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A mournful little pop song |
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Endless Night
You can?t see me but I?m out here in the shadows watching you
I colour your every mood
And I?ve always got you on your own
No need to be scared cause I?m there for you in everything you do
I?m as much a part of you
As your blood and your bones
Hear my interfering voice whispering in your soul
Your every act and every choice
Are under my control
You sink like a stone as you fall all alone
Into endless night
You thought it would be alright
But you were oh so wrong
You search for a spark cause you?re scared of the dark
In the endless night
In the tunnel at the end of the light
For oh so long
You tell everyone how you?re the one, you?re just meant to be
Such bare-faced hypocrisy
Is really quite breathtaking
I feel for you, I really do, but we both know you?re lying
And when you?re left crying
It?s all of your own making
You?ll try to put the blame on me when the lights go out
Maybe it was you, maybe it was me
Not for nothing I?m called doubt
You sink like a stone as you fall all alone
Into endless night
You thought it would be alright
But you were oh so wrong
You search for a spark cause you?re scared of the dark
In the endless night
In the tunnel at the end of the light
For oh so long
Bridge
I?m the fatal weakness in every man
I?m the one who says you can?t when you think you can
I?m the sordid little secret, the cloud across the sun
I have you on the ropes
I?m the one to dash your hopes
I?m the one to bring you down
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Copyr ight Alistair McIntosh 24 May 2007
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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4.8MB |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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3.8MB |
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A gentle love song in which reality is better than dreaming |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Possibly the first love song about quantum mechanics and relativity. |
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The Theory of Everything
(v)
I’ve proved the theory of everything
For the huge and the tiny things
I can travel in time
See what the future brings
Know who it is who is pulling our strings
Oh everything is
The force that pulls us together
This force that pulls us together
Can never tear us apart
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Your strangeness and charm
Is an oasis of calm
In a random world
Of strings and curls
Where chaos hurls
Me like a satellite
I’m a moth dancing round your light
To orbit forever
Around your sun
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The way that time flows
And how the winds blow
All the grains of sand
In every land
And all the stars
In all the heavens
They number nearer to nothing
Than all of the feelings
I have for you
(v)
A Brief History of Time
Nearly blew my mind
Now uncertainty
And gravity
Light years from me
In a parallel universe
Our roles could be reversed
On another planet
You’d be singing to me
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The way we blink in the light
The way the stars shine at night
The way the sun goes down
At the end of the day
Like everything
I can explain it all away
Cause the joy that you bring
It answers all of the questions and
Proves the theory of everything
© Alistair McIntosh 4 May 2004
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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This is a remix of Alistair's tune for which the original notes are below. It has the addition of guitar, bass and harmonies. The iffy bits at 2:10 and 4:38 are not of Alistair's making but my poor mixing! - Nick
'One Swallow...' was written in May 2003 and features acoustic guitar, lead guitar and vocals/harmonies. Although it has a blues/gospel feel, it is not a religious song but encourages us to find hope in the smallest things.
Actually, reading this again, it sounds kind of pretentious, doesn't it? I don't know, you tell me what you think, leave me some feedback if you can spare a couple of minutes.... |
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One Swallow Doesn’t Make A Summer
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
One ray of sunshine doesn’t light my day
We all lead such complicated lives
That it seems we’ve got it made if the dice ever rolls our way
But from tiny acorns do mighty oak trees grow
And peoples have founded nations on the seeds of hope they sow
Why won’t I believe if I don’t see with my own eyes
I need to feel it, need to touch it, need to taste it to realise
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
But one smile from you can really make my day
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
But it might just be a sign that things are gonna go my way
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright
Take your pleasure where you find it
Don’t wait for the music to strike the perfect chord
Don’t let yourself be blinded
By false prophets who each claim they’re the bearer of God’s word
But in every falsehood there’s a little grain of truth
It’s the needle in the haystack and the burden of the proof
And working out the charlatans from the honest men
Can be the labour of a lifetime and it is without end
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
But one smile from you can really make my day
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
But it might just be a sign that things are gonna go my way
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright
It’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright, it’s gonna be alright
© Alistair McIntosh – 14 May 2003
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Written to reflect a view on world events in February 2003. See if you can spot which ones.
