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B i o g r a p h y
 (by Andy Kellman & Thom Jurek)

Nostalgia 77 features the production work of Benedic Lamdin, who shifts between relying upon samples and musicians as raw material for his processed tracks. After some singles for the 7Sevens label, he released his first album, Songs for My Funeral, in 2004, and followed that with 2005's The Garden, issued on Ubiquity; Borderlands and Sevens & Eights: Recorded Live at the Jazz Cafe in 2006; and then Everything Under the Sun the next year. In 2008, the album Weapons of Jazz Destruction was released by Tru Thoughts under the Nostalgia 77 Octet moniker. Landin (who played guitar) expanded his concept group to include drums, upright bass, brass, reeds, and winds. After a collection entitled Nostalgia 77's One Offs, Remixes & B-Sides, in 2009 Landin enlisted British jazz and improv legends pianist Keith Tippett and vocalist Julie Tippetts for Nostalgia 77 Sessions, Vol. 1, another full-ensemble recording that featured upright bass, saxophones, guitar, and drums in addition to piano and vocals. Landin also acted as producer and engineer for the date. Throughout the latter half of the 21st century's first decade, Landin concerned himself with a lot of production work on albums by Jeb Loy Nichols, Elizabeth Parks, Larry Stabbins, Alice Russell, Sara Mitra, Fringe Magnetic, and Golden Age of Steam. In the early spring of 2011, Nostalgia 77 released the most eclectic and far-reaching album to date with Sleepwalking Society (on Tru Thoughts), featuring German vocalist Josa Peit; the set walked the line between classic Ellingtonian jazz, British folk, and even blues




Songs For My Funeral
- 2004-02-16 - Nostalgia 77

Processional (Instrumental)
The Conventicle (Instrumental)
Rain Walk (Instrumental)
Only Hush (Instrumental)
Metamorphosis (Instrumental)
The Mirror
The Gates Parts 1 & 2 (Instrumental)
Dirge (Instrumental)
The Funeral (Instrumental)
The Beginning (Instrumental)


The Garden
- 2005-03-22 - Nostalgia 77

Cheney Lane (Instrumental)
Changes (Instrumental)
Green Blade of Grass (Instrumental)
You and Me (Instrumental)
The Hunger (Instrumental)
After Ararat (Instrumental)
Freedom (Instrumental)

Seven Nation Army
The Garden (Instrumental)


Borderlands
- 2006-09-22 - Nostalgia 77 octet - Instrumental

One For Nan
Question
Layer Lines
The Cat
Tad More
Lotus Tree
Chorale
Desert Fairy Princess


Everything Under The Sun
- 2007-04-10 - Nostalgia 77

Wildflower
Stop To Make A Change
Dreamers Dance (Instrumental)
Little Steps
Eastwind
Everything Under The Sun (Instrumental)
Quiet Dawn
Arora (Instrumental)
Steps Of The Sun

 

Weapons of Jazz Destruction
- 2007-11-19 - Nostalgia 77 octet

Chola (Instrumental)
Stars
District (Instrumental)
Journey Home (Instrumental)
To Have Or To Be
Musical Silt (Instrumental)
Medusa (Instrumental)
When Love Is Strange (Instrumental)
If At First (Instrumental)
One Step Out
Solstice (Instrumental)



Feat. Keith & Julie Tippett
- 2009-04-08 - Nostalgia 77 Sessions

You Don't Just Dream When You Sleep
Film Blues
Sketch For Gary/Billy Goes To Town (Instrumental)
Mice (Instrumental)
Rainclouds
Lapis Blue
Soothing The Rattlesnake (Instrumental)
Miniature
Vienna (Instrumental)
Visions
Okinawa (Instrumental)
Temple (Instrumental)
Four Whispers For Archies Chair (Instrumental)
New Inner City Blues



The Sleepwalking Society
- 2011-03-30 - Nostalgia 77

Sleepwalker
Beautiful Lie
Simmerdown
Golden Morning
When Love Is Strange (Instrumental)
Blue Shadow
Mockingbird
Cherry
Hush (Instrumental)
 



A Journey Too Far
- 2014-02-10 -

What Do You Know
Crescent City
Don'
t Run
Your Love Weighs A Tonne
Backlash
Ramshackle Rose
My Lord
Medicine Chest
An Angel With No Halo
One
Like Dark To Light



