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Rainbows and Butterflies
05:09
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I said it all, I took a vow.
Lessons I’ve learnt, faking a bow.
I didn’t know how I fitted in.
Yeah, I’ve never known why it’s come to this.
Beautiful dawn, caught in the haze.
Lessons I’ve learnt, lost in a daze.
Rainbows and butterflies don’t die easily in my arms.
Won’t you even try to understand where I’m from?
Walking a mile, in someone’s shoes
Lessons I’ve learnt in yesterday’s news.
Rainbows and butterflies don’t die easily in my arms.
Won’t you even try to understand where I’m from?
Why must the sunshine always turn to rain?
And colours bleach out and fade into grey?
Lessons I’ve learnt all seem out of tune.
Like hours and hours of sacrificed flowers in June.
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One Thousand Years
03:48
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There’s a girl in green staring vacantly
At the man in the puppet show.
She’s only ever seen little men on the silver screen.
And the dude over there with the dreads in his hair,
Blowing fire through his nose,
Was in a fight last night just for stepping on someone’s toes.
So many lives to lead and so many roads.
Sometimes it’s hard to know just which way you should go.
There’s not a day goes by when I don’t fantasise
In a thousand years they’ll take it all away.
So give it all you’ve got.
Coz tomorrow’s just another lonely day.
There’s not a day goes by when I don’t fantasise,
In a thousand years they’ll take it all away.
There’s a couple of twins knocking back the gin
Trying to drown out how they feel.
It’s been a year and a day since their old man went away.
And the bloke in the mac with the rain on his back,
Singing softly to the clouds,
Has crossed a line in his mind now he’s ten years out of time.
So many lives to lead and so many roads.
Sometimes it’s hard to know just which way you should go.
There’s not a day goes by when I don’t fantasise
In a thousand years they’ll take it all away.
So give it all you’ve got.
Coz tomorrow’s just another lonely day.
There’s not a day goes by when I don’t fantasise,
In a thousand years they’ll take it all away.
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When Time Fades...
04:55
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Only faith assures me
Our souls sing to the sky.
I’m lost in your radiant glory
I sense the smile in your eyes.
I thought I heard someone calling…
Crying out for more.
I thought I felt something falling
Feathers on the floor.
When time fades away
We’ll wake up to a new light of day.
There’s a bright new star in the milky way
When time fades away.
I faltered through the shadows
But I just had to keep on.
Forgotten how to paddle
In the lake where dreams are from.
When time fades away
We’ll wake up to a new light of day.
There’s a bright new star in the milky way
When time fades away.
I feel it now before me
Our souls sing to the sky.
I’m always lost in your glory
I see the smile in your eyes.
When time fades away
We’ll wake up to a new light of day.
There’s a bright new star in the milky way
When time fades away.
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Matt Rivers Tarifa, Spain
Uplifting folk songs pulse to rhythmic guitar and melodic vocals. Earthy beats, spacey guitar lines and distant harmonies weave into modern-feeling folk songs. Matt Rivers is a British indie-folk artist based in Spain. His songs are sourced from his life experiences. They are about overcoming adversity. They are about the human condition. They are about healing and love, consciousness and spirit. ... more
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