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All the people around you surround you, confound you
They are seem the same.
No one tries to speak you go for weeks with no squeak
From any strangers
And it’s all money this, money that, money chat
That’s a fact.
That’s the rate of the exchange ’round here.
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
See the sparks tear down the track,
Feel them flash as they shoot up your back
As you get on the train and mind the gap
Between old and new
Between them and you.
Hey there boy when you gonna/better/gotta
Start acting your age?
When you gonna give up the ghost?
You coast the most of all those little music games
When you gonna find a job/get a job/when you gonna stop
Try’n’a make a name on stage?
Oh well!
The nine-to-five leaves you dead in your mind
So you step out the door and go looking for more
While the city’s sleeping – there you go!
As you get out to the street
The night air’s alive and under your feet
There’s a pulsing of life, who knows you could meet
Someone like you!
And as your pushing through the crowds
It’s hot there to breathe and the music’s so loud
But through all the lights, the sights, the sounds
They’re looking at you
And not just right through…
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Lost in a Dream (live)
04:52
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It’s late in the evening and I’m lost in a dream
Twisting and turning, on a murky mountain stream
Heading somewhere, gravity pulls me down
But I know not where I’m bound
The water once ran clear from the deep dark down below
First finally bursting forth in the morning’s early glows
Have you ever dreamed, and it seemed that clear and cold?
But what when dreams grow old?
Hey there can you hear me, say there can you see me,
Can you feel me now?
Hey there are you gonna stay until tomorrow
Or are you leaving now?
I only wanna live in a life that’s not a living
If you believe me now
We can get there somehow
I gotta get there… somehow.
And over on the sides, they’re staring back at me
All those people I have known now in their own realities
Stranded now on the land, I wonder how and why
Their rivers have run dry
Hey there can you hear me, say there can you see me,
Can you feel me now?
Hey there are you gonna stay until tomorrow
Or are you leaving now?
I only wanna live in a life that’s not a living
If you believe me now
We can get there somehow
I gotta get there… somehow
It’s late in the evening and I’m lost in a dream!
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Long Time Coming (live)
05:00
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Leave my cares by the open door,
Feel the flow and my spirit soar,
Soon I’m in the clouds high above this town
See the streets softly mist away,
Turn my face to the icy spray
And I can’t recall how to get back down
When it’s been a long time coming
This life I’m loving,
Oh, it’s been a long time coming
As the chains start to leave my mind
I feel it play as it moves in time
With a natural tone, just like I was a child
All alone, no one around,
On a boat in a sea of sound
And if I cut the chord, I could drift for miles and miles…
In a long time coming
This life I’m loving,
Oh, it’s been a long time coming.
Well, whatever don’t kill me makes me stronger,
I think I want to live just a little while longer,
Catch my breath, keep a hold, and come back swinging
As myself, no one else, no one else.
I’m on a train, a familiar track
Stow my guitar in the luggage rack,
Then I find a seat, further down the car
And as I sit and watch the world go by
I find the time stop and wonder why,
How, where, what, wherefore… just who we are
In a long time coming
This life I’m loving,
Oh, it’s been a long time coming
In this life our bodies break
But the mind alone does a person make
So catch your breath, keep a hold and come back swinging
As yourself
And from the breakfast break to the tea-time-teeter
While we’re watching the clock there’s no one feeding the meter
So catch your breath, keep a hold and come back swinging
As yourself
So whatever don’t kill you makes you stronger
You say you want to live a little while longer?
Catch your breath keep a hold, and come back swinging
As yourself, no one else, no one else
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Celluloid Dream (live)
05:44
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All is quiet on the set tonight
And all the actors have gone home
All except the lead in a pool of light
He’s lit by candle wax alone
Well I swear that I can’t take anymore of this
Movie montage with that Bacharach score
’cause this reel to reel that’s replaced my life
Is so obscure that no one will bite
But it’s so cliché that Hollywood might
If you just turn around and come back to me
To the kiss embrace in the final scene
As the credits roll to the top of the screen
And I finally wake up from this celluloid dream
They meet and they fall in love at first
Lens gleamed with vaseline, oh, don’t they seem to have it all
But by act three we fear the worst
The fall from grace follows the fatal flaw
So here’s hoping that they work on the sequel
Where we’re in love again and things are equal
’cause this reel to reel that’s replaced my life
Is so obscure that no one will bite
But it’s so cliché that Hollywood might
If you just turn around and come back to me
To the kiss embrace in the final scene
As the credits roll to the top of the screen
And I finally wake up from this celluloid dream
Now I’ll be accused of chewing the scenery
And hamming it up but it just all comes so easily, now
’cause this reel to reel that’s replaced my life
Is so obscure that no one will bite
But it’s so cliché that Hollywood might
If you just turn around and come back to me
To the kiss embrace in the final scene
As the credits roll to the top of the screen
And I finally wake up from this celluloid dream
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Pretty cloud high above
The city where you fell in love
Long ago, so long ago
The brightest cloud is full of rain
The sweetest love can cause you pain
I’ll take it slow, ’cause that’s how I’ll know
When you say, ‘I love you’ true
What do you really mean?
Is it the same for me as it is for you
Or something inbetween,
Between us all?
String you along with me
You’ll string me too, but we’re still free
To come and go, oh come and go
I’ll take the time to know your mind
Is someone like you that hard to find?
I’ll take it slow, ’cause that’s how I’ll know
When you say, ‘I love you’ true
What do you really mean?
Is it the same for me as it is for you
Or something inbetween,
Between us all?
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Up in the air I scrape the sky
Imagining you were by my side
I walk the floors you touched before
And down below are millions more
An ocean roars through salt-aired streets
Down avenues and where they meet
But high above I think of love
And you’re the one that I’m thinking of
Ooh, I hear the sounds, now
Ooh, I’ll take a look around
The city in the clouds
I take to ground and hit the earth
I breathe in fumes and taste the dirt
Where water was is now unclear
Incessant noise is all I hear
Ooh, well I heard the sounds, now
Ooh, I took a look around town (I went downtown)
Ooh, well I heard the sounds, now
Ooh, I took a look around
The city in the clouds
It’s funny how when things are near
They often change how they appear
When seen so far or out of view
Is it the same for me and you?
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Free Falling (live)
04:28
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Have you ever felt the sinking
As you’re thinking, ‘Is this my true calling’?
And tumbling fumbling crumbling down, no one around
Oh, that’s when you’re free falling.
Free falling, gone three months now
Since I cut my bounds and faced my disaster
And skirting the shores of sadness and madness in us all
Oh, I’ll find the answer
You’re such a pretty girl, I know you’ll make it better
When as two, me and you, we’ll fall together
Well I was born with a restless mind
And sometimes I find it’s thoughts quite appalling
But sensing the swirling and twirling, unfurling flow I know
Oh, that’s me – I’m free falling!
I was so lost but I found you
As I was free falling down into the deep blue
With a flower in your hair you were there on the barstool
And sweet lady you saved me you gave me
Something, something to hold on to
When I’m free, when I’m free falling
So tell me:
Have you ever felt the sinking
As you’re thinking, ‘Is this my true calling’?
And tumbling, fumbling, crumbling down, no one around
Oh, that’s when you’re free falling
Pretty girl! I know you’ll make it better
When as two, me and you, we’ll fall…
So take my hand now, baby,
Twist with me, kiss me, let this be whatever the weather
And as two, me and you, we’ll fall together
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Tom Hyatt Liverpool, UK
Polymathic artist, musician, scientist, STEAM educator, maker.
SciArt PhD candidate at LJMU’s School of Art
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