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another time
04:49
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You're going to be the one I run to in another time
Am I going to be the one you run to in another time
We're going to blow on the fire in another time
Make the flames rise in another time
Going to be a new bird in another time
In a new sky in another time
In another time going to blow your mind going to blow my mind
going to blow your mind going to blow my mind in another time
I'm convinced of something but I don't know what it is so I can't tell anyone about it
I've got to get my head together got to learn to relax
Got to try harder got to take it to the max
(You know it's you that's got me)
Holding onto something that doesn't seem real
Got to learn to laugh smile cry got to learn to feel
(You know it's you that's got me)
Running round madly like a chicken on drugs
Swimming in the mud with the snails and the slugs
(You know it's you that's got me)
Lying in my bed unplugged and unhinged
Trying to find the centre, skirting on the fringe
In another time going to blow your mind going to blow my mind
going to blow your mind going to blow my mind in another time
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2. |
wide eye
04:53
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Sometimes I’m enlightened
and sometimes so frightened
I can’t find the light and
I can’t even cry
sometimes I speak
like my head’s got a leak
and I bleat like a sheep
and I cry till I’m dry
Somewhere in the middle of the pouring rain
you take me in and let me laugh again
I rest a while in the safety zone
when I’m OK I shout leave me alone
Yippee I’m a wide eye
staring outa my sky
living in the forests
far beyond my reasons
swimming in the water
breathing in the salt air
lying in the warm sand
drying out in the sun
Recently something inside me got broken
I thought I was choking
I thought I would die
but when I awoke
I was still the same oke
just a little more stoked
that I was alive
You see me looking empty in a crowded room
you might think I’m lost inside my gloom
look a little deeper in my mind and see
I’ll show you now the fun that I can be
Yippee I’m a wide eye
staring outa my sky
living in the forests
far beyond my reasons
swimming in the water
breathing in the salt air
lying in the warm sand
drying out in the sun
Lets go to Elands
lets fly down that left once
let push through the sets once
from water to sky
Yipee I’m a wide eye
staring outa my sky
living in the forests
far beyond my reasons
swimming in the water
breathing in the salt air
lying on the warm sand
drying out in the sun
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3. |
billions of apes
04:14
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Sunday morning and I’m tired and shaking
can’t decide if I’m sad or if I’m just faking
somewhere inside of my head the news is just breaking
that I am aching
I’ll consider the sun
a friend that I’ll be able
to laugh and cry with
when my new dawn has come
send me out to find a love someone I can fly with
mind consider the soul
up and down for ages in and out of control
out of control
Now I understand the way you feel my heart it is aching
Cover me with lies and criticise the love that I’m making
Somewhere in your eyes the news is just breaking
that I was mistaken
you come in so many shapes
you hope to fit in someday somewhere with someone
but you’re just one of billions of apes
complicated by the need to feel like you’re someone
mind consider the soul
up and down for ages in and out of control
out of control
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4. |
dreamboats
05:04
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Dreamboats are sailing in and out of my harbour
So close and then a little farther
She comes again my friend, bringing me the rain
Showing me the way to laugh and smile and cry and feel the pain again
My house my space my dog my cat my mouse the human race
I was lost on the ocean, drifting away
Weighed down by emotion, with nothing to say
My my look at that sky
Hey hey feel the rain
Over and over and over again I get lost in the pain and I try to be zen
And I try not to judge all the ways that I've been
I try to be true to a new regimen
But before long I feel like a bull in a pen
And I can't stand the way that I fence myself in
So I break all the rules to be happy again
Around and around again and again and again
I'm a chameleon again
I'm a bat in a cave again
I'm a bull in a rage again
And I'm ten years old again
Shiny and bold again
and I'm lost on the ocean, drifting away
Still weighed down by emotion, with nothing to say
My my look at that sky
Hey hey feel the rain
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5. |
drierand
03:40
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Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Four for two rand two for a rand chips
Cooldrink i'chips
Come closer bring your love to me
We'll see what we can be
Slip slowly sideways into love //I'll never get enough
If you want to be a part of me decide
You could run you could hide
But if you want to stick around then stay
Get to know my duvet
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Four for two rand two for a rand chips
Cooldrink i'chips
Be soft and warm for me and kind
Ease me out of my mind
Take me to where your river sings
Strum softly on my strings
I want to see your ecstasy fly
Hear your sigh fill the sky
Standing on a ray of morning sun
Children lost in their fun
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Drie rand a purse en a naalklipper drie rand
Four for two rand two for a rand chips
Cooldrink i'chips
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6. |
woodstock song
03:28
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I’m down in Woodstock again, I’m feeling 4 out of 10
I’ve got nostalgia creeping in my bones
How do I go with the flow, not float away I don’t know
When every feeling makes me more alone
Kiss a stone fisherman borderline running again
I hope to find another way to breathe, not to leave loving again
I’m trying harder to be near but I fear I’m fighting in vain
I’m trying to see you, I’m trying to see you through this pain
Today I tried to feel good, but I just felt what I could
And I could only find myself to blame
I’m lost inside a belief that keeps me hiding my grief
I’m dreaming faces in a sea of shame
Fight again middle brain shiver pain leave it alone
who’s fighting not to hold onto whatever I’m running away
From like this shower in the grey day small rays lighting the stones
I’m trying to see you, I’m trying to see you through my pain
I’m half awake in my sleep, got lions stalking my sheep
got molars teeming in my gums
I ride my horse on this beach, I chase the things I can’t reach
I’m flying on toward the dying sun
Oh I’m falling in, where streams begin
But where will I flow?
