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Richard Ashcroft: Alone With Everybody

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Richard Ashcroft
Title: Alone With Everybody
Released: 1998
Label: Virgin Records Ltd.
Time: 59:43
Producer(s): Chris Potter, Richard Ashcroft
Appears with: The Verve
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2002.09.24
Price in €: 17,00
Web address: www.richardashcroft.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] A Song for the Lovers (R.Ashcroft) - 5:26
[2] I Get My Beat (R.Ashcroft) - 6:02
[3] Brave New World (R.Ashcroft) - 5:59
[4] New York (R.Ashcroft) - 5:30
[5] You on My Mind in My Sleep (R.Ashcroft) - 5:06
[6] Crazy World (R.Ashcroft) - 4:57
[7] On a Beach (R.Ashcroft) - 5:09
[8] Money to Burn (R.Ashcroft) - 6:15
[9] Slow Was My Heart (R.Ashcroft) - 3:44
[10] C'mon People [We're Making It Now] (R.Ashcroft) - 5:03
[11] Everybody (R.Ashcroft) - 6:32 7

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


RICHARD ASHCROFT - Organ, Guitar, Percussion, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals, Melodica, Mellotron, Art Direction, Design

CHRISTOPHER MARC POTTER - Bass, Mixing
DUNCAN MACKAY - Trumpet
JOHN BARCLAY - Trumpet
STUART BROOKS - Trumpet
B.J. COLE - Pedal Steel
NIGEL HITCHCOCK - Saxophone
JUDD LANDER - Harmonica
CHUCK LEAVELL - Piano, Hammond B3 Organ
TEENA LYLE - Vibraphone
PINO PALLADINO - Bass
PETER SALISBURY - Drums
STEVE SIDELNYK - Percussion, Programming
JAMIE TALBOT - Baritone Saxophone
PHILIP TODD - Saxophone
KATE RADLEY - Keyboards
JIM HUNT - Flute, Saxophone
ANNA NOAKES - Flute
CRAIG WAGSTAFF - Conga

THE LONDON SESSION ORCHESTRA - Strings
WILL MALONE - Arranger, Conductor
DONOVAN LAWRENCE - Choir, Chorus
VERNETTA MEADE - Choir, Chorus
SAMANTHA SMITH - Choir, Chorus

TONY COUSINS - Mastering
LORRAINE FRANCIS - Assistant Engineer
KEVIN WESTENBERG - Photography, Sleeve Art

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1998 CD Virgin 49494
2000 CD Virgin 49494
2000 CS Virgin 49494



He experienced what could have been a traumatic blow to his inventiveness and creativity as a musician but ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft is fresh. He has moved on from the effervescent prettiness of his former band to make music for himself — something the Verve might have done somewhere in time, but it wouldn't have been so honest or stripped as this solo jaunt, Alone With Everybody. Another look into the shoegazing mind of this singer/songwriter, this record is not a comeback.

Ashcroft is optimistic, hauntingly spellbound on the album opener "A Song for the Lovers." It is a signature love song, flowing with its illustrious string arrangements and simple brushing percussion. His drawl is naturally smooth and one cannot help but to be pulled into the seductiveness behind his words. "Brave New World" and "You on My Mind in My Sleep" are also songs that can carry emotion to another level, weighing in on something surreal. He also gets poppy with a sarcastic twist on the trippy groove "New York," and the twangy sounds of "Money to Burn" clap alongside folk-rock guitar riffs. Richard Ashcroft is still tastefully infectious.

He still believes that music has a soul — with or without his former band. He is certainly a rock star and a believer in love, death, musical spirituality, and individuality. That is what made the Verve a great rock band in the first place, but Ashcroft's superior drive to do something real only makes him and his music more endearing. He is looking ahead, not wishing for past adventures. He celebrates life, pure and simple.

