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Mona Lisa

from Mystery Songs by Sam Semple

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"I listened to all of it and it's fantastic, it really, really is, but this is a gem, Mona Lisa… I just love everything about that; the lyrics, the instrumentation, the strings are gorgeous, his voice amazing, and it's from an album, a beautiful album called 'Mystery Songs' by Sam Semple, and that track is Mona Lisa, a very original song and absolutely fantastic" - Janice Long

“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

lyrics

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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from Mystery Songs, released June 16, 2014
Words and music by Sam Semple

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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. ... more

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