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I want somebody to share, share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts know my intimate details
Someone who'll stand by my side and give me support
And in return she'll get my support
She will listen to me when I want to speak
About the world we live in and life in general
Though my views may be wrong, they may even be perverted
She'll hear me out and won't easily be converted
To my way of thinking, in fact she'll often disagree
But in the end of it all, she will understand me
I want somebody who cares for me passionately
With every thought and with every breath
Someone who'll help me see things in a different light
All the things I detest, I will almost like
I don't want to be tied to anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to steer clear of those things
but when I'm asleep, I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me, kiss me tenderly
Though things like this, make me sick
In a case like this I'll get away with it
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How do you like them apples?
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The future kings, the sons and daughters
We are the killers, this is the slaughter
What did I do to deserve such a fate
Didn't really want to get involved in this thing
Someone handed me this gun and I, I gave it everything
Yeah, I gave it everything
I came into this life I looked all around
I saw just what I liked and took what I found
Nothing came easy, nothing came free
Nothing came at all until they came after me
You want to be free, live your life the way you want to be
Will you give if we cry? We live or we die
Tainted hearts heal with time
Shoot the love and stop the crime
Solitary brother, do you want to live?
Solitary sister, do you want to give?
Solitary brother, do you want to live?
Solitary sister, do you want to give?
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Do you remember a guy that's been in such an early song
I've heard a rumour from ground control Oh no don't say it's true
They got a message from the Action Man “I'm happy, hope you're happy too”
I've loved all I've needed love, sordid details following
The shrieking of nothing was killing, just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis
And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but this planet is glowing
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low
Time and again I tell myself, I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me, oh no not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend, “I'm happy, hope you're happy too”
One flash of light but no smoking pistol
I've never done good things, I've never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue
Want an axe to break the ice, wanna come down right now
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high, hitting an all time low
My mama said to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom
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The truck pulled up
As I was walking at the side of the road
The men got out
They approached me with their guns
They asked to see my papers
They asked me who I was
Their questions came too fast
I couldn't understand
Can I speak to one of you
Was the only thing I said
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David Reilly : Guitars, Drones, Treatments, Rhythm Beds
Tim Webb : Double Bass
Edward Spark : Synthesisers, Sequencers, Rhythm Beds
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I see your reflection on my TV screen
I hear what you say but I don’t see what you mean
I used to know you once when I was young
You used to speak to me till I got a tongue
And I sense say what do you mean
And I know say what is the scene
I used to have my dreams if you know what I mean
You used to think of me till I thought for myself
But all you could see was myself in yourself
I feel my ambition rise up in me
I feel my heart beat but I know I’m not free
And I sense say what is the scene
And I know say what do you mean
I used to have my dreams if you know what I mean
I’ve got my own opinions locked up inside
But what’s an opinion if it can’t take sides
I know I’m old enough to be my own boss
But what good’s a life if you can’t give it what it wants
And I sense say what do you mean
And I know say what is the scene
I used to have my dreams if you know what I mean
Walk a little talk a little make some conversation
Walk a little talk a little be a congregation
And I sense say what do you mean
And I know say what is the scene
I used to have my dreams if you know what I mean
You know what I mean
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I can afford, shall we say, to do what, exactly what I want
Do you have much time to do the things you want to do?
