1. |
Crazy Blue
04:30
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Crazy blue eyes
Living and breathing for the next surprise
Constantly fleeing the danger of reprise
The sure beginning of your demise
Crazy blue light
Losing your way, still driving into the night
Promising your head your heart will be right
Feeling the pulse with your eyes closed tight
Cold morning air
Stepping over last night still lying there
Afraid you might find you actually care
Averting your eyes from her pitying stare
Cold running water
Will only wake or drown this daughter
Riding the wave, starting to falter
The choice she once had receding further
Back from the brink of no future
Embracing life like a pacifist soldier
Sharing your hope and a shoulder
As one you are wiser and older
Back from the brink, witness the tide turn
Your heart swears to your head it will learn
In flashes of lightening you yearn
And your crazy blue eyes still burn
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2. |
This Life
04:19
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Safe to say we're not immune
Heaven must know the state we're in
With a singular grace you make it so easy
So hard to escape that everything fits
Are you ready to watch this slip
So close to your fingertips
Ready to return
To an ordinary world
Is it a question of not asking too much
What fool tries to piece together love
It says everything that you say nothing
And everything should be enough
Are you ready to watch this slip
So close to your fingertips
Ready to return
To an ordinary world
Was that expression one you meant to keep hidden
Spilling light through your disguise
And I have mine, though it's wearing thin
Will they see us through this impossible life
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3. |
Parallel Minds
03:26
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The whispers carry for miles
The comfort is cold
Listless against the cotton
Solace buried in the folds
You draw, you exhale
In parallel by design
You can send and receive
But never escape the divide
You slip the crush
You cut to the chase
Then you disappear
Your beautiful souls
Have a beautiful start
You have no fear
In touching distance
A world apart
Trusting instinct
With your fragile hearts
You get high that you belong
When the spirits connect
If the first touch was coincidence
What will you make of the next
You slip the crush
You cut to the chase
Then you disappear
Your beautiful souls
Have a beautiful start
You have no fear
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4. |
Crystallise
04:43
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I don't know why it never crystallised
For you and I were inside each other's mind
From the very first day when you arrived
And it seemed to be we had nothing to hide
Through the door I heard the voice of a stranger
How could I know it would become so familiar?
Like never before, as though you knew something more
Through your words, your kiss, and your laughter
Even as the dreamers roam
The silence always feels like home
But do you love, love, love me
The way I love, love, love you?
Way up high by the north side gate
On the crescent of the hill where the lovers wait
Without a vow or a promise to stay
From the morning’s veil to the gloaming grey
Your faith was always true, you could not be bought
Took only what you needed into your temple of thought
Still hard to say why it never crystallised
Beyond the photograph of your eyes
Even as the dreamers roam
The silence always feels like home
But do you love, love, love me
The way I love, love, love you?
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5. |
Hollow Bliss
03:08
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What is this?
The words set tight upon your lips
Surprise me again with no kiss
Capture me inside a hollow bliss
I feel no sun
I feel no pain
Will there be no rain
To bring the colours back to life again
You're my best friend
From the start and to the end
So all of this makes no sense
Seeing you so lost, so tense
There's no defence
There's no refrain
Will there be no rain
To bring the colours back to life again
The starlings fly
Let's go down and watch the skies
The silhouettes as the day subsides
Evade the shadows cast inside
Cry no more
From that lonely keep
Don't close the door
For I'm waking from the deepest sleep
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6. |
Butterfly
03:05
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You have the high ground since your unbroken fall
And you would be justified in closing the door
But I know you care, why else don’t you walk away
If you mean to stay then say what you need to say
If your anger will break it, your forgiveness could save it
If your anger will break it, your forgiveness…
If you take an eye, will you become the butterfly
See cities raised while you build your alibi
Hold back the fear, for wasted years wait on the horizon
Just take up the reins and ride on, ride on, ride on
If your anger will break it, your forgiveness could save it
If your anger will break it, your forgiveness…
Take up the reins
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7. |
Perfect Rain
03:41
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Eyes wide, a storm inside the day you left
A fear of regret left your fear of flying for dead
On a road to nowhere was all you cared to get
So near to never knowing messing with your head
Did you find the perfect sky
Did you watch it fall in
Did you feel a perfect rain
