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Don't Let Me Go Home
04:19
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There’s a silence in the room
It’s a sound we’ve never heard before
An inflammatory parade of unfamiliar times
An embellished afternoon
A rose beside the reservoir
A capillary remains to seal the widened tie
Please don’t let me go home tonight
Facing backwards, moving forth
That’s when we’ll finally meet again
Opposing our terrain in these new familiar times
Oh, the pillar of our cord
The courage for the weakening
On the precipice of fall, you know you’re stable in my arms
Please don’t let me go home tonight
Please don’t let me go home tonight
Please don’t let me go home tonight
Please darling, don’t let me go home
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You can’t let me go home, don’t let me go home
You can’t let me go home, don’t let me go home
You can’t let me go home, don’t let me go home
You can’t let me go home
Because I’m already here
I’m already here
I’m already here
I’m already here
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2. |
City Walls
04:24
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It felt like it was such a long and distant time ago
But it’s merely been a month and yet the indications show
As you stare… through your… window
The elevator to your room is cramped and turns you ill
The speed and greed is untoward so you recall the stillness
As you stare… out there… below
The sun don’t shine on the streets of crime
You’re living in the city walls
It was only time but you’re now confined
To living in the city walls
No the sun don’t shine on the streets of crime
You’re living in the city… living in the city walls
This urban institution with its tainted, spiteful air
Central to suburbia, community widespread
Past the rural limits and the barren countryside
Finally you’ll come to see the land so free and wild
Potential for a whole lot more
Just step outside the city walls
Just free your eye, diversify
And step outside the city walls
Potential for a whole lot more
Just step outside the city… you gotta step outside
The city walls… city walls… city walls…
City walls… city walls… city walls…
There’s a new-found road to aspire for truth
Of what you thought you’d known and desired in your youth
With your small-town mind and your small-town soul
Now paralysed by city life as you recall
The happiness in your back yard
The peace inside your reservoir
Of what you know is already there
Rediscover undercover and reject
The city walls… city walls… city walls…
Now you’re not so blind with your open mind
You’ve stepped outside the city walls
You found the time to release confines
Of living in the city walls
Yeah you’re not so blind with your open mind
You’ve stepped outside the city… stepped outside the city walls
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3. |
Days Of Karma
04:38
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You don’t know intuition like the dark don’t know the sun
And what’s not known is fabricated firm
Trust my premonition of the hours having won
And settling in
A dormant revolution lies awaiting birth to come
But what’s not known’s still fabricated firm
An evil eye, a parasite, my powers are overcome
And settling in
Lacking the days of karma, you bought the wine instead
How can you be happy with that cloud above your bed?
Packing the days to follow with drips of congo red
Still I lie to satisfy that cloud above your bed
Lacking the days of karma
Lacking the days, and you’re a lucky girl
An instant satisfaction has been paid for one of loss
The doorway to your mind is through my steel
A doubtful superstition has refrained to bear the cost
And settles in
Lacking the days of karma, you bought the wine instead
How can you be happy with that cloud above your bed?
Packing the days to follow with drips of congo red
Still I lie to satisfy that cloud above your bed
Lacking the days of karma
Lacking the days
And you’re a lucky girl, girl
You’re a lucky girl, girl
Lacking the days of karma, you bought the wine instead
How can you be happy with that cloud above your bed?
