Finley Quaye Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

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Finley Quaye's latest record, his third, entitled "Much More Than Much Love" arrives at a prescient time for the British singer-songwriter and the music industry in general. Quaye has always delivered music that is both innovative and deeply individual, with honest and open reflections on his personal state of mind. His third album encapsulates a new chapter in his career, Quaye mines the past and excavates the present to make the sounds of a bright future 'It's good to be coming back,' he grins, flashing his trademark open-mouthed smile. 'I think people want to hear decent, strong songwriters again.'

His new album couldn't have been better timed. Recorded over the past 18 months, in studios across London, Sheffield and Leeds, and featuring the inimitable production of William Orbit and long time collaborators Bacon and Quarmby. Quaye's third record is his most inspiring to date. 'It sounds more optimistic,' admits Quaye. 'I had fun making it, and I think that vibe really comes across.'

When Finley burst out into the mainstream in 1997, he quickly established himself, alongside Bobbie Gillespie and Noel Gallagher, as one of a handful of innovative British songwriters, with a unique star quality that few artist truly posses. With early hits 'Sunday Shining', 'Even After All' and the much sought after 'Ultra Stimulation EP', Quaye encapsulated the heady summer of 1997. In fact, 'Maverick a Strike' won him a Brit Award for 'Best Male Artist' in 1998 and was certified triple platinum. 'I was very lucky,' he laughs. 'There was a real shortage of strong songwriters around. And that is all I have ever been interested in. Not much has changed since then. I just want to try and write the best songs I can. If I can compile my notes and lyrics into a coherent song -well, that's just about as good as it gets.'

He refused to rest on his laurels. In 2000, Quaye followed up his groundbreaking debut record with 'Vanguard' an altogether darker album that hinted at the turmoil of life on the road, the pressures of fame, and being in the spotlight finally taking their toll.

Here in 2003, and his latest record has Quaye reinvent the quality of his songwriting once more and is a very obvious step forward from troubled times of the past. On a record that easily flits from glorious West Coast country rock (Something to Say), reggae and dub (Pearls of Wisdom), simple stripped down country/folk on a cover of The Carter Family's "Lovers Return", to the warm ambience of dance, Quaye embarks on a musical journey that breaks yet more boundaries. "Much More Than Much Love" is undoubtedly the record of his career, showing off Quaye's distinctive strengths at collating melodies and choruses.

Much of the record comes from ideas that have been planted in his mind for the past 18 months. The performances were captured in studios in London, Sheffield and Leeds. For instance, 'Waiting For You', a beautifully elegant ballad rendered simply with strings, first originated in Notting Hill with collaborator Tom Greenwood. 'Pearls of Wisdom' runs a more traditional route through modern reggae and makes wonderful use of Quaye's characteristic voice which continues to develop and echoes great singers like Joe Tex and Brooke Benton. For the songwriter, 'Pearls of Wisdom' marks the most traditional reggae number of his career, and a song, bolstered by a flourishes of percussion that sounds almost like an archive time piece. 'I wanted to do an unadulterated reggae number,' laughs Quaye. 'I wanted to talk about what was going on, and to talk about what's important in a mellow way.'

'Something To Say', a song inspired by intricate choruses and neo-religious production of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, perfectly encapsulates the sanguine tones expressed over the course of the record. Over chiming guitar harmonies played by Richard Hawley (Pulp, Longpigs), that could have emerged from the 12-string guitar once employed by The Byrds' Roger McGuinn Quaye sets the meter for a light and joyful melody: 'I went back to basics with this one,' he says. 'I kept it very simple. I just kept strumming and singing until it fell into place. I enjoyed playing and singing this song in my little garden and was sure if I sung it sweet enough the neighbours wouldn't complain.'

One of the album's center-pieces, the sanguine 'Dice', written with Beth Orton and recorded by William Orbit, is a near-magical statement. 'I found many of the lyrics in a dictionary, many of the lyrics had nothing to do with my vocab until I found them in the great book of words. There is nothing abstract about this song, it's pretty much straight forward, written about my desire to go back up to Scotland, to the highlands" - an area which has so often provided inspiration and comfort for Finley. 'William made the music with Beth who had originally found the Gaelic melody, I thought it was a great idea and I quickly gathered some ideas together.'

Quaye's record is perhaps a curious statement of intent, in some ways it represents his outwardly optimistic nature. Unsurprisingly, Quaye has his own humanist take on current world events, the incisive 'Volunteer'. 'I was interested in writing a song about war, of course I am concerned by what is happening,' he says. 'It's hard not to be concerned by what is happening. It is all around us. But it's better to be positive.'

His last statement speaks volumes. A committed songwriter, Quaye, on the evidence of his third album, is still tackling contemporary issues with distinction. Diversity is his strength. Or, as he puts it 'You have to challenge people. Music has to be challenging.'

