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Just Goes To Show
04:34
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The hailstones set off car alarms in the middle of the spring
Just goes to show we don't know what the next wind will bring
Too much time to think's as bad as just not enough
Give your enemy time to move he's gonna call your bluff
Well I've got to stop complaining because the reassuring solutions
Are a problem in themselves and I just can't stand to listen to you
Preaching to the choir
Your back room bathed in the evening's golden glow
If I'm honest I just don't know what it just goes to show, you know but
Too much time to think's as bad as just not enough
Give your enemy time to move he's gonna call your bluff
Well I've got to stop complaining because the reassuring solutions
They're a problem in themselves and I just can't stand to listen to you
Preaching to the choir
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Bouncing Ball
07:03
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Trying to have a little conversation with you
It's like trying to speak to a bouncing ball
"You're a hard one to read" she says to me
I said "you should try it from this side"
And your view it wouldn't seem so hard at all
Over here the view looks foggier still
Well she flicks me a glance like she was taking aim
Makes me think maybe I should be ducking
Or should I try my luck?
Cause we could go out for a ffffffff.. feed the ducks
It's a merry dance we lead each other
As we chance our arms on our hearts
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Sauchie Waltz
03:24
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The gypsy plays in the street her accordion notes are so sweet
While the bright orange young girls slouch by with their fries from the Mickey D's
Dropping milkshake bright pink at their feet
Talking so fast that there's no time to notice or to eat
And later, she'll stand by the station while they stride by in preoccupation
The seagulls bathing on the Clyde disturb the flat calm
As you stare into the morning the evening has ebbed into the a. m .
And you wonder where the gypsy slept and wonder where your memories laid their head
In a moment of clarity you believe you can see
Their sleepy head in a soft morning bed
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It Came From Outer Space
05:02
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Today was a day when I felt like I was from outer space
I could not look you in the face
Feeling like I was from outer space
Then you touched my skin and I felt like it was all back in place
It was all back in place
I could look anyone in the face
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5. |
Cactus Face
05:10
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My broken teeth are tearing my lips
Cactus face is scouring your hips
A dry wind from a hotter continent
Crackles on the edge of this moment
Splits the hard outline of what we meant
Let's love tonight because
Tomorrow will be the fight
Like the soldiers who go out alone
Knowing this day could be the one they don't come home
We don't need to make something that will go on and on and on and on
I'm going down like I fell from a ship
I was in the rigging but I lost my grip
Tumbling out of my own element
Breaking the surface of this moment
Swept away on the current from what we meant
Let's love tonight because
Tomorrow will be the fight
Like the soldiers who go out alone
Knowing this day could be the one they don't come home
We don't need to make something that will go on and on and on and on
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Mistress Mother
03:55
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She is my mistress
She is my mother
She gives me patience
For my brothers
She can save me
She can feed me
She can love me
She can leave me
When I am attacked
She defends me
She has resource she can lend me
When I am lying she can call me
She would not stand there if I were falling
She is my mistress
She is my mother
She gives me patience
For my brothers
For my brothers
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Do It
05:10
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I'm going to spend all my money on records
So I could wake you up with a new tune every day
And I'm not going to eat any breakfast
If you told me to give mine away
But I'm not going to do it for me
If I can't do it for you
Well it seems like such a long time
Since I woke up with a tune that wasn't sad
I've got a few pounds in my pocket
Think I'll go and see what's to be had
But I'm not going to spend them on me
If I can't spend them on you
Now I don't read the papers
Cause I'd quite like to stay as a fool
And there ain't much news you could tell me
That would cheer me up as a rule
But I'm not going to cheer up with just me
If I can't do it with you
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8. |
So Long
04:11
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I thought I had it coming
Now I don't even know where to go
I thought I had something all worked out
Turns out I don't even know
I spent so long trying to get here
That I don't even like the view
I spent so long pretending to get the joke
Now I don't laugh cause what I thought now I know it was all true
When it's not me
Where does he come from?
Would he do the things I push down?
Am I lying?
Ashamed of myself?
Is honesty so bad for your health?
I spent so long trying to get here
That I don't even like the view
I spent so long pretending to get the joke
Now I don't laugh cause what I thought now I know it was all true
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Nigg Bay
05:08
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Well I come from a Silver City by the sea
Where there's still a chance you won't come home
I can't see all these things you want me to see
Can't you hear the swell crash and foam?
My grandfather painted the trawlers at home
When he no longer could go to sea
And he spat on his whetstone and he carved them from wood
And he named them for my family
So we'll mutter some kind of prayer
For friends and lovers on white horses
The will and the wish from dry land
Like a light to keep them on their courses
So the other he built the boats on the Clyde
Like sailing skyscrapers they rose
But I'm thankful that he was not here to see
Those yards when the doors had to close
Now black gold is the soul of the North when I go
And the trawlers are just on TV
But the dolphins are jumping in the harbour below
And the larks beside the golf course sing for me
So we'll mutter some kind of prayer
For friends and lovers on white horses
The will and the wish from dry land
Like a light to keep them on their courses
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Kim
03:24
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She looks like an actress
But the only thing she can stand to see
Are the cartoons on the telly
She smiles even though they're not funny
The cartoons are more real than her reality
She can return to a place where she does not have to face
The fear that lies behind her loud profanity
And she danced for the money
We were just pretending we were grown up then
And we didn't see it coming
She laughed though her eyes told it's not funny
She used to show me how she would burn the money
She won't return to this place
But I'll remember her face
As young, shining and defiant
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Jamie Flett Glasgow
Music maker from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland, now living in Glasgow.
Since my first collection of skewed,
folkish blues songs: ‘Cold But Bright’ I’ve tried to resist the artificial limitations of defining myself as a ‘singer-songwriter’ (admittedly, while writing and singing songs.) This has resulted in attempts to investigate some remoter sonic territories.. As well as more songs.
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