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1. |
Something Real
03:55
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Remember the time when the grass was tall
The rain was warm and you broke my fall
Laughter loose across empty air
Broken walls beyond repair
Was it something you dreamed
When you had no place to go
Was it something you dreamed or something real
Not so very long ago?
Remember the feeling so deep in your bones
When you found yourself left lost and alone
You thought nothing could chase it away
So open your eyes to the rising day
Was it something you dreamed
When you had no place to go
Was it something you dreamed or something real
Not so very long ago?
Remember the place so deep in your heart
Where you felt your senses quicken and start
Some bright morning when the grey dawn lifts
You’ll recollect things you missed
Was it something you dreamed
When you had no place to go
Was it something you dreamed or something real
Not so very long ago?
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2. |
Water From The Well
02:59
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Sometimes you try
There’s nothing left
You’ve taken it as far as it’ll go
Sometimes you know
What you want is for the best
You just have no idea which way to go
You know it will grow again
You know it will flow again
Listen to your heart now can’t you tell
You know there’ll be sun again
It will all get done again
Bring up some water from the well
Sometimes you stray
Too far from the dawn
Daylight seems to bring you crashing down
Searching and searching
You don’t have what you need
And the lights go off all over town
You know it will grow again
You know it will flow again
Listen to your heart now can’t you tell
I will be there again
When you start to care again
Bring up some water from the well
Bring up some water from the well
Sometimes it all feels stretched down to the wire
You don’t feel a thing but the pain
You put yourself closer and closer to the fire
Looking out across for signs of rain
Don’t waste a second now
Don’t wait to find out how
No longer in your private hell
You know it will grow again
You know it will flow again
Bring up some water from the well
Bring up some water from the well
Bring up some water from the well
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3. |
Whole Again
05:13
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Nothing stands still as I travel on this road
More of this journey than I know
Pieces that we lost they seem to fit again
Sense it as the breeze begins to blow
The places that we’ve been they make so sense to me
Just a stream of memories we frame
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again
Now I gently take my leave of all of this
Make my way to you across the bay
Take in the moment on which it all depends
Watching as the boats begin to sway
But the picture that I see fades so gracefully
Leaving the sky like a stain
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again
How I long for all the times that we once lived
All the waiting hours through which we breathed
All the messages I tried too hard to send
Stepping through the softened autumn leaves
But the moment that I feel, it feels too real to me
I raise my eyes and see the branches bend
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again
The city hides its care beneath a dying glow
We all dwell in hope between its cracks
Sometimes you catch a sense of what they try to say
Other times you fill in all the gaps
The symmetry I see is far too pure to keep
Behind my eyes I think of distant friends
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again (whole again)
So many stars are dying with a light so pale
The glow escapes beneath a leaking door
I know that all we seek is living still within
We can’t go deeper any more
The air that I breath passes in and out of me
I close my eyes and slowly count to ten
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again
Everything I see it just slips away from me
I wish that we could be whole again
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Ghost Rhyme
03:13
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Sometimes we speak with so many tongues
Knowing always what is said and done
The mountain at dawn is changing its colours
I can’t even pick out one
When your voice is far away
And nothing seems to chime
Can you hear, can you hear
Can you hear the echo of the ghost rhyme?
I always knew that there would be no end
To the water we could draw
I know that soon we will swim together
In the warm streams near the shore
Everything is so simple
It all falls into line
Can you hear, can you hear
Can you hear the echo of the ghost rhyme?
There is a place that we know so well
It’s easy to slip away and go
There’s a space where even time stands still
Surrounding us with all we love and know
Even though the hours are changing
All the years fade into time
Can you hear, can you hear
Can you hear the echo of the ghost rhyme?
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5. |
Hidden Heart
02:53
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I just don’t know
Where we should start
I’m lost in the dark
With your hidden heart
I can’t leave
You put it together
You pull it apart
The unknown power
Of your hidden heart
Don’t turn away
Something keeps me flying up into your light
Keeps the birds from flying back to the night
Nothing’s clear (nothing’s clear, nothing’s clear)
Don’t promise it all
Just show me a part
I lost in the depths
Of your hidden heart
I can’t resist
Something keeps me flying up into your light
Keeps the birds from flying back to the night
Nothing’s clear (nothing’s clear, nothing’s clear)
You still practice
Your secret arts
I move towards
Your hidden heart
I’m almost there
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Trick With Time
04:14
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Now the dust is settling on the surface of the night
The silence leaves a stillness hanging there
The sun goes down on everything the day has thrown at me
Leaves a perfect circle in the air
I’m left here balancing these thoughts
They bring me down but bring you near
I’m left here playing tricks with time
But they don’t work and you’re not here
Hours crawl by around me and every passing thought
Draws me back to life in two dimensions
In my head your voice reminds me not to count the time
Or let me lose track of my direction
I’m left here counting falling leaves
The clocks go back, nothing’s clear
I’m left here playing tricks with time
But they don’t fool me and you’re not here
(You’re not here now)
The ticking of this ancient clock it fills me with a hope
That the darkest hours can all be left behind
This is time I need alone to feel just what it’s like
Take comfort in the solitude I find
I’m left here finishing these words
You’ll never hear, they disappear
I’m left here playing tricks with time
