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Four Wall Surround
03:06
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These four walls
Sitting at home
Wish someone would call
And break my fall
Wish someone would shout
And get me out
To anywhere but here
Other than this
To suggest something clear
Reduce my fear
These four walls
A problem starts all by itself
At first wasn't true
Becomes your only truth
These four walls
Will comfort you
Say you're busy
Can't come out don't come round
Four wall surround
Underground
I think I know that soul
Arrange a call
Out of the safe box
Change the locks
Four wall surround
Underground
People stop asking in the end
These four walls
Have booked me up
I think I know that soul
Arrange a call
Out of the safe box
Change the locks
These four walls
These four walls
These four walls
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2. |
When You Smile
03:34
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Oh my heart begins to race
When its there upon your face
Oh its music to my soul
Makes my world feel whole
When you smile
When you smile when you smile when you smile
When you smile
Always makes me feel alright
Brightens up the darkest night
If I ever felt in vain
It would take away my pain
When you smile
Take away my pain
When you smile
Oh this feeling lasts for hours
Thanks to your special powers
This gift is such a prize
That I see before my eyes
That I see before my eyes
When you smile
Smile smile smile smile smile
It's a drug and I want more
Could it even stop a war
Mother natures given charm
Fix any kind of harm
Its that early morning cheer
That I've come to hold so dear
So proud and full of grace
Keep that smile across your face
Its that early morning cheer
That I've come to hold so dear
So proud and full of grace
Just smile
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3. |
Bridge Of Tears
02:14
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To the bridge of tears they brought them
On a slender ridge of stones
They left them staring silently
At the mountains bogs below
Bitterly the children cried
To be left so on their own
Never to be held or kissed again
As on that ridge of stone
Nothing to see for far or near
Save last years white sheep's bones
Heather and granite in between
The bridge and the old one's souls
Bitterly the children cried
To be left so on their own
Never to be held or kissed again
As on that ridge of stone
They grew up thin and twisted
Like the roots of an old bog oak
Working the land as farm hands raw
In a farmer's slaving yolk
Bitterly the children cried
To be left so on their own
Never to be held or kissed again
As on that ridge of stone
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Like a reflection on The Liffey
Followed its trail
To the action
To your old heart
Did they pluck that rose
Did they use you
Like a reflection on The Liffey
From your nose to your toes
To another day
Your seeds are scattered
In a place that's home
Your stamp is known
As I stared across the water
I felt close to you
That drink, that glass, that backstreet bar
The old cobbled streets
To that drink, that glass, that backstreet bar
Like a reflection on The Liffey
The park, the green, that building on TV
Like a reflection on The Liffey
Travels to the sea
Sped away on a journey
Your seeds are scattered
In a place that's home
Your stamp is known
Like a reflection on The Liffey
Travels to the sea
Sped away on a journey
To your old heart
The current took you speeding away
To another day
A plan
A future tear
I felt close to you
As I stared across the water
Travels to the sea
I was sure I saw
I saw a shine
A sparkle of light
Sparkle of light
But I'm sure I saw a sparkle on the rivers light
I know that now
I saw a sparkle on the rivers light
Your seeds are scattered
In a place that's home
Your stamp is known
Like a reflection on The Liffey
I know that now
Still close to a tear
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5. |
Windrush
03:25
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Came came to the motherland
With hope with hope
Came came to the motherland
With dreams with dreams of embracing a mother
Came came hope a better life
Promised a welcome befitting royalty
But in reality
There was no love from mother
No arms open wide
To pull her children to her side
Lessons lessons learned in school
About the streets paved with gold
A fallacy a fallacy
Years down the line after the work so hard for mother
She wants she wants to dash you away
Too many too many people came
Just can't take the strain
No longer no longer no longer remain
The papers to prove a legal right
No longer exist
Without the papers to prove
Mother forces you to lose
Came came to the motherland
With hope with hope
We came to the motherland
With dreams of embracing our mother
We came to England from the Caribbean
With the hope of a better life
There was no love from mother
No arms open wide
To pull her children to her side
We came to the mother land
With hope of fulfilling our potential
We came to the motherland
With dreams of embracing our mother
We came to the motherland
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Name On A Page
03:00
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Can I make an enquiry
I often wondered
Something remembered
What happened to that boy
What happened to that child
Was he sick, sick of life
Never saw that face again
Was he OK, grown up then
They said you wasn't home
A name remembered
Often wondered
Thought you were sick
Sick of life
You made it past your teenage years
It's actually made my day
Saw your name on a page
It's actually made my day
Some things stick and some things stay
Saw your name on a page
Saw your name in a book
An unusual kind of look
Saw your name saw your name
It's actually made my day
Some things stick and some things stay
It's actually made my day
Saw your name on a page
Some things stick and some things stay
Saw your name saw your name
Saw your name
Saw your name
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That London Winter
04:03
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That London winter
In a damp and freezing flat
Dying for a cigarette
How that takes me back
Sitting thru' the early hours
Waiting just once more
Footsteps oh so lightly tread
Just outside my door
That tale of passion knows
Leaves you sorry, full of woes
That tale of passion shows
What we've got and how it grows
A baby crying across the hall
Tried to wake me up at dawn
Voices calling thru' the wall
I slept on for one
Walking thru' the streets at night
Listening to the city sleep
Wondering what I'm doing here
And why I'm in so deep
That tale of passion knows
Leaves you sorry, full of woes
That tale of passion shows
What we've got and how it grows
Too young to know better
Much too old to break free
How fast life can turn on one
It terrifies me
Looking o'er the harbour wall
Sitting on an old rucksack
Dying for a cigarette
How that takes me back
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Injured Arm
03:58
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The thought is there
The seed is sown
A thousand songs are thrown
And maybe a tune that will linger on
Or be remembered or cherished
In years to come
Into thought
Into words
Into song
In the mists of time
A thought remembered
A linger on
And as I dip my injured arm into the sea
The tree that scratched it
And damaged it
The journey that hatched it
Maybe that's where you'll find me
And as I dip my
And as I dip my injured arm into the sea
Maybe that's where you'll find me
Maybe that's where you'll find me
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Erin Bardwell Collective UK
Reggae / rocksteady / ska styles. Est. 2003.
Played a live 'In The Hub' BBC session on 6 Music for Tom Robinson (2008). Championed by Steve Lamacq 2011 to present day (Radio 2 & 6 Music)
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