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Smile For The Camera
03:17
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You know you’re photogenic, it’s very plain to see
There’s photo opportunities on every street
Conjure up a little flash of inner joie de vivre
Ready now baby? Give it to me!
I’d like to hold you close to me
I hope you'll understand
I just can’t relate to you
Without a camera in my hand
Chorus
Smile for the camera - a picture perfect postcard
Smile for the camera – you shouldn’t have to work hard
Smile for the camera – you shouldn’t have to try hard
Smile for the camera – One Two Three!
Rowing down the river, creative juices flow
Lens loves to love you, loves your inner glow
Take you on the river bank, lay back on the grass
Time for an F-stop - Masterclass
I’d love to hold you close to me
I hope you'll understand
I just can’t relate to you
Without a camera in my hand
Chorus
Pose with a hint of mystery
Pose like a lover would just for me
Sharing our passion in photography
I’ll take you and then you take me (yeah)
Chorus
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2. |
Drifting
04:08
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Friday morning, in a seaside town
Took my dog walking by the beach
The road was awash where a storm had tossed
Everything as far as the sea could reach
Up by the Pier an ambulance drew near
No siren or light as off it sped,
A wind blew cold so we headed home
And my dog he was hanging his head
Chorus
Drifting on the tide
Drifting on the tide you’ll find me
Tired from the fight
Tired from the fight inside me
Standing at a bus-stop in the rain
This pale young guy came up to us
He gestured to me “Can I stroke your dog?”
So I shrugged and he gave him a fuss
His eyes looked tired but his smile grew wide
As he knelt and patted my dog
Then my bus arrived and I mumbled goodbye
And my dog he was hanging his head
Chorus x 2
Later that day I turned on the TV
Found the Sport on Channel Two
My team got beat so I cursed at the screen
And I switched to the local news
Picture of a pier, somebody in tears
Didn’t catch what the news guy said
‘Cos I went to make dinner, came back to the weather
And my dog he was hanging his head
Chorus x 2
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Sunday morning, soon be four
Whole gang’s sleeping on the floor
Crazy evening, lazy day
She could never have her way
Stealing cars and racing through the back streets
She comes along, it’s boring in the back seat
We stay alive by keeping time with speed cops
She loves me now, wait until the tease stops
Day is done but we’ve got time
Find a way to make it rhyme
Look for trouble, where’s my gun?
She wants money, she wants fun
Stealing cars and racing through the back streets
She comes along, it’s boring in the back seat
We stay alive by keeping time with speed cops
She loves me now, wait until the tease stops
Fun begins, alarm bells ring
Waiting for the cops to bring
All their dogs onto the scene
Lose them all before we’re seen
Stealing cars and racing through the back streets
She comes along, it’s boring in the back seat
We stay alive by keeping time with speed cops
She loves me now, wait until the tease stops
Stealing cars and racing through the back streets
She comes along, it’s boring in the front seat
We stay alive by keeping time with speed cops
She loves me now, wait until the tease stops
Wait until the tease stops
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4. |
Pisces Child
03:36
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August air and a Pisces Child
These are my dreams of a youth hot and wild
The sun-pinned leaves in the artist’s style
And my love shone, she was a Pisces child
Lazy rivers and fields of lazy time
Light conversation with no reason or rhyme
That summer’s lady, she was a special kind
Something unseekable, you can only find
Oh August desert where did you go that night?
And it seemed forever, when it seemed so right
Oh August desert I think I’ll never find
My summer lady, she's turned to snow
Then summer showers, they washed our love away
I thought they would freshen, I never thought they’d stay
The leaves came unpinned, wind blew night from day
And the August air took my lady away
Oh August desert where did you go that night?
When it seemed forever and it seemed so right
Oh August desert I think I’ll never find
My summer lady’s melted like snow
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5. |
Tear Dance
04:42
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Distant echo silent chaos dance
Crowds an untried circumstance
Constant flow attacks the soul down deep
Victim waits the invader never sleeps
Tears they dance
Feared romance
Illusion, Intrusion
Sleeping heavy in a poison trance
Tears of released untried circumstance
Tears they dance
Feared romance
Illusion, Intrusion
She is afraid
He never knows
He gives the pain
She never shows
Laughter in the morning light
Freedom from despair and fright
Tears they dance
Feared romance
Illusion, Intrusion
She is afraid
He never knows
He gives the pain
She never shows
Tear dance, tears they dance (x4)
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Treat Me Like A Boy
03:08
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I think it's so unfair
Treat me like you don't care
Intentions plain to see
What you want do with me
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
You're ice to me but, you’re not frozen
You're not the heat I should have chosen
Keep me in the dark where I can’t find you
Standing in the light that one day blinds you
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
Taking everything I have for your joy
Use me like a man but then you treat me like a boy
Treat me like a boy
Treat me like a boy for your joy (yeah)
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7. |
Vanishing Point
04:05
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She looks in the window of a charity shop
A stranger stares right back at her
Someone must have taken her clothes
That’s not her that’s not her
The bar next door’s got a two for one on
Such a warm and welcome sight
She walks in and the barman greets her
“What can I get you, what would you like?”