MacKenzie Wilson - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



The bad news: Alone with Everybody, the first solo venture by the Verve's ex-lead singer Richard Ashcroft, is not as good as the Verve's pinnacle departure album, Urban Hymns. The good news: it's really, really close. Urban Hymns's elongated, psychedelic space jams and reflective, occasionally plaintive themes seeped osmotically into the listener's every cell, becoming gloriously inescapable. The melodies on Alone with Everybody remain within the parameters of the Verve's last album, carrying over the massive swells of orchestral strings; mellowed, trippy, blues-influenced guitar licks; and Chris Potter's dense production. Initially, the impact is slightly diminished because Verve fans will find it very familiar. But Alone is less cathartic and more resolute because Ashcroft has found real love. As you'd expect from such an adept and introspective songsmith, Ashcroft's love songs are not schmaltzy. This isn't the kind of love that can be expressed through the ear-splitting wail of a pop diva or the jangly chorus of a college-rock quartet. Songs like "You on My Mind in My Sleep," "Crazy World," and the heart-wrenching "On a Beach," reveal a love that is consuming, complex, fragile, and obtained at the conclusion of an exhausting, painful war with the self. The album sprawls in expansive contentment--a contradiction in terms understood perfectly by anyone who's ever loved so deeply, humbly, and unexpectedly that they've needed nothing else.

Beth Massa - Amazon.com



Wie bei so vielen vor ihm ereilt dem Ex-Frontman von Verve das gleiche Schicksal: Richard Ashcroft wird zum Opfer seines eigenen Erfolgs. Das letzte Album von Verve, das allgemein gelobte Urban Hymns hat mit seinen Down-Tempo-Klängen und seinen nachdenklichen Texten ein für allemal seinen Stellenwert gefunden, und es hat die Herzen der Nation erobert.

Es ist daher schon ein besonderer Kraftakt, hier einen draufzusetzen, selbst für denjenigen, der als kreative Kraft hinter dem Erfolg von Verve stand. Und Richard Ashcrofts Solo Debüt Alone With Everybody entzieht sich jedem Vergleich. Die nachdenklichen Balladen im Country-Stil "Brave New World" und "I Get My Beat" -- einfache Liedbegleitung auf der Gitarre, melancholische Musik der Streichinstrumente und Texte, die sich wie ein Selbstgespräch anhören -- bestätigen Ashcrofts Fähigkeit, eine eingängige Melodie zu schreiben. Singles wie "A Song For The Lovers" und "Money To Burn" an seinen Maßstäben gemessen ganz klar ein Up-Beat -- sind zwar vielleicht nicht so bewegend oder treffen nicht den gleichen Verve-Nerv wie "The Drugs Don't Work", "Lucky Man" oder "Bitter Sweet Symphony" aus Urban Hymns, aber sie gehen immer noch unter die Haut. Und die düstere Atmosphäre und ruppige Aussagekraft "New York" können einen beruhigen, dass er immer noch mehr kann als nur sentimentale akustische Melodien zu produzieren.

Der Band The Verve wäre eine Fortsetzung zu Urban Hymns nicht mehr gelungen. Daher ist es nur klug gewesen, dass ihr führender Kopf ebenfalls nicht versucht, in diese Fußstapfen zu treten.

Dan Gennoe - Amazon.de



Britpop – the next generation. Die Bandidentifikationsfiguren von gestern sind die Solokünstler von heute. Wie sehr Richard Ashcroft dabei mit seiner Person für die Band The Verve stand, das wird jetzt richtig deutlich - bisher konnte man ja nur Vermutungen anstellen. Ashcrofts erste Soloplatte ist im Grunde eine Fortsetzung dessen, was er mit The Verve begonnen hat. Keine neue Richtung. Ganz offensichtlich hatte der Herr seine musikalische Heimat schon gefunden, als er die Band gründete: Vorher stand The Verve drauf, es war aber auch schon damals eigentlich Ashcroft drin. Und so gibt’s weiterhin 60s-orientierte elegische Rockmusik. Obwohl, der Rock wurde etwas weniger, das Pathos auch. Eine Entwicklung, für die man dankbar sein darf - und die es auch Quereinsteigern leichter machen dürfte, sich mit Ashcrofts Musik zu beschäftigen. Dieser scheint den Schwerpunkt inzwischen auch eher auf seine Kompositionen legen zu wollen. Die Zeiten, wo Stücke von nur einer einzigen Grundidee getragen wurden (z. B. “Bitter Sweet Symphony”), sind endgültig vorbei. Strophen, Refrains, Brücken: die Arbeit, die in den Songs steckt, kann man hören - und sich im Endeffekt auch hören lassen. Keine Offenbarung, aber eine schöne Platte - eine schöne Platte ist das hier allemal.

