1. |
Tiggy's Theme
01:44
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Instrumental song
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2. |
Water in the Well
03:09
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The falling through of schemes you made to change your life
Offends you like the one who stabs then turns the knife
Your feet feel like they're giving up the will to step
But listen to the voice that says 'just one more rep'
There's water at the bottom of that wishing well
That's worth it for the journey you must make through hell
So don't discard your hope, you're faith don't ever sell
How deep you still must dig now now only time will tell.
When you lay your head down at night
And everything you planned for now won't see the light
When all the hopes that you made before
Slip away like waves retracting from the shore
Like a dead end on the pathway through the darkest wood
Or a battlefield once was solid now just mud
After all the precious things you sacrificed
To load the weights before you roll your lucky dice.
The only way to make your old axe sharp again
Is to turn your head towards the very source of pain
Though taunted by the thing that's just outside your reach
Don't give way to anger it will truly leach
Don't be afraid to ask the universe for more
Sometimes heaven comes to earth to open doors
Sometimes it's a case of waiting for the rain
Sometimes all you have to do is use your brain
You'll give yourself the strength to find a brighter way
Believing that you're on the path to better days
Pick up your eyes and tilt your head to face the sky
Accept the darkness in your soul is just a lie.
And when you realise that patients is your friend
All that worry in your mind will reach an end
You'll lift those shoulders up and back ; your chin will rise
Then you'll know the prophesies of doom were lies.
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3. |
Steve Irwin
03:59
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If I came to the outback to find you
Would you teach me how to catch a snake and let it go
And will you teach me everything you know about being cool
And would you tell me stories of what you were like in school
I believe that I love you Steve
And I believe that I'll meet you Steve
You catch endangered species with artist precision
One day you'll be real and not just in my television
And will you teach me everything you know about being cool
And would you tell me stories of what you were like in school
I believe that I love you Steve
And I believe that I'll meet you Steve
Your spirit's like a flame that passes from one to another
Your thirst for life you give to all your sisters and your brothers
So will you teach me everything you know about being cool
And will you tell me stories of what you were like in school
I believe that I love you Steve
And I believe that I'll meet you Steve
I believe that you'll greet me Steve
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4. |
You are You
02:03
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Don't worry you know that it's not the end
And I will always be your friend
And you know that it's probably for the best
'Cuz I think that you're better than all the rest
'Cuz you're you, you, you
You are you, you, you
And it's the you I love to see each day
And it's the you you know that I would not chage
And wherever you may go
Just remember to let it show
That you are you...
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5. |
Collective Mind
03:22
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Bravery, tenacity these things are gone
Credulity, conformity and cowardice have won
Narratives of fear we need to feel assured
Common folk before they long and hard endured
Up the chimneys down the mines though it was hard
Eggs and bacon soaked and fried in pans of lard
Yet nearly everyone in frames of black and white
Looked like they were guaranteed to win the fight
Just today a thought perplexed and struck at me
That all the little children through the ages seem
To be the same as those before them could it be
The truth to which we cling is just a fallacy
Progress though we've made is still a distant dream
Greater from the ends the gap of in-betweens
And lost within the loud voice of minority
Resounds the voice of the silent majority
What we need to do is shift the entire wave
The highest highs and lowest lows to which we're slaves
Up beyond the average zero grounded state
From history we'll learn so please don't wipe the slate
Keep the artefacts and learn the battle plans
From every victory and failure that damned
Us to the world that was our mere inheritance
The good aspects to which we owe our recompense
The bad sides though they seem to us innumerable
Communication clear makes us manoeuvrable
As a single body that's the way we'll move
Always relay never delay news to prove
That victory against the odds is ours through choice
When all are granted their own turn to share their voice
While twice the quantity of ears turn to hear
The law of truly large numbers will guide and steer
When all the guesses totalled up and then the mean
