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Eastward
04:17
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As the dark drains from the sky
A flintlock stare is in your eye
Crystal-hard and pistol-bright
In the embers of the night
You turn a little eastward
In this light you have no name
Just steady nerves and ready aim
Pistol-bright and crystal-hard
On your feet and on your guard
You tiptoe from the bedroom
Steal away with steely heart
Leave before the songbirds start
Take your bag from off the shelf
Close the door and ask yourself:
Am I feeling lucky?
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Contour Lines
03:46
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The steeper the slope
The harder the climb
The closer together
We’re drawn
It’s a question of hope
It’s a question of time
It’s a question of whether
We go on
Running rings around each other
In and upwards to the peak
Pushing through the clouds that cover
Mountains playing hide and seek
You and I are elevated
Inked into the same design
I will be your contour line
If you’ll be mine
Come peak or come trough
Up over the fold
We’re off to discover
How it feels
Ignoring ways off
Ignoring the cold
Ignoring the blisters
On our heels
We go on and on and on
Running rings around each other...
If you’ll be mine
I will be your contour line
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Blue Above the Clouds
03:37
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I met an old man who’d flown aeroplanes for forty years
I said: all that sitting still in a tiny little cabin –
Weren’t you bored to tears?
He said, ‘No, son,
Every day was heaven,
There was always blue above the clouds.’
Now everything changes when I think of what the old man said
Instead of running round all day like an ant inside a burrow
I stop and I clear my head
And I look down
From a pilot’s eye view
In the open blue above the clouds
So any time you feel like you’re drifting in a world of grey
With no star for you to steer by, just remember I am nearby
I hope you can hear me say
That tomorrow
Is a day born brand new
And it’s always blue above the clouds
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Semiprecious
04:07
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I’ll bring you amber
The colour of maybe
The colour of taking it slow
And though I’m the sap
With his heart in a trap
The harder ones don’t let it show
Hiding the strings of my attachment
These are the terms of our endearment
Shop-worn words, empty gestures
They’re the wrong shape and the wrong size
But I could be semiprecious
In your eyes
Opal and serpentine
Each time we intertwine
I get tied up into knots
Onyx and amethyst
Your amateur dramatist
Stuck on the simplest of plots
Paying the price of your amusement
These are the terms of our endearment
Shop-worn words...
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Like Spirits
03:50
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Sinking and rising
Like spirits, like weather
It’s the first drink each evening that tastes of her absence
And later she comes in a dream, in the distance
But on waking nobody is there
Painting and counting
Each colour, each hour
Till the last pink of sundown has fled the horizon
And that lucky old sun just keeps sinking and rising
Over and over
Over the yard-arm
Over the hill’s furrowed brow
Evenings are ever so quiet now...
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Edward Randell London, UK
Edward Randell is a singer and songwriter from south London. With a warm blanket of a voice, slyly sparkling lyrics and
melodies that evoke instant nostalgia, his music sounds like James Taylor and Rufus Wainwright sharing a pot of English Breakfast.
Formerly a member of legendary vocal group The Swingles, Edward is due to release his full-length debut in 2024, co-produced with Chris Hyson.
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Wood Works
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