Packing the days to follow with drips of congo red
Still I lie to satisfy that cloud above your bed
Oh yeah you’re lacking the days of karma, shadow up ahead
The bat is blind but leaves behind a cloud above your bed
Lacking the days of karma, you feed them all instead
With your colossal power to your cloud above my bed
Oh yeah you’re lacking the days of karma
Lacking the days, and you’re a lucky girl, girl
Oh yeah you’re lacking the days of karma
Lacking the days
And you’re a lucky girl, girl
You’re a lucky girl, girl
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Leicester (Square)
04:04
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Leicester Square
I stand here and it takes me to the place
You are
Right now
Anywhere
Between these iron frames there lies a gate
To your heart
Right now
Leicester Square
The film that stars the characters of us
Cast of gold
And red
Premiered
Amidst the perfect playwright in the sun
As we strolled
Ahead
But ever since your resignation
I’ve been looking for a soul to steal
Cause you still had mine when I left you
And all I see as I sit here’s
This box in my location
That separates the dream from real
It’s time we felt our love
There’s so much to discover here in Leicester Square
Leicester Square
The moon it sets on water while the trees
Glow blonde
Entwined
Overhead
The nightclubs beat the blackened skies away
Beyond
Your shine
Ever since your resignation
I’ve been looking for a soul to steal
Cause you still had mine when I left you
And all I see as I sit here’s
This box in my location
That separates the dream from real
It’s time we felt our love
There’s so much to discover here in Leicester Square
Standing here together here in Leicester Square
Hands are bound and hearts are near in Leicester Square
Standing here together here in Leicester Square
Why can’t we be together here in Leicester
Oh take me there
Hands are bound and hearts are near in Leicester
Yeah take me there
Standing here together here in Leicester
Oh take me there
Why can’t we be together
I stand here and it takes me to the place
You are
Right now
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Overthrown
03:59
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It’s cold enough in this town without you by my side
I’m feeling I’ve overthrown, delivered way too wide
Draw a breath, melt your lips, shake your hair, blow a kiss
With your circular smile and an elegant pitch
Roll the ball in reverse cause I ain’t too far behind
Lean away, look above for you’re capable of
A sustain to your soul through the rhythm of love
Toss a pill of our praise if I ain’t too misaligned
Overthrown, I’m on my way
Should have known I’d passed my stay
All I own, I’ve thrown away
Overthrown, you’ll catch someday
The beauty of innocence, I remember wishfully
Now it’s cast out in the street, it’s all part of history
Take a ride in a world of a passionate girl
You’re alive by the spark of a flame with a twirl
It’s a dual catapultion, inspired by one
There’s an odour of grace, an invisible race
A returned emanation entangles my face
Fuelled by propulsion, a drive of charm
Overthrown, I’m on my way
Should have known I’d passed my stay
All I own, I’ve thrown away
Overthrown, you’ll catch someday
I’ve been breaking, breaking down
Won’t you wake up to my sound
I’m over shakin’ up this ground
I’m on my way
It’s cold enough in this town without you by my side
I’m feeling I’ve overthrown…
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Misty Water
04:44
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Across the misty water
In his hold along the ancient stream
With a kiss he taught her
How the weather, it’s a love extreme
Bitter misty water
Such a distance from her blazing dream
With a twist he taught her
How with cold there often dawns a steam
Life’s a mystery tangle
There’s a rainbow over cloudy shores
Prism snaps an angle
And a colour from a pearl outpours
Hear the birds a-whistling
Through a territory conspired with snow
Steer their world by shifting
With the feathers of a common glow
So you can drink the misty water
The deep exists as he still taught her
Yeah you can drink the misty water
The fever missed but he still caught her
He wants to be
With nobody else, in the penetrating freeze
He’s just gotta show
That in this world full of contradiction
You sit back, and let pass, and hold on
And watch the river flow
Pass the misty water
And precipitated chill unseen
Here exists a shelter
In a place that’s only warm
So you can drink the misty water
The deep exists as he still taught her
Yeah you can drink the misty water
The fever missed but he still caught her
You can drink the misty water
You can drink it
You can drink the misty water
Oh cup your hands and dip in to show
You can drink the misty water
You can drink it
You can drink the misty water
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Lay me down in fields of green
The summer sun, it tastes as sweet as you
Fruits and flowers surround our dream
Our wish for native beauty has come true
Grounded now, I heard you spoke
Your burrowed seeds, your barren throat
Godforsaken tears, they choke from you
Our undergrowth is drying up
And I’ve had enough of this
Photosynthetic mindfuck
Burn it down, the branches wasting
Ashen ground incineration
Leaves of brown reciprocating
Resin from our hearts
Wrath of life reduced to stumps
A hand for hand, a trunk for trunk
It’s killing me, the tree that took my love
Developmental antidote
Emerges in a heartfelt note to you
A final chance to cast my vote
Of grafting and of germinating too
I’ll rub the stem, create the spark
You skin my name, I’ll ring your bark
