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Eye To Eye

by annA rydeR

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1.
The first it was a little boy The second was a little girl And the third was another boy The fourth was a girl And the fifth was a girl And the sixth was a boy And the seventh he was the last He was the baby REMEMBER YOU WERE ONCE A CHILD RUNNING FREE AND RUNNING WILD DON'T FORGET WHAT IT WAS TO BE A CHILD The house was big the garden too There was no end of things to do And the land all around was sand Where silver birches grew And they laughed and they cried And found places to hide And they teased and they pleased Found magic horses to ride REMEMBER YOU ... There was primrose and pine Up the oak the ivy climbed They made daisy chains And danced beneath the washing line There were strawberries in the wood And the cherries tasted good And the big tree stood over And they climbed it if they could REMEMBER YOU... And they climbed all the trees And they kicked up all the leaves And they lay in the heather And flew the sycamore keys There were snakes and rabbits here And foxes and deer And all manner of creatures At all times of the year REMEMBER YOU... And now the children have all grown They have children of their own Like swallows they've flown Living far from home Now they've gone, gone away From the places where they used to play But their sweet little voices echo round You hear them say REMEMBER YOU WERE ONCE LIKE ME RUNNING WILD AND RUNNING FREE DON'T FORGET WHAT IT WAS TO BE A CHILD LIKE ME Now we've gone, gone away From the places where we used to play But our sweet little voices echo round I hear them say REMEMBER YOU WERE ONCE ME RUNNING WILD AND RUNNING FREE DON'T FORGET WHAT IT WAS TO BE ME TO BE ME DON'T FORGET WHAT IT WAS TO BE A CHILD LIKE ME
2.
I looked for a song I looked for a tune I thought there a chance of finding one soon But I was mistaken I was at fault All of the music had come to a halt I looked for a tune I looked for a song And beginning to think that something was wrong Picked up me guitar and started to play But nothing came out so I put it away OH DEAR WHAT CAN THE MATTER BE ALL OF THE MUSIC HAS GONE FROM RIGHT OUT OF ME SEARCHING ALL AROUND IF IT'S NOT IN YOUR HEART IT CAN NEVER BE FOUND I scoured the place right up and right down To see if there was a jam to be found Hunting around and seeking inside No music came out wherever I tried My friends had all gone their instruments too But playing was all I wanted to do I was trying to find the music I'd lost No matter what pain and no matter what cost OH DEAR ... And then I gave up I couldn't care I was looking for something that just wasn't there I couldn't be bothered to suffer so long Knowing that all of my music had gone I just couldn't sing I just couldn't play My urge to join in had been slipping away And now I was tired and now I was cross And now I was mourning my terrible loss OH DEAR ... Never be found You should always look in your heart Or the music will never start It'll never be found I was wandering round so aimlessly No crack to be heard no sessions to see Then amongst all the people milling about Up comes a wave and up goes a shout Hey what have you got, hey what can you do You're looking for something and I'm looking too Why don't we find it right here and right now We can start anything any old how GONE NOW IS WHAT ONCE WAS A LACK TO ME ALL OF THE MUSIC COMES FLOODING RIGHT BACK TO ME I DON'T NEED TO SEARCH AROUND IF IT'S THERE IN YOUR HEART IT CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND IF IT'S THERE IN YOUR HEART IT CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND IF IT'S THERE IN YOUR HEART IT CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND ALWAYS BE FOUND
3.
IT'S HARD TO BE A CHILD, IT'S HARD TO BE A CHILD IN THIS WORLD ONLY ONE THING COUNTS OH IT'S THE MONEY THERE IS NO DOUBT If I speak, they do not listen If I listen, they just tell lies If I touch, they smack my hand The best I can do is close my eyes The best I can do is close my eyes IT'S HARD TO BE SO YOUNG, IT'S HARD TO BE SO YOUNG I'M NOT A REBEL NOR AM I FREE ONLY ONE THING MATTERS AND THAT'S THE MONEY And if I look, they say turn away And if I taste, spit it out they say But I know one thing that they don't know They sealed my future a long time ago They sealed my future a long time ago IT'S HARD TO BE A CHILD, IT'S HARD TO BE A CHILD IN THIS WORLD ONLY ONE THING COUNTS AND THAT'S THE MONEY THERE IS NO DOUBT All my ideas they say are too simple Life isn't as easy as you make out You're too naive to make decisions Leave to us we know what life's about We know what life's about IT'S HARD TO BE A GROWING CHILD, IT'S HARD TO BE A GROWING CHILD AS ALL AROUND YOU THE WORLD GROWS SMALL YOU FORGET THAT MONEY DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL YOU FORGET THAT MONEY DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL
4.
