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Should I?
04:27
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Sitting in the club
With a crooked tongue
Music like his brain
Nothing he can say
How the bodies sway
Time calls out his name
Feels his should turn grey
Would be a lie to disobey
If this the answer, what will I become?
I’ve tried to be human - was not enough
My soul turns grey with human love.
Should I?
Should I?
Should I?
Sitting in the park
Sitting in the dark
Sees them come and go
Waits for one alone
The fox he has no same
The sky calls out his name
Now he hears her on her way
Would be a lie to disobey
If this is the answer, what have I become?
I’ve tried to be human, was not enough.
My soul turns grey with human love.
Should I?
Should I?
Should I?
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2. |
How A Man Should Be
03:21
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The night is deep like the tide
Worked up boys, production lines
Your lipstick stains will all turn stale
Your love is like a beggar’s wail
I hope you find some peace
But that life is not for me
I’ll show you how to be.
Open arms make peaceful hearts
That is how a man should be
Peaceful hearts point to stars
That is how a man should be
That is how a man should be
But I’ve no love inside these bones
It’s buried far beneath the snow
Amongst the trees that grow so deep
I wait for warmth, my truth to leak
I feel so incomplete
There’s a missing part of me
Won’t you show me how to be?
Open arms make peaceful hearts
That is how a man should be
Peaceful hearts point to stars
That is how a man should be
That is how a man should be
That is how a man should be
That is how a man should be
Open arms make peaceful hearts
That is how a man should be
Peaceful hearts point to stars
That is how a man should be
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Amelia
04:59
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Amelia just wants to play
Her friends aren’t coming out today
Daddy told me to stay away
That’s what they say
She heads for home but on the grass
To get round all the broken glass
Mummy said that this would pass
That’s what she said
But Amelia flies out the door
Just to see those marching uniforms
Amelia
They won't ever win if the sun is always shining from your heart
They won't ever win if the sun is always shining from your heart
Amelia how she could climb
But in the park they've nailed a sign
Jewish kids banned at all times
That's what it says
And Daddy had a market stall
They drew a ‘J’ onto the wall
Mummy knows that he won't call
But she won’t say
Amelia's still all aglow
When big red flags come through her road
Amelia
They won't ever win if the sun is always shining from your heart
They won’t ever win if the sun is always shining from your heart
They won’t ever win if the sun is always shining from your heart
A dove's captive song
Brings warmth through the dawn
Amelia sing on
To the free
Amelia sing on
A dove's captive song
Bring warmth through the dawn
To the free
They won’t ever win
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At The Water's Edge
04:48
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Standing at the water’s edge
Painting pictures in her head
Like words that go unsaid
Looking out from shore to shore
There is always something more
Her hand is on the door
To leave those days so far behind
Weeping wounds within her mind
Where you’re born is not your definition
But no-one hears her when she cries
Like star across the sky
She’s got heaven in her eyes
Mama says little girl peace is round the bend
Close your eyes and get some rest
But turning to the sea she says
Do they know how it hurts to be the ones left out in the cold?
Do they know how it hurts to be alone?
To be forsaken by your own
Englishmen choose to accuse
Seen the pictures on the news
And they want a better view
See them choosing to pretend
Got so much here to defend
So much to defend
And so we wait for the day when they realise
If they looked though another’s eyes
We’re all the same inside
Do they know how it hurts to be the ones left out in the cold?
Do they know how it hurts to be alone?
To be forsaken by your own
Forsaken by your own
Forsaken by your own
Do they know how it hurts to be the ones left without a home?
Do they know how it hurts to be alone?
Do they know how it hurts to be the ones with no place to go?
Do they know how it hurts to be alone?
To be forsaken by your own
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Place To Be
05:01
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Drink inside forms a womb
Around her soul in crowded rooms
She dances like a love unchained
But hunters come to cause her pain
What would your mother say
Of your love like wine
Spilling over all her printed lines?
'Your love is blind girl but why try to see?
In daylight you’ve got no place to be'
Little girl put on some clothes
And run the night to find a home
Streetlights binding your dusty wings
To severed lines they’re tangled in
What would your mother say
Now you’ve let her down?
'Don’t turn on easy, stop this fooling around
Your love is blind girl but why try to see?
In daylight you’ve got no place to be
In daylight you’ve got no place to be'
Don’t care what your mother says
Your love is free
But to see you burning
It is agony
Your mother’s blind girl
How I wish she’d see
That in daylight we’ve all got a place to be.
Somewhere we’ve all got a a place to be.