Seeds the girdling end of fertile hope
Burn it down, the branches wasting
Ashen ground of expiration
Leaves of brown reciprocating
Resin from our hearts
The rising flame my only hope
A sacrificial fire of growth
It’s killing me, the tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
Clotted cells my heart will pump
Heavy swell, my sap will clump
If the canopy is free I’m jumping down
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love
The tree that took my love…
The tree that took my…
The tree that took my love
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Comet
03:48
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I’m so susceptible to those who build a hallway in my mind
Blown up material retains in there forever
There’s not a chance in hell I’ll exit through the doorway without
One more time where we entwine our flaming tails together
Caught up in crowns and ends and halos by the choir of our
Beating drums as we become a subdivided flow
The mystery deepens as you leave a trail of fire and I can’t die
No I can’t die
So young with open eyes
Closed while we improvise
Fading away as the
Years pass and I can’t die
I can’t die ’til you come round again
Out on the street tonight the people dance in celebration
Of the journey, seventy-five years
Is all I have to prove myself I am not a failure at this game
And I can’t die with that, oh lord
So young with open eyes
Closed while we improvise
Fading away as the
Years pass and I can’t die
I can’t die ’til you come round again
No I can’t die ’til you come round again
You’re my comet, you’re my life
Come around before I die
You’re my comet, you’re my life
Come around before I die
So young with open eyes
Closed while we improvise
Fading away as the
Years pass and I can’t die
I can’t die ’til you come round again
No I can’t die ’til you come round again
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9. |
The Fighter
03:32
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Oh the fighter with his heaven in his heart and his hell to behold
His desire is to remedy the scar of the flame to her soul
Oh denier with the heaviness imparted he dreams he could change
Cruel reminders of the innocence of love vs the means to remain
Persevere
Through your tears
Learn your lesson well
Oh the hour, will it speed or will it burn with a laboured old fuse
Not an answer to the plead, a deafly ear and a reason to lose
Oh the fighter will he stay or will he stray far away from his means
All the while through her silence and his tears he will conquer with the thrill of her nightmares
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter
Oh the fighter will end it before it’s repaired
The fighter surrenders and shows that he cares
The fighter will end it before it’s repaired
The fighter surrenders and shows that he cares
Oh the fighter will end it before it’s repaired
The fighter surrenders and shows that he cares
The fighter will end it before it’s repaired
The fighter surrenders and shows that he cares
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This bag of hearts, this tender vale
We’ll pick the berries as the mud gets in our nails
And it’s no barrier, as we hold hands when we walk home
By the bed I brush you down as we brush up our own
We’ll paint your four grey walls of gold
We’ll evade this frozen world and journey far away from all we know
Down the river we will ride
Archetypes of yesteryear, flow as we float by
And I’m a stranger to this voice in favour of all that we’ve done
Now we can run, we’ll get there
We’ll paint your four grey walls of gold
We’ll evade this frozen world and journey far away from all we know
In these four grey walls of gold
Speak to me your fantasy, let’s journey far away to spend a…
A thousand days beneath the sun
A thousand ways to show we’ve won
So many reasons to deceive the dusty moon
A thousand seas by which it feeds the ebb and bloom
Multiply by sixteen and add three hundred and ninety-six
Divide the ebb, ensure the bloom’s the sum
A thousand days beneath the sun
Yeah just make sure it’s not the ebb that comes
A thousand days beneath the sun
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11. |
Universal Prayer
03:41
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Just rest and breathe
And close your eyes but keep your mind from sleep
And hear
Me talk you through
Your feet, and your legs
And your body, chest and neck
And your arms, now your head
So heavenly
You’re alone, no one here
Just the golden sun and the tender auburn sand
Feel the waves
Lap at your feet
Now you walk, miles of peace
As your soft, warm skin’s enveloped by the breeze
And you bathe
In this atmosphere
In the dusk, up ahead
An oasis of a magical degree
You can sense
Him standing there
Closer still, purely drawn
As the golden-orange sunset lights the sky
You have reached
Your destiny
Then you move into my arms which I have joyously extended for you, and I greet the beauty in front of me that I have long been awaiting. Our eyes catch and delve deeply as we hold each other tightly, embracing under the shimmering, starlit evening sky. Gently, I whisper in your ear…
There’s nothing left to ask
There’s nothing left to fear
There’s nothing left to try
To prove how much I cherish you
There’s nothing in this world
But a universal prayer
To reach my arms around you
From the edges of despair
From all that lives and breathes
To matter with no path
From geologic entities
To insubstantial marks
There’s nothing in this world
But a universal prayer
To tell you how much
This love would mean to me
To tell you how much
This love would mean to me
To tell you how much
This love would mean to me
