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It's always hard getting ready just waiting for something to start
it fires off a million nerve endings sends palpitations to the heart
It's easier to just stay at home never taking that first scary step
Sealed inside of your biosphere dome
all stockpiled and hoarded and prep
But you know it can't last forever,
Not while they're running down the clock
There's no getting away from the weather
or the sign that says we're all out of stock
So gather those things that you're never gonna need
Go round and take one final check
Then switch off the pilot light turn off the mains
Lock the cabin and swab down the deck
Oh deadlines are easy they keep passing by
A date is just a number you can stretch
Who gave us all the procrastinate gene
Threw the stick where it's so hard to fetch
Stop wondering, start your wandering
Quit staying in late at night
Go forth into the unknown my friend
Stay away from the fireside bright
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Full Moon Rising
06:38
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Full moon rising, we know what that means
A high high tide up over the shore
And then a low low tide out across the bay
with all the mudflats exposed even more
Even more
Full moon lights up the darkness outside
You can walk those unlit roads.
Pull down the blinds if you want to sleep at night
Before the angles line up with your nose
She knows
Full moon can make some people feel uptight
I don't know how that's meant to work
But if you know someone who's up there on the moon
You'd better try and help them back down to Earth
Down to Earth
Full moon shining it's always on the same side
We used to think the other was dark
I won't see you there I can't pretend
No not even for a laugh
For a laugh
Laughing
Full moon setting now the stars are shining brighter
later we'll see the Milky way
Stop walking the the streets pull up the blinds
There's going to be another day
Another day.
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Richard Long
05:23
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His walk is his land art, my journey's a song
I walk in the footsteps of Richard Long
On the map it's a straight line no detours allowed
Three days under blue skies until the first cloud
Journey's a song I walk in the footsteps of Richard Long
Over the landslip down into the chine
Arranging the stones there into a long line
Journey's a song I walk in the footsteps of Richard Long
The path I walked last week has fallen into the sea
At the bottom laid sideways that old holm oak tree
All the way out into the unknown,
All the way out and then all the way back home
Through the emotions I cry as I laugh
Toes in my old boots, hand on my stoic staff
Journey's a song I walk in the footsteps of Richard Long
He sits on the bank there, backpack and guitar
Waits until sunset then steals away to sleep in the car
All the way out into the unknown,
All the way out and then all the way back home
My back and my legs ache, both feet are the same
Hard skin on my heels cracked but it's only pain.
Journey's a song I walk in the footsteps of Richard Long
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Lyrics to Life Will Go On ( Under The Stone) - by Andy Roberts
If there's life at the bottom of the deepest ocean
Doesn't mean that's a great place to live
You don't have to accept every single offer
Push every grain of sand through the sieve
Every story has four meanings
Three of those don't matter at all
Just because it all adds up to a number
Doesn't mean you have to make that call
You don't have to make that call
Because life will go on
Yes life will go on
Life will go on under the stone.
I'm just saying that sometimes it's better
to leave the path untrod alone
You don't have to go there just because you can.
You could always walk away
You can always walk away
And life will go on
Life will go on
Life will go on under the unturned stone
If we've been observed throughout the ages
Must be a good reason why we don't know
Maybe it's because they decided not to tell us
We can't disturb them if we don't know where to go
And life will go on
Life will go on
Life will go on under this stone.
Under the stone.
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Have you had the upgrade that we're pushing through to you?
Once you've had the upgrade there's nothing left to do.
There's lots of new facilities that you can explore
Things you won't imagine faster speeds and so much more
Once you've had the upgrade.
Have you had the upgrade putting you into the cloud
Things you used to do before will no longer be allowed
And once you've had the upgrade our drop out rate will fall
That's why you can't go back again no you cannot uninstall
Once you've had the upgrade
Now you've had the upgrade you're completely up to date
All those incompatibles for them it is too late
And if the speeds you were promised have failed to do the trick
It's just because your hardware is old next time we'll turn it all into a brick
Once you've had the upgrade
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For The Rebels
05:27
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It only took one to make a stand
Staying outside in the cold
One by one they joined and made a crowd
All together now young with the old
We are the new humans
Differently wired armed with the facts
We are the new humans
Everything's changed you've got to adapt
They kept doubling down on the oil and gas
When they knew it should have been left in the ground
Now we all know it can't carry on
We need to shut that system down
We're gonna shut system down
They kept throwing oil onto the killing fire
They knew it should have been kept in the wells
Didn't ask us if they could crash the world
We don't need permission to rebel
We are the new humans
Straight to the point armed with the facts
We are the new humans
Everything's changed you've got to adapt
We don't need permission
Don't ask permission
Don't need permission
To rebel
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The schools are all out and the middle road's closed
Shops are all shutting up early.
If you really need to travel the advice is don't go
We've just had a little bit of snow.
The bus is still running just a little diverted
Ferries tied up in the ports
The postie the health visitor they'll struggle through
We've just had a little bit of snow
I'm dreaming of a white valentine
I've downloaded plans to build an igloo
With an ice block table and a crystalline window
to look out on our litre patch of snow ( of it settles)
So get out your sledge from the back of the shed
Last seen about five years ago.
