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P1
You were always here
Living rent free
In the places that I ran from.
Were you always upstairs,
Living silently
In a room I never knew was there?
I hear you through the walls
Talking on the phone
With old friends and lovers
Have you always been there,
The indifferent stranger
Conducting our lonely love affair?
P2
We moved from shadow to shadow
Pierced and painted and alone
We've been living our lives on bended knee
Living each other's life vicariously
I'm standing still, moving at speed
Watching the ghosts that grow between us
Thinking something insignificant
Would save us from the rest of our lives.
P3
--I could have been a better man
But I was compromised from the start
While you hung around
Looking for a change of heart
And I've done good things
And I've done bad things
I've run away...
When I could have stayed
But that's the old me
I've consigned him to history--
P4
--I'm slipping from the world that is
Into the world that never was.
My DNA is buried here
Deep
within
the
analogue --
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Fear The World
06:22
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The way that we feel the world
Is a habit.
Care to stop it
You can try
The way we perceive our thoughts
Isn't something
But a function
Of the mind
The way we reduce ourselves
Into nothing
Though we're something
So defined
I just want to speak the words
Don't want to fear the world
Just want to speak the words
Don't want to fear the world
There is someone
There is no one
The way we console ourselves
In the darkness
In the silence
Holds us here
The way that we move ourselves
Into static
An enduring
State of fear
The way that we heal ourselves
Is with courage
Is with knowledge
And with years
There is something
There is nothing
So clear your thoughts
Don't fear the world
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When I sleep
I dream with no colour
There's a silent film
Playing in my head
All of my life
I have been told
We're only one thing
Why can't we be both?
When I leave this life
I leave no trace
A moment of Déjà vu
And nothing else
All of my life
I have been told
That life is short
So you'd best hold on
But what if with you
I begin and end?
I'm waiting for
The music to swell
I'm waiting for
The curtain to fall
And the lights, the lights
The lights that we'll see
When the sun
Comes in through my window
I think of you
And nobody else
How can it be
Not to be in love
With the beautiful days
As they're rushing by?
All of my life
I have been told
We're only one thing
Why can't we be both?
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I took a walk
Down to the beach
Across the land and sea
I took a look
At all the pictures
How they related to me
I am the story
The start and the end
The history and future
I am the seed
I lived inside of me
Now I am set free
Everything you ever loved will come back to you one day
I knew the words
But when I saw you
My voice deserted me
I had the faith
That resolutions
They started and ended with me
I am the harvest
The birth and the dying
The babe and the body
I am the love
That lived inside of me
Now I am set free
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5. |
Feel
06:28
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To...
I feel like a hurricane's run through me
I feel like it's pulled me apart
I'm broken bones and scattered memories
You try to steal and then discard
I feel like I was once your distraction
I feel like you know the shape of my heart
I feel like a child as you reprimand me
And I still feel afraid of the dark
I will always be here for you
I will always be
But you were never there for me
I feel I'm a little bit out of action
It feels like the end, that coup de grâce
With eyes like sights that see right through me
As true as arrows strike their mark
I will always be here for you
I will always be
But you were never there for me
Now it seems that I feel like
The way you're making me feel
Like the hope that's on offer
The words that you utter
I see through lips that speak but make no sound
How can I possibly feel like
The way you're making me feel
Like the shit on your shoe
The way that I suffered
Is now the weight and fear that you will drag around
But I will always be
I feel like a hurricane's run through me
If you reach these words before we part
I trust in me and I forgive you
You'll never beat me
From...
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P5
I was always there,
Hiding in plain sight
Like a long forgotten name
Somewhere in your mind
Like a loaded gun
Under your pillow
An unfamiliar face
Waiting to be seen
In the rearview mirror.
P6
It's time to stop thinking
About how to start feeling
That life is just something
That's happening elsewhere
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I see your face in the dark sometimes
Trace your outline and shape in the rain
But I don't think of you...
I catch your perfume in a crowd sometimes
Living lives that I'll never live in
So I'll travel inside for a while
Are you-
Putting faces on shadows?
Are you-
Tracing futures in lifelines?
I don't think of you anymore
Do you think about me?
I think I see you every now and then
And your face is as white as the snow
And the earth grows so quiet and still
And I'm sitting in your room
Walking to the sea
Willing the world to slow
Feel the wounds begin to heal
I see your face in the dark sometimes
Trace your outline and shape in the rain
But I don't think of you anymore.
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8. |
My Friend Peter
05:19
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My friend Peter
Who lived by my side
He would never hear I word I said
Now alone at the platform
Where we said our goodbyes
To a journey filled with lost regrets
I just might see him
While I'm looking for the reason
To find some hope and give me something to believe in
My friend Peter
Who hid deep inside
A growing life that I could not sustain
Now alone like an orphan
He will haunt me sometimes
In every face I see on every train
He just might see me
And sit beside me while I'm grieving
But not this day and while I've something to believe in
You know you'll feel him
With love you'll heal then
Live, love, repeat it
Be free to come home
My friend Peter
Who's desperate and wild
But is lost and tired and cut ...and blames
Still hoping for comfort
And a warm place to hide
Up for sale again, as yet unclaimed
You know to tame him
Keep him buried
Keep him beaten
My friend Peter
Who lives by my side
And will die alone so many ways
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P7
I dreamed of you
Passing through Poland.
Seeing the world slide by
Like a distant memory
Living in the city
Wearing my face
Making my mistakes
Moving from room to room
Learning the art
Of anonymity
How to wear my many masks
I'm bored and tired
Crushed under the wheels
No more than waves in space...
P8
--I could have been a better man
But I was compromised from the start
While you hung around
Waiting for a change of heart
And I've done good things
And I've done bad things
I've run away
When I should have stayed
But that's the old me
I've consigned him to history--
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10. |
Another Life
07:48
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Morning dew
Another flew
In the early light
Summer blue
Oceans too
Wait here at the waterside
I'm baby born
Loved and warm
Seeing through another's eyes
Watch flowers bend
Feel damage mend
Here just you and...
I am here
Cos there's nothing like the sun
Calmer now
Free somehow
No need to find a place to hide
Hand held high
To touch the sky
And gently push the cloud aside
And like a child
Running wild
Happy, safe, at home and free
Unseen and new
I turn to you
And see I'm staring into me
And I'm here
Cos there's nothing like the sun
Take back what you were given
-And never throw it all away
Claim back all that you're worth
-There is more to it than fate
Cos when you finally heal
That's when you'll find out what's real
And know you're not the only one
Take back
Know that
You're not the only one
Lay back
And look up
Cos there's nothing like the sun
In this place
I touch my face
And think, a joy to feel you smile
It all worked
Despite the doubt
And what it took to reconcile
What's done is done
What's gone is gone
It weighed so heavy on my life
I feel the sand
Between my toes
As I step into Another Life
And I'm here
Cos there's nothing like the sun.
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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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Beyond The Glass
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Recorded in the same studio, during the same period as Music For Trains the two albums are, in effect, siblings. A beautiful and personal album that feels like the pages of someone's diary. Go listen.
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