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I thought I knew you before,
I thought I knew but now I'm not so sure
I thought I knew you before,
Way back when, when then was then
Before I'd evened up the score
I thought I knew...
Remember, spring was in our steps,
The colours bursting through our eyes.
Heightening our senses
And promising our lives - our lives
A short hot summer took us way up high.
Sunlight shimmering across your skin,
Hazing, lazing by the water's edge,
Letting love and hope begin.- Begin.
I thought I knew you before,
Thought I knew how to keep it pure.
I thought I knew you before,
And it's not so very long ago
I said I'd been fooled before
I thought I knew...
Then Autumn blew it’s leaves at us
The colours swirling through the park.
Laughing as we fanned our flames.
Warming while the world turned dark. - Turned dark.
I thought I knew you before (2)
Without apologising, winter came
The sky turned to gun-metal grey.
Oh there’s nothing more heart-breaking
Than all those tears on Christmas Day - on Christmas Day.
I thought I knew you before,
Thought I was bullet proof for sure.
I thought I knew you before,
Barely a year, yet so long ago
Before I knew anymore
I thought I knew you...
You thought you knew me before,
But you had only scratched the surface.
What I do know is the cure,
I blossom, now. For evermore.
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Ten long years
03:37
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Ten long years
Since she walked the road of angels
Ten long years
Since life stood still - Life stood still
Pick yourself up - she’d say
Don’t be afraid - she’d say
Move on to a better day
Pull yourself together
Better late than never
Nothing lasts forever
Bridge - All these words
She would say
Still hear them
Ten long years
Since she walked the road of angels
Ten long years
Since life stood still - Life stood still
Kiss me goodbye - she’d say.
Just gotta try – she'd say
To start your life again
Dust yourself down
Banish that frown
Please don’t break down
Why do I find it so hard to take?
Can I ever let you go
I remember, you gave me your hand to shake,
When all I wanted was your hand to hold.
But thank you for those-
Ten fine years ,When I really got to know you
And forever more, I always will - always
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Claim the night
04:35
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Trying to clear my mind
Trying to bide my time
Just watching foxes claim the night.
Trying to take my leave
Trying to learn to breathe
Just watching magpies claim the trees.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
I'm watching the world spin
Yeah I'm on the look out
I'm still yearning
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
I'm watching the world spin
Hold tight
Don't steal this feeling
Trying to recognise
The truth in all those lies
Just watching rainclouds claim the skies.
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
I'm watching the world spin
Yeah I'm on the look out
I'm still yearning
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
I'm watching the world spin
Hold tight
Don't steal this feeling
Floating - on pipe dreams
Rolling - on moonbeams
Tripping- on sunshine
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Cold denial
03:33
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Yesterday , feeling all ok,
but then the rain came
Pouring down like a saddened clown
the tears frame.
Go on look me in the eye
you cannot hide it, deny it
Go on tell me one more lie
cos you won’t - bring me down
Nothing’s as simple as it seems
don’t try to fool the fooler with your dreams
nothing’s as simple as it seems
with your mean talk and cold denial
What’s the colour of the rain today
is it red , is it blue
with a sunny haze or rainbow glaze
what’s true
Go on look me in the eye
you cannot hide it, deny it
Go on tell me one more lie
cos you won’t - bring me down
Nothing’s as simple as it seems
don’t try to fool the fooler with your dreams
nothing’s as simple as it seems
with your mean talk and cold denial
Never thought you’d ever treat another person so badly
Never thought you would ever come across so madly
Where is the love - where is the love
Never thought you had it in you to be so fragile
Never thought that you would behave so hostile
Where is the love - you denied
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Losing my way
05:08
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Blue day
Grey light
Gave me no reason
To even get out of bed
Gave me no reason
Demons running through my head
I was losing
All that I knew
I was losing
Belief in myself everyday and I knew
I was losing - losing my my way
Holding
Comforting
gave me the answer
Said Look at it a different way
See the picture
Colour it for a beautiful day
Still losing
All that I knew
I was losing
Belief in myself everyday and I knew
I was losing - even thought I was losing you
I was losing - losing my way
Sunshine was rising again
The caged bird was singing again
Your words - kept ringing in my head
You’re not losing
All that you knew
You’re not losing
Belief in yourself everyday and it's true
Your not losing, you’re not losing me you’re not losing you
You’re not losing your way.
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Dawns a new day
04:00
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COLD LIFTING THE DARKNESS
WHAT’S LEFT TO SEE
STARING DOWN THE CONFUSION
LOSING THE NEED
ASKING FOR NOTHING
TAKING FOR FREE
LIVING THE ILLUSION
MOVING ME
FOR EVERY HEART BROKEN
FOR EVERY BLUE
FOR EVERY BREATH IN THE NIGHT TAKEN WITH YOU
DAWNS A NEW DAY
CLOUDS MELTING IN CIRLCES
AGAIN AND AGIAN
WHISPER THE UNCERTAIN
NEVER ENDS
ASKING FOR NOTHING
TAKING FOR FREE
ASKING FOR NOTHING …
FOR EVERY HEART BROKEN
FOR EVERY BLUE
FOR EVERY BREATH IN THE NIGHT TAKEN WITH YOU
DAWNS A NEW DAY
BELIEVING — NAKED AND TRUE
BELIEVING EVERYTHING’S CHANGED
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After the fire
04:11
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After the fire,
There was only me and you,
A certain silence,
A certain hue,
After the rain,
There was nothing more to say,
After a moment,
I watched you walk away.
