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To Whom It May Concern
04:00
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To Whom It May Concern
I’ve been down the joyous highway
Crossed the river of despair
Stared loneliness right in its face
And found little comfort there.
To strive and fail, to leap and learn
And yet still not taste the wine.
To whom it may concern
I think I’ve seen the Burning sign.
I woke at dawn this morning
To a rumbling thunder train.
Opened my eyes to see my sweetheart
Sleeping softly ‘neath the rain.
I felt the pulse I felt the burn
Of true love in my chest.
To whom it may concern,
She is the one I love the best.
I’ve met martyrs to a holy cause
Seen fools who sit on thrones
Had dreams on mighty mountains
I sucked the marrow from the bones.
If wealth be something that you earn
And wisdom’s that which you must seek,
To whom it may concern
I’ve tried so hard to remain meek.
If you’re out there somewhere listening
I must communicate my soul
Maybe you can understand the need
To make the broken whole
I’ve been fulfilled only to yearn
For a glimpse of the unseen.
To whom it may concern
Is this a place you’ve ever been?
Now as I write these words in rhyme
To express my sympathy
For anyone in chains of darkness
For anyone who is not free.
There’s always one more place to turn
Always someone who will share
To whom it may concern
Please don’t ever say I didn’t care...
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2. |
Tryin' To Resist
04:50
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Tryin’ To Resist
I'm tryin' to resist
the pull of gravity.
I'm strugglin' in this war
tryin' to stay free.
It feels like it been lost and won
won and lost again.
I know that victory shall come,
but only God knows when.
I know that victory shall come,
but only God knows when.
I'm tryin' to resist
the chains of slavery
Someone's got to stand up
and show some bravery.
Everything is sidin' down,
into some great abyss.
It's so hard to understand
how it could ever come to this.
It's so hard to understand
how it could ever come to this.
I'm tryin' to resist
the tragic fate of Man.
Got to carry such a burden
but I don't know if I can.
Money always rules the day
and knows just where I live.
I'm tryin' to resist,
but something's got to give.
Yeah, I'm tryin' to resist
but something's got to give.
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3. |
Too Soon To Tell
07:12
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Too Soon to Tell
I’m reaping the whirlwind I didn’t sow
Waiting on an answer that I’ll never know
Looking down a road that I didn’t choose
Playing in a game we were all born to lose.
Just another day, between heaven and hell
Which side is winning it’s too soon to tell...
I’m pickin' up the pieces that I didn’t break
Livin' under laws that I didn’t make
It’s like grasping at straws, in a tidal wave
Working for a system that’s impossible to save.
I can hear the ringing of the old church bell
Will anybody answer? it it’s too soon to tell...
I’m telling a story that isn’t mine
Treading along on a razor thin line
Tryin' to pay a bill, that will never be paid
Feelin' like somebody, with his back to the blade
I threw my coppers in the wishing well
Wishes ain’t worth nothing but it’s too soon to tell...
I’m lookin' in the mirror and I’m seeing a ghost
I'm holding up my end but I’m too shy to boast
There’s a headwind that’s blowin' right into my face
There’s somebody sittin' in what should be my place.
I’ve spent too long inside Heartbreak Hotel
I might break free, but it’s too soon to tell...
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4. |
Sunset On The Highway
04:02
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Sunset on the Highway
Big city blues and a pocket of change
spent years out runnin’ through a land cold and strange
made a few small mistakes but did one big thing right
another prodigal son on his way home tonight.
Chorus Sunset on the highway
the sky of painted flame
I’m goin’ back to my hometown
where somebody knows my name
I found myself wonderin’ if she’s still around
the girl whose sweet memory keeps me tied and bound
I just found a letter she wrote long ago
how she couldn’t hold on so she just let me go
Chorus
I had no idea I’d be headed this way
all things looked different only just yesterday
but God has his reasons and God knows the plan
who am I to question? I am just a man…
Chorus
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5. |
String & Glue
05:50
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String and Glue
Got a feeling that you're out there somewhere listenin'
As you ramble through the land of Silk and Gold.
I've been hearing all the ghosts around you whispering
I saw you rise above so brave and bold.
I probably could've chose a simpler journey
then following this road you led me to.
