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Let Me Breathe
03:45
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Let Me Breathe
And I…
I look at you
from the distance, stand
I would hold your hand
and never let go
if only we could be
together as one
Under the sun.
Looking for a sign
are we meant to be?
I am all at sea
waiting for you
ever waiting for you
to see me
I’m here.
And I…
I look at you
with your shining eyes
like a bright sunrise
lighting the world
what a beautiful world
made for you
You and me too.
I see you smile — the grace you share
your flowing locks — ever so fair
breathlessly, I slump in a chair
a pumping heart — need some air
need to breathe
let me breathe
I see you smile…
care and grace…
need to breathe
let me breathe
And now…
Is this all there is?
see the setting sun
glow on everyone
all in the light
settle into the night
need to breathe
Let me breathe.
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2. |
Telepath Dream
05:18
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Telepath Dream
Feel a sense of magic in the air.
See the mind of another everywhere.
Telepath, oh telepath.
Softly lit visions of sun in the trees.
Sand drifting slowly beside the seas.
Music comes swelling around my head
Numbing the soul from which it was bled.
The sound of her smile calls to me.
Caressing and teasing incessantly.
Illusion, oh telepath.
Pillowy clouds I send back to her
Along with a cat whose sensuous purr
Describes my content with immaculate ease.
Eternally yours, yours to please.
You are the star whose guiding light
Enhances our love within its sight.
Though we are distanced so far apart
Our minds are linked so close at heart.
The magic of the world is in our mind.
We are the one telepathic kind.
Yes a dream, oh telepath.
Yes a dream, oh telepath.
Feel a sense of magic in the air.
See the mind of another everywhere.
Feel a sense of magic in the air.
See the mind of another everywhere.
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3. |
Words
02:33
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Words
Are there words to say I love you?
Are there words to say I care?
Are there words enough to love you?
Are there words to show I care?
Here I am.
There you are.
What is left to say?
Here I am.
There you are.
All we have is the day.
Everyday eyes are smiling.
Everyday’s a chance to grow.
Look around, hearts are shining.
Feel the warmth, feel the glow.
Leaves of green
Tinged with yellow,
Turning amber and red.
Here I am, then.
There you are, again.
Sunny days ahead.
These are words to say I love you.
These are words to show I care.
Sense the love that’s all around you.
Sense the love and know I’m there.
Are there words enough to love you?
Are there words to show I care?
These are things to say I love you.
Sense the love and know I’m there.
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4. |
Song For A Butterfly
03:59
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Song For A Butterfly
Sliding through the tree tops,
Running through the branches,
Flying to the sun so high,
Rise with the heat once you get there.
Feeling like a rainbow,
Flitting through the flowers,
Waiting for a summer breeze
to take you where you want to be.
Look out for the stranger
seeking to look inside.
This is a song for a butterfly,
Taking hold of my thoughts.
Everything is peaceful
in the mind of my butterfly.
What she sees is so different,
Shapes and colours of her world.
When she flirts around us
she’s only trying to understand.
Look out for the stranger
seeking to look inside.
Flap your wings and fly away,
From a distance I can tell
if we are meant to be.
Coming back, hear my calling.
Butterfly I love you
for everything that you are,
the grace with which you live
and the care that you give to life.
Here I am, I’m the stranger
seeking to look inside.
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5. |
She's So Careful
02:34
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She’s So Careful
Such a pretty girl came into my world
I fell for all her charms and wished her in my arms
but she’s careful
A smile upon her face, nothing out of place
Wiggle in the hips but a prayer on the lips
she’s so careful
oh so careful
far too careful
What can be done? What to do?
Have to make her see I am true
True as anyone could ever be
Matched with her so perfectly
but nothing’s doing
she’s so careful
Asked her on a date, said I had to wait
Had to see that I was true as in her eye
she’s so careful
At last we took a walk – how that girl could talk
I never said a word and all that I heard
was she’s careful
oh so careful
far too careful
What can be done? What to do?
Have to make her see I am true
True as anyone could ever be
Matched with her so perfectly
Such a pretty girl came into my world
Such a pretty girl, my head is in a whirl
she’s so careful…
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6. |
Blue Sky
04:30
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Blue Sky
Autumn is nearing, the leaves falling down.
Amber and red, yellow, green tinges, brown.
Wishing that summer could stay, yeah.
Fearing the cold winter’s day.
Come rest your head on a pillow of leaves.
Time to remember the warm, gentle breeze.
Dreaming of flying away, yeah,
Like a bird on a wing today.
Take me with you
Into the blue sky.
Soaring so high feel the air in your face.
Look down below everything has its place.
Breaking away from it all now.
Flying away from all.
Take me with you
Into the blue sky.
I’ll follow you
Into the blue sky.
