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Written in the summer of 2000. How it came about is a long story, but the tuning it was written in came into being after a long recording session with Joe Williams (recording his "Green Song"). Lullaby is one of the songs I most enjoy playing - I hope it will be one that people remember. |
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The cityscape surrounds you, it is home, it shelters but surrounds you, infrastructure renders you a helpless cell but then the sky is orange, burning other people's lives, the elements are bitter cold. You are used to this. Confusion plays its part, the fire that lights the sky, and keeps you warm, puts smoke into your eyes, is fuelled by all there lies, there's no escape, you're working late again.
I know this ain't no lullaby
Heaven hates no lullaby
It's too late to learn to cry
We all meet hardship. Heaven knows what a way for hope to die
Facing down a one way street, Like facing up to other people's memories of yesterday, will always stay the same. They loose the crushing pain, forget the shame, of loosing all control, you have no name today. Creations die but they had only lived inside your brain now loose their worth. The winter rain will wash away your spirit now. The city lives today. |
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| Lyrics Author: |
Tom Kerswill |
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Tom Kerswill |
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3.7MB |
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Written in 2003 while at Cambridge university. It's got elements of a love song but... well, isn't just a love song. This arrangement sets it as I think it's always meant to have been played: just me and an acoustic guitar, plus some piano which was never meant to make it into the final mix but just, well... seemed to work. In some ways an ode to modern life, in some ways just a simple acoustic song. |
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I shouldn't be here
I'm going nowhere
Stay and sing a while
I'm busy writing into words
Your fallen king
Always be here for me singing
To the streetlights
Always casting limelight heavenwards
While I'm sleeping
Always ordering from Amazon
And receiving
Comms and telephones and changing stations
On your stereo
Fell asleep on the pavement
Tired and happy
Loneliness had got a glow inside
I thought that you love me
And then I felt happy
I'm not singing all this f***ed upness inside
We'll climb mountains
And slide down them
And paint pictures
And kiss strangers
And then shyly run away from
All this city life is draining
But there's freedom
In the streets and I can hide there
I can feel them |
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| Lyrics Author: |
Tom Kerswill |
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| Composer: |
Tom Kerswill |
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3.2MB |
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The first original song that I performed live. It's got a mood that hasn't changed through its various reincarnations. Originally written with a long didge intro, it now cuts straight in with a minimalist arrangement - just rhodes and voice, before the acousitc guitar cuts in. A song which tells a story. |
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Cold Harbor is my name
And I am cold as ice
Oh God forget my fame
Its misting up your eyes
Some folks like to daydream
Then they wonder what they've seen
Hidden in the rubble
That has fallen by their feet
Gotta save my soul tonight I
Did not give a thought
Who do you think you are, believing
Who do you think you are?
I went down to check my soul
It had not caught alight
I went saw believers
Believe everything in sight
You, you're not believers
You just want to know the night
God has saved my soul tonight
I did not give a thought
Who do you think you are believing?
Who do you think you are?
Hate came down and held your hands you
Did not blink an eye
I looked down into my knees
The devil in disguise
Coldness harboured in these eyes and in the news presenter's eyes and in the news was all their lies and no one knew. |
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| Lyrics Author: |
Tom Kerswill |
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| Composer: |
Tom Kerswill |
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3.5MB |
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A lively but relaxed song, played on acoustic and electric guitar. |
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Closed circuit TV
Peace of mind
And they're serving up gravy
And Angel's Delight
I was struck by the notion of
Saving Time
And how it's done nothing for
The peace of mind we're all
Looking for.
Deep in the soul
The sun goes back in its hole
In the ground
Nothing is found
We all stare into the ground
God save us all
from feeling too proud
Coz gravity keeps us all
stuck to the ground
You find politcs boring
But are alarmed when they all come
Crashing down around you
Demand that you all turn a blind eye.
Next doors installed a new
Satellite
And they're keeping me from sleeping
With a million conversations
On their mobile-phone computer-generated
Random noise
Here on the ground,
They don't stop
Running around
And hope comes crashing to ground
When you know
You're just part of the crowd
God save us all
from feeling too proud
Coz gravity keeps us all
stuck to the ground |
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| Lyrics Author: |
Tom Kerswill |
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| Composer: |
Tom Kerswill |
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| Filesize: |
5.7MB |
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A more acoustic version of the song Gravity, featuring bass and violin. Enjoy! |
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Closed circuit TV
Peace of mind
And they're serving up gravy
And Angel's Delight
I was struck by the notion of
Saving Time
And how it's done nothing for
The peace of mind we're all
Looking for.
Deep in the soul
The sun goes back in its hole
In the ground
Nothing is found
We all stare into the ground
God save us all
from feeling too proud
Coz gravity keeps us all
stuck to the ground
You find politcs boring
But are alarmed when they all come
Crashing down around you
Demand that you all turn a blind eye.
Next doors installed a new
Satellite
And they're keeping me from sleeping
With a million conversations
On their mobile-phone computer-generated
Random noise
Here on the ground,
They don't stop
Running around
And hope comes crashing to ground
When you know
You're just part of the crowd
God save us all
from feeling too proud
Coz gravity keeps us all
stuck to the ground |
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| Lyrics Author: |
Tom Kerswill |
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| Composer: |
Tom Kerswill |
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3.1MB |
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