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Dance Like A Star
04:28
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Everybody seeks a word to describe the way they’re feeling
Everybody seeks someone who is there to share the pain
Always a space to fill when someone’s life is empty
Can they be filled again?
Everybody seeks a face, which they always can rely on
Everybody seeks a place, which is somewhere they call home
Where they can always belong and find themselves together, forever
When there was rain I saw the sun
As if the world had begun
When I looked in your eyes
The way you dance like a star
Heaven knows who you are
You’re like a voice in the sky
Everybody seeks a time in their life when they’re contented
Everybody dreads the day when they finally find themselves
At the end of the line they find their life is over
Because they’re older
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A Question Of Time
03:10
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With sixty seconds in a minute
We don’t concern ourselves at all
With sixty minutes in an hour,
That’s took for granted even more
With twenty four hours in a day
One third of the time we’re not awake
When there are so many days in a lifetime
We never stop to count them all
With three hundred sixty five days in a year
So many days to celebrate
But we’re ageing a year in the process
We just end up as the late
When we no longer see the future
Then we forget we have forever
When there are so many days in a lifetime
We never stop to count them all
It’s all a question of when
It’s just a question of time
Can we rise above and make it work out fine
You seek the answer in a lifetime
But you search for the question on the inside
With ten years in a decade
Our only hope is we’ll survive
Because death never knocks at the door
It only takes you by surprise
If living is the answer
Then it is time that is the question?
When there are so many days in a lifetime
We never stop to count them all
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Calm Before The Storm
04:12
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In the midst of a desperate hour
Where all sanity begins to fade
Into some shattered dream
It’s just a calm before the storm
Of a friendship that I formed
That has completely turned to dust
Through one two many arguments
About a love that never was
It always seems the sun may never shine for us
It’s just a calm before the storm
A calm before the storm erupts
I was one half of a cosmic wheel
But the other half got the better deal
He may enjoy the best of both worlds
It’s just a calm before the storm
Another friendship that I formed
Which dissolved through mistrust
Only time can heal me now
It makes me think was it all worthwhile?
Shading emptiness which fills the sky
Light grey is reaching out
In bleak narrations of our lives
I see hell is approaching
It’s just a calm before the storm
My soul’s still on fire
For the girl whose heart I desired
Only time can heal me now
It makes me think was it all worthwhile?
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Three Silver Letters
03:00
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A mother is grieving for her son
She can’t let go of her sorrow what can be done
This is one of the three silver letters
That will deliver salvation
To make her life better
With the first silver letter
A weary old man of the community
He’s lost his faith in himself and in society
Now that’s two of the three silver letters
That will deliver salvation
To make his life better
With the second silver letter
Young man of the world he enjoys living wild
Yet he must help prevent the loss of a child
That’s the last of the three silver letters
That will deliver salvation
To make a life better
With the last silver letter
Now that’s all of the three silver letters
That will deliver salvation
To make their lives better
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5. |
Life On The Line
02:54
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You decided to call it time
Your life was on the line
While a train was rolling by
At twenty three without a dream
All those years that might have been
Had you not thought of giving in?
You could have had a lot to give the world
But you had nothing left to live for
How could you just let it go?
Living was hard for you it seems
Your life was one bad dream
Which couldn’t face reality
Never found a place you could exist
You thought so hard to resist
But all the pieces didn’t fit
Drinking the last pint by yourself
Thinking you could be somewhere else
You were twenty one without a dream
Those lost years that might have been
Had you not thought of giving in?
You could have had a lot to give the world
(You were tortured by yourself)
But you had nothing left to live for
How could you just let it go?
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6. |
Think Of Tomorrow
03:20
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I was thinking of yesterday
Instead of thinking of tomorrow
We’re living a life from day to day
Which either brings us joy or sorrow, tomorrow
Spending our lives in isolation
Resonating a soul vibration
All it takes is imagination
Speak your mind in what you say
Cause it may never come tomorrow
You may find your life could speed away
Whether you beg or steal or borrow in sorrow
Living a life of isolation
Within a lack of conversation
Just let go your imagination
You’re getting sick of life not treating you better
Take comfort in the fact it won’t last forever
Whatever’s wrong will be right
Like a bird you’ll take flight
Where there’s darkness, you’ll see light tomorrow
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Vicious Circle
02:34
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The vicious circle has got you down,
They know your business when she’s in town
Her blonde hair flowing without a sound
Yet her inner beauty just can’t be found
Sometimes you need someone you can talk to
Who will listen or offer advice
You don’t know where you stand or if she wants you
I’m sure that given time you’ll know why?
She runs rings around you half the time
You don’t the reason why things aren’t fine
Much to your frustration there’s men waiting in line
For the pop of the cherry will she decline?
I’ve asked the sun to shine for you
And it said it will if you want it too
The sky it cries as the clouds appear
Don’t let the sun disappear
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8. |
Playing The Field
02:42
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Trying to love the one that you with can really be a struggle
When you find the true one you love can only bring you trouble
You’d like to be with just one woman
But playing the field is much more fun
You’re with the one who wants you most
Because she thinks that you’re the one
You see her eyes don’t leave no room to hide
She never keeps it for herself
She lets you know just how she feels
You don’t know what you feel yourself
Trying to love the one that you with can really be a struggle
When you find the true one you love can only bring you trouble
I’m sure their must be more to life than being tied to just the one
Trying to choose the you love can be so hard to judge
Between the bad and the good
You’re sick and tired of playing big brother
To the blonde who always has more fun
It doesn’t matter that she sleeps around
Or drinks until she’s gone
You’ve always longed to be her lover
But nothing has been said or done
If only she could find the time
But she ends up having none
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The day I met you was a dream come true for me
Cause there was no opposition when it came to you and me
You know when I look in you eyes
You make me want to smile
My love can’t be disguised because of you
Everyday I saw you was like I always had you in my heart
But there was something between us that was trying to tear us apart
This feeling inside, I just cannot hide
This feeling I have for you
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10. |
Night And Day
02:43
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I’m finding it so hard to be without you
I think of you all night and day
If only you could feel the same about me
But someone stole your heart away
You were the only one to reach me
Who ever tried to understand me
The only one who ever said I love you
The memory’s too painful to remember
You’re feeling’s changed now I’m alone
I’ve never been more anxious to surrender
Now that’s you’ve found another home
You were the only one to touch me
The only one to ever thrill me
I’m the one who really should have said I love you
I didn’t want to have to suffer for you
I’m hurting more than you will ever know
Although I never said I really loved you
That doesn’t mean I should have let you go
You were the only one to reach me
Who ever tried to understand me
The only one that ever said I love you
You were the only one to touch me
The only one to ever thrill me
The only one who can release me
I know I‘ll never be complete without you
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11. |
Say Goodbye
02:45
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It’s time for me to say goodbye to you
I think I’ll miss you till the end of time
I wish I could have spent more time with you
I knew I’d lose you if I didn’t try
Remember all the times we laughed together
Our actions spoke louder than words
As we looked upon each other
When the memory returns
My heart begins to burn inside
But now you seem to be so far away
You’re like a stranger to me locked away
But now the time has come for me to say
I find it hard to face another day
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Shadow Captain Liverpool, UK
Shadow Captain is the brainchild of Liverpool singer-songwriter, musician and award-winning promoter Stuart Todd.
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