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Not Forever
03:29
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Not Forever
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I will always miss you but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
I wish that I was with you but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
There are sometimes things that cannot mend,
And everything beginning has to end,
I just hope you’re out there somewhere,
Playing with your friends,
I hope you’re singing,
Hope you’re finding peace again.
I’ll always be grieving but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
I’ll not stop believing but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
This little heart is looking for its wings,
The world is so unkind to gentle things,
I just hope that someday you may,
Cut loose from your strings,
A new beginning,
Hope you find a song to sing.
I will always miss you but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
I wish that I could kiss you but I can’t cry forever,
No, I can’t cry forever, no, no, no.
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Waiting For A Miracle
03:50
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Waiting for a miracle
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We’re out of time, where have you been?
Staring out across the water, waiting to be seen.
My heart’s down at the reservoir it seems,
Chasing down a miracle,
That’s just beyond my means,
Chasing down a miracle.
There’s seven stones,
Thrown in the sea,
They carry seven wishes with them,
Buried in your dreams,
The jester draws out blood with ridicule,
Looking for a miracle,
To save me from the fool,
Looking for a miracle.
No flower sweet,
No shroud of white,
Shouting at the devil never,
Gets you through the night,
A tightrope stands,
Between what’s wrong and right,
Searching for a miracle,
That’s always out of sight,
Searching for a miracle.
Down by the water,
Waiting by the tree,
Hoping for the seventh stone,
To find its way to me,
Time to stop dying,
And come alive again,
This gulf I cannot travel,
This hurt I cannot mend,
In the silence,
I am done,
And there no miracles,
And I am gone.
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One Of A Million Butterflies
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Just one of a million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
Bye bye.
I’m never gonna be,
What you want of me,
I won’t make up the numbers,
I’ll never make the league,
So I will slip free,
Flee while the titan slumbers,
The world’s sweet after rain,
Bring on your hurricane, and l,
I look to the skies.
I’m just one of a million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
Bye bye.
What is it that you see,
When you look at me?
Do I keep your attention?
Downbeat, no repartee,
Lacking pedigree,
Well, am I worth a mention?
I think that now you’re bored,
And that I’m best ignored,oh my,
At least I tried.
I’m just one of a million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
Bye bye.
You turn away, I disappear,
Do you recall that I was here?
Another fleeting thing,
Wing-full of eyes,
Am I the cat sat in the box?
State unknown, a paradox?
My lot seems to imply…
That I’m one of a million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by,
A million butterflies floating by.
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Say You Love Me
02:41
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Say You Love Me
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I've been waiting for a thousand years
It's so long it's so long it's so long
With a million tears,
And I've patience enough for both of us
But I don't think that it's enough
I'm waiting, I'm waiting,
I'm waiting I'm waiting here
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Oh, my dear,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Oh, my dear,
My dear
I’ve been searching for a thousand years
It's so long it's so long it's so long
Since the path was clear
My eye is on the hour-glass
I don’t think that we can last
I'm waiting, I'm waiting,
I'm waiting I'm waiting here
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Oh, my dear,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Say you love me,
Oh, my dear,
My dear
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That Doesn’t Change Anything
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If the world goes sour and your friends give the freeze,
The bottom falls out from the things you believe,
If you’ve lost your way and you’re starting to grieve,
Oh no, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s something better coming after,
There’s something better coming after,
No, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s always something coming after.
If each day just grinds and you can’t see the end,
And it saps at your mind, drives you round the bend,
And there’s no one left on whom you can depend
Oh no, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s something better coming after,
There’s something better coming after,
No, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s always something coming after.
Locked inside, tucked on the shelves,
People only see themselves,
And seldom look beyond their little worlds,
A point of view won’t set you free,
Unless it sees beyond the “me”,
Beyond the far horizon,
Possibilities unfurl.
If the sun won’t shine and the days are all grey,
You can’t see an end that will get you away,
And you just want a friend, you need someone to say,
Oh no, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s something better coming after,
There’s something better coming after,
No, no, no,
That doesn’t change anything,
There’s always something coming after.
