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The Anniversary
05:12
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The Anniversary
It’s been a long time coming down this road we chose to take
Through the dreams we’ve shared together and the scars of some heartbreaks
The accidental damage the wounds of friendly fire
And the tough negotiations between our reasons and desires
It’s been a long time coming where did the years all go?
Maybe the mark of wisdom is to admit what we don’t know
Life is an adventure and love’s a sacrifice
It’s a miracle we got his far I’m grateful and suprised
If all the love in the world were mine to give
I wouldn't change a thing in the life we’ve lived
If I could roll back the years into rewind
I wouldn't change a minute of the time I've spent with you
It’s been a long time coming and we’ll be a long time gone
But through our children’s children together we live on
We only hope the good we’ve given outweighs mistakes we’ve left behind
The successes and the failures that measure our lifetime
If all the love in the world were mine to give
I wouldn't change a thing in the life we’ve lived
If I could roll back the years into rewind
I wouldn't change a minute of the time I've spent with you
Words & Music © Paul Field
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2. |
The politics Of Kindness
04:41
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The politics of kindness
The politics of kindness the diplomacy of love
The art of forgiveness is powerful enough
To shape a new tomorrow beyond the lies and greed
The politics of kindness is what we need
We live in troubled times where cheats and racketeers
Are misleading us with fake news and exploiting all our fears
Compassion is forgotten and tolerance is lost
And somewhere in the future our children count the cost
The politics of kindness….
The language of division the words that fan the flames
The fire of our prejudice that looks for someone else to blame
The gospel of indifference the blind eyes that we turn
The space that grows between us when we let the bridges burn
The politics of kindness….
The messages of mercy the principles of peace
Are harder to hear, when hate and violence increase
How long will it take us until we read the signs
How long will it breaks us cos' we’re running out of time
The politics of kindness….
Words & Music Paul Field
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3. |
How Long?
04:50
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How Long
The songwriters are silenced now
The poets lonely voice is composing for an audience of one
No hall no microphone no lights no stage
The lines of interaction are undone
So many empty spaces now between us, you and me
In all the empty places where our music used to be
How long, till we can sing together again?
How long, how long?
How long, till we can share our lives, the beauty and pain?
In our songs
How long?
We can stream our words and melodies
But it can never be the same it can never quite replace the human touch
The mysterious art of music when a song’s shared face to face
It’s the emotional connection is what we miss so much
While these distances between us are keeping us apart
You can’t lockdown imagination you can’t quarantine a heart
How long….
These distances between us are keeping us apart
You can’t lockdown imagination you can’t quarantine a heart
How long….
Words & Music © Paul Field
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4. |
Keeper Of My Heart
03:42
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Keeper of my heart
You comfort and console me you rage and rock'n'roll me
Release me and you hold me like no one else can do
You lock me up and free me you close your eyes and see me
You know how it feels to be me all i want is you
You hurt me and you heal me you hide and you reveal me
You shuffle me and deal me you make and break my heart
You follow and you lead me you doubt and you believe me
I need you and you need me we're each other's counterpart
You're my bright new morning you're my midnight star
You're my roots and you're my wings you're the strings on my guitar
You're the ocean in the moonlight and by love's mysterious art
You're the guardian of my dreams you're the keeper of my heart
We’ve a long way still to travel and bridges still to burn
But we walk the road together through every twist and turn
We’ll celebrate our best attempts and learn from our mistakes
And hope the love we give is always more than what we take
You're my bright new morning you're my midnight star
You're my roots and you're my wings you're the strings on my guitar
You're the ocean in the moonlight and by love's mysterious art
You're the guardian of my dreams you're the keeper of my heart
Words & Music © Paul Field
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5. |
The House Of God
03:44
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The House Of God
If this is what you call the house of God maybe I’ve come to the wrong place
I didn’t come expecting judgement here I came looking for grace
I didn’t come for a performance or for sanctimonious songs
I just thought I’d find acceptance here well maybe I was wrong
If this is what you call the house of God then surely it should be for all
The old the young the lives undone compassion without walls
For the faithful and the faithless for the outcast and the lost
For all the disillusioned dreamers who crawl toward the cross
For the wounded and the broken who have cried their tears enough
For the reckless and the renegades who still believe in love
If this is what you call the house of God maybe it’s time that I checked out
I’ll take my thimbleful of faith with me and I’ll take my sack of doubts
And I’ll leave you with the bill to pay for all the guilt you laid on me
For tonight I’m going dancing with the forgiven and the free
Words & Music © Paul Field
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6. |
Walking In Your Shoes
04:37
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Walking in your shoes
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be walking in your shoes
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be homeless
I can’t imagine what it feels like to have nothing left to lose
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be walking in your shoes
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be running for your life
Can’t imagine what it feels like to be hopeless
Can’t imagine what it feels like alone and terrified
I can’t imagine what it feels like to be running for your life
Oh Oh Oh Walking in your shoes
Oh Oh Oh Walking in your shoes
I can’t imagine what it feels like to watch your family die
