Stephen Harrison
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    • Cherry Fair (2016) - Album Lyrics
    • Today Tomorrow (2012) - Album lyrics
    • The Colour Of Black Is Black (2011)- Album Lyrics
    • We Face Extinction (2009)
    • I Know Everything - 1988
    • Soon - Summertime - 1981
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​1. It Starts With The Soul

By the way there's a weight hanging down on my soul
By the way there's an end and it starts with the goal
Back on the road

There's no way here
No way back on the road
There's no way down - no way for the soul
Back on the road

By the way I will follow the river
Around the bend until the end of my tether
Till the pain and the shame and the guilt
They disappear

Can we apologize no
Can we theorize no
Can we analyze no
Can we socialize no

By the way there's a door at the end of the bar
By the way it's been bricked up a long time ago
By the way there's a gate at the end of the yard
By the way its been chained up a long time ago
Back on your feet one more time
Back on the road one more time 

Can we apologize no
Can we sympathize no
Can we realize no
Can we change our lives no
Can we ostracize no
Can we civilize no
Can I see your eyes no
Can we analyze no

By the way there's a door near the end of the bar
By the way there's an end and it starts with the soul
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2. Trains 

Through the window by your bed
Hear the trains leaving London
She made a daisy chain for you
All the way to London
Angel
And the visitors come to go
Even your first love came to show
They can see the trains leaving London
From the windows that don't open
Angel
Kind of peaceful this fascination
For the trains and the station
You're so brave and you don't want more
As the train's leaving London
Leaving London
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​3. Folly

There's no lady in the lake
No piano in this place
No robin to sing
Or hear the violins

Don't blame me
Have mercy on me
We were foolish
It was folly

I see the man in the moon
He's building houses up there soon
For Noah and The Ark
Farewell planet earth

Here we go
Two by two
We were foolish
It was folly
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4. My Dream's In My Pocket

Nobody here plays my game
Everybody here they play your game
My dream's in my pocket
I guess it'll stay there
People say forget it
You'll never get it

All around the world they do what you say
All around the town they see what you see
My dream's in my pocket

Nobody here can lose what I could lose
Nobody here can see what I can see
My Dream's in my pocket well I guess it will stay there
People say forget but I'd regret it
If I forget it, I'd never get it
My Dreams in my pocket
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​5. One Fine Day

You can't buy love
You can't buy time
You can't buy anything 
That you want
Find you way across the sea
Looking back across the land

Very strange
Love is wrong
It can't buy anything
And you want more
One fine day I'll find my way
One fine day I'll be me

You can't find hope
Or hold my hand
In another world 
They'd understand
One fine day I'll find my way
One fine day I'll be free
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6. Iago's Light

And all the world is like a stage
Iago came and took your breath away
Please don't believe a single word he says
Iago's light was darkness in his head

The stage is set in the market and the stalls
Up in the gods Iago plays them all
There was no reason no reason at all
For the mischief that led to the fall

Understand he'll never show his hand

​And all the world is like a stage
Iago came and took your breath away
Please don't believe a single word he says
Iago's light was darkness in his head
Iago's light was darkness instead
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​7. The Middle Of the Morning

I lie awake in the morning
I see the day come
Before the bells in the morning
Before the sun comes shining
Unwinding

Little me in the morning
Watching the time
Dawn chorus so early
My favourite sound
Through the window
In the morning

I'm good in the morning
Before it all goes wrong
Before the memories start forming
They'll hide in the sunlight
Finding
I find them defining

Pen to paper in the morning 
Brilliant thoughts
Just to exist is amazing
Before the fear comes falling
By the the middle of the morning
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​8. Show The Summer To The Spring

Climb out of the river
When you feel her forgive you
Down the road to oblivion
Feel the sun shine

You mean everything
You make the whole world sing
With the love that you bring

I took my time back to this old town
Saw your shadow on the wall here
I made my way to the riverside
Saw the bridge where you stood

You mean everything
You make the whole world sing
With the love that you bring
Yeah you mean everything
You make the songbirds sing
You bring the Summer to the Spring

You mean everything
You make the whole world sing 
With love that you bring
You mean everything
You make the Blackbirds sing
You show the Summer to the Spring
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9. The Radio Of Love

Rosie went away on the midnight train
And then she went away again
Rosie threw the dice and she did it right
When she looked into her lovers eyes
Rosie's going to play a love song
Rosie's going to play it all night long

Rosie saw the sun on a distant mountain
And she said 'I want to go there'
Rosie saw the seagull in the sky
She heard the skylark singing high
Rosie put it all in a love song
Rosie put it in a beautiful love song
I heard it on the radio of love

​Rosie had a car but she drove it badly
Well you know she never did like it here
Rosie had love but it never lasted
She said she was free well that's not true anymore
Rosie got caught in a cage
Rosie was blinded with rage

Rosie was a dream I think I had well I better wake up
Well no I better not. I cannot
When Rosie saw the sun on the beautiful tree
It was then she said "Will you marry me?'
I said Yes
Rosie put it all in a love song
Rosie put it all in a beautiful love song
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