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lyrics - all lyrics ©2011
Chris Conway
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1.
Let Me Be
Let me in Don't look so dejected Let me in Our thoughts are misdirected And our words have defected Let me in I understood you better When you were more complicated Simple games are the hardest ones to win When we begin It lets me in Let
me through
Our hearts were once our home Let me through Like butterflies of stone Our lives are not our own Let me through The dead outnumber us, And the living are pretending They are free and that every day is new The smile on you It lets me through Let me fly On wings of coloured light Let me fly Onward through the night Up and out of sight Let me fly Your soul is on the mountain Sifting clouds through your hands You've no answers but you know the reasons why, With a sigh You let me fly Let me be Just five minutes more Let me be Like waves upon the shore The world is crashing at my door Let me be You always remembered me In a favourable light In a world that's losing touch with it's debris When you're with me You let me be Me CC - vocals, acoustic 9 string guitar, piano, percussion Dave Everitt - acoustic lead guitar Neil Rabjohn - cajon drum |
2.
Science Fiction Eyes
They say that the eyes are a window of what’s inside That children's eyes can reflect their parents friction A lonely man’s eyes give out loneliness And anxious eyes cannot hide their stress But my eyes just drink in and radiate science fiction Coz I’ve got Science fiction eyes Science fiction eyes Either my optical nerves are telling me lies Or I’ve got science fiction eyes You see
an airport but I see stargate to outer space bridge Why can’t
real life be more like sci-fi? CC
- vocals,
acoustic & electric 9 string guitars, piano, |
3. Letters In Time |
4.
The Wishing Tree I've been waiting for a long long time For the water to turn to wine Waiting for that roll of the dice Almost had it there once or twice I met a man in Twelve Acre Wood Said he knew where a wishing tree stood Dance around it for a minute or two Then your secret wish will come true chorus Dance around the wishing tree Wish a little dream for you and me Wish it good and wish it right Make the dream come true because the night Comes all too soon So wish for the moon There is one thing that I have learned Things feel better when they've been earned. So is it right for you and me To get our dreams so easily? But there's a lot to be wishing for A wish for love or and end to war A wish for money or a wish for fame A wish to put things right again chorus What is it that you wish tonight? Are you willing to take a chance? Or is there something you'd rather hide? Will you really dance? Will you dance? x3 Before you rush and take my hand There is something you should understand The old tree has a trick or two Only secret wishes come true A man wished for his ailing child Little one died in a very short while His secret wish had a secret plan And he became a very rich man. CC
- vocals,
acoustic 9 string guitar, keyboards, tin & low whistle, bodhran,
percussion
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5.
Hit Back The worlds been hitting you hard and often You've been duck and diving as best you can You feel your brains cells kinda soften It's time to get yourself a brand new plan chorus Hit back, hit back, baby It's the only thing that you can do Kick back, or you'll go crazy The revolution is overdue The world is trying to run you off the track You want to stay in the race a bit longer If you feel yourself under attack Remember things that don't kill you will make you stronger chorus You say you're not the fighting kind It'll sort itself out someway But before you go out of your mind Just do it today, do it today You can always just sit back and take it Or you can stand up and blow your fuse The choice yours only you can make it Giving up is the only certain way to lose chorus So hit back. CC - vocals, finger snaps |
6.
The Deal Is Done They can take away my number They can take away my name They can write me write me down and lose the file They can make us believe that we're all the same They can push us to the sidelines They can make us feel that we're all alone They can make conforming so so easy They can try to change us into one of their own chorus They can
sell me what is already mine CC -
vocals, acoustic & electric 9 string guitars, piano, keyboards,
drum programming, percussion |
7.
Time To Go Crazy Wild smiling faces, With tears in their eyes. Like a child who keep laughing, When he's trying to cry. You ask me why, why, why, Am I talking about you? Time to sing, time to sigh, chorus Time to go crazy - Go crazy, Red as the green sky, (chorus) You can hear thunder, (chorus) Dancing with dragons, So jump off the rails, |
8.
