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Loveless Town
04:45
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Hey sister can you spare some kindness tonight / I’m battered and broken but still up for the fight / Searching for something that may never be found / Looking for love in a loveless town // Whatever we’re missing the truth lies within / Down at the bottom with the shame and the sin / If you cannot reach me then I’ll surely drown / Looking for love in a loveless town // Love in a loveless town hurts so good / Love wears a hopeless crown and fits like it should // Wherever you come from you’re still going down / Looking for love in a loveless town // Love in a loveless town hurts so good / Love wears a hopeless crown and fits like it should // Now with time to consider and time to reflect / Why my face it don’t fit and I cannot connect / I long to belong on these streets that I pound / Looking for love in a loveless town // Love in a loveless town hurts so good / Love wears a hopeless crown and fits like it should, fits like it should // If you’re looking for someone who won’t let you down / Come looking for love in a loveless town
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Light of my Life
03:35
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Be my hopes and my dreams, stiches holding together my seams / You’d make a better man’s wife, be the light of my life // Turn this house into a home, the reason I’m never alone / Rid me of habit and vice, be the light of my life // Melt this ice in my heart; on this desert soul pour a little rain / Be the muse to my song and together refrain // Be the wind in the trees, the flowers and pollen to bees / And everything that makes us feel alive, be the light of my life // Melt this ice in my heart; on this desert soul pour a little rain / Be the muse to my song and together refrain // Cut me diamonds from stones, give me spirit to lift aching bones / Give me kisses that cut like a knife, be the light of my life / Give me one last roll of the dice, be the light of my life // Be the light of my life, give me one last roll of the dice, be the light of my life
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Not in my Name
03:29
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No, no, no Lord not in my name / Well your riches shine so brightly but your mind is dark and dim / And your words are barbed and arrowed, belies the emptiness within / Wherever you’re going I’m not going to ride your train / Whatever you’re saying, not in my name / No, no, no Lord not in my name // You’ve got God in your pocket, you’ve got money on your side / But a fall is surely coming from that high and mighty pride / Where are the humble, where is your shame / Whatever you’re doing, not in my name / No, no, no Lord not in my name // Not in my name will you build your walls around / Not in my name will you burn our bridges down // Whatever you’re playing, I’m not a part of your game / Whatever you’re saying, not in my name // Not in my name will you build your walls around / Not in my name will you burn our bridges down // Well the fools they will follow any leader of the herd / And are blindly believing every twisted lying word / But the truth they can’t swallow, not a single honest grain / Whatever you’re doing, not in my name / No, no, no Lord not in my name | No, no, no Lord not in my name
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Only You
04:57
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Only you can wipe away the tears, only you can wipe away the tears / For this lost cause that St. Jude won’t avow, only you can save me now // And the dark nights are drawing in and the dark thoughts are threatening / For a kiss of sunlight for where art thou, only you can save me now // Yes only you and no one else can save me from myself / Only love and love confessed lays this suffering soul to rest // Through this barren soil I dig and plough, only you can save me now // So won’t you set me on a path let this heart beat freely at last / Come and take me by the hand and we’ll march to promised lands hand in hand // Only you can rescue me from here, only you can rescue me from here / Take me somewhere, away someplace, somehow, only you can save me now / Only you can save me now
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Lonesome Touch
03:15
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The road is clear, the skies are open and as I feared the heavens spoken / Unto my skin I felt a raindrop that landed with a lonesome touch // When nature’s gift lay all before me, I watched it drift in all its glory / And threw myself unto the canvas you’d painted with a lonesome touch // The river’s deep in which we’ve fallen, we’re out of reach or out of time / And through our sleep the future’s calling, out of the past we crawl and climb // We said farewell, you said it better and bade me with a lonesome touch // The days unwind, my head unravels the answers to life’s disarray / I hope you find amongst your travels, this gentle art won’t come your way // And so the sun is setting here now, what we’ve become is coming clear now / You held a tune to which I followed and played it with a lonesome touch / And played me with a lonesome touch
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Lord, Show Yourself
04:21
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And to the jealous and the hateful, the righteous man inside the hypocrite / And to the willing and the generous, the silent ones with truth upon their lips // Lord show yourself, Lord show yourself // And to the broken and the bashful the hapless drunk a lying in his ditch / And to the selfish hearted privileged, the guilty blood-lined wallets of the rich // Lord show yourself, Lord show yourself // And while you’re standing deep in the shadows, will we ever know, will we ever know / Just what you’re asking us to imagine will you ever show, will you ever show // And to the troubled great world leader, who cannot see his wisdom lets us down / To every soldier caught in conflict, razing your village to the ground // And to the empty headed starlet who holds our gaze adorns every wall / And to the preacher in his fervour who fuels the non-believer in us all // Lord show yourself, Lord show yourself
