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Ghosts of the Living
03:18
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Ghosts of the living Steve Roberts
With your lowcut neckline and your crucifix
No one ever told you that sex and god don’t mix
And I know what kind of tricks you get up to
When you really need a fix
I turn round you’re hanging on my sleeve
You don’t know how to come or when to leave
People turn their backs that’s why you can’t relax
Face to face with these unpleasant facts
Cause you’ve suffered cause you hurt
Cause you don’t know which way to turn
Cause you feel small cause you feel weak
You’re searching the sky for that winning streak
What’s that you’re saying about god
I’m not sure that he can be so good
He’s burnt into you like a shadow that can’t be broken
Like a word that can’t be unspoken
Why are you still talking to me about god
Look at these people under your feet
It’s not the ghosts of the dead
But the ghosts of the living that haunt these streets
Cause you’ve suffered cause you hurt
Cause you don’t know which way to turn
Cause you feel small cause you feel weak
You’re searching the sky for that winning streak
You need a god to harness to your dreams
Cause even reason’s not what it seems
But I defy you to look death in the eye
And not think twice about what your god means
It’s not the ghosts of the dead
But the ghosts of the living that haunt these streets
And everyone needs something
To help them to get to sleep
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2. |
Leo and the Candyman
02:31
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Leo and the candyman Steve Roberts
Leo Leo you played candyman
you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand
Leo Leo you sang like Donovan
but in the end you preferred the candyman
you went down to the sands
with your money in your hand
bought a one night stand
for five minutes it was grand
but you preferred the candyman
you formed a travelling band
with your travelling friend
but in the end
you forgot that plan
cause you preferred the candyman
Leo Leo you played candyman
you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand
Leo Leo you sang like Donovan
but in the end you preferred the candyman
Leo Leo
You vanished just like you came
With nothing to your name
Leo Leo you played candyman
you came from Ireland with a guitar in your hand
Leo Leo you sang like Donovan
but your candyman had another plan
your candyman had another plan
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3. |
That Lonesome Valley
03:20
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You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it by yourself
No one here can walk it for you
Can’t pass your path to no one else
There’s no god that’s gonna save you
There’s no drug to ease the pain
You got to walk that lonesome valley
You got to walk it to the end
You got to climb that lonely mountain
You got to climb it by yourself
No one here can climb it for you
Can’t pass your path to no one else
And when you’re gone and dead and buried
And you walk on through to the other side
I know you won’t turn round and tell me
Turn round and tell me that I lied
Life can kiss you on the lips
And death can take you by the hand
But life can’t show you what’s in store
Only death can lead to that sweet land
That green shore
Where you don’t suffer any more
Suffer any more
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4. |
Stand a While in Silence
03:16
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The fog comes down and muffles every sound
The trees are bare and silent witnesses that you’re not there
The hills are veiled and secretive, they won’t reveal
The unspoken wish that’s floating everywhere
And it’s like they know something
They won’t tell
The photos are standing guard on this tacit shrine to you
And everywhere I look I see your face
It’s as if the love and caring that brought you to this world
Is frozen here in winter’s strict embrace
And it’s like they know something
They won’t tell
In one you’re walking silently buttoned into black
Your eyes absorbing all the light around
The words locked inside you make me chatter to fill the lack
The walls reflecting back my hollow sound
And it’s like they know something
They won’t tell
And I want to tear that stubborn veil aside
And I want to penetrate the grey earth’s hide
And I want to step across that great divide
And stand a while in silence at your side
And stand a while in silence at your side
And stand a while in silence
at your side
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5. |
Memento
04:24
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Memento Steve Roberts
Today I’m happy I’ve just come from the bar
I’m on the street not going far
No one to meet and my love is texting me
Life is shapely when you’re free / when you’re free
Today I’m happy I’ve got everything I need
Friday evening it’s still light
Hotels shopping malls high rise in the clouds
Now I can lose myself in the crowd / in the crowd
The world is turning got a message from my love
The world is turning she’s thinking of me
The world is changing and it’s carrying us away
The world is changing I wouldn’t have it any other way
Acacias dropping yellow flowers everywhere
I scoop them up my only souvenir
I’ve just seen someone who looks like a memory
Or maybe it’s just the time of year / the time of year
These flowers remind me of someone who’s not here
That’s the memento in my palm
Whisper your thoughts , let’s steal a moment we can share
Pretend that time has done no harm / done no harm
The world is turning got a message from my love
The world is turning she’s thinking of me
The world is changing and it’s carrying us away
The world is changing I wouldn’t have it any other way
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6. |
Sunrise in the Hammada
03:46
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Sunrise in the Hammada Xavier Rivero / Steve Roberts
