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Musicians
04:45
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WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN MUSICIANS
WE’VE BEEN SEEN ON THE STAGE
AND WE WILL STILL BE MUSICIANS
EVEN IF YOU TURN, TURN ANOTHER PAGE
Just to feel fingers on strings
Just to hear how a note rings
Just to touch the wood and the wire
It’s like a smouldering, slow-burning fire
WE’VE ALWAYS...
In the vibration of sound in the bone
In the shiver of skin you are not alone
To hear the air carry this song
I do not count the time for it’s a whole life long
WE’VE ALWAYS...
The simplest of tunes to an intricate song
Nothing’s perfect and nothing is wrong
To have the music residing in your hands
You’re not deciding, you’re just riding in the song-strands
WE’VE ALWAYS...
So come all you musicians
All who want to play
Come all you singers
Let’s sing and play, let’s play our lives away
Let’s play, let’s play, let’s play our lives away
Let’s play, let’s play, let’s play our lives away
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Watching The Waves
04:19
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I followed the river to get to the sea
I wanted to be lost
So many things have happened to me
It’s no use counting the cost
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT
WATCHING THE WAVES COME IN
AND FOLD AND CRASH
IT’S LIKE WATCHING MYSELF
AND THE WAVES INSIDE
BREAKING ME, THEY’RE BREAKING ME
LIKE THE WAVES INSIDE ARE BREAKING ME
I follow my eyes to the horizon
Hoping to find some sign
I see a white sail on a small boat that’s coming
It’s like that boat is mine
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT…
I follow my breath into my dreams
And it seems they’re as real as my life is
Sometimes I’m flying and sometimes I’m crying
It’s like I feel the place I’m in
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT…
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Bring me back my feathers
Else I cannot fly
Bring me back my feathers
Else I’ll surely die
Bring me back my feathers
Let me fly away
To the warm lands over the sea
Bring my feathers back to me
BRING ME BACK MY FEATHERS
BRING THEM BACK TO ME
BRING ME BACK MY FEATHERS
OH HOW HAPPY I WILL BE
Bring me back my sweetheart
Else I cannot live
Bring me back my sweetheart
And anything I’d give
Bring me back my sweetheart
I’ll kiss him wildly
And then I’ll take him to my bed
Bring my sweetheart back to me
BRING ME BACK MY SWEETHEART
BRING HIM BACK TO ME...
Bring me back my tears
Else I cannot cry
Bring me back my tears
For look I only sigh
Bring me back my tears
Or dry my eyes will be
And I will only know of joy
When you bring them back to me
BRING ME BACK MY TEARS…
Bring me back my footsteps
Else I cannot tread
Bring me back my footsteps
Or I may as well be dead
Bring me back my footsteps
Or I never will be free
Never again to walk this land
Bring my footsteps back to me
BRING ME BACK…
So bring me back my feathers
Else I cannot fly
Bring me back my feathers
Else I’ll surely die
Bring me back my feathers
So I can fly away
To the warm lands over the seas
Bring my feathers back to me
BRING ME BACK…
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Fly Away Little Bird
04:42
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You’re so eager to go away
Want to leave your home behind
See the world – the wide, wide world
All new questions you’re sure to find
FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRD FROM MY WARM HAND
YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO ME
FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRD TO SOME DISTANT LAND
AND IF YOU CAN’T FIND YOUR WAY HOME, HERE I’LL BE
You might find a better place
Somewhere you can lay your head down
But for now it’s just such an adventure you’ll face
And it’ll be a long, long time before you’re homeward bound
FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRD FROM MY WARM HAND...
