1. |
We Are What We Overcome
04:06
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Verse
I am at a loss
I cannot count the cost
Or knock-on consequence
it just sits there high and mighty like a cross
I am at a loss
I am nearly too far gone
Up and out of this humdrum
Like a stopwatch that has stopped
I am nearly too far gone
Chorus
I’ve been walking along
Close to my own pace
Tripping over coat-tails
Till love entered the race
And this poor little boy
Grounded by the sun
failure by his side but some big strides
We are what we overcome
Verse
I am grateful with no top and no bottom
For all that I am
the passed over, the pale, and the prodigal
So many best laid plans
the sad, the bad, the busted
The lucky, the loved, the blessed
Exhausted but with some great reasons for it
And only gratitude to confess
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2. |
Thank You For the News
04:36
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Verse
It must have come as a surprise
Fate throws up some unusual times
And I don’t usually mind
But the scatter gun
And the only thing that’s missing
Is a nice uniform and some polite goose stepping
Chorus
Here, there, we might find
Some clear thought
Now we’re throwing everybody over board
Thank you for the news
It’s a beautiful brew that you stew
Verse
Nigel stepped out, into the light
With all those dark shadows tucked neatly under his hat
From trading in stocks and shares
to same old same old
Well tell me what use has there ever been in all that?
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3. |
The Satellite Guide
05:24
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Verse
I will not go quietly into soft middle age
Not peaceful, restrained nor with good grace
Not when crimes beyond words are met by gruesome demands
And Benedict waits in the schoolhouse rubbing his hands
We’ll watch the world burn and watch the world boil
Takes your breath away
Chorus
The satellite guide says I have arrived
Buts there’s Benz on the riverbed and road rage on the drive
You know that you’ll fail if all you try to do is survive
And just like the choice of that synthetic voice
We go round, round, lost in the background noise
Waiting for someone to make you feel alive
Verse Two
You know some things aren’t said just for effect
But this dignified silence is one we’ll regret
As we all carry on with Margaret’s good works
And fight over the shortest, most beautiful path to the dirt
We’re cautiously pessimistic and paid to be kind
In our own special way
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4. |
Feels a lot like love
04:13
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Verse
We all know the truth, we think
sometimes we say, it’s bleedin obvious
and we go our way
sell our wares
and don't make a fuss
And then there comes a day
I know you say
you think you’ve heard it all before
but this time
its out there
beyond compare
Chorus
and it feels a lot like damnation
feels a lot like too much to bear
and it feels a lot like no way home
and it fees a lot like love
Verse
They walk tall, run and fall
and still step without a care
so politely and invitingly unaware of time
and its unforgiving line
blank but for the beauty
the charm
and the single wish
since they stepped in this world
to be wrapped up
in loving arms
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5. |
Fee Fi Ho Hum
03:37
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Verse 1
I know I'm changeable like the weather, but I don't know one that ain't
Is it these misty eyes, on this self-painted portrait
I've been up on my luck, down and somewhere between the two
I'd like to count my blessings, but I can’t get past the first thought of you
It's easy to look up, and see nothing but
You know you’ll only get brought down
Fee Fi Ho Hum
I got a rainbow personality
Reach into the sky is truly fascinating
Verse 2
I’m feel like I’m only just holding on, with a loose grip, and all that jazz
Is it vertigo that won't let me go
or is the world just spinning like that
I’m in-between love
That's where I've been hiding from you
Breathless by the climb but grateful for the view
They say the last breath is always out
That’s really all its about
Full circle down to earth
Verse 3
I feel like Ahab's right leg
Twisted, gnawed, and detached
But glad to be separated from that bitter and vengeful mess
Sometimes the most human part
Is what we think we’ve lost
Trauma’s a great leveller
But a bugger for the cost
Verse 4
David like Goliath
was only in it for the power
Before you crow at victories blow
Remember how you cowered
It's a crazy kind of mix
who knows what part it played
With the smallest staring at the sun
and the tallest crying in the shade
I want to run away
from this circus of decay
to a life of day-to-day routine
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6. |
Frock and Bonnet
02:37
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Verse 1
I'd been stumbling some days even falling
With redemption safely out of sight
Booked in with Peter
My mate upon a meter
Mathew who the hell are you going to be tonight
Verse 2
He said "do you ever get a sinking feeeeeelin"
that your life is running out of time
been drinking less than these blood-shot thighs would suggest
But an empty vessel is more than halfway past the line
Chorus
Even in my best frock and bonnet
Stepping out is a tiresome concern
Had the whole world hanging
And a six string ticket jangling
But I'm Standing at the Quay side,
looking at the stern
Verse 3
I confess I got a lot to get off my chest
Wanting more than indifference with a song
Bill Murray felt
Warmer in a punxsutawney pelt
Life is so much easier when your put the world to wrong
Verse 4
Been overcome by the sum of what I always knew was buncum
Now I'm waiting on a strangers wisdom to dispense
Bout my dead cat or some other kind of old hat
And the worse thing is that he's starting to make sense
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7. |
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Verse
Rollin in on 40 years
Give or take the odd two or one
3 little babies tight to her heart
Means everything under the sun
Chorus
You know it don’t make any sense
Who promised it would?
You just try to keep it in tune
One hell of a line crossed
But who’s counting the cost
Cause I’ve got everything under the Moon
Verse
It’s random at best
Outside your control
Beyond your hopes and desires
Not your 1st choice when you first found your voice
But you’re still running round putting out fires
Verse
Times not such a good friend, but more honest than most,
Just something I’ve come to accept
There’s been many paths, compass more than map
but nothing leads back to regret
Some days peace can’t be found, worries know no bounds
but one look around shows how I’m blessed
Life is beautifully inane, there's just one rule to this game
But you know I wouldn't settle for less
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8. |
Forlorn
03:46
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Verse
I’ve been dog tired since the first sunset
Contemptuous even since that ship came in
Looking outwards can tear up our soul
Pull down the shades or raise an eyebrow above the rim
Chorus
it seems kindness is some kind of weakness
frowned upon with mockery and scorn
I'd rather be abused
than go strutting in those shoes
and shuffle off this earth forsaken and forlorn
Verse
Hope is a comfort blanket shared amongst fools
Compassion comes snap, snapping at it’s heels
tears of empathy will just leave you empty
best working on never knowing how that baby feels
Verse
Let’s just be honest, for one god damn second of this life
All those who cry out, got their own personal reason
to think they are right
We take it to the wire
Just one more desire
Beyond all our needs
And at the last breath
there's no stepping back
burnt out from all the greed
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9. |
40 Winks
03:12
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I've almost given up
Almost settled down
I've tried confiding in the right way
Not laying my cards out on the ground
Cause too many thoughts they come out
Too much gets taken for fact
I've almost given up
Cause you don't take that kind of openness back
I've almost got over most of it
I know I talk a lot
To those that are close
But most as no more than parting shots
Some days it seems I've come to terms
And not just another daydream on the brink
I've almost given up
I'm nothing if not in need of 40 winks
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Matt McGuinness and the MLC Derby, UK
Matt McGuinness and the MLC deliver raw, emotional, and personal thoughts with moving lyrics in original songs to enlighten and entertain audiences.
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