1. |
Telling Tales
04:39
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2. |
Love Got In The Way
04:11
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Love Got In The Way
Lived a life of luxury
Life without a care
You may do too brother
But you’d better beware
Never had to compromise
The cat with all the cream
Nine guitars hung on my wall
Living the dream
Woke up one morning
All that was blown away
Once was a free man
But love got in the way
Personal number plated
Car at my door
Tyres - the lowest profile
Couldn't ask for more
Sound system - top of range
So loud could blow a fuse
Collected all the power tools
A man could ever use
A gold plated lifestyle
Bills that l could pay
I was my own ‘one and only’
Till love got in the way
Widest screen TV
In my pocket the latest phone
Didn't recognize
Half the things that I’d own
Self-indulgent excesses
Life was mine to play
Everything was easy
‘til love got in the way
Come in late
Go out when ever I choose
A one man contender
In a game I couldn’t lose
Only compromise was to
Meet myself halfway
Was the only one that mattered
Before love got in the way
Inst.
Free from responsibility
Even free from care
Free from all the ties that bind
No need to share
Free from obligation
No dotted line to sign
No need to ask permission
Life was just mine
Good things come to an end
And this dog’s had his day
Thought I had all I needed
Till love got in the way
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3. |
Fan The Flames
04:32
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Fan the Flames
Sit down
I want to talk to you
something I got to clarify
Showdown
no matter what I do
troubles seems to intensify
I know
when all’s said and done
problems they just magnify
Down low
time to cut and run
all I got to do is say goodbye
I try to identify
Picking over what remains
I try - troubles multiply
All I do is fan the flames
I try to rectify
I got to play them games
My my - wonder why
All I do is fan the flames
Break down’s
not what I want to hear
searching for an alibi
Running a-ground
rocks are getting near
gonna leave me high and dry
Just because
you think you’re right
doesn’t mean I’m wrong
Stir caused
it starts to bite
think I’ve known it all along
Can’t lie love’s in short supply
Names are all in the frames
Let fly got my alibi
All I do is fan the flames
I try living out a lie
I feel the weight of these chains
Try hard to deny
All I do is fan the flames
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4. |
Keep On Going On
02:48
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Living The Dream
Look at the pictures
What do you see?
See them on the inside
Glossy and clean
They must be
Living the dream
Living the dream
They must be
Living the dream
Living the dream
Nothing is real
Nothing is as it seems
Looking in from the outside
On the outside looking in
People in glass houses
Have many windows of opportunity
But is the glass house half full
Or half empty
Living the dream
Living the dream
Displaying perfection
Fulfilment exposed
We watch them living the dream
There for all to see
Standing stones ready in our hands
To cast our judgement we stand
Looking in from the outside
On the outside looking in
We are all living
other people’s lives
Other people’s lives
Look at the pictures
What do you see?
Even better on the outside
On the outside looking in
They must be
Living the dream
Living the dream
Living the dream [For all to see]
Living the dream
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6. |
Mixed Messages
03:52
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7. |
They Think It's All Over
02:39
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They Think It's All Over
When nothing seems fair
Dreams disappear
Plans thrown in the air
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
Who would think an ordinary day
Could end up this way
Wishes torn way
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
But It’s never too late to start again
When the Future is unclear
Snatched away what seemed so near
Hope replaced with fear
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
They Think It’s All Over
But It’s never too late to start again
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8. |
Better Roll On
05:59
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You’d better roll on
Things are changing fast
The ideas that matter to you the most
Need to stay in the past
No one wants to hear you wallow
In your version of the past anymore
So roll on
And just let it go
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9. |
No Tomorrow
03:40
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10. |
Better Than Me
04:13
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13. |
Not That Easy
04:40
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Not That Easy
In our lives there is something wrong
When you can never trust anyone
Feeling like you can’t go on
But you have to try
Thinking you can never win
Sinking never seem to swim
Don’t even know how to begin
But you have to try
It’s not that easy
When you turn your head and really want to cry
It’s not that easy
When it takes all that you have even to try
Don’t know what to say or do
Darkness got a hold of you
Feel you’re standing at the back of the queue
But you have to try
It’s not that easy
When every spring of hope has just run dry
It’s not that easy
When a cry for help is met with just a sigh
Not that easy
It’s not that easy
When you find out life just seems to have passed you by
It’s not that easy
When all that you believed is just a lie
Not that easy
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Mel O Songs England, UK
A man of eclectic tastes and influences writing in a bunch of diverse styles and genres on a heap of different instruments
‘A one man musical tour-de force’ (AK)
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