On your naked skin
Did you find the perfect night
And watch it slip away
Did you see the world go by
In just one day
Now your feet have landed firmly on the ground
You're standing at my door unannounced
I'm trying to deny what was lost and missing by a mile
Will you stay for a little while
Did you find the perfect sky
Did you watch it fall in
Did you feel a perfect rain
On your naked skin
Did you find the perfect night
And watch it slip away
Did you see the world go by
In just one day
Nothing is so clear in this daylight
But nothing will break as the heart that night
Nothing since has flown so high
Nothing close, not in my life
Did you find the perfect sky
Did you feel a perfect rain
Did you find the perfect night
Did you see the world go by
In just one day
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8. |
Out of the Frame
02:47
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You call me up to let me down
And I’m left standing with the shadow of a clown
For either I’m wrong and we never could float
Or right all along, did I just miss the boat
And I never got close
I never could see my way through
I never got close to you
But you know it is no good,
You know it is no good to cry
The sensations roll from high to low
From having known you, to watching you go
One second in, and then out of the frame
Still I can hear your voice as you call my name
Did you ever get close
Ever get close to the line
Between you and I
But you know it is no good,
You know it is no good to cry
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9. |
Black Eyes
03:22
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One more coffee
And dislocated conversation for the road
You slip away
Suspicious of the ones who love you the most
Out on a limb, down to the wire
Your duel with fear has me down a liar
Hope is starved, your quest is blind
Everything else is left behind
It really doesn't matter anymore
To you, nothing really matters anymore
Black eyes set in white skin
Ocean deep, but I try to begin
Already failed as the ally you crave
Still less a remedy for your rage
No, nobody
Nobody here can understand your dreams
Your stare is fixed
As your world rips itself apart at the seams
I'm running out of slack, clutching at straws
At every turn I meet a closed door
We're left to pray it's not too late
Can you find the release before you suffocate?
It really doesn't matter anymore
To you, nothing really matters anymore
Black eyes set in white skin
Ocean deep, but I try to begin
Already failed as the ally you crave
Still less a remedy for your rage
It really doesn't matter anymore
To you, nothing really matters anymore
The iron will of a broken mind
Upon your soul slowly unfolds
Leading you to the void that lies
On the other side of the rainbow
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10. |
Goodbye and Hello
03:10
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I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
A sense of all things changing watching you grow
The kindest heart and the bravest soul
I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
Just give me time and I will be there for you
Right now the sky is caving in to the blue
Feeling my way is as much as I can do
Just give me time and I will be there for you
I'm folding up my memories and hiding them away
Forgive me if I keep them safe, and don't let them fade
I know that you will always be there, come what may
I'm folding up my memories and hiding them away
I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
A sense of all things changing watching you grow
The kindest heart and the bravest soul
I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
Everyone can speak their mind, but only you can tell
The moments that you feel are heaven, which are hell
The disconnected people, and those for whom you fell
Everyone can speak their mind, but only you can tell
Life is learning, and to live is to fly
Not to banish our self pity, a crime
Let the story tellers bring us alive
Life is learning, and to live is to fly
I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
A sense of all things changing watching you grow
The kindest heart and the bravest soul
I feel I should be saying goodbye and hello
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11. |
Someday
03:47
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You waited for the truth
With silence on the wires, nothing coming through
And caught up in a fear
Of the stillness in the air
Someday you may find
In a corner of your mind
A place for somebody there
One day you may find
In that corner of your mind
More than you ever thought you could bear
First you have to learn to walk again
Find the voice you lost way back when
Recall when days would catch their breath for you
Recall that life was made to live for lovers
You felt your heart strings burn
One by one then break in turn
And no one had the answer
No one had the words
Someday you may find
In a corner of your mind
A place for somebody there
One day you may see
There's a promise yet to be
More than you ever thought you could share
First you have to learn to walk again
Find the voice you lost way back when
Recall when days would catch their breath for you
Recall that life was made to live for lovers
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Oli Rees UK
Songwriter from South Oxfordshire. Latest album 'Elusive Truth', recorded at Henwood Studios, and released on March 25th 2022.
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