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Dr Sunshine
03:38
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When bad things happen in life
Our minds block them out to make space to remember only the good
This phenomenon works the other way round too
So being with you I’ve blocked out all I knew before
I’ve given up searching for explanations darling
Cos they don’t really matter at all
Not knowing what it is that causes this connection
Makes no difference to how we do
How did we get it so right
You blew my mind every night
How is it everything feels so true
When it’s between just me and you
oooh ba da ba ba da
Nights without sleeping
Academic weekends
Basking in the sunshine of your smile
Counting myself lucky every day
For the sweetest times of my whole damn life
When you go away I run through every cliché
Ever written about missing someone
And whenever I’m blue you know exactly what to say and do
To let me know you understand my mood
How did we get it so right
You blew my mind every night
How is it everything feels so true
When it’s between just me and you
oooh you knew exactly what to do
you knew exactly what to do
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Run
04:02
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I’m light and darkness
Walking on the surface
Where shadows crawl
And good intentions fall
Stuck in a circle tightning
Closed in by my vices
When that black cloud comes over me
Darkness is all I see
My tears live close to my eyes
And though I don’t have to tell you why I cry
Its those old classics they make you realise
Just how precious is this old thing we call life
Cos we all are what we are
Somehow I grew up scared
Of my own shadow / and what was in my head
Telling me run, run / All I want is to be free
To cherish that strength made from my own speed
It told me run, run / We’ve got to be free
To use that strength made from our own speed
Life kills us slowly
And death means we were alive
And yet mostly we live as if
Death means another life
Me I’m living aimlessly
Caught between
Comfortable slumps
And ego rushes
My tears live close to my eyes
And no I don’t have to tell you why I cry
Those old classics they make you realise
Just how precious is this whole thing we call life
Cos we all are what we are
Somehow I grew up scared
Of my own shadow / and what was in my head
Telling me run, run / All I want is to be free
To cherish that strength made from my own speed
It told me run, run / We’ve got to be free
To use that strength made from our own speed
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Oh Sea (Mama Mar)
04:15
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Left my baby behind and I went away
Crossed the world searching them perfect waves
When I got there I found I couldn’t even stay up
I’d left all my treasure behind
Mama Mar taught me things I didn’t wanna learn
Like you can never keep that which you didn’t earn
Left my soles on the hot sand I’m feeling the burn
Let the tide take me far far away
O si Mama Mar, I’m still hoping on you
If I can’t drop in on you I can still sing the blues
When I’m feeling down never mind what I do
I know one sweet far off day I know I will drop in true
Now the palms whisper secrets I can’t really hear
Cos old Mama Mar she has blocked up my ears
She took all my strength & threw me back over here
And still my yearning goes on … Goes on and on
For what I was searching I know now I’ll never find
It’s all that I had and it’s all on the inside
All I can do now is keep on trying to be kind
Hoping I’ll get that feeling again some day
Oh sea, Mama Mar, I’m still hoping on you
If I can’t drop in on you I can still sing the blues
When I’m feeling down never mind what I do
I know one sweet far off day I know I will drop in true
Cos I know that these white walls are all but in my mind
You can rush muscle but not memory
The best ones I got they are now haunting me
I know these white walls are all in my mind
They are all in my mind
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Keeper of Keys
04:06
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The keeper of keys sits by the water
Smelling the breeze off the estuary
The river keeps flowing fresh and wide
Under the glowing sky and into the sea
The keeper of keys knows
That home is where the heart goes
The keeper of keys aint got no home
Sees the countries and blesses the trees
The keeper don’t mind being alone
Wipes down the counter and goes to sleep
The keeper of keys knows
That home is where the heart goes
Home is where the heart goes
It could be where the birds drift home up a salty river
It could be where the raptors sail on the thermal highs
It could be a room where no one knows your history
It could be a space where you crawl in to hide
It could be where the sorrel springs like flames from the green green grass
It could be where the birds and bees are the only sound
It could be where the rolling hills are topped with three leaf turbines
It could be where the city lights shine out all the stars around
But when your soul sings the home song you hear its cry
And when those loving arms open you crawl inside
It could be where the birds drift home up a salty river
It could be where the raptors sail on the thermal highs
It could be a room where no one knows your history
It could be a space where you crawl in to hide
It could be where the sorrel springs like flames from the green green grass
It could be where the birds and bees are the only sound
It could be where the rolling hills are topped with three leaf turbines
It could be where the city lights shine out all the stars around
But when your soul sings the home song you hear its cry
And when those loving arms open you crawl inside
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