Pickin' up these pieces that you left outside the door
and fixin' em with bits of string and glue.
I wonder where you are this very moment
Are you sitting at the wheel or on the floor?
Are you listing to the sounds out on the highway
Or hearing distant echoes of the war?
It's hard to figure out how it all got started
It's even harder now to know how it'll end
Seems no matter how we plot and plan the future,
There's always trouble waiting round the bend.
There's so much love that's open for the taking
We got everything anyone could ever need.
But everyday there's wounds that burst wide open
and there's nothing we can do but watch them bleed.
I'm standing on the edges of asylum
Wishing she could not feel so alone.
The breeze that's blowin' in through the bedroom window
feels like the strongest wind I've ever known.
I'm amazed by all the things that I've been given
but I'm puzzled by the things that I can't reach
Every day I try to stare into the mystery
Every day I march into the breach.
At night I hear the million pennies falling
into the bottom of the wishing well.
Morning comes, I'm gazing up at heaven
while walking on the road that leads through hell.
Last night I dreamed she was laying with me
I told her everything that you had said.
She just held me in her arms and whispered softly
“Why don't you try to be yourself instead?”
Her lips were sweet like honey from the mountain
Her skin the milky whiteness of the snow
I reached for her to keep us both from falling
and realised the things she'd never know.
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Nothing At All ('Cept You)
I stood on the frontline
I held my tongue.
Waded on up the river,
to where all the flags were hung.
Tried to hold it together,
while the world fell apart.
Had to weather the storm,
in the rage of my heart.
I once had a dream
but it never did come true.
Now I've got nothing at all, 'cept you.
I've been workin' too hard,
beat my head on the wall.
I took all of the blame,
got set up for the fall.
I've seen the end of the road
and the dawn of the day
but this job that I got,
It just doesn't pay
Please tell me baby,
Tell me what shall I do?
I got nothin' at all, 'cept you.
I can’t take it back
All the words have been said.
I know I should've left 'em,
buried in my head.
But the levee has crashed open
and we're facin' the flood.
You know that I love you,
it burns in my blood.
When you say you love me too,
well, it better be true.
I've got nothin' at all, 'cept you...
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7. |
Toughtown Blues
04:30
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Tough Town Blues
It's a tough town, it gets tougher every day
It's a tough town, it gets tougher every day
Got to keep the wheels a rollin'
You know there ain't no other way
It's a tough town, better keep your head on straight
It's a tough town, better keep your head on straight
Get on down the road somehow
Don't you make your baby wait
The sky is cryin', you know it's cryin' all the time
The sky is cryin', you know it's cryin' all the time
Sometimes I wish that river
Flowed with ruby wine
You can try so hard, but you can't get a break
You can try so hard, but you can't get a break
You know money rules this city
like a big ol' rattlesnake
It's a tough town, better find yourself a friend
It's a tough town, better find yourself a friend
Better hope she'll be a waitin'
when you pull around the bend
It's a tough town, better open up your eyes
It's a tough town, better open up your eyes
Y'know time is like a pretty bird,
won't be long before she flies...
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8. |
(I Ain't No) Stranger
05:51
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(I Ain’t No) Stranger
What am I gonna do,
with this love I got for you?
Put it in an old suitcase
and take it to some other place.
What am I gonna say
if they ever let me have my way?
They’ll never believe it’s true
they don’t know the first thing about you.
O I ain’t no stranger
Come take me home
What am I supposed to think?
Guess I’ll pour myself another drink.
Walk out in the early morning rain
thoughts of you, a rollin’ through my brain
What am I supposed to be?
In this World where no one’s really free.
Pound another nail into the wood
believe me I’d be with you if I could.
O I ain’t no stranger
Come take me home
I saw you on the street,
broken glass and ashes at your feet
I don’t know if you saw me a passing by
but I know I saw that tear fall from your eye.
I saw you standin' in the light
your hair a fallin' on your dress so white
I saw you walkin' out the door door
and things just ain’t the same for me no more.
O I ain’t no stranger
Come take me home
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9. |
Why Do I Love You?
07:18
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Why Do I Love You?
Why do I love you?
I just cannot say
No more than I know
what brings light to the day.
But something inside me,
yearns to be free.
