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Nowhere Fast

by Mel O Songs

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Nowhere Fast 02:58
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Nowhere Fast Going nowhere And I don’t care Sitting back easy In this easy chair All I need Is just right there Spending my time While there’s time to spare Don’t need a ticket No need to pack the cases Don’t need a passport For far off places … No need to catch A train or plane Wake up every morning Life’s there just the same And I like the way The die’s been cast Don’t worry about the future Don’t live in the past You might think I’m going Nowhere fast I’m going Nowhere slow – at last And I don’t know If you can understand The way it feels living In this wonderland No need to rush No need to worry ….. When you’re going Nowhere in a hurry And I know …. It suits me fine No race to run No ladder to climb I’ll do it all In my own good time Wake up every morning Life’s mine all mine Birdsong in the morning Owls at night All things considered …. I got it right Put away the struggle Put away the fight No mistake about it I got a good life I like the way The die’s been cast Don’t worry about the future Don’t live in the past You might think I’m going Nowhere fast I’m going Nowhere slow – at last
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Come On Round Again 04:30
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Hidden Threads 03:50
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Hidden Threads A simple truth learned too late On the shore where waves of reason break The weight that sits Heavily on your shoulder Bound by an invisible thread Remnants of a life unled Props left behind From a story that is over Beneath this carefully tailored cloak The unseen thread binds us close Firmly stitched Into our tapestry Invisibly ties us to this yoke First we breathe - then we choke Tangled too tightly To be free Trapped by hidden threads You just can’t grow Unpick the knot slip the chain Just let go When it seems like You just can’t grow When the load becomes too great Just let go
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Living In Another World 04:54
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Living In Another World Feels like I’m living In an-other world Thought I had life it all worked out I’d thought it all through Thought I had all the answers Now I haven’t got a clue Seems I have travelled a long way to go nowhere Everything I thought I knew has vanished in thin air Don’t even know what day it is No idea of the time Years and years have passed me by But I feel in my prime Didn’t understand but now I realise I’m living in a world that I don’t recognise Finally finding out that things don’t last Funny how quickly we you have become the past Won’t last forever it won’t be that long Not long to wait before all of this is gone Trying not to listen to the ticking down of the clock Living between a hard place and a hard rock Don’t even know what day it is No idea of the time Years and years have passed me by But I feel in my prime Seems I have travelled a long way to go nowhere Everything I thought I knew has vanished in thin air
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One More Glass Of Whiskey 05:37
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There Must Be A Hole In My Head (and I am searching for a possible explanation) 03:36
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There Must Be A Hole In My Head There must be a hole in my head Where facts creep in There must be a hole in my head Where facts creep in Useless But eminently interesting A bit like me I tell my self There must be a hole in my head Where facts creep in I cannot remember what day it is What I ate yesterday But Facts creep in unnoticed Take up residence in the far corners of my brain. Reside unassumingly among the grey cells And there they remain Until During pub quizzes (Mastermind) Or watching University Challenge with a friend I answer obscure questions with certainty and without hesitation And they say 'How did you know that?' I repeat There must be a hole in my head Where...
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A Little Soup Song 02:08
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Going Down To Granville 02:52
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Better Days (Start Of An Echo) 04:31
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Inspector Moonlight 05:21
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Waved My Baby Goodbye 03:25
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Waved My Baby Goodbye Goodbye I waved my baby goodbye Farewell my cherry pie I’m just that kinda guy I I waved my baby goodbye No longer want to try My love’s in short supply It’s not me - it must be you Come on admit it too Take a little time and you will agree You’re just not my cup of tea Goodbye I waved my baby goodbye No longer my pie in my sky I need to diversify I try But as time goes by I just can’t deny There’s less to you than meets the eye There is nothing you can do Can’t you feel it too Think it over - can’t you see You’re just not the one for me I’m not gonna lie You fail to satisfy And that is why I’m hanging you out to dry Let me clarify My enthusiasm’s run dry That’s why I I waved my baby goodbye
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Rain fall 03:52
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Walk With You (LIVE) 04:15
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I may never know your name or where you’re from but when you don't feel safe alone: I will walk with you We may be strangers but you will not be alone I will guard you from those who mean you harm I will walk with you Don’t know where you come from or what may have brought you here Don’t know your story but when you need someone standing near I will walk with you Dramatic penultimate verse I will not judge you will not pass by When those who would hurt you blindly scare and terrify Know that I … will walk with you Someone to be beside you This is how it will begin We will not turn on each other In the world we want to live in I will walk with you
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Wing And A Prayer 04:18
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Wing And A Prayer Limbs that once could fly Stand 102 feet high Point like a lonely finger Towards an empty sky Two wings of weathered steel Four Merlins’ reassuring drone Avro Lanc – home from home A lightness that defies It’s weight and size Finest ever flown Gathered when dusk began to fall Curtain drawn back in the briefing hall ‘Target for tonight’revealed Mess for a final meal Last letter written - and sealed Minus 40 degrees Flesh on metal freeze Search lights, AKK akk and flak 3 out of 4 would not come back A Single spire - the atmosphere Ensure memories do not disappear Fifty Eight Thousand Names on these walls Paid for my privilege to stand here If you are in Lincoln take time to stare Towards Canwick Hill standing there Reaching forever upwards Cut through the wintry air Two wings like hands held in prayer
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Anticipating --- BONUS TRACK 05:24
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released April 7, 2023

All songs written, played and recorded by me

Instruments: a range of acoustic & electric guitars, cigar-box banjo, mandolin [by Hugh Scullion], tenor and baritone ukuleles, lap steel guitar and various violins

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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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