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New Eyes
04:30
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I can see the light reflected on your face.
Shadows pass across your features are displaced.
You look different to me and I know I look different to you.
So what are we gonna do?
We need new eyes to see each other,
we need new eyes to see, to see each other again.
We need new eyes to see each other,
we need new eyes to see, to see each other again.
We need new eyes
Once you were the only one I could see in a room
Now the sides we wouldn't choose to show are on plain view
Things we both concealed are now revealed to be true
How could we have been so blind?
How could, could we be so blind?
We need new eyes to see each other,
we need new eyes to see, to see each other again.
We need new eyes to see each other,
we need new eyes to see, to see each other again.
Oh with the passing of the years
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2. |
Bathroom Window
05:01
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And he's out the bathroom window, he's down the street
And he thinks he'll take his problems for a drink
But he doesn't realise he's always running away
It takes a bigger man to stay, why won't you stay?
Why won't you stay?
Sometimes we both say things
Things that we just don't mean
It don't mean that I don't love you
I just can't keep my feelings in
sometimes words that you shouldn't say
they come out anyway
And I'd take them back, take them back in an instant
'cause I love ya, I love ya, I love ya, I love ya
Now with every word unspoken the space between us grows
And I look into your eyes, I know you know
And this wall of silence is keeping me from you
Don't you walk away from me,
can't you see, I'm for you, I'm for you
Sometimes we both say things
Things that we just don't mean
It don't mean that I don't love you
I just can't keep my feelings in sometimes
words that you shouldn't say
they come out anyway
And I'd take them back , take them back in an instant'
'cause I love ya, I love ya, I love ya, I love ya
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Ceremonies
03:54
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Tape measure, sewing kit
tuck your hair behind you ears, grip the pins between your teeth
a pattern to follow, where to cut where to sew
stitch yourself into a dress that's borrowed
can you stand up straight for me?
squeeze yourself in here it's tight
but it looks like it fits just right
do you need to breathe?
I, oh I didn't realise I wouldn't make it in time
for the ceremonies
I, oh, I didn't know I was running so late behind
what's expected of me
Oh
The milestones come and go
events that mark a life pass by
So I can't tell the time, because I can't define anymore
the space that I occupy
Can you just contort your frame?
twist yourself into this shape
Do you need to move?
Do you need to breathe?
I, oh I didn't realise I wouldn't make it in time
for the ceremonies
I, oh, I didn't know I was running so late behind
what's expected of me
Oh
This gossamer thread, this invisible thread
around my wrist
This golden thread, this invisible thread
It tugs but I resist
It hurts my head, it hurts my heart
That I can't begin, don't know where to start
to understand why
And you think this a life and the markers come and pass you by
and you find that you can't define the space that you occupy
And this thread around my wrist, it tugs, it tugs but I resist
and it hurts my head, it hurts my heart that I don't know why
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4. |
Listen to Yourself
03:18
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I want a word with you
Because recently you haven't been listening to me
We are on the same team
I'm on your side
I am the voice in your head, I am your own best friend
Won't you listen,
Can you hear yourself?
Girl, girl you've been duped
you're just a little love fool
and you would stay if he asked
you would do anything he asked you to
But I am the voice in your head, I am your own best friend
Won't you listen,
Can you hear yourself?
You don't have the time
to be hanging, to be hanging on his line
You don't have the time
you're too busy living your life
you've got a schedule to keep
and it involves being free
what would you say, what would you say to me
if you were talking to a friend you would say listen to yourself
So you, you've got to find someplace new
I know you feel as if you're starting from scratch
Alone, back on you're own,
I feel the tiredness in your bones
But you are the voice in your head
you are your own best friend
if you listen, you can hear yourself
You don't have the time
to be hanging, to be hanging on his line
You don't have the time
you're too busy living your life
you've got a schedule to keep
and it involves being free
what would you say, what would you say to me
if you were talking to a friend you would say listen to yourself
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Who do we become under someone else's gaze?
Who might I be, when you take your eyes away from me?
What did we do to the lens that we view each other through?
Could it be that we distort how we perceive the other?
