Onward Still

Do catch your breath now please
or you will run out of air
Do keep those eyes that see
the things that one day could be there

Oh you are going
Down the stream but up the hill
To wherever I don’t know
Oh you are going

Where all dreams go, where all dreams go

Do keep your picture books
in your glass door cabinet
But do not hold on to
memories that still the air

Oh you are going
Down the stream but up the hill
To wherever I don’t know
Oh you are going

Where all dreams go, where all dreams go
Where all dreams go, onward still

The future had no shape
before you made it take its form
So mould it in your hands
work it till your bones are worn

Oh you are going
Down the stream but up the hill
To wherever I don’t know
Oh you are going

Where all dreams go, where all dreams go
Where all dreams go, onward still

Do catch your breath now please
or you will run out of air

On My Mind

I saw you standing there
In a memory
With your tired eyes
Looking straight at me

When will I realize
What's gone is gone
What's all this longing for
When it don't belong, it don't belong

And I'm blinded like a fool who's turned to loving
Though I can see you never turned to me
But there's no point in telling you about it
You've know all along oh baby can't you see

'Cause you could lay me down here if you want to
And you could keep my by your side
And you could send a broken smile as you're leaving
And leave an imprint on my mind
My mind, my mind, my mind

And my friends they tell
You broke up with your girl
And took to chasing dreams
Traveling the world

I don't really know how I should hold you
When it feels like you're a ghost just passing through
And I don't see how loving is a verb dear
When loving never was a thing that I could do

'Cause you could lay me down here if you want to
And you could keep my by your side
And you could send a broken smile as you're leaving
And leave an imprint on my mind

I see I've got nothing left to bring you
With empty hands I stand in front of you
I wish I could find the strength within me
To show no empty hands can hold you like mine do

'Cause you could lay me down here if you want to
And you could keep my by your side
And you could send a broken smile as you're leaving
And leave an imprint on my mind
My mind, my mind, my mind

Nobody Knows

I saw the sun its light shone on me
Down by the riverside 

Held in my hands nothing but water drops
But somehow satisfied 


I used to keep a box of broken dreams
To show to those who asked
Showing the cracks when most of me was whole
Plain living in the past

But there’s strength in every weakened part of me

Nobody knows, how we live to learn then learn to live
Nobody knows, how we keep, we take, hold on
Then learn to give
I guess nobody knows

I tried to grow a green and blooming field
For neighbours there to see 

I only cared for vain and surface things
Not for the earth beneath

But there’s truth to every lie that spoke in me

Nobody knows, how we live to learn then learn to live
Nobody knows, how we keep, we take, hold on,
Then learn to give
I guess nobody knows

Ahh..

Nobody knows, how we live to learn then learn to live
Nobody knows, how we keep, we take, hold on
Then learn to give 

Nobody knows, the measure of a man when he has fallen

Or when he's lifted off the ground

I guess nobody knows

Hannah

Hannah oh sweet Hannah don’t you know 

Your smile gives the world its brightest colour 

Hannah oh sweet Hannah won’t you show 

And shine your little light so we can see 



That there’s still open palms that give 

handing us small and precious gifts 

Helping us thread the world so lightly 

with the little things we need

Oh Hannah



Hannah oh sweet Hannah don’t you know 

Your smile gives the world its brightest colour 

Hannah oh sweet Hannah won’t you show 

And shine your little light so we can see


That little ones will outgrow their skin 

But hold on to their sweet souls within 

Playing your games until the evening

No matter if you lose or win 



Hannah please sing it loud and clear 

So even the broken ones can hear 

Let it translate in every language 

Giving love so fearlessly

Oh what have we done to have you here?



Oh Hannah, nanana..


If I Did Love You

If I did love you, love you my dear

If I did want you right here

Would you come to perform on that stage 

Would you try to move me in some way
Won’t you please?

Oeh..


If I did love you, love you my dear

Would you run from, break free right here

I feel heavy when you are not around

Your hands could lift me right up of the ground

Sing to me like I’m singing to you now

Won’t you please?

Oeh..


You’ve tried, but it ain’t good enough

Reciprocate me your strength and all your love
Won’t you try to move me in some way?

Won’t you try to love me in some way?


If I did love you, if I did love you, if I did love you
Maybe I do

If I did love you, if I did love you, if I did love you 

Ahh..