Measures
- 2014-12-08 - Nostalgia 77 and the Monster - Instrumental

Measures
Apple
Archipelago
Thoughts To Geoff
Island In The Sun
Arches
Scallywag
Rules



The Loneliest Flower in the Village
- 2023-01-26 - Instrumental

Dakar
Ishmael
The Sun is Big
The Hooper
Flower
Love in Outer Space
Folk Tune
Foothills
The Loneliest Flower in the Village



When The Lights Gone
- 2026-05-01-

You Were In My Dream Last Night
Bye Bye
When The Lights Gone
Stubborn Rhythm
Psych
Late In The Morning
We Tell Our Stories
Instrumental Cut (Instrumental)

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Songs For My Funeral

The Mirror

When everything that we know is forever dead
All the things in the world we love have gone away
Maybe then will come the dawn of another day

 

The Garden

Seven Nation Army

( The White Stripes cover )

Alice Russell :

I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back

And I'm talking to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette

And the message coming from my eyes
Says leave it alone

Don't want to hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

And if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you want to hear
But that's what I'll do

And the feeling coming from my bones
Says find a home

I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore

And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
And I'm bleeding right before the lord
All my words are gonna bleed from me
And I will think no more

And the stains coming from my blood
Tell me go back home
Yeah back home

Everything Under The Sun

*** Thanx a lot to Richard for these lyrics ***

Wildflower

Wildflower
In winter you sleep
Cold in the ground
Never a sound
Wildflower

Wildflower
In springtime you wake
Leaves reaching up to the sun
Starting to speak
Wildflower, wildflower

You love the wood, rarest of your kind
We love the valleys and mountains
Summer is here
Wildflower, wildflower, wildflower
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Now autumn runs red
No warm rays are shed
But you left a beautiful seed asleep in your bed
Wildflower, wildflower, wildflower
Wildflower, wildflower, wildflower

Stop To Make A Change

There ain't only one way to start a new beginning
It should be nice and easy if everybody's willing
You could take a tablet, see a doctor or a shrink
You could hit a reefer, the needle or a drink

Stop right there, you wanna make a change, listen here
And you will start to recognise that there ain't only one way to start a new beginning

We've got to earn a living, we've got to speak our minds
Got to be relaxed for we've got to get up early
Life just ain't that easy but we've got to change our minds
That's the bottom line, it's all the same old story
Now everywhere you turn, boys and girls are working for the man
Impossible equation, a lunatics vocation
Armies on the march and an infidel's in charge
The planet's upside down, the world is out of rhythm
Our dream's are only songs that's falling off the horizons to the earth

Stop right there, you wanna make a change
The planet's upside down and the band is out of rhythm
The band is upside down and the planet's out of time
You wanna make a change you gotta stop to make it better

Change to make it stop, stop to make a change
The band is out of planets and the rhythm's out of time
The rhythm makes a change and the band is upside down
You gotta make a change if you want to make it better
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
There ain't only one way to start a new beginning
It should be nice and easy if everybody's willing
You could take a tablet, see a doctor or a shrink
You could hit a reefer, the needle or a drink

Stop right there, you wanna make a change, listen here
And you will start to recognise that there ain't only one way to start a new beginning

Stop right there, you wanna make a change
The planet's upside down and the band is out of rhythm
The band is upside down and the planet's out of time
You wanna make a change you gotta stop to make it better

Change to make it stop, stop to make a change
The band is out of planets and the rhythm's out of time
The rhythm makes a change and the band is upside down
You gotta make a change if you want to make it better

Little Steps

We take little steps, it's easier
We take little breaths and learn to talk
We dream little dreams of fantastic scenes
And we wish on little stars twinkling
We take little sips on magic drinks
And close our eyes and watch kaleidoscopes
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
We watch little waves, for what little spray
Reach out little hands, give thanks and praise
For the little things and the simple things
For the wind, the sea, the sun

And now we sit upon the earth
Picking fruit from little trees
See the birds spread little wings
And watch clouds dance around the sun

Eastwind

Eastwind is blowing
Black clouds away
And the cobwebs in the corners
She blows at night, she blows the day

Eastwind is blowing
The storms they come
It blows through the bitter night
Evil's on the run
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
From the desert to the mountains
Through the valleys to the seas
Across the oceans to the city
Eastwind, the wind of change