The average value of the data places clean
Around the correct answer close enough to lean
Direct upon the arrow pointing to the dream
Of all humanity the focus of our race
From Earth, our galaxy, and from the whole of Space
And taking in the whole of what we know as time
Greater is the intellect of the collective mind
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6. |
Last Ounce of Courage
03:57
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I'd give up my last ounce of courage
Sacrifice all that I have
Lay down my only possession
For the pleasure of holding your hand
I'd do what it takes to be with you
Die for the love in your heart
Bleed from the wounds of a love so pure
For the flower of joy that you are
You don't talk with pride or with envy
Nothing about you is bad
Like water to the thirsty
And sanity to the mad
I'd love to hold you forever
To kiss you and look at your face
Made with oh so much beauty
And such love and such grace
You are my kind of woman
The kind that can sing and can dance
So end my lonely survival
By starting a loving romance
Mine is not the decision
You are the one to decide
If I am to keep running
Or if into your arms I can hide
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7. |
Hello, Heylo
02:53
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You know I didn't really need another friend
Or an extra plate for a dinner date Or an ear to lend
never lonely Walking to the door
To be alone when I got home
To take myself out for a roam
I couldn't ask for more
On my own my I set the tone for my quiet soul
little did I know into my life you'd stroll
And find a door I never knew was there
In that natural breeze beneath the tree
We had the stare
You're a beautiful woman
There is no ploy just the deepest joy for my soul
You're a beautiful woman
You touch my soul with a love worth more than gold
I didn't need to impress you with wine and food
to take you home, to call my own,
Just to end some mood
We are walking on such solid solid ground
When we take things slow we can watch love grow
Love is beyond what we know
Now that me you've found
Before me met I was quite content and I didn't know
That all I had to do was say heylo, Heylo
The truth is all we have to say
It's the peace like that
That binds us
on life's way
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8. |
Just with Your Company
02:32
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I must go
You must stay
But you have helped
Me all the way
I will keep
With me each day
The light of joy
To me you gave
The light of joy
Will always
Shine for tomorrow
Shine on my sorrow
You on the inside
I can see
And you bring me peace
Just with your company
Through the pleasure
Through the strife
Your smile brightend
Up my life
Of everyone
I'll put you first
On my best day
And on my worst
In every way
You'll always
Shine for tomorrow
Shine on my sorrow
You on the inside
I can see
And you bring me peace
Just with your company
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9. |
Hymn to Jules
04:26
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I wonder just how long it took
On that grave morning of bad luck
The final scene of this life's book
I wonder just how long it took
I wonder if you thought of me
Our friends , the zoo, our band, the sea
Our words the laughs the cups of tea
I wonder if you thought of me
If I could count the lives you've changed
And every frown you rearranged
And all the laughter you arranged
If I could count the lives you changed
I hope somewhere within the pain
And panic as you felt life drain
You smiled at least just once again
I hope somewhere within the pain
If I could see what I'd have been
Without those strides you made with me
The brightest smile I've ever seen
If I could see what I've had been.
I wonder what I would have done
The endless days and nights of fun
Your spirit shining like the sun
I wonder what I would have done
I hope you knew how much you meant
Not just for all the time we spent
And all the messages we sent
I hope you knew how much you meant
For all your wisdom joy and peace
The grace my heart you made release
The faith that life is only leased
For all the wisdom joy and peace
I'd like to think you thought of me
Before you made your way to peace
Cobain, Lennon, your Dad to see
Your kindred souls to name just three.
Had you'd have known at 24
That you'd be knocking on God's door
I don't think you could have done more
For other souls by 24
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10. |
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Just because the sun, is shining
Doesn't mean your heart, is smiling
Enemies you don't, have any
Dark reflections oh, so many
Your clothes are smart your bo,dy's healthy
Fridge is full so you, are wealthy
Your family's the best, your friends are plenty
But in your heart you're fee,ling empty
So walk with me and talk with me
I'll help you shine again
Your head is used to solve, equations
Your eyes and ears are used, for observations
Sing with all your heartfelt intonation
Use these tools for mental elevation.