Michael Krumbein - Intro - Musik & so



Like so many before him, the Verve's ex-frontman Richard Ashcroft is destined to be the victim of his own success. That the Verve's final album, the universally applauded Urban Hymns, with its down-tempo laments and thoughtful lyrics captured a space in time and was taken to a nation's hearts, makes it a tough act to follow, even for the man who was the creative force behind the Verve. And Richard Ashcroft's solo debut Alone With Everybody doesn't really compare at all. The thoughtful country-tinged ballads "Brave New World" and "I Get My Beat"--strummed acoustics, melancholic strings and lyrics that run like a conversation with himself--confirm Ashcroft's ability to pen a captivating melody. Meanwhile, singles "A Song For The Lovers" and "Money To Burn"--positively up-beat by his standards--may not be as emotive or touch the same nerve as Urban Hymns' "The Drugs Don't Work", "Lucky Man" or "Bitter Sweet Symphony", but they're still infectious. And the eerie atmosphere and raw edge of "New York" reassure that there's more to him than plodding, sentimental acoustic tunes. The Verve would never have pulled off an Urban Hymns Volume II, which is why their leading light has been wise not to try to either.

Dan Gennoe - Amazon.co.uk



There are several contenders for the title of "Last Rock Star" currently strutting around this globe of ours. Richard Ashcroft, late of the Verve, is one such artist. Like Oasis' Liam Gallagher, Ashcroft combines photogenic, working-class charisma with a kind of vacant Brit-rock remoteness -- a combination that, for some people, spells the very marrowbone of cool.

Ashcroft was a rock and roll messiah in his own mind long before the first Verve EP came out in 1992. A year after commencing work on Alone with Everybody, his debut solo album, he's gripped by the same self-belief. The difference is that he's broken up the gang, married a lovely woman, sired a son, and, to all intents and purposes, settled down.

If Alone with Everybody isn't exactly about settling down, it's certainly not about the soaring, drugged-up hunger for release that drove the Verve in the mid-'90s. There are intoxicated moments here, but most of the album's 11 songs are calmer (and cleaner) than anything on A Storm in Heaven or A Northern Soul. In fact, Alone With Everybody is close to what 1997's multimillion-selling Urban Hymns would have been had it remained an Ashcroft solo project.

Much was made in the U.K. press of Ashcroft being inspired by the classic American pop of Burt Bacharach and Glen Campbell (singing Jimmy Webb). Alone with Everybody doesn't sound much like either, but the arrangements and the layers of strings, horns, and pedal steel guitars do sometimes approximate the flavor of Campbell's "Galveston" or "Wichita Lineman." Suffice to say that Nick McCabe's frazzled space-rock guitar lines are conspicuous by their absence here.

Has the taming of Mr. Ashcroft worked, then? Well, it's made him a happier man, but it's no more musically convincing here than "Sonnet" or "Space and Time" were on Urban Hymns. Ashcroft's songs merely blend the northern swagger of Oasis and the Charlatans with the symphonic power of Spiritualized and a vague feel for widescreen '60s Americana. At the core of these lush power ballads is a lot of empty posturing -- especially when it comes to lyrics.

"New York," one of the album's more propulsive tracks, is a catalog of banal Big Apple clichés, while "Brave New World" and "Crazy World" are cringe-inspiring statements about broad-stroke themes like life, death, and love -- mostly inspired by his marriage to former Spiritualized keyboard player Kate Radley (already one of the great rock consorts). Loving music, as Ashcroft sincerely does, is not enough of a qualification for making a living as a musician. The guy has an adequate voice -- a romanticized northern-English take on American masculinity that goes all the way back to Echo & the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch -- but little else in the way of musical resources.

The strings-suffused opener, "A Song for the Lovers," is desperately limp, its descending chords rapidly becoming monotonous. The album's small army of session men, choirs, and orchestral sections cannot redeem such flat, insipid songs as "Money to Burn" and "C'mon People (We're Making it Now)," although there's a lovely choral arrangement on "I Get My Beat," and some dreamy guitar phrases on "On a Beach." Certainly, there's nothing here as grand or as boldly exhilarating as "Bitter Sweet Symphony."