Sunrise in the Hammada
Sun of sand and slow fire
In Tinduff the haimas open
Fragrance of tea and sleeping children
Sunrise in the Hammada
Sun of flame and empty paths
She’s waiting to go home
Back to the beach they snatched away
To touch the waves, touch the water
And watch the sun rise on the future
Sunrise in the Hammada
So many days, so long ago
She’s waiting to go home at last
And snatch the future from the past
She’s waiting to go home
Wearing el-melhfa of bright gold
Farewell the weeping and the mourning
The wide abandoned sands are calling
Sunrise in the Hammada,
Scorches and shrivels her thoughts
Sunrise in the Hammada,
Searing her skin and her dreams
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7. |
Torch Song
03:18
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Torch Song Steve Roberts
I saw you once again last night
You came up to visit me I wish I knew why
And I couldn’t find the right words to say
Those words that would make you want to stay
So many times I’ve dreamed of you
There must be something we left unsaid
There must be something I still have to do
That will let me let go of you
I live with you and without you
You’re within me and without
Knowing that we’ll never meet again
Though you’re no further than any other friend
We wrestled with love but didn’t win
Till it threw us both out of the ring
And so we went our separate ways
But something in me just would not give in
That’s why I see you on this screen inside
So many times when I close my eyes
And when I feel that love is close to me
That’s when you take me by surprise
I live with you and without you …
I can’t forget the cold air on your cheeks
That winter morning you stepped in off the street
The cold I kissed that settled on your skin
Couldn’t touch the warmth deep within you
And once I even saw you on the Rambla
As if my dreams had been keeping you in store
Twenty-two years old and no more
With that same expression you always wore
I live with you and without you …
It’s just this sadness dogging me down
This muddy water tempting me to drown
This burned out torch I carry round
Years ago I should have flung it to the ground
And now poetry won’t come near me
And music doesn’t want to hear me
Cause in my dreams you still refuse
To be my lifelong everlasting muse
I live with you and without you …
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8. |
The Newry Highwayman
03:33
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The Newry Highwayman traditional
In Newry Town I was bred and born
In Stephen's Green, now I die in scorn
I served my time to the saddling trade
But I turned out to be
But I turned out to be a roving blade
At seventeen I took a wife
I loved her dearly as I loved my life
And for to keep her both fine and gay
I went a robbing, went a robbing on the King's Highway
I never robbed no poor man yet
Nor honest tradesman caused I to fret
But I robbed lords and their ladies bright
And took their jewels, took their jewels until my heart's delight
I robbed Lord Golding I do declare
And Lady Mansfield in Grosvenor Square
I shut the shutters and bade them goodnight
And home I went then, home I went then to my heart's delight
To Covent Garden I made my way
With my dear wife for to see the play
Lord Fielding's men they did me pursue
And I was taken, I was taken by the cursed crew
My father cried "oh my darling son"
My wife she wept and said "I am undone."
My mother tore her white locks and cried
"’Twas in the cradle, ‘twas in the cradle he should have died"
And when I'm dead and in my grave
A fancy funeral pray let me have
With six bold highwaymen to carry me
Give them the broadswords, give them the broadswords and sweet liberty
Six pretty maidens to bear my pall
Give them white garlands of lilies all
And when I'm dead they will speak the truth
He was a wild and, he was a wild and a wicked youth
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9. |
High Barbary
02:54
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High Barbary traditional
Look ahead, look astern,
Look the weather in the lee
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we
I see a wreck to the windward
And a lofty ship to lee,
Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
Are you a pirate
Or a man-o-war? cried we
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we.
Oh no I'm not a pirate
But a man-o-war, cried he
Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
We'll haul up our topsails
And heave our vessel to
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we
For we have got some letters
To be carried home by you
Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
For broadside, for broadside
They fought all on the main
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we
Until at last the frigate
Shot the pirate's mast away
Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
With cutlass and gun,
We fought for hours three
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we
Their ship it was their coffin
And their grave it was the sea
Sailing down the coast of High Barbary
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10. |
Lord Franklin
03:23
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Lord Franklin traditional
Homeward bound one night on the deep
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
With a hundred seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen do sometimes go
Through cruel hardships they made a stroke
Their ships on mountains of ice was broke
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
Was the only one that ever got through
In Baffin's Bay where the whale fishes blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin alone with his sailors do dwell
And now my burden it gives me pain
For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
To say on earth that my Franklin did live
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