recognised
And all those figures
Inside your head
When people's talking
You turn back from the edge
Just keep on trying
To give ‘em life
A scarlet fire
Who burns us deep inside
Empty walls around
A canvas on the ground
Making all the outlines broken into pieces
And I’ve never realised
That sparkle into their eyes
Reflecting your basic need
To be recognised
And I’ve never realised
That sparkle into their eyes
Reflecting your basic need
To be recognised
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6. |
Round and Round
01:47
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Far away there’s a shiny little sun
Lighting up our longest way
But you're leaving with the first hour of the morn
Like a gull from the harbours bay
And I’m moving round and round
Place my heart nowhere to be found
Got to give a lot to understand
That I can’t just say “fare thee well”
I wanted to write one of those songs
full of lies and beautiful words
But I wander round and round
Through my land of nowhere
Way until the dusk
At the end of the day
There’s nothing left to say
It’s just a part of me that slides away
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Gian Luca & The Oak London, UK
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