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Yeh,she's come in through the window
Yeh,she's come through the window
I thought that i could let go
Yeh,she's come in through the window
The crowd had disappeared the lights were gone
I saw her there with her new friend
so far away from everyone
I knew i couldn't stop the end
And so i just smiled trying to pretend..
The night grew heavy as they walked away
and i thought that i was so prepared
But nothing set me for this day
with every fibre running scared
I'm gonna lose everything that we've shared
Hey and we don't wanna die
and feel that old life sliding out of view
and we can't say goodbye
Just try to hold on tight to what we knew
Gonna get the blues for love
Gonna get the blues for love
For all i never knew about love
Gonna get the blues for love
Gonna get the blues for love
There's nothing i can do my love
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Here Come The Strange
04:17
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Like a ghost in a paint-blue sky
I'm drawing you from other men
hiding in the empty
I see its so-yeh it aint no lie
All your dreams and promises
Frightened to be set free
OO Here Come THe Strange for all you know ( x 2)
Young and old i'm an ancient child
Just like you for all its worth
Reaching out and falling
Everybody thinks they're cool as hell
in t.v worlds where i'm alone
waiting for the morning
CHORUS
Laughing woman i've been wrapped
around your finger
I've been holding out for you again
Laughing woman i'm a smiler of a singer
i've been hoping for i don't know when
but i'll see you then..
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Road To Mexico
03:02
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Heading out to see the ancient girl
Just a sunset from the morning
On a dream for something more
I fell into this world
Filled my soul up at the gin house
with stolen money from the bank
and i drove on and on to make your connection...
Seven years since i've been locked away
They let me out now i can see you
With just a picture from before
A face out of this world
The only good thing i remember
I'm on my way to get it back
and i drove on and on to make your connection
Down goes the sun oh baby
Night finds the ocean
Steely eyes are watching you...
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I'm In Love
02:46
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New track i've written, recorded and done a video for.Shot mainly in Highbury Park , Kings Heath/Moseley Birmingham on tuesday 11.4.12
Many thanx to Paul Carroll for playing a wonderful,creative round of drums.
To the Colliestar (Colette Degiovanni ) for doing the great harmony 'yeh yeh yehs' and 'For You Baby's..and to Steve Draper for helping me out by having the cubase skill to slow down the basic drum n guitar track that sped up too much halfway thru..(me n Paul are both speedy guys heh )
All music/lyrics STEVE ISON
Winters like walking thru a faithless world
For you baby ,For you baby
And i don't know what i'll do without you girl
For you baby,for you baby
I'm in love its there inside of me
Trying to push on thru
I'm in love i feel the gravity
in everything i do
I'm in love its like a memory
somewhere i once knew
I'm in love when i'm with you
YEH YEH YEH YEH
I'm in love in spite of all the pain
the stupid things i said
I'm in love and if i wasn't
then i'd wish that i was dead
I'm in love 'cos its the heart of me
and takes me from my head
I choose loving you instead
YEH YEH YEH YEH YEH
I'm in love and its a tragedy
i never learned before
I'm in love and tho you're thru with me
I choose to love you more
I'm in love 'cos its the best of me
the rest is on the floor
and i'm still alive..
YEH YEH YEH YEH YEH
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Born In The Old Days
03:31
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Hey babe we're born in the old days
Hey babe we're born in the old days
I got a friend who frees the life
She knows a place where i remember
The tears off summer when we play
a love you message
in a long forgotten song from far away...
Hey babe we're born in the old days
Hey babe we're born in the old days
Walked from a life i never knew
Just for a moment of your beauty
and though the moment's been and gone
It's left a window to a bluer sky
that keeps me keepin' on
The dream of love that slipped away still plays
Out of sight through the night till the dawn
The dream of love that slipped away still plays
Out of sight through the night till the dawn
Hold on we only want a place in the sun
Like everyone
We're here then gone
Long gone away
The dream of love that slipped away still plays
in the songs that the world never knew
The dream of love that slipped away still plays
in the songs that the world never knew
Hold on we're born inside the stars and the sun
Like everyone
We're here then gone
Long gone away..
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Born To Love
03:28
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In a changing sky on a restless dawn
You were caught in the eye of a raging storm
Tho your mind was torn
Your heart was born to love.....
On a mountainside from a sleepless bed
Saw the stars fall down all around your head
Not a word was said
and our hearts were born to love...
Old man hear the sea of emotion
Fall asleep by the ocean
As the waves all crash over you
Somewhere far away from the sorrow
Yesterday and tommorow
Feel the rays that come over you
There's a free man running inside
But its over you
And can see that nothing has died
Oh girl wish that i could awake it
Tho we might never make it
I know that i've got to love you more..
I'll be a gallery and a shoulder
Your family and your soldier
marching on 'cos i'm over you
Made a call you never replied
I'm not over you
'cos we're walking side by side
We don't need a wall..
Here come the jets upon the way
Bringing dreams along
I wonder..Then they're gone
Here come the smile that won't decay
Now i can be in love without her
She's everyone..