And put on you crampons your ear muffs your axe
We've just had a little bit of snow
And we're fetching out all of our favourite phrases
Whiteout and blizzard, deep freeze
Snowpocalypse antarctic ice stormaggeddon
It's just a little bit of snow
I'm dreaming of a Wight valentine
I've downloaded plans to build an igloo
With an ice block table and a crystalline window
to look out on our litre patch of snow
I've just seen a car go by the first for some time
With a little patch cleared on the windscreen
I don't think that's legal but anything goes
When we've just had a little bit of snow
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We went to the festival, didn't have a tent
Crept into to the chateaux so glad that we went
Another time in the deux chevaux we went all the way to the coast
Stayed until Bastille Day to watch the fireworks and see who had the most
Lurching round the corners, over the bumpiest courses
Fold up the windows and don't spare the horses,
Don't spare the two horses.
Camping up on the clifftop with mussels and bread from the town
BBQd on a wood fire with five litres of red to wash it down
Take the empty bottles in and get your deposit back
That's enough for another three and so it goes on all down the track
We lived in the city then and Jean-pierre would call round
Pick us up in his 2cv and drive on out right out of town
And if the engine let us down we'd pull over to the side of the road
Jean Pierre could always fix it up and we'd pile back in and off we'd go
Lurching round the corners, over the bumpiest courses
Fold up the windows and don't spare the horses,
Don't spare the two horses
Oh I remember Port-en-Bessin after half a century
I saw a painting in a museum
Place has a special memory
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Sound Affects
05:23
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Seek out those secret places
Far from the maddening crowds
Arrive in good time before the deluge
Got any questions? Don't say them out loud.
Make the most of these quiet times
Don't know how long they will last
Sitting in the corner, away from the speakers
If it kicks off, get out of there fast
We won't assemble, under the cymbals
Not too much treble or bass
You might think that the voice should be louder
That's almost never the case
Nah naddie naddi nah di diddy diddy di so etc
There's a valley in the woodlands
You won't find it this way
Once a fortnight, silence is broken
By the engines on racing day
Checkout those cherished moments
Outside of occupied time
keep it quiet, don't tell anybody
I won't be letting on mine
We won't assemble, under the cymbals
Not too much treble or bass
You might think that the voice should be louder
That's almost never the case
Nah naddie naddi nah di diddy diddy di so etc
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Shape
03:36
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Matter is material until you consider the energy that holds it together
Study the synergy of time, time and direction, without protection
Take away the consistency of your persistent identity
All you have left, all that remains
is just the shape
Oh but shape has the power to sail into wind
Or as good as
And shape has the power to cut through solid rock
In a whirlpool of time,
And a gravity of meaning, predicting the pattern
So follow the contours, and make good
Get into the shape.
A cork floating on the sea will always describe a circle
As each wave goes by.
That travels great distance, all the way across the ocean,
But no water has moved
Until it crashes on the shoreline, ending the journey
The life and the death
The birth and the story
All that is left, all that remains
is just the shape.
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Change Is
07:12
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It was the hottest summer for fifteen years
I took myself down to the sea.
To feel the breezes and the fresh country air
Wide skies, open and free. Wide open to see
There's a mist in the morning then warm summer sunshine
Lights the green hillside with minerals and spray
And the smells of the sea cliffs go right back to a memory
From a deep-seated childhood salt bracken and gorse
Then the wispy grey clouds crept over above I felt the first drops of rain on my skin
Showers becoming frequent and set in for the day
Oh where has my summer sunshine gone, where's my summer gone
Where has my summer sunshine gone, where's my summer gone
Climate is better it suits my clothes I could never be bored
Then the temperature's dropped and the dark clouds arrived
The heavens opened it rained and it poured
And it rained and it rained and it poured.
Change is a constant it's not predictable
You know when it starts but never how long
Prepare for possibilities, they never happen.
The only thing to do is to keep on keeping on.
Caught out in the open in my summer attire
I took shelter in a small wooden hut
And the rain belted down on the roof and the walls
I pulled the windows and doors tightly shut
Windows and doors tightly shut
Waiting in the summerhouse for the skies to clear
The rain eased, then strengthened again
So I settled down to endure the duration
Stranded in the summer house in the rain
I'm stranded again.
For fear of rain later we set off mid morning
To watch for the seabirds and to follow the coast
And at every small summit the path beckoned us further
around every headland until we reached the next town
And the heather on the scree slope makes abundant good hunting
For the kestrels that hover then swoop to the ground
There's a post with an arrow, where it's pointing is impossible
But we wind our way round until we reach the next town
Change is a constant it's not predictable
You know when it starts but never how long
Prepare for possibilities, they never happen.
The only thing to do is to keep on keeping on.
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Andy Roberts England, UK
Original and unique songs through the decades
in the classic
"contemporary folk" solo
acoustic
singer songwriter style.
Influences: Roy Harper, Mike Chapman, Loudon Wainwright, Beefheart
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