cradle rocks and baby tumbles
the shepherd to his flocks he stumbles
steadily they go steadily they go
Sugarcane watermelon apricot love in the rain
These shadows pull apart my heart feels like I’m falling again
But then I look around solid ground wraparound singing my name
I’m trying to see you, I’m trying to see you through this pain
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leaf in the sky
02:41
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coming alive my people shaker
to cover the awesome day
seven million air borne freeform fakers
clogging the sky with love’s decay
hide and seek with my laughter
crying out love be the master
communicating loving and hating
I fly like a leaf in the sky
lying in your sun but feeling shady
settling for what they say
picture in my head of a sweet old lady
ready with her kettle on to make my day
hard to know where I’m standing
flying now with no fear of landing
communicating loving and hating
I fly like a leaf in the sky
a shiver in the morning shakes inside her
little bits float away
she sleeps like a river soft shadow rider
crying for a little more love today
hide and seek with her laughter
crying out love be the master
communicating loving and hating
I fly like a leaf in the sky
hard to know where I’m standing
flying now with no fear of landing
communicating loving and hating
I fly like a leaf in the sky
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8. |
retrowonder
03:39
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There’s really nothing I can do
To keep my mind from wandering over to you
But at the end of ever day
I’ve got to push on through
Cos I’ve been wondering if you’ve been wondering if I’ve been thinking of you
You give me your sugar you sweeten my soul
You bring me down laughing and you pick me up whole
You bring me sugar mountain when I feel old
You give me your honey you sweeten my soul
I bring you down laughing and I pick you up whole
You bring me your summer when my winter is cold
I’ve been wondering if you’ve been wondering if I’ve been thinking of you
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crazy things
03:56
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crazy things I been doing some crazy things
I’ve been out flying aeroplanes without any wings
I fly like an angel I swoop and I soar
But 48 hours later I’m lying on the floor
I’m a soul fighter in a strange kind of war
so ready to lose and so ready for more
so sooner or later I’m bound to win
but what a very strange kind of fighting I’m in
I communicate gladly I mutter and I swear
so stereo wide open so video clear
from hunger to anger blow by blow
stand in the middle of a new
daylights dayglow
crazy things I been doing some crazy things
I’ve been out flying aeroplanes without any wings
I fly like an angel I swoop and I soar
But 48 hours later I’m lying on the floor
give me no wonder and I’ll give you no doubt
cause sooner or later we’ll all be found out
blow me no further with sidewinds and spin
tomorrows only any fun when we let it all in
when I leave you I’ll be dreaming a song
so many ideas that I can never be wrong
I’ll minimize anger by talking in rhymes
I never mean a thing I say when I’m feeling fine
crazy things I been doing some crazy things
I’ve been out flying aeroplanes without any wings
I fly like an angel I swoop and I soar
But 48 hours later I’m lying on the floor
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10. |
mercurochrome
06:00
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you gave me your smile
you had reasons for aching
but still you were kind
and I don’t know why
you chased me away
from my feelings of ageing
to the fields of the sun
where there's nowhere to hide
I roam along this riverbed
all alone
lost in the aftermath
like an undertone
home is where I want to be
won’t you take me home
I’m trying to heal a broken bone
with mercurochrome
my satellite’s flown
my new moon is eclipsed by
an invisible sun
and the comets fly
I think that I know now
but I feel that I’m lost though
I’m hoping to fly but
I just get by
I roam along this riverbed
all alone
lost in the aftermath
like an undertone
home is where I want to be
won’t you take me home
I’m trying to heal a broken bone
with mercurochrome
I’m dreaming these dreams
that rattle my reason
and open my heart
to the things I hide
There’s noone I know
can tell me the answer
can answer my call
will I ever love
I roam along this riverbed
all alone
lost in the aftermath
like an undertone
home is where I want to be
won’t you take me home
I’m trying to heal a broken bone
with mercurochrome
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11. |
what love is for
04:05
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I’ve been thrown away before
I’ve found ways and means of picking myself up off of the floor
scaring enemies
scary when the enemy’s a living breathing part of me
still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space
let’s show the world what love is for
let’s show the world what love is really for
I’ve been rolling on the sea
staying down below hiding in the hold of misery
scary to know that space
scary when the love you feel is always falling off of someone’s face
still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space
let’s show the world what love is for
let’s show the world what love is really for
I’ve been begging at the door
I’ve spent days and weeks trying to find out what I’m living for
scary to know that space
still it doesn’t matter where I’ve been as long as I arrive before too late
still love aches, but it’s better than freezing up and spinning into space
let’s show the world what love is for
let’s show the world what love is really for
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12. |
ingabangaba
04:12
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13. |
round my head
02:19
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Dreams and frozen memories are buried underground
Things that I said yesterday are floating all around
Oh there’s so much going down
There’s a winding path that leads to some place dark and cold
Things like that just keep me running faster down the road
Oh I’ve got to keep moving on
I keep getting lost in the mazes of my brain
Dodging that memory sidestepping that pain
Always looking out for the sleepy shady tree
Kick my boots off rest a while and get myself free
Walking round my head
Taking a walk around my head
Walking round my head
Taking a walk around my head
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Simon van Gend Band Cape Town, South Africa
Simon and the Band à Parte are an introspective indie/folk/rock band from Cape Town, whose music has been described as a unique blend of folksie foot-tapping red wine fireside poetry. This trio, with Simon on vocals and acoustic guitar, Eric Michot on bass and Ross Campbell on drums, has released 3 albums to date, with a 4th due to be released on 30th June this year. ... more
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