Ooh we're shifting shape
we're making new space
ooh the colours fade in time
There's no straight lines
We dilute ourselves so that we can move more easily around another
but the stones wear smooth, our rough edges
like the truth, slip away down river
between me and you, well I just can't remember,
who I used to be
And the things that I thought I knew
well I've had to twist and turn, to learn how to love ya
Ooh we're shifting shape
we're making new space
ooh the colours fade in time
There's no straight lines
Can you feel your vibrancy do you recognise your beauty?
Do you know yourself at all?
I think we've spent too much time
looking through each others eyes
So what if, what if
We're shifting shape
We're making new space, and it's ok, and it's ok!
Ooh that the colours change in time
Because there's no straight lines
There's no straight lines
There's no straight lines
There's no straight lines
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6. |
Common Denominator
04:25
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Turning, turning over the earth, harrowing the soil
digging around with the worms
is there something they know I don't?
Feeling my way in the dark, fingers in the dirt
digging up the hurt is hard work
Still you could wait for someone to save ya
In the meantime you could try and change your behaviour
'Cause in every problem the common denominator is you
It's always you
Turning over a new leaf, unsurprising to find
You're exactly the same, so is your state of mind
You better start learning, learning, learning the words
A language to speak and the courage to ask
for what you need
Still you could wait for someone to save ya
In the meantime you could try and change your behaviour
'Cause in every problem the common denominator is you
It's always you
But the good news is if you're the problem, you could be the solution too
Turning, turning over the earth
Learning the words
Girl, there's only you
Still you could wait for someone to save ya,
in the meantime you could try and change your behaviour
'Cause in every problem the common denominator is you
And it's up to you what you choose to do with this information
You could stuff it down the back of the sofa
along with your motivation
But we're going round in circles, I'm getting deja vu!
Can't you get your shit together soon?
But the good news is if you're the problem, you could be the solution too
Turning turning over the earth
Learning the words
Girl, there's only you
Turning turning over the earth
Learning the words
Girl, there's only you
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7. |
Drive At Night
03:53
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I like to drive at night
I like the silhouette of the pines against the sky
towering above me
I like a lonely road
Clouds lit by the moon
and a valley of tiny lights spread out before me
I can't sleep
so I'm tearing up the A19
burning down the road
trying to find some peace
Pools of white motorway light
stretching like an endless runway of parallel lines
Pure black darkness
sweeping away behind me
Hundreds of white motorway lights
stretching like an endless runway of parallel lines
curving away into and through space and beyond
I like a lonely road under a big sky
on an endless night
in a fast car
I like a lonely road under a big sky
I want an endless night
in a fast car
Pools of white motorway light
stretching like an endless runway of parallel lines
Pure black darkness
sweeping away behind me
Hundreds of white motorway lights
stretching like an endless runway of parallel lines
curving away into and through space and beyond
I like to drive at night
Under a big sky
I like a lonely road
In a fast car
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8. |
Babe
04:44
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Babe, calling me babe, won't make it ok
Babe, calling me babe, won't make it right
On a night we sit together, we watch tv
Side by side on the sofa, you should be closer to me
But you couldn't be further out of reach
And we're tired, we're too weary from the day
To talk about anything in a meaningful way
'Cause we know we could hurt each other
with the things that we might say
So just keep calling me babe
Ah babe, if only it were that easy
To say babe, hey babe, we'll be fine!
Oh from a distance it looks perfect
so cosy and warm
big light's off, the fire's on, the curtains are drawn
but the lovers are on the screen and it plays on
Eyelashes to cheek, to fingertips
To lips to the bend in my knee
I'll be you, you be me
Can we meet each other again?
Eyelashes to cheek, to fingertips
To lips to the bend in my knee
I'll be you, you be me
Can we meet each other again?
Babe, calling me babe won't make it ok
So babe, say babe
Call me by my name
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Liz Corney Gateshead, UK
Liz Corney quit recorder club at age 6. But not before striking a deal: having found herself more taken by the piano that
accompanied each class than the
classes themselves, she asked her teacher if she could switch and take piano
lessons instead. Mrs Dawe agreed, on one condition...
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