Don't accept the world, outside you
Controls all of that fire, inside you
Keep passing on the flame, as you do,
The only light that guides, the way through
So walk with me and talk with me
I'll help you start again
So when you're down and feeling tired
Don't forget that life, is only hired
Life is short we all slow,ly fade out
Again the sun comes up we don't doubt
Bless the lineage that made you
Reconnect with friends, who've stayed true
Thank the Earth for each, rotation
Then give life your own, creation
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11. |
Lineage
04:36
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It's not about being blindly proud of who and what you are
But being thankful for you never thought you'd get this far
And looking back from here and now you wouldn't change a thing:
Heal a wound; un-break a bone; restore a dying bird to wing
All the roads you walked before the way that led you here
Have all been worth the wait; the grace; the pain; the blood and sweat and tears
The disappointed, disaffected thoughts in lonely beds
That broken heart and devastated life that echos round your head
If you could count each tear that fell to give to you your here and now
A tapestry so intricate the only way our lives allow
Instead you'd stand with heavy arms that carry all somehow
All the confused history of hands that never left the plough
When you look into the mirror at your bonny face
Remember that beneath the skin there lies at least million ways
That smiles were shattered; anger bred and dreams were thrown away
All so that for you the sun would rise on this particular day
Thank your parents thank your grans and granddads for a start
Then thank the genes that make you think and feel and beat your heart
They made you so unique and special such a bespoke part
Infinitely cosmological as so you know you are
Every word within your DNA's four letter alphabet
Lengthy messages of forbears' pride and stories of regret
Is spelled by taking all the paths they made with all their steps
Their words are gone but what remains are feelings you cannot forget
When everything that makes you who you are is working all as one
That's when you know that all the spirits of your ancestors live on
Within your mind and face and hands and voice though they are gone
Remember in their days just like you now back then on Earth they shone
They live still now in their murmurations through all space and time
Their lives on Earth at least the inverse square law never stops their shine
Their smiles and laughter and their wisdom transmit to your mind
With heavy burdens rarely could they truly relax and unwind
When the story of your life is over and you sleep in peace
Or dream the greatest dream you ever dreamt when your blood flow has ceased
Or in a way that we can't think your soul becomes released
Perhaps you'll meet the ones who made your life and gave steps to your feet
You'll shake their hands and hug and hold them close at them you'll stare
And then you'll see each part of you that made you so unique and rare
Then you'll understand the reasons why you worked for what you cared
And know how what you won in life was that for which you loved and dared
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12. |
Nature and Name
02:39
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To my bonnie lass in Scotland
Oh how I love you so
But I cannot wed you darling
You were born too long ago
And you've children there already
They are not my own
They've come from another
With whom you made a home
But your nothing but an angel
In nature and in name
But I cannot wed you darling
Till we die and meet again
Your love for me is real
My love for you is too
You send to me fine clothing
And expensive leather boots
But I hear you daughter calling
Asking for her Mom
So I'll leave with you my tender kiss
But I'll take with me my heart
But your nothing but an angel
In nature and in name
But I cannot wed you darling
Till we die and meet again
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13. |
Stand by You
01:11
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I hope you'll always stand by me
When the weather gets cold
When you're feeling old
I hope you'll always stand by me
If you're feeling used
And your heart feels bruised
And joy is far from you
So won't you stand by me
When you're feeling old
When the weather gets cold
When you're feeling oh oh oh so blue
I'll be waiting for you
Come shining through
Your pain my friend
So won't you stand by me
When the weather gets cold
When your're feeling old
When your're feeling used
I'll always stand by you.
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14. |
London Girl
00:59
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I had a girl as sweet as honey
Lived in London made lots of money
But London girl just ain't the one for me
She loves the city
I love the sea
She might be pretty but she ain't the one for me
You'll find me smiling when she's not around
She ain't kind
But I don't mind
She ain't the one for me
She tells me that my life is empty
The time she hurts my heart are plenty
So London girl go get away from me
I like being cheeky
But she's such a prude
I got good manners
But she's just plain old rude
She loves the city
I love the sea
She loves to talk
I'd rather walk
She ain't the one for me
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15. |
My Shoes
01:51
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Maybe it's because I love you
Maybe it's because you care
Either way I get the feeling
That I don't want you to stare
If you want to have things your way
There's nothing I can do
But you would not be so happy no
If you were in my shoes
And you know that we could not happen
'Cause were too good to be true
If the love that you felt for me
Was the love that I felt for you
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16. |
Music, Time and Space
03:41
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Music enables you to feel time,
It allows you to see the movements of your mind,
Like a tape being passed across the head,
You can see behind, the now, and that which lies ahead.
When you organise your sound,
Trade smiles for your furrowed brow,
Add a new dimension now,
And don't ask why just ask for how.