After the darkness,
I expected light,
A dazzling sunrise,
To scatter the night,
After the morning,
There was nothing left to choose,
When I reached out,
You’d already cut me loose.
You, you were the storm that took me under,
Filled with beauty, fuelled by wonder,
you, you were the storm that took me under
oh we were so much younger
Than we could know.
Verse
After Joanna,
What could I do?
But wake to the television,
Instead of waking up to you,
After the ground was gone,
There was nothing left but space,
A space between us,
And the bitterest taste.
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Everybody here wants you
05:18
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29 pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me
29 pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me
I'm only here for this moment
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I'll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away
Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd
I'm a stranger in this town
You're free with me
And our eyes locked in downcast love
I sit here proud
Even now, you're undressed in your dreams with me
Oh, I'm only here for this moment
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I'll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away
I know the tears we cried
Have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
There's nothing in our way, my love
Don't you see, don't you see?
You're just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame
And I'll rise like an ember in your name
I know I, I know I
I know everybody here wants you
And I know everybody here thinks they need you
I'll be waiting right here just to show you
Oh, let me show you (I'll be waiting right here just to show you)
That love can rise, rise just like embers
Love can taste like the wine of the ages,
And I know they all look so good from a distance
But I tell you I'm the one
I know everybody here, thinks they need you
Thinks they need
And I'll be waiting right here
Ill be waiting right here just to show you
That everybody here wants you
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Soothe me
05:48
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Something inside
means something that never dies
But I know you’ve lost it now
Something in your eyes
Tells me things I don’t wanna know
But what can I do now
Who’s gonna soothe me
Soothe me for first time
Not confuse me yeah
With your begging me please don’t go
Who’s gonna soothe me
Now
Shattered to know
Broken in two with the worlds I hear
From a friend , sometimes a stranger
Flattered to feel
So important I don’t need you near
But where will I go now
Who’s gonna soothe me
Soothe me for the first time
Not abuse me yeah
With your begging me please don’t go
Please don’t go
Who’s gonna soothe me
Now
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Trust in you
03:17
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I don’t know I don’t know, I don’t know why
You keep on hanging around
I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know why
You keep on fooling around
Yesterdays are lost
tender nights of love forgotten
You kissed goodbye with scorn
So why don’t you know - ooh why don’t you let go .
I don’t know I don’t know, I don’t know why
You keep on hanging around
I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know why
You keep on fooling around
Pictures of the past
Memories - of a different story
Walked away with regret
Mistake you know - ooh why won’t you let go
I don’t know I don’t know, I don’t know why
You keep on hanging around
I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know why
You keep on fooling around
In you , you’ve got to trust in you
Trust in yourself - believe in what you have to do
to move on with your own life
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We send ships dear
04:29
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We send ships here, you and me
From the harbour to the sea
Fly the flags high
Wish them goodbye
Off on journeys that we’ll never see here
Always be here
By the quay, dear
We let dreams out,
line by line
Crossing oceans, steering time
Captured sunrise, bottled blue eyes
Seeing places that we’ll never see here
Always be here
By the quay, dear
Drifting oceans away now
Plot a course that is true
Sailing into the sunset
Sail home to you
Your song reached out, touched like rain Streamers floating, down they came Made the words rhyme
Pulled them though time
To people that we’d never be here Never been here
By the quay, dear
Drifting oceans away now
Plot a course that is true
Sailing into the sunset
Sail home to you
Drifting oceans
Course is true
Sailing over the sunset
Sail home to you
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Do it
03:12
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Talk and talk and talk, nothing happens
It's time to make a change and rise above the lies
To open up our eyes
And realise
Talk and talk and talk, nothing happens
if we come together we can be so strong
And it won't be long
We'll sing our song
Cos they talk and talk
And keep on telling us we're wrong
But these things they do...Why don't we
Why don't we stop them if we can?
Cos we'll do it for sure
Stand alone we will endure
Yes We'll do it for sure
Ooh stay out of our lives
Talk and talk - time to change
Hold it your soul and feel it in your heart
Time to make a start
You got to play your part
Cos they talk and talk
And keep on telling us we're wrong
But these things they do...Why don't we
Why don't we stop them if we can?
Cos we'll do it for sure
Stand alone we will endure
Yes we'll do it for sure
Stay out of our lives
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Lorna Brooks Edinburgh, UK
Lorna is being claimed as one of Scotland’s select few outstanding singer songwriters.
It is a rare thing
indeed to find a voice that has character and is unmistakeable as the artist- Lorna is such a rarity. Her records have been described as ‘songs of beauty, distinction and subtlety shot through with fragility and delicacy’
MUSICIAN MAGAZINE
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