A fluttering bird
from across the Great Sea.
All I know is that the sun shines
so much brighter when you're near
The waters part and suddenly
there's nothin' left to fear.
My poverty is meaningless
and my wealth ain't worth a damn
but I'd trade it all if you would have me
just the way that I am...
Why do I love you?
What do I know?
The only thing I remember
is watching you go.
What makes these arms
want to hold you so tight?
To breath you and dream you
throughout the whole, dark night.
All I know is that the sun shines
so much brighter when you're near.
The waters part and suddenly
there's nothin' left to fear.
My poverty is meaningless
and my wealth ain't worth a damn
but I'd trade it all if you would have me
just the way that I am...
Why do I love you?
I just cannot see.
We are both two children
In this World of Mystery.
Your Ghost is in my Body
In my Spirit and my Mind,
You must be the Great Treasure
that I was sent to find.
All I know is that the sun shines
so much brighter when you're near
The waters part and suddenly
there's nothin' left to fear.
My poverty is meaningless
and my wealth ain't worth a damn
but I'd trade it all if you would have me
just the way that I am...
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10. |
Between Me & You
03:36
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Between Me & You
The highway finds me wounded
the wheel turns round my mind
thoughts of you they hold me fast
you’ve been so patient and so kind
a mourning dove is calling
from the heart of god he flew
he’ll fly across the empty space
that’s between me and you
All that I know of loneliness
is that it’s hard to bear
a place where no one knows your name
and phantoms fill the air
but I have no fear of drowning
cause my captain he is true
he’ll bring me across the raging sea
that’s between me and you
The holy night that whispers
into the ears of slumbering men
is the resting place of sorrow
and the strength to rise again
somehow I know I will survive
and somehow make it through
the wilderness of distance
that’s between me and you
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11. |
Home
06:05
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Home
I love you like a ribbon that stretches to the sun.
That's bound to earth by sailor’s knots that cannot be undone
It’s pulled tight and it stretches, but it’s spun by careful hands
made of all the finest threads from far and ancient lands.
I love you like the mighty wind that blows upon the sea
that long ago had whispered to the Shores of Galilee.
It’s swirling and it rages but it fills the sails of Grace
that will carry us to shores where we can finally know our place..
If I could teach the stars to sing
a melody that you could call your own
would you promise that forever, I could call your heart my home?
I love you like the pages of a book that doesn’t close
written by a future hand, that only fortune knows.
It’s heavy and it’s dusty but it’s in your mother tongue,
a window to our days and all the songs that we have sung.
I love you like the blooming rose of all Eternity
whose beauty shimmers 'neath the wondrous Veil of Mystery.
It’s fragile and it trembles but it will not ever fade
it’s nurtured by the faith that cannot ever be waylaid.
If you hear a chorus, ringing joyfully beneath this starry dome,
would you promise that forever, I could call your heart my home?
I love you like the morning light that Heaven does bestow,
that rises on the good and bad and leads all life to grow.
It’s blinding and it’s burning, but it’s constant as the truth,
seeing all beneath it and the secrets of our youth.
I love you like the midnight darkness all around the Moon,
vast beyond all knowledge as we lay upon the dune.
It’s empty and it’s silent but it holds us like the womb,
and beckons us to gaze beyond the confines of the tomb!
If you hear me sing to you, no matter where it is that I may roam
will you promise that forever, I could call your heart my home?
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12. |
Only You
06:19
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Only You
Only you can make this sorry world seem sweet
and somehow worth the trouble
only you can reach into my conscience
find the treasure in the rubble
only you can fill my days with knowledge
that this life is for the living
only you can see me make a mess of love
yet still be so forgiving
Only you…
Only you can sing the song that fills my sails
and leads me across the ocean
only you can fill this hole
and fix the damage done by my emotion
only you can know my heart
and turn it back to flame when it is frozen
only you could not condemn
this foolish rocky road that I have chosen
Only you…
Only you could see me at my worst
and know that I’ve been so much better
only you can ease the memory
and give me strength to just forget her
only you can guide me to the riverside
where time and thirst are mended
only you can teach me to let go
of all this sorrow I’ve befriended
Only you…
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CLAYTON DENWOOD UK
Award-winning Singer-songwriter based in the UK.
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