If Alone with Everybody is partly about packaging Ashcroft for American radio, it's hard to imagine many of its 11 tracks on U.S. airwaves. America has lost its taste for Brit-rockers who take themselves as seriously as Ashcroft does, and this record suggests the country isn't missing out on much.

Alone with Everybody may turn out to be an unfortunately prophetic title.

Barney Hoskyns - June 26, 2000
CDNOW Senior Editor, London
Copyright © 1994-2002 CDnow Online Inc. All rights reserved.



In his book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers writes about the loss of his parents within five weeks of each other to cancer and his taking on the responsibility of raising his kid brother. It's an unbelievable story that engages all your emotions, from ridiculous sadness to euphoric joy. It could easily have been the title of Richard Ashcroft's new album if he was more sardonic, less sincere, and hadn't already nicked a Charles Bukowski title. During his nine years with the Verve, Ashcroft established that he had heart, an intrinsic melodic sense, and a disarming way with words. He continues in the same vein on Alone, a gorgeously textured manifesto of sensitivity and the relentless belief in the hope of love. It's a celebration of life and death and life again in its purest form: kindness. Ashcroft seems to say that only through suffering can we appreciate joy.

The massive orchestration and rich layering are still in play, even more so, but Ashcroft's voice is resilient, ardent, and luxurious and really doesn't need any ornamentation. On "Slow Was My Heart" and "Everybody," he sounds uncannily like Neil Diamond, with a country/soul quality a la Gram Parsons or Dusty Springfield. For those used to Ashcroft making our hearts hurt, there's plenty of fodder: from the hypnotic "On a Beach" to the romantic "You on My Mind in My Sleep," Nick McCabe's haunting guitar may be gone, but Ashcroft carries on the Verve's vulnerability. The first single and album opener, "A Song for the Lovers," picks us up in the same epic manner as "Bitter Sweet Symphony," complete with harp, trumpet, and vibraphone. "Brave New World" is a fearless open diary of faith. Ashcroft has learned to transform pain into bliss, without losing the precious balance of the two.

However, building songs around commonplace phrases as "I'm on fire" or "Kiss the sun" gets tiresome, and juxtaposing them with hackneyed lines like "I've got money to burn" followed by "You light my fire" doesn't help matters. With his innate keenness for language, it's unclear why Ashcroft felt the need to rely so strongly on such clichés. On "C'Mon People (We're Making It Now)," his earnestness gets the better of him; with its over-the-top chirpiness the song is more compatible with today's teen bands than with Ashcroft's generally more measured exuberance. And, of course, in typical Ashcroft-ian style there's only one track shorter than five minutes.

In the homeopathic tradition it is believed that by subjecting patients to the very substance that is causing them to suffer the symptoms will go away. In this same vein, by exposing listeners to the very most tender, precious aspects of life, Ashcroft somehow creates a celebration. "It's not a sign of weakness when you're searching for the places the memories go," Ashcroft writes in "Everybody." Clearly, he's been searching those places and coming up strong.

© 1999 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved.
VH1 Online



Although Alone With Everybody begins with a pompous blast of portentous string tonnage, making you think Elton or Whitney is about to bellow, have no fear. Richard Ashcroft¹s solo debut is everything you would expect from the former Verve mastermind who regularly hangs with fellow dreamer Noel Gallagher, who composed the classic "Bitter Sweet Symphony," and who is also regarded as one of Britain¹s finest songwriters. Alone With Everybody is nearly an instant classic, a bittersweet muse on rock as a dream, as ultimate concept art inspired by tales of longing, love and survival bathed in epic orchestration and classic rock and roll sounds. Anyone of lesser talent would have turned this high-art rock and roll cavalcade into a sprawling mess, but through his exhilarating vision and glorious melodies, Ashcroft turns possible cliché into enchanting triumph.

Everything here is permeated with a pastoral melancholia, as if Ashcroft has been worshiping at the altar of Jimmy Webb or Neil Young. But the music is also laced with a breezy, buoyant feel that is the brilliant intoxicant of all great summer records. It¹s both great escape and utter introversion, full of buzzing rock and bitter ballads encapsulated in a sun-flecked blast of good vibrations.

