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Dreamboats 1.0
05:07
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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
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2. |
What do I want?
03:19
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What do I want from this thing?
And is it going to give it to me?
Where have these thoughts of mine been?
And where are they leading me?
That's what I always ask myself
When I've got time for myself
Did I say the wrong thing, can I take it back?
I want you to smile not feel like you're under attack
Sailing on the river of love
There's no time for all this self-eating stuff
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3. |
Hold yourself
03:42
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Hold yourself a while
Don't be afraid of the thing that has stolen your smile
Let yourself swim
Deep in the river of love that is flowing within
Feel the sunshine
Let it dry out the damp in the shack at the back of your mind
Let the wind blow
Let it take you any place that it wants you to go
That's what these moments of silence are for
You've got to let your soul sing a song about loneliness hunger and crying for more
You've got to learn to set that free
Don't make an enemy of anything you'll ever be
Hold yourself a while
Keep yourself close to the things that are making you smile
Let the love in
Don't be afraid of a thing that's about to begin
Let the rain fall
Let it slide down your roof let it tumble and fall down your walls
Let the seas rise
And wash away all of the tears that have formed in your eyes
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4. |
What love is for
04:00
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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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Hole in your head
02:42
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Keeping my mind in a familiar train
Trying to live my life with the minimum pain
Talking to ghosts about the state of my health
Trying to go out, just meeting myself
Greening my grey with a bucket of woe
Silly me thought I had a chance with no-one I know
Shooting at fish in my memory tank
Thirty two years and I'm drawing a blank
The scariest thing that I learned about Love
You dip your toe in and you'll never get enough of that stuff
But if you're real and you wait a long time
You just might find the love that'll ease your mind
And when I said that I love you
You shouldn't have believed a word that I said
I was talking a hole in your head
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6. |
infinite panic
02:17
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Infinite panic and infinite relief
Knowing in a moment that all is belief
Knowing in the moment I'm caught as I fall
Knowing that all is love and love is all
Oh my love fills me with gladness
Oh my love, leading me into madness
If you let yourself believe in a world where there's no love
You'll find no love
Infinite panic and infinite relief
Knowing in a moment that all is belief
Knowing in the moment I'm caught as I fall
Knowing that all is love and love is all
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7. |
Ingabangaba
04:23
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I'll bring you fried eggs in the morning
When I wake up with bleary eyes
I'll bring them to you when you're yawning
As your dreams vaporise
Because it feels so good to hold to touch to smell to see
And I will stick around until you've had enough of me
Ingabangaba emlanjeni
Ingabangaba emoyeni
Ingabangaba elwandle
Umfazi endlwini
I'll take a walk down to the beach where
Fat seagulls lie in the sand
I'll wander down to the foamy shoreline
Let little creatures crawl down my hands
Because it feels so good to curl your toes into the sand
You know it feels so good to be alive without a plan
Ingabangaba emlanjeni
Ingabangaba emoyeni
Ingabangaba elwandle
Umfazi endlwini
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8. |
What you feel
04:49
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At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep
You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams
And in between your words and what you mean
You've built a screen to hide your silent scream
It doesn't matter what you feel
Just as long as it's real
I never had a lover coming round breaking my door
Always me the one running round begging for more
Steadily down, a little closer to the ground, on my knees
At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep
You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams
And in between your words and what you mean
You've built a screen to hide your silent scream
It doesn't matter what you feel
Just as long as it's real
Suppertime, Mom is in the kitchen, on and on it goes
Do I need to be alone now, or do I need more love?
