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Steppin' Stones
03:35
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STEPPIN’ STONES
I’ve been alone for all this lifetime
Now, that I just trust on her
She’s gone before the music started
Still there were great things to share
The echoes shined through dust and ashes
Night has never been so fair
You want to cry through walls and suffer
Pretend that you don’t even care
She don’t care ‘bout time
She don’t care ‘bout change
She don’t care ‘bout making some new friends
Leaving steppin’ stones behind
She is never gone, she’s always smiling
Time has never been so cruel
Her spring time whims fell from the corners
To the centre of my room
And what she turned to be
Was nothing more than just perceptions
Of a dream
That’s been frustrated by the causes I’ve been previously advised
She don’t care ‘bout time
She don’t care ‘bout change
She don’t care ‘bout making some new friends
Leaving steppin’ stones behind
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2. |
Friday
02:36
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FRIDAY
Friday is finally here
Bringing its subtle atmosphere
Surrounds you, soon you’ll start to see
Wishes soaring sunset
While the horizon looks quite clear
Rhythm at its peak
Footsteps grabbing miles, grey cobblestones beneath
Crumbling skies of rose smoke
Left there by the ladies
As the evidence of warm
Evening has made her vision neat
Amber lights around suggest your getaway from here
Elude your worries; chase it all
Morning is far now
And jazz will bring you dawn
Get lost and dream
Close your eyes
Forget clock’s scorn
While the night’s reborn
Delve into Friday night once more
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3. |
Halfway Through
04:03
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HALFWAY THROUGH
Once you let me in
Then you pulled me out
Many usual things did happen
Love was loosing ground
I gently waited
You rudely spoke
Then you filled my hand
There you knocked me down
Wasn’t really hard to notice
That you’d lost your crown
And springtime melted
Behind your veil
I did try to work it out
What about…
What about you?
Would you tell me something else?
Something that’s preferably true
I’ve now paved my way
‘Cross lavender fields
May appear simplistic
But Marianne knows how I feel
And I’ve found shelter
Within her breast
We’re always on the road
Tesco’s meal in hand
Rarely playing within the boundaries
Of our changing plans
With miles behind us
And days ahead
I’ve been trying to figure out
If what I’ve found has something from you
But I won’t get stuck this time
I won’t resign halfway through
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4. |
The Rain
06:02
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THE RAIN
I did choose and nearly loose
But I rather changed my hue
To the drenching grey skies and the puddle zoo
Such a northern point of view
With the rain
Days were gone behind a bar
Always someone bossing around
Often watching ladies as they sipped their wine
While I felt like nothing there was mine
But the rain
Loosing time and loosing touch
Expectations, frozen bows
People asking questions ‘bout a changing smell
While the freedom potion kindly fell
It's the rain
The rain, yeah
The rain
Nothing changes, nothing lasts
Such a parenthetical past
Often jumping fences, never yielding at
Some offences that may be washed
By the rain
The rain, yeah
The rain
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5. |
Shiny Coloured Waistcoat
03:48
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SHINY COLOURED WAISTCOAT
I can’t remember how
I sat down in that room
Of multicolour shining
The night was open wide
You scrawled upstairs
And waited for me there, smiling
The helicopter sounded
And so your wooden floor
Outside our bench being pounded
At home Marine Corps landed
Inside your velvet bed
The country singer glances
I’ve never been so sure
I didn’t find it real
‘Cause everywhere I looked I couldn’t find my fears
Your familiar face
So many yearning’s fate
Your shinning coloured waistcoat
Enlighten streets ‘round here
Don’t mind you’re arriving late
My only aim is to deserve you
I’ve grown and so I’ve learnt
We couldn’t stop our time
It’s hard and so
I choose to be here by your side
And now I’m sitting here
You might not see me now
But I’m so close behind you
For every time I’ll be
Despite you’re miles away
It would be so hard without you
We've been away from home
We've been away so far
We've been away before the road starts
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Surreal Deal
02:39
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SURREAL DEAL
Flashing down the highway
Where I’m sure you’ve never been
Passing your supporters
In their floats and limousines
Following your footsteps in the opposite way
Rushing so the wind ruffles my soul
Facing your chameleon-like dress
Which tends infinite
Untouchable amber topaz
The corsairs can’t resist
They step the starving tapestry that surrounds your wilderness
While escaping from the dinosaur at dawn
Creeping down the alley
Proletarian side of town
Some kind of Art Garfunkel
At the bathroom with his frown
Gatsby’s apparition at the hall, roses in the hand
Inappropriate questions pricking soft
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7. |
Look Back
03:06
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LOOK BACK
Look back, many thing have changed over the years
You fell kinda strange as if you were not here
Look back, you don’t even know what she’s thinking
You don’t even know what she needs
You’ve found someone and you really need protection
She stands pretty taking care of your street
She knows every little moment what you’re thinking
She knows how to stay just by your feet
Look back, things can go around and move in circles
At last, only what’s important does remain
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8. |
D Woman
02:08
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D WOMAN
D woman never understands
And so she’ll never hold your hand
D woman is everything she wants to be
D woman has to much to say
And there she has a place to play
For her is to much so hard to stay
D woman is leaving by the door
She wont need you anymore
D woman never leaves the floor
You’ll find her letters at the gate
She’ll have you waiting there till late
There are no more photographs to take
She wrote my story, played my show
She told me everything I know
But you wont see me anymore around her
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Moses Rubin Leeds, UK
Moses Rubin is born from the northern winds that have brought me back to my homeland carrying a rucksack full of songs, experiences, eagerness and the necessity of going it alone in what is my first adventure as a solo artist.
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