Though the lead song title, "A Song For The Lovers," recalls a corporate ad campaign (as does the album¹s constant use of trademark symbols in the artwork), the music is irresistible. Ashcroft¹s gripping voice spins a beautiful melody, arcing high and low over the song¹s theme of hard won life¹s lessons. Lovely acoustic guitars introduce "Brave New World," soon joined by BJ Cole¹s prismatic steel guitar, yet another ingredient in this grand production.

Here, Ashcroft sounds stoned and serene over a lilting groove, a daydreamer with talent and time to burn. "New York " hints at Ashcroft¹s dark side with eerie guitars and trip hop drums, but the bad mood is quickly dispelled in the Nashville Skyline sheen of "You On My Mind In My Sleep," a peaceful meditation on love that sounds like the bastard child of Jimmy Webb and Beggars Banquet era Keith Richards.

Ashcroft rocks even more in "Crazy World," but it¹s more Liam Gallagher than Mick Jagger. Ashcroft is basically a cerebral slacker, butt-shaking rock and roll really ain¹t his thing, though the Stones¹ Exile on Main Street seems an apt inference for the choogling "Money to Burn." "Everybody" closes it all out with a feel-good missive which is pure Œ60s "Get Together"-styled flowers-and-peace puffery. Nonetheless, it¹s a joyous finish to one of the most convincing and refreshing debuts in recent memory. How can Ashcroft remain alone after this?

© 1999 MTV Networks. All Rights Reserved.
MTV Online



The music of Richard Ashcroft pulls the listener in like a great, cinematic drama. His emotional cadence, achingly personal introspection, and tangible energy and passion have earned him near-royalty status among all the mid- to late-'90s British rock figures. Now a solo act, the ex-Verve frontman is lending credence to the icon that emerged following the release of The Verve's last album Urban Hymns, building upon the lush foundation of that recording while making a few modifications along the way. Beneath the pristine harmonies and majestic oceanic textures lies a classic songwriter who voyages deep into his heart on the magnificent standout "Brave New World," the elegant "You're On My Mind In My Sleep" and the dreamy "Slow Was My Heart," all of which mesh pedal steel and strings and compliment his love-strained lyrics with a deceptively uncomplicated sonic backdrop. The album's second single, the uptempo "Money To Burn," boasts a soulful hippie-blues refrain, while "New York" is anchored by a haunting, grinding guitar riff. Fans of The Verve should be drawn to this release, as Ashcroft has successfully made the transition from band member to solo act without losing a drop of his ever-loving soul.

Glen Sansone - CMJ New Music Report Issue: 672 - Jun 26, 2000
© 1978-2002 College Media, Inc., Inc. All Rights Reserved.



One of England's gifts to the pop world is the unique phenomenon of the British solo album. You know the drill: First the band scores a heavily hyped hit, and then the lippy sex poet on the mike starts to bicker with the shy, perfectionist guitar god, usually during the sessions for their blow-addled, dub-influenced, difficult second album. The two boys throw crockery at each other across the studio, tears are shed, and before you can say "Remember Morrissey," they're off making their laughable solo albums. The singers tend to sell better; the guitarists have better hair and get better reviews. Sometimes the singer actually makes a decent record on his own -- it's called Black Grape Syndrome -- but it only happens enough to blow the curve for everybody else.

Former Stone Roses vocalist Ian Brown has followed the script faithfully. He was once the toast of Britannia, singing "I Wanna Be Adored," but after a decade of excess, and with Roses guitarist John Squire long departed to make his own tediously competent records, Ian may as well be singing "I Wanna Be Employed." His second solo effort is overbaked synth funk, his voice buried in echo that can't quite drown out lyrics like, "I need the resistance/Held by your astrological sign." Golden Greats cries out for a hotshot guitarist to take charge of the music -- somebody like John Squire.

The Verve had a huge hit a few years ago with "Bitter Sweet Symphony" but split when singer Richard Ashcroft and guitarist Nick McCabe suddenly remembered they loathed each other. Ashcroft's solo debut, Alone With Everybody, is a quality set of long, slow ballads, heavy on the strings, with pretties like "Everybody" and "Brave New World" to offset the unbelievably awful, perfectly titled "C'Mon People (We're Making It Now)." The problem is that Alone never peaks -- it's without a memorable riff or melody or chorus standing out from the mellow flow. Ashcroft has superhuman levels of sullen charisma, but like Ian Brown and so many other Brit-rock stars, he needs a musical cohort who can get on his nerves enough to generate some friction.