Quiet Dawn

Your frame is a slender tree
And hands two sprawling leaves
Your mouth, a quiet dawn
Your hair, a waterfall
Your eyes, stars astral light
Slow whispers of infinity
That draw me closer to your body night by night

And my love is a satellite
Spinning, spinning
Spinning, spinning

Your questions are impossible
Galaxies and moonlight flow
Angry tides and fallow lands
And our universe expands
Your footprints are maps to me
Under sunlight speckled woods
You'll feed me in the failing light
A simple meal of gravity
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
And all my love is a satellite
Spinning, spinning
Spinning, spinning
Spinning, spinning, spinning

You reached into space for me
Held my orbit evenly, certain of infinity
But moons and comets die eventually
And when we go, go in peace
When our spirits go free
And the world's only grey
Quiet dawning galaxy oh

And my love is a satellite
Spinning, spinning
Spinning, spinning, spinning
Oh spinning

Steps Of The Sun

I remember the time long before the earth
Long before the stars and the universe
I remember a time before civilisation
Before wars, before myself

I remember a day before the pharaoh's reign
When spirits lied and echoes played
And when we arrived from our journey weary
We will find a land so divine on the steps of the sun
Rob from always on the run dot net is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I remember the time long before the earth
Long before the stars and the universe
When we didn't fight for right or wrong
When we listen to the earth and the childrens song

I remember a time in a land far away
When spirits lie and echoes play
And now we arrive from our journey weary
And find a land so divine on the steps of the sun

 

Weapons of Jazz Destruction

Stars

Stars that shine darkly
Stars that shine dread
Angels or devils
They hang on a thread
From heaven they fall to the earth's soil
And fall they must to raise stars from the dust

Stars that shine darkly
Stars that shine dread
Angels or devils
They hang on a thread

Stars of the earth, stars of the skies
Each one a body, each one a mind
When the stars weep and meteors fall
For each man a tear, for each tear a soul
So the galaxies breathe, they grow and recede
Each one a creed carrying seeds
For the next certain arc of stars

To Have Or To Be

When people see the strangest things
Dreams turn to stone, their songs to screams
And languid strings to scarcely mood
Their sound is false, the notes are few

To have or to be strange family
To have or to be myth or mystery
To have or to be strange family
To have or to be myth or mystery

Time has cracked like summer earth
Where love holds the crown
There's a war for the throne
The queen carried away on a river of stones
While the children of kings throw sand at the wind

When people see the strangest things
Dreams turn to stone, their songs to screams
And languid strings to scarcely mood
Their sound is forced, the notes are few

To have or to be strange family
To have or to be myth or mystery

One Step Out

We make a new image
Love is the core
We sing for life and living
One step out

I'm walking through
The world with the spirit
Of peace and love to us all
One step out

Elevation is key to this life
Spread love and hope's harmony
Let our minds run free and our thoughts
Spread love and hope's harmony
One step out
One step out
One step out
One step out

We make a new image
Love is the core
We sing for life and living
One step out

I'm walking through
The world with the spirit
Of peace and love to us all
One step out

Elevation is key to this life
Spread love and hope's harmony
Let our minds run free and our thoughts
Spread love and hope's harmony
One step out
One step out
One step out
One step out
 

 

FEAT. KEITH & JULIE TIPPETT

You Don't Just Dream When You Sleep

When there are no more leaves upon the trees
And you've seen all there is to see
The mist is lying low upon the field
You don't just dream when you sleep

Strange things happen everyday
And either way, it is hard to say
If what men believe are just what they see

And when the final leaves have gone from the trees
And you've seen all there is to see
The mist is lying low upon the field
You don't just dream when you sleep

You can leave the land of reason
Underneath the trees
It's okay to dream
If you never can dream
You're not part of the scheme
And what you plant will grow
With each new season
You can leave the land of reason
Underneath the trees

You can leave the land of reason
Underneath the trees
It's okay to dream
You have to dream
To be part of the scheme
And what you plant will grow
With each new season
You can leave the land of reason
Underneath the trees

Film Blues

It's late now
Lights are low
It's cozy
You by my side
This is the night
We won't say goodnight

By your side
Here I am
By your side
Through the night
This is the night
We won't say goodnight

It's late now
Nowhere to go
It's crazy
Thinking to go
This is the night
We can't say goodbye

By your side
Here I am
By your side
Through the night
This is the night
We can't say goodnight

By your side
Here I am

It's late now
Lights are low
It's crazy
Thinking to go
This is the night
We can't say goodbye

By your side
Here I am
By your side
Through the night
This is the night
We can't say goodnight

This is the night
I sleep by your side
This is the night
You'll be by my side
This is the night
When no one is around
This is the night
We won't say goodnight

Rainclouds

What is the wrong conclusion
Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop and reestimate

What is the wrong conclusion
Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop and reestimate

What is the wrong conclusion...

