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Grow So Tall (demo)
03:28
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It's a ride this here life
Tell me what's the worth of being wise
It's no chore all the time
I remember when you asked to see
The love in my eyes
And I only grow so tall because of you
I only grow so tall because of you
When we listen when we share
There is no time as ease fills the air
And from the deepest and darkest of depths
We'll go riding well past the setting sun
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Live In Fear (demo)
02:34
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Taken from the mouth of the devil himself
The cats are clawing eyes out
No dogs wag their tail
If I cried my pain out slowly
I might have to halt my hare
I held my hands out dearly
For the devil held out his
If a man lives in fear
He becomes what he feared
And wished he would never be
If a lady lives in hope
Her life is but a joke
And not what it could or should have been
The minds eye is thinning
But that was by design
The cupboards looking empty
But the stoves is always on fire
There's always some such twig
To grab a hold onto
Make sure it's a tough one
Lest the devil get his due
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Music guards the dreaming mind
Saves us from the worlds harsh side
When I hear it's sunshine
When I feel it's voice
Melodies are memories alive
Softly spoken words sky lit
From plucked strings our worlds emit
When I hear it's sunshine
When I feel It's voice
Melodies are memories alive
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Cry For Me (demo)
02:48
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You said make a dream make a wish
I yawned in your face and said
I dream for you to not know how i wish
As I wish for you no want of wishes and dreams
I've no care for a life played out in the shadow of some forever un-lived destination
And no grandeur moves me so than the subtle sense of not wishing you away
I want of little kudos
It's but the cawing of banality
I wash away like an offshore bank account
Making slips of the hand an art, a pastime
My craft is that the first is always the last time
My past is but the chance to make a good line
I Love You
I Love You
You've got to cry for me baby
Cry for me
You've got to cry for me baby cry
I love you
Oh yes i do
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Let The Bells Toll
04:18
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Freddie The Flincher
01:32
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Freddie the flincher
I feel for you
After many long lonely days
Too many are down
Too many are down
Too many are down here
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Walkabout A Tunnel
03:28
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When will I find my way back home
I know I'll find my way back home
Didn't know you were lost
Give you all I got
Till it's gone
Till it's gone
Till it's gone
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Make Me Fake (Live)
02:44
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A model when she cares A lover when she stares
Is but a picture of her true hearts wants unlived
The Mannequins prepared in the garb of the rich
Is but the soup of the day to you and me
The beauty sees the mirror for their self
The wallet with no contents holds the wealth
We see that it's fake
We want it all the same
Can you make me fake please too
make me fake for you
The tangled web has weaved a clock of his own
And it's counting down the day to take you home
The price that we pay is the choice that we make
To sell ourselves for money and for lust
Sell yourself till we all go bust
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My Beer's An Empty
01:30
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I've chimed the bullies bellbox
I've chinned the purple gin
I rode a welsh girls pony
She wore a magic grin
I've been tickled by the devil
Tapped up by a saint
But i never wear my medals
Or we'd all dress the same
The same, the same
We all look the same
Broke at the side of the road
The rain, the rain
Won't wash it away
Broken at the bottom of a ditch
The broken rabbit has rattled
A borough it don't belong
The dovecots getting strangled
The therapy has gone
For a ride on the pony
I stole from the welsh girl
She's no longer grinning
Now the milk bottles turned
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I Don't Wanna See
01:44
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As my bustling feet look busy
I deep my mind into my pocket
And my watch into my heels
I scratch behind the etchings
And itch beneath the sketched
And stretch across a vast plinth
Like the blimp glide with grace
As i please do be on your way
Forgive the wheeze spots and stains
Don't make me quench the faze
And behave my age
And look your way when I talk
I don't wanna see those eyes that don't shine
I don't wanna see those eyes that don't shine
I don't wanna see those eyes that don't shine
I don't wanna see those eyes that don't shine
I don't wanna see
I don't wanna see
I don't wanna see
I don't wanna see
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When Will You?
02:50
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When will you see it true
that you mean what you say
one day i will catch you at your tricks
oh why do you sit so still
when there's everything to do
everything to do
One day you will tell me the truth,
No regrets I've lived
One day you'll think about the past
So Happily, Happily
Now, don't you worry your pretty little head
Don't you think that those days wont come
There, so near, i can taste them
I can taste them
Can't you smell them
I can smell them to, oooo....
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Carl Philip Louis England, UK
Folk-Punk Free Jazz mandolinist and sing/shouter of anarcho-romance poetry
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