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Life Goes On

by Phil Crossie

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1.
He says with pride he's a civilised man Be that way till the day he dies He never runs and he never hides From the truth or the reasons why From the left now From the right Coming in from the sun this time Out of mind keeps him out of sight Let's imagination run wild This ain't no life for the faint hearted Why fit in when you can make a change He's got to finish what he's already started Check the mirror while he changes lanes He stands alone, feeling strong While the generations fade away He's been shown by one of his own That every message has it's use by day He wonders why he feels so high When all he needs is himself around What went wrong so long ago To make him feel that his life's rewound This ain't no life for the faint hearted Why fit in when you can make a change He's got to finish what he's already started Check the mirror while he changes lanes This ain't no life for the faint hearted Why fit in when you can make a change He's got to finish what he's already started Check the mirror while he changes lanes
2.
Dream 03:41
Seems like a long long time Since she was lovin' me I wonder if it ever happened at all Sometimes it makes me feel Like it just ain't real Though I got this gaping hole in my heart Every day she writes her letters Makes them hard and makes them cruel She writes some mean old lines Then tells me that she's mine It ain't real I know that's true Seems like a long long time Since she was lovin' me I wonder if it ever happened at all Sometimes it makes me feel Like it just ain't real Though I got this gaping hole in my heart Well it's a dreamers dream in a dreamers mind She makes no sense shows no sign of letting Any time soon It's a private world of pain and tears Keeps her locked inside her fears As she dreams away And she fades to grey So she lays it down forever So much more she wants to say Strikes another blow It's only me who knows Why she's made this way Seems like a long long time Since she was lovin' me I wonder if it ever really happened at all Sometimes it makes me feel Like it just ain't real Though I got this gaping hole in my heart
3.
I live around midnight You don't think that it's the mark People try to tell me Ain't nothin' out there in the dark I don't listen to them To me it looks pretty sharp I live around midnight And my neighbours got their groove They keepin' up appearances And they's particularly smooth It don't really matter anyhow They got nothin' left to lose It's all the same when you look at it It's just a different dream It's all the same when you try it on It's never what it seems Never take what you can't control Only makes a lie Only the dark makes us see the light And leaves us wondering why
4.
Loving You 02:48
I don't need to tell my story No one needs to hear my pain It's wrapped up in silent glory Sleeping dry out in the rain And the reason that I know That my fire is still aglow Is that I lay down every night loving you I lay down every night loving you Not big on conversation Never had the words or the time Some people mock my situation On their way to fall in line So I move in different lights And I don't always do what's right But I lay down every night loving you Yes I lay down every night loving You have the power to make me see what's real Hour by hour you help me turn that wheel And all day long it's so Sometimes I sit and wonder How it all fits in place I hear the rain and the thunder And I see me taking up this space But the storms they roll on by And I'm not always by your side But I lay down every night loving you Yes I lay down every night loving you...
5.
Spain 04:36
If ever I get the time Think I'll go to Spain The sangrias so fine they say Think I should go to Spain Get to Catalonia on the clear blue coast Streets of Barcelona my respected hosted Picasso and Dali over there is Spain Pour favour me tengo que I got a date with Spain Try to find some soul up on Montserrat Sevilla's nice for a stroll they say And then a siesta Drinks at eight will do me Tapas after nine If the language threw me I'll try some sign It's a whole other world Over there is Spain Pour favour me tengo que I got a date.... a date with Spain A date with Spain Goin' over there...
6.
Say nothing my darling We live in silence Feel your way in the darkness And come to me Touch the hand that wants you In total obsession Break your heart into pieces And deliver them to me Don't ask I will tell you What you need to know Don't speak I will hear you I feel your eyes looking inside of me And I want to know Will you be my High Priestess And sacrifice some love Be my High Priestess Everything starts at nothing So it goes Keep an eye on the good thing cause One never knows It flys in the darkness Lays low in the light It flows like a river Running out of sight It's just the way that you look at me I want to know Will you be my High Priestess And sacrifice some love Be my High Priestess Be my High Priestess Sacrifice a little love Be my High Priestess...
7.
'76 I crossed the line It was December and the water felt fine And a friend helped me up To mark the occasion Killed the past Spied a future Smoked out pipes and applied loves suture To the youthful skin on our drums That beat like crazy I spent a long time sitting by the side of that road Watching the world pass by me A complete itinerary is so very necessary When you're changing the road that you're on I'm gonna buy me a ticket to Los Angeles I hear they got a Chinese Theatre Want to spend some time with those famous hands and feet Go walkin' on the Hollywood Boulevarde Find me a tattoo parlour And carve the initials of a person that I've always loved Right above my heart Years passed and I wandered Through the valley of an era I squandered Think I answered that question wrong Can I have it over Too bound by convention Too young to know of lifes greatest invention So I walked down the road well travelled And left it behind me I keep a sharp weather eye on the vessels going by Hoping my light don't fade away But the warning that I'm giving Is there ain't no point in living If it's only a lie anyway I'm gonna buy me a ticket to New York City I want to see the island in snow Want to hear their stories repeated blow by blow Gonna stand below the Brooklyn Bridge And catch a silhouette of the moment And sign in the corner of a portrait that I wished was real That's how I feel That's how I feel...
8.
My Brother 03:49
