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Where The Light Comes In
04:54
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24 of the hours in days
Fit their nights like a glove
Your unrequited meets requited love
All of your losses
Leave you full to the brim
That’s where the light comes in
The still of the night
Lies calm in the palm of your hand
A truth that you took too hard
You will understand
Love that you gave in vain
Comes back round again
That’s where the light remains
And you ask me for a catchy chorus
Knowing I’m more a sweet refrain
Who am I to give you something to live for?
But here’s a thought for if you ever lose your way
Every grain on the shore
Is worn by thousands of waves
Each drop in an ocean falls
And it rises again
Sun in a shard of glass
Will refract through the pane
That’s all the light contains
And you ask me for a catchy chorus
Knowing I’m more a sweet refrain
Who am I to give you something to live for?
But here’s a thought for if you ever lose your way
24 of the hours in days
Fit their nights like a glove
Your unrequited meets requited love
All of your losses
Leave you full to the brim
That’s where the light comes in
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Driving At Night
02:23
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This reminds me
Of driving at night
With you
When the homes and street lights
Looked like stars in the night sky
And you were a dark knight
A partner in crime
Your crime
All you left behind
In running for your life
These were the first lights
In a long line
Your eyes
Wide like mine
And your heart
Worn tight
Cold and bright
For all that it might
Just set alight
Lighting a fire
Setting it right
Burning the bonds and binds
Claiming the light
Having the right
Live however you like
Go driving at night
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3. |
You Know Me Better
02:25
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You know me better than that
I’m the one that called
I wouldn’t let it fall
And I’ve seen it all
I wouldn’t let it fail, babe
That isn’t me at all
You know me better than that
I’m the one that tries
Who will apologise
And see through all the lies
That they sow
I’m the one who knows
I didn’t save you
I just let you save yourself
And you didn’t save me
You Just love me more than anybody else
You know better than that
I’m the one that will
Who’d never mean you ill
And I’ll be loving still
All I can
That is who I am
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4. |
Workhorse
03:10
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I think it was a Tuesday
It was dark
There was something that I needed
But I couldn’t ask
Cos I don’t know how to love me
The way that I should
But lately I’ve been learning
I don’t have to be good
I don’t have to earn
I can be
I’m not your workhorse
Or your busy bee
And I won’t be your cash cow
Now I will be the one
If I’m making money
Then I want some
I think it was the lying
And how it felt
I tired of the standards
Applied to nobody else
I am going to love me
The way that you should
Lately I’ve been learning
That I could
I don't have to earn it
I can be
I don't have to give you things
You don't give me
I don't have to carry everyone
If I'm going to give love
Then I want some
I think it was a Tuesday
It was dark
If there's something that I need now
I will ask
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5. |
I Promised You Light
01:53
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If this were the last time
I leave you with a song
Then this is the one
I’d want you to hum
Forget all the melancholy things I said
Forget the way I pencil pain
All sad and beautifully sung
If that’s all done
I promised you light
I promised you love
And I’m going to keep that promise
Just this once
It will be fine
It will all be alright
And wherever you are
I love you
Goodnight
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Josienne Clarke Scotland, UK
Songwriter/Singer 'Onliness (songs of solitude & singularity)'
Out 14.4.23 on Corduroy Punk Records
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