But they don’t convince and you’re not here
(You’re not here with me)
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7. |
Waterwheel
04:24
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In a place where nothing stays the same
I took a path that led away from here
Travelled through the dark and through the day
When I returned the world had passed a year
In a time that felt so bold and free
I lost the love that I held dear to me
Slipping through like the sand I almost held
Fortune played a game I couldn’t see
Waterwheel turning – I know your movement so well
Waterwheel turning – what keeps you spinning I can’t tell
All I feel as I walk these sorry streets
Is a fire that always seems to burn too bright
One hand gives, another takes away
I hear a door that’s closing in the night
Waterwheel turning – what can you carry in your flow
Waterwheel turning – what keeps you moving I can’t know
The river flows on down below the floor
I hear it gently gather gathering beneath
The sound is clear the water fresh and clean
Nothing is so far as out of reach
Waterwheel turning – I know your movement so well
Waterwheel turning – What keeps you spinning I can’t tell
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8. |
Follow Her Down
03:01
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I can hear her laughter as it echoes round the park
I can see her smile as it flashes in the dark
At the edge of the road
Where all the leaves are turning brown
I’ll follow her down
I’ll follow her down
Follow her down
We laughed for a while at the edge of the wood
Till the news hit us, stopped us where we stood
And as she disappeared
It was too late to play the clown
I’ll follow her down
I’ll follow her down
Follow her down
There’s nothing like the night to free us from ourselves
I took her at her word now only time will tell
At the end of the day
It can always turn around
I’ll follow her down
I’ll follow her down
Follow her down
I’ll follow her down
I’ll follow her down
Follow her down
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Confidence
03:38
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A little knowledge goes much further than you think
Takes you out of yourself
A little magic works its way into a soul
You drift away to somewhere else
I know that there’s been something
To make this come around
I need to know the way this story ends
Wait for me, unguarded friend
Take me into your confidence again
An aching heart is making more work than it needs
Leaves a shadow wanting more
An open secret is beyond the hands of time
And whatever lies behind this door
Too late will be tomorrow
When the day is burning bright
And the softest music always ends
Talk with me, unguarded friend
Take me into your confidence again
A fading future is the saddest sight to see
It can keep the distance ever great
A broken smile will drain the colour from your dreams
You will stand where you don’t want to be
But you won’t need a secret
That eats away the stars
You could rest at the sign of the journey’s end
Stay with me, unguarded friend
Take me into your confidence
Take me into your confidence again
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10. |
Fever Dream
03:12
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I lost hope in a desert place
I was brought down damp with fear
I find myself in a fitful sleep
As my demons reappear
Now I have nothing that I can give
It was taken from me somehow
I come to you for a way to live
It’s all that matters now
Somebody please help me
Is this all that it seems?
Is the world turned upside down
Or am I just lost
In a fever dream?
Six hours from now I’ll feel the sun
The first light of the day
Step out of this broken room
Strip my fears away
In my blood I feel a burning
Now I’m caught in its heat
I hear voices in the distance
But there’s no one on the street
Somebody please help me
Carry me to the coolest stream
Is there another way out of here
Or am I just lost
In a fever dream?
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We walked among the ruins
Like unwelcome ghosts
And tried to imagine
What the stones had seen
But we were getting nothing
But dust in our eyes
Trying to remember a dream
The cinema was crowded
Then the film was done
I tried to recall
Any single scene
But what had meant so much
Didn’t matter now
Like trying to remember a dream
Like trying to remember a dream
And the silence is speaking to me now
Calling out for more
All the voices are calling to me now
From a distant shore
I cannot reach out
Or try to touch the past
Waking up now
Won’t set me free
Because you are somewhere
In the night and I’m
Trying to remember a dream
Trying to remember a dream
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12. |
Black Pig
04:43
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All you people come and listen
Teardrops glisten in your eyes
Your hearts with pain will soon be rending
At this news of sad demise
Deio running to Llwyncelyn
Fetched old Matty through the frost
Matty swore he’d not recover
Sure and certain all was lost
Oh how sad of heart are we, oh how sad of heart
Oh how sad of heart are we, oh how sad of heart
There was grief, tribulation, lamentation
When we lost the black pig
Then we bought a polished coffin
Silver knobs, velvet trim
And a vault with bricks and mortar
To the church-yard we did bring
Oh how sad of heart are we, oh how sad of heart
Oh how sad of heart are we, oh how sad of heart
There was grief, tribulation, lamentation
When we lost the black pig
Now my friends my song is ended
Note the warning I intend
Mind you act with great discretion
Better days will come again
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13. |
Lullaby
02:28
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Close your eyes there’s nothing left of the evening
Hear the birds as they’re flying on their way
Silent moon it shines across the ceiling
And tomorrow will be another day
Go to sleep with half the world that’s dreaming
And all the stars that glisten on your wall
Still your thoughts will be there in the morning
You’ll forget that you ever dreamed at all
Now the sun is setting in the sky
See broken colours as they fade
All that’s left now is this lullaby
The day has ended its parade
A little faith for tomorrow will be coming
There’s little you can really know for sure
The day begins as soon as you awaken
And the shadows lie way beyond your door
Now the sun is setting in the sky
See the colours as they fade
All that’s left now is this lullaby
The day has ended its parade
The day has ended its parade
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David Lewis London, UK
David Lewis is a London-based singer and songwriter who has released four albums: No Straight Line (1995), For Now (2001),
Ghost Rhymes (2007), and Old World New World (2014).
A new album 'Among Friends' was released on vinyl and CD in June 2020.
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