And there’s always something coming after,
There’s always something coming after,
There’s always something coming after,
(It’s never a complete disaster)
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Honey Cakes on Brighton Beach with You
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We walk on the sunny side
All the places you know
The people like to come and go
Your friends will stop and say hello
Blue skies chase the clouds away
Sunlight on my face
Sometimes the fates are kind
And I’m glad of the human race
Skaters skating,
Surfers waiting,
Watching for the tide
We take to our paddle boards
Caution aside, we head out for a ride
There’s no better
Big red letter
Thing I’d rather do
Than honey cakes on
Brighton beach
With you
Laughter in the rolling waves
There’s salt on the air,
Play the shingle with your toes,
While the wind messes up your hair
All the lights on the rusty pier
All the rides made us smile
The sparring starling’s murmuration
We can watch a little while
Ice-cream stealing,
Seagulls wheeling,
Giving us the eye
We keep our tucker out of reach
Caution aside, we picnic by and by
There’s no better
Big red letter
Thing I’d rather do
Than honey cakes on
Brighton beach
With you
Honey cakes on Brighton Beach
With you
Honey cakes on Brighton Beach
With you
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Smile Again
03:22
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Smile Again
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If you’re lost in the hurricane,
Uphill against the rain,
And you’re left feeling tender,
Remember you’ll smile again,
You know it’s true,
And you know that you’ll always pull through,
When your friends are all standing round you,
And you know this has always been true.
If some people have treated you,
Cruelly and let you down,
For every offender,
Remember you’ll lose your frown,
You know you will,
Those who stand by you, sweeten the pill,
And you know that you’ll never stand still,
You will find a way, you know you will.
The world is so full of sorrow and pain,
And you’re carrying so many years,
But sometimes it’s the case,
The sun shines on your face,
And the laughter banishes tears,
So, remember the laughter,
There’s no other plan,
We just do the best that we can,
There’s no other plan,
We just do the best that we can.
Remember my friend that the sadness will end,
And you’ll smile again.
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Everything
04:11
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Everything
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Spring is waking,
There’s a flower in bloom,
You would have seen that,
You would have known.
So much of me is a mirror of you,
The things you did are the things that I do,
The path that I tread tells me only that,
You gave me everything.
All my hopes and all of my cares are the,
Sum of opinions when you were still here,
I’m certain my heart tells me true in that,
You gave me everything,
You gave me everything.
Summer is waning,
The meadow is high,
The kites fly in circles,
Watch them go by.
The sun is setting, the long day is spent,
Time marches forward without my consent,
I’ll always remember what you meant oh,
You gave me everything.
And I will pray for a light in the dark,
The hole that you left in my heart when you passed,
Giving of meaning, delivering,
You gave me everything.
So much of you is just mirrored in me,
I look in the glass and it’s you that I see,
I hear myself speaking, seeking,
You gave me everything,
You gave me everything.
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I Cannot Sleep
05:21
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I can’t sleep
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Little miss bird’s nest
Like the devil messed your hair
In this witching hour,
You’ve set yourself apart,
Curled around a cigarette
At the bottom of the stairs
All paths lead you back to where you start
Are you one of those who cannot sleep?
Those who cannot still their troubled minds?
Are you calling out and calling out
And staring down the small hours,
Wishing for a world that’s less unkind?
He’s making promises
Like little paper ships
Or little trails of vapour in the air
He says he loves you
But you know that he’s weak
So I find you at the bottom of the stairs
Are you one of those who cannot sleep?
Those who cannot still their troubled minds?
Are you calling out and calling out
And staring down the small hours,
Wishing for a world that’s less unkind?
