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Baby We're Alive
03:18
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Baby there’s a deer in the snow
Baby watch the steam rise up from its coat
The way it curls and mingles with the skies
Baby it’s been hurt
But baby it’s alive
Baby there’s a glove on the fence
Baby is it right that she left one behind
And exposed her fingers to the cold
For the rest of her life
But baby she’s alive
And baby there’s a lot I’d love to know
But I know I’ll never know it all
And baby we can fly
By your window at night
While tears on your pillow
Disappear with the light
A new day is breaking and baby we’re alive
Baby it’s alright
Baby there’s a light
Baby we’re alive
Baby there’s a church with a spire
Baby there’s a man on his knees and he prays with a fire
The hands that come together
The point of human prayer
And who knows where that prayer goes
Like the steam from the fallen deer
It rises up and it mingles
Disappears with the skies but it signals
That baby we’re alive
And baby there’s a lot I’d love to say
But I know I’ll never say it all
And baby we can fly
By your window at night
While tears on your pillow
Disappear with the light
A new day is breaking and baby we’re alive
Baby it’s alright
Baby there’s a light
Baby we’re alive
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2. |
Millicent
03:11
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Millicent don't let me down
I get so dispirited
It frightens me the way I see you cry
For no apparent reason
Now's about the time you and I should talk
Like we said we always could do
You've burned your favourite book, ‘The Ladies Oracle’
I never thought you would
Get in get out
The door keeps revolving
I’m so out of breath
I'm struggling for air
'Coz there's nothing left
I’m so out of breath
I'm struggling for air
'Coz there's nothing left
Millicent are you still making plans
To build cities underground
Your obsession with nature's so weird
It's got a real fascist edge to it
Me I guess I'm the same
I'm involved with experiments
I've rigged myself up to the mains
Now I'm waiting for the storms to come
Get in get out
The door keeps revolving
I’m so out of breath
I'm struggling for air
'Coz there's nothing left
I’m so out of breath
I'm struggling for air
'Coz there's nothing left
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3. |
Heart-shaped Cloud
03:52
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I called you up ‘cause I thought you might give me the low-down
I’m at the crossroads and I don’t know which road to go down
Let’s go for a walk
We’ll talk in the park
We’ll talk until dark
And I’ll ask the night
For a guiding light
Oh please
Ain’t that just like a heart-shaped cloud?
Drifting across the sky like a veil or a shroud
My life’s a mess
My dreams are confined
And happiness is a state of mind
Everything passes she said and the grass isn’t greener
And what can I do when I’m blue I just have to believe her
When the morning comes
And the shadows have gone
The sun is so warm
And I ask the day
To forgive my ways
Oh please
Ain’t that just like a heart-shaped cloud?
Drifting across the sky like a veil or a shroud
I’ll try my best
To remember next time
That happiness is a state of mind
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4. |
Spoke On The Wheel
03:01
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In dreams
I have seen
Endings
Beginnings
In love
I’m thinking of
You always
And our endless days
I am always scared of something going wrong
Wandering from home all alone
Yet all my drifting
Has got me here
And I don’t mind singing
I shed a little tear
I’m on the road to somewhere
It’s the way I feel
And everything is OK
I’m a spoke on the wheel
A spoke on the wheel
Summer’s gone
And the lawn
Has overgrown
And the birds have all flown
Will these changes
Make me courageous?
I don’t know
I really hope so
I am always scared of something going wrong
Wandering from home all alone
Yet all my drifting
Has got me here
And I don’t mind singing
I shed a little tear
I’m on the road to somewhere
It’s the way I feel
And everything is OK
I’m a spoke on the wheel
A spoke on the wheel
And everything is OK
I’m a spoke on the wheel
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5. |
The Old Straight Track
02:59
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Snatches of conversations
Overheard in railway stations
Pubs and bars
Little moments out of lives
Some are different to ours
I play guitars
Strum along
Knowing that I don’t belong really
But loving you
Girl I do
And I confess
That more or less
I talked myself out of the race
Oh won’t you please take me back
Down the old straight track
The one that I wondered from
A long time ago
‘Coz I left something behind
That I’d love to find
Gold is the river in the sunshine
My teacher taught me
Not to blot my copybook
‘Look!’ I said
‘I want to write
And yonder there’s a mountain
Every writer has to climb!’
