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Strange ‘8
I’m sittin’ easy, sittin’ on my bed
Lettin’ thoughts, fall out my head
It’s been a strange year, with my auntie’s death
First time to fall in love, first time to be left
So I’m sittin’ easy and I’m dreamin’ of the past
There’s nothing going on now but it’s going on too fast
Thinking of the future ‘cause she’s coming back again
This time I’m gonna keep my name
Since the summer in Africa well nothing’s been the same
Over there a part of me will always remain
Over here a part of me’s missing, but at least I can explain
Where and when it went away
So I’m sittin’ easy and I’m dreamin’ of the past........
I’m sittin’ easy, sittin’ on my bed
Lettin’ thoughts, fall out my head
Spring is over, unlike my broken heart
But summer’s coming and it’s bringing in a fresh start
So I’m sittin’ easy and I’m dreamin of the past.........
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Poet's daughter
04:42
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On a bench in a village green a girl pretending to be a queen,
Took of her crown and threw it in the lake.
Sitting next to a man, serene, and holding onto a tambourine.
Singing about a choice he had to make.
She was a poet’s daughter, looking at the crystal water.
Emerald eyes and chocolate skin.
He was a wild looking man. He somehow blended with the land.
Holding onto the tree as I move the sun and the sky, got it all to lose.
I take one final touch of the ground. The wind’s blowing through my hair.
It’s carrying me up there. As my dreams sink with my crown.
I’m gonna be reborn, as I’m torn, from this world.
Hold me hand, let me cry. And let us never say goodbye.
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Squash face
03:47
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I saw you but I didn’t want to know your name,
When you came over and asked to join our game of cards.
You came and sat down next to me, with a strange smile,
And nose running constantly, which you wiped on your sleeve.
And I asked if you were from the other side of town, where the sun goes down.
But you said, “no. I’m from where the sun goes up, on the other side of town.”
So who’s this strange girl sitting next to me.
Saying strange things but acting kind of free. Is she free.
All night long you kept saying funny things. ‘Till from your stories,
I noticed you had wings, which you used, when you flew away.
Someone’s crying on the other side of town, where the sun goes down,
While we are, where the sun goes up, on the other side of town.
“Where are you? Now I want to know your name”
“Where are you? I want to play with you again”
Then there you were in the corner of the room.
I came to you like a child to a balloon.
But you got up and left me staring at the wall, your glass of wine,
Looked like it was about to fall but it was me, that was about to fall.
Now I’m waiting on the other side of town, where the sun goes down
While you are, where the sun goes up, on the other side of town.
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Land Song
04:02
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Put me back on the land, put me back on my feet.
I wanna know where I stand, wanna know what I eat.
The sun is on the horizon, there’s a chill in the air.
It’s time to go home and everyone’ll be there.
I feel I’m living in a superficial world & all I’m giving feels like nothing at all.
Put me back on my feet, put me back on the land
I wanna plant a seed, wanna learn who I am.
The sun is on the horizon and works begins.
I feel the life around me and I breathe it in.
Because I’m living in an extraordinary world
But all I’m giving feels like nothing at all and I feel small.
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Tesco song
02:01
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Who’s your favourite corporation? Mine is PG Tips.
It’s better to buy tea in a fair trade way,
but if I had to pick just one corporation to stay, it would be, PG.
I got banned from Tesco’s the other day.
I was trying to take a photograph for an exhibition at the Vaults cafe.
When the bouncer threw me out all aggressive and crazy,
I haven’t been back in 9 months since then, see,
I’ve found shopping so much better on the Cowley road without those fuckers.
Now I don’t have to wait. And I don’t have to queue.
And I get a friendly face when I but my food and it’s cheaper,
You don’t belive me but it’s true it’s cheaper,
They fooled you, well they fooled me too.
So who’s your favourite corporation? Please don’t say Tesco’s
‘Cause I hate those fuckers with all of my heart and I hope that they die
And I hope that they rot. I hate Tesco’s.
Sat down by the side of the river waiting for the sunshine to deliver some words
I wanna sing a song about the corporation, how the power of the people can stop this irritation. If they don’t itch it it will go away. ‘Cause you don’t have to buy every thing that you’re sold. Don’t have to believe all the shit that you’re told.
So who’s your favourite corporation? Well they could all just die.
Lets bury them alive let the little ones/shops survive, human spirit be revived.
It’s always the big fish, eat all the small fish. I can see how it works in the sea
But between you and me. Have a billion years of evoution not moved
consciousness along just a little bit. We’re still living in the rules of the ocean.