Staring at shadows, the clouds passing by.
All that I have is the look in your eye.
Memories that won’t go away, yeah.
Memories of you…
Take me with you
Into the blue sky.
I’ll follow you
Into the blue sky.
Take me with you
Into the blue sky.
I’ll follow you
Into the blue sky.
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7. |
The Colours Of Dawn
03:14
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The Colours Of Dawn
Some people are happy when hearing a sad song
when they have the blues.
And others start sighing when seeing the sun rise
such myriad hues.
The colours of dawn mix with the blues.
Look into my eyes, nothing to lose.
No matter who you are, how rich or poor you are
the sky is the same.
Take in the horizon and start realising
that life is a game.
A game that is played with rolling dice
that never do stop.
Don’t ever you stop to take advice.
You’re on your own now.
I love you.
And loving is easy when people love freely
so stick to the chase.
For breaking the rules is greater than bruises
on a sweet face.
The colours of dawn mix with the blues.
Look into my eyes, nothing to lose.
With faces a plenty that kiss oh so gently
just run with your dreams.
Thinking of freedom to take ‘em or leave ’em
you know what it means.
You’re playing a game with rolling dice
that never do stop.
Don’t ever you stop to take advice.
You’re on your own now.
I love you.
So come see the sunrise and listen to my song
and take me to heart.
The colours of dawn mix with the blues.
Look into my eyes, nothing to lose…
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8. |
Sometimes/Always
02:18
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Sometimes/Always
People make you feel good, sometimes
make you happy
and others make you feel sad.
I watch the people go by, sometimes
rushing around
they never seem to feel life.
It’s in their hands.
It’s in their soul.
They may not notice your face, always
not see you smile
and they will never know you.
There’s one you will remember, always
because she smiled back.
Her warmth glowed through her life
that’s in her hands.
It’s in her soul
and you’ll always feel happy, happy, happy
in your life.
In your life.
In your life.
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9. |
Love Song
02:21
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Love Song
Out of the darkness, I saw your smile —
beckoning, guiding.
I heard your laughter, it called to me —
gently warming.
The doubt in my head filled my heart with dread
and I didn’t know what to say.
So you held me — close and tight.
You just held me — it felt so right
and I knew that I’d go on living.
Remembering darkness, I cried forlorn —
out of sight, where’s the light?
But, you have stayed with me and now I know —
with you near, all is clear.
Though doubt has all gone I wander on
looking for things to say.
Can you hold me — close and tight?
Please just hold me — I’m feeling so light
for my mind is flushed, full of nothing.
But together, we’ll grow as we stay side by side.
Whatever happens it’s part of the ride.
We can take each day anew…
whatever it brings, we’ll be true.
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10. |
Sail Away
02:59
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Sail Away
Once I saw your loving face, I knew the world could never end.
I’ll remember your sweet smile forever, my friend.
I have sensed within your eyes, love, such a sadness to the core.
And my heart, it stands with you but, please, I do implore,
Sail away now, my love, as must be.
Oh, sail away but return soon for me.
Sparkly eyes were all I saw, we stayed as one ‘til all was done
and the sails, so full of wind, away to the sun.
Sail away now, my love, as must be.
Oh, sail away but return soon for me.
Sitting here for evermore.
Willing your cold ship to shore.
See my love, I think of you.
See my smile awaiting too.
Time will pass, love, and then you’ll return.
Until the day, then, my heart still will yearn.
Once I saw beyond the sun, I knew our life would start again.
I remember your sweet smile, my love, ‘til the end.
Time will pass, love, and then you’ll return.
Until the day, then, my heart still will yearn.
Sail away now, my love, as must be.
Oh, sail away now and return for me.
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11. |
Just As I Am
05:46
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Just As I Am
Take me just as I am
Take off whenever I can
Hold on I do understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am
Love me just as I am
Love you wherever I am
Want to just understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am
Change in my life is running away
Change blurs my mind forget what to say
Need you to understand me
Please just let me be
Look at my life I’m feeling good
See me as I think you should
Need you to understand me
Please just let me be
Take me just as I am
Take off whenever I can
Hold on I do understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am
Love me just as I am
Love you wherever I am
Want to just understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am
Together we could last forever in time
Together with your heart linked to mine
Need you to understand me
Please just let me be
Open your eyes to the real me
Open them and see what we could be
Need you to understand me
Please just let me be
I’m searching, answers elude me
I’m searching, keep searching – find me
Cobwebs are clearing as wind blows
Slowly my mind gets what she knows
She has a way which so moves me
Please take my hand, don’t lose me
Take me just as I am
Take off whenever I can
Hold on I do understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am
Love me just as I am
Love you wherever I am
Want to just understand
In the palm of your hand
Just as I am (times 2)
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Does A Bird Have Wings?