I just generally got angry when I wrote this and the words came out freely. I could equally have called it 'Grumpy Old Man' but 'Both Ends Burning' describes it better
The great John Nightwolf added a bassline to this which you can hear at his site at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/johnnightwolf.htm
Go and have a listen to his stuff - it's great! |
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It’s not what you know, it’s who you know
Not where you’ve been but where you’ll go
No one seems to care about the past
But that is where you’ll find the truth
You don’t have to be a sleuth
But it’s a point our leaders never grasp
They can’t say that they weren’t warned
They claim to be so well informed
They shoot the breeze but they’ll reap the whirlwind
So when Bush comes to shove
What the hell are we thinking of
When we contemplate giving in
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price you pay
When the world keeps turning
And you turn away
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price we pay
With both ends burning
We’ll burn away
US flags fly at half-mast
To commemorate their spaceship crash
And mourn the seven souls they could not save
Meanwhile out near Iraq
They’re counting out the body bags
And digging holes for a million graves
This kind of hypocrisy
Will bring no good to you and me
But it is being done in our names
Attack symptoms, not disease
And everyone’s an enemy
The whole fucking world’s going up in flames
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price you pay
When the world keeps turning
And you turn away
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price we pay
With both ends burning
We’ll burn away
Asylum seekers stoke your fear
That Britannia will disappear
And terrorists are hiding everywhere
Where did they get the idea
That they should come over here
Well when our empire was over there
So where is your humanity
You lost it with your sanity
When you swallowed all the tabloid hype
That by the colour of their skin
Not one of them should be let in
But this is not a case of black and white
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price you pay
When the world keeps turning
And you turn away
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price we pay
With both ends burning
We’ll burn away
What goes around comes around
So we’re forever dumbing down
By so-called reality TV
The papers are just full of soaps
So we believe that our hopes
Are vested in c-list celebrities
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price you pay
When the world keeps turning
And you turn away
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price we pay
With both ends burning
We’ll burn away
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price you pay
If you don’t keep learning
Every day
Hey hey hey hey
That’s the price we pay
With both ends burning
We’ll burn away
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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About an event in my life, but some of the facts and the names are changed to protect the guilty...! |
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Parking Lot In Los Angeles
Outside it was colder than a serial-killer?s stare
And the silver wind could cut a man in two
Inside he felt older than the mountains and the air
Crushed by the burden of one single thing he knew
Outside it was colder
Inside he felt older
He?d just arrived in the land of missed opportunities
When he met his match in a parking lot in Los Angeles
She rode the crest of a wave, ran rings around the world
Arrived like a storm on the California coast
A slave would be the man who took on this girl
Her body language spoke to him, devil take the hindmost
Rode the crest of a wave
A man would be a slave
She played hard to get, and harder to please
When he met his match in a parking lot in Los Angeles
Bridge
Someti mes you just can?t see
No matter how hard you look
It?s like wearing a blindfold
When you?re trying to read a book
His soul could have been greater than the sum of all his past
Would be greater now but for what he might have been
It was only so much later as he breathed his very last
He knew if he?d played a king she would have been his queen
His soul could have been much greater
Knew only so much later
There?s no crueler hoaxer than serendipity
When he met his match in a parking lot in Los Angeles
He?d just arrived in the land of missed opportunities
When he met his match in a parking lot in Los Angeles
© Alistair McIntosh - 20 April 2005
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Alistair McIntosh |
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Another track from the CD ' All Things To All People'. This song was written in late 2002. Nick Blair plays bass. |
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(You Mistake Me For) Someone Who Cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
But you just caught me unawares
You think we are serious
We were just delirious
It was only a bit of fun
So I rode into the setting sun
But to see the way you cried
You’d think somebody had died
I never meant you to suffer any harm
But that’s the price you pay
If you weren’t a sucker for a piece of easy charm
Then you wouldn’t feel this way
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You mistake me for someone who cares
But you caught me unawares
You mistake me for someone who cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
Well it’s just the way I am
I really don’t give a damn
If you thought I was mysterious
Then you won’t want to hear this
I don’t live in your fantasy
I am who I want to be
If you thought that I was curious
My interest was just spurious
Spare me the details of your broken heart
I’m sick of hearing of it
For crackpot theories you’re a master of your art
And you’re looking for the facts to fit
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(Instrum ental Break)
You mistake me for someone who cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
You mistake me for someone who cares
©Alis tair McIntosh 10 December 2002
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Sorry to post again, but i just noticed you had The Beautiful South listed as a similar artist! Big fan!! Found out about them via Housemartins, which I found out via Barenaked Ladies! :) |
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Jesse Kaufman
February 10th, 2005 |
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Great stuff ... saw you post in response to one of mine in the "if you could give just one..." thread on musesmuse.com and checked out your profile to end up here! :)
-glandix |
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Jesse Kaufman
February 10th, 2005 |
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Geez! Enklish Lankuage only?
I wanted to say something in SAVO, like: Mittee kuuluu? Oukkonää soitellunna missää?
WHICH, translated, goes something like: How goes? Have You been playing anywhere lately?
Cheers!
Hannu H. ;)
Ps. muzikk .... good as ever! |
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Hannu Heinisaari
December 15th, 2004 |
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got windows to work @ last....great job al
music rocks alonge nicley with the great lyrics
another tap on ur back mate
best wishes
nigel |
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Nigel Lawry
September 18th, 2004 |
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'You Save Me From Myself'
An energetic little ditty that trips along nicely! I like the sound of the lead guitar! Very Crosby Stills & Nash. Quite a catchy tune. I think I like it! |
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Steve Perrett
September 13th, 2004 |
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