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You Were One
03:42
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atie my girl I don't know why,
you do not see me for
the ways that you are
but I'm so in love with you
I don't know about you
staring so blankly, just filling time
finally you open, and you're heavy on wine
but it's only part of you
there so much more you could do
I was just looking, for truth of the song
the child of the free bird the bringer of the song
You were one, you were one,
You wrote the bird song,
I was just singing along.
I've always tried to fraternise with my
idols and heroes with the sparks in their eyes
'cause I wanted to be like you
but now I'm not sure if I do
I was just thinking you were born to run
a child of the free bird the bringer of song
you were one...
I guess I was just lucky, I was born around
the gifted who are givers, they gave me their song
and they were free like birds
in the ways they used their words
I was just looking for truth of the song,
the child of the free bird, the bringer of the song
You were one...
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2. |
Volvo Door
03:02
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You walked away and I regretted everything
that I just said straight away,
Didn't take any number of
days to see it that way
it just was what it was
and now I’m left with all this doubt,
nothing more and nothing less and now its out i wanna die
You drove away, not a word did you say
To make me feel okay.
Not a thing. Just the sound of the Volvo door
and the engine cold, cold as the days
since I’ve been here and you don’t phone
and I call, I don’t go out, I stay inside, I wanna die.
You didn't want me and I didn’t want you, until we did,
exactly what i said exactly what you said oh what a way.
to tell me, to find out, I wanna die.
They, they say, I'll get over you
and the things I do will mean much more
Once I forget the sound of the Volvo door
but I don’t want, I don’t want to
I just want you to stay in my memory this way
to justify, to prove to I, to tell the lie, I wanna die.
You didn't want me...
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3. |
World On Fire
03:44
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Well it's dry in Reno, its dry in Spain
I fear I'll never see the rain again
It’s hot in hell, its hotter up here still
we'll just act like we always had the will
Will I be sorry? Will I regret?
buyer’s remorse on crystal meth,
I lose my will and I lose my way.
it's too surreal to be real anyway
And I know, we’ll be the ones to ask why
and I know, we’ll set the world on fire
I’ll burn for money, I’ll burn for coal,
I’ll burn for the cost of saving my sole
I’ll burn for the chance just to have nothing to do
I’ll burn for you, babe you know I will
Now I find beauty in the strangest things,
I have learnt to accommodate,
little bags with smaller bags in still,
perfect for blocking oil spills
And I know...
The mother we never knew that we had
a mother for the lonely, for the good, for the bad,
I can't look, but I can't look away,
I can’t bear to see her in this way
Well it’s death to the winners, death to the losers,
death to sinners, to the long-line-choosers
death to the liars, to the climate deniers
death to me and you, no matter what we do
And I know…
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4. |
Adeline
03:29
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Adeline, Adeline, I won’t see you for a while,
see you in my dreams my Adeline
And in time, time, I will come to realise
I’ll wish that you were mine my Adeline
It’s the fourteenth again, I don’t need no other friends
every year my Valentine my Adeline
Adeline Adeline taken before your time
like a glass of morning wine my Adeline
Well I’ll see you in my dreams
and I will feel you in my heart
but never in my mind my Adeline
I guess this is goodbye,
I will make peace, I’ll walk a mile,
But I’ll keep you in my mind my Adeline
I feel a pull my love, haunting from above,
the one that never was my Adeline
I feel incomplete, the one we couldn’t keep,
the price I pay for sleep my Adeline
Well I'll see you in my dreams...
Left you in the dark the poor girl didn’t get a start
My child, my unborn queen, my Adeline.
Adeline Adeline
no light will touch your heart
be the light in mine my Adeline
and when the dark takes mine
you'll be there for to shine
shimmer for me bright my Adeline
Well I’ll see you in my dreams…
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5. |
Out Of You
03:45
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Delia
03:04
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Delia was a gambling girl, Delia was a gambling girl
and she laid her money down, she’s all I’ve got and gone
Delia's mama weeped, Delia’s Daddy moaned,
they wouldn’t have hated quite so much
if only Delia had died at home, she’s all I’ve got and gone
Delia, Delia, why didn’t you run?
when Kurtis came chasing you with that
flaming 44-six gun? She's all I’ve got and gone
Brother tied a carriage, with a double seated hack
to carry Delia down to the graveyard
but it would not carry her back, she’s all I’ve got and gone.