Ultra stimulation

Nobody knows her
Nobody knows her at all
And I ain't wondering why
I love that girl at all

Hey hey yeah
Ultra stimulation
Satta vibration
Ultra stimulation
Vital vibration

What you say
Ultra stimulation
Satta vibration
Ultra stimulation
Vital vibration

Well if you're up and if you up we live it up
Well if you're up and if you up we leave you up
Well if you're up and if you up we give it up
Well if you're up and if you up we leave you up

She will guide i will follow
And she test all the swallow
And she cook up a fire
And she take it up stronger

It's great when we're together

It's great when we're together
Sun or rain
I know that I can't live without you
But you're just like the weather
When you change
And you refrain to speak to me

Sometimes I feel lighter than the air
When you shine
You brighten up my day
Sometimes I feel lighter than the air
When you shine
You brighten up my day

It's great when we're together
Whether or never
It's the same
And I know I am not new to you
Got to be clever
Don't fool around with me I'll treat you good

Sometimes I feel lighter than the air
When you shine
When you shine
You brighten up my day
Sometimes I feel lighter than the air
It's great when we're together
You brighten up my day

It's great when we're together
Sun or rain
I know that I can't live without you
But you're just like the weather
When you change
And you refrain to speak to me

Sunday shining

Sun is shining
The weather is sweet yeah
Makes you wanna move
Your dancing feet
To the rescue
Here I am
I want you to know y'all
Here I stand
As the morning gathers a rainbow
I want you to know y'all
That I'm a rainbow with you

Cause I'm a hero
Like Robert De Niro
I know an Ital Rasta man
Got to keep I heights
Protection until time
The sun is shining
For you and there's nothing else to do
War is explosive
You got to demonstrate, demonstrate
You got to demonstrate
Don't fight
Cause the sun is shining
For you
There's nothing else to do

As the morning gathers a rainbow
I want you to know now
That I'm a rainbow with you
Woh yeah test the eye
Tes' the eye....fear no evil
Channel like a lion
Channel like a lion

Some say - yeah
Money in my....one on one
Money in my pocket
But I just can't get your love
Some say - yeah
And the sun in shining
Don't fight
And you got soul
And you're chopping it up aero
For you...
There's nothing else to do
Sun is shining
The weather is sweet
Makes you wanna move
Your dancing feet
To the rescue
Here I am
I want you to know y'all
Here I stand
As the morning gathers
A rainbow
I want you to know that I'm a rainbow with you
As the morning gathers
A rainbow
I'm rougher than rough
Rougher than rough
Cause I'm a rainbow with you
Tougher than tough
Tougher than tough
Channel like a lion - yeah
This is some fashion - yeah
Channel like a lion

Even after all

Even after all
The murdering
Even after all
You're suffering sow
You know I love you so
You know I love you so and so

Even after all

All that you go on.... sir
Is the order of the day
And all that you believe... sir
Is the order in this society
You know I love you so
You know I love you so and so

Even after all

This is my manner y'all
Man just feel satisfied
No competition
No competition at all
I just feel satta star

Them eyes are gorgeous girl
No demise, uprise
I got to raise it again
Them eyes are gorgeous
I must advance

I don't check for no superficial
It's got to be beneficial

These sonic fruits
These sonic fruits
Sight
These sonic fruits
Got them moving around alright
Hyper play
Steppin' and rising

Even after all
The murdering that go on
Even after all oh no
Your suffering sow
You know I love you so
You know I love you so and so

Even after all

You just survive soldier
And your soul is beautiful
And your soul is good

Sight
I know a man called Sylvester
Him have to wear a bullet proof vest y'all
No kinda way no kinda way at all

I may be trigger happy
But I wished I had a pappy
To show me right from wrong
And good from evil

And if you feel you got to move
I man can supply a groove
I man can soothe for real

I had some pain
I became you're sonic satellite
Got to get it all right
Just right

I know a man called Sylvester
Him have to wear a bullet proof vest y'all
No kinda way no kinda way through the day

I may be trigger happy
But I wished I had a pappy
To show me right from wrong
And good from evil

And if you feel you got to scream
'Cause you're dealing with the cream
You're not wrong

Had a daddy had a pappa
Him inspire and entertain
Then my mother mash up in brain

My friend he is a snapper
But enjoy dress up snapper
Dapper snapper dapper dapper snapper

Gunshot a capella
Shoot out a capella
Rocket interstellar
Take it interstellar
Shoot out a capella
???

Ride on and turn the people on

Never mind morgan
Thieved my mamma's tomato
Thieved her sweet potato
Reball the banana
Then they make it hyper
For us to live together
My generation
Got to stand up in love
The higher the more
The stronger the harder
Do you see it
Hey
Those who have eyes like a don

Ride on and turn the people on
Ride on and turn the people on ...