THIS SONG IS YOURS, IT'S YOURS AND MINE IT'S OURS TO KEEP NOT LEAVE BEHIND 'COS WE'LL GET TIME, OH BABY, WE'LL GET TIME This thing we have is all our own This thing we have is ours alone Ours alone to feel Don't you know this thing it's real It's not a dream, it's really true That you love me and I love you THIS SONG IS YOURS ... I want to walk with you awhile I want to hold your hand and see you smile I want to say so many things Must we wait to see what the future brings Can't we just grab it all right now 'Cos it's gonna happen anyhow THIS SONG ... Ev'ry minute I think about you I don't know if I can do without you This thing makes me sad And the feeling it's good and bad Ev'rytime I see you my heart races Oh baby you're my oasis THIS SONG ... I miss you when you go away All I want you to do is stay When you're gone, baby I shall sing this song for you And though I am weak I will try to be strong 'Cos this thing is gonna carry on THIS SONG ...
5.
Gone 05:28
It's so hard to say I love you When you look into my eyes But so easy to say I love you When you're gone, gone from my side Oh the years they have fallen behind us And the years to come they seem few And I know I am wrong to feel embarrassed But I can't say I love you to you Oh the fishes they swim in the dirty sea And the birds fall sick to the ground There is fire all around the rainforest tree And no more will the whale's song sound Our muck and our rubbish is strewn upon the land And the air it is spoilt with fumes What once was all green is now only sand Which is blown round our home-made tomb It's so hard to say I love you When you look into my eyes But so easy to say I love you When you're gone, gone from my side Oh the years they have fallen behind us And the years to come they seem few And I know it's too late for me to realise That I can say I love you to you Now our children have come and found that it's true It's not hard for them to see That it would have been better to say I love you Better than letting things be For the trees that have died, for the dolphins who have cried For the creatures still barely alive For you and I and our children to survive It would have been better to say I love you It would have been better to have said I love you
6.
Downtrodden 04:42
DOWNTRODDEN AND DOWN-HEARTED BEEN PUSHED RIGHT DOWN TO THE FLOOR BEEN DEGRADED, HUMILIATED AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE Well I've been through things and I can do things I think I know a little about life But they despise me and criticise me And stab me in my back with a knife Well since I started being down-hearted I feel like giving in though I should fight back But I know I got things they haven't got They're just frightened of what they lack DOWNTRODDEN AND DOWN-HEARTED… Not into caring nor used to sharing They're just climbing up the ladder to nowhere Though their ways are going to expire The strain, it's for me to bear 'Cos they've ignored me and they've torn me Between the things they think they know I should do But they don't come near me, they only fear me And they're scared when they hear something true DOWNTRODDEN AND DOWN-HEARTED… Well these people, they can keep all This openness they like to talk about 'Cos they're just pretending and it's all ending Up with me on the bottom losing out DOWNTRODDEN AND DOWN-HEARTED…
7.
Robert 04:17
There was once a boy I knew when I was about nine He was friend of my brother's, not a friend of mine In fact I did not like him very much, he used to be so rough He was only seven years old, but he acted very tough Little did I know, little did I know He stepped on the coach that day and such a smile he gave me I was surprised for he was sewing little crosses on a patch Look what I've made he said And his eyes shone at me for the first time I smiled and I said that's fine But little did I know, little did I know His eyes shone at me for the last time He stepped off the coach that day and his coat caught in the door His brother ran beside and he shouted and he cried And all the children saw The driver did not stop for the driver did not see And the boy went under the wheels And everybody knew yes everybody knew They knew and wished it wasn't real And little did I know, oh, little did I know That when I ran from the coach to my front door He was smiling and his eyes were shining for the last time For the very last time But in me for ever more
8.
Homeward 04:55
It's time for us all to be leaving We'll pack up our things and we'll go A song in our hearts is still breathing We'll pack up our things and we'll go Back to our houses and back to our work Back to the lives we all know Back on the road again, travelling home again Hoping the journey is slow But my mind will spend hours retrieving The moments I felt I was stealing, stealing And now I am woke from my dreaming We'll pack up our things and we'll go For songs in my veins they are teeming We'll pack up our things and we'll go Back to our houses and back to our work Back to our everyday lives Back on the road again, travelling home again Hoping we'll never arrive But all round my brain songs are weaving Songs which I cannot stand leaving, leaving And now I have found a new meaning We'll pack up our things and we'll go There's people and places I'm needing We'll pack up our things and we'll go Back to our houses and back to our work Back to go on going on Back on the road again, travelling home again Hoping the journey is long And now with the sun in the evening Leave the threads of the music still streaming, streaming Above us as homeward we go