So I took my time
I left my home
But soon enough
My heart it grew weary of the burden
Of watching the blue ink
Stain clear water
With lines on my face
I wrote myself out of the race
Oh won’t you please take me back
Down the old straight track
The one that I wondered from
A long time ago
‘Coz I left something behind
That I’d love to find
Gold is the river in the sunshine
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6. |
Mona Lisa
03:38
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LYRICS
The heaving city streets are packed with people
Full of ideas and mumbling frustration
In a hundred years to come they'll all be gone
While a hidden wind makes a pattern in the corn field
It flattens the grass like blowing on a deerskin
The world is breathing
The world is breathing
And it's hard for me to contemplate the end
Especially when the sun's still warm upon your skin
Late in the night
And somewhere in the morning
There’s a woman there who’s calling me
She’s telling me that love is just a gentle play of light
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
I pour some wine to cheer us
Erase the line between us
I merge into the canvass through the artist
Who with her brushes will preserve us
The blood in my veins
The way your face flushes
Mona Lisa
Underneath the concrete lies a rolling hill
And what do you know our Empire's just a surface layer
You could peel it away like wrapping paper
But saying that I love some of those buildings
In Somerset House the children play in fountains
They see diamonds
And we see water
And it's hard for me to contemplate the end
Especially when the sun's still warm upon your skin
Late in the night
And somewhere in the morning
There’s a woman there who’s calling me
She’s telling me that love is just a gentle play of light
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
I pour some wine to cheer us
Erase the line between us
I merge into the canvass through the artist
Who with her brushes will preserve us
The blood in my veins
The way your face flushes
Mona Lisa
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7. |
Dreamers
02:43
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Late last night I lay awake
While my baby was sleeping
Dreaming in breathing out
I watched her while she tossed and turned
Caught in between her dreaming
And noticing me watching her
We’re dreaming in
And we’re breathing out
The two of us
Just because
We are dreamers
You then awoke and you spoke
But I had fallen asleep and you smiled at me
Dreaming in breathing out
We’re dreaming in
And we’re breathing out
The two of us
Just because
We’re dreamers
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8. |
No Way In
02:56
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Is there no way in?
Is there no way out?
Is there no way in?
Is there no way out?
Like butter on the skin
Is there no way in?
Deep in the mountains of Peru
A silver fuselage is strewn
Beneath the ice
The wind’s a bitter chill
And faces pressed against the glass
Watch the seasons turn and pass
Feel the roots of trees take a hold
The roots of trees take a hold
Is there no way in?
Is there no way out?
Is there no way in?
Is there no way out?
Like butter on the skin
Is there no way in?
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9. |
One More River
03:33
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You can’t buy a ticket
To cross the final river
He calls you when he’s ready to
The good folk and the sinner
The merchant in his finery
Will sit next to the pauper
And the trials of everyone must end
In him we trust our hearts to mend
He takes the tiller in his hand
Oh captain!
One more river to cross
One more river, one more river
One more river to cross
There’s no such thing as first class
No need to bring your wallet
He knows just how you've spent your days
He’s got a seat with your name on it
The bow is facing westward now
The golden sun shines on it
And the trials of everyone must end
In him we trust our hearts to mend
He takes the tiller in his hand
Oh captain!
One more river to cross
One more river, one more river
One more river to cross
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10. |
Things Change
06:34
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Things change
Oh things change
They fall apart
And they grow again
Things change
Things change
Killer bee
It’s a killer bee
I’m killing time
And it’s killing me
Thing’s change
Thing’s change
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11. |
Forgive And Forget
02:48
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There comes a time in your life
When you put the past behind you
Leave all that trouble and strife
Tear off the chains that bind
Forgive and forget
It’s over now
It’s over now
Forgive and forget
We haven’t spoke in a while
And I can’t remember why
We carry this burden around
Maybe it’s time to say now
Forgive and forget
It’s over now
It’s over now
Forgive and forget
Forgive and forget
It’s over now
It’s over now
Forgive and forget
There comes a time in your life
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Sam Semple England, UK
Sam Semple is a singer-songwriter with a debut album called Mystery Songs:
“Sam Semple’s
Mystery Songs have been haunting me for weeks. Here is a real new talent. A singer songwriter with a mastery of lyrics, a sweet voice, and an angle on life that will make you think even as you hum and smile… fabulous debut.” - Stephen Fry
Mystery Songs will be released in 2014 on Proper Records.
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