Your strong wings will take you far
And the wind will carry your song
But no matter where in the world you are
In my heart you will always belong
FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRD FROM MY WARM HAND
YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO ME
FLY AWAY LITTLE BIRD TO SOME FAR, DISTANT LAND
AND IF YOU CAN’T FIND YOUR WAY HOME, HERE I’LL BE
AND IF YOU CAN’T FIND YOUR WAY HOME, HERE I’LL BE
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5. |
Just Come Home
05:15
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You’re coming home so I’ve been told
Better get here before the cold
You never phone you never write
Then you turn up in the middle of the night
Oh but I will let you in
I’ll just be pleased you’re back again
Oh yeh I will let you in
I’ll be pleased you’re home
JUST COME HOME
JUST COME HOME
JUST COME HOME TO ME
YOU KNOW THAT’S WHERE YOU’D RATHER BE
SAFE HOME WITH ME
My tears drop into the washing-up bowl
Two collared doves land on the telephone pole
I’ve been thinking about the two of us
And now I wish I was one of those collared doves
Together side by side
Following each other across the sky
And in the darkness a place to hide
Together
JUST COME HOME…
When you stopped singing you lost your song
And if you don’t come and get me I might be moving on
You know about time and how it marches on
Some day you’ll find that your love is gone
But come now and I will let you in
And this time stay don’t go away again
You’re no fool, you know I’ll let you in
But stay, stay, stay
JUST COME HOME…
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Everybody Loves You
03:20
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When I see your face
I see the joy in you
And I see the boy in you
And when you’re in this place
I hear the song in you
And it doesn’t matter bout the wrong in you
There’s wrong in all of us
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
And when you call my name
I hear the fire in you
And I feel the wire in you
And when you light that flame
I see the fire burn
And the wire twist and turn
And I see you yearn
Like the yearning in all of us
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
And when I look into your eyes
I see the sky in you
And I see the cry in you
And it doesn’t matter bout the lie in you
There’s a lie in all of us
No what really matters is the soul in you
And the life you’re singing that’s holding you
That’s the tie with all of us
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
AND EVERYBODY LOVES YOU
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Warm Me Up
03:01
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Wrap your coat around me
Warm me up
Get some whisky down me
Warm me up
Now that you have found me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
The river it’s so deep and wide
Warm me up
So save me from this rising tide
Warm me up
Sit me at the fireside
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
WARM ME UP
WARM ME UP
Feed me gentle loving and serve it in a cup
Woh put your arms around me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
So close the door to chilly winds
Warm me up
Talk to me of silly things
Warm me up
Keep me here til spring begins
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
WARM ME UP
WARM ME UP
Feed me gentle loving and serve it in a cup
Woh put your arms around me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
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Zero Inches
03:15
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Get close, close to me baby, get close - leave no gap
Move up close to me baby, gimme some close contact
Leave no space between us - no space to swing a cat
Leave no room between us, babe you gotta fill that gap
ZERO INCHES FROM YOU, NO-ONE ELSE I'LL GO TO
ZERO INCHES FROM YOU, NO DISTANCE AT ALL - I WANT YOU
ZERO INCHES FROM ME, THAT'S WHAT YOU OUGHTA BE
ZERO INCHES FROM ME, LISTEN TO ME CALL
FIVE INCH, FOUR INCH, THREE INCH, TWO INCH, ONE INCH
ZERO INCHES FROM YOU
FIVE INCH, FOUR INCH, THREE INCH, TWO INCH, ONE INCH
ZERO INCHES FROM YOU
Just like the dish and the spoon, just like a candle and a flame
You and me we go together, you're my middle name
Just like the man in the moon, just like a track and train
If we didn't go together it would be a shame
ZERO INCHES...
FIVE INCH...
When you're less than near to me my life is full of misery
Such a chasm in my heart - it's no good to be apart
Miles and miles and miles of space, longing just to see your face
All I want to be, it's true, is zero inches from you
FIVE INCH...