Thinkin' about my Brother Thinkin' about things from way back when Feel like there's a weight to move Nothing really that I have to prove Thinkin' about my brother He was a man who made his way Doin' it right day by day Never let a chance go by To share a smiile and that is why He was a man who made his way And when I think about the things he did for me Back in those simple days and the way He taught me how to ride a bike How to play with my toy cars How to use a tennis racquet for a guitar He seemed so much older when I was just a little boy He never hurt me once in my whole life Oh oh the choir is singing Take his hand his soul is winging There was a simple essence to his life Love your kin respect your wife Keep feedin' up the family tree That's the way he wanted things to be There was a simple essence to his life I remember how we laughed until we cried I love my brother so and don't you know He showed me how to be a man How to hold my hear up high Shake a hand like you mean it Look 'em right in the eye He seemed so much older when I was just a little boy He never hurt me once in my whole life No he never hurt me once in my whole life...
9.
I felt the rush of time And I made my first smart move Walking a real fine line Knowing I had to prove something to myself The situation was nagging me Moving in slow at the start Selling what should have been free Things that could come from the heart When my situation became so clear My obligation disappeared Give more of this and less of that Helps when the brew is rising Looked bad from where I sat There was just no compromising myself There was no success The melodies failed It didn't pass my test No matter how much I wailed When my situation became so clear My obligation disappeared It's fine when the lights come on Ignoring the gruesome details Finally realised what was going on What I got ain't for sale Put it down to experience Can't always trust what appears to be good Hold onto common sense I'm keeping my head in my hood When my situation became so clear My obligation disappeared
10.
Real Life 05:37
I remember Walker Avenue Paddington Old stone fences and wrought iron lined the way My grandparents lived in number 14 Just down the road was Jackie Dean Old man Fred was right next door Seemed like he'd been there forever I was just skinny kid in shorts and T shirt Me and my friend Wayne would play all day We'd climb the tree in Trumper Park Talk the dreams right up till dark The sky would go red over White City And we'd run home for dinner I would catch the smell of cookin' at the front door The women of the house would set our meal I would whisper in my fathers ear Can I have a sip of beer? He would smile and turn his head my way It was a real life It was a great life There was plain and simple happiness around And the trees on Walker Avenue Would drop their leaves and talk to you And tell the tales of days gone by I remember the sandstone doorstep at the local I would sit outside and drink my lemonade I could smell the beer and hear the sounds Of the barmaids as they poured the rounds The door would open and I'd see inside To a world that was so grown up I never felt alone on those hot Sundays I had my tennis ball to make my day Dad would put his head outside and wink You OK boy, you need a drink? I would bounce my ball and say I'm OK It was a real life It was a great life There was plain and simple happiness around And the trees on Walker Avenue Would spread their leaves and shelter you And tell the tales of days gone by So many things have changed on Walker Avenue All the folks have died or moved away The stone is new and the fences are high The place is different and I hear it sigh For a time when neighbours shared a laugh And life was simple It was a real life It was a great life There was plain and simple happiness around And the trees on Walker Avenue Have been replaced with something new And with them went their tales of days gone by...
11.
All my life been singing the songs that I love I think about them everyday I spend my time between the real and the dream That's how I make my way Well I ain't lonely and I'm not sad anymore I keep some real fine company I've held the hands of many a brother gone before Cause we know what it means And their words have shaped the who I am Their music helped me understand They know this simple truth You know it's not living if I can't play I wouldn't make it another way It's not living if I can't sing for you And when all my songs are sung and done Pack the gear for the last run home I'll remember the nights I sang it true I see the memory laid out there before me Of a 15 year old boy Learning guitar in the lamplight of his bedroom Just happy to make some noise And the music flowed into his veins But he never really took the reins Though he loved it more than anything he knew You know it's not living if I can't play I wouldn't make it another way It's not living if I can't sing for you And when all my songs are sung and done Pack the gear for the last run home I'll remember the nights I played it true Oh try to hold the moon up in my hands That's all I try to do There's a song that hangs in the sacred air I don't know why and don't know where The one that keeps me doing what I do You know it's not living if I can't play I wouldn't make it another way It's not living if I can't sing for you And when all my songs are sung and done Pack the gear for the last run home I'll remember the nights I sang it true
12.
Come to you in my car It's not so far out to the coast And the wind in my face tells me I'm near the place I love most It's such a civil right To keep you in sight On days like these I'm turning thrice And I see that nice Silver Beach And I picture you both waiting there The sky in your eyes and the sun in your hair The steps to the beach are calling And I swear I dig where you live I dig where you live You seem to forgive That I keep coming back to the place you call home The setting sunshine Helps us to find The shells we need The Merle can run Having so much fun By the sea And it's all that we need to feel this way The time and the place and the words that we say Where the cliffs meet the ocean it's calling And I say I dig where you live I dig where you live You seem to forgive That I keep coming back to the place you call home From a fleeting notion To a crazy idea Set in stone by the ocean So good that you're here I dig where you live I really dig where you live
13.
Life Goes On 03:47
Life goes on Life goes on No matter who steps off Life goes on You're looking good now pretty baby But one day you'll find Things are gonna start slippin' Down that fine line So get yourself some lovin' Have a little fun You never know if you're gonna be The next one Life goes on Life goes on No matter who steps off Life goes on There's a time for needing And there's a time to give And any time you're asking Is the right time to live Just make sure you're keepin' You're eyes on what is sure Cause anytime's the right time Not to be here anymore Life goes on Life goes on No matter who steps off Life goes on Train keeps a rollin' Rollin' down the track Train keeps a rollin' It ain't never comin' back no... Now you don't get the happy Till you get some sad And you won't know the good times Till you've had some bad So take a trip on sunshine Dry up all your rain You ain't got but one shot This ain't happening again Life goes on Life goes on No matter who steps off Life goes on Life goes on Life goes on No matter who steps off Life goes on

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released September 2, 2016

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