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The Other Side of Town
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The Other Side Of Town
You were always running down a different street
We would never meet
We would never meet
You were always running at a different speed
Never the same as me
Then one day you said
That you couldn’t get me out of your head
That turned my life around
For the first time I was walking on solid ground
Then I heard from mother that we’d both been born
At St. John’s
At St. John’s
Both of us had ended up with different lives
Opposite sides of town
SOLO
Then one day you said
That you couldn’t get me out of your head
That turned my life around
For the first time I was walking on solid ground
And it made me cry
Made me cry tears of joy
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In California
02:59
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In California
You should live near Redwoods they don’t hurt your fists
Watch out for those lianas going for your wrists
In California I heard that they import all the sand
From the Sahara ‘cos sometimes the sea becomes the land
But don’t go surfing ‘cos surfing would be a big mistake
In California I warn ya’, it isn’t just the earth that quakes
Waking up from winter, staying in the shade
Leaving hibernation, you prob’ly wish you’d stayed
They say that animals can sense a ‘quake
Some time before it strikes
I got a bird to warn me when
Her and I should take to the skies
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Like Hot Coals
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Like Hot Coals
Lit by firelight
You and me tonight
Whatever happens
I’ll be around
I am not going anywhere
I’m not going anywhere
I wake at 3am
I would be scared
If you weren’t there
But you are there
And so I sleep without a care
Well of course I care
But I’m not scared
The fire’s died out
But our love glows
Our love glows like hot coals
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My
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My favourite time of the spring
Is when I see
Leaves on a tree
Start to appear
Start to appear
My favourite part of the fall
Is when I go,
Into slo-mo
That’s when I know
I’m going to go
My favourite part of life
Is when I see
Someone I love
Starting to die
And then they don’t
My favourite part
Of the night
Is when I wake
From a dream
I wake with a start
And a beating heart
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Underneath the Waves
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Underneath the Waves
Saving all your money for some far-off rainy day is what is making you sad
I think you should spend it on a snorkel mask and flippers for the beach
Then at least you’d see what’s underneath the waves and If you want to go
And if you want to go
Then go
Go, oh you know you’ll leave your footprints in the snow
Saving all your kisses for someone who doesn’t love you is what is making you cry
I think you should go into the country and start kissing all the frogs
I don’t mean to offend we’re nowhere near the end
But if you wanna go
Yes if you wanna go
Then go, go, go
You know you’ll leave your footprints in the snow
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6. |
Another Time
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7. |
It
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You spent too long planning it
There is no life left
You squeezed all of the air from it
You sound over-rehearsed
You killed the thing before you’d given birth
You drowned the thing in Baby Bio
Over shot the mark by a mile
Sent it into darkest space
A daytime full moon showed it’s face
The deepest blue sky turning into pale
Sun becoming hail
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ben duff London, UK
Ben Duff is a musician from Aberdeen, living in London.
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