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Sing
03:58
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Sing
Those days are gone but the shame lives on
All the days of my life
I was under your control
You used your role to stain my soul
Never told somebody else until today
Ah tell me why - did you know
When you deny, no-one hears the other side?
No-one to save me from someone I depended on
I was paralysed
The day will come when I bring a storm down from the sky
No more concealing those games you like to play
I’ll sing, tell them everything
Didn’t you realise what this would do to me?
I shut down, oh I shut down inside
I was let down, I want to get down, set down what you want to hide
Oh will you ever know how sorrow grows in me?
I’ll bide my time, but I won’t rest if I don’t testify
Years go on, you carry on,
I’m calling time
The day will come when I bring a storm down from the sky
No more concealing those games you like to play
I’ll sing, tell them everything
Didn’t you realise what this would do to me?
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2. |
Where Were You?
04:37
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Where Were You?
Where were you when I needed you to feel safe from harm?
Where were you when I wanted to be held in your arms?
Where were you when I needed to feel so strong?
Where were you when I wanted to know why you'd gone?
Where are you now and what do you see?
And do your thoughts ever turn back towards me?
Where were you when I needed you to hold my hand?
Where were you when I wanted you to understand?
Where are you now and what do you see?
And do your thoughts ever turn back towards me?
Where were you when I needed you to believe?
Where were you when I wanted you to see me succeed?
Where were you when I needed to feel I belong?
Where were you when I wanted to be part of your song?
Where were you when I needed you to dry the tears?
Where were you when I wanted you to share my fears?
Where are you now and what do you see
And can our thoughts come together to set us both free?
Where were you when I needed you to believe?
Where were you when I wanted you to see me succeed?
Where were you when I needed to feel I belong?
Where were you when I wanted to be part of your song?
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3. |
Hard Time
05:00
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Hard Time
I found a little love - flesh and bone from the tile to the ceiling now
In town playing around, been burning, a hurting feeling
Leaving me with a dollar quarter honey, I feel like a penniless whore
You were with the harlequin, baby, I heard him howling
I had a hard time, with a pain that never dies
And he will do the crime - Chico’s a low achiever
Inside he’s dreading the time, run down and getting a fever
I’ve got my head down, got to run like the wind and I’m safe now
I hear them at my side, if you feel let down then you’d better hide
This is a hard time, with a pain that never dies
Those days of only wanting you
The room, lilac and blue
I watch you as you sleep inside a dream
I’d never deny, but for you, a cell I’d be going to - maybe for life
You made a truth out of my lie
I was a thief, I took what I could find
I thought I knew we’d never leave it all behind
But now, for all I could lose,
Hard to take, you’re making the same mistake
You laugh and dissolve the night
Last night I lay with her, I heard her say a prayer
Lifeless and no hair like an uninhabited lie
And now she’s walking out the door, she can’t let sin go no more
Some people preach gutter but I got no hell when it can’t get harder
This is the hard time, with a pain that never dies
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4. |
Carry On
04:44
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Carry On
When your hope is strong you can carry on
But when I look you're faraway
Ah baby, night and day I feel you pulling away
I fall and die to hear you cry
He said what you wanted to hear
And there’s so many things I should have said
Now what I have to do when I look for you
Is peer through the smoke of this holy joke
They say aim high but you cut off the sky
With all the things you said to me
You shut us in ‘cos the winter’s as cold as your heart
And you’re blowing it all apart
Bring your pain home
Hey what you do when are home with me
I could never care less than now
If your friends come calling, fine, they’re all-important
Maybe I can make amends somehow
So follow up the stream until you reach your dream
I’ve played the game so far, as you head into the sky
You said my face doesn’t fit this place
But I signed for more, can’t leave love by the door
Seek, aim and reclaim, haul away what you want to
And you said what you wanted, by the way
Aaah - anger enough
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5. |
Locked Door
04:10
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Locked Door
She greets you at the side door, leads you through to the sunny side
At the bar a-sipping, man you’re dry - look round, survey the scene now
And now the coast is clear
You know why you are here
Biding your time, sitting drinking her wine, mmm
You watch her, you want her
Step around the ringing phone - out of town he’s out of mind
Look at how she puts aside vows of faith, a holy fiction
Your hands upon her skin now
Begins the slow descent now
Falling into your manly arms
Swooping down, this passion raging, you try your best to please her
She slides away the hand that’s playing, she knows just how to get there
She has her hot delirium
You take what you are given
Lying in the twilight air, building castles in the sky
Shoes on, set for leaving, you get down on your knees and cry
I want you to know the cost of your desire
Lost love and lonely time
Locked door, no lullaby
Locked door and sleepless night
Locked door and lost delight
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6. |
Coming Round Again
04:28
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Coming Round Again
I drove by your sister’s lair in the night - you were there
You said you stayed alone, ‘s your hideaway
You say when you play you need no alibi
But that was wrong to leave me here
My question answered clear
Ah - I don’t belong
And now I can’t come home, baby
The longer I wait the more I will hate all that I see
The sound of your voice will turn to noise ravaging me
And when I break away I’m free again
I will never hurt again this way although the harm is done
The longer it takes the more my heart breaks just like before
Baby it’s so, O what you go through when you know
That day is coming round again
Watch the raincoats pass when the shorter day is bright
Yes and frost and fire gather the fading light
O the sun ignites the ice, makes virtue out of vice
And life goes on despite what you know is gone
You took what you wanted and I shed a tear for us
Nothing you say could make me delay or make me turn back
No book in your hand, no coat on the stand, no hat on the rack
Falling down, falling down
Brings you hurt and spins you round
But now I have found my way
Who’ll pay the cost of all we have lost, this sad pantomime?