I can’t image what it feels like to be helpless
I’ve heard about you on the radio I’ve seen you on the news
But I still can’t imagine what it feels like
To be walking in your shoes
Can you imagine what it feels like to have no choice to choose
Can you imagine what it feels like to be powerless
Can you imagine what it feels like to be exploited and abused
Can you imagine what it feels like to be walking in my shoes
Oh Oh Oh Walking in your shoes
Oh Oh Oh Walking in your shoes
Words & Music © Paul Field
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7. |
One Word
04:10
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One word
One word is all it took
One word carelessly spoken
One word a guilty look
One word and my heart was broken
I’ll never understand the damage of just one lie
I never thought love could die from just one word
One word a slip of the tongue
One word and there’s no use pretending
One word and dreams are undone
One word and my whole world is ending
Who can I trust anymore How can I start again
I never thought love would end with just one word
One word a fatal mistake
One word and nothing else matters
One word is the difference it makes
One word and the promises shatter
How can i get over you I guess i never will
I never thought love could kill with just one word
Words & Music -© Paul Field/Ralph van Manen/Robert Riekerk/Tommy Riekerk
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8. |
Gorgeous Girl
04:44
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Gorgeous Girl
Never forget how beautiful you are my gorgeous girl
Don’t ever let anybody dim your star you light up the world
You shine on through my darkest nights you find hope where I find none
And when I give up you keep on believing that the best is yet to come
Gorgeous girl
We can be thunder and lightning we can be sunshine and rain
The power of our love can be frightening
We’ve tested it over and over and over again
Sometimes we push to the limit till it feels as if something must break
We go down to the wire, put our hearts in the fire
It’s amazing the pain love can take
Never forget how beautiful you are......
I know I’m not easy to live with some days I can’t live with myself
I’m amazed at how faithful your love is I’d never find anything like it with anyone else
I know sometimes it’s a struggle it’s a miracle how we survive
But you never let go and I want you to know
I’m the luckiest man alive
So never underestimate what you bring to this world
The love and light that you create is priceless my amazing gorgeous girl
Never forget how beautiful you are.......
Words & Music - Paul Field
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9. |
Strange Christmas
04:53
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Strange Christmas
It’s gonna be a strange Christmas this year
With unwelcome decorations of anxiety and fear
Tables laid with loneliness uncertainty and tears
It’s gonna be a strange Christmas this year
I want to see the faces behind the masks we have to wear
I want to shake some hands and see the smiles we need to share
To wish each other all the best for the year that is to come
But all those good intentions for now have come undone
Strange Christmas this year
It’s pretty hard to talk about the season of good cheer
Still we hold on to our dreams and we hope and persevere
It’s gonna be a strange Christmas this year
I want to see my family and tell them how I miss
The wonder of the human touch the magic of a kiss
I want to hold my grandchildren to read and sing them songs
This painful separation just feels completely wrong
Stumbling through the dark we long to dance into the light
This lockdown of our lives is like a chain that holds us tight
We need a star to follow we need to be released
This year more than ever we need the Prince of peace
Words & Music © Paul Field
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10. |
Where Will It End?
04:42
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Where will it end?
Where will it end where do we go from here?
How much will we lose as we journey through the years
Where will it end how much is progress worth?
We can’t make a better world If it’s costing us the earth
Beauty in ashes nature in chains
How long till the shadows are all that remain?
Where will it end how much can this world take
How far can we turn the screw before it’s heart must break?
Where will it end it’s a dangerous game to play
When everyone wants everything and no one wants to pay
Beauty in ashes Nature in chains
How long till the shadows are all that remain?
Where will it end where do we go from here?
How much will we lose as we journey through the years
Where will it end how much is progress worth?
We can’t make a better world If it’s costing us the earth
Beauty in ashes Nature in chains
How long till the shadows are all that remain?
Words & Music - © Paul Field
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11. |
Just Around The Bend
03:53
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Just Around The Bend
Been a long time travelling down this hard & rocky road
We’re all just trying to survive
Walking together and sharing the load
Doing all we can to stay alive
I believe the journeys nearly over I believe these troubled times will end
I believe we’ll find a better place just around the bend
We may be weary and sometimes we just don’t know
How we can keep on keeping on
Take one day at a time and trust that history will show
When we’re united we are strong
I believe.......
So take care of each other for we all need the hope that heals the love that mends
Even when the darkness is as far as we can see
The sun will shine again somewhere just around the bend
I believe.......
Words & Music © Paul Field & Jonathan Veira
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12. |
Lucky Man
03:35
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Lucky man
If only I’d known long ago all the things that I know now
How different I’d have been
Looking back on all that time i wish I could erase somehow
Those regrets and might have beens
Lucky man that you forgive me
Lucky man to get a second chance
It’s been a long time in the learning and a hard road we’ve been down
Lucky man to find your love second time around
Running round in circles chasing every dream that came my way
So blind I couldn’t see
The love that I was looking for was staring at me night and day
Right there in front of me
Lucky man that you still want me
Lucky man to get second chance
It’s been a long time in the learning and a hard road we’ve been down
Im a lucky man to find your love second time around
Words & Music © Paul Field & John Peppard
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