*** Thanx to Barbara for this one ***

The way of the explosive

You got to appreciate
You got to be great
It's a wicked calibre
It's a little story
Some sonic glory
Control
Wicked satelite
Just right

Harder than a gunshot
Hard than the steel
The way of the explosive
Ire
Rasta is Higher
Yeah
Control
Fire.....The soul desire

Mighty, yeah
Youth them a shock out
The youth them shock out
Stepper
So pass the pepper this is hyper
Yeah
Y'all

Next man give some loving
Next man give some loving
Never mind a gun shot
Never mind a lick shot sir
Harder than the gun shot
Quicker than a win chun fighting - right on

Higher
Control
Rock it (x3)

Control
Yush
Mighty

Harder than the gun shot seen ?
Harder than the steel
The way of the explosive
Ire
Rasta is higher, yeah
Controller
Wicked satelite
Just right, yeah
All night
It's a little story
Some sonic powerful glory y'all
The stronger the breeze
The stronger it blow
Mighty y'all yeah
Jah
Wah, yeah this guy's ultra

Your love gets sweeter

You know your smile woman
treat me so darn darn fine
Give me such an appetite
& I need your loving every night

Your love gets sweeter everyday X4

Baby when you kiss my lips
Make me wanna go head over heels - for you yeah!
When you whisper in my ear
What I say is how I feel for you yeah!

Your love gets sweeter everyday X4

Since I was sweet sixteen
I wanted to make you my queen
Then until the day you were
You are the loving girl who's taken my hand

Your love gets sweeter everyday X4

Now I'm glad I'm an older man
I can see things are riding to plan
Baby if you promise me
We can build our world together for true me & you
I gonna take it to you

Your love gets sweeter everday X4

You walk so sweetly when you walk, when you talk
& you dance for me girl X2

I'll never make you blue
I'll never
I'll never make you blue

Supreme I preme

Met a little girl in London city yeah
When I hear that she sing so pretty yeah
I had to catch a plane
I had to be with her again

Stepping in New york city now
Now I see when she dance so pretty yeah
I got to be her friend
I got to hear her sing yeah yeah

You met a little girl in London city yeah
When I hear that she sing so pretty yeah
I had to catch a plane
I had to be with her again

Stepping in New York city now
Now I see when she dance so pretty yeah
I got to be her friend
I got to hear her sing yeah yeah ah

*** Thanx to Barbara for this one ***

Sweet and loving man

You got to make it on your own
You're so alone
You got to make it on your own
You're so alone

Mercy lord I beg you since
I have become a man
Won't you understand
I'm a sweet and loving man

if you is so rude
In a mellow way
Then that's ok

If it's so bad
Lookin' for the steel
Then you know you got to feel
then you know you got to feel
As I would rock it to you baby
Mercy lord I beg you since
I have become a man
Won't you understand
I'm a sweet and loving man X2

If it's life that you're loving
There ain't nothing more to do
If it's life that you're loving
There ain't nothing more to do

If there is a place for everyone
In your art
Then you would never get a better start

If there is a place for everyone
In your heart
Then you would never get a better start

Mercy you understand
I'm a sweet and loving man

Falling

Forgiving and forgeting is best
Tried to forgive but I could not forget
And I found myself
Falling, for you again
Feel like I've been down this lonely track before
It's like a little deja vu but a little bit more
Falling, for you again

Where was I when you say bye bye
Hold up my heart who say man don't cry?
Because I became close today
Sister you got me falling, mmm all overyour feet
These wandering emotions got me
Falling, for you again

Tried to hold back but I could only hold on
To a feeling we both know that should be long gone
Sister you got me falling, mmm all over your feet
These wandering emotions got me
Falling, for you again

Solitude, solitude setting
Solitude, solitude setting
Solitude

I need a lover

I feel so fine I
I feel so good
I feel so hot yeah
Yeah yeah

I had to touch you
I feel so good yeah

You move so fine you
You move so wild I, I, I
I need a lover I
I'm floating on air
You

I feel so good yeah
You move so fine
You move so wild I, I, I
I need a lover hmm
I'm floating on air
You

You feel so fine you
You move so loose yeah
Yeah yeah
I need a lover hmm
Hmm...

