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Brighten up my Life
03:11
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BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE – (S.WALL/J.WALL)
Why do some people always complain?
They moan when it's hot, they moan when it rains
“Happiness depends upon yourself ”
As Aristotle would tell
I’m so disappointed in most of my friends
They’re talking about houses and gross dividends
What ever happened to shakin’ your ass
And a roll in the grass
CHORUS
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
SET MY WORLD ALIGHT
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
Drink to the future and swear on your heart
Kick off your high heels and join in the march
Up on your bike, you’re so debonair
How does your vanity fare?
CHORUS
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
SET MY WORLD ALIGHT
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
Up on your bike, you’re so debonair
How does your vanity fare?
CHORUS
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
SET MY WORLD ALIGHT
LETS PAINT THIS TOWN TONIGHT
BRIGHTEN UP MY LIFE
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2. |
Everything that Rises
03:50
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EVERYTHING THAT RISES (S.WALL)
Intro: E G# Dbm A ( all bar chords except for E)
E G# Dbm A
THERE WAS A TIME, I WAS YOURS AND YOU WERE MINE
WE SHONE IN THE LIGHT OF THE DAY
NO TROUBLE NO PAIN, STRAIGHT TALKING AS THEY SAY
NOTHING COULD STAND IN OUR WAY
F#
TWO PEOPLE IN A TRANCE
A
TWO FIGHTERS IN A DANCE
F#
THEY RESPECT EACH OTHERS FEARS
A
A FIGHTER'S PRIDE IS BUILT ON FEAR
CHORUS: E G# Dbm A
I, I'M AMAZED, I LET IT SLIP AWAY
I, I AM CRAZED, IT'S RUNNING THROUGH MY BRAIN
EVERYTHING THAT RISES - HAS TO FALL
SOMEWHERE I READ- THE TRUTH IS BETTER LEFT UNSAID
AVOID ALL THE HURT AND THE PAIN
I'M A CROOKED COMPANION, YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP
WHEN I TAKE YOU OUT TO PLAY
DRINK FROM THIS GOLDEN CUP, THE DAYS AREN'T LONG ENOUGH
HOIST UP THE SCARLET SAILS, BUT I JUMPED TO SHORE AS WE MOVED AWAY
CHORUS
GUITAR SOLO
REPEAT CHORUS
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3. |
Heads are Gonna Roll
03:42
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HEADS ARE GONNA ROLL (S. Wall)
When I was younger my heart had a hunger
for feelings of every kind
But down through the years I shed hardly a tear
Was it just that I hadn’t the time?
A world full of sorrow holds pain for tomorrow
The future don’t look very bright
Down through the ages we’re tearing the pages
While there’s more of the book still to write
chorus
All these years I never asked why
All the tears I never could cry
You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry
And you’ve nothing left to show
So heads are gonna roll
Trumpet
I met an old woman she knew I was coming
By the leaves in her teacup that night
I took pains to explain what I found on my way
And the things that I left way behind
A world full of sorrow holds pain for tomorrow
The future don’t look very bright
Down through the ages we’re tearing the pages
While there’s more of the book still to write
chorus
All these years I never asked why
All the tears I never could cry
You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry
And you’ve nothing left to show
So heads are gonna roll
Trumpet
Guitar solo
All these years I never asked why
All the tears I never could cry
You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry
And you’ve nothing left to show
You’ve got nothing left to show
So heads are gonna roll
Trumpet
You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry (x 2)
Yeah, yeah. yeah…..etc
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4. |
December Sky
03:07
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5. |
She's on my Mind
03:20
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6. |
Always You
03:06
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‘Always You’ - The Stunning
I was standing still in a darkened room
And no one could see as I looked down on the street
My breath it fogs up the windowpane
And I peel the paint as I wait…and I wait….for you.
Yes it’s you, always you.
If you fall, I’ll be the one, you’ll fall into
You’re on my mind both night and day
And you made me crash
You’re the itch that I can’t scratch
Last night I had the strangest dream
I was lost at sea, now I wish that I could be
With you, just you, always you
If you fall, I’ll be the one, you’ll fall into
Yeah you, just you, always you.
When you fall, I’ll be the one, you’ll fall into
You’re on my mind both night and day
And you made me crash
You’re the itch that I can’t scratch
It’s you, just you, always you.
If you fall, I’ll be the one, you’ll fall into
Yeah you, it’s just you, always you.