No. No not really
But then again, I haven't got much time to do what I want
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I've been driving around for a long long time but I never know where to
Await the call and I do the thing but I never know who to
And now I'm back up on the hill with my hand upon my gun
But I am feeling sick and ill cos I know what must be done
I never tried to take them down, though I sometimes thought I should
I never trusted you to try, though I always thought you could
And now we're standing on their hill with our hands upon our guns
Imagining some good good will from the ones who are underground
Up here, looking down there and they tell me they are right
I go, I go down there, I just do what might be right
But now it's time for us to go, now it's time for them to know
Now it's time for us to show the courage of our convictions
I never tried to take them down, though I always knew I could
I should have trusted you to try, cos I always knew you could
So here we stand up on their hill with the means within our hands
No longer feeling sick or ill cos at last we understand
Up here, looking down there and you know we might be right
Let's go, let's go down there, let's just do what might be right
Up here, looking down there and we know we are in the right
Let's go, let's go down there, let's just do what must be right
Now it's time for us to go, now it's time for them to know
Now it's time for us to show the courage of our convictions
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In this image
Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty
Time is down
Attacked by the happy group
His wings are plucked
Time is bitten
Beauty, crowned with pearls
She will spear him
And take his hair
And Hope, crowned with flowers
Laughs at Time
And takes a hook
To the hourglass
Opposing movements
Diagonals prevail
Brilliant colours
The light is clear
Agitation present
In every gesture
Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty
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Stuntman (Acoustic Demo)
03:23
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Dying for a living earning money
Diving to his death daily
Falling from the ceiling to the floor
Stuntman
People watching from the windows
I was there too looking for blood
After all it’s only human nature
Stuntman
We love to gloat on his death since
It’s such a thrill for us to contemplate
Him cracking his skull wide open
Stuntman
People cheering wildly
As his body hits the sidewalk
And the blood trickles from his mouth
Stuntman
The ambulance arrives
But it’s far too late to save the day
For the stuntman is already dead
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A big shiny car, and everything’s safer now for you
It’s all taken care of now for you
Born under a star, and only the best will ever do
It’s all taken care of now for you
You’re always surrounded now by loving arms
There’s no way you’ll ever come to any harm
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Optivoz Guitars
06:00
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I feel like a sports car heading for a brick wall
Paying everyone else’s toll, paying everyone else’s toll
You all look like lemmings heading for the cliffs by the sea
And when you jump, if you jump you’ll be holding on to me
You feel a hurricane where there’s only a breeze
You see a forest where there’s only some trees
Paranoia’s got you; you’re down on your knees
Now you’re not quite so easy to please
You remind me of a book I read, I read the ending first
It’s so predictable after that, it’s so predictable just like this
You all look like lemmings heading for the cliffs by the sea
And when you jump, if you jump you’ll be holding on to me
You feel a hurricane where there’s only a breeze
You see a forest where there’s only some trees
Paranoia’s got you; you’re down on your knees
Now you’re not quite so easy to please
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Talk the talk, drive the car
Arrange the wake, take me far
Enjoy the fun, keep the change
Feel the burn, make me strange
Watch the film, see the lights
Peel the paint, take the fight
Feed the flesh, push the line
Drink the drink, make me mine
Light the cake, burn the dome
Heal the fake, take me home
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I really don't see, the problem here.
Why can't we just, sit down, and talk things through?
I really want, to get to the bottom, of what has gone wrong.
I promise, I won't blame you, for the mistakes, that have been made.
But if we could, only just talk about it, it would, make me feel so much better!
As I clambered to the top of the hill
I saw the people gathered
I remember their faces still
And the crosses
I had left my craft behind
I had come in search of the man
His face though looked like mine
At first I didn't understand
But I had done this
I had changed everything
My face was not his
His face was mine
There was no way to return
I had left my craft behind
I knew now I would burn
I had left my craft behind
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Jenny said, when she was just five years old
There was nothin' happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all
One fine mornin', she put on a New York station
Couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started shakin' to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll
Despite all the amputations
She could just dance to a rock'n'roll station
And it was all right, it was all right
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
“My parents’ll be the death of us all
Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars
Well, you know, ain't gonna help me at all”
One fine morning, she turns on a New York station
Doesn't believe what she hears at all
She started dancin' to that fine, fine music,
Her life was saved by rock'n'roll
Despite all the computations
She could just dance to that rock'n'roll station
And it was all right, it was all right
Jenny said, when she was just five years old
“You know, there's nothin' happening at all
Every time I put on the radio
You know, there's nothin' goin' down at all, not at all”
One fine morning, she hears a New York station
She couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine, fine music
Her life was saved by rock'n'roll
Despite all the computations
She could just dance to the rock'n'roll station
And it was all right it was all right
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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK
A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more
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