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1 Head over heels
03:19
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Head over heels
She used to be such a misery
Now her man’s come along, and there ain’t nothing wrong
Her unhappiness was such a stress
Now we can relax ‘cos she’s flat on her back
‘Cos she’s head over heels, she says it’s for real
Head over heels in love
Yes she’s head over heels, you know how it feels
Head over heels in love
She was such a pain, a terrible drain
Now love has come, well out comes the sun
Make your love last, forget the past
We couldn’t stand another flash in the pan
‘Cos she’s head over heels, she says it’s for real
Head over heels in love
Yes she’s head over heels, you know how it feels
Head over heels in love
Some people are happy, some are sad
Some are just crazy, and others are mad
But no matter how odd you think that you are
Somewhere out there you’ll find your shooting star
And you’ll be head over heels, you’ll say it’s for real
Head over heels in love
Yes you’ll be head over heels, you’ll know how it feels
Head over heels in love
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2 Travelling shoes
03:25
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Travelling shoes.
Pack up your suitcase mama, put on your travelling shoes
Pack up your suitcase mama, put on those travelling shoes
Just pack up all your little problems, stop giving me your blues
Take all your troubles mama, please take them far away
Take all your troubles mama, please take them far away
I just can’t stand it every night and every day
I’m not unsympathetic gal to all your complaints
I’m not unsympathetic gal to all your complaints
I got a lot of patience, but not the patience of a saint
Your glass is half empty; mine is half full
Your glass is half empty; mine is half full
We ain’t going nowhere cos when I push you pull
Catch the seven thirty train, I got you a one way ticket paid
Catch the seven thirty train, I got you a one way ticket paid
How can I learn to miss if you just won’t go away
When I wake up in the morning, I wanna find you gone
When I get up in the morning, I wanna find you gone
Don’t want nobody else to be here, I’m happier on my own
So, pack up your suitcase mama, put on those travelling shoes
Yes, pack up your suitcase mama, put on your travelling shoes
And pack up all your little problems, stop giving me your blues
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3 Sail into the sunset
03:50
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Sail into the sunset
Time for you to make a break - it’s your happiness at stake
Just because she has to leave - there’s no need for you to grieve
What is it that ties you down? Who is it that needs you ‘round?
Why is your life in such a bind? Leave your harbour far behind
Sail into the sunset with your baby in your arms
Sail into the sunset, you won’t come to any harm
So won’t you take my advice - she ain’t gonna ask you twice
Pack your bags and close the door on the life you had before
Sail into the sunset with your baby in your arms
Sail into the sunset, you won’t come to any harm
Some of us never get the chance
To break free from our circumstance
So set your sails for a new life ahead
Don’t you know you’re a long time dead
What is it that ties you down? Who is it that needs you ‘round?
Pack your bags and close the door on the life you had before
Sail into the sunset with your baby in your arms
Sail into the sunset, you won’t come to any harm
Sail into the sunset, you can weather any storm
Sail into the sunset with your baby in your arms
Sail into the sunset. Sail into the sunset
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4 Red to blonde
03:19
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Red to blonde
Red to blonde, significant bond
Strength revives, feeling alive
First interaction, simple attraction
Like cogs on a wheel, so easy to feel
So warm and so strong, like the breath of a song
The soul and the tone reached deep to my bones
Red to blonde, significant bond
Strength revives, feeling alive
Life can deliver what you never expect
Hopes and dreams so cruelly wrecked
Forcing a struggle through a living hell
There seems no solution, no magic spell
When darkness descended I could not get free
Burrowing down in my own misery
I needed a friend whose ear I could lend
Texts I could get and texts I could send
Red to blonde, significant bond
Strength revives, staying alive
And now as things change, easing the pain
Friendship remains that flows with the grain
All that is broken will surely mend
I owe it in spades to that easy friend
Red to blonde, significant bond
Strength revives, staying alive.
Red to blonde, significant bond
Strength revives, staying alive I’m staying alive.