When you fall, I’ll be the one, you’ll fall into
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7. |
She's not There
04:19
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SHE’S NOT THERE – THE STUNNING
She said something about a sunrise
Open up the curtain take a look
Out the door we’re shambling down the roadside
Down to the lake where nature’s waking up
I didn’t think that we’d be talking all night
Drinking from the neck does you in
The beauty of the dawn makes me uptight
‘cos I haven’t seen it since I don’t know when
Haven’t seen it since I don’t know when
She moves through the morning
She moves through the air
I can feel her head on my shoulder
I turn around and she’s not there
I turn around and she’s not there
See the way she moves around the graveyard
Stepping through the tombstones with respect
Calling out the rhymes
of the ones who died before their time
Michael - TB - aged eight.
She never seems to look any older
Eyes that shine crystalline and bright
And when she puts her head upon my shoulder
I feel as bold as Lancelot the Knight
I feel as bold as Lancelot the Knight
She moves through the morning
She moves through the air
I can feel her head on my shoulder
I turn around and she’s not there
I turn around and she’s not there
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8. |
Rusty Old River
04:29
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RUSTY OLD RIVER (S.Wall)
INTRO + VERSE: G – A7 – C
RUSTY OLD RIVER, RUSTY OLD BOAT
THIS RUSTY OLD LOVE WON'T KEEP US AFLOAT
RUSTY CHAINS, WON'T TAKE THE STRAIN
BUT THEY'VE GOT ME BY THE THROAT
(C) (C/B) - descend down on C chord (Am)
I'M GONNA PUT MY CARDS ON THE TABLE
ONE-EYED JACKS ARE WILD
I'M GONNA TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS AND SQUEEZE YOU TIGHT
TO SEE YOU EYE TO EYE
TAKE IT SMOOTH, TAKE IT ROUGH, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS LUKEWARM STUFF
I WANT TO SEE THE TEARS RUNNING DOWN YOUR FACE
I WANT TO SEE YOU CRY WHEN I SAY - GOODBYE
RUSTY OLD RIVER, RUSTY OLD BOAT
IT'S SO SAD JUST TO LOOK AT YOU BOTH
I REMEMBER THE DAY WE MET
THE RAIN CAME DOWN, OUR HAIR WAS WET
AND YOUR HANDS THEY FELT SO COLD
CHORUS
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9. |
Carrying the Fire
03:13
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Carrying the Fire (Words, Music: Joe Wall)
They were wandering the roads with nowhere to hide
carrying the fire, carrying the fire
skin and bones and barely alive,
carrying the fire
Crushed down driven to hell
carrying the fire, carrying the fire
By the brute force of Oliver Cromwell
carrying the fire, carrying the fire
There were lost half a million lives
Those that lived made sure the tale survived
On hundreds of ships crossing the seven seas
To Botany Bay, New York and Mississippi,
through the cracks in godless concrete streets
life bloomed like some rebel weed
Escape from the city to the country
On a freight ship he came from the east
carrying the fire, carrying the fire
In a hotel she cooks and cleans
carrying the fire, carrying the fire
He said I don’t know a soul in this strange place
She said come on upstairs, come on inside
We’re gonna keep warm
We’re gonna survive
Carrying the fire.
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10. |
Mr. Ginger
03:22
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11. |
A Delicate Web
03:31
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A Delicate Web (S.Wall)
Lady in my every dream so lovely
If you could only be beneath or above me
Upstairs or downstairs, I’m gonna find your door
You cast such a binding spell I’m forever
Trapped in a delicate web, I surrender
If I have to take a poison, it might as well be yours
I’m thinking of your smiling face
I’m thinking of your sweet taste
I’m thinking of what I’m gonna say to you
Walking down the boulevard beside you
I can see the light of the sun inside you
It shines on the angels, shines on the ones who know
I pick up the telephone start dialing
It rings but there’s no one home, keep trying
I wanna hear your voice, I wanna hear you say my name
I’m thinking of your smiling face
I’m thinking of your sweet taste
I’m thinking of what I’m gonna say to you
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The Stunning Ireland
Formed in 1987 The Stunning broke up in 1994 having released just three albums. But in their absence the songs grew stronger and were rarely off the airwaves. Their debut album "Paradise in the Picturehouse", spent 5 weeks at No. 1 in 1990, and has since been re-issued. The band now reform every couple of years with the original members and play to packed venues around Ireland. ... more
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