ROB SHEFFIELD - RS 844/845
© Copyright 2002 RollingStone.com

 L y r i c s


SONG FOR THE LOVERS

I spend the night
Yeah looking for my insides in a hotel room
Waiting for you
Were gonna make it tonight
Yeah something in the air tells me the time is right so we better get on

Chorus
Dj,play a song for the Lovers tonight
Please, play a song for the lovers tonight

Don't wanna wait
Lord ive been waiting all my life but Im too late again
I know but I was scared
Cant you see
Im moving like a train into some foreign land I aint
Got a ticket for this ride but I will

Oh, play a song for the Lover tonight
Dj, play a song for the Lover tonight
Dj, play a song for the Lovers tonight
Please play a song for the Lovers tonight

Cant stop looking back no no
One more for the lovers
O brother wont you lend a hand Im alone in a room
And Im waiting for love
I dont know when this dreams gonna stop
But im telling you friend I dont want to get up x2


I GET MY BEAT

I get my beat with you
When we see things through
And I think about you all the time

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know

I need to hear the truth
From the soul of you
Chase the moments we can share

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know

They got time
They got life
Take and take your time

I got to hear the sound of the morning song
It's the right place with your head
I'm blowing smoke and I'll feel so damn fine
I know you care

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know 


BRAVE NEW WORLD

Into the brave new world
I hope I see you on the other side
Of this changing world

Baby when my ship pulls in
I try to believe in anyone
Look at the state I'm in.

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH x 3
I hope I see you on the other side x 2

Brother don't try to find
Don't try to believe in anyone
For I would change your mind

Baby when my ship pulls in
I try to believe in anyone
Look at the state I'm in, I'm fine

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH x 6
I hope I see you on the other side x6

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
Brave new world x 3
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH x 6
I hope I see you on the other side x6 


NEW YORK

Are you tuning in x4

And I wanted to go
Half my life
And I feel kind of strange
Like I never lived that life

And I'm trying hard
To control my heart
And I always want to know
And I always want to go

Chorus
New York are you tuning in
New York big city of dreams
New York oh what a city
New York Are you tuning in x4

There's now time to unpack yet
Let's get straight out on the street
And feel no inhibitions
This city was built for me

And my head is full of questions
When did I feel this good
In the arms of my lover
Burning through the night of New York

And its funny how time fly's
In the city that never sleeps
It's getting after hours
And I'm feeling the heat

I'M almost dead and buried
The day nearly done
But I want to keep on going
I'm going to kiss the sun in New York

And I'm feeling kind of selfish
I've been busy on your island
Just having my own fun

It's an English tradition
Find some money make some time
Get busy on your island
And slowly lose our minds in New York


YOU ON MY MIND IN MY SLEEP

You ain't ever seen
The way to find your dreams
Forget what's within within
Cos who you've been you've been

If all we lose is the skin
I'm putting you under within
We're gonna make this life together

The symptoms are too deep
I got you on my mind in my sleep you on my mind in my
sleep

Do you know how hard I'll try
To lose this foolish pride
Can you take me as I am
Can you understand me
Unchain me now

If all we lose is the skin
I'm putting you under within
We're gonna make this life together

The symptoms are too deep
I got you on my mind in my sleep you on my mind in my
sleep

I got you on my mind in my sleep
Heavenly body


CRAZY WORLD

There's nothing really wrong with the state of your
ambition
The whole world is crumbling
Cos your crazy vision
All wars are boys and death is what you hate most

Come on baby
Don't you want to get a new size x4

It's a crazy world
For a mixed up boy and a mixed up girl x2

So you got no god
You got no love
To tell me off

But you've got that spirit
So please stick with it
This world wouldn't be
A world without you in it

Please Shelter Me x2
I found this Crazy World

It's chewing on my brain like a desert train locus
I find it hard to love I find it hard to focus
The whole world is crumbling
Cos their crazy visions

Come on baby
Don't you want to get a new size x4

It's a crazy world
For a mixed up boy and a mixed up girl x2

So you got no god
You got no love
To tell me off

You got to keep your spirit
(You stick with it)
There ain't a world without you in it
(You stick with it)

So you got no god
You got no love
To tell me off

Shelter me x8


ON A BEACH

I have swam those raging seas
Washed up by an ocean who had tired of me
How I survive
I will never know