*** Thanx to Barbara for this one ***

Maverick a strike

Yes eyes
Pick up
Bubble that, yeah
When I come again to take away the pain
Lift up your heart
When I come again to drive away the pain
Lift up your art - I must know

If it ain't of no flower dew
It sure ain't for you
Lift up your art
If it ain't of no flower dew
It'll sure make you blue
Lift up your art

If you don't know
Which way the wind is blowing
Wicked gravity
If you don't know by now
You may never know
When I come again to drive away the pain
Lift up your art
If it ain't of optimism
I will pay no attention
If you should know
I really need you
You would overcome

Feelings

If it ain't of no flower dew
It sure ain't for you
Lift up your heart
If it ain't of no flower dew
It'll sure make you blue
Lift up your heart

Here I come again to drive away the pain
When I come again to drive away the pain
Lift up your heart
If you don't know by now you may never know
If you don't know which way the wind is blowing
Wicked gravity

White leather
Mongoose
Any weather
Turn it loose
From the sadows
Monkey
From the suburbs
Catchy catchy
Left my car
Slowly slowly
At the bar
Softly softly
Healthy
Broadcast

No Glenn Hoddle
No supermodel
No Dennis Wise
With his home and away eyes
No David Vine
No John Virgo
You love greenpeace
I love green pea
Butter bean
And broad bean
Black-eye bean
And kidney bean
Mung bean
An runner bean
Be courageous
Go to barbados
You believe me
Then you leave me

Me myself
We oursleves
Green white and gold
Red white and blue
Red gold and green
Get protected
Then get connected
Broadcast
Ghetto blast
Dig it all
Digital
Dig it all
Digital
Birkenstocks
And reeboks
You do de-tox
You do re-tox
You don't get no
Orthodox
So I'll feed you
If you're ill
Keep it clean
And serene
Train you
Make you faster
Make you able
Run your label
Or your station
Or your money
Or your life
Broadcast

I see you now
As I never have before
Take it futher honey
Open all the doors
When you found me
Washed up on the shore
You stopped the bleeding
Now I love you more

Yeah my baby 's coming soon
Yeah my baby's number one
He loves the moon and loves the sea
She loves life and loves her son

Every time I look in to your eyes
I have become spiritualized
Every day she grows
I have become spiritualized

Fix your feet to the ground
Karma always comes around
Paint the walls with ultrasound
Paint the walls and fix the plugs
Gonna fill this place
With persian rugs

I see you now as I never have before
Taking it further honey opening all the doors
If I find you washed up on the shore
I'll stop the bleeding,
Now I love you more
As I have become spiritualized
I have become spiritualized
I have become spiritualized
I become spiritualized

Followers of evil things
Worshippers of idols
What they know they have corrupted
What they do know they've devoured
Love love today
Well well

Somebody changed the order
Twenty thousand dying
Uneccessarily dying
Mankind got a hold of power
Then he rebuilt babel's tower
Until the stench of wickedness
Rise up to jah jah's nostrils
I will bawl out
Who stole the order
Who stopped a cloud
Over my head
Gone a little bit too far
Who stole the order now

All I know is that they are lovers of
Evil things
Worshippers of idols
What they know they have corrupted
What they do know they've devoured

Remove that attitude
I'm in love with you
I don't care who knows about us
If all the world could see what you do with me
I'm sure we'd have many blessings

Everyday my heart is with you
Because we cannot always be together
Everyday I feel love
In all my preparation
This happy satisfaction
Is making my decision

'Cause I'm the cat who likes the cream
If you know what I mean
Together we make steam
Mix up fire and water
You got to have a good sense of humour
To stand the rumour
You got to be jolly

We are yearning yearning
We've seen it many times before
We're burning burning
That's why I'm so sure

Everyday my heart is with you
Because we could not always be together
Everyday I feel love
In all my preparation
This happy satisfaction
Is making my decision

There's a shark looking for food
I see manners in the sky
I will tell you what it's all about
I will show you what it's all about

On the face of the future
Through the window in my mind, in my mind
Through the mirror in my mind
I see signs of the times, of the times

There is something in us
That will live forever
I see children dying
Moon runs the sea
The sun inspires we you and me

There's a monkey in the tree
Monkey in the tree
I see vampire in the sky
Bleeding the youth them dry
I will tell you what it's all about
What it's all about
I will show you what it's all about
What it's all about

I'm right at home
Must be beneficial yeah
I'm right at home
Can't be artificial no
Babylon fall
Falling, falling down
The reign is falling
Falling, falling down
All that I know
All that is natural
I know, I blow

Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
About it, waouh!
Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
About it, waouh!

I feel at home
Must be beneficial yes
I'm right at home
Can't be artificial no
If you are a radical
Answer your call
Babylon fall
Falling, falling down
Answer your call
And take your love to town
All that I know
All that is natural
I know, I blow

Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
A bout it, waouh!
Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
A bout it, waouh!

Do you sympathise
Things are ever so ever so dread
Do you understand
I am ever so good
I blow, I grow

Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
A bout it
Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
A bout it, waouh!
Baby I'm feeling blue
So what you gonna do
A bout it, waouh!

