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Bowery Beat
03:10
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Bowery Beat
The money burns, the people fled
The building’s dark, the pillows red
The fever hangs, hands on fire
The mind is gone into the night
Sorrow sails onto the ledge
Halos fall down to the neck
The tables turn, nail the doors
Lock the windows, embrace the floors
Fall asleep to tales of woe; the silver sun is shining low
Yet still they haunt and still they reel
To little songs on a bowery beat
The bag is full of rocks and wheat
Still they stare to distant fields
The tears ran red, the fire went blue
The bodies fell, the bird it flew
Tomorrow we'll be far away
Drag our dreams into another day
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Rolling in the Tide
03:43
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Rolling in the Tide
Roll over when it's over
Settle gently in my head
My hands are wide and open
My body is a mess
Ring a bell for sorrow
I'll be sitting in your cell
I believed when I was younger
I could believe in anything
So crucify your glories
For blue is the river on your side
Tonight there will be no more answers still
Just a moon rolling in the tide
Made it through another winter
I made it through the spring
But autumn’s nearly over
I swear I never missed a thing
I often stumble
Often stop to take a breath
My heart was never stronger
Like the way it was back then
So crucify your glories
For that blue is just the river on your side
Tonight there will be no more answers still
Just a moon rolling in the tide
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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3. |
Red River
04:14
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Red River
I pay for money then I take my rest
Not gonna hurry gonna help myself
For this my brother you should pray
No smell of roses on my breath
Not gonna hold it or I'd be dead
For this my brother I should pray
Send them back on their horses going
This is where the red river's flowing
Sidewalk sally got a nervous twitch
She’d beg for loving but she hurt her wrist
For this my brother you should sway
A quick drink it won't make me sad
Another whisky gonna turn me bad
And for this my brother I shall sway
We’ll send them back on their horses knowing
That this is where the red rivers flowing
Ole number seven it hit me for six
I love to gamble but the two don't mix
For this my brother you will play
Been taking medicine for my head
I wrap them up and then I put them to bed
And for this my brother I complain
We’ll send them back on their horses going
This is where the red river’s flowing
We pay for money we take our rest
Not gonna hurry gonna help ourselves
For this my brothers you should pray
No smell of roses on my breath
Not gonna hold it or I'd be dead
For this my brother I should pay
We’ll send you back on your horses knowing
This is where the red rivers flowing
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Careless Words
03:37
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Careless Words
How long, crossing sands
Have we been walking on our hands?
Hold a mirror to a face
Hold a mirror to her face
Always feels, that I'm running back
Just been here far too long is all
I just need to let it go
I just need to let it go
All the small, imperfect stars
Come showering above me now
I don't ever want to leave
I don't ever want to leave your arms
The careless words that you speak
Come ringing in my ears today
You just never made it clear
I don't ever make it clear
So challenge this, all your thoughts and trends
Come to unfashionable ends
I just had to let you know
I just had to let you know
Put a smile, upon your face
And you never fail to shine
I just couldn't love you more
How could I ever love you more than I do right now
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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5. |
Fire on the Edge of Town
03:53
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Fire on the Edge of Town
Wiry faces endorse the truth
Lines and races are falling through
Backdoor hustles as we’re waiting on the starting call
Paulie closes another book
I said that movie we'll it ain’t so good
My mind stutters as my mouth it begins to move
I said I ain’t been so happy but I ain’t feeling so blue
Change the record or clear the air
Floorboards whistle to the noise downstairs
Headlights flashing but I ain’t got no room too move
Push the baby or raise the fair
I don't say maybe and I don't say where
Ain’t holding nothing we'll you ain’t got so much too lose
I said I ain’t been so happy but I ain’t feeling so blue
It’s like when you arms are holding mine
Like a breath from that morning dew
It’s like a fire that starts on the edge of the town
And the winds come ‘a bellowing through
Call your sister said where've you been
I've been out walking those roads again
Ain’t thought of nothing well I still don't even have a clue
She said I ain’t been so happy but I aint feeling so blue
I said I aint been so happy but I ain’t feeling so blue
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Lila
03:14
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Lila
Lila dear your father’s here
To hold you in his arms
Don’t you cry now close your eyes
And I’ll be by your side
You’re priceless when you shine your light
For all the joy you bring
Don’t you fear your mother dear
Will soon be where you are
Lila let your perfect hand
Grab a hold of mine
The sweetest smile and the laughter now
Will occupy my time
Child of rest you are crawling fast
You will soon be on your feet
You’ll be on your throne just like a queen
And I'll bow down to your crown
Now you bare all our hopes and fears
In this ever changing land
Words will form and the pages turn
For now there is no other
So Lila dear your father’s here
To hold you in his arms
Don’t you fear your mother dear
Will soon be where you are
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Annabelle
04:12
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Annabelle
Sally kind enough to hold my hand
When everyone else would let go
I'd be nothing without you now
Ain’t nothing that I'm too proud to show?
Ride with the fallen and then rising up from the dead
Those cold winter mornings hear that voice
Calling me back to my bed
But oh Annabelle
Who’ll save you tonight?
Oh Annabelle
Make a stand or just suffer where you land
There’s nothing that I'd rather regret
If I was back to where this all began
You know I'd probably just do things the same
Walking on water left me sore and so soft to my head
I bleed in silence just the way that I've always been
But oh Annabelle
Who’ll save you tonight?
Oh Annabelle
Can you please remind me why I am here?