There’s an old man down by the riverside
And he’s drowning his time
He’s drowning the voice in his head
And he’s drowning his pride
But it’s all lost in a moment
And nothing is spared
Because I never said “I love you”
And I never said I cared
And I never stopped to look behind
To see how he had fared
And I never cleared the baggage
That we left undeclared
And the river grants no one any favours
And now you’re fading,
Like the letters in the knave
And you gather all your secrets to your heart
I am fallen
No one here was saved
And all paths lead me back to where I start
I am one of those who cannot sleep
Those who cannot still their troubled minds
And I’m calling out and calling out
And staring down the small hours,
Wishing for a world that’s less unkind
There’s an old man down by the riverside
And he’s drowning his time
He’s drowning the voice in his head
And he’s drowning his pride
But it’s all lost in a moment
And nothing is spared
Because I never said “I love you”
And I never said I cared
And I never stopped to look behind
To see how he had fared
And I never cleared the baggage
That we left undeclared
And that river just keeps on flowing.
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A Bedsit Fire in Muswell Hill
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The Moon’s gone all uncouth
In matching boots and ties
Apollo C Vermouth
In urban hit surprise
Get stripped down
For the death cab
Get hip and on
The mystery tour
There’s so much you have done
But so much promise gone
Too reckless on the Thekla
Drugs etcetera,
Hope you had your fun.
The Lockheed’s ground control
Does MC for the bells
Sir Henry’s on a roll
But nothing really sells
The ballet
Of the vulgar
A comic opera
And more
There’s so much you have done
But so much promise gone
Too reckless on the Thekla
Drugs etcetera,
Hope you had your fun.
You shine when you take to the stage
Sublime for the queer and the strange
Your words can take you anywhere you will
Your songs are still holding the page
But you’re gone and the light, it must fade
Taken via a bedsit fire in Muswell Hill
Up Sunday, Start The Week
And step upon the screen
Awake from vintage sleep and
Name her from your dream
Anxiety will grip you
Until the valium is king
There’s so much you have done
But so much promise gone
Too reckless on the Thekla
Drugs etcetera,
Hope you had your fun.
You shine when you take to the stage
Sublime for the queer and the strange
Your words can take you anywhere you will
Your songs are still holding the page
But you’re gone and the light, it must fade
Taken via a bedsit fire in Muswell Hill
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Strange Sands
03:04
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Strange Sands
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I’ve no ideas, this head is empty
Of anything at all
I’ve got to find a way to fight this
I’ve no energy to call
The world is making such demands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
No time to waste, this time this place
It could last forever
If you just smile, the saving grace
And we’ll stay together
But we just tally in the borderlands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
I guess I should be someplace else
I’d laugh if I was someplace else
You and I could be
A desert island in the sun
Help me to stand up
When you see me
Falling on my face
You know I’ll fly away in pieces
And clutter up the place
It only takes a reprimand
To cast my dreams on strange sands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
And you will save the day
(Like you always do)
Yeah, you will save the day
Every time you lead me back here
When I lose my way
Strange sands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
Strange sands
Cast my dreams on strange sands
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Autumn Suits You Well
02:59
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Autumn Suits You Well
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With your whiskey glass and your Telegraph,
Autumn suits you well,
A cheeky half and a round of laughs,
Autumn suits you well,
Autumn suits you well.
Was there once a well of hunger?
Was there once a cause?
Use and comfort dulls the cage’s bars,
But many years ago, we set our hearts,
Upon the stars.
A little stroll down through the park,
Autumn suits you well,
Sofa, TV, after dark,
Autumn suits you well,
Autumn suits you well.
Weren’t we going to shake the world up?
Weren’t we going to change?
Somewhere in the attic’s your guitar,
For many years ago, we set our hearts,
Upon the stars.
A forgotten box of photographs,
Autumn suits you well,
There will be no epitaph,
Autumn suits you well,
Autumn suits you well,
Autumn suits you well.
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The KIVA Band Oxford, UK
The KIVA Band are a British recording indie/folk band based in Oxfordshire.
They write
original material that draws on traditions as diverse as folk, pop, indie-rock, and classical music. Their songs twist and turn in unexpected directions yet always keep melody at their heart. Their words explore life and love, by turns funny, sad, lost, and found.
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