Things we have learnt
Now we have returned
We find it strange
To find nothing exchanged

Things I have learnt
Now I have returned
I find it strange to find nothing has changed

Her name was suzy
Met her in a jacuzzi
Nearly twice my age
She had a son my age
From sepultura
To bali
I'm made of metal

I was born in a desert
And I haven't seen water for years
Her kawasaki
Runs on saki
You can burn rubber but it takes a while
She took a quarter mile with a smile

You don't phone me
You don't answer my call
I don't want to lose you
For lolapolooza
You and me
On TV

I love you smile
Tribal war
We're not into that
Bbc
Mtv
National tabloid
National front line
Watch your business
Mind your business

Manimal
Understandable
I signed with sony
You ride a pony
You wear stilettos
Check your history
I love to burn weed
Learn to love
Electro

Can't find no cooks on a sunday
Gonna take some of this money
And open up my own chicken run
Ital is vital
Use your fork
You know bjork
You know new york
Bathe in the dark
You can point out a shark
You test me
Talk to you manana
You are my familiar
Walk with you tomorrow

I don't know who's got a bigger trigger
But i don't think of myself as a
Pcp lsd thc
Yes mister T come make a track with me
You don't phone me
You don't answer my call
Say you'll embarass me
And i just laughed at you

One of the greatest
One of the greatest amounts of inspiration
One ever could give

Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday
Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday
Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday
Monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday

Tell me your psalms and i'll tell you mine
Manic preachers
Slippery road to wales
Boat with no sail
Sending people off the rails
An angel's on your tail
And it's too dark

Brutality
Impartiality is now a reality
Opression supression
Is their occupation

Tolerance they boast they have got
We are aware they have not
Without us it would be total destruction
Green says you will be fed
Gold is holding an eternal internal glow
Red is gonna run like river jordan
Listen now
These words
Check now

The eyes of man can see
The mind for eye must be
Red rolled and seen
To really know what it mean

??? back
Tears behind my eyes
Feeling bitter
Weeping as he wails
Emotional
Trying to stay on the rails
An angel on harp
Who's too sharp

Babylon
Has no productions
Only slavery and confusion
Rasta going to cramp them
And paralyse them
Devils for the situation

You've got to have your fantasy
Live and let live don't be negative
Don't you take my, my liberty
Boys and their toys
Bring the noise
Don't you hide my, my history
Satan's side
Wild side
Don't you shake my reality

Much More Than Much Love

Something To Say

Don't you cry for me
Don't give your life for me
All the passion and the pain
Sunshine through the rain
Don't you dance for me
Take some new stance for me
All the fashion and the fame
I heard them calling your name
Fools grow wise in fairytales
Heroes win the day
So raise your voice sing it louder now
I know you got something to say
Now that I know you got something to say
Love, love, love
Now that I know you got something to say
Love, love, love

Take it easy break the mould
Oh yeah be the wonder of it all take it easy on yourself
With regrets come consolations
Oh yeah living from this moment on
Oh yeah living from this moment on
Oh yeah living from this moment on

Don't you cry for me
Don't even give your life for me
All the passion and the pain
Sunshine through the rain
Won't you talk to me?
Come out and walk with me
You know we'll be happy
All o' the world is a stage
Fools grow wise in fairytales
A million miles away
So raise your voice sing it louder now
I know you got something to say
Now that I know you got something to say
Love, love, love
Now that I know you got something to say
Love, love, love
Now that I know you got something to say
Now that I know you got something to say
Now that I know you got something to say
Now that I know you got something to say

Beautiful Nature

I would love to get to know you more
To spend a lot of time with you
Maybe travel around with you
Because you've got such a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
Singing this song to you
I would love to hold you close
Maybe rub your nose with my nose
You've got such a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
Go let it shine
Girl I want to show you what you mean to me (have you really got the time?)
We should get to know each other better (have you really got the time?)
You could think about the words I'm singing
Have you got the time? Have you really got the time?

You're so sensuous it's true
Got to let you know some how
I could never turn my back on you
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
Sunshine enrapture me take some time and we will see
I just want you to be aware
You've got such a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
You've got a beautiful nature
Go let it shine, go let it shine
You got to let it shine, go let it shine

I was crying over you
I am smiling I think if you
Where your garden have no walls
Breathe in the air if you care, you compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear that your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear that your love's for me
I was crying over you
I am smiling I think if you
Misty morning and water falls
Breathe in the air if you care, you compare, don't say farewell
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Virtuous sensibility
Escape velocity
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Nothing can compare
To when you roll the dice and you swear your love's for me
Breathe in the air if you care, you compare, don't say farewell
Nothing

Waiting For You

Waiting for you

I'm searching for you,
But you're not here today.
I'm looking for you but you're not near.
Is distance, time?
I'm waiting for you.

