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Passerby (demo)
05:16
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I'll be here in ribbons on the cutting-room floor
while you're walking through the editor's door
let me stand in the frame with you
let me stand next to you
I've been waiting so long
in the arena with my wristwatch on
You might glimpse my arm or the back of my head
standing on the bus or waiting to pay
I can learn the lines, but this is not who I am
Passerby
where do you go at night?
Passerby
do you see me here
waiting, waiting for you
for you
so call, call, call
crawl the city guard
this messenger's come far
down the Kingsway
with orange headlights in his eyes
a burned-out shadow at the back of the stage
while you're talking with your hands, I'll be standing in the background
while you're waiting for Godot
I'll be waiting for you.
Passerby
who do you see at night?
Passerby
Don't leave me behind, I don't know who I am
Don't leave me behind, I don't know who I am
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Caught the Sun (demo)
03:35
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Blind boy caught the sun
for a moment in the dawn
huge wings in the blackness
then they're gone
Three chords and a lie
is all you want to hear
three chords and a lie
is all I have to say
and if the audience disappears
say it anyway, anyway
take off your black glasses
So I can see your eyes, your eyes
in a Belgian archway
with the sun in your eyes
three chords and a lie
is all you want to hear
three chords and a lie
is all I have to say
and if the audience disappears
say it anyway, oh
Caught the sun, caught the sun
for a moment in the dawn.
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Think Twice (demo)
03:55
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think twice, please don't you take my advice
skies grey since you went away
it would be funny, if it wasn't true
please don't, please don't look at me that way
the edge is all you're aiming for
again & again & again & again & again
Never walking down
Llangyfelach road
never growing old
you froze, froze despite your clothes
who knows, from your head down to your toes
cut off your face to spite your nose
so, think twice, please don't you take my advice
skies grey since you went away
again & again & again & again & again
Never walking down
golden broken road
never growing old
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Cover Band (acoustic)
03:06
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I was playing my guitar in an empty bar
when I thought I heard your voice
I froze alone out loud
like a cat on bonfire night
like winter rain
I was watching you in the Tav
the pool balls crashed together
I was deaf and I was blind
inside the fireplace
red coals for eyes
and I could be in a cover band
fall in love on a one night stand
learn to play with my left hand
or I could be in a cover band
Now there's no-one there
on the beach a microphone stand
swaying in the wind
the crashing cymbals and screaming amps
the sea, the gulls
and I could be in a cover band
fall in love on a one night stand
learn to play with my left hand
or I could be in a cover band
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Throwaway (acoustic)
03:35
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Throw me away
with the tea bags and the bones
and the faded receipts
banana peel, paper plates and coffee grounds
apple cores and cans
Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go
The thing you threw hasn't reach the ground
once in a while
I hear an old ringtone
from a distant phone
glued to the street
the pictures all come back to me
it's just a throwaway
Easy come, easy go
Easy come, easy go
I don't wanna know who you are now
while the sea fills up with plastic
dead leaves on a welcome mat
standing at the terminal
but she was on another plane
It's just a throwaway,
it's just a throwaway
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you can read in this light
but you're going to hurt your eyes
outside, voices on the pavement
frozen in amazement at themselves
you are a beautiful fake,
but there's something I can't shake
and it's all too much to take
on beaujolais day
you can suffer for your art
and you can tear yourself apart
but how long's it going to take you?
You could have gone to Ibitha
but there was nobody there to meet you
and now you can't afford to go
Can you??
The condom machine
is not what it seems
and you don't know where you've been
on beaujolais day
You are a beautiful fake
but there's something I can't shake
and it's all too much to take
on beaujolais day
on beaujolais day
on beaujolais day
on beaujolais day
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Serenade (demo)
03:11
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Serene in a lonely crowd
with someone on my mind
I saw a star drunk in a bar
and I left the rest behind
I'd like to serenade you
but the song would come out wrong
I would like to see you
and I know it won't be long
drinking pop at donkey rock
bumped into a long-lost friend
what were the chances, what were the odds?
ask the shells, ask the west wind
I'd like to serenade you
because you are the bomb
I would like to see you
if there's something going on, going on
I'd like to serenade you
but the siren got there first
I would not be drowning
if the sea could quench my thirst
oh, my thirst
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Tom Emlyn Swansea, UK
"peripatetic musical genius" - Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales
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