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Hartley Pit Catastrophe
04:16
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I’ve dug this mine for four years now to this job I was born / Until disaster came our ways, one cold January morn / A forty odd ton iron beam came crashing down the shaft / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, our only exit dashed // Two older brothers work with me, the same shift if we can / To my mother I am still a child to my father I’m a man / But on that night he cradled me as if I was a bairn / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, is how we’d meet our end // Sweet Mary is my chosen one, she means the world to me / One day I shall marry her and old age we both shall see / But when she hears upon the fact and what may come to pass / At the Hartley Pit catastrophe, well I‘m sorry my bonnie lass // At sixty fathoms down below in darkness and in vain / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, with nowt but horses’ grain // With the tide a coming in and poison in our chest / And if they fail to reach us, well I know they did their best // For three long days our rescuers were beaten back by fumes / At the Hartley Pit catastrophe, our grave to be exhumed // With every effort that was made with sinew, flesh and bone / Has failed to lift this coffin lid, well we did not die alone / And when they dragged us out of here into the crisp, clean air / At the Harley Pit catastrophe, they choked on grim despair / But if you think kindly on us now, two hundred souls and four / Please allow no pit catastrophe, befall us anymore
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New Frontier
04:27
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You and me babe we’ve got something, something special to belong in / Let’s not waste it just embrace it, there’s a chance for us to taste it / And you know my heart is in a mess but to you, you know I can confess / So let’s find a world to pioneer and make love the new frontier // Some don’t see it, some get frightened some just lose it when they find it / Some don’t make it, then mistake it for something they think can fake it / It’s a world where most have never been, they spend their lives just falling in between / So let’s try and push the barriers here and make love the new frontier // I propose our minds to roam and wander in the great unknown / And build ourselves a better place and live within its open space // You and I we live on borrowed time, so let’s dig deep and open up the mine / And divine through a path that’s clear, to make love the new frontier / Stake our claim whichever way we steer and discard our demons and our fears / To make love the new frontier
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Deepest Love
04:15
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I’ve been waiting for so long for a better, brighter day / But the rain still pours and clouds are here to stay / I’m not asking for the world, just the greatest show on earth / Where I can play a part and get to show my worth / But I want nothing, I want nothing but the deepest love from you // You can cast me into hell, make me fly or make me crawl / Just as long as you will be there when I fall / Don’t believe me when I say that I’m glad to be alone / But I know second best won’t get me where I’m going / Cos I want nothing, I want nothing but the deepest love from you // These days it’s getting hard to find a friend / Someone you can trust in ‘til the bitter end // I can’t promise anything but I’ll try to get it right / But all I’ll say is baby hold on tight / Yeah I want nothing, I want nothing but the deepest love from you / I want nothing, I want nothing but the deepest love from you
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Don’t let your heart be a hotel, don’t let somebody make you hurt again / They offered you heaven watched you burn in hell, don’t let your heart be a hotel / You gave yourself freely too many times, but the guests they are leaving and your heart still pines / You’re changing the bedclothes but you can’t change the smell, don’t let your heart be a hotel // Don’t let a thief come in the night, don’t let them steal your loving light / Don’t let a kiss break you in two or show what they’ve done to you // Guard all your secrets and guard where they dwell, don’t let your heart be a hotel // Don’t let a thief come in the night, don’t let them steal your loving light / Don’t let a kiss break you in two or show what they’ve done to you // The doormat says welcome your arms open wide, but what you see in them when your love is blind / You’re treading a pathway that you know too well, don’t let your heart be a hotel / Don’t let your heart be a hotel / Don’t let your heart to rent or to sell / Don’t let your heart be a hotel
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11. |
Someone Like You
03:43
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When I don’t know where I’m going and I’ve lost the will to fight / When I‘m shrouded in my darkest bower you guide me with your light / I have seen you in my dreams at night but dreams they don’t come true / I’ve been waiting for someone like you // When I’m spinning through the bar rooms with a gutter for my bed / You will greet me upon my return, forgive me and forget / I have seen you in the starry skies and in the morning dew / I’ve been waiting for someone like you / I’ve been waiting for someone like you // I’ve made mistakes but I’ll make you mine, now there’s no wasting time // When I don’t know who to turn to and all my trust is gone / You will give me hope to still believe and faith to carry on / I was thinking that my chance had gone, when all along you knew / You were standing by with my rescue, I’ve been waiting for someone like you
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Paul Handyside Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Paul Handyside is a folk and roots singer songwriter, formerly of eighties indie darlings Hurrah! whose songs now fuse pop with folk-tinged americana. The fourth album "Loveless Town" was released in 2021.
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