Hey, whatever came of the flame we had to follow
Did it disappear off until it comes tomorrow
Hey, surely we get by the dream again
When the rain moves over with beams of sun again

Time will take its time
Finding a way to make it shine when nobody's around
Right, we're taking the time right here
Don't fight it
Hold on, the feeling's strong
The very song that we are singing will be winter spirits gone

Hey, there will be another way of carrying the dream along
Hey, there will be another way of carrying the dream along
Hey, there will be another way of carrying the dream along

Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop and reestimate

What is the wrong conclusion
Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop and reestimate

What is the wrong conclusion
Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop and reestimate

What is the wrong conclusion
Why do we hesitate
What is going on
Now stop

Lapis Blue

I'm on my own
And I'm so confused
I am in trouble
Don't know what to choose
I'm in a maze
And there is no way to figure it out
And all I can do is just shout out
And then I turn around and all I have to
I have to find is black versus blue

I was alone
With nowhere to turn
I was in trouble
With no exit hole
It was a scam
And there was no way of handling it
And all I could feel was the real fear
And then I turned around and all I had to
I had to cope was black versus blue

I was alone
With nowhere to go
I was in trouble
There was no way home
There was a go
There was nothing the same
That I could follow and know
How to go through
How to go through
How to go through
How to go through
How to go through

Miniature

So it will be forever
All and all and evermore
It will, it will be forever
Over, over, evermore

It never did occur to me
To see the end was near
Now it all appears so plainly
So plainly it will be for always
Ever on and on it will always never be

So it will be forever
All and all and evermore
It will, it will be forever
Over, over, evermore

Visions

Live with heart and soul
Life, rhythm, beat, poem
Gather your thoughts
As the sunlight is long
Live as you believe
In the life that we lead
The spirit is strong enough
For a vision to come

Bring, bring in the day
When love is for real
Ocean and sky become one
Same ?? soul
We'll find our way
Through the wild nights
And the burning days

Let children be free
Life, rhythm, beat, poem
Gather your riches now
Gold from the sun
Dry now your eyes
Have no fear of the day
The spirit is strong enough
For a vision to come

Bring, bring in the day
When love is for real
Ocean and sky become one
Same ?? soul
We'll find our way
Through the wild nights
And the burning days

Waiting for a vision
For a vision to come
Waiting for a vision
For a vision to come
Waiting for a vision
A vision to come
Waiting, waiting, waiting

New Inner City Blues

The guns are out again
They're trying to explain
How things could go this wrong
Wild times are healed and takes so long

It's the new inner city blues
And we heard it on the midday news
It's the new inner city blues
As we heard it on the mid, the midday news

Perpetrators talk away our fears
While brothers wipe away their tears
Army hides and policemen's clothes
Wherever will end, nobody can know

It's the new inner city blues
And we heard it on the midday news
It's the new inner city blues
As we heard it on the mid-, the midday news

Inner city, city blues... 

The Sleepwalking Society

Sleepwalker

You’re not always born on the good foot
Can’t always open the right door
You walk with your eyes closed
You’re gonna hit the wall
Or fall into a hole
When you're in that hole

Open your eyes
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker

Some are lucky but you’ve got to know
There ain’t always be a way back home
Like a puppet on a string
He’s just trying to do his thing
Make his own way
Live day to day
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Open your eyes
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker

People turning back on you
'Cause you ain't playing by the rules
You say life is a game
I say it's a shame

You must play
Your own game
Can't sound the same
You must open your eyes
Sleepwalker
You are a sleepwalker
Sleepwalker

Beautiful lie

Lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie

Beautiful forgetting
Memories
You flee the trees
Like fickle leaves
With nothing more to say

You don't need to run away
Or be afraid
Or even stay
You don’t need to be brave
To stay
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie

