1. |
Ride It Out
04:25
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Well you might as well be still and uncover your eyes
For every truth you tell, I got a dozen morning lies
I know every clown in town is falling at your door
Honey I won’t be around to philosophise no more
Who’s going to ride it out?
Who’s going to tie you down?
You’re going to find some other lover
To drag you around ‘til I recover my senses
Now when you are out and driving around in your new car
Better check your vital mileage honey; love won’t take you very far
I know every dog in town is sniffing around your door
Put your shoes on and comb your hair, they’re going to eat you alive for sure
Who’s going to ride it out?
Who’s going to tie you down?
You’re going to find some other lover
To drag you around ‘til I recover my senses
I want you back, I want you back honey.
All I know, I know now.
I’ve recovered my senses
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2. |
Everybody Knows
03:56
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Everybody knows the world ain’t right
Down on your knees, get up and fight
Everybody dreams black and white
Blood on the streets, dead of the night
And everybody knows words won’t make right
Try me again. Fall on the knife.
Everybody sings the same old song
You’re so out of tune. Just whistle along
Everybody sees. Star burn bright.
Last one to leave turn out the light
And everybody knows words won’t make right
Try me again. Fall on the knife.
The next best thing
That you ever had
Burn it all to dust
Rain ashes on my head
Everybody knows the world ain’t right
Down on your knees, get up and fight
And everybody knows words won’t make right
Try me again. Fall on the knife.
The next best thing
That you ever had
Burn it all to dust
Rain ashes on my head
Everybody sees. Star burn bright.
Last one to leave turn out the light.
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3. |
Let It Go Now
02:40
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Guess I always knew that
I was going for a song
Waiting someone to wrap me up
And take me home
Let it go now
Let it go now
Let it go now
Suddenly remembered what
I wanted to forget
Is this disintegration?
Haven’t thought about it yet
Let it go now
Let it go now
Let it go now
When I stop to think my mind is ordinary
Ordinary things are on my mind
I know what to expect, I’m doing fine
Just didn’t know I’d think about you
All the time
Let it go now
When I stop to think my mind is ordinary
Ordinary things are on my mind
I know what to expect, I’m doing fine
Just didn’t know I’d think about you
All the time
Let it go now
Let it go now
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4. |
I Don't Believe It
04:00
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When you have drawn the last
Drop from a broken earth
When you count your money
For what it worth
When you step outside
But there’s nothing there
When you fall down dead
In the winners chair
You know that I don’t believe it
No I don’t believe it
No I don’t believe it
When you love someone
But you forget to care
When you hurt someone and
They don’t repair
When you step outside
But you go nowhere
When you see a good friend
But there’s nobody there
You know that I don’t believe it
No I don’t believe it
No I don’t believe it
I keep telling myself
That everything is going to be fine
I keep telling myself
That everything is going to be fine
I keep telling myself
That everything is going to be fine
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5. |
7:13
03:25
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Wide is the gate and broad is the road
That leads to destruction
Long is the road and narrow the way
That leads to your door
I don’t know what good luck means
I don’t know what love might bring
I don’t know what world I’m in
But I’m good to go
Long is the night and O how I pray
To see the coming day
Black is the sky and low burn the stars
That light the milky way
I don’t know what good luck means
I don’t know what love might bring
I don’t know what world I’m in
But I’m good to go
Light is my heart and nameless the grace
I see in your smile
Light is the load I bear in my heart
When I think on your loving ways
I don’t know what good luck means
I don’t know what love might bring
I don’t know what world I’m in
But I’m good to go
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6. |
Heavensent
04:38
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Heavensent
You’ve been so good to me
But there was always something I could not see
When I come crawling home tonight
You know just where I’ve been
And all around my head your words
Are buzzing falling for what you said
You’re heavensent
But no one would ever know
I’ve worn out my welcome so many times
I come back but I won’t stay
Everything I’ve done is burning away
Staring at the sun
When I look back sometimes
I don’t know where I’ve been
I’ve worn out my welcome so many times
I come back but I won’t stay
You’re an ordinary thing
With barefoot hope
And long forgotten wings
You’re heavensent I know it
You’re heavensent
Heavensent
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7. |
The Lion And The Virgin
03:23
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Lying like a needle in the field
Roots underground
Waiting for the magpies in the trees
To come and fetch my bones out
O now your tenderness is such a burden to receive
O now your bitterness has got me running up my sleeve
I remember mornings when we brewed
Cold cups of tears and coffee
I got no milk, no jam to spread
On bread that’s burning
O now your emptiness, friends fill it up with sympathy
Lost in your wilderness, won’t see no forest for the trees
So come Death to plough the field
To fell the wheat and set it burning
Come the lover to the thief
And lay down like the Lion and the Virgin
Sweet maiden mother bared her breast
You tasted pain
One silken honeysuckle kiss
Now it’s gone forever
O now your emptiness, friends fill it up with sympathy
Lost in your wilderness, won’t see no forest for the trees
So come Death to plough the field
To fell the wheat and set it burning
Come the lover to the thief
And lay down like the Lion and the Virgin
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8. |
July
01:50
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O the comfort of the moon
Is killing me
Caught in light
I cannot see
All the days are dust
The night is blind
Beauty burns
The love you find
Love is sideways
When you stand
There’s so much
I don’t get
O the shadow of the sun
Frozen in the sky
You need a sign
You get July
Love is sideways
When you stand
There’s so much
I don’t get
O the comfort of the moon
Is killing me
Caught in light I can
Caught in light I cannot see
Love is sideways
When you stand
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9. |
Love And Money
03:16
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The trees nod their heads
Yes, yes, yes
The waves come and go
No, no, no
Looking for a tree
At the end of the world
Growing on the tears
Of a sad-eyed girl
I’m tired and I worry
About love and money
Holding on to oceans
I can’t release
Policing my tongue
Behind my teeth
Sneezing in the sun
Forget no-one
It’s more than me
There’s more than me
I’m tired and I worry
About love and money
Sneezing in the sun
Forget no-one
It’s more than me
There’s more than me
I’m tired and I worry
About love and money
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10. |
Stars And Guitars
02:55
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Hold me now I’m ready to come in from the cold
Take me in like you did once before
I like stars and broken guitars
Like the jokes you saw through when you took me home
It’s hard to say how these days add up
But they won’t mean a thing if you’re gone
In fancy dress I was a mess ‘til I found you there
At the top of the stairs
I’m hoping now to find you somehow
Let the start and the end be one and the same
It’s hard to say how these days add up
But they won’t mean a thing if you’re gone
No they won’t mean a thing
And any song I could sing
Is just noise if you’re not around
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11. |
Blue Eyed Once
05:41
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A wind that don’t rush
That doesn’t need to be so much
A family of trees in season
That bloom but are
Lost on the breeze
M mind is grey as a mountain of steel
I hope you rain just for me
The end of trust
Rain on the rooftops
Pillars and rivers of rust
My mind is locked
Like a diamond in vain
I look and I look
Boy
I was blue-eyed once
Like a chain ‘round your wrist
The wind that holds
And carries the souls
Down in the hail
The city
Dies so pale
Like a chain
Like a chain
Like a chain
‘Round your wrist
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Matt Langley Dunedin, New Zealand
Award winning singer/songsmith from New Zealand.
Lives in Japan.
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