Find myself slide into the fiction that everybody knows
Trying to find a space between the feelings but they're pushing and shoving
Shooting down the red lights, trying to turn a stop into a go
Lying awake at three in the morning, trying to make a yes out of a no
Thoughts rush by like the white lines in the middle of the road
Kept awake by the sound of my breaks, I can't slow down
At night you toss and turn you wake from troubled sleep
You try to turn away from the memories of your dreams
And in between your words and what you mean
You've built a screen to hide your silent scream
It doesn't matter what you feel
Just as long as it's real
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9. |
Touched
04:07
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To be touched by you baby
Is all I want to be
Is all I want to be
To be shaken by you baby
Is all I want to be
Is all I want to be
I've been staring at the ocean
As the waves come rolling in
And I've been jumping in the water
And I've been learning how to swim
And I've been fishing with my logic
For the craziness within
And I've been looking for a lover
And I've been wondering where she's been
Everyone you ever knew
Is somewhere deep inside of you
And every face you ever saw
Is knocking at your bedroom door
And every thought you ever had
Is slowly trying to drive you mad
So let go
So let go
To be touched by you baby
Is all I want to be
Is all I want to be
To be shaken by you baby
Is all I want to be
Is all I want to be
In the middle of you baby
Is where I want to be
Is where I want to be
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10. |
Drie rand
03:47
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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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11. |
Dreams
04:14
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Always half a step from the moment
See the world slip by
Always thinking about what I'm thinking
Till it makes me cry
Having it out with myself trying to find out why
I'm such a lonely guy
Following myself through a maze that is leading me on
To the hurricane's eye
Dreams fall to the ground they make no sound
Thoughts are in between not what they seem
Words can make me feel just a little real
But things are only real in what we feel
Stepping on a ladder climbing through the morning feeling like a new bird blinded in the daylight
Heaven is a place any place where you are
Though you try to let it rest a while you don't know how hammering the sound of all that isn't alright
Heaven is a place any place where you are
But your dreams fall down by the wayside, your heart's like a stone at your graveside
Heaven is a place any place where you are
You hold yourself away from the fact that you're never going to get that one thing back
Heaven is a place any place where you are
I howl as you're spinning me around now
I stumble into the walls
I feel myself flying from the ground now
So high and so small
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12. |
When you lie
03:25
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Caught in the middle of a beautiful thing
There's a fight going on, did you hear the bell ring?
Trying to get through to the middle of my brain
Where the truth speaks out louder than the pain
Hard luck to those who try and never get by
Who do you think you're fooling when you lie
Wake up in the morning with a devil in the bed
Got to try to minimize all the things it says
Got to get around something that I just can't hold
Got to beat the tree till it turns to gold
Trying to say the things that no-one speaks
Trying to hide the words away behind the beat
Who do you think you're fooling when you lie
Hiding from yourself in the middle of the day
Knowing somewhere there's a better way
Fighting with the anger got to bottle it down
Wondering why there's nobody around
Can you hear the rumbling underneath the ground
Can see the buildings crashing all around
Who do you think you're fooling when you lie?
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13. |
Caravan
03:38
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Give me your love
Gonna be your shining angel
I'm gonna do what I'm able
To be as able as I can
As able as I can
As able as I can
As able as I can
Let me inside
Let me live my life beside you
Let my love misguide you
Slide you with my plan
I'm a gonna backslide you with my plan
Slide you with my plan
I'm a gonna backslide you with my plan
'Cos I've got love
More love than I can stand
And I've got hope
More hope than any man
Step into my caravan
Give me a sign
Make like you need me near you
Give me something to adhere to
And I'll cooperate
I'll cooperate
I'll cooperate
I'll cooperate
Tell me something
Don't just say you're OK
Tell me everything you love now
And everything you hate
Every little thing you hate
Everything you hate
Every little thing you hate
'Cos I've got love
More love than I can stand
And I've got hope
More hope than any man
Step into my caravan
Bidibidi bim ba-a-ah….
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14. |
Another time
04:14
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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
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15. |
Lazy boy
03:58
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my mother and me, we sat down to tea
i tried to let go, to not let it show
chorus: i was a lazy boy who only ever wanted joy
some days i get by and i don’t have to try
but some days it’s all pain and i can’t stop my brain
chorus
somewhere in the middle of the dream
i heard a stranger scream
my heart is overcome my heart is overcome
we smile and we chat about this and that
but the things we can’t say all get in the way
chorus.
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16. |
Find the smile
03:58
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Why when I go out
Do I just need to be alone?
Why when I'm alone
Do I go crazy in my zone?
I'm just a dustbin full of urges
I try to stay afloat
I keep my goodness in control
No mutiny in my boat
Why do I seem happy
When I'm screaming to be burned?
Where do I find the smile?
Where's the reason where's the sense
Where's the cause and consequence
Where's the feeling where's the hate
All I can do is contemplate
I'm just a dustbin full of urges
I try to stay afloat
I keep my goodness in control
No mutiny in my boat
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17. |
Dreamboats
05:34
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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
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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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