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Gold Dust
03:33
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We whisper in a room
While dawn breaks over silence
And light creeps on the bed
Cast your light on here
There’s motion in the giving
Hands held, hearts bled
My glass is nearly empty
So hold me once again
Before the night ends
She can cast her spell
Gold dust in her hand
I think I understand
One, two, three, I’m gone
As she calls my name
Gold dust, come again
Gold dust, come again
Outside the river flows
Neon lights still glow
Someone’s reality
It was all a game of chance
We had tickets in our hands
You made a path for me
My glass is nearly empty
So hold me once again
Before the night ends
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Quiet Revolution
03:59
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There’s a quiet revolution taking place
Though it seems this generation’s lost its way
Here we are, we’re lost and found
While rain falls down on our lucky town
There’s a quiet revolution here today
On cold, new ground we tried to drown the sun
Banners raised above a chain undone
Under summer skies of mist and wine
No one thought to ask us why
A quiet revolution had begun
We watched the sun sink low across the fields
Waiting patiently to see what they would yield
We lay our hands on solid ground
As the night came down us all around
Casting shadows that we thought were real
Under the brightness of another April night
We walk down a road that’s been travelled many times
We look at you and understand
You’re a new beginning in our hands
You’re our quiet revolution here tonight
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Four Winds Part 1
03:42
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See the mountains in your eyes
Down the road we left the other world behind
On the wind a lonely song
Your worried mind’s been racing for too long
These are the moments we’ve been waiting for
In our solitary towns
The sun will rise and no mountains will fall
As the four winds swing around
Tonight we looked down from the hill
On yellow lights across the city spill
The setting sun on turning leaves
A new life in a presence on the breeze
These are the moments we’ve been waiting for
In our solitary towns
The sun will rise and no mountains will fall
As the four winds swing around
The rolling river runs outside
Through a field of dreams, sequenced in the night
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Steel Town
02:35
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Low in the valleys to the east
Down where the rivers run
Men took treasures from the ground
To make the land a home
They built the rivers of red and gold
Running like blood through the heart of town
Through them the hands of the men were tied
To follow their fathers down
Down in a steel town
Deep in a barren wilderness
Where the heat ran strong
Men took treasures from God’s earth
Let fire burn all night long
The city rose up with the strength of dreams
Outside the world was turning round
The hopes they sent up with the flames
All came tumbling down
Down in a steel town
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Long Way Home
04:18
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Though it’s been a long time coming
Somehow you never see
Everyone keeps on telling me
There’s a reason to believe
Still the wheels keep on turning
Even though it’s plain to see
This time it’s a year of endings
Now what we started is complete
I’m falling down again
Somehow both of us know it’s a long way home
We’re just going through the motions on a late-night train
And it’s always the same, it’s always this way
An august night, love in the summer
September falls in the rain
Someday we will see new beginnings
And some place we will always stay
There’s a dream and a night that are over
Another winter comes rushing through
There will always be something in knowing
That I spent that time with you
Somehow both of us know it’s a long way home
We’re just going through the motions on a late-night train
And it’s always the same, it’s always this way
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Little Soul
03:33
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I took a walk down the hall
Down the stairs and through the glass doors
Felt the air was cold
I knew this day was your first morning
So I stood in the sun
Took a moment to see the changes
A door opened inside
April sunlight filled my mind
But it’s simple now
What I’ve got to say
Hey little soul
You don’t have to worry again
See the light in my eyes
Come with me one step at a time
Take care as you go
Hear my voice, I want you to know
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Four Winds Part 2
04:33
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There’s that presence on the wind
A voice that whispers through the darkness
A life created in these walls
There’s a magic we have harnessed
We watch the sun light up the hill
It’s where we walked one early morning
And where we looked down on this town
And waited for a new life dawning
It was so real
We lay back on the unmade bed
And watched the sun break on the ceiling
It’s like that now here where we stand
And channel all that we are feeling
And it’s so real
Now there’s a new life deep inside
Down a river it is sailing
And destiny holds all we know
Three of us are left here waiting
And it’s so real
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Ivor's Song
05:07
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Every morning when you rise
As the day break clears the skies
Each new sun lights on your face
And turns the darkness into day
Your candle’s just begun to burn
A start of life but the big wheel always turns
Time’s standing still up in that frame
But shadows reach out and touch us anyway
If you need me call my name
I’m only ever a moment away
You know you’re never on your own
I’ll walk beside you down the road we know
Sometimes when I lie awake
I remember holding you on a late August day
And in the darkness of the night
These are the moments that make up a life
If you need me I’ll be there
Our gaslight’s burning with the memories we share
And in the shadows of your mind
You’ll always find me when the years have gone by
You’ll always find me when the years have gone by…
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Just About Right
04:34
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It’s that time again
The shortest day is here
There’s a cold December sun
At this time of the year
There always seems to be
So many Winter songs
Some are worlds apart
We’ve been here all along
So I take your hand
As a sign of the days
That we’ve spent as one
We’ve known it all along the way
We’ve got it just about right
Follow the road you know
So well in your mind
Under the evening sky
We go one step at a time
We’ve come so far we two
Through all seasons of the sun
This is just a start
A journey just begun
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10. |
Year by Year
03:53
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Our summer's sun begins to fade again
As shadows stretch across the sky
They move across the fields
Where I took your hands
And gazed on life within your eyes
An autumn wind blows across the land
Through the place we dared to dream
It was this time of year
As the summer turned
And it's all coming back to me
Oh... Year by year on the wind
Oh... Let the seasons come again
September suns begin to rise
Like the ebbing of a tide
Year by year
We watch a blood-red moon rising up
It casts its might across the skies
I hold you close
Forever in this light
And lose myself within your eyes
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11. |
Edith Cavell
04:18
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Far from the guns of war
Here on familiar shores
From the faces of strangers
To the arms of a few
A distant shot, the luck of the draw
Here on an eastern sand
Trying to understand
From her to you
A line to me
The gift of a life in her hands
She sent you away from the guns of Europe
From Belgium 's lines across the sea
I see the names of the ones she gave her life for
She saved you so she saved me
There's a memory here coming through
The life of a place you once knew
Like I'm coming home a hundred years ago
The years stream through me and you
She sent you away from the guns of Europe
From Belgium 's lines across the sea
I see the names of the ones she gave her life for
She saved you so she saved me
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