Beautiful forgetting
All those memories
You flee the mind in a tear
To the weir downstream
Then you dry like a photograph

You don't need to be afraid
Or run away
Or even say
You don’t need to be brave
To stay

Lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie

Lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie

Simmerdown

Simmerdown, simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down
Simmerdown, simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down

When you can't wake up
When you can't sleep
You grow tired
Drifting down stream

Simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down
Simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Children singing from your hymnal
Lay your head down
Father singing swing low, swing low
Lay your head down

You can leave the door ajar
In the morning I'll be there
Fast asleep by your side
Breathing deep

Simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down
Simmerdown, simmerdown
Simmerdown, lay your head down

Simmerdown, lay your head down
Lay your head
Simmerdown, lay your head
Lay your head, lay your head
Down

Golden morning

Golden morning
Golden morning
Golden morning

We walk in
Golden morning
Out across the dew
Take strength
Take strength
To catch the light
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Golden morning
Golden morning
Golden morning

Blue shadow

I've got a blue shadow
Falling from a yellow flower
In the window facing east
Clock stopped on the hour

It's just another day
Pretty as the last
So how can I feel down
When there's so much love around
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
I've got a blue shadow

Weave me a blanket out of wire
And all the pretty scraps
And memories
That fall between the cracks

Preserve the happy times
And keep the cold from me
So I'll pull it up and lay low
Down with my blue shadow

I've got blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
I've got a blue shadow

I've got a blue
Blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
Blue shadow, blue shadow
I've got a blue shadow

Mockingbird

Father, father
You're gonna be a father now
Father, father
You're gonna be a father now
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
You're all grown up
You never felt more like a child

First you learn to cry
Then you learn to talk
First you need a hand
Then you learn to walk

Then you say I love you
Somewhere in the dark

Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby
Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby

And who will mind the mockingbird
Who will mind the mockingbird

Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby
Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby

Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby
Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby

Lullaby, lullaby
Who’ll sing lullaby
Lullaby, lullaby

Cherry

Cherry blossom
Should be your name
You were gone
As soon as you came
When the first wind shook your branch
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Cherry blossom
Won’t you stay
Just for another
Another day
Or in the morn would you be gone

Away, away

Perfect ain't perfect anymore
Perfect ain't perfect I heard him say
I’d rather leave than grieve for you
And this picture ain't a picture either anymore
Though I know it was before
Before the grey wind took me up

Away, away

We were married every afternoon
In the street, outside the school
But in the morning you were gone
Cherry blossom, should be your name
You were gone, as soon as you came
When the first wind shook your branch
When the first wind took you up
When the grey wind took you up
Away

A Journey Too Far

What Do You Know

I could have been like you
If my life were different
Towed a different line
Drank a different wine

But it ain't so
What do you know, what do you know
But it ain't so
What do you know, what do you know

Took a train eight hours East
Send some money home
I think of you all every night
Dream I'm not alone

But it ain't so
What do you know, what do you know
But it ain't so
What do you know, what do you know

What do you know about your love
Sleeping peaceful as a dove
Does he dream of you
Or someone else

Living in two states of mind
I went but you left me behind
Now we look for thread to bind
Our love back together

Now we look for thread to bind
Our love back together
Now we look for thread to bind
Our love back together
Now we look for thread to bind
Our love back together

Crescent City

Crescent city, Crescent city, oh
Halfway to where I'm going to
I pass you by and then who knows
When I'll next see you my pretty rose
Like laughing, like laughing, like laughing
Or crying, oh
When will I next see you
O my wandering soul

Now there's a madman on the heath
He's praying for some sweet relief
So he sits down and he thinks
When that crescent moon glows pink
Like laughing, like laughing, like laughing
Or crying, oh
What is dust to dust like you
O my wandering soul

Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun, thinking of the sun
Thinking of...

If I could choose I'd become dust
I'd pass like orange metal rust
Into the wind the licking air
When I'd travel far from here
Like laughing, like laughing, like laughing
Or crying, oh
What is dust to dust like you
O my wandering soul

Crescent city, Crescent city, oh
Half way to where I'm going to
I pass you by and then who knows
When I'll next see you my pretty rose
Like laughing, like laughing, like laughing
Or crying, oh
When will I next see you
My wandering soul

Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun, thinking of the sun
Thinking of...

Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun
Looking at the moon but I'm thinking of the sun, thinking of the sun
Thinking of the sun

Don't Run

Oh, momma don't run
Don't run, don't run
Now don't run, don't run
Though the feeling is strong

Momma don't run
Don't run, don't run
You know you've got
Too much love to give

Now baby don't cry
Don't cry, don't cry
Don't cry, don't cry
Those tears

Baby don't cry
Don't cry, don't cry
You know you've got
Too much love to live

And if you wake in the night
With your chest feeling tight
Oh, momma don't run
Don't run, don't run
You know you've got
Too much love to give

And if you wake in the night
With your chest feeling tight
Oh, momma don't run
Don't run, don't run
You know you've got
Too much love to give

Your love weighs a tonne

Your love weighs a tonne
It's too heavy for me
And I can't carry on
Another day

Your love weighs a tonne
Your love weighs a tonne

You told me stories of a time before
Before I knew what love was for
Before anger opened up the door
And I can't take it anymore

Your love weighs a tonne
Your love weighs a tonne
Your love weighs a tonne

And I keep on holding on
But I'm gonna drop this weight before long
I keep on holding on
But I'm gonna drop this weight before long

Won't you help me make the grade
I don't want to lose this love we made
Won't you help me to get straight
Help me carry this weight

Cause I keep on holding on
But I'm gonna drop this weight before long
I keep on holding on
But I'm gonna drop this weight before long

Your love weighs a tonne
Your love weighs a tonne

Backlash

Backlash, the Backlash
Backlash, the Backlash

Drive too hard
Push too far
People won't stand
Another losing hand

Backlash, the Backlash
Backlash, the Backlash

Man with no name
You fade away
People won't stand
Another losing hand

Ramshackle Rose

When you're long gone
Sun don't shine and the moon don't glow
When you're long gone

When you're long gone
Rain don't rain and the wind don't blow
When you're long gone

When you're long gone
When you're long gone

There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance
There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance

She was a ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose
Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose

Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose
Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose

When you're long gone
Nobody knows whose side you're on
When you're long gone

When you're long gone
Nobody tells you right from wrong
When you're long gone

When you're long gone
When you're long gone

There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance
There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance

She was a ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose
Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose
Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose
Ramshackle, ramshackle
Ramshackle rose

When you're long gone

There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance
There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance

There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance
There's no chance like a second chance
No chance like a second chance

My Lord

My Lord knows just where I've been
On a gilded road with boots of tin
And a suit that lets the bullets in
I keep marching on

Marching on to glory, I keep marching on
Marching on to glory, yeah I keep marching on

My Lord says that I'll be saved
Have everything I ever craved
So I'm not to be afraid
I just keep marching on

Marching on to glory, yeah I keep marching on
Marching on to glory, I keep marching on

So it seems that today's my day
My day to walk the glory way
But if heaven's full of men like you
Then I'll take hell and the devil too

Marching on to glory, yeah I keep marching on
Marching on to glory, I keep marching on

Marching on to glory, yeah I keep marching on
Marching on to glory, I keep marching on

Medicine chest

I can't find the keys to the medicine chest
Got a pain in my head and a pain in my chest
Losing my teeth and no relief
'Til we blow the lock on the castle keep

Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Where I keep my oil in the pill jar

Two way mirror talking midnight terror
John Paul's melting head gone forever
Three times screaming head Bacon triptych
Five times slaughterhouse Vonnegut mystery

Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Where I keep my oil in the pill jar

No way back into the dream for me
A false leg glass eye skeleton key
Owls on the road side screech, hey hey
And there's no way back into the dream for me

Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Oh the medicine chest
Where I keep my oil in the pill jar

An angel with no halo

The ducks fly across the room from left to right
Past the mirror and the antique light
And the Pacific wind is blowing your ship in
Do you wanna know, where everybody goes
When the bar is empty like the bottle
Or a lorry with no payload
An angel with no halo

An angel with no halo
An angel with no halo

An angel with no halo
An angel with no halo
An angel with no halo
An angel with no halo

The ducks fly across the room from left to right
Past the mirror and the antique light
And the Pacific wind is blowing your ship in
Do you wanna know, where everybody goes
When the bar is empty like the bottle
Or a lorry with no payload
An angel with no halo

One

There's not only one love, not only one love
Not only one love in this world my dear
There's not only one love, not only one love
Not only one love in this world my dear

