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Moving On
03:13
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Moving on
When I told you ‘bout my new love watched your eyes fly blind like hummingbirds
and I know you’re sad and it probably hurts like hell
But I loved you well and I loved you good
I probably loved you more than I probably should
and I know from looking at you now that you loved me good as well
When the world turns on its axis, babe you gotta find a way to turn
Cos heaven knows that moving on is the hardest thing
The sun murmurs high and the blossom trees cast their sweet silver blossom on the breeze
And the clouds they come and they ride the air like sleighs
And yesterday’s behind me now and I’m standing right here in the now
I’m standing here beside you in the springtime haze
And not everything is perfect now
Don’t get me started, it hurts like hell
But be happy that I found a friend
it’s just like starting out again
When the world turns on its axis, babe you gotta find a way to turn
Cos heaven knows that moving on is the hardest thing
the hardest thing to learn
//Instml (Sandy’s theme)
When I tell you ‘bout my new love don’t lie to me and say it’s fine
Cos I can see you’re hurting bad and you probably feel like crying
So take a drive just a little way out, stop the car and get on out
and know the world will open out and you ain’t dying
Know you’re not the first to feel, the first to fall, the rusty wheel
and it only really hurts because it’s really bloody real
When the earth turns on its axis, babe you gotta find a way to turn
Cos heaven knows that moving on is the hardest thing
The hardest thing to learn
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I Take You in My Arms
03:44
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I Take You in my Arms
It’s been a perfect afternoon
and you’ve been perfect company
and in the evening’s easy light
you’re sitting closer now I see
and so I have to speak my part
and take this opportunity
to say I knew right from the start
how this would be
I think we know how this will go
how somehow hands will find each other
though I’ll protest that I must go
We both know that we’ll end up lovers
and I’ll protest but not too much
this new proximity of touch
although I knew right from the start
how this would be
I’m not some foolish débutante
you’re not some ingenue
and I’ll admit to impure thoughts
since I set eyes on you
But then you never know
how these things are gonna go
until you try
and there’s no reason why
I take you in my arms
I’m not some foolish débutante
you’re not some ingenue
and I’ll admit to impure thoughts
since I set eyes on you
But then you never know
how these things are gonna go
until you try
and there’s no reason why
I take you in my arms
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3. |
Butterfly Pin
03:23
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Cast out breath in winter snow
Can’t stop all the ebb and flow
Seas retreat and water runs
Through my fingers flowing like sunlight
Can’t catch the colours in the glass
Can’t catch showers in the bathtub
Rain that comes to wash away
All of today and yesterday
//
Fix you in between my thumbs
Fix you further in my sights
I can’t fix you in my dreams
You melt away like summer ice
All the journey’s give and take
All the promises we make
What is real and what is fake
Can’t pin this butterfly today
Can’t pin this butterfly today
Can’t pin this butterfly
Can’t pin this butterfly today
Can’t pin this butterfly
You’re a story I can’t hold
a quarrel with the winter cold
Arctic ice, Mojave fire
Broken strings a heart’s desire
Can’t catch catch a cold when I’m cold and damp
Can’t catch bubbles with my hands
You rise, sweet smoke and sail away
Can’t pin this butterfly today
I can’t feel you anymore
take my art and make it war
words so slick they coat the tongue
like frangipane but something’s wrong
I can’t catch colours in the glass
Weave a web of words to snare the past
You rise, sweet smoke and sail away
I can’t pin this butterfly today
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Madness & The Moon
04:51
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Madness & The Moon
So the story goes
Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, and suddenly love
Where there wasn’t love before
It’s an old, old story and there’s seldom any sense
And it rolls out each time until everybody thinks
that it’s a brand new story
Boy meets boy, girl meets girl and suddenly stars
Where there were no stars now there are more
But the constellations, they’ve seen it all before
Stars have no desires, it’s only us that puts them in their places
Trying to make some sense of this unruly galaxy
And each love must have its fire, all of its airs, all of its graces
And the moon is just a rock, but it controls the sea
What is love but an ocean
trying to defy the moon?
So the story plays, boy meets girl, girl meets boy and suddenly love
Expecting the sun to alter its course
It’s an old old story, madness and the moon they’re such old friends
And they stand here still: boy and girl and all their expectations
Barking at the moon
But the constellations
Well they have seen it all before
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Electricity
04:38
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Electricity
While the moment still remains
Draw in closer kiss my lips
Brush my shoulder with your fingertips
While the moment still remains
Something tingling in the air
Electricity is hard to see
It always happens when you're near to me
When there is nobody to blame
And if blamelessly I slip my hand into your hand
do we cross over some line that we drew in the sand?
