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Sand on Sand
06:07
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Sun rises up caressing our bodies and
As she moves her silhouette over our bodies and
Golden light, golden land
Sand on sand.
Washing down all the sweat that’s come undone
From dancing for 14 hours
We have not seen the daylight ’til now
People dancing all around
Our souls are moved by this sound
Everything seems so clear
In this urban desert land.
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Step out of the darkness
Come out of the shadows
And into the light
Step out of the shadows
And her glow will caress you.
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And we move it winds through our bodies and
It surges surges, it folds
You feel a rising
Taking you far above the murky depths below
Where fears bring you down
Here you feel the pull of something taking hold you
Everything seems so clear
In this urban desert land
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Lifting my arms to the skies
I feel the breath of a thousand people
Slip through my hands
And in this resplendent moment
You feel the earth move as one.
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2. |
Burn The Boat
04:54
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At the point of no return
There comes a question-
Have you got what it takes to survive?
For once you’ve passed The Point
There's no other saviour
It’s a fight to the death
To the end of the line
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Kings leading armies
Conquering empires
Needing dedication and faith
To carry on
Burn down bridges
Destroy all the carriages
Break the kettles, sink the boats
The dye is cast
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You will fight with no option of failure
Conquer or die.
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Burn the boat, send them into the water
Until we have no way home
Then we’ll conquer this land
Like there’s nothing to stop us
So we can’t lose, we can’t fail
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So you think you want a change
You think you want to move on
But you’re stuck in the mud
Can’t move your feet
You’re anchored to the ground
When everyone around you
Is moving through the waves
Seamlessly
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If only you could step out of the boat
And into the water
Pull free the ties that hold you down
Abandon the ship, embrace the water
Take a leap of faith and cut the chord
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You must try
Don't think of what could stop you.
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Burn the boat to move out of the water
To go anywhere, anywhere at all
Dive to swim through the rough raging waters
To the cool calm below.
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Burn the boat to move out of the water
So you’ll have nothing at all
Then you’ll climb through the waves
And the tide will not stop you
You can do anything
Burn the boat to move out of the water
To go anywhere at all
Then you’ll dive to swim
Through the rough raging waters
To the cool calm below.
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3. |
Gone
06:03
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It’s a struggle to let go
It’s a battle going on between us,
Within us.
Me and my ego
It’s so hard to let go.
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Well I can’t just hide from the morning
And the alarm clock I keep ignoring
Fell asleep with my clothes on
Screensaver waving ’til dawn.
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I still got myself to lose
In the arms of somebody new
It’s the natural thing to do
Shadows on the bedroom wall
I could fool myself it’s me and you.
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Having made mistakes I see you
Standing there waiting for forgiveness
When inside my mind I know
You’re long gone
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I got myself to please
Weigh up possibilities,
Maybe I’m just flicking through
And by ‘hello’ it’s done
I can’t give my heart to just anyone.
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4. |
I'd Rather Have the Rain
05:34
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You bring the sunlight to my world
So they say
When all around me
Skies are full of clouds
You are there.
But it’s raining again.
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I’d rather have the rain
Have the sun fall out from the sky
I’d rather have darkness
For though the rain will fall
I’ll hold a picture of you and I
Wouldn’t feel it at all
And I would rather have nothing at all,
I would rather have nothing at all.
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I’d rather have the rain
Thunder clouds roll out overhead
And all my clothes are soaked through
For deep within my mind
All I see is bigger and bluer skies
Within your eyes
And I would rather have nothing at all,
I’d rather have nothing at all.
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5. |
I Know, I Alone
02:32
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I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
With no faith nor law
Nor melody nor thought.
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Only I, only I
And none of this I can say
Because feeling is like the sky-
Seen, nothing in it to see.
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6. |
Maybe Next Year
06:59
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This time last year it seemed so sure
Words of love I had never heard before.
Just another helpless fool
Believing every word that was said
Make believe a dream that they shared
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Stolen moments just to see your face
Speaking every hour of the day
Writing songs and declarations of love
Hearts so intertwined reason can wait
Now I sit here waiting for your call
I don’t know if you are there at all
Bit by bit it broke my world in two
I don’t know if I’ll see you again.
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Maybe next year
Maybe then I’ll know.
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Planted seeds of futures in my head
Living every dream we ever shared
Promises and wishes in the air
All we need is time, our love can wait
Bit by bit this house crashed to the ground
All I fought for- nothing left but dust
All this silence breaks my world in two
I don’t know if I’ll see you again
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This time last year it seemed so sure
Words of love I had never heard before.
All this time I thought I knew
The promises you placed in my hands
Now I see through the lies, babe
Now I understand.
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7. |
The Idea
07:03
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Another day comes around
And I achieve nothing
So many people to see
Yet I achieve nothing
I look to the sky
Hoping that the blessed idea
Will fall from the cloud
And into my hands
From heaven
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But the pages are blank
My ears are empty
My mouth is numb
My fingers are still
My heart is still longing.
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What are these moods delivering me?
From where do they come?
They bless and pass right through me
And then they’re gone
I can’t explain these feelings
Or where they go
I can’t hope to know…
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When will it come
And will I know what to say
Hoping when it comes
I’ll know what to say
And even when it does
I have no idea of what will come out
It’s out of my hands
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But the pages are blank
My ears are empty
My mouth is numb
My fingers are still
My heart is still longing.
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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
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Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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8. |
Say The Words
04:38
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Sitting in the bedroom
Don’t look up- no eyes to meet
Words flung out just hit the walls
And fall to their feet.
The air is thick and full of tears
After all that’s said and done
All those hopes and all those dreams
Are no use to anyone.
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She said ‘Please wait
I have something more that I should say
No one else could stand there
And so calmly walk away’
He said ‘It’s not the way it seems-
Those dreams were mine, too, I fear
And though you sit there crying
It’ll be me who’ll disappear’
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And it blows, the wind it blows
And the frozen air
Cuts through everything she knows
And suddenly it’s broken melodies and hearts
Thrown up in the air
It’s never nice when you have to share.
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Is there hope that could be born
From a love she thought she’d lost?
If she opens up to him what will it take?
What will it cost?
He never had a way with words
When it came down to being true
But how do you tell the one you’re with
You love somebody new?
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So they stand there face to face
The battle has begun
Too late to face the music
Too late to break free and run
Can’t tell the truth, can’t tell a lie
Though it’s words she needs to hear
And though she sits there crying
It’ll be him who’ll disappear
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9. |
Such a Fool
05:42
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May my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men can not hear them men are old.
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May my mind stroll about hungry
And fearless and thirsty and supple
And even if it’s a Sunday may I be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young.
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and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile.
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10. |
Winter (extra track)
03:01
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Fini Bearman London, UK
Fini Bearman is a London based singer, multi-instrumentalist & composer, who has a ‘rare sense of melody running through her eclectic compositions, full of catchy twists and turns’.
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Released Autumn 2016 on Two Rivers Records
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