I love you

Comfort

Comfort 

I was meant to give your mind some 

Comfort

All through the night



Comfort

I tried to keep good faith in you that 

Comfort

Would help you through the night



But I ain’t got that much to give no more

I’ve grown empty in the promises I’ve been keeping to myself

I’ve tried twice as hard for you but still
I know nothing ever will give you comfort



Comfort

My body’s meant to give your hands some

Comfort

All through the night


Comfort 

Longing often makes us feel some

Comfort

Won’t you warm your skin on me



But I ain’t got that much to lose no more

The innocence is gone you can’t just keep me to yourself 

You’ve loved twice as much I know but still
I know nothing ever will give you comfort

Oeh…


Comfort

This song, this chord, this music gives me

Comfort

All through the night


I only have this song for you to sing

That takes me back to when 
I let this music take me in

So I can sing it to you if you’d like

It’s the only way that I can give you comfort



Comfort 

I hope this melody will give you 

Comfort
All through the night

All through the night

Oh all through the night

Rise Above It All

I want to rise above the crowd
I want to rise above the scene
I want to rise above this now
This foolish ignorance of dreams
I don’t want to know who I will be
Or if I ever should become
I want to rise above the scene
I want to rise above it all

I don’t want to somebody’s hand
Like it’s a rock firm in the stream
I don’t want tell you that I’ve loved
Until I know what it all means
I need to know what I’m to lose
Before I ever try to hold
I want to rise above your love
I want to rise above it all

But I’ve got dreams so meant for breaking
And no one feels inclined to break my fall
Oh I’ve got kindness for the taking
They took it all
There’s a world dancing before me
But I’ve so little time to hear its call
I want to rise above this feeling
I want to rise above it all

I want to hear Nick, Leonard, Christie
I want to know the things they’ve seen
If the world was like their songs
I could decipher what it means
I want to know just how the time goes
With no bad thoughts caught in between
I want to rise above this world
I want to rise above it all
I want to rise above this world
I want to rise above it all, oh no
I want to rise above this world
I want to rise above and rise above and rise above it all

‘BURN SO BRIGHT’ ALBUM

1. THIS FREE LIFE

Ignore us free ones
Defy all our truth
Leave all our dreams to the side

Stuck in a rental trap
Wasting half my wage
I try getting on but there’s no end in sight

[Chorus]
This free life, this free life
This free life, this free life
This free life, this free life
This free life

Hold onto your ideas
Hold onto greed
Rent it out though we’ve nothing to spare

See what your big machine
Churns out on the street
Just 10 000 people barely there

[Chorus]
Oh this free life, this free life
This free life, this free life
What free life, what free life?
Oh this free life

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
This free life, this free life
This free life, this free life
What free life, what free life?
This free life, this free life

Oh this free life, this free life
Oh this free life, this free life
Oh this free life, this free life
Ah…

3. Let There Be Light

Let there be light
Let there be days
Let there be hope
That helps you thread your way

Through the crowds
You’ll find a face
Someone that reaches you
In some kind way

[Chorus]
In the commotion it’s getting hard to know
What really matters and what’s worth letting go
What’s your intent, and do you intend to know?
No, let there be light, light for the day

I know you’ll become
I know you’ll remain
I know you’ve wandered
But you’ll find again

No need to be strong
No need to push on
Just follow what guides you along

[Chorus]
In the commotion it’s getting hard to know
What really matters and what’s worth letting go
And I miss the mornings when you said ‘I love you so’
No, let there be light, light for the day
No, let there be light, light for the day

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
With all this longing I’m finding it so hard to know
What really matters and what’s worth letting go
But I have this music and I want the world to know
Let there be light, light for the day

No, let there be light, light for the day
No, just let there be light, light for the day

3. HANDS ON MY HIPS

This river runs on
And this world turns the sky
Now this all came to be
But I don’t care to know just how or why

The distance we cross
The width of our dreams
This passion that guides
Don’t mean anything to me

So turn the world in your hands, let it burn or let it fly
Doesn’t matter to me, if it lives or if it dies
But put your hands on my hips, hold my body, trace my mind
Take your hands of this world, and just put them back on mine

Put ‘em back on mine
Put ‘em back on mine

This justice that speaks
But never comes to be
Some heated exchange
Oh this hopeless world amuses me

So try if you must
See if I’ve will left to fight
Offer one sided claims
Your account of what is wrong and right

And turn the world in your hands, let it burn or let it fly
Doesn’t matter to me, if it lives or if it dies
But put your hands on my hips, hold my body, trace my mind
Take your hands of this world, and just put them back on mine

Put ‘em back on mine
Put ‘em back on mine

This river runs on
This river runs on
This river runs on 
This river runs on 
Oh this river runs on…

4. Unfailingly

Leave your boat here at the shore
Throw your anchor down to me
As the moon changes the tide
It is you that changes me

As the sand slips through your hands
Let your dreams slip into mine
Now we lie here on the coast
Far from the city, unmoved by time

[Chorus]
‘Cause you are my love, my love
‘Cause you are my love, my love
Unfailingly

We can build our paradise
Out of bricks and old debris
We’ll create a world ourselves
All we need is to believe

But if ever I should fade
Or if ever you should leave
Then take solace in the fact;
You can come with me and I can come with you

[Chorus]
And you are my love, my love
And you are my love, my love

[Chorus]
And you are my love, you are my love
And you are my love, you are my love
Unfailingly

5. Linger Here

Linger here with me my lover
I long to touch your mind and your skin
Some light in you, it strikes me so gently
I long for you to let me in