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6. |
Ready Or Not
06:27
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Here I am
In promised land
I grieve for you
Can see them cry
And you close your eyes
In Daddy’s arms
Ready or Not
I’m coming for you
Ready or Not
I’m gonna make it to your heart
I call your name
Ready or Not
We can break this tide
Ready or Not
You’re gonna hear my voice inside
I’ll find a way
I will find a way
I will find a way
Back to you
Held on so long
For you to come
You gave me life
So I shed that skin
With dying grin
I know your grace
Ready or Not
I’m coming for you
Ready or Not
I’m gonna make it to your heart
I call your name
Ready or Not
I hear you through the floor
Ready or Not
I’m gonna make it to your shore
I’ll find a way
I will find a way
I will find a way
I will find a way
Back to you
Heaven cannot hold me
I’ll fill the space between
My soul will swing before me
Like moonlight through the leaves
I’m cutting through the oceans
I’m breaking from these chains
I’ll reach across the border
Calling out your name
For you
I’d do it all for you
For you
I’d give it all for you
Ready or Not
I’m coming for you
Ready or Not
I’m gonna make it to your heart
I call your name
Ready or Not
I will be your friend
Ready or Not
This love will have no end
I’ll find a way
I will find a way
Back to You
Back to You
Back to You
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7. |
Received In Me
04:40
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8. |
For You
06:59
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I shine into the darkness
The dark can’t understand
The poet’s words of healing
I hold out my hands
I loved you before the bird’s sang
And each day you’re gone I grieve
Your face turned from my stage
Won’t you come and sing with me?
I’m the rose and you’re the bee
So open up your heart son
For all the world to see
Open up your heart son
And let your soul dream
Let it dream
Though I may seem far away
I am with you everyday
When will you see it’s for you that I breathe?
Oh I’m hidden in plain sight
Wipe those riddles from your eyes
When will you see it’s for you that I breathe?
For You
For You
'Might get seventy if I’m lucky
Give or take a few
The only ones that matter to me
Are those I spend with you
Tugging your hair beneath the willow
Telling you to be my wife
But our hair has all gone grey now
Will I be a child all my life
Oh tell me that’s not right'
So open up your heart son
Open it up to me
Open up your heart son
And let your soul dream
Let it dream
'Though I may seem far away
I am with you everyday
When will you see it’s for you that I breathe?
Oh I’m hidden in plain sight
Help me tear down my disguise
When will you see it’s for you that I breathe?
For You
For You
For You'
Let it dream
'For You'
Let it dream
Let it dream
Though I may seem far away
I am with you everyday
Now you see it’s for you that I breathe
Oh I’m hidden in plain sight
And now I see you through her eyes
Now you see it’s for you that I breathe
For You
For You
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She walked out and left me dying
Pining for some love
I could feel my body aching
For her touch
But then you came from a web of solution
You swiped that pain away
And though I love our random connection
I feel so ashamed
‘Cause it’s not right
To be the one
Who calls you up just to get it on
But I was cold and so alone
And we’re Here Now Anyway
When I hear those fingers knocking
When you give that love so pure
When it feels like you’re stopping
I’ll keep howling out for more
I want more
But is it right
To carry on
Though I know that this is what we both want?
And I was cold and so alone
And we’re Here Now Anyway
Is it just chance we’re a match for each other?
‘Cause I really feel like we were put together
Tell me do you feel like we were put together?
Oh is it right
To be the one
Who calls you up just to get it on?
Oh I was cold and so alone
And we’re Here Now Anyway
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10. |
Mother (Bonus Track)
04:32
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My family has lost it’s way
We’ve lost the one that kept us safe
Will we survive mother?
I’ve never felt so exposed
My roof has gone like flesh from bone
Will we survive mother?
'I believe
I believe ‘cause I have faith in you
I believe we can see this through
I believe our time will come again
I believe in you
Feels like I’ve been torn in half
I’d give it all to hear his laugh
Can we survive together?'
I believe
I believe ‘cause I have faith in you
I believe that we can see this through
I believe our time will come again
I believe in you
Hold your heart to the sun
Feel his palms as morning comes
My family will find a way
Hearts all around take our weight
We will survive mother
I believe
I believe
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Henry Bateman England, UK
Henry Bateman is a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist from Gloucestershire, currently based in
Leeds.
"Not so much a breath of fresh air - more a full force musical gale that
lifts you to places you didn't know existed. A very extraordinarily gifted
young man; one of the coming musical generation's front-runners in the
making" - John Drummond (Promoter for Brewery Blues, Cirencester)
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