It’s there, it’s all there for you.
I care but I don’t care for you
when you say those things.
You see, I can see through you.
It’s me, is it not me and you?
Does a bird have wings?
See me fly towards your cry, I sigh.
Every time I make the climb, I try.
Try to find, I’m not so blind, it’s I
who is wrong.
And you, I can see you are free.
It’s true, could you be true to me
when you say those things?
I feel, can you feel the strain?
It’s real, it’s surreal – the pain.
Does a bird have wings?
See me fly towards your cry, I sigh.
Every time I make the climb, I try.
Try to find, I’m not so blind, it’s I
who is wrong.
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13. |
Fountain
04:24
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Fountain
There's a moment when anything’s possible,
when everything’s fine, everything’s fine.
Unexpected, it catches unawares.
It makes the eyes shine, makes your eyes shine
and you know that there is time.
Such a moment can last for ever,
can open up time, living time.
Can you feel it? The senses never stilled,
they soar and climb, they soar and climb
and your heart beats with mine,
and your heart beats with mine.
There’s a sadness within the blissful mist.
It seeps inside love, breaks into love.
And it sits there just waiting for the time
to separate love, to set aside love.
Will you fall or rise above?
Spare the hurt and stay in love?
I’m a fountain of unquenched memories.
I’m a mountain of photographs.
I am softened by fluttering butterflies.
I am wanton with mixed up metaphors
and I know that there’s no time.
I’m a fountain of glistening droplets.
I am molten from hazy days.
I’m a lantern of smiling faces.
I am plankton and fuzzy rainbows.
Will I fall or rise above?
Will I fall or rise above?
I’m a fountain of unquenched memories…
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14. |
Parallel Lines
04:02
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Parallel Lines
Do you believe in the way things are?
Do you believe in fate?
Describe to me how you see the world,
don’t try to run away!
Look at your life, you can see we’re the same.
What are you trying to prove?
Everything you do it’s been up to you,
it’s always been your move.
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
I never really thought it could come to this.
How did we get this way?
You and I, we were really the same.
Why couldn’t we play?
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
Living beside you running in parallel lines.
We’re living in parallels, working in parallel lines.
Can’t ever cross to you, nothing connects our minds.
Don’t know what happened but something has kept us apart.
We’ve been so close but now we seem so far…
Do you believe in the way things are?
Do you believe in fate?
Describe to me how you see the world,
don’t try to run away!
We’re living in parallels, working in parallel lines.
Can’t ever cross to you, nothing connects our minds.
Don’t know what happened but something has kept us apart.
We’ve been so close but now we seem so far… so far… so far…
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15. |
Don't Push Away
05:12
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Don’t Push Away
In the morning I say I love you
And you know, babe, it’s true.
I look at you, wait and smile
But you’ve turned away for awhile.
Don’t push away, babe, don’t push away.
Don’t push away, babe, stay.
When I ask, babe, what’s going on
Look through me and shrug like nothing’s wrong.
I let you know that I will be there
But you turn away without care.
Don’t push away, babe, don’t push away.
Don’t push away, babe, stay.
Let us talk, please don’t turn away
I love you so, babe, stay.
I need your love.
I need your love…
In the night I say I love you
And you know, babe, it’s true.
You close your eyes, dim the light
But you turn your back, say good night.
Don’t push away, babe, don’t push away.
Don’t push away, babe, stay.
Let us talk, please don’t turn away
I love you so, babe, stay.
I need your love.
I need your love.
I need your love.
I need your love…
In the morning I say I love you…
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16. |
Wash It Dry
06:27
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Wash It Dry
I understand…
there’s a world out there and you’re alive and you want your share.
I understand…
your need to taste everything, no time to waste
but isn’t my love enough?!
I see your face…
the all knowing eyes and dimpled smiles that tantalise.
I see your face…
as you look upon a distant shore or the setting sun
but isn’t my love enough?!
Isn’t my love enough?!
Isn’t my love enough to satisfy?!
There’s a river… (there’s a river)
legs are trembling… (what a river)
feel it bubbling, rushing by.
As it passes, flowing onward, (flowing on)
take the pain and wash it dry.
Living water… (there’s a river)
mind is yearning… (what a river)
lost all reason don’t know why.
All is passing — scouring, cleansing (flowing on)
take the pain and wash it dry.
Birds will sing and breezes blow.
Sun will shine — I dare suppose.
Yeah, birds can sing but so can I,
so let me be your lullaby
for isn’t my love enough?!
There’s a river… (there’s a river)… What a river…
take the pain… (there’s a river)… and wash it dry.
There’s a river… (there’s a river)… what a river…
There’s a river… (there’s a river)…what a river…
There’s a river… (there’s a river)…
take the pain and wash it dry.
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