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12. |
What We Would Have Done
03:14
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If romance beckoned, like we sensed with our predestination
If real life offered passion, bliss and fun
If love we’d birthed, across the earth I’d take you on vacation
If only… this is what we would have done:
We’d spend the day at Byron Bay, the soaring house aglow
We’d walk for miles in the springtime sun
Astoundingly across the sea, the dolphins stage a show
If only… this is what we would have done
The paradisal stretch upon where surfers bear their joy
Percussive skins with bells like beating drums
Synchronic and eurhythmic like a golden girl to boy
If only… this is what we would have done
Stranded on a summer night, the bay of roses bound
The rock is cold, the sweetness pads our tongues
Traverse a thrill atop the hill, above precinctual sounds
If only… this is what we would have done
Amidst the virgin bush we trek, we grace the stream alone
The tree above proclaiming us as one
The water blue, just me and you, a place to call our home
If only… this is what we would have done
Further north we venture now, the tropic impulse starts
Inspires a humid zeal within our lungs
The forest green, the beach pristine, adjoining like our hearts
If only… this is what we would have done
The culmination of our time spent in this sacred land
Encompasses a safe, yet stirring plunge
We reach beneath the coral reef, elation, hand in hand
If only… this is what we would have done
So we’d leave behind the frosty vales, the frigid, foggy nights
A source of temperate union we’d become
Living, loving, in Australia, if I weren’t such a fucking failure
If only… that was not what I’d become
If only… this is what we would have done
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13. |
Dancing With Dot
04:34
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Nineteen fifty five,
Young man, feel so alive
Ballroom star
But the greatest honour, biggest prize,
Was the beauty of my partner’s eyes
Lovers hearts
Married soon, the night results
In an overwhelming bridal waltz
Tears of bliss
Together moving everywhere
So perfectly, our rhythm shared
Swinging hips
’64, rock ‘n’ roll
On the floor, allegro
With my wife
’71, world’s unsure
Marched off to the Vietnam war
Fight for life
For weeks at a time on the battlefront line
Only memories holding us near
I picture the scene where she gives up the dream
Cause a life without love turns to fear
Then the telegram comes after months on the run
Choreographic union unclear
With me in her arms
She’d never have been in harms way
I wish it was me who’d moved on
’79, ’86
Lost without her sweet kiss
Moving slow
’91, ’94
Music’s not the same no more
And I’m getting old
Enter the millennium
I try to find my legs again
It’s been so long
I met her at the RSL
The memories of my sweet girl
Stir so strong
She faced a similarity
In losing him while overseas
Widowed young
It’s clear we felt our hearts unite
As we danced with the band tonight
But is it wrong
That dancing with Dot reminds me a lot
Of the wife I once had now long gone
With me in her arms
Reminds her of charms of her man
I wish that we’d both just move on
Why can’t we both just move on
I wish that we’d both just move on
Why can’t we both just move on
I wish that we’d both just move on
Move on
Move on
Move on
Cause dancing with Dot reminds me a lot
Of the wife I once had now long gone
With me in her arms
Reminds her of charms of her man
I wish that we’d both just move on
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14. |
Lady Gowrie Lookout
04:06
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My name is James
And her name is Georgie
A calendar year’s gone by so far
Her beautiful smile
The brightest in Sydney
A scene that’ll never fall apart
We come here today
To manifest our love
Below the foundations of this land
The heads of the times
They reside above
We pray that our wish forms their command
We paint our names
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
Georgie & James
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
A year today
And it will be forever
We’ll soak our feet
As we sign our story
By this cool and peaceful bay
But we’re up to nothing at all
For the pass of the ferry
We’ll cover our marks and we will wave
As we paint our names
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
Georgie & James
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
A year today
And it will be forever
A year today
And it’ll be a time to face behind
And look back on the past
Prize the ways on which we’ve gained
And survey what we’ve lost
If we find our old live sign has
Tapered from those rocks
We’ll return
We will return
We will return
They last a few years
Never a lifetime
We tire and seek a fresh new start
But we’ll interfere
If this becomes of us
We’ll go back with our paint and touch it up
And repaint our names
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
Georgie & James
Here at Lady Gowrie Lookout
A year today
And it will be forever
A year today
And it will be forever
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Dan Schaumann Toronto, Ontario
Acoustic storyteller Dan Schaumann returns with his latest musical release, I Wish I Lived In Canada, available now on all
major streaming platforms.
From lost love to found feet, toppled dreams to open doors, Dan’s attitude to life is as infectious as the songs he draws from it. His artistic creations speak of an extraordinary journey into the experiences of a contemporary traveler.
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