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5 Silver lining
03:08
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Silver Lining
Things went wrong and I can't see no way to put them right
Things got broke and fell apart I could not see the light
I'm fed up with feeling down I'm tired of being blue
I don't want to stay so low I'm gonna start anew
I'm gonna smile, I'm gonna grin, gonna be so happy
Get out of this mess I'm in
I'm checking out the silver lining on every little cloud
Don't care if I look a fool I'm just not that proud
Fighting off the demons that try to bring me down
I'm gonna find the fastest way to turn my life around
I'm gonna smile, I'm gonna grin, gonna be so happy
Get out of this mess I'm in
The evening that we parted is etched upon my mind
I should have seen it coming, they say that love is blind
Don't worry about me, I'll be doing just fine
Everything gets better with the passing of time
It takes more muscles to make a frown than it does to smile
Cheerful people always go that extra mile
I'm looking on the bright side it's how I'm gonna be
My future is a rosy one, just you wait and see
I'm gonna smile, I'm gonna grin, gonna be so happy
Get out of this mess I'm in
I'm gonna smile, I'm gonna grin, gonna be so happy
Get out of this mess I'm in
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6 Ball with no bounce
03:15
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Ball with no bounce
When the weakness in your body makes you want to cry
And it just gets worse the more you try
You’re losing the words, concentration is shot
You’re fingers are icy but your head is hot
When you tell me your head is glued to the bed
When you cannot remember what was just said
When the slightest glow of light is much too bright
And you’ve had another hopeless sleepless night
What makes them think you need a shrink
What makes them think you need a shrink to make you better
Like a ball with no bounce, like a cat with no pounce
Your energy just fades away
We wish someone knew what they need to do
To put right what is wrong with you (put right what is wrong with you)
When your body is aching and your throat is so sore
And your brain fog’s so bad you can’t talk any more
When your head is reeling and your eyes are half closed
And the lousy feeling in your stomach just grows
What makes them think you need a shrink
What makes them think you need a shrink to make you better
Psychiatrists say that you’re really OK
We just need to retrain your brain
With some CBT or with NLP
And we’ll soon have you right as rain (soon have you right as rain)
When the weakness in your body makes you want to cry
And it just gets worse the more you try
When your body is aching and your throat is so sore
And your brain fog’s so bad you can’t talk any more
What makes them think you need a shrink
What makes them think you need a shrink to make you better
What makes them think you need a shrink
What makes them think you need a shrink to make you better
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7. |
7 Last cigarette
03:25
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Last Cigarette
That perfect autumn morning beside the hot dog stand
Electricity when you held my hand
A bitter winter followed, snow thick on frozen ground
Sweet harmony in that spark of love we found
Electricity – spark from hand to hand
Electricity – more than we could stand
Electricity – something killed the light
Electricity – but something wasn’t right, no something wasn’t right
Christmas came and New Year passed with all good resolution
But I think we’d worked out even then the inevitable conclusion
We smoked too much and drank too much that night in early spring
The things I said just broke your heart and ruined everything
Electricity – spark from hand to hand
Eccentricity – more than we could stand
Serendipity – something killed the light
Electricity – all we did was fight, yes all we did was fight
Why is it relationships don’t work out as we plan?
What tricks does stupid cupid play with quiver in his hand?
I thought this was the special one, would stand the test of time
I wanted to be yours forever, you forever mine
Now looking in your weeping eyes, so sad but so wise
I knew that it was over, no way to recover
With such sad regret I can never forget
That very last, that last cigarette
Electricity – spark from hand to hand
Eccentricity – more than we could stand
Serendipity – something killed the light
What a bloody pity - we broke up that night, oh we broke up that night
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8 Fantasy world
03:48
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Fantasy world
He’s living in a fantasy world, delusion, confusion
His misery destroys his head, finds love in fantasy instead
He knows that she, can never be, more than a friend, obviously
Impossible relationship, come on man, just get a grip!
But he’s living in a fantasy world, invention, illusion.
(He says) “Hey old brain, set me free
Bring me back to reality
Can’t go on, but can’t ignore
Just can’t stand it anymore”
Living in a fantasy world, imagination, frustration
When eye meets eye, he can’t deny, makes him realize, he’s still alive
Behold her curve of shoulder, wants to hold her, never told her
Platonic hug, a touch of hips, he’s just not equipped to deal with it
Living in a fantasy world, invention, illusion
Living in a fantasy world, endorphins, dopamine
He craves her touch, yearns her glance, though he knows he has no chance
Hormones in the blood spark jealousy, acid pain, unexpectedly
He’s got to stop, this fantasy, piles unhappiness on his misery
Living in a fantasy world, invention, illusion
Ain’t it a shame that you get no gain
For taking aim at what you can’t attain
It’s all in a dream, and he can see
It can never be his reality
Living in a fantasy world, delusion, confusion
Impossible relationship, come on man, got to get a grip!