In three dimensions every pitch,
Is a pile of notes all in a ditch,
But let them all be tied and stitched,
To beautify the universe's greatest gift.
Like a grid on which all sits,
Every genre owes it this:
'Without time I'd just be flat,
'Expand with me in entropy ', it answers back.
Use the tools that lay at hand,
Not long ago you put them down,
You want for life to understand,
A two way street can with Space and Time can thus be found.
Modulation is the key,
Don't be afraid to change beliefs,
You held so close for all these years,
But all they bring you now are anger pain and fear.
Play yourself be natural,
Invite the notes to dance with you,
Drop your guard and say what's true,
Lift your eyes and play a tune.
If you want to map the stars,
Within your mind, and soul, and heart,
To find out how again to start,
A bar; a phrase; a life; a plan; a dream; an art.
All the laws of physics bless,
Your songs with every form of strength,
And roots for stories' chemistry,
Provide all that your soul and spirit want and need.
Don't be afraid to ask for more,
For Love's a flow; it isn't stored,
It can't be understood in thought,
measured, counted, or reduced to nought,
A frame dimension type of force,
Transcending languages of course,
Subordinate sonic clause,
Nourishing waves of tones come through your open doors.
Sing in waking sing in dreams,
And sing in all the in-betweens,
And if your voice your situ yeilds,
Life gives not a better healer.
Upon which all else since is built,
Time and love so close they dwell,
Used together all is well,
Used in equal parts held parallel.
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17. |
UniVerse (One Song)
03:25
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This is the universe
And there is no rverse
Just planets to traverse
And spirits to converse
This is the one song
In which we all belong
There is no right or wrong
Just forces weak and strong
This is our Cosmos
Black holes and compost
True life comes at the cost
Of kind of feeling lost
Accept a cosmic gift
From blue and red shift
Where you can take a lift
And through the ether drift
The macrocosm train
The ticket is your Brain
So you don't have to strain
When Earth is inhumane
There truly is no crime
Exploring space and time
Watch galaxies unwind
Where we are one in mind
The music of the spheres
Will drown out all your fears
The heat from all their gears
Will dry out all your tears
Each stage is just a lesson
An infinite succession
Just like the phosfluresance
A nebulous possession
The distances between
All of us human beings
Though we put up our screens
From space just can't be seen
music in energy
matter tends to entropy
And all life has its eulogy
Its managed centrally
Dark energy and matter come
From parent black hole suns
And Earth cannot outrun
The Milky Way's black sun
When solar dogs will bark
And resonate the quarks
And all those quantum sparks
Down in the deepest dark
Some say heat death our fate is sealed
I say a quest through space will yield
A snap through time is what we'd feel
No Fermions in the Higgs fields and
And when you're born again
You'll have a brand new brain
And though it seems insane
Your soul is never slain
This is the one song
The same for every one
A cosmic sing along
Each voice equally strong
We are all in this choir
Each one is made from fire
And there is no expire
Your soul will just rewire
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18. |
Song to Katie
02:36
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With you I felt blessed to wake
Until from yours my path strayed
Further from you on life's way
We could not see eye to eye
Patience was in short supply
Grace was too, I will not lie
Until then two rovers we
Hoped for that which lay unseen
Disregarded faults we'd seen
Now I wish you the best things
All I ask is that you sing
Let your music be your wings
Life be to you its most kind
Chance bring only peace of mind
Hope that manifests in truth
Be all wishing brings to you
May the music of your soul
Stop you ever growing old
Let your smile shine like gold
Written and Performed by Colin Bache
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19. |
Right by Your Side
02:07
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If I could turn back the time
I would stay right by your side
I'd never let you go
Or stop letting you know
Of the love that you brought to my life
If I could heal the shame
Take back the sorrow and pain
Now that I know
That since letting you go
I traded your sunlight for rain
Now I must live with the thought
That I turned my back on your love
You fought hard to keep me
And you asked me so sweetly
And you waited for as long as you could
But I kept you waiting too long
Believing that my heart belonged
To somebody new
But I didn't know who
And for them I would sing a love song
If I could turn back the time
I would stay right by your side
I'd never let you go
Or stop letting you know
Of the love that you brought to my life
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20. |
The Question
01:39
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You thought that you had it all planned in your mind,
You've found yourself here now and what do you find?
