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Raking Through The Ashes
04:15
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I’m raking through the ashes
Now the fire has died down
Burnt letters and dispatches
Embers spread around
There’s a few un-singed remains
Not consumed by the flame
Old memories of passion, pique
And pain
I’m raking through the ashes
To find out what remains
I’m sifting through the cinders
Incinerated love
Charred reminders
Of all the things - that I had grown fond of
I guess I should have used a little more kerosene
Burn down the pyre of all my dreams
Build a fire that would render
My slate clean
I’m sifting through the cinders
And finding my old dreams
I’m raking through the ashes
To find out what remains
I’m raking through the ashes
To see what I can save
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Secret Addiction
04:36
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I've got a secret addiction
I read your old letters every night
Sweet, solitary fiction
Maybe I need you here
Need you here to put me right
Now, in some songs there’s hidden lyrics
Mysterious bits I may have missed before
Each of your letters holds that magic
A word can bring you back
Bring you back to me once more
Wherever the good things are
Let me find them
Wherever the good things are
Your words hold the key
Wherever the good things are
I rewind them
Wherever the good things are
All will be revealed
I’ve done a deal of reminiscing
With all those stories, all the songs
And just to help me in my mission
I replay them to myself
Now all else is gone
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Exile
05:06
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In the dark and the stillness of the night,
I stand my trail,
I stand my trial
The difference 'tween what's wrong and what is right
Is but one turn of the dial.
Time hovers by the wall
Waiting on me to fall,
Go meet my kingdom come;
Where I will stand & face the truth
One thing I must do, 'coz I don't run.
She was like a spirit in the moonlight
So alive, a fire-fly;
Her innocence it burned so bright
But I was in denial.
I found what it takes to take a life
Run the sharp edge of the knife
Across my thumb;
Desire spreading like a stain
The hurt, now the pain won't be undone.
There’s a light, a brief crescent
Of a fallin’ star;
Never more to grace the heavens, leaving just a scar
Straight across my heart …
In the dark and the stillness of the night
I stand my trial, I stand my trial;
The difference 'tween what's wrong and what is right
Is but one turn of the dial.
Now I walk this this road alone,
Kicking every other stone
I watch them skip and run;
And with the passing of each mile
My exile has begun.
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Life can be beautiful, life can be tough
Bad turns to worse just when you
Think you’ve had enough
The future look’d rosy when you welcomed the dawn
But remember ..
Life’s like lickin’ honey
Lickin’ honey off a thorn
Life can be beautiful, life can be wild
So look at the world
Through the eyes of a child
It’s gone in a moment so you'd better be warned
Don’t surrender ..
Life’s like lickin’ honey
Lickin’ honey off a thorn
Life can be beautiful, life can be cruel
A sharp sliver of glass
Disguised as a jewel
It shimmers in the light, but your heart will be torn
Asunder ..
Life’s like lickin’ honey
Lickin’ honey off a thorn
Life can be beautiful, life can be tough
Life can be wild
Life can be rough
It’s something to tell - to every new born
Remember ..
Life’s like lickin’ honey
Lickin’ honey off a thorn
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Mandolin Jack London, UK
Mainly a songwriter - in Americana mood ; with some mandolin, a bit of guitar, some boogie-woogie keyboards and starting to get to grips with some lap-steel!
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