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The Sea And Her

by Alan Boyle

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11:11 03:42
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The riches that we gathered In that country long ago Were spent on easy living and now that it's all gone We've fallen on the hard times There's trouble in the wind And boy I know you're back again I can feel you in my skin She plucked me from the hurricane She saved me from the grave She wrapped me up in moonshine and ecstasy and rage Well summer's always coming but it's winter takes the blame My love you will not conquer me But suffer just the same We started a fire We started a fire We started a fire So don't cry out just because it burns
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The Sea And Her 03:49
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We pulled away from the shore You said that I was an awful bore Kicked off your shoes Stepped in to the blue And slipped away Now what am I to do I just can't sail this ship without you I pretend to know But it's all for show Just like this rotten boat So why can't I live for love Just like the common decent sort Who feed the vultures and chase the dogs away The ocean loves her now And if I have failed God will strike me down But my words are weak and wet with grief Just the same And oh my dearest friends I've come to lean on your charity again I know this thing called hope Is but a dream So why can't I live for love Just like the common decent sort Who feed the vultures and chase the dogs away And now that I'm confused and old I remember stories the sailors told The wind will change And you'll be left out here Alone
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Animals 03:28
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24 hours ago Almost been in a natural disaster Feeling high enough to go home Laid it on the line just to make it go faster It's easy to believe Lying through their perfect teeth 24 hours ago One day we'll change it all Misanthrope illogical Stay hidden in the crowd Like the animals we are The animals we are 24 hours ago Watching TV and drinking a paycheck The organ donor called And no one in here had heart to reject it It's easy to believe Fooled you once now shame on me 24 hours ago One day we'll change it all Misanthrope illogical Stay hidden in the crowd Like the animals we are The animals we are
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Long Way Down 04:13
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Come I won't let you down This is the turn around Let's come to our senses Words are unfaithful friends Desert us in the end Was that the intention? Long way down Long way down To the heart of your defences Come now or we'll be late This trouble that we made Will all be for nothing And there's no saving time It's all that we'll leave behind Now isn't that something Long way down Long way down To the heart of your defences There's a light in the dark We had it from the start There'll always be a part that keeps believing Long way down Long way down To the part that keeps believing
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Desire 03:16
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Daddy you're a hard man Nobody could be harder than The one who takes his chances and The one who kills the thing he loves But then again you're heartless You're wrapped up in this sadness You're dancing close to madness With your hands upon her skin and Who will be The lie that flickers in your eyes Who will be The kind of man that you despise You're welcome to desire Well baby it's an idea To get you through the hard years But there's promises you don't keep No, not even to yourself But then again we're blinded In this company of fine men Who'll fill you up with kindness And leave you lying in the sun Who will be The lie that flickers in your eyes Who will be The kind of man that you despise You're welcome to desire Well Daddy you're a hard man Nobody could be harder than The one who takes his chances and The one who kills the thing he loves
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Darlin, Your Mother Lied To You 02:25
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Darlin your mother lied to you Young men aren't meant to be true They will give such promises to fill an empty room Oh darlin your mother lied to you I never took her away Just woke up beside her one day And so many mornings I watched her as she lay Oh I never took her away I wish I knew what I know now That beauty is the heart of a child She shines like a secret in the corners of her smile And I wish I knew what I know now But I loved her the best I could And carved our names out in the wood And though there was never forever back then I loved you the best that I could Cus darlin your mother lied to you
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Shepherd And The Sheep 03:49
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We can talk We could be the people that you call We could be the writing on the wall We could be the ascent or the fall We could be anything at all But we're the secret silent few Between all of them We can talk We could be the reason for it all We could be the stories that we're taught We could be the reasons in the dark The thief he's in the dark The thief, he stole your heart But we're the secret silent few Between all of them We can talk We could be the people that you need We could be the cracks upon the street We could be the shepherd or the sheep No point at all The wolves are scratching at the door But we're the secret silent few Between all of them and you We can talk, yeah Till we turn blue But you won't listen to the call Of the fallen till you fall You won't listen to the call, no So come on, let's talk.
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Highway Of Dreams 05:48
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Day broke the smoky horizon They cut me free from the wreckage where I was born Took me away, gave me a name Sent me to live with some people I’d never know When I was sixteen I fell for a dream And followed the heart of a girl in a travelling show She took me in, taught me some things That most grown men would pay good money to know But sometimes in the night I see A man with kind eyes and worried hands on the steering wheel Blood on the backseat , Of a ’59 Fairlane, my mother’s pearl earring And her voice whispered soft in my ear “I’ll always be near" on this highway of dreams Small towns made me feel lonely So I lost myself in the city for a time Found me a bar where I played guitar For an old black lady whose blues were the colour of her soul Then I rode the rails from east coast to west Never stopping to rest in case my shadow should fall Guess I’m afraid of the way I was made A prisoner, an orphan, a lonely son of the road Well I had some times I could tell you But mostly I find that life passes by like a dream You can run from yourself and everything else But sooner or later you come to the end of the road So I found a wife, three kids and a life And some folks I know who oh, I’m proud to call friends But one day will come that smoke-covered sun And I’ll know her arms and finally my journeys end And on that night I’ll see A man with kind eyes and hands like mine on the steering wheel On the backseat, Of a ’59 Fairlane, my mother’s pearl earring And her voice so soft in my ear Forever here…. on this highway of dreams
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The Starry Field 03:51
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Fell asleep at the wheel On a cold and shivering hill Frozen over half the year Oh you trembling ice Don't betray me tonight While the winter birds fly O the starry field Can't wait for summer She's like no other Wake to discover I am cold and buried too far Woke up outside the gate Of a house I've never been in Frozen over half the year O the starry field Can't wait for summer She's like no other Wake to discover I am cold and buried too far I am cold and buried too far
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Trouble 03:51
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Faith is what we're waiting for Try to find some respect for The time we need to fall to sleep And dream of those electric sheep Trouble, don't you run Trouble, don't you run Close your eyes and count to five Leave your worries and your life behind You'll dream and burn Your heart will turn And forget everything you learned Trouble, don't you run Trouble, don't you run Faith is what we're waiting for Try to find some respect for The time we need to fall to sleep And dream of those electric sheep Fade away the sour day The evening falls where we both lay And on and on the world will turn And all that's left is this All that there is? Trouble, don't you run Trouble, don't you run Trouble, don't you run no

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released June 9, 2019

Cover photo of Fanad Lighthouse in Donegal, Ireland
by James O'Donnell Photography (www.instagram.com/Lucadatt/)

Tracks 1 and 9 recorded by Adrian Mauro at Smoke and Cinder, Brisbane
Track 2 recorded and mixed by Yanto Browning at Gasworks, Brisbane
Tracks 3, 4 and 5 recorded by Andrew Pennay at Smoke and Cinder, Brisbane
Tracks 6 and 10 recorded and mixed by Phil Graham at Gasworks, Brisbane
Tracks 7 and 8 recorded and mixed by Magoo at Applewood Lane Studios, Fernvale

Mixed by Ben Tolliday at Oh My Studios, Los Angeles
except tracks 2, 6, 7, 8 and 10
Mastered by Nick Wells, Los Angeles
except tracks 7 and 8 mastered by Steve Smart at Studio 301, Byron Bay

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Alan Boyle Brisbane, Australia

Born under the weeping Irish stars, Alan Boyle wandered the earth for years before falling asleep at the gates of Australia where a family of possums took him in and dressed the wounds on his fingertips.

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