Funniest Feeling Somebody's gotta tell him about What's going around He's gonna make a big fool of himself unless Somebody gives him the lowdown Look at him laughing, he still doesn't know And my anxietiy grows Someone's got to tell him before it's too late I guess it's up to one of us to put him straight Check out the possibilities It could only be either Davey, Dan or me, And I've got the funniest feeling It's gonna be me Jammin' with the boys in my green room Workin' out some brand new tune But the session aint goin so well Coz it's like someone's out of tune and I can't tell who So we change to a different song But something still sounds terribly wrong I get to the point where I gotta say say “Hey boys, someone's guitar's making a terrible noise” Check out the possibilities It could only be either Davey, Dan or me, And I've got the funniest feeling The funniest feeling It's gonna be me Who the hell is she lookin at? With her smooth sophistication and her hippy hat Am I paranoid or just unstable Or does she keep looin over to our table I try to ignore her but then turn away But an occasional glance keeps going astray Just when I think that I;m beginning to have fun I realise she could be looking at anyone Check out the possibilities It could only be either Davey, Dan or me, And I've got the funniest feeling The funniest feeling, oh yeah The funniest feeling this time I hope that it's me CC
- vocals, acoustic 9 string guitar, electric piano, keyboards, drum
programming, percussion |
9.
Help Me Help me,
help me Help me,
help me CC
- vocals, piano, acoustic 9 string guitar |
10.
There Is Love There's a head that is reeling There's a life out of control There's a strange uneasy feeling In the heart of your soul But there is life There is light There's a spring back in your stride There's a strong desire to run But there is nowhere you can hide chorus There are
questions without answers chorus Tell me
why Every rendezvous
is secret CC
- vocals, acoustic 9 string guitar, piano, twin & tin whistles |
11.
No More Goodbyes Gazing out across the sea Something here feels familiar to me A subtle shift from green to blue A reflection of a memory of you Are you
still waving goodbye? Are you
still waving goodbye? Sounds
and seasons lift me up A new morning
– there is a stillness here That your
still waving goodbye |
12.
Wishful Thinking You know it happens in the morning Right at the break of day Without any warning It always happens that way You can see her walking You can see her smile Pretty soon you'll be talking But that could take a little while chorus Things
are getting pretty hot chorus Though
you haven't got a dime chorus CC
- vocals, acoustic 9 string guitar, electric piano, keyboards, kalimba,
drum programming, percussion |
13.
Future Beige A lady from the future materialized in front of me She said take my hand and I'll show you The way it's going to be Having nothing better in mind I thought I'd See what I could see And I stepped through the portal to the year Ten thousand and eighty three And I saw the sandy coloured sky Bring down coffee coloured rain Everyone wore tanned jumpsuits All the houses were the same. And in a coffee shop she asked me For my impressions of her age, and I said “I've seen the future and it's beige I've seen the future and it's beige” So I took her through the portal To my life and to my time And showed her all the colours Still there for all to find And I felt her spirit move And her head start to unwind Then I took her back to the sixties And it really blew her mind Every person was a colour Every colour was a song Our differences were special And the magic still was strong When I asked if she was going back To her own time and place She shook her head and said “I've seen the future and it's beige I've seen the future and it's beige” Now we're living in a multi-coloured house On a dark monochrome street We're trying to change the future By voting with our feet We've cancelled all the papers And thrown out the TV We're not going to let a beige world Paint our individuality So if you give your world to Starbucks, Sell your future by the pound Then one by one your colours Are sure to fade to brown And I've seen it start to happen In my time and in my town When you feel your just a number On a wheel that's spinning round And when shopping malls are wall to wall Like a corporate computer game And they've airbrushed all our differences So we all look the same So dare to be different, And celebrate the strange Because - I have seen the future You've seen the future We've seen the future, and it's beige We've seen the future, and it's beige It's time for a change There's still time to change We're not to late We can change the future We don't all have to be the same CC - vocals, acoustic & electric 9 string guitar, piano, keyboards, drum programming Neil Rabjohn - cajon drum Tim Sketchley - glockenspiel |
14.
The Old Man's Song Still I miss you every day Every morning something's missing Are you oh so far away? Or are you close beside me listening? You left me for to make my way I hope that you would be proud of me I know you would be anyway Whatever I would choose to be Sometimes in mine I hear your voice Sometimes I use one of your phrases The mirror says I have no choice But to be a blend of your two faces. Now I'm as old as you once were You've been gone for quite a while Your faces have become a blur But I think of you and sadly smile. And still
I miss you every day CC - vocals, piano, keyboards |
15.
The Last Place On The Earth Come with me To the last place on the earth Where everything is free And we know what things are really worth And life is for living Everything just seems to gel And everybody's busy Giving something of themselves to someone else Come with
me I can see
by the look on your face Come with
me Come with me, to the last place on the earth x4 CC
- vocals, acoustic 9 string guitar, organ
Produced by Chris Conway |
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& peace & outer space
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