Her smile makes you melt and her eyes are so kind,
And you've found that you're in love with her.
You're walking together to reach the same place,
And when she's not looking you look at her face,
And you see the girl and you give up the chase,
And you smile because she's smiling too.
In a full room,
It's just her and you,
And the question,
If she feels this way too.
How should you ask her should you tell her at all,
And if you would kiss her would you look a fool?
Maybe it's best you say nothing at all,
And just put her on your pedestal.
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21. |
The Pale Blue Top
04:29
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It was the scent of her clothing
That made him realise
That she'd be his world for
The rest of his life
From then on when he held her
In the front of his mind
Was the scent of his lover
Every time
She made him feel new
And took all his fears
Till the big c took her
After 52 years
He is still smiling
For her he still sees
Each night he meets her
In all of his dreams
Now the price he is paying
For the joy she gave
He'll be ladened with this debt
Till he's too in the grave
And the wedding ring remains
With their life long oath
And he keeps their house tidy
And still smells her clothes
Now her smell's fading
Her clothes just remain
So he takes them to the charity
For they hold too much pain
Puts them down on the counter
The end of her book
Do you have use for these flower?
And smells them once for luck
The lady at the counter
Welcomes him and smiles
And asks him with kindness
The story of his life
And the man there then tells her
That for 31 years
She stood by my side
Through the joy and the tears
She made me feel new
In every day
Had the fortune to love her
Every step of the way
But last chapters' read now
'Least the book of this life
Now I feel terrified
To not have my wife
And her clothes they now hang there
On a rail in that shop
'Till a young woman buys
A lovely pale blue top
And she wears it to dinner
With a good man and then
At the end of the evening
It happens again
The pale blue top
Its story's covered up
The scent of its wearer
Makes another fall in love
They'll never know the meaning
Of her colour that night
That made them fall in love
And stay in love for life.
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22. |
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Every day I look towards the sea
And in my heart I dream that I am free
The sun comes up another day is here
I close my eyes and dream that you are here
So many memories are running through my mind
With everything I see
So many good and bad things I have left behind
One day I will be free
I must forget about this lovely place
If I'm to wear a smile upon my face
I wish that I were here another day
Then I could find the will to get away
So many memories are running through my mind
With everything I see
So many good and bad things I have left behind
One day I will be free
With all the strength I have inside my soul
I'll keep this dream alive 'till I grow old
Until the day will come for me to die
I must believe my soul with never die
So many memories are running through my mind
With everything I see
So many good and bad things I have left behind
One day I will be free
Every day I look towards the sea
And in my heart I dream that I am free
The sun comes up another day is here
I close my eyes and dream that you are here
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23. |
Every Day Must Die
04:43
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Every day must die
That's how it all goes by
The sun does not go down
It all just goes around
So go and find your peace
Something that can release
Just like the morning sun
Your life has just begun
You still have so much time
Although the end of the line
Comes sooner than you think
So you should raise your drink
To friends you've travelled with
You must always forgive
For no one's always right
Don't let this out of sight
No one is beyond hope
Before you fetch the rope
Have the grace to choose
To walk life in their shoes
The healing that you seek
Is so within your reach
Just turn to face the sun
That shines on every one
Find comfort in your pain
That we all feel the same
And let the tears you shed
Remind you you're not dead
Have faith in all your dreams
That's how it's all conceived
Teach children to be brave
That's how the road gets paved.
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24. |
Winter
02:21
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In Winter's eerie eyes we stared
The table where we sat lay bare
For sleep we searched in ice cold beds
But streams of snow ran through our heads
The wood we burned then so the will
The ashes on the cold iron grill
Finding all we had to burn
The books we loved and from them learned
When something moved out on the snow
No more an omen could we know
A rabbit slowly stopped and died
Where it lay lifeless on its side
When dusk mid afternoon sets in
Our hats strapped tight under our chins
Fists are clenched upon our necks
Wet clothes always itch and vex
Winter came at such a cost
Our smiles were gone our hearts were lost
The price it was too great a toll
But spared us growing grey and old
Written and Performed by Colin Bache
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