I'm waiting and I, I'm looking
You're something else and you're good looking

I made a minor mistake,
I had it all on a plate,
You can always time distance,
Never tempt fate.
If it is late,
I felt my heart was at stake.
You could never share love....
Not in that state.

I'm waiting
I'm looking
I'm waiting
I'm looking

I'm searching for you,
.
I'm looking for you but you're not near.
Is distance, time?
I'm waiting for you.
I'm waiting and I, I'm looking
You're something else and you're good looking

I'm waiting and I, I'm looking
You're something girl and you're good looking

Lovers Return

And so you have come back to me
And say the old loves growing yet
You've tried through all these weary years
You've tried so vainly to forget

Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth

Come close and let me see your face
Your raven hair is tinged with snow
Oh, yes, it is the same dear face
I loved so many years ago

Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth

Farewell, I think I love you yet
As friend to friend, God bless you dear
And guide you through these weary years
To where the skies are always clears

Oh no, I cannot take your hand
God never gives is back our youth
The loving heart you slighted then
Was yours, my friend, in perfect truth

Face To Face

We are only scratching the surface
There is a time and a place for
Confrontation
Since we got together
Since we all got together again
I found the key
Heavenly conversation
I can't make it alone
And when I'm with you
I want to be with you

Face to face who am I to say
After all the things I said along the way
Face to face who am I to say
After all the things I said along the way

I want to know about it
Your sense of freedom
We need nutrition
If we're gonna turn this around
Let s eminate from the depths of depression
It's not too late, you made a great impression
There is no replacement
And no substitution
If we're really gonna care and share
You have made us aware

Face to face who am i to say
After all the things i said along the way
Face to face who am i to say
After all the things i said along the way

Overriding Volunteer

While bodies burn, the children learn
How the money's earned, with growing concern
In the gallery, three distinguished strangers
Who had found there way home
Ricochet and muzzle flash
Superfluous, luxurious,
Commodities, communities
Democracies, security

They don't want your money
Overriding volunteer
They don't think you're funny at all.
Overriding volunteer

Lindesfarne and Banochburn
Inadequacy, inaccuracies
Heritage, more discoveries
While the fishermen sail the seas
Chemicals, minerals, culture and war,
Is that all this place is good for
Hundreds of years, unsettled scores
Rivalry and bribery

They don't want your money
Overriding volunteer
They don't think you're funny at all.
Overriding volunteer

Initiative on the killing floor
Each man is there for the next man
That's the horror and the terror of war
And your overriding volunteer
Inter-unit strife, think about your wife
Another mission rehearsal, so you know the procedure.
The rotor wash, N.C.O., incursion and extraction.
Numbing the population, evacuees, contingency..

They don't want your money
Overriding volunteer
They don't think you're funny at all.
Overriding volunteer

Movie reels on a photo slide
In a mountainside where the warlords hide
Send them to the sky
Send them to the sea
Spread them all over the land
The slaves and the gold and the ivory
The artist cry, as the good ones die
Charities and the refugees
The monetary man with a momentary plan

They don't want your money
Overriding volunteer
They don't think you're funny at all.
Overriding volunteer

Living Without You

As I arrive, (know that I'll survive)
I have to leave again
Hello what's your name,
Try to call me insane,
Goodbye to the shame
Goodbye to blame
Living without you
Sure ain't easy.

From social works into a,
Social scene,
Hello what's your name?
Try to cal me insane,
Goodbye to the shame
Goodbye to the blame
Living without you
Sure ain't easy lord

I have often been acquainted
And often had to leave
From school to occupation
From women to children

As I arrive (know that I'll survive)
I Have to leave again (know that I believe)
Hello what's your name?
Try to call me insane
Goodbye to the blame
Goodbye to shame
Living without you
Sure ain't easy lord
From social work into a
Social scene
Hello what's your name?
Try to cal me insane
Good bye to the shame
Good bye to blame
Hello to the flame
Hello to a change
Livin' without you
Sure ain't easy lord
Living without you
Sure ain't easy
Hello what's your name
Try to play the game
Hello to the flame
Hello to a change
Living without you
Sure ain't easy
Living with out you

Now and Forever

In sunny season
Pollution, high resolution
Talking about a revolution
All around the world

I got a reason
A wahwahchichiwahwahblamblam
For the love of the people yeah
Of which I am one

Well I love you and I wanna be true with a girl like you
I want you now and forever
How could I be new when I gotta be true?
I want you now and forever

Don't want to lose you
Two tone in the zone
Talking about emancipation
With your northern soul

If you want it
Well I suppose by the look of your clothes
You're talking about imagination
Be who you want to be

Well I love you and I wanna be true with a girl like you
I want you now and forever
How could I be new when I gotta be true?
I want you now and forever

Middle 8

In love we trust
Meditation what a good vibration
I'm a rhythm maker
Take me to the sun
Get it together
White waters swimming in troubled waters
Washing in holy waters
A lot of peace of mind

Well I love you and I wanna be true with a girl like you
I want you now and forever
How could I be new when I gotta be true?
I want you now and forever
Well I love you and I wanna be true with a girl like you
I want you now and forever
How could I be new when I gotta be true?
I want you now and forever

This Is How I Feel

I love you even more

Holding on, drifting, for the meantime
Call my name, if you need me some time
In tenderness, the sweetest kiss
Now i want to show you affection.