This wreck got a home
And a whole lot of hope

I'm out on a beach
Sat on a rock
Thinking of you and the love I've got

I saw the devil's servant
I sent her home
Said bring me your master I don't want his dog

I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire

I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire

Full of love and new desire

I lit my fire blew my conch
Nobody comes

I built my boat from bamboo
But it sunk

I looked at the sky for vapour trails
Nobody comes

I wrote your name on a tree
Along with the days this is taking you away from me

I'm out on a beach
Sat on a rock
Thinking of you and the love I've got

I saw the devil's servant
I sent her home
And said bring me your master I don't want his dog

Well I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire

I'm on fire
I'm full of love and new desire

I ain't afraid to die
Ain't afraid to die
And here we go
Ain't afraid to

I'm out on a beach
Sat on a rock
Thinking of you and the love I've got

I saw the devil serpent
I sent him home
And said bring me your master I don't want his dog

I'm out on a beach
Sat on a rock
Thinking of you and the love I've got

I saw the devil's servant
I sent her home
And said bring me your master I don't want his dog


MONEY TO BURN

Oh I got money to burn I want to burn it on you
Come on yeah yeah
Ive got one short life I want to spend it on you
You light my fire I want to burn all night I want to burn on through
Aww yeah yeah
I got one short life I want to spend it on you

Chorus
Baby, Your my sweet saviour
Your my one adventure your my one and only gift Ive got
From above From above

Oh we got one last dance I want to dance with you
Come on now now
We got one last supper gonna eat with you
Aww yeah yeah
We got one last I want to get high too
Come on now now I got one short life I want to spend it with you

Chorus

Oh I got money to burn I want to burn it on you
You light my fire I want to burn all night I want to burn on through
Come on night train your gonna take me away from a rotten shame.
Learn how to love I gotta learn how to live
Ive gotta learn how to give come on

Chorus to fade


SLOW WAS MY HEART

Slow was my heart
And so you had gone

So we move on
Please stay strong

It keeps on turning yeah yeah for everyone
We keep on learning yeah yeah to kiss the sun

Weak was my strength
Your hand I should have lend

So we move on
Please stay strong

It keeps on turning yeah yeah for everyone
We keep on learning yeah yeah to kiss the sun
Like everyone

Fly, fly my plane
To an eastern runway

And tell me why
Love must die

It keeps on turning yeah yeah for everyone
You keep on learning yeah yeah to kiss the sun

I'm just like everyone
(Keep on learning yeah yeah) (x4)

(Keep on learning yeah yeah) (x3)
For everyone
(Keep on learning yeah yeah) (x3)


COME ON PEOPLE (WERE MAKING IT NOW)

Sometimes I feel like I can't move on
Nothing in life is turning me on
But I still see clearly, when I see you smiling

You know nothing seems to fit
I couldn't see my way through the shit
When every single second of my waking day

Was thinking of you
Thinking of you
You never know

That I am alive
I am alive
I wanna grow

There are so many things I can do
Just like falling in love with you

Take my hand now, understand me
You can come here too

C'mon people, we're making it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah

C'mon people, we're making it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah

But today I worked it out
I got something I can shout about
Someone who believes in all the things I'm thinking

But where have you gone
Where have you gone
I'll never know

And I am alive
I am alive
I wanna grow

There are so many things I can do
Just like falling in love with you

Take my hand now, understand me
You can come here too 


EVERYBODY

Cold morning
I was looking out it was a cold day

Songbird was drinking from a table
But songbird you just flew away

Everybody's gotta feel the weight of death sometime
And find out what it's like to be left behind
Sometimes you don't get a chance to ask where or why

So let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
And let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind

It's not a sign of weakness
When you're searching for the places where the
memories flow

There may come a time when you rearrange and may leave
those memories
You've gotta let them go

Everybody's gotta feel the weight of death sometime
And find out what it's like to be left behind
Sometimes you don't get a chance to ask where or why

Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind

Everybody's gotta feel the weight of death sometime
And find out what it's like to be left behind
Sometimes you don't get a chance to ask where or why

Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind
Let it break the magic beauty of your fragile mind

Stay strong
Move on
Keep on

Stay strong
Move on
Keep on

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