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They put doors on the shores of a foreign land
It wasn’t their land, but they held the keys.
It’s not your land so give back the keys, or take away the doors.
They put doors on the shores of a foreign land,
took gold from the soul of a foreign land and look how tall and proud they stand.
It’s not your land, so take away the doors. It’s not your soil beyond those shores.
Where people were bought, people were sold.
People were taught, people were told, to respect the new leaders of the world.
“Respect the new and forget about the old.”
They put doors on the shores of a foreign land,
took gold from the soul of a foreign land and look how tall and proud they stand.
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Do you notice
03:19
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Do you notice anything around you that is wrong.
Do you know what’s going on.
People starving, daily striving, struggling to survive, people smiling,
Happy just to be alive.
Happiness is so much easier to find,
Than the rich make out as they’re leaving you behind.
Giving is getting, remember that when you letting selfish needs take over
Everything you do.
Do you notice anything around you that could change.
Are you looking for some evil man to blame.
Does the thought of standing up when you are so weighed down by fear,
In a world of lies seem like the wrong idea.
Understanding’s so much easier to achieve
With an open mind and a heart that wants to believe.
We’re all together on this world that is our home,
As it’s sailing through the universe alone.
Do you not see anything that is worth fighting for.
Is it fair that those with everything get more.
We’re all together on this world that is our home, so why can’t we get along.
Freedom lies in everybody’s heart, It’s just a case of letting it become a part of
The way you chose to be.
When equality’s a reality, we’ll all be free to follow our destinies.
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If I was a pencil, I think that I’d be blue.
I’d like to lead a lonely life and end it all with you.
I’d hope that my first owner would give me to a friend,
Who in turn would pass me on, and on until the end.
If I was a pencil, I’d wonder why my soul,
Gets shorter but not narrower the more that I get old.
I’d hope to have an owner who loves to paint and draw,
So then one day mysteriously we’d meet upon the floor.
If I was a pencil and you were next to me,
I’d like to roll away and snuggle under the setee.
Of course we’d be found and put to work forever,
But I’d break my tip until she understands that we only work together.
If I was a pencil, in a pencil case,
And you were there beside me, well, there is no better place.
And if we are forgotten, or somehow get away.......
This is what I’d dream all night and dream all through the day.
In truth I am a pencil. In truth I’m really blue.
I want to lead a lonely life. And end it all with you.
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My heart is like......
02:48
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My heart is like a sausage roll, but the girl I love’s a vegetarian.
I invited her to a barbecue. I barbecued my heart for her.
But she ran a mile. Guess she couldn’t stand the smell, of my heart on fire.
She gave me many dreams to dream. A hundred dreams I had in a day.
The two of us alone on the moon. I sang her songs she danced the night away.
Then we took off, flying through space, i looked in her eyes.
Well now I’m on the ground again. The full balloon still hangs in the sky.
If I could do it all again. I’d do it all again.
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Far away beyound the clouds I heard the mellow whisper of a child inside a cage
With a heart so full of rage. And he cried when I asked what was his name.
He felt he was to blame ‘cause his parents were ashamed that
He didn’t play the game and they left him in the rain. The boy without a name.
Times like these are only here to show us that we’re the same
Far away beyond the skies I heard the sudden whisper of a child so full of lies.
I saw them in his eyes. And he cries when I ask what is his name.
He softly explains, that life is not a game when your heart’s so full of pain
And you’re turning into rain. The boy without a name.
Times like these are only here to show us that we’re the same.
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The world is 42 years old today. But all the creatures living there forgot to say,
“Happy birthday world, thanks for being strong, thanks for letting us belong.”
In her teenage years the world was wild.
She threw apart her continents. A growing child.
“Happy birthday world, thanks for being strong, thanks for letting us belong.”
In her twenties she was young and free. Then she came upon her destiny.
She gave birth to everything that you see.
The birds in the sky and the monkies in the tree.
And she said to everything and everyone,
“You’re my children and I’ll always be your mum.”
“Happy birthday world, thanks for being strong, thanks for letting us belong.”
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Neil Nayar London, UK
I'm just one of those people who always finds myself in crazy situations in love and in life. I'm not sure if it's good for
my sanity, but it does make for fun and interesting songs.
I came to Malawi in 2012 with a one-way ticket, a guitar and no money, carrying on from the hobo life I'd lived that year busking on the streets of Holland and Spain.
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