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Long Train to Nowhere
05:02
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Free from past times
On route to new life
Old ways and bad days
Shape who I am
On a train and I’m heading to the future fast
Nothing with me but feelings from the past
Jobs slide - loves died
Empty of goodbyes
Journey to nowhere
No plans and no care
On a train and I’m heading to the future fast
Nothing with me but feelings from the past
Who knows from where the wind will blow
All I know is I really have to go
Oh the air is my freedom
Im loving this feeling of losing my own way
I - I want to live in this moment
I cant be the servant of rationality
Long train to nowhere……
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Never Say Die
05:09
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Its time we put the fires out
From the Andes to Siberia
We forgotten what its all about
Chasing everything material
When there once was a dream and a calm reflection
Our world was blown in the opposite direction
How long before you you put up a fight
Sweeping metropolis away in our time
How long do you feel the falling of night
Changing impossible to never say die
Its time to disconnect a while
Restore some equilibrium
Now that freedom has gone out of style
Like a dinosaur in a nice museum
Dont ever say die
Dont hold your fear at night
Dont even say "Try"
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Cancelled
04:34
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The air - is full of self opinion
Some things are better left unsaid
Cancelled - maybe cos its needed
Shut down - extinguished like a flame
We’re crying out for reason
Shouting for common sense
Looking for ways to deal with
So many views
Too much - ego and division
The world - grows smaller by the day
View points - that once we wouldn’t hear of
Reach out to us in many ways
In calling out the contender
We ask them to justify
But the power of the common people
Can fade into noise
Transmit the signal to the masses
Cancel the sender into shame
We try to strike the perfect balance
At times we lose a great debate
Cancelled
Not allowed to say that
Cancelled
Nothing left to say
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Self Contained
05:39
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These are my windows, I'll close the shade
These are the four walls of my life
There's nothing outside I really need
So many changes I don't like
Walk through the walls if I feel like it
I'll lie in the hall if I want, I'm self contained
They're throwing a party in number 9
I don't think I'm going
I can't seem to tell them this place is mine
They don't listen to me
I'll walk through the walls but I can't go
Haunting the halls 'cause it's all I've ever known
All I've ever known
They're living in my home
It's all I've ever known
So welcome to my home, these are all my memories
You can have my love, all that you can carry
I'm self contained
I'll walk through the walls but I can't go
Haunting the halls 'cause it's all I've ever known
All I'ever known
They're living in my home
It's all I've ever known
So welcome to my home, these are all my memories
You can have my love, all that you can carry
Don't need anything I'm self contained
you can go away
I'm so self contained, don't need anything
I'm so self contained, you can go away
Home....home sweet home
My Home - home sweet.
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Concept & Plan
05:32
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Little rebel has a life and free spirit
Never better when aiming for success
Little does she know what lies ahead
She’s got it all worked out inside her head
The delusions of a bold young mind set free
Little rebel - the journey’s just begun
Will she ever stop and turn around?
Her drive’s a concept and plan
Stands proud and doesn’t turn round
Nothing will deter her dreams
Focusing on what she needs
The life of the youth of today
Little rebel carries a big heart of gold
But too discover it takes some time and work
She doesn’t suffer fools all that well
She won’t forgive you if you kiss and tell
Scared of failure and a thirst to be the best
Little rebel - a product of the times
Little rebel - a product of design
Every now and then her concentration fades
She no longer has the will to stay awake
Life is suddenly a pointless shade of grey
Free spirit is locked inside a cage….
What has she become….
What have we become?
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Parachute
06:39
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Can't explain just why we do it
the conscious mind won't understand
Seems our lives have become too easy
we sabotage ourselves again
Finding some small solutions
to a bigger mess we made
Maybe it's just evolution
we'll take ourselves out of the game
There's a borderline between reality
and the world our minds create
Some are at the edge of the boundaries
not content with playing it safe
so we climb another mountain
or start a fire just to watch it burn
searching for a magic fountain
wonder if we'll ever learn?
There's a borderline between reality
and the world our minds create
Some are at the edge of the boundaries
not content with playing it safe
They start to get ideas about their destiny
and conquering the wild west
Can't they redirect that energy
to make a better movie instead
And my parachute will surely open, well I'm hopin it will!
I will take that leap of understanding, from the other side of the hill
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakes, fear is the mind killer
has your life played out like a scary movie, a tragedy or a thriller?
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Under The Gun
04:51
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Tied to the sun, and the echoing of a tribal drum
losing the scent, on the trail of life but we haven't found it yet
Closer now to reaching for a dream
In the shadow of our doomsday machines
Like a soldier waiting under the gun, for words of hope across the wire
And though this war we're waging has to be won, I know some of us are tired
One step closer so they say, and looking for a sign
We are one step closer but can we stop, the hand approaching midnight
Riding the wave of technology but with no restraint
Where is the soul? The consumer world has you caged and won't let go
We search for wisdom up among the stars
But is the only sound this voice of ours?
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I Don't Know
05:20
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In these dark days we struggle what to do
I don’t belong to me and you don’t belong to you
But when I see the damage that you do
The need to qualify like a message from the sky
I don’t know - how you feel its right
I don’t know - why you find the time
To justify need to qualify
Every thing that you did with reasons why
You seem to disrespect your friends and then be in denial
Everything that you claim that is the truth
Doesn’t stack up in the real world
No-one who was in the room has any true idea
I don’t know…
The endless need to claim that you’re the best
Puts my patience to the test and defies whats common sense
No one man can claim the glory days
When there’s others in the way - who knows the error of their claims.
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Underdog
05:10
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If you're not a secret agent, or superman
or feel you've been left out of the master plan
You run around in circles, trying to catch that game
Arriving just too late to save the day
A million stars will shine through our window
And distant suns will rise on the ocean of life
Times can get hard, even the hero may fear the dark
I've always heard that everyone loves the underdog
There's a world of brave solutions to the worries of the day
Troubles still the rain will wash away
And every path will lead if you follow
A million stars will light our tomorrow
Times can get hard, even the hero may fear the dark
I've often learned that everyone loves the underdog
We'll face the world again tomorrow...
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John Beagley London, UK
John Beagley has sung with Glass Hammer and ESP. He has worked with members of Sound of Contact, GTR, King Crimson and Van
Der Graaf Generator.
In the 1990s he was almost signed by Trevor Horn to ZTT Records. As well as producing his own material he also works with Robin Schell as part of Life in Digital and also in the band Iconic Sky.
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