9.
Remember the time you asked me to dance I said you must be mad I thought you were old, I thought you were cold I said your looks were bad BUT LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IS A CURIOUS THING OH, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IS A CURIOUS THING You held out your hand, I took it in mine I couldn't tell you why It wasn't your face, it wasn't your looks But something caught my eye OH, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IS A CURIOUS THING OH, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IS A CURIOUS THING How could I see this was happening to me There is no end without a starting We just collided without remembering We'll dance all the night without parting I thought it no harm to be in your arms Just for one dance And I just couldn't say why I wanted to stay But I just took the chance I wasn't aware of the love that was there It came slowly creeping I didn't realise it lay in your eyes And me off my feet was sweeping WOH, LOVE .... I tried to be rude, I tried to be crude I didn't want to like you I told you I thought that you weren't the sort I'd like to say goodnight to BUT LOVE .... How could I see ... And now without you I think about you Time and time again The moment you went, the hours I spent They seemed to have no end Now the dancing's all done, the songs are all sung And we've grown apart I'll see you again but I don't know when Such a space is in my heart WOH, LOVE Love is a curious kind of a serious Could it be a spurious sort of a thing Oh love
10.
There is nothing, nothing you can do Nothing you can do or say That'll make me lose my memory of you That'll make my thoughts of you just fade away You can leave me, yes, you can leave me You can even shut the door in my face But it won't be easy, no, not easy Not even if you're in a different place You can ignore me or shut me out You can run and you can hide You can forget what it was all about But I'll remember what I feel inside You can leave me, yes, you can leave me But you'll never go away from my heart You'll put it all behind you but things'll remind you And then you'll realise that we never should part There is no-one, no-one else but you Nobody else who really knows me well So well as you do so can't you see it's true There is no way that I am going to hell You can leave me, yes, you can leave me You can tell me that our love is gone But I won't believe you and I don't deceive you When I say that I think you are wrong When you held me, when you kissed me How I felt I just could not say To me it seemed like such a mystery Why you felt about me in that way You can leave me, yes, you can leave me You can pretend that you will have no tears But you should feel ashamed you're the one to blame When I've been loving you all these years There is nothing, nothing you can do Nothing you can do or say That'll make me lose my memory of you That'll make my thoughts of you just fade away You can leave me, yes, you can leave me You can pretend that you will have no tears But you should feel ashamed you're the one to blame When I've been loving you all these years When I've been loving you all these years When I've been loving you all these years
11.
Sailing Boat 04:40
If I had a sailing boat I would travel far from this place And you can wait for me But I would never come back Because I've been here before I wish to hear my boat upon the ocean And know the sea lies just beneath my feet I want to feel like I'm walking on water Not running round in circles Time and time again Loneliness and storms and rocks I would still carry on And you may wait for me But I would never return Because I've done all that before I wish to hear the sails catch the wind And taste the sweetest salt upon my lips And know for sure that I'm heading in one direction Not running round in circles Time and time again To see the night all spattered with stars And know the world is curling all around me To see its sparkling reflection in the ocean I could fall starwards or I could fly down Not run round in circles until I drown And if I had a sailing boat Would I travel so far from this place And would you wait for me And would I ever return Because I've loved you before

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Self-released studio album 1993 on RowdyMusic

11 songs by annA rydeR including Sailing Boat

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released November 24, 1993

annA rydeR: piano, guitar, French horns, banjo, vocals
Engineering and mixing: Oliver Nicholls at Backtrack Studio, Croydon

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annA rydeR England, UK

annA rydeR is an original and inventive singer-songwriter with a musical style which spans an array of genres. A multi- instrumentalist with a poetic, intimate lyricism communicating her unique take on the world around her.

annA has played all over the UK and Europe, from small clubs to large festivals, and has six studio albums under her belt, featuring some of British folk's finest musicians.
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