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Morning Song
03:30
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Night breaks, light wakes up your skin
Slowly, wholly breathing in
Turning, tumbling out of bed
Into day instead
Birds sing, phone rings, morning song
Washing, brushing, coffee on
Busy, so busy, no time to stop
Is this what you want?
All these things to do
All these things to prove
All these people
So many people
All these people
Evening coming with the moon
How did you get here so soon?
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2. |
I Remember
04:31
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Say what you want to me
I remember it well
I remember a time, I remember
When you said what you felt to me
That was long ago
I remember it well
I remember it well
I remember when you told me
“This is what I see
You and I are ‘we’
Let’s build a house for three
We can be a family”
Did you see her?
Did you see the way that she moves?
What a pretty thing in this dirty world!
Did you catch her?
Did you find the way to her heart?
Did she fall in love?
Is she under your spell?
Well, say what you want to me
I can close my eyes
And go back in time, to a time
When you said all these things to me
All those pretty words
How can they hurt?
How can they hurt?
How can they?
How can you say
“This is what I see
You and I were never ‘we’
And there will never be
Any place for you and me”?
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3. |
A Tale of a Faraway Land
05:13
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This is a tale of a faraway land
Surrounded by mountains, ocean and sand
The people who live there, so I have been told
They spend all day long
Singing a song
But where it’s from, nobody knows
It happened one evening, long long ago
A melody playing softly and low
Spread all round the island til everything stopped
As the song it played on
It played on and on
Nobody knew what it was
Even the preacher he was lost for words
He couldn’t work out just what he had heard
Where was it coming from? What did it mean?
And the song it rang out
Clearly rang out
Over and over again
And it went ladada…
All through the daytime and all through the night
The melody played, it wouldn’t subside
And some of the locals were driven insane
By the sound of the song
The ongoing song
As it played and it played and it played
It went ladada…
As for the others, they learned to adapt
They slowly grew used to it, even attached
Silence was never an option again
So they all sang along
They whistled along
No beginning or end
They went ladada…
This is a tale of a faraway land
Surrounded by mountains, ocean and sand
Don’t be alarmed if you hear it too
And start singing along
Humming along
To a mysterious tune
It goes ladada…
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4. |
Sometimes
02:04
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Sometimes I wonder where it comes from
This feeling I have of being all wrong
Logically I know I’m lucky
So I swallow it down
Don’t wallow, don’t drown
In self-pity, self-pity
Self-pity
Don’t be absurd
Don’t say a word
Are you faking it good?
Are you misunderstood?
So am I, so am I
Don’t be a bore
Don’t say any more
Don’t raise your hand
They don’t understand
Don’t cry, don't cry
Don’t cry, don't cry
Sometimes I wonder where it comes from
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