Or could you just hold me a while
Maybe take off some of those heavy winter clothes
And put them right next to mine
Sweet little angel you got such a beautiful heart
I've tried to ignore this I know you've been sleeping
But I find sleeping so hard
But oh Annabelle
I'll save you tonight
Oh Annabelle
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Fuel the Fire
04:42
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Fuel the Fire
Down on bourbon street
The house lights beat upon your coloured beads
I will walk you home and I'll appear outside your window
This is all I have in these moments when I don't feel so sad
But these thoughts will only fuel the fire
Come back don't you start
Piling the misery upon my door
For I will lay you out and I force my head above the clouds
Now you would stay with him
and the pain well it shot right through my skin
But these lies will only fuel the fire
I've been half a man
Woman I'm barely even that
I was taking down my walls at the time it seemed like such a little chore
Now I'll be on your side just let me lay with you until the morning light
But these nights will only fuel the fire
Oh I start to keel
I miss the lights above your bed
The starfish at your feet
And I failed to make your life complete
Now I break down to this
And I face I know that I will never win
But these fears will only fuel the fire
Only dreams survive
I move on oh none the otherwise
Passed above the blame
Oh can you love me just the same
For this will be my fight
But I fear I may not last another round
But these thoughts will only fuel the fire
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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9. |
Beyond Below
04:55
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Beyond Below
Precious little hands on the dialling wheel
I'm a calling home, I wont be long
White car screaming right before my eyes
Oh my oh my, what a beautiful sound
Tomorrow go easy don't break my heart
When the light first hits we'll be miles apart
Children take the stage but the flash don't work
She’s a pirate kid not a little girl
Shout from the back 'our baby's dead'
I'd be taking my fill but there ain’t none left
Tomorrow go easy don't break my bones
When the light first hits you'll feel right at home
Too late to save but I tried my best
Oh I put you to the test, to see if you drown
Graveside flowers turn to dust
But you can't let it go, you gotta stay in control
Mother I tried not to hate myself
When the light first hit there was no-one else
Came down to see you but your sign was out
Read 'where've you been, my little rock 'n roll king'
Something oh lately weighing down my mind
Oh I try to think and let the words unwind
Sorrow go easy don't bare my soul
When the light first hits we'll be beyond below
Couldn’t get to own me so you changed yourself
I'm too good I guess, for someone else
You wipe his shoulders and you clean his shoes
Now you’re living the dream of the housewife blues
Tomorrow go easy don't break my heart
When the light first hits we'll be miles apart
Sorrow go easy don't bare my soul
When the light first hits we'll be beyond below
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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10. |
Starting Line
04:06
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Starting Line
I'm hearing voices, I'm reading signs
I'm counting the colours, they’re counting mine
I'm feeling that blue rush; I'm seeing a new start
I'm making my way across the starting line
I'm hearing my conscience and I'm playing deaf
I've been feeling those bones creek
Now that I've been burning lead
I'm hitting that new high, I'm stealing that old rope
I'm making my way across the starting line
Go find me a river
Go find me a path to walk
And lead me with your guided hand
That will take me from this foreign land
I’m ignoring people, I'm getting free
I've been working here too long
And it's been testing me
But I'm leaving that bad love
I'm getting me that new job
And I'm making my way across
The starting line
Go and find me a little river
Go and find me a path to walk
And lead me with that guided hand
That will take me from this foreign land
Now I've been moving mountains and I'm paying rent
I've been sleeping on emotions and I've been reaping the hell
I must be losing my mind
But I'm keeping all these good times
As I'm making my way across the starting line
Oh I'm making my way across the starting line
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Forlorn
03:29
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Forlorn
True love waits in the back of the shadows
Taunting the ones with no arrows
Pointing the way to go home
Deadlocked failures an optional insult
A collection of broken reminders
Pulling your eyes to the floor
Horses race to the beat
Chances come bitterly sweet
Forlorn
Bad luck, truth hurts but lies do not suffer
A beautiful ghost will haunt me
But someday you got to let go
Dry mouth, cotton breath reaching for old sounds
I drank too much now I must lie down
And rest in my heart for a while
Horses race to the beat
Chances come bitterly sweet
Forlorn
Old hands wrestle the thoughts from the new lands
Wars that they fought to remind them
Who was to blame from the start
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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12. |
Lowlands
06:02
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Lowlands
My love went walking showered in rain
In rolls the winter to take you away
But I'm not moving for it’s here I will stand
Bound for no glory in the lowlands
Across from the holding down by the sea
Stretch my eyes over the heather and peat
Now I'm a whisper with a promise in hand
Fed to the aether into the lowlands
Headlights sparkle the valley it shone
Sky sharp like a razor cutting into the sun
My father told me pride won't make you a man
But words fall uneven in the lowlands
Brittle and broken surrounded by you
I suffered in silence I howled at the moon
Though we are parted with my love I send
Down through the meadows into the lowlands
Plain yellow roses they fall on my head
I slide in slowly consumed by the flames
But I'm going walking where the lights never end
Over the mountains into the lowlands
Time passes over the green turns to grey
Red hands they shiver black hearts stray
Come up from the borders, oh rise up from the strand
Bury me under the lowlands
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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13. |
Lila (Rose Reprise)
04:30
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Before We Start to Forget
Headlights glow
Bodies of wire and snow
Cracked windows cheap alcohol
As the old sparra sings
Glasgow smiles
Be endless sleep tonight
I hold you between the lines
As you suffer each breath
Home lies there
Desperate eyes hold abandoned stares
Feelings will infiltrate
My love on the wire
Justice starts and ends with a heavy heart
Fear lies in all that hurts
Now even the brave
Come on lets go
Let’s escape these walls
Before we start to forget
All lyrics written by Grant Campbell. All Rights Reserved.
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Grant Campbell Glasgow, UK
Grant Campbell is a Scottish singer-songwriter living in Glasgow.
New album 'I Was
Taught How to Win but I Learned How to Lose’ will be released as a digital download on 1st May 2020.
info@crookedmouthrecords.com
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