Linger here with me new lover
My thoughts have been running so wild
Let’s see how night shifts into morning
The changing colours of the sky

[Chorus]
Oh, it doesn’t mean that we are changing
We only brought new colours to the night

Linger here and think of this body
Your eyes, my hands and our two minds
We’ll sink so deep in needing and wanting
It’s a simple thing called desire

[Chorus]
Oh, it doesn’t mean that we are changing
We only brought new colours to the night
Oh, it doesn’t mean that this is love now
It’s a simple thing called desire

So linger here with me my lover
I long for you to let me in
I long for you to let me in
I long for you, oh, to let me in

6. THE FOOL

I’ve taken what’s left of this warm eve
But it all somehow still brings me down
With memories of days under the same sun
When you still came around

I gave more I thought I’d care to give
But somehow I’ve been left with nothing to keep
I don’t think the letter sent as you left for good
Did anything for me

‘Cause if it means that much to me
How come it doesn't mean that much to you
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
That keeps running round for more

You spend most your days inside your world
Boy, when do you take time just to think of me
And you’re stretched on my bed as the night
Tries to  take me in, but I just have to leave things be

Oh now don’t tell me I never knew about pleasure
How can I give you this pleasure when it’s causing me pain
I cannot satisfy a need when it’s not what I desire
Since when did you become so very vain

‘Cause if it means that much to me
How come it doesn’t mean that much to you
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
That keeps knocking on your door
And if I give so lovingly
How come you often take so carelessly
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
That keeps running round for more

For more… For more… Not anymore

‘Cause if it means that much to me
How come it doesn’t mean that much to you
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
I’m done knocking on your door
And if I give so lovingly
How come you often take so carelessly
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
I won’t be running round for more
Oh honey I’m the fool, the fool, the fool
I won’t be running round for more

Not anymore, not anymore

7. Up Here

Lift me up here, up here
Lift me up here for a while
I know the moment, the laughter
So vivid in my mind

[Chorus]
I have to feel it clearly, like your skin
Like your words that broke the blue I hid within
I have to feel it clearly, don’t pass me by
I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright
I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright

Oeh…

Lift me up here, up here
Lift me up here for a while
I want to see things, moving
Through this purple sky

[Chorus]
I have to feel it clearly, like this night
I know that darkness formed a certain kind of light
I have to feel it clearly, these bygone times
I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright
I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright

[Outro]
Ah…
Oh lift me up here, oh lift me up here
Oh lift me up here for a while
Oh lift me up here, oh lift me up here
Oh…

8. In Your House There (ft. Pat Byrne)

Sing to me my love
From your dark room
In your house there
By the sea

I’ll still hear your song
In this city
Where the cars trail
Along the streets

[Chorus]
And you can make this town
Look so kind now
Look so simple
Look so sweet

Sing to me my love
From your dark room
In your house there
By the sea

I feel so estranged
From these people
And their talking
On the street

I’ve become a fool
To my old love
To my family
And to me

[Chorus]
You can make this world
Look so kind now
Look so gentle
Look so sweet

Sing to me my love
From your dark room
In your house there
By the sea

[Instrumental]
Oeh…

Lay me in your bed
Close the curtains
We know there’s nothing
There to see

All I want to hear
Is your breathing
And that birdsong
By the sea

[Chorus]
You can make a girl/boy
Look so kind now
Look so gentle
Look so sweet

Sing to me my love
From your dark room
In your house there
By the sea

In your house there
By the sea
Oh, in your house there
By the sea

9. Give It Time

I know too little
And want too much
And when it’s given
It’s not enough 

But maybe I have changed
And you can meet me here
Tumbling through old times
Before the sun appeared
Cause all you’ve got to do is 

Give it time
Slowly things will realign
There is no telling how or when
But you will be alright
You will be alright 

So come on over
Don’t linger on
I’ll find means to
Help you move on 

I’ve been there before
The black of fear
When all was obsolete
Before the sun appeared
Before the sun appeared 

So give it time
Slowly things will realign
There is no telling how or when
But you will be alright 

So give it time
Slowly things will realign
There is no telling how or when
But you will be alright
You will be alright
You will be alright

10. Burn So Bright

I know I have lost
I’ve felt this once before
I need to set my ship
Out for another shore

Something I did gain
On that night we kissed
I hold my love at bay
Oh I must run from this

[Chorus]
But you burn so bright
Burn so bright in me
You burn so bright
Burn so bright, can’t you see?
What you mean to me

Your scent caught in my breeze
Your clouds before my eyes
Your hands they seeks my skin
I try to walk on by

This foolish innocence
We cannot be a lie
You don’t love like you should
It pains me to say goodbye

[Chorus]
‘Cause you burn so bright
Burn so bright in me
You burn so bright
Burn so bright, can’t you see?

[Chorus]
‘Cause you burn so bright
Burn so bright in me
And you burn so bright
Burn so bright, can’t you see?
What you mean to me

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