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Low Country
03:24
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A brown café at 3am, got the twelfth bar blues again, I drink to you. I drink to you.
So one more for the road my friend. Who knows when this road will end?
Drain your cup, goodbye good luck.
You and I can never be, living in this low country
We’re two wrongs, trying to make a right
Off my head as I watch the sun, burning through the city scum.
I rub my face, of you no trace.
You and I can never be, living in this low country
We’re two wrongs, trying to make a right
On the streets bottles roll, empty trams and empty souls
I’ll make my way, home someday
You and I can never be, living in this low country
We’re two wrongs, trying to make a right
You and I can never be, living in this low country
We’re two wrongs, trying to make a right
We’re two wrongs, trying to make a right
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If Only
02:41
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Sitting in the sun so you might see me, how I shine
Waiting for the day you say, you'll be mine
You're looking out for love but you never know me, I am here
You've got it wrong for oh so long, now it's clear
Oh oh think of me, when you're lonely
Oh oh think of me, if only, if only
I pass you in the street with a boy beside you, I don't feel good
He won't give you anything, if I could I would
Don't waste your time seeing all those people
They're all so wrong
Can't you see your destiny, before it's gone?
Oh oh think of me, when you're lonely
Oh oh think of me, if only, if only
It's oh so clear to me, we are meant to be, can't you see?
We're runnig out of time and we're getting older, day by day
See me now or find me when, we're turning grey
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Ache
03:23
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Googled your name, whilst getting on with life
Asked Jeeves the same, I’ve even got a wife
But I search in vain
Friends Reunited, it’s a joke; a house in Stow on the Wold
But your trail is cold
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
Hung round your haunts, wife and kids in tow
But you never show
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
It’s a right old how’d you do
There’s us, them, me and you
Googled your name whilst getting on with life
But I search in vain
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
As long as the dawn will break, for you I ache
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A Journey
04:02
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I blew out the flame and then I recall
I went on a journey, climbing the wall
It’s ok it’s ok it’s ok, I fly when I fall
I flew ‘cross the Channel and had lots of fun
Wrestling around with a foreign tongue
Godverdomme verdomme, verdomme
My head it spun...
The wormwood was winging its way through my brain
Your faces all mingle to one and the same
Flashing by flashing by flashing by, like a passing train
I remember the music we drank to the dawn
My friends are all strangers, all sad and forlorn
Where’ve they gone? Where’ve they gone?
The sun makes me sober I dream of sleep
This journey is ending, to a bed I must creep.
Journey’s end journey’s end journey’s end, is on the street
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A Friend Worth The Name
03:37
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The monsters are close so I double my dose
Escape in reflections on screen
Karloff speaks in the wood ‘alone bad, friend good’
But some films I don’t think you’ve seen
It’s essential as taking breath
You think it’s a game
It’s a matter of life and death
A friend worth the name
I once knew a man, like Ollie knew Stan
Effortless real and sublime
Rathbone and Bruce they gave me some truth
But now you don’t give me the time
It’s essential as taking breath
You think it’s a game
It’s a matter of life and death
A friend worth the name
Karloof speaks in the wood ‘alone bad, friend good’
But some films I don’t think you’ve seen
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Disguise
02:54
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Give you a while to paint on a smile
Etch on your brain ' I can't complain'
And put on an air of Devil may care
And look like a man, who don't give a damn
But nothing can disguise, the sadness in your eyes
Out on the town, you lose your frown
Immersed in the role, of heart and soul
Leaving your lips, the choicest quips
Lay it on with a spade, this long parade
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love (squared)
02:42
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Love your love my love, loving every drop
Love me long and lovingly, don't ever stop
I need you near me now, but now's not soon enough
Never need you more than this, I need your love
I am a child in your arms
Driving me wild, with your charms
Take me totally and trasure me like wine
Drink me up and tell me that, you'll be mine
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Heartback
03:13
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The flowers, you can keep them, there's hundreds in the park
The secrets that I told you, I was lying from the start
The poetry I wrote you, I got it from a book
The good times that we had, I put it down to luck
But there's something that you've got, and it's something that I lack
Oh oh oh oh, can I have my heart back? (rpt)
I gave her Cadbury's Roses, wooed her on her beer
Declared that I'd die for her, she said 'what a good idea'
But there's something that you've got, and it's something that I lack
Oh oh oh oh, can I have my heart back? (rpt)
Anything that's left, consider it a gift
It's no value left to me, you know it really won't be missed
But there's something quite peculiar, my body just won't start
Rummage throuhg the wreckage and can you find my heart?
The chocolates, well you ate them, they were six months out of date
That gold and silver pendant, just tin and copper plate
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Wino
02:39
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Goodbye (not)
03:34
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The sky is sure full of stars tonight
There’s one for you and it’s burning bright
A sad farewell looms like a curse
Our love will live to the ends of the Earth
But I tell you something, it’s not a word of a lie
This is not, this is not goodbye
Midwinter moon shines on the ground
Don’t leave so soon like the love we found
But I tell you something, it’s not a word of a lie
This is not, this is not goodbye
This is not, this is not goodbye
Darkness flies in the morning sun
We close our eyes and the day is done
But I tell you something, it’s not a word of a lie
This is not, this is not goodbye
This is not, this is not goodbye
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(plus bonus chords!)
A E
Orbison, Roy Orbison, when I’m lonely just like you
A C#m D A F#m D A E
I like awake and contemplate, to the voice of Blue Bayou
D E C#m F#m
The nights I’ve found that you surround me
D E F#m B D
So many times you’ve helped me through, helped me through
Crawling Back, a familiar track, when there’s nowhere to begin
A neon light, and a warm still night, somehow fits the mood I’m in
D E C#m F#m
A world of dreams, bluetescent themes
D E F#m
Give this lonely soul a thrill
D E C#m F#m
To sing like you what wouldn’t I do?
D E F#m B F#m B F#m
But I know nobody will, noone will, noone will
Orbison, Roy Orbison, when I’m lonely just like you
I like awake and contemplate, to the voice of Blue Bayou
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The sun and the moon
Cannot lift off the gloom
And the songs are all mellow and blue
It’s not healthy to be so downhearted like me
So please, don’t let it be you…
No surprise it’s a boy
Played my heart like a toy
Once more I haven’t a clue
They’ll tell you goodbye
Leave you wondering why
So please, don’t let it be you….
Is it worth all the trouble
To give them your heart
When you know it’ll end up in two?
Is it worth all the trouble?
Well all I will say
Is please, don’t let it be you…
The sun and the moon
Cannot lift off the gloom
And the songs are all mellow and blue
It’s not healthy to be so down hearted like me
So please, don’t let it be you
Please don’t let it be you
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The Low Countries UK
The Low Countries are the off-road vehicle for songwriter-singer Nigel Parrington. Nigel is currently performing with Els
D'hooge in Belgium after enjoying a heady 5 year run of full band activity in the UK.
'indie-folk at its best...' Folk Radio UK
'Blissfully wonderful music' Beehive Candy
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