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Oakley Sky

by Oli Rees

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1.
What took you so long What took you so long What made up your mind What's different this time What took you so long What took you so long Since velvet April skies Filled up your eyes Only now can you see What you wanted to see Only now can you hear What you needed to hear Only now can you feel All that you feel in this place All that you feel on this day What took you so long What took you so long The heart upon my sleeve Was always yours to reprieve What took you so long What took you so long In a life as short as this And the struggle to resist [Chorus] How does this play Now you're on your own The vision never fades But the time has gone Holding on, I’m holding on I’m holding on, I’m holding on to you The promise half a life away But the rays are still streaming through [Chorus]
2.
What might change if it came to it That each with a voice could not betray it What could change should we expose The last of the emperor’s new clothes I don’t want you to ask me for the truth There’s more than meets the eye running through There’s no black and white, and too much here to lose So don’t speak for me I may not follow you You measure the sugar to your own taste Never contemplate each cup is just a waste You try to control every shiver Yet my thoughts are not yours to deliver [CHORUS] Duty bound, not empathy, No common ground, not here for me [CHORUS]
3.
Ebb And Flow 03:57
Questions ebb and flow But love is not the goal It’s loneliness we seek To distance in our sleep No sense that we should start But oceans never part We’re lost inside the waves That break inside the heart It’s true I have no plan But what love can withstand The unforgiving blade Of every promise made Does there have to be a reason No love falls out of season Here’s where I should falter But I need to have the answer It’s too late to retrieve The words that I let leave In the letter to your lips Through my fingertips And so for just one day The soul is not contained The heart unravelling The world is wide again So the ebb and flow The lonely undertow Two seconds of the heart Illuminate the dark Tracing every line With your eyes on mine It's easy to forget Nothing happened yet Now you open up You offer me your cup The taste is lingering The taste is lingering Days and days roll by The night left high and dry I watch it all unfold Because you're not here to hold
4.
Stars 03:36
Rising to the sound Of the sweetest bird You turned to say I cannot recall What came before Or what remains Sometimes the stars collide We're still falling on the other side From dreamers on the hill You took a second tongue To a second life Miles and miles apart Yet your heart Was not untied Sometimes the stars collide We're still falling on the other side
5.
The Bridge 03:49
Is there no love lost between us When we all begin as dreamers Blind to the fault lines Running through our lives A spoken word separates us Our souls are cast as strangers And desire burns With no disguise Hear the voices cry The waters reach too high and run too wide I'm trying to keep a simple view I wonder are they trying to build from the other side Is there no end in sight for a generation All waiting for a revelation While the great divide Still dominates the sky And if you were to ask me will I stay Could I take your hand and faith I would answer I don’t have the right Hear the voices cry The waters reach too high and run too wide I'm trying to keep a simple view I wonder are they trying to build from the other side Here across the bridge A bridge that I can only make in my mind I'm trying to keep a simple view I wonder are they trying to build from the other side
6.
Radio 03:50
Please stay For you know I cannot escape The endless tirade From the voice in my head That berates my soul Will not let me rest If you're lucky, maybe it's easy But I stay low Silent running past the dreams I listen to the radio I listen to the radio I listen to the radio The days fade away But still there remains No mark on the page I'm chasing my tail Finding nothing has changed And I lose every faith That I dare to entertain The waves are out of phase I look for an inflection And the myriad of ways To see your intention If you're lucky, maybe it's easy But I stay low Silent running past the dreams I listen to the radio I listen to the radio I listen to the radio
7.
Sold Out 02:35
Are you holding out For redemption A way out of this Your own exemption You sold out You gave in Was there ever any doubt You'd save your own skin And you once knew How you wanted to live Now it seems that you have Nothing left to give Is there something that I miss Is the game all there is [chorus] There was a time You knew what to say Now it seems you never had Any cards to play The carnival turned grey In this cold light of day [chorus]
8.
Swimming in clear water pools The noise of the falls and the moon shining down On the backs of the horses Cut through by the lovers' voices She hungered for the answers She turned over every stone But for all that she uncovered She still stood miles from home Oh the demons never sleep Oh you try to figure out what to keep Oh but you need nothing save release Fires still raging for the loss Of a love cut so unkindly short A life so unfairly taken The souls torn apart He told he'd seen her portrait Still set out on a table But she knew it could not be true She never was the returning angel [Chorus] Who was more afraid of the truth Who more enslaved to their heart Who was more sorry to surrender Who more resigned to the dark Who was more in danger of falling Who more certain to cry Who was more sure to suffer Who more afraid to die [Chorus]
9.
Tomorrow 03:41
Once it was that she would linger Make excuses and exceptions Just to spend some time Can you tell me just how long You would wait for that girl If she were you, if you were me Was a time there was only laughter Hard to imagine what tomorrow would bring Hard to imagine what tomorrow could bring The rain has started again and its louder now And it's getting harder Now the night is closing in Can you tell me is there something You would say to that girl If she were you, if you were me Was a time there was only laughter Hard to imagine what tomorrow would bring Hard to imagine how tomorrow could sting [Instr] And all the reasons left unsaid Your footsteps quicken As you reach the gate And you know you're just one step away Just one breath away And you hesitate Was a time there was only laughter Hard to imagine what tomorrow would bring Hard to imagine what tomorrow could bring
10.
You should know better Than to sail so close to the sun And you know well Broken hearts cannot be undone You could turn on your heels Take the river, take the fields All the same The promise lies revealed Is it a love that you can show Is it a love that you must hide Is it a love that you can run to Is it a love you must divide You can decide With your embrace to sacrifice You can invite, if they will hear your cries Angels to advise You can feel yourself slip Under the water's skin And the needle Of the winter setting in Is it a love that you can trust Is it a love that still has hope Is it a love that you can shelter Is it enough to eclipse the cold Is it a love you have neglected Is it a love that has taken its toll Is it a love you never expected Are you running ahead on a vanishing road
11.
Touch 03:52
I need your touch To reach through the veil That has fallen over me I need your breath To rush over my skin To push against the void This is not hope This is not life This is my trial And you are my guide I need your voice To cut through the darkness That has filled my eyes I will not feel afraid while that I know You will not leave my side This is not hope This is not life This is my trial And you are my guide Take up my hand Take me outside Into the cold air The fathomless skies There's a wide open space And a slow rising sun And I see your face And then everyone Oh, and I know, yes I know You will carry me to the end Paper thin escaping dreams Are scattered to the wind Oh, and I know, yes I know I know that you'll always be near Oh, and I breathe, and I breathe And I breathe

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released September 26, 2016

Oli Rees: guitars, vocals, keys
Jasmine Hunt: bass guitar, keys
Steve Rees: drums
Matthew Forbes: cello (tracks 8, 11)
Pete Brown: percussion, backing vocals, lap steel guitar

All songs written by Oli Rees
Produced by Pete Brown
Recorded at Henwood Studios

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Songwriter from South Oxfordshire. Latest album 'Elusive Truth', recorded at Henwood Studios, and released on March 25th 2022.

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