Impossible relationship, come on man, just get a grip!
Impossible relationship, come on man, get a grip!
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9 Letters
03:16
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Letters
Why the hell did you burn all my letters?
Why the hell did you burn all those letters?
Did you think it would make you feel better?
Letters from lovers, letters from family
Letters from long lost friends who used to write to me
Your jealousy was burning like a naked flame
My past life can’t hurt you, you know it’s not to blame
Why the hell did you burn all my letters?
Why the hell did you burn all those letters?
Did you think it would make you feel better?
Your drinking drove me crazy, that whiskey made you mad
But your loving was like honey spread all across my bread
There was just too much bitterness messing with your head
But burning all my letters just killed my love stone dead, stone dead
Why the hell did you burn all my letters?
Why the hell did you burn all those letters?
Did you think it would make you feel better?
Pretty picture postcards and special birthday notes
Memories of loving and poems my friends wrote
Personal or impersonal you didn’t seem to care
You just burned everything that you found there
Why the hell did you burn all my letters?
Why the hell did you burn all my letters?
Did you think it would make you feel better?
Your drinking drove me crazy, that whiskey made you mad
But your loving was like honey spread all across my bread
There was just too much bitterness messing with your head
But burning all my letters just killed my love stone dead
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10. |
10 Daily life
03:13
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Daily life
People departed, people returned
People got cheated, got their fingers burned
Couples made love while domestic strife
Was happening in kitchens from Cornwall to Fife
It all seems so very wrong, that daily life just went on
The day he had no more to say,
The day that old Bo passed away.
Some people were laughing, some people forlorn
Some people got lucky, some new ones got born
Some people got paid for what they hadn’t earned
Some people forgot the lessons they’d learned
It all seems so very wrong, that daily life just went on
The day he had no more to say,
The day that old Bo passed away.
Your granddaddy told me when I was 20 years of age
Every day of your life you turn a new page
Time moves on and the forks in the road
Are now your decisions, I can’t carry your load
It all seems so very wrong, that daily life just went on
The day he had no more to say,
The day that old Bo passed away.
The tide comes in onto every shore
Washing away what was there once before
Footsteps are covered and new ones are made
The passing of time so clearly displayed
It all seems so very wrong, that daily life just went on
The day he had no more to say,
The day that old Bo passed away.
It all seems so very wrong, that daily life just went on
The day he had no more to say,
The day that old Bo passed away
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11 Bearded Bard blues
04:05
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Bearded Bard Blues
Walking down that road with my head in my hands
Appearing in the distance I saw a big bearded man
It was the bearded bard, yes that bearded bard
And the beard on this bard was just a visual guard
We stopped on that road just to pass the time of day
He said “People think I’m crazy”, I didn’t know what to say
He talked in riddles and he talked in rap and rhyme
He said it helps to talk about these things from time to time
He talked of Gemma’s Nettle man and some trouble he had with fish
Avoiding death by squirrel was his greatest wish
He mentioned reptile brains and a house full of toads
And digging up the gardens in Tan-y-Bwlch Road
He said the bedroom tax was just a crock of shit
And he didn’t trust the government as far as he could spit
He told me ‘bout a bitch called Erin Brockovitch
And a supermarket shop that sold lobster with tits
He said I rock too hard for a bearded bard
And the beard on this bard is a visual guard
To behind the beard and the tangled mind
Like hairs on the beard of a bard like me
So we dance in the light of a moonlit night
And the moon shines its light on the moonlit sight
Of a bard with a beard in the light of the moon
And the moonlit beard of a bard
Moonlit beard of a bard, moonlit beard of a bard
And the beard on this bard was just a visual guard
Moonlit beard of a bard, moonlit beard of a bard
And the beard on this bard was just a visual guard
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Andy Bob Beaumont Bangor, UK
Andy Bob Beaumont is a blues-folk based singer/songwriter from North Wales. He has played in blues bands, jug bands and as a
solo artist for many years. He is lead singer in the blues-rock band Scapegoats and a member of The Beaumont Brothers.
His solo music is influenced by the Delta and Country blues-men, Jug bands, and Americana.
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