1. |
Do You Ever?
02:33
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Verse 1
Do you ever
Stop consider
Might I be on the wrong side?
Take this further
Is there even
Absolutes in wrong and right?
Chorus v1
Sometimes I wonder why
You act so sure
Maybe it brings you comfort
To pretend you know?
Verse 2
All the fighting;
Wrong and righting;
I believe it's all a game
Maybe we could
Be objective
Stand aloof for just one day?
Chorus v2
Sometimes I despair
How base we go
For we could be so much more
Why aim us so low?
Verse 3
Do you ever
Try endeavour
Stepping out of character?
One is better
Late than never
To remember who we are
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2. |
How Does It Serve You?
02:24
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Verse 1
I feel my mind goes down
Sometimes seems nothing goes my way
Verse 2
Maybe you've been there too,
Doubting you own power to choose?
Chorus
How does it serve you?
My only question
Just a suggestion,
Ask how does it serve you
Verse 3
Next time it hits the fan
You try perceive part of your plan
Repeat Chorus
Instrumental
Repeat Chorus
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3. |
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Verse 1
So called global community
But where's the love?
Almost lost our humanity
Too much them and us
Verse 2
So called civilisation
But where's the peace?
Geo identification
North, South, West and East
Chorus
Now everyone
Come together
Heaven on Earth (Coubertin Dream)
One and all
Family
Brother and sister
Verse 3
So called sophistication
But where's our progress?
Greed remains the motivation
Beneath the polish
Repeat Chorus
Instrumental
Repeat Chorus
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4. |
I Want To Know
03:47
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Chorus
I - I want to know
I seek an answer right now
Why - why this disguise?
I need the reason revealed
Verse 1
How can you refuse?
I demand to know
Don't you understand
Who - who I am?
Verse 2
You - set the stage
Cultivate desire
Play - don't deserve
Reason I require
Repeat Chorus
Verse 3
You - make the plan
I become the how
Now you pull the veil
Now I doubt myself
Now I doubt myself
Now I doubt myself
Repeat Chorus
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5. |
One And One Is Two
03:22
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Verse 1
One and one is two
Seems a simple truth
Everyone assumes it's so
Oh ---
Verse 2
From day one at school
Learned with ABC
They are them and I am me
No ---
Verse 3
Now I find the flaw
I believe there's more
I see two are one sometimes
Yeah ---
Chorus
I contradict myself
Or really do I?
Maybe we're on to something
Verse 4
One and one is two
You believe it's true
What if you are me also?
Woh ---
Verse 5
Then all you do to me
You do to your self
All you see in me is you
Too ---
Chorus v2
I contradict myself
Or really do you?
Maybe we're in to something
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6. |
Which Hat Will You Wear?
02:47
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Verse 1
Time and again I wonder how
How many times will I stand here
Facing the end to begin again
Round and around in this circle
Verse 2
Why we are here remains mystery
Even who we are we forget
Try to make sense sitting on my fence
Maybe there's no way to know it
Chorus
Two birds upon a tree
Only one aware
Why we have taken birth
One can't remember
Which hat will you wear?
Verse 3
Why do you pretend you own the truth
Answering all of their questions?
Though you don't know it, why make excuse?
Everywhere always perfection
Repeat Chorus
Breakdown
Repeat Chorus
Repeat Verse 1
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7. |
Only I Liberate Me
02:39
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Verse 1
Everyday
You try to let go
Desire to taste revenge
In name of justice
Verse 2
Come what may
You strive to move on
Wallowing self pity
It gets me nowhere
Chorus
Life is for living; love forgiving
Through forgiveness we are freed
By forgiving gain my freedom
Only I liberate me
Verse 3
Words you say
You try to practice
These things you know within
Because they serve you
Repeat Chorus
Instrumental
Verse 4
Everyday
You look around you
You try to see your world
With opened eyes
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8. |
Heading For The Hills
03:12
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Should BBC be neutral
Objectively convey our news?