Holding you tight, right through the night, through everyday
I should have wrote you a letter many times
I found you, in the wilderness
Now i want show you, commitment

You're free to cry on my, shoulder, anytime
You're gonna fly when you get older, all the time
In tenderness, the sweetest kiss
Now i want to show you perfection

It's been a long, way, home
When it's cold outside, and it's raining, raining down
I found you, in the wilderness
Now i want to show you affection

Now i'll love you, if you want me to
I'm gonna love you, even when i'm poor
I'm gonna love you, gonna love you even more

Pearls Of Wisdom

Some people are working hard
Working hard on their style
On the back streets of the front line
You see signs of the crimes
Absence make the hard grow fonder
How could patience ever hurt you?
Don't check my status
Just give me the standard thing
Pearls of wisdom
Encompassing pearls of wisdom
Embrace those pearls of wisdom
Good people flow as only Jah would know

Don't want to see you fall
I just want to see you set yes
Don't want to see you fall
I just want to see you set yes

I guess it's true
What they say about you
Yes it's true, true, true
What they say about you well

Poor people inspiration
Have you seen what's really going on?
With a little leverage
This time I got more coverage
Absence make the hard grow fonder
How could patience ever hurt you? Because it's virtue..
Don't check my status
Just give me the standard thing
Pearls of wisdom
Encompassing pearls of wisdom
Embrace those pearls of wisdom
Good people flow as only Jah would know

Don't want to see you fall
I just want to see you set yes
Don't want to see you fall
I just want to see you set yes

Adorable

Take me down to the river
That we started to flow
How can you be a flower?
When you're fighting the power
With my hands on your hips
I'm caressing your lips
Your exceptional baby
And adorable baby
She lives out of her handbag
With no life in her phone
I see her breaking down
And she's all on her own
When we go out to party
Only once in a while
You're adorable
And exceptional baby
You got me right where you want
Not where I want to be
I got you right where I want you
Not where you want to be
Don't get out of your mind
Like most people we know
You're exceptional baby
And I want you to know

With my hands on your hips
I'm caressing your lips
Your adorable baby
And exceptional baby

Take me down to the river
That we started to flow
How can you be a flower?
When you're fighting the power
When we go out to party
Only once in a while
You're adorable
And exceptional baby
Don't get out of your mind
Like most people we know
Your adorable baby
And exceptional baby
With my hands on your hips
I'm caressing your lips
Your adorable baby
And exceptional baby
Your adorable baby
And exceptional baby

Overcome

She took a whiff of my scliff and she started to check my behaviour - Take my hand
She said would it be good if you started to look for your saviour - Holy land
Smoke on your spliff it will give you lift have a good time - Say my prayers
Fully aware of the people that care in the world - Be my friend

I never wanted any struggle - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I never wanted any trouble - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Why don't you come over? Why don't you come over?

Heaven's above would you give me some love in return - I have learned
I wanted to touch to tell just how much I love you - Stay with me
I'll travel the world I'll be missing you girl and our baby - Ease the pain
Flat on my face must have fallen from grace it's disgraceful - Our family tree

I never wanted any struggle - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I never wanted any trouble - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Overcome - Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Why don't you come over? Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Why don't you come over? Why don't you come over?
I only wanted your love - Why don't you come over? Why don't you come over?

After The Fall

( Straight for the country EP )

She blows with her fury and drives the rain
The judge and the jury, diminish my pain

You do nothing at all, you know nothing at all
Your bitter kiss in the morning, after the fall

Do you know where you’re going
Do you know what you’ll see
Well the earth and your rebirth
Are you what you want to be

You do nothing at all, you know nothing at all
Your bitter kiss in the morning, after the fall

We danced in the moonlight to a music sublime
And we’re holding that awareness until the end of time

You do nothing at all, you know nothing at all
Your bitter kiss in the morning, after the fall

Crosstown traffic

You jump in front of my car
When you know all the time
That ninety miles an hour, babe,
Is the speed I drive

You tell me it's alright
You don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to
Take you for a ride

Crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't want to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town

I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run
Tire tracks all across your back
Baby I can see you had your fun
But darlin' can't you see my signals turn from green to red
And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead

Crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't want to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town

Crosstown traffic
Crosstown traffic, yeah
Yeah
Crosstown traffic, yeah
Yeah

( Straight for the country EP )