I've been watching hours, see them come and go
Yes they come and go, yes they come and go, oh
Watching hours for someone I used to know
I've been watching hours for someone

Our friends said I told you so, they said I told you so
You could wait forever for a heart you'll never know
Love it comes and goes, love it comes and goes
And you could wait forever for someone

There's not only one love, not only one love
Not only one love in this world my dear
There's not only one love, not only one love
Not only one love in this world my dear

I see time passing, see time passing by
Like crystal halos that float across the sky
A thing of beauty flashing past the eye
A thing of beauty passing by

So why don't you try
Some loving of a different kind
That's good to hold and easy to find
My love is easy to find

There's not only one love, not only one love
Not only one love in this world my dear
There's not only one love, not only one love
Not just one love in this world my dear

Not only one, not only one love
Not only one, not only one love
Not only one, not only one love
Not only one, not only one love

Like Dark to light

You held on to the winter
Held on to make it right
Like a leaf to a branch
Like hope to a glance
Like dark to light

You were swimming in the to and fro
Nothing but a laughter low
Opened up, like I did to you
Light up, like a picture show
From dark to light

And we worried about the cares
The wolves and melting ice
About trying to be nice

You held on to the winter
Held on to make it right
Like a leaf to a branch
Like hope to a glance
Like dark to light

You were swimming in the to and fro
Nothing but a laughter low
Opened up, like I did to you
Light up, like a picture show
From dark to light

 

When The Lights Gone

You Were In My Dream Last Night

You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night

I felt you hold my hand
Then we faded like a picture in the light
Lips moving with those secrets
I saw you talking but I couldn't hear a word

You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night

And we saw Mother Mary cry
Ten thousand tears falling from on high
No one could remember why

You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night
You were in my dream last night

Bye Bye

Bye bye
We said bye bye
But I’m thinking of you

Bye bye Baby
We said bye bye
But I’m still thinking of you

The sun spills like cherry wine
Out aver the sky
I don’t want to pass on by
Cloud they won’t fly

Why, I can’t explain
Why the world turns this way
Why, I can’t explain
How the time slips away

Bye bye
We said bye bye
But I’m thinking of you

Bye bye Baby
We said bye bye
But I’m still thinking of you

Water on my skin
Leaves from the vine
Echos from another time
Parallel to mine

Why, I can’t explain
Why the world turns this way
Why, I can’t explain
How the time slips away
 

Bye bye
We said bye bye
But I’m thinking of you

Bye bye Baby
We said bye bye
But I’m still thinking of you
I’m still thinking of you
Still thinking of you

When the lights gone

We will paint on the street
Dusty city on our feet
I look down on you below
You look up to my high window

When the lights gone
The lights gone

Shadows down the avenue
Can you find the sky above these walls
We found magic in the cracks
We're building waterfalls

When the lights gone
The lights gone
The lights gone

I look down on you below
You look up to my high window

When the light's gone
The light's gone

Stubborn Rhythm

The more I know, the more I know
the less I see
The more I know, the more I know
The less I see

The writing's on the wall
You know we're gonna fall in

The more I live, the more I live
The less I know
The more we turn, the more we turn
The less you show

The writing's on the wall
You know we're gonna fall in 

Psych

Do you love me still
Do you say my name
Do you love me still
Is it all the same

Do you love me still
Do you say my name
Do you love me still
Is it all the same

Do you love me 

Late In The Morning

Wake up late in the morning
I don't know where I am
Can't connect my head
Keep lying around

If life is a banquet
Then love is the god
Stick in the knife
Watch the movie fade out

I don't know where I've been this time
I don't know where I've been this time
Everything that I loved is lost
The love will return in another form
One day, one day

It keeps on growing inside
The flower at night
Don't push me away
Don't hold me too tight

If life is a banquet
Then love is the god
Stick in the knife
Watch the blood run out

I don't know where I've been this time
I don't know where I've been this time
Everything that I loved is lost
The love will return in another form
One day

We Tell Our Stories

We tell our stories to understand
Twist the threads around our hands
Writing letters to past away
Thoughts we only try to say

He pulled my hand down
Wrote on my hand
The number of the stop
The outline of the plot

We meet and part with a kiss
Never to know, never to miss
We tell our story to live
The countess's tread in the Consulate 

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