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Take me down to the water’s edge where my feet won’t go any more
Take me down to the water’s edge where the stars are on the floor
Take me down to the water’s edge at the end of the land
Take me down to the water’s edge, leave me strung out on the strand
Take me down to the silver shore where the horses run free
Take me down to the silver shore where the fishes come to breathe
Take me down to the silver shore where the night never falls
Take me down to the silver shore where the ghostly songbird calls
Take me down to the water’s edge where the sun sets like lead
Take me down to water’s edge let me stay there till you’re dead
Take me down to the border line where the madness always starts
Take me down to the border line where the water cannot pass
Take me down to the border line where the land of nod begins
Take me down to the border line for absolution from my sins
Take me down to the water’s edge …
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You were an echo that is all / A ripple from a mountain fall
I was wrong I couldn’t see / All you seemed was made by me
I’m not saying you weren’t real / Or there was nothing I could feel
But when I held you I held her / And when we kissed I tasted her
I was lying I was wrong / You were you and she was gone
I was lying I was wrong / You were you and she was gone
It’s not that I was insincere / I still wish that you were here
But when I touched you I touched her / And when we kissed I tasted her
I was lying I was wrong / You were you and she was gone
I was lying I was wrong / You were you and she was gone
I saw her today / We were like strangers on a train
I saw her today / Across in a café
I saw her today / I wanted words but nothing came
I saw her today / I am to blame
I still wanted her it’s true / I found a piece of her in you
I loved you and I loved her / And when we kissed I tasted her
I was lying…
(c) Simon Hardeman
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In your room festooned with notes of global tides
You sat becalmed like driftwood rotting from inside
In the artificial darkness that you made
You showed titans how to make their evil trades
Now… the running is through…
The devil you bought… wants his due
Now… There’s no escape
The devil you bought… has come for you
Now you’ve left on this chilly April dawn
The air tastes fresh and I wonder where you’ve gone
Someone said you were heading for the north
To see a soulmate though they didn’t sound so sure
Now… the running is through…
The devil you bought… wants his due
Now… There’s no escape
The devil you bought… has come for you
You talked to tramps and made them feel like they were kings
Make us love you and it was a special thing
But now the people you invite into your world
Look like prisoners who would rather be unstirred
Now… the running is through…
The devil you bought… wants his due
Now… There’s no escape
The devil you bought… has for you
(c) Simon Hardeman
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If you ever need to change your mind
Don't be afraid, nothing's signed
If you ever need to change your line
Just pick up your phone and dial mine
If you ever need to make your peace
Confess to me, I'll be your priest
If you ever want to turn the tide
I'll come along for the ride
Take your time 'cos you don't need to rush
Too many universes to matter much
Another life will do just as well
I'm cool with that - can't you tell
If you ever want to change your mind
If you ever feel you must unwind
If you ever want to pay your debt
If you ever want to lose your head
Take your time…
If you ever find an emptiness
If you ever need to struggle less
If you ever think you might be wrong
If you ever hear me sing this song
Take your time…
If's a picture, it's a thousand words... (repeat ad lib)
(c) Simon Hardeman
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Tonight / Is the night / when the vampires / Are in flight
Tonight / we’re told / Alligators / are cold
Tonight / Dark is bright / It’s alright / Don’t take fright
Tonight / the atom brain / is acting / so strange
Tonight / fire demons / take on / their meaning
We have always been here before
Bermuda and this house and more
Devil’s triangle, we know the score
With Roky on the thirteenth floor
Tonight / your skin / is dust / from within
Tonight / you’ll shake / with Lucifer / till you break
(c) Simon Hardeman
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I’ve been waiting for a change
To come before the end of days
But as the telomeres burn low
It’s still the same old same old show
But I’ll hang on all the same
Through the sun and wind and rain
Hope’s eternal in my breast
It just struggles in the rest
I heard a change is gonna come
Some old soul song by someone
I wonder if it came along
A busting song can still be wrong
But I’ll hang on all the same
Through the sun and wind and rain
Hope is eternal in my breast
It just struggles in the rest
Impermanence is what they say
Nothing stays, the Buddhist way
Perhaps it’s karma in this case
But how to make it happen here?
But how to make it happen here?
Yes I know that things can change
I know it’s nothing very strange
I’ve seen it happen all around
Just not on this patch of ground
But I’ll hang on all the same
Through the sun and wind and rain
Hope is eternal in my breast
It just struggles in the rest
A change is gonna come
When you come along
(c) Simon Hardeman
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Anger (live at Oslo)
02:40
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Deep inside / Don’t know why / I ache / I cry
I shout and scream at people I don’t know
Anger… like a lava flow
Behind the smile / Needled in / It’s a curse / It’s a sin
It’s an emotion that I can’t control
Anger… I can’t let go
I’ve tried shrinks and I’ve tried eating pills
I’ve tried drugs and I’ve tried power of will
At home / In my bones / It festers / It grows
I want to give but all I give is pain
Anger… it still remains
I’ve tried shrinks…
Now and then / I think I’ve won / Then I blow / Like a bomb
Then I know that it will never go
Anger… like a lava flow
I’ve tried shrinks…
(c) Simon Hardeman
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Ton Up (live at Oslo)
04:34
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Looking at the road behind / And the stretch ahead
I see all the casualties / The bleeding and the dead
Listening to my engine / The needle still says go
My tyres are bald my clutch has slipped / it’s too late to slow
My life’s at a hundred miles an hour
On the turn I’ve fed on too much power
Will I make it no-one ever has
But I can’t ease it off I love the buzz
Two wheels good and four wheels bad / Windows kill your dreams
Two wheels good no wheels bad / The revs block out the screams
My life’s at a hundred miles an hour…
Flash on by the revs are high the wind weighs on your chest
Hold on tight and twist the knife no time to have a rest
No journey’s end just straight and bend don’t let the engine die
Run on fumes, run on air, don’t let your tank run dry
Looking at the road behind / And the stretch ahead
I see all the casualties / The bleeding and the dead
Listening to my engine / The needle still says go
My tyres are bald my clutch has slipped / it’s too late to slow
My life’s at a hundred miles an hour…
(c) Simon Hardeman
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Mercury Heart London, UK
The Independent Saturday Magazine Recommended Download: “Original, intelligent
music”
The Independent: “Songs about the kind of things that affect real people”
Time Out: “Unorthodox rock’n’roll’
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