Delia, Delia, how could it be?
you wanted all those gambling men
but you had no time for me, she’s all I got and gone.
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7. |
Lonesome Cowboy
05:32
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I’m a lonesome cowboy, last one of my kind
Gonna make you take this ride tonight
I’m long gone in the night babe, long gone taken flight
gonna make you ride with me tonight.
Well postures are heavy, from endless days of nights
I’m hunched over ready, we'll straighten out tonight
I'll loosen the heavy burden of your life.
I know you cowgirl, i know you from inside
I know you need this ride tonight.
I’ll take you with me, we’ll do it, in the comfort of the twine
You’re open, ready, steady from the heavy glow of wine
I’ll beg you, to stay with me a while.
I’m a lonesome cowboy last one on the scene
Gonna take you, take you for a dream
I’ll take you with me, I’ll teach you to let yourself be wild,
It’s been a long time baby, we’re lost but love is blind
If we go looking, treasure we will find.
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8. |
Burn Like A Match
03:34
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I was lying in the sun, producing a hat,
making everybody watch me awkwardly dance,
lying in the sun about what I had,
watching my chance just burn like a match…
well you might say he don't care to look at him,
complacency does what it will with me,
doubt doesn't have to knock to come in,
I welcome the things that end up in sin,
and I burn like a match...
I don't think I'll be back again
why would you offer me after my sin
don't put on your dress until you're ready to go
you finished your hair with hours to go
and you burn like a match...
Why oh why oh why did I do that?
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9. |
Buried Alive
03:28
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Well you still wear the scare you bore when you were only ten,
hit head of the table that your daddy did make,
chasing him out the door after your family's war,
you couldn't 've known then you wouldn't see that man again.
But don’t let that scare you don’t let it brew,
don’t fail yourself just cause he failed you,
you can live the way you want a make it on your own
‘cause a woman's heart is made out of gold.
Buried alive any day
buried alive on your own
buried alive in your home town girl,
no one would ever know but you.
Well Katie was a lover and a carer most of all,
she carry the whole world and it's mother in her arms,
but when love doesn't grow it gets stunted and impaired,
that's not to say it's beyond repair.
You've been tied down and pinned back your childish self-esteem,
I'm as bad as you babe and we're both as bad as me,
we never learned how to yearn, or let our passions burn,
but you know it's never too late to learn.
Buried Alive...
Let's go on over up to the snowy mountain hills,
we'll take our little child and protect him from the chill,
cause all we know is all we are and all we are is all we do,
that's something you taught me now I teach you.
Buried Alive...
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10. |
Tom
04:08
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I never told you, that I loved you,
I never said that to you.
Now you're in the ground and I am
walking around on land,
I find that pretty hard to understand.
You died young, in the summer,
it was winter where I am.
Your family, your mother your father,
your brother and your sister,
I just wished I could lend a hand.
I hadn't seen you in a long time,
we never got around to that drink at mine
the days they pass when you're young you
think that you have many
at least you lived yours like you didn't.
We grew up together,
without you around I wouldn't
half the man I am now.
But girls and bands and always
making grander plans,
only now do I understand.
I will never say goodbye
and you will never again cry
people will cry for you
and they'll keep living their lives too,
what else can we do?
Your name was Tom.
You took on the world
you touched many hearts.
Mine was just one of the first,
I am nobody special,
one thing’s for sure, you were.
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11. |
Prove
03:42
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I wanna make this work,
I wanna pass.
I wanna show you how I can
manoeuvre past.
I wanna make a difference,
wanna right my wrongs.
I wanna prove that I've learnt,
prove I'm moving on.
I wanna prove it to you.
When I was 28 I lost
a good old friend.
Now he lives on inside.
He inspires me.
I know that I could die
and leave nothing behind
I want my son to talk
about me when he's old
and I want to prove it to you.
We are not here too long
under the sun.
Seems like a waste of time
to not spend it young.
I wanna make this title
something I am proud of.
I wanna show my mum,
I wanna be excited.
I wanna prove it to you.
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Ben Wilson Lismore, Australia
Ben Wilson takes the intimacy of folk and fuses it with a love of all things vintage and rock ‘n’ roll. Nostalgic, pensive, minimalist, a quest for authenticity, with songwriting always at it’s core.
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