Once I believed they did do
But now I feel my faith confused
I'm gone, so gone, so long
I'm heading for the hills
That politicians tell lies
No one should trust is no surprise
That TV ads beguile us
That we desire things we don't need
I'm gone, so gone, so long
I'm heading for the hills
The city bankers screwed us
That bunch of prankers piss me off
Exploiting lives for profit
Trafficing cash they conjure up
I'm gone, so gone, so long
I'm heading for the hills
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9. |
Going Down
04:02
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Verse 1
Dig the band going down in the hall, yeah
Bass guitar chair vibrating
Music prefect for breaking of rules
That's, that's where I wanna be
Verse 2
Spy the girls lining up for the loo, yeah
Shy guy pretending he's cool
Greebo screams "don't listen to your muvver!"
You really going down (you really going down)
Verse 3
Crazy words flowing out of my mind, yeah
Pronouncing nonsense on stage
I'm not he, he who came here before
Hey, Dave just get on with it
Chorus
We're really going down
(we're really going down)
We're really going down
(I'm really) Going Down
Verse 4
Dancing girls twisting down at the front, yeah
My shy guy stands amongst them
I should spend time rehearsing his lines
He's, he's really going down (he's really going down)
Verse 5
Chasing snare bouncing out of my head, yeah
One back beat driven frenzy
Coney Joe, he is picking up Marlaine
She gonna-attack my brain
Repeat Chorus
Breakdown/Instrumental
Repeat Chorus to Fade
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10. |
So Much More
03:28
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Verse 1
Judge me by the hat I wear
Pidgeon hole my person
Control the thoughts we think
Convince us we are free
Then reduce us to production units
Verse 2
Sort you by your home postcode
What your daddy's job is
Target with stuff to buy
Disguised as gold service
Reduce you to A-class consumer
Chorus
But you could be so much more
Why dumb you down?
What became of god inside?
Where are you now?
Verse 3
Grade us by our skin pigment
Country where we take birth
Segregate species of life
Do you think they are wise?
Reduce you to just your outer dress
Repeat Chorus
Instrumental
Verse 4
Any dream can manifest
Why settle us for less?
Can achieve all desired
Why say you don't deserve?
Don't you know how wonderful you are?
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11. |
I've Been Thinking
03:41
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Verse 1
I've been thinking
I've been pondering
Why it is we
Always see in terms of victim?
Verse 2
How can this be
If no blade of grass
Is moving
Without the sanction of God?
Chorus
I've been thinking about illusion
I've been thinking without conclusion thus far
Verse 3
I've been thinking
I've been wondering
Why it is I
Readily accept I'm fallen
Verse 4
Why we deny
Our divinity
Believe somehow
In being me
I have lost it
Repeat Chorus
Verse 5
Of late I'm thinking
The unthinkable
Can it be true
All things happen cos we choose them?
Nah, surely not!
Outro to Fade
I've been thinking
I've been thinking yeah
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12. |
Precious Time
03:26
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Verse 1
Big society
All you've ever known
Only decade old
But you assume substance
Carved in stone
Verse 2
Soaking like a sponge
Wet with social norms
Never step outside
To realise the rules
Feed the lie
Chorus
Silent you comply
In the name of progress
Pay until you die
Spend your precious time
Verse 3
Infants in daycare
Mothers must pay tax
Sold as parenting
Responsibly nurture
Down the drain
Repeat Chorus
Spoken Section
Good job you're eternal
Good job this is just a game
Good job you're a star
Verse 4
Toiling 9 to 5
Just to stay alive
Try to get ahead
When all is said and done
A lowly goal
Repeat Chorus
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13. |
Realise
03:54
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Verse 1
You arrive a travelled far and wide
Time is now to recall why you come here
Verse 2
You know it, within you hold the key
In your heart listen to bird in tree song
Chorus
This life realise
Verse 3
Tune in to your essence, in self trust
Believe it, there is no should or must do
Verse 4
Nobody can tell you what to choose
Others only see what they want from you
Repeat Chorus
Middle 8
Why life seems so familiar
Thinking it might mean I've been here before
Repeat Chorus
Verse 5
Samsara, some say it keeps us bound
I suggest it's over if you want now
Chorus to fade
This life real lies :)
This life realise
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Songs Of Dave England, UK
David's songs are generally confessional or observational in nature, sometimes comedic or ironic, mostly of philosophical or theosophical subject-matter ... often in the form of imagined dialogue with God.
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