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I Swim
04:24
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I swim, I swim,
but you don't know the depths, that I have been.
I wade, and I fight,
I'm a weak swimmer at best, and this chill it bites.
You know this ocean has spoiled,
it will never be clean again.
Just like I can never see you now,
as who I took you for then.
I float, oh I float
but the weight of me, you will never know
Oh the drink, for which you yearn,
It took me too long to see now, I think you'll never learn.
You know this ocean has spoiled,
it will never be clean again.
Just like I can never see you now,
as who I took you for then.
I had hoped you would come clean,
I had hoped you'd stay with me,
Oh the young we are naive.
I had hoped you would come clean,
I had hoped you'd stay with me,
Oh I was just twenty three.
You know this ocean has spoiled,
it will never be clean again.
Just like I can never see you now,
as who I took you for then.
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2. |
Waging War
04:34
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Around and round we go, waging war.
You never read between my lines.
My mind is tired and my voice sore,
I hope for it to heal in time,
Maybe it will heal in time.
We've travelled side by side, for a while,
long enough to call you friend.
Through thick and thin, and back again.
All things come to an end.
All things end.
You never could let go, and give me space to hold my own,
Cos you don't have the strength to be alone.
I believed the lie that we were walking side by side,
but you my love I've long outgrown.
You my love I've long outgrown.
I gave an inch, you took a mile,
and miles and miles and miles beyond.
I now cut the cords one by one,
you never know when you've done wrong.
How can't you see you've done me wrong.
You never could let go, and give me space to hold my own,
Cos you don't have the strength to be alone.
I believed the lie that we were walking side by side,
but you my love I've long outgrown.
You my love I've long outgrown.
Around and round we go, waging war.
You never read between my lines
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3. |
Lee
03:57
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I have a friend,
We haven't spoken in years.
Years I have spent growing old.
Growing old.
Much has changed, since those lazy days of our youth,
in truth, I miss you.
I miss you.
And the winter light, takes me straight back,
with it's changing skies, that don't let me forget,
and it's icy wind, that's biting my cheek.
The nights draw in year after year,
and I feel as though somehow you're near.
But I can't forget,
I can't forget
I don't want to forget,
The year we lost you.
I had a friend,
We haven't spoken in years,
Years I have spent growing old,
Growing old.
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4. |
The Songwriter
04:05
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They call me a songwriter everywhere I go,
They know my songs and they've been to my shows,
But they don't know that I have no more notes.
Collecting dust in the corner is my old guitar.
Three feet away from me yet still much to far for me to go
to find those notes
Cos it's hard enough finding time,
then to push words together when those words don't want to rhyme,
and time, oh time is ticking by
time oh time is ticking by
Others use the same words hundreds of times,
but coming from me, it just don't feel right,
oh why oh why can't I?
Why oh why can't I
Songs come easy, songs come hard
unlike lovers they don't leave us but they can still tear us apart,
this from me to you is a start.
From me to you is a start.
Cos it's hard enough finding time,
then to push words together when those words don't want to rhyme,
and it's hard enough, to tow the line
with working and sleeping and daily life and time, oh time is ticking by
time oh time is ticking by
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5. |
Another Way
05:33
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What can I do when I'm tied to you,
and you keep telling me there's no other way.
I lied when I said this is all I've ever dreamt of,
but you keep telling me there's no other way.
You keep telling me there's no other way
You push me to stay but then your mouth runs away with you and all I'm thinking is there another way.
Cos I'm sure I'm sound of mind but when you test me all the time,
I'm wondering, hoping that theres another way.
Hoping praying, that theres another way.
Sitting in the car do you hear me,
thinking about the things I'd like to be without you.
Staring out the window by your side,
hoping to feign some sleep so I can hide
from you, for a minute or two,
what could I do.
You share your despair and I'm supposed to show I care,
But to lay my soul bare, do I dare.
You loved me for a time, and I tried to be mindful,
but your ever changing tides they make me unkind.
Your ever changing tides they make me unkind.
Sitting in the car do you hear me,
thinking about the things I'd like to be without you.
Looking out the window by your side,
hoping to feign some sleep so I can hide from you,
for a minute or two.
For a minute or two.
For a minute or two.
For a minute or two.
What would you do.
What will I do now I'm untied from you,
Now I know there always was another way.
Another way,
another way,
another way.
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Rhiannon Scutt Sheffield, UK
Evolution through Rhiannon’s music is clear. A shift from her first rootsy duo Rita Payne, through a period of introspective work developing as a lyricist. Now working with a grittier sound, she maintains her beautiful and at times uncomfortable lyrics, experimenting with world-class musicians, who's combined sound converge where distorted guitars, live strings meet drum machines and jazz trumpet. ... more
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