How many times do you need telling
Not everyone wants what you’re selling
You never listen you always know best
You want the whole world to go west

Your unsold stock started smelling
The lack of sales got you yelling
Glamour and glisten is all you do best
Nobody wants to go west

You’ve pushed it around all over town
You had to have a hand in every game going down
Your the psycho at the party you aren’t cool
Everyone round here knows you’re a fool

Nobody’s uncle no ones pal
Nobody round here’s gonna call you Al
Nobody wants to play your tedious game
You’d stay at home if you had any shame

You think every fight has a winner
You think every man has his price
Business is business and all’s fair in war
Sadly you never think twice

Waving the banner of freedom
Wielding the Roman cross
Like a club or a sword to drive home the word
Who’ll have to pick up the costs

You’re not big you’re not clever you’re not brave
Carpet bombing people to their graves
Billions of dollars in a flash
There is a better way to spend the cash

Nobody’s uncle no ones pal
Nobody round here’s gonna call you Al
Nobody wants to play your tedious game
You’d stay at home if you had any shame
Nobody’s uncle no ones pal
Nobody round here’s gonna call you Al
Nobody wants to play your tedious game
You’d stay at home if you had any shame

( Straight for the country EP )

We know that we’ll hook up
And we’ll have a ball

Cold in the whistling wind
I have got you on my mind girl
Hot like the burning sun
You’re four hundred miles away

Stay in my arms, stay by my heart
Like a bird in the sky, freely
With the face of an angel, gracefully
We know that we’ll hook up
And we’ll have a ball

My lady’s far
One day I finally land there
I look at the stars
And I know she’s out there

Stay in my arms, stay by my heart
Like a bird in the sky, freely
With the face of an angel, gracefully
We know that we’ll hook up
And we’ll have a ball

I love your eyes
Meeting you was one surprise girl
I’ve met many girls
No-one quite like you girl

Stay in my arms, stay by my heart
Like a bird in the sky, freely
With the face of an angel, gracefully
We know that we’ll hook up
And we’ll have a ball

Wet in the pouring rain
She comes and takes away the pain
High on a mountain-side
How many times I’ve lied

Stay in my arms, stay by my heart

( Straight for the country EP )

People of the book be strong
Join hands and lift your heads
The wind on the water kicks the waves into spray
And it’s driven to the shoreline to grind the earth away

Show your face, lift your hands
Show your love, show your heart
Fire in the sky makes the rocks from the clay
Which water grates to dust again for wind to whip away

We must purify evil
With the power of love
Round and round chasing ever on
The wheels of Shiva’s chariot rolling over me

Cast aside all that you know
Only the truth can save us now
The Ley of the land, a pathway to follow
Only seen from the old straight track, straight track

People of the book be strong
Join hands and lift your heads
He who climbs a tree worth climbing
Will get the help deserved, deserved

Show your face lift your hands
Show your love show your heart
We walked through the forest to the top of the hill
And sang our song by the stones, by the stones

We must purify evil
With the power of love
Rolling and a rippling its way through the brook
Bank, brae and burn
Bank, brae and burn, brae and burn

I've got a word or two
To say about the things that you do
You're telling all those lies
About the good things that we can have
If we close our eyes

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

I left you far behind
The ruins of the life that you had in mind
And though you still can't see
I know your mind's made up
You're gonna cause more misery

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

Although your mind's opaque
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
The future still looks good
And you've got time to rectify
All the things that you should

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

Do what you want to do
And go where you're going to
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you

( Straight for the country EP )

I never step on the cracks on my road
My mother said that she’d break all my bones
You’re climbing the walls, the closer you shave
Pull up your socks as you dig your own grave

Troubadour, troubadour
Troubadour, troubadour

One day you will lose everything that you own
You sit in your throne as you sit all alone
Up the creek without a paddle, having the edge
A short fuse, I’m in the heart of the lord

Troubadour, troubadour
Troubadour, troubadour

Middle-west

I never step on the cracks on my road
My mother said that she’d break all my bones
You’re climbing the walls, the closer you shave
Pull up your socks as you dig your own grave

Troubadour, troubadour
Troubadour, troubadour

( Straight for the country EP )

I’m glad you’re doing well at school
I’m glad to hear that things are cool
Don’t be afraid of anything
It will all work out

I knew you when you were a girl
I read you fairy tales, I sang you a lullaby
I stop and think about you know
Just where you are, in this world

You have nothing to hide
Your feeling inside
Your feelings and mine
You are looking inside

I support everything you do
I am backing you all the way
I really enjoy hearing from you
It’s great to hear your voice

Somehow
You have got a gift
You turn it around
You make everything alright

You have nothing to hide
Your feeling inside
Your feelings and mine
You are looking inside