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The In/Out
04:38
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You remind me of someone I once knew
You remind me of someone I will always know
In the warm rain and the scented air
We touch
Let it In and let it Out
You remind me of how the light sees
Right through to the other side of me
Gather seashells before the dawn has come
We touch
Let it In and let it Out
And I know that the river flows both ways
And I love that feeling of sunlight in your veins
If your face is a map of my heart
Don't let all the static and silence pull us apart
You remind of the life I once lived
You remind me of the life I once loved
Inside your dark and salted skin
We touch
Let it In and Let it Out
We touch
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2. |
Sorry To Go
04:20
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I'd like to think if I had the time,
or offer again to re-live my life
Say that I wouldn't change a day
Stop holding yourself back with fears and ties,
and drifting away behind those eyes
Or you'll never know what you could know. No, no.
Stay
Today
This day
Stay
I just want to know
-When we leave here
These moments that stay here
-What we've learnt here
Do they simply die?
And what would I give?
-Just to stay here
Cos all that I know is
-When I leave here
I'll be sorry to go
I'd like to think when it comes the time
Through love that I'll leave a wider smile
A chance for all future lives to grow and grow…
Stay
I just want to know
-When we leave here
These moments that stay here
-What we've learnt here
Do they simply die?
And what would I give?
-Just to stay here
Cos all that I know is
-When I leave here
I'll be sorry to go/you know I'll never let them go
I don't want to leave here at all
I just want to be here, that's all
I don't want to leave here at all
I just want to love you, that's all…
We must remember that, in our insignificance, we mean everything.
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3. |
Leave
05:37
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You said, you're going to leave
'there's something you should know'
The way you live your life is holding me down
Where once it helped me grow
Said that we're losing touch
And gone is all the trust
Bodies full of warmth now icy stares
I didn't want for much
But you said you'd never leave
Leave, going to leave
You said that I need to heal
This wound I carry now
Give me back the time, just give me hope
or give me tears to drown
Said you're going to leave
Leave, going to Leave
Said you're going to leave
Leave, just leave
Come back, you'll come back
Just come back
But you said you'd never leave
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4. |
Your Beautiful Life
05:09
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Fallen in the Autumn
Risen in Winter
Nothing ever dies
I saw you in the mirror
Fading memories
Lingered through the night
The threads we stitched together
Loosen daily
In our fragile lives
I'm frozen in deep water
Locked in memories
Waiting for the light
Open up your eyes
Though you won't see me
And haven't you heard
They tell you it's a beautiful world
And we're all the spark of a perfect idea
But this is not your life
Your beautiful life
How can this be? How can this be?
You're looking into someone
Know them, love them
Still you close your eyes
Anytime you felt so lost
I'll guide you
Hide you in my heart
If you have no hope
Can't find the light
Then we will make our own
As winter is returning
Days are leaving
But nothing ever dies
There's another day; open up your eyes
I know you'll heal me
And haven't you heard
They tell you it's a beautiful world
And we're all the spark of a perfect idea
But this is not your life
Your beautiful life
How can this be? How can this be?
When someone really loves you
Could they, should they
Still you'll close your eyes
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A Sunday Morning Sermon
Button down shirt and tie
We're looking pretty
We both say I do, do I?
A touch of your hand reminds me where we are…
It started like all stories
That way that all loves entwine
Sat sipping coffee
And hoping to catch your eye
You touch me inside but can't say that you're mine.
And that's hard
So hard
I never thought it would be easy
I never thought it would be so hard
I never thought that all your troubles would come my way
Your way, yes?
Now you don't even see me
You've got you your life to lead
And lust to be free
When once your lust was my need
You touch me in ways that lovers don't allow
All beginnings have their endings
But not for us both it seems
I choke on my words
As I'm saying the lines of my vows
It's so hard
I never thought it would be easy
I never thought it would be so hard
I never thought that all your troubles would come my way
Your way, Your way, run away
Easy
Troubled
Won't come
Our Way
Easy
Troubled
Way
I never thought it would be easy
I never thought it would be so hard
I never thought that all your troubles would come my way
Your way
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6. |
Invisible Ceiling
05:44
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If I ask you to sit and to stare for a while
As the train rushes past, pulling leaves from the ground
Would you travel with me, on this journey of sorts?
Watch us speeding nowhere without climbing aboard
If I stand and I gaze at departure screens
The future is here and the past only stays for a while
Compartments full of people that I've studied before
626 and their million journeys more
If you want to find what you're looking for
Then you won't, you won't, you won't, you won't, you won't, you...
It knows where to hide when you're looking for
What you want, you want, you want, you want, you want, you want
So I'll study the ceiling...
With no words and no fare, reach the end of the line
The Invisible tracks, leaving scars where they ran
No journey discovered, can be measured or owned
The joy is in the searching, the route is unknown...