ZERO INCHES FROM YOU
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Company Shirt
03:53
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I don’t like wearing this company shirt
I don’t like scrabberling down in the dirt
I don’t like driving this company car
I’m sick a this job, I’m sick of the hours
I waste to get you another cigar
I don’t like sitting in this sunless place
I don’t like working for a big fat face
I don’t like being told I don’t communicate
I’m sick a this job, I’m sick of the days
I waste to get you more on your plate
THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN ENDURE
BEFORE YOU THINK WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS FOR
THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN TAKE
BEFORE YOU BEND, BEFORE YOU BREAK
I don’t like being at your beck and call
I don’t like being your dumb animal
I don’t like staring at the same blank wall
I’m sick a this job, I’m sick of the time
I waste to get you another windfall
So why don’t I just stand up and leave
Isn’t love oh love all that we need
No – money, money we need that too
I’m sick this job but I gotta stick at this job
There’s no other thing I can do
THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN ENDURE
BEFORE YOU THINK WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS FOR
THERE’S ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN TAKE
BEFORE YOU BEND, BEFORE YOU BREAK
BEFORE YOU BEND, BEFORE YOU BREAK
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Life Is Never
04:39
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She laughed too long, she laughed too loud
She wanted to be loved by the crowd
In her mind she was so popular
All the signs seemed to be there for her
LIFE IS NEVER QUITE WHAT YOU DREAM IT WILL BE
She smiled too much, she smiled too wide
She thought her smile an asset too good to hide
She thought she was so mesmerising
So caught up in her own surprising
LIFE IS NEVER QUITE WHAT YOU DREAM IT WILL BE
She waved her hand up in the air
She waved it more extravagantly than she’d norm’lly dare
Red wine slopped from her glass to the off-white
carpet - the people looked away embarrassed and the fact is
she knew that she’d regret what she had
STARTED – HER LIFE WAS NEVER QUITE WHAT SHE EXPECTED IT TO BE
She laughed too loud, she laughed too long
Her laugh was like a kind of manic ticking bomb
All it took was imagination
All they had was a fascination with her
LIFE IS NEVER QUITE WHAT YOU DREAM IT WILL BE...
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Lay Down Your Worries
04:44
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When all you've got is a dead-end in your face
And you don't want to go home
And every little thing seems to get you down
Remember you're not alone
Just wait a while, hang on
Cos things will get better in the end
There may be sadness, wars and despair
But I will always be your friend
FORGET ALL THE TROUBLE IN YOUR MIND
COS THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO
YOU CAN LAY DOWN YOUR WORRIES
AND YOU CAN LAY DOWN YOUR HEAD
COS THERE'S NO PLACE RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING TO
When there seems to be no chance to take the weight off your feet
And you feel like you’re sinking down
And all of your life just seems to slip out of your reach
Remember your time will come around
Just wait a while, hang on
Cos things will get better in the end
There may be blues and tears in your heart
But I will always be your friend
FORGET ALL THE....
Well it's too far to look ahead
The days drag on and on
It's too bad to look back
Don't do that, don't do it, no, no
FORGET ALL THE...
THERE'S NO PLACE RIGHT NOW...
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Song For My Piano
03:06
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This sound I have always known
These notes are in my bones
These strings are the years of my life
And the tears I have cried
I make the hammers strike the strings
And then I can sing of all these things
These keys are my fingertips
They are words on my lips
This is a part of me
It’s in the heart of me
Since the start of me
I make the hammers strike the strings
And then I can sing of anything
These chords are the breath of me
Sustained til the death of me
I make the hammers strike the strings
And then I can sing of all things
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Lucky Joe's Mum
06:03
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Lucky Joe’s mum’s going to sail the Pacific
She says it’s terrific and she’s going to give it a go
Tomorrow
Lucky Joe’s mum – she takes sailing classes
She broke her glasses but she sees the farthest of all
And she’s got the loudest call
SHE’S A NAVIGATOR
SHE’LL FIND A WAY
SHE’LL BE THERE SOONER OR LATER
IT COULD BE ANY DAY
SHE’LL FIND A WAY
She can tie knots and identify rocks
Keep dry her socks and take all the knocks that you
Get from a boat to keep it afloat
She goes without sleep and has nothing to eat
She is dead on her feet but she manages to keep it on course
With so little force
SHE’S A NAVIGATOR…
Lucky Joe’s mum’s going to take her accordion
She says her audience isn’t going to applaud
But she’ll never get bored
She knows she’s near, this is the year
There’s nothing to fear so she checks all her gear and she goes
Where – everybody knows
She loves the sea and the stars are out tonight
She can get free if she knows that all of her children are alright
Cos
SHE’S A NAVIGATOR…
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Wrap your coat around me
Warm me up
Get some whisky down me
Warm me up
Now that you have found me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
The river it’s so deep and wide
Warm me up
So save me from this rising tide
Warm me up
Sit me at the fireside
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
WARM ME UP
WARM ME UP
Feed me gentle loving and serve it in a cup
Woh put your arms around me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
So close the door to chilly winds
Warm me up
Talk to me of silly things
Warm me up
Keep me here til spring begins
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
WARM ME UP
WARM ME UP
Feed me gentle loving and serve it in a cup
Woh put your arms around me
Warm me up
Warm me up, warm me up, warm me up
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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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