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People Change
04:54
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Smell of grass on a summer's day
Heading out east to the Yorkshire bays
I will miss you
Blanket laid on the rolling hills
The sun cuts through like a closed fresnel
I will miss you
A burst of leaves like a spray of paint
I see a snowdrop and my heart just melts
I would have loved just to stick around
But something's changed and I don't know how I'll forgive you
People change
Specks of white on a smooth green baize
The short short nights
The long long days
I'll miss you
Spider's nest of the winter's trees
The wind just blows the rain just freezes
Drum of rain on the westward wall
The April showers the autumn squall
I would have loved just to stick around
But something's changed and I don't know how...
People change
We'll stay, stay, where the winds just howls
It's people that change it's the place that remains
And that's why we can still call this home
These hills and these fields
They're not fickle or feared
And that's why we can still call this home
It tells me no lies
And with no compromise
It just grows as I think I should grow
People can change
Yes now people can change
And that's why we can still call this home
Come on now
People change
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2. |
Over These Walls
02:49
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Abide with me my love and let me set the scene
I'm watching celluloid of lives we couldn't dream
There they are in black and white
Let me know the colour of their hair
Abide with us a while and let us meet their eyes
A frozen eulogy of long forgotten lives
Let us paint the shadows in
Let us know the colour of their hair
Show me one more wall
Show me one more stream
Show me one more tree but make it evergreen
Evergreen
I see a lover there, a mother and a child
I know a war will come and take away their lives
Maybe we've the same to come
Maybe there'll be horror in our lives
Show me one more wall
Show me one more stream
Show me one more tree but make it evergreen
Evergreen
Come take my hand
Come take my hand
Over these walls, over these walls, over these walls
They've seen it all
They've seen it all
Over these walls, over these walls, over these walls
Come take my hand
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3. |
East Coast Bays
03:45
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Pour my blood into a field of hay
Drag my body to the East Coast Bays
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
Lay me down under an autumn tree
Wash my body in a babbling stream
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
Oh my soul, comes alive when I'm heading home
Oh my soul
We know what we've been told
This world is growing old
That's OK we're growing older too
My world my sweet sweet sage
My world of constant change
Let me stay and change a while with you
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
Come on play until our knees are grazed
Stop the clocks and let the evening play on
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
Oh my soul, comes alive when I'm heading home
Oh my soul
We know what we've been told
This world is growing old
That's OK we're growing older too
My world my sweet sweet sage
My world of constant change
Let me stay and change a while with you
I'm in love with a land that loves the way that I do
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Your soul's down
Sitting on the ropes
Your chin's proud
Taking blow on blow after blow
The clock turns
Spinning round and round
A whirlpool
Trying to pull you down, pull you down
Take us all back home
To where we said we'd grow
Lay down the hourglass and lay in the long grass with me
Go where the birds fly where time has no meaning be free
Be free
Go now
Following the flow
That the herd knows
Following the flow as it goes
Time's no friend of ours
It flows with no regard for us
Lay down the hourglass and lay in the long grass with me
Go where the birds fly where time has no meaning be free
Be free
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Oh My Kid
03:37
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Oh my kid I wonder where you are
Oh my kid I wonder where you are
Are you down where we used to play
Are you kicking round with a ball
Are you there where we used to hide
1, 2, 3 you're all out by the wall
And oh my kid
I see you every day
There in a face
I see you every day
Are you calling around to play
Catching bullyheads in the stream
A brand new bike that you want to ride
Or are you struggling just like me?
Meet me by the pub
We're going to have a drink to what we could have been
If we had only stuck by our guns
Me I'll play in goal
And you can be a soldier brave and bold
We're going to change the world
We're going to change the world
Maybe I could sing
And you can play the drums we'll do our thing
We're going to change the world
We're going to change the world
Meet me by the pub
We're going to have a drink to what we could have been
If we had only stuck by our guns
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Hope and Social Leeds
In the tradition of the travelling bands, we guess we’re a bit like a Yorkshire E-Street Band...meets Arcade Fire...meets
The Faces…meets Dexys Midnight Runners…meets Prefab Sprout…at a party...in an argument about who gets to have sex with David Bowie. We're not as good at describing ourselves as others are, so...
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11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything - Remastered
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Lovely lovely Steve Lawson's album, written about "love, journeying, gratitude, growing older, enjoying london, becoming a dad..." and other stuff. Loopy bass goodness from a lovely man. Go try!
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Waking up to this liddle tune as the sun streams through the window.....sweet, gentle, chilled, natural, calm, relaxing, peaceful, positive, thought provoking.....and breathe. So......writing a few words. Well there is a comment box!!! Does anyone read these?? Have you got a thang about long grass?! 😊🌾🍃🌿🌱 I have enjoyed how you pronounce your ‘u’ s for a while now, and this track doesn’t disappoint. Only Yorkshire folk will appreciate it. ‘Up’
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