She drinks to the journey that one day ends
Family ghosts and absent friends
Where did the map go? Where did the road go?
When did someone steal her car?
Left by the roadside, lost on the long drive
Now the horizon seems so far
Later she walks home alone from the bar
A staggering shadow following her
Shadow don’t move the way that she moves
It can’t be hers, it can’t be hers
She thinks of the people that she met tonight
Can’t remember their faces, remember their names
All she remembers is the smiling barman
“Glad you came, so glad you came”
She drinks to the journey that one day ends
Family ghosts and absent friends
Where did the map go? Where did the road go?
When did someone steal her car?
Left by the roadside, lost on the long drive
Now the horizon seems so far
Where did the map go? Where did the road go?
When did someone steal her car?
Left by the roadside, lost on the long drive
Now the horizon seems so far
Bench in a park and a new day breaks
The morning light lighting up her hair
But she don’t feel the rays of the sun
It’s hard to feel, so hard to feel
Another new day, another adventure
Another new opportunity
She’ll go home, when her legs start to work
And look for the woman that she wants to be
She thinks on the journey that one day ends
Family ghosts and absent friends
She thinks on the journey that one day ends
Family ghosts and absent friends
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8. |
Lover 29
03:32
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I found you in a bar
You had a vacancy
Gave me your well-rehearsed
Theories of destiny
You’ve got expensive tastes
Don’t carry cash or cards
You never have to walk
Though you don’t own a car
I drove to your place
And while you fixed your face
I saw your diary there
Was open at last week
“Goodbye Lover twenty-eight”
The days and nights pass by
You’re with friends all the time
Your kisses turn to stings
Uncoupling by design
Now that you have gone (hope you’re doing fine)
Now that you’ve moved on (was a matter of time)
If your new someone (reads your diary babe)
They will see my name (I was lover twenty-nine)
I was lover twenty-nine
I was lover twenty-nine
I was lover twenty-nine
Goodbye lover twenty nine!
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9. |
Diving For Pearls
03:46
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It’s like diving for pearls
In these dangerous waters
But you can’t resist
Temptation for blue water
Touching, reaching for flames
That should never be held
But, the easy way out
(Well) Is to live without you
So a smile as you leave
Means that you will never know
So a smile as you leave
Means that you will never know
Searching rooms in my mind
Hiding from the answers
I can’t stop the damage
I know that it’s for the best
Fighting with these fears
Is like fighting shadows
And now I must leave you
It’s like losing it all
So a smile as you leave
Means that you will never know
So a smile as you leave
Means that you will never know
As the nights grow darker, shades of midnight blue
Then the stars burn brighter when I think of you
As the nights grow darker, shades of midnight blue
Then the stars burn brighter when I think of you
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10. |
Trashed
03:54
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She’s not good for you
Like she’s not good for me
A real live wire
Electric personality
Don’t get your fingers burned
Don’t do the same as me
When you swear you’ll leave her
You don’t really want to be free
I don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
I don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
I don’t need that woman
I wish that she’d take off
She’s a legendary winner
And guess who lost?
So I told her that
I think it’s so unfair
She laughed right in my face
I don’t think I care
I don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
I don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
Each time I close the door and walk away
I know that I won’t last a single day
Keep coming back and the reasons that I stay
Is everything she does and everything she says
I don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
Don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
Don’t believe I do
Don’t know why I love that girl
And please don’t ask me why I love her
‘Cos I don’t believe I do
I don’t believe, I don’t believe I do
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Sun-Pinned Leaves England, UK
Christopher Brown and Neil Faulkner are an established song writing partnership whose prolific output has resulted in six
full albums being released in 48 months.
Melody and intellectually perceptive lyrics combine with a myriad of Americana -influenced musical styles to produce some memorable and enduring works.
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