No way to avert the shame and the hurt
But maybe in time it slowly fades away
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Nothing Matters More Than This
Twisting and turning, trying to break free
The weight of the world is bearing down on me
All that I wanted is slipping through my hand
The road that I followed led nowhere
Those glittering prizes vanish in the air
And leave no trace like footprints in the sand
The work gets done and the bills get paid
The wounds will heal and the scars will fade
And we’ll forgive the mistakes we made meanwhile
When you get right down to the bottom of it
Nothing matters more than this
A gentle touch, a loving kiss, a smile
The hours we spent to get things done
The heartache we suffered when it went wrong
The hopes and the fears that seemed to burn so bright
The words that we wasted, the words we left unsaid
The hurt that we caused, the tears we shed
The memories fade into the night
When the fire’s lit and the flames are hot
And you’re making sense of what you’ve got
And of all that is and all that’s not worthwhile
When you get right down to the bottom of it
Nothing matters more than this
A gentle touch, a loving kiss, a smile
When the chips are down and the bets are on
The die is cast but the odds are long
And you flick the switch but the power’s gone …
The work gets done and the bills get paid
The wounds will heal and the scars will fade
And we’ll forgive the mistakes we made meanwhile
When you get right down to the bottom of it
Nothing matters more than this
A gentle touch, a loving kiss, a smile
When the fire’s lit and the flames are hot
And you’re making sense of what you’ve got
And of all that is and all that’s not worthwhile
When you get right down to the bottom of it
Nothing matters more than this
A gentle touch, a loving kiss, a smile
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8. |
Burning In My Brain
07:42
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Burning In My Brain
Rising pain, I fought against the world
The falling rain
You never knew I wanted you the way I do
O my heart, I want to say, I want to hear you
I know what your heart will lead me into
I could see the only way for me to go
I stare into your eyes and see the way I want to be
All I wanted to I heard from you
I heard you say, you say “Come closer now”
I sigh and lie beside you
Burning in my brain - O I know what I want to do
Although I fought it all the way
My heart is sewn in you
Taking me back home, I’m heading for the night
And I await your call
I’m calling back to you, my love
In your zone, into your grip I fall
On my own I wandered through the recent years away from here
Baby, though the walls are high they could be broken
All at once we’ll see the heron fly
I will follow you wherever you will go
We could go away, a holiday, a hideaway
You must know I’m on your side
O only realise I love the things you bring
And I can share the sins you wear
Burning in my brain - O I know what I want to do
Although I fought it all the way
My heart is sewn in you
Threaded to the bone, I’m heading for the night
And I await the cool of all around
A mountain day
Burning in my brain - O I know what I want to do
Although I fought it all the way
My heart is sewn in you
Taking me back home, I’m heading for the night
And I await your call
Baby won’t you go today
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9. |
Waiting For The Day
04:04
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Waiting For The Day
4 a.m. - sleep won't come
In my head all the things we've done
Nothing I can do, nothing I can say
I'm waiting, waiting for the day
I hear your voice, I see your face
Reach out my hand - only empty space
Yearning for the light, looking for a way
I'm waiting, waiting for the day
The sun will rise, the sky turn red
New day breaking
Open up your eyes, lift up your head
My arms are waiting
The sun will rise, the sky turn red
New day breaking
Open up your eyes, lift up your head
My arms are waiting for you
Change of heart, change of mind
Broken dreams we left behind
I see us hand in hand looking out across the bay
I'm waiting, waiting for the day
I'm waiting, waiting for the day
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10. |
Survive
04:42
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Survive
You felt like crawling through that early light
If she’s with him now
Leaving you outside in frozen time
What else could you do but walk away
From all that you’ve been through?
And all in front of you will turn into failure
How do you survive?
You can’t deny she’s leaving you
For all you wouldn’t do
Your stubborn point of view has made a fool of you
And now the world is blue
You felt her wanting and you heard her cry
Made you wonder where your futures lie
And now you know
And how it hurts to watch her go, you held her high
She cared so well for you
Now all in front of you will turn into failure
How do you survive?
You can’t deny she’s leaving you
For all you wouldn’t do
Your stubborn point of view has made a fool of you
And now the world is blue
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11. |
Even So
04:36
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Even So
The way you would have known what words could never show
The life we could have shared I had to bear alone
But even so, you’re walking in my shoes, you know what I go through
You never had a name, your eyes could never see
But deep inside the night I feel you next to me
And in a way you’re there, you’re at my side
The world you’ve never known
Although you see it through my eyes and feelings
When I’m on stony ground and trouble’s all around
Then, yes, on you I call ‘cos you know who I am
Our backs against the wall against the world we stand
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Albert Promenade England, UK
Albert Promenade is singer-songwriter Keith Washington plus supporting musicians.
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