If you want to find what you're looking for
Then you won't, you won't, you won't, you won't, you won't, you...
Now it seems the time to stop looking for
What you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, don't have
I rush past, and my feet seem to veer from the floor
With a head half full, I can't see what is me anymore
I try to talk but I feel like I'm speaking through cloud
The sky appears and the ceiling's nowhere to be found
Said if you want to find what you're looking for...
I'll study the ceiling
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7. |
One Little Gun
07:08
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In my mind I grew up too fast
Grew up alone
Could never get inside my life
And understand me the way no one did
If I could feel sun on my face
For long enough
I could change mind
I could've changed the world for you
Ignore me for long enough
And I'll disappear from view
Look at me long enough
And I'll disappear from you
I'm removed, I know
You can't reach me, no.
One little gun (Did not make me mad)
One little gun (Didn't make me this way)
And I believe I know the perfect way
To paint the view
Inside your head
I wish the world understood me
And when the smoke clears
I'll be googled, you-tubed
America's new 'face of evil'
I am the damage forever
Ignore me for long enough
And I'll disappear from view
Look at me long enough
And I'll disappear from you
I'm removed, I know
You can't reach me, no.
One little gun (Did not make me mad)
One little gun (Didn't make me this way)
One little gun (Does not hold all the answers)
One little gun (Didn't make me this way)
I am the avalanche, I am the answer
I am the holocaust, I am disaster
I am Columbine and I am Virginia
I am Koresh, god bless America
I am Oswald and Ruby, I'm JFK
I am conspiracy, I am the CIA
I am Manson and these are my family
I am moral outrage in middle America
I waited for Lennon outside the Dakota
I can make this world stop a little bit faster
I am the scapegoat, the three minute warning
I am 32 dead on a Monday morning
I am the avalanche, I am the answer
I am the end, I am the trigger
I'm the bad dream that you wake up from
Thirty years later.
One little gun (Did not make me mad)
One little gun (Didn't make me this way
One little gun (Does not hold all the answers)
One little gun (Didn't make me this way)
Talk to me, touch me and we'll drive away from here.
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And the seasons passed so slowly
And the grass grew between my fingers
And the leaves gathered in the hollows of your eyes
I walked away
- I am alive, I believe
But I don't know why we're made this way
- I am alone, I've always known
But I don't know why he made me this way
Nothing retrieves Yesterday
Keep watching trains pass
Keep hearing rain fall...
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9. |
Houdini Highs
07:40
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At night the demons crawl from my head
I'm memories of a long lost man
I am the feelings that you had
All of the love and damage done
I'm fading out, I'm fading in
Every night I plot my escape
These Houdini highs and reality lows
I am the hanged and Hierophant
The stranger with the raised right hand
I'm fading out, I'm fading in
Every night I plot my escape
These Houdini highs and reality lows
I'm empty rooms and vertigo
I'm drowning by remote control
I got so lost in dying days
The words ran out, they ran away
I'm fading out, I'm fading in
Every night I plot my escape
These Houdini highs and reality lows
'Now this is a house full of shadows
And you're the straightjacket stranger
Lingering on the stairs
Writing over your memories
All the things you intended
The things you want for yourself
Are impossible to say
The words run out, they run away
And you carry that knowledge around
Until it comes to define you
Like a dirty little stain
That spreads beneath the skin
All the pretty little secrets
And the public failures
Drag at your ankles
Like an unpaid bill
A lingering regret
An unfinished life…' (Simon Avery)
Every night I plot my escape
These Houdini highs and reality lows
I'm fading out, I'm fading in
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A catalogue of incidents made me the man that I am
I remember lullabies in a dark room, and a fever on my brow
If you make all the right connections
You could unthread your very soul
Sitting in a car, I can hear the engine failing
And I remembered summers, English and warm like honey on my face
If you could listen to me talking
You'd hear apologies washed away like the rain
- I wonder if it's real, life on a wheel?
I saw a deer standing, frozen in my headlights
And I remembered childhood, when there was nothing here but fields
They tore down these buildings, replaced my home with empty ground
I filled my life with strangers to deny the man I am
And I hear the taxi waiting
I search your eyes as you turn to go
You speak in whispers and promises
But you never speak the truth to me
- I wonder if it's real, life on a wheel?
I feel like it's a game I'll never understand
Faces at the windows, violent cities and settled homes
I remember cold hard beds where relationships were formed
I feel that this is not a legacy
All my ideals turning to dust
- I wonder if it's real, life on a wheel?
Lost in empty stations, choose your destination
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Peter John Brown Birmingham, UK
Hailing from the vibrant musical landscape of Birmingham, England, Peter John Brown is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist,
and composer.
He currently has two solo albums and has recorded alongside many established artists, including Steve 'h' Hogarth from Marillion.
Peter is a composer for film and TV and a published Universal Music (UMG) artist.
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