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The waking of the morning sun
Won't let life -Won't let life get away
The rhapsody that pulls you on
Won't let life -Won't let life get away
Now I love you more than i did when we begun...
Falling through the window..
Warm seas of ancient wine
She's my kind She's my kind of a friend
The ecstacy that burns inside
Drawn by fire Drawn by fire to the end
Now I love you more than i did when we begun...
Falling through the window..
I'm so scared of love
What am i thinking of ?
I'm so scared of love
I just can't get enough
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Love In A Strange World
03:49
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Love in a strange world of goodbyes
Breaking the heart,weeping the eyes
for whats gone
Like a smile thats moved on
from you...
BUT YOU'RE WELCOME BACK INSIDE
ANY TIME AT ALL
'COS ITS JUST TOO SAD TO LIVE
WAITING FOR A FALL
SCARED TO DIE
TO A HEART THAT MAY PASS BY
Its Only the rainbow that you choose
Love in a strange world
is alive in the blues
Sees the sky in yur views
each day...
SO YOU'RE WELCOME BACK INSIDE
ANY TIME AT ALL
'COS ITS JUST TOO SAD TO LIVE
WAITING FOR A FALL
SCARED TO DIE
TO A HEART THAT MAY PASS BY
I'm glad now Babe
But i'm sad now babe
We fall we break
There's no escape
from time thats gonna see us thru..
And we feel the pain
of what can't remain
We long to stay
in song and play
A picture in the eyes we knew..
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Movie Days
02:55
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Moving together thru the orchid covered marching JUne parade
As music played
Families hangin' out their windows waving posies
and singing out "Love Is All"
Toujours L'amour
Walking with Cherie thru her ivy running midnight -blue lit streets
Her heart so sweet
and with that good-time summer romance of the moment
Flickering round our souls
We let them roll
Movie Days
Slinking thru the haze
Drinking that lovebite Liquer
Sinking that sun
No job-no money
Just a smile of celebration for the dream
that might have been
A satellite film for honeyed days of wine and roses
Playing inside again
From way back when
Movie Days
Slinking thru the haze
Drinking that lovebite Liquer
Sinking that sun
Movie Days
Slinking thru the haze
Drinking that lovebite Liquer
Sinking that sun
But we were there
We were both there
Yeh we were there
Yeh we were there
Like a picture from another life
its so funny to live inside Movie Days
Movie Days
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Mazie
03:11
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Mazie you used to be young
and your heartland was sure
Love and fame knocking on the door
Then the weather changed
and the vampire-heart men came..
They fed upon your name
Left you with a numbing for the pain
Gin and Cocaine..
Mazie you used to belong
in the bar and the temple
With the fey and the elemental
Then the weather changed
and you lived on what they said
It all went to your head
Pushed the ones who loved you far away
For chains instead..
Mazie, i remember your song
and the way that you played it
and we all felt so glad you made it
Then the weather changed and you never were the same
Got stuck upon a train
Travelling the long way home again
A child in pain (Gin and cocaine)
Gin and Cocaine (a child in pain )
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The Night Lingers On
02:38
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Motorway thru the countryside
as winter life reels about you
Get away from the dust and grime
You realise you might..
Celebrate in the morning light
when you arrive free from doubt
So you drive going dusk till dawn
beneath your eyes tonight
Always forming
Doing alright by everyone
And the night lingers on...
Motorway thru the countryside
Just going by near to something
Anyday it'll be so fine
It could be all you want
Hear the waves in a distant cry
'We'll Never die"
Tho years are tumbling
Goodbye to the desperate world
Where all your lkives were caught
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Nothing going on round here
Drinking dims the eyes of fear
Think i'll go off mingling round
Looking for a way to fall
Something i can never recall
Her body says she'll win that part
but her face is cruel and hard
And the blonde airs blowing this way
Talking 'bout the girls in Heat
Saying how she comes from the 'street'...
You don't know where i'm at
Wave away your hand
But i'm not looking for a hot date
Don't want nothing at all
Just to feel the sun
And its coming through the window
All the magic that the T.V don't show..
Nothing going on round here
Gonna sink a life in beer
And you ask 'Whats happening now ? '
Everybodies on the run
scared that someone's having more fun
You don't know where i'm at
Wave away your hand
But i'm not looking for a hot date
Don't want nothing at all
Just to feel the sun
And its coming through the window
All the magic that the T.V don't show..
Yeh its coming through the window
Just like summer on the radio
Reading letters in the soft shade
Throwing petals at the motorcade
Yeh its coming through the window
Could be something that you'll never know..
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Steve Ison Birmingham, UK
Solo bedroom songwriter forever chasing the dream of the magical transcendent pop song.Also lead singer and guitarist in
quirky multi-harmonising progressive popsters THE STRANGEST FEELING....Is guitarist and sings BVs in new wave/classic pop band ADHD
Finally plays guitar & sings BVs in strange dreampop band MELLOW VIBE
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