While the moment still remains
We'll both be blameless as two souls can be
Only our eyes can speak of certainty
While the moment still remains
Let the moment simply pass
Electricity is hard to see
it always happens when you're near to me
When there is nobody to blame
//
And if blamelessly I slip my arm around your waist
Do we cross over some line or do we embrace?
And it's only when I dream
You draw in closer and you kiss my lips
Only in dreams I feel your fingertips
and the moment still remains
All my friends say that it's true
I burn much brighter when I shine for you
A small, ironic flame, so bold, so blue
While the moment still remains
//
And if blamelessly I let my heart hope for a while
Does my foolish heart leap every time that you smile?
While the moment still remains
Maybe it's time for me to say goodbye
when every touch must have its alibi
when every thought for me is strange
Something tingling in the air
Electricity is hard to see
It always happens when you're near to me
When there is nobody to blame
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6. |
Raven's Eyes
04:46
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Raven’s Eyes
I’m cooler than an iceberg
I don’t want to feel your heat
Show your two hands to me
You won’t do me wrong
I’m watching you with raven’s eyes
I can feel the heat from you
yet I know you’re cold as gelato
Show me what you’re made from
but stay away from me
Am I supposed to turn to you
embrace you renew you
You’re thinking you fooled me
I’m staring right through you
and hands on the table
I think that I’m able to resist
your confidence trick
And I’m watching you with raven’s eyes
Confident that your disguise
will not be fooling me
I’m cooler than an iceberg
Still I feel my feathers burn
I don’t want to yearn for you
You’re hotter than heatwave
There’s something in the air
so stay away
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Copenhagen
05:06
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Copenhagen
I remember blackbird singing
How I even stole his call to make a song
Lazy morning, light a candle in the dim light when the day is not begun
And your eyes were not quite open when you turned and took the covers all from me
Cold and naked in the morning
Making coffee in the morning
Copenhagen
Sun not bright enough to see by
Icy water, barren branches, Copenhagen
Walking out here in the city in the streetlights in the half light, dressed up warmly
And I pull you to my side because the world is not quite right, is never ready
And I know I’m not quite steady
so I’m walking here beside you
Copenhagen
There are bubbles rising gently in the cold cathedral air
and I rise with them
Always flying out to meet you, vapour trails and airport coffee, and I miss you
Maybe our eyes were not quite open when we set the stage for romance on the small screen
But I’m here, we have four days so let’s be lovers in this city
Copenhagen
Sometimes life will throw us diamonds
Sometimes feathers
let us learn to know what’s precious
With your arms all wrapped around me all the world becomes so trivial and small
And I guess our friends are saying ‘how can this affair they’re having ever work out?’
But they only have one city, we have two
and I love you, sweet Copenhagen
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Second Tuesday
03:16
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Second Tuesday
Days are hard
Nights are harder
Things feel wrong
I won’t roll over
Cos I was born into it
and I know how to be
I was born on a Second Tuesday
When everybody else had started the week
and I may feel too much
I may crave somebody’s touch
But I won’t roll over
And if I ever fall if I ever fall if I ever
And if I ever fall if I ever fall if I ever
And if I ever fall if I ever fall if I ever
I get up again all dusty and shiver
Times are tough
Things get rough sometimes
Things feel wrong
On the tip of my tongue to say it…
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Highway Dog Rose
03:12
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Highway Dog Rose
She packed up her things on a Saturday
on Sunday she was down by the road
She didn’t want a part of anybody’s bouquet
Angel was a highway dog rose
Angel was a highway dog rose, boys
Angel was a highway dog rose
She didn’t want a part of anybody’s bouquet
Angel was a highway dog rose
I don’t think anybody asked to marry her
She was busy being wild and being free
She was sometimes tired and frequently wired
and always who she wanted to be, boys
She loved to watch the seasons through the window glass
She loved to watch the seasons come and go
She loved the tiny flowers that pushed the highway back
and the spring buds that blossomed through the snow
People say that roses that grow by the way
are coarser than the roses in the jar
I say the rose by the highway’s edge
is the prettiest rose by far
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The Glimmer in the Corner of Your Eye
I’d rather be innocent than dead
I’d rather have no price on my head
I’d rather be delicate like blossom
than tiger lily loud
I’d rather be dancing than running
But if you should see me coming
I’ll be the glimmer in the corner of your eye
I’d rather be here than disappear
I’ll take the long, lingering gaze
over the firework blaze
I’d rather be dancing than running
But if you should see me coming
I’ll be the glimmer in the corner of your eye
//
Don’t want to be obvious or brash
Don’t throw me out early with the other trailer trash
I don’t need you to applaud
