1. |
Colourblind
03:59
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To a time in early Spring
My mind’s remembering
The two of us lying in
The morning sun
I kissed you twice and once again
Wished the day would never end
In skies of grey the night begins
and she is gone
How long will you run
Is your heart keeping time
Am I in your head or way out of line
The stars are crying and the moons so shy
Our love’s a picture and I’m colourblind
I looked for you through Mondays rain
Tuesday’s sun and Wednesdays pain
I looked for you through scattered rain
Of Autumn song
I listened to the day begin
Heard your secret whispering
Fill the empty space within
Now she is gone
How long will you run
Is your heart keeping time
Am I in your head or way out of line
The stars are crying and the moons so shy
Our love’s a picture and I’m colourblind
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2. |
A different kind of blue
03:16
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She’ll break your fall, Shelter from the rain
With skin that crawls like some slow moving train
Taking me back to what I knew
But that’s just a different kind of blue
A blood red sun screaming thru the sky
Burns me blind so I don’t have to smile
Playing the fool was all I knew
But that’s just a different kind of blue
So let it be or somewhere in between
The places that I’ve been, yet this I couldn’t dream
Feeling the pain of losing you
But that’s just a different kind of blue
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3. |
Baby
02:51
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Gonna lock all my windows and doors
Make a bed on the wooden floor
Where we used to dance but we dance no more, baby
Gonna close all my shutters and blinds.
Dream away until the end of time.
Call your name until these tears start to dry, baby
I've said it before. And I'll say it again a thousand times more.
Our time is too short. But I'll meet you some day, meet me halfway, baby
Gonna cry myself asleep again
Rest my head on the ghost of your skin
Wake tomorrow and do it all again, baby
Gonna lock all my windows and doors
Make a bed on the wooden floor
Where we used to dance but we dance no more, baby
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4. |
Wreckage from The Sea
04:42
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The sweetest soul I ever seen just waved a smile at me
I glimpsed at her and turned away for fear that she might see
The sadness flowing from my eyes and the trembling of my knees
For a golden Shore could never love the Wreckage from the sea
Her seashell hair sleeps softly on her carefree sallow brow
I bet my life no other man loves her like I do now
But a man condemned to live with his regrets is never free
And a golden Shore can never love the Wreckage from the sea
A daydream fell into my heart and kissed my troubled mind
I dream't we had a little girl and she didn't have your eyes
I smiled for if she had every young fool like me would grieve
For a golden Shore can never love the Wreckage from the sea
And so I live from day to day trying not to think of you
But the nights are long and every cloud that sails across the moon
Reminds me of the finest joy that I can never feel
For a golden shore can never love the Wreckage from the sea
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5. |
Midnite
04:27
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Perhaps it is the sunlight sinking deep in the pains of your smile
Or maybe it’s the way you play hearts when the jokers are wild
I’m tired and I’m broken
And I’ve nothing inside
To give or to take from the dreams that you hide in your head
When you come to me Midnite
Elusive as the rain and as closed as the book on the floor
This useless charade that I’m playing just don’t cut anymore
Around every corner
Down every street
With a new trick to show and an old flame to greet
So you’ll cry when you come to me Midnite
If you should leave before morning
When this empire burns to the ground
I’ll give my love to you babe and the setting sun to which you are bound
I’d tell you I’m sorry
I’d tell you I tried
To run from the blue sinking deep down inside
Everytime that you come to me
That you come to me
That you come to me-Midnite
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6. |
Song for Marie
03:30
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Looks like the rain is gonna pass away
There’s a blue sky coming in over Clew Bay
And I’ve tried so hard to stand still
And ignore the bitterest pill
That I love, but you have to go away
Looks like the leaves are falling to the land
And the once majestic oak tree’s left to stand
So vulnerable and bare
I always thought that you’d be here
But I know now that you have to go away
Looks like the time is passing me by
And life just wouldn’t stop to let me wonder why
And thru all the tears, the madness and the pain
I can hear your voice a callin, see the miracles happening
Looks like the winter nights are closing in
And the Christmas lights, they’ll soon be hangin
From the mall to market square, but I know you won’t be there
Coz I know now that you have to go away
Yeah, I know now that you have to go away
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Prospect Avenue
04:34
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Climb the steep hill, sleeping still
A cold wind whispers in my mind
This place I love and hate at will
Has picked me up a thousand times
Took a shot to start the day
And one more just to ease my mind
If you could only see me now
My girl you'd hang your head and cry
Below the streets seem dignified in their crown of misty jewels
While I stand to be crucified here on Prospect Avenue
A crayon angel fears to tread
The black ink of a broken line
For a shallow piece of life
A masquerade, a waste of time
Took a shot to start the day
And one more just to ease my mind
If you could only see me now
My girl you'd hang your head and cry
Below the streets seem dignified in their crown of misty jewels
While I stand to be crucified here on Prospect Avenue
The candle weeps, a restless sleep
I'm bittersweet and back and blue
In the distance smoke rings hang
So still, like faded crescent moons
Took a shot to end the day
And one more just to feel the night
If you could only see me now
My girl you'd hang your head and cry
Below the streets seem dignified in their crown of misty jewels
While I stand to be crucified here on Prospect Avenue
Up here the stars they burn so bright they are bound to blow a fuse
But when they do we'll run and hide out in Prospect Avenue
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8. |
No Better Man
04:26
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Setting suns and sinking ships, are all I see when I kiss your lips
An empty begging bowl, fills the place of the broken heart you stole
Weary eyes and reddened cheeks, Tongues of fire that refuse to speak
My love it echoes true, in this cold ballroom lit up by the moon
I travelled many roads with my life in your hands
And you gave me soul and a song to sing but you left No Better Man, No Better Man
Dancing barefoot down your lanes, with your blood running thru my veins
Into the crimson night, with a sigh and Achilles at my side
Trying to tell you of this pain, Trying to lose all that’s left to gain
My love it echoes true, in this cold ballroom lit up by the moon
I travelled many roads with my life in your hands
And you gave me soul and a song to sing but you left No Better Man, No Better Man
To let the love you gave fall like rain thru his hands-No Better Man
How can I explain what I don’t understand
From the brilliant sanguine sun, to the dust that we all must become
On which our shadows pass, drawing shapes with the blunt tools of the past
Setting suns and sinking ships, are all I see when I kiss your lips
An empty begging bowl, fills the place of the broken heart you stole
I travelled many roads with my life in your hands
And you gave me soul and a song to sing but you left No Better Man, No Better Man
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9. |
Lullabye
03:51
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She's my angel, she's my queen
Always watching over me
Always reading in between
The lines that I could never see
Here's the place I want to be
Standing with you next to me
Looking out upon the sea
As the moonlight falls upon your feet
I've been lost and I've been found
About a thousand times by now
Left to drown out in the rain
And dried out by the sun again
Only she can make it right
Hold me close and hold me tight
And when I'm on a losing streak
She'll cry my tears upon her cheek
She's my angel, she's my queen
Always watching over me
Always reading in between
The lines that I could never see
Here's the place I want to be
Standing with you next to me
Looking out upon the sea
As the moonlight falls upon your feet
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
High above the world tonite
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Billy Clarke Castlebar, Ireland
Billy Clarke is a singer/songwriter from Westport, Ireland. His songs reach into the heart of the human condition and relay stories of the spirit, stories of nature, stories of the soul
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