I don’t mind if I’m ignored
I’ll not be your sugar or your spice
but it would be so very nice
to be the glimmer in the corner of your eye
I’d rather be here than disappear
I’ll take the long, lingering gaze
over the smile that fades
I’d rather be dancing than running
But if you should see me coming
I’ll be the glimmer in the corner of your eye
Sweetie pie - I’ll be the glimmer in the corner of your eye
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11. |
Greedy Little Things
03:27
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Greedy Little Things
Send them all to sleep
all those greedy little things
All those weary things that cry
so you cannot sleep at night
They are greedy little things
and they mean to do you harm
and they take away your pleasure
and they take away your calm
So send them all away
you deserve some quiet time
Send them all to sleep
all those weary little things
Before they whisper in your ear
Before they whisper and they sing
For they’re greedy little things
and they mean to do you ill
they will promise you the moon
but you know they never will
Bring the moon to you
That’s just not the kind of thing they do
Those greedy little things
greedy little things
Those greedy little parts of you
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Mesquite Honey
04:37
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Mesquite Honey
Like the low voice of a bell
like the poison in the well
like a game you thought you’d win
the needle’s sharper than the pin
Peerless angel, reckless blue
Tearing up the ozone, coming on through
Jumping trains, my hair like flames
My blood buzzing like a subway train
I wear my heart outside my bones
A breathless fire so poignant bright
Sweet love like heaven, blazing wild
there’s such a rage in me tonight
You’re meant for me like fire to a blizzard
cactus spines to the skin of a lizard
air to feathers thin and fine
Heart jumping trains on the Liberty Line
Blind creosote in a smoke tree fire
Mojave drunk on hot desire
Dust clouds rising from the desert floor
Dust clouds shooting from the spinning tyre
like the game you play and thought you’d win
that needle’s sharper than any pin
I wear my heart outside my bones
I wear my skin inside my skin
Mesquite honey with a taste like blood
Staring at the angel on the hood
Hummingbird feather, wildfire wine
Racing the trains
on the Liberty Line
We’re only waiting for the train to come
Hailstones falling fast as big as my thumb
Hail sweet angel of the Southern night
Flying steady as a nighthawk’s flight
Blind creosote on a cotton tree fire
Buzzing like bees up and down the wire
Mesquite honey, wildfire wine
Racing the trains
on the Liberty Line
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Deafening Sound of Stars
Taint how it used to be
Do you recall a summer without rain
Taint how it’s meant to be
Look at it all and tell me why
Why all the good escapes
and all the bad remains
why there’s no single place
where an untouched flower remains
Taint all we’re meant to say
falling on deaf ears
like the prayers they pray
Taint all the world that’s wrong
But how can you hear
When everybody’s talking all at once?
And all the good escapes
and all the bad remains
and there’s no single place
where an untouched flower remains
//
Taint all the world can see
You and I
We were meant to be
Hope there’s a place of silence soon
Where the good in you
can find the good in me
And let them go their way
where they go anyway
but let your heart be soil
where the forest grows
And when the peace resides
somewhere behind your eyes
The deafening sound of stars
Doesn’t keep you awake
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14. |
Scorpion in a Mason Jar
03:45
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Scorpion in a Mason Jar
Oh there’s lightning bugs hanging down like fairy lights
draped around the shutters on the sill
Someone said enchantment was a human right
Pretty soon you’re gonna get your fill
Oh the devil’s just a scorpion in a mason jar
and god is just a flicker of the light
there’s comfort to be found in every syllable and sound
and when you sleep you’re gonna sleep tight (dear)
The dew is falling like a silvery rain
and the glitter of the dawn is like a song
That someone near is singing so sweet and so low
Don’t you get the feeling you belong (here)
Tell me a story oh speak to me true
the night in its glory just me and just you
a song on your tongue and the stars all blue and shiny
Hold me ever closer never let me go
Never let the love burn dry
Never be the one to say I told you so
& I’ll never be the one to make you cry (dear)
Cos there’s glory in the whole world
turning brighter than a pin
and there’s no other moment then the moment that you’re in
There’s a breeze in the sky
and the tears in your eye are not sorrow
And the devil’s just a scorpion in a mason jar
and god is just a flicker of the light
there’s comfort to be found in every syllable and sound
Pretty soon you’re gonna sleep tight (dear)
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Kirsty McGee Manchester
A wandering maverick and spellbinding live performer with a voice that has been described as having the texture of smoke & velvet, McGee defies categorisation, to make 'hobopop' –“music of no fixed genre”. Her continuously evolving musical personality is proof that a freedom from artistic restraints can sometimes produce a unique, enthralling and original voice with a rare honesty. ... more
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