1. |
Right Now
04:01
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Right now all you see is the stony ground
Right now all you feel is what’s lost and can’t be found
Right now I can’t say what you want to hear
Right now all your thoughts are in yesteryear
And you’ve been walking through the forest
Almost lost your way
And you’ve been pushing through the darkness
I hear when you say, yeah
Sometimes you’ve just got to wait
Until the time is right
You’ve got to let your heart break
Until the time is right
I know you feel you can’t wait
Until the time is right
There’s something that’s being made right now, right now.
Right now you’ve got to look at things unseen
Right now deep in the earth there grows a fragile seed
Right now all you see is the barren land
Right now you’ve got a friend who takes your hand
And you’ve been walking through the forest
Almost lost your way
And you’ve been pushing through the darkness
I hear when you say, yeah
Chorus
You got to look at things unseen
Deep in the earth there grows a seed
There’s everything, everything that you need now, now, now
© Sam Chaplin 2017
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2. |
Sing It Out
04:21
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Just sing it out
Sing it out of your system
Sing it out of your memory
O sing it out!
Sing it out of your body
Sing it out of your history
O sing it out!
Sing it out of your bloodstream
Sing it out of your yesterday
O sing it out!
Sing it out when you can’t sing
Sing it out sing it anyway
O sing it out!
I cannot begin to imagine what brought you here tonight
I’ve seen a lot of hands that look just like yours
Tell you what let’s start to imagine where we could go tonight
If you just open up and let it take you there
Take you where the spotlight burns away that empty stare
And that glare that would dare me for a moment just to
Care and compare where we’ve both come from, and if we belong?
Chorus
I cannot begin to imagine where you might be tonight
If you had not walked in through those doors
Tell you what let’s start to imagine where we could go tonight
If you just open up and let it take you there
Take you where the spotlight burns away that empty stare
And that glare that would dare me for a moment just to
Care and compare where we’ve both come from, and if we belong?
Chorus
© Sam Chaplin 2016
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3. |
Hold on Tight
04:25
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Hold on tight, keep it sacred
Hold on lightly don’t let it bruise.
I don’t dare move a ligament
There’s something we’re never meant to lose.
Wrap your arms tight around you
In your winter coat.
Feel the warmth flowing through you
As you turn to go.
Taste the lightness of freedom
and the tug of home.
On a dark early morning
You greet the road.
Chorus
As you walk through the cities
With your eyes alive,
There was never a question
That the time was right.
And every time that you struggle
with the tug of home,
Wrap your arms tight around you
In that winter coat.
Chorus
Hold on, hold on, hold on tightly.
Hold on, hold on, hold on lightly.
© Sam Chaplin 2017
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4. |
Happiest Days
03:41
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I never thought my, my heart could be so,
So open wide with wonder.
There was a cold me, thought he could hold me
When I was slipping under.
Cherry blossom
Falling all around us.
Cherry blossom
Confetti for a queen!
These are the happiest days,
These are the happiest days,
Of my life, of my life.
Now all around me, I am surrounded,
I’m wandering in a dream land.
I see your faces, nothing replaces
Your eyes look deep within me.
Cherry blossom
Falling all around us.
Cherry blossom
Confetti for a queen!
Chorus
Falling while you hold me
Spinning while you call me
Turning as I feel your eyes move
Seeing our tomorrow
Opening before us
Running out to take these days, these days!
Chorus
© Sam Chaplin 2018
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5. |
You Love Me In
04:16
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Hungry for gold,
you won’t let me settle
And simply grow old
avoiding your gaze.
Now I’ve been told,
you’ve got a hold on me.
So tender and tough,
You wound with your whispers.
You say that’s what love is
Or didn’t I know.
I want you enough,
I want you enough to hear.
You love me in
You love me out
You love me in
You love me out
You have the eyes
to see my desires
The passion that lies deep down in my soul
You cause it to rise,
you cause it to realise.
Chorus
And the air you breathe is clear
It’s not hard to breathe when you’re near to me
When you’re near to me.
You love me in
You love me out
So tender and tough,
You wound with your whispers.
You say that’s what love is
Or didn’t I know.
I want you enough,
I want you enough to hear.
© Sam Chaplin 2004
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6. |
Safety Net
04:12
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If you never move then you'll never grow
Or you could sit there all day long.
Tired of what I know tired of going slow
Steel myself, bow my head and take a breath
And dive into the icy stream
Sensation fills me like a scream.
Diamonds glitter round my brow,
And in this now I feel somehow
There is a better yet
In faces we've never met.
To live life without regret
I traded my safety net.
I tried sitting still didn't do it well.
I found I was made to swim
And just like a shark I had to move my tail.
Steel myself, bow my head and take a breath
And dive into the icy stream etc.
Chorus
Live your life without regret
Lay aside your safety net.
Live your life without regret
Lay aside your safety net.
And dive into the icy stream etc.
Chorus
Live your life without regret
Lay aside your safety net.
© Sam Chaplin 2015
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There was a taste of spring in the air.
The night was drawing in but we didn’t care.
We should have sat inside but the weather was unusually warm.
Out poured those words amidst all the joking
Tales I’d never heard, stories unspoken.
The girl I recognised, but her past I had never explored.
And sitting here with you
I felt that it was true
We had all the time in the world.
I don’t regret the measures I’ve taken:
The mountains I’ve moved
The home we are making.
I’d do it again for an hour with the sun on our skin.
Sitting here with you
I felt that it was true
We had all the time in the world,
All the time in the world.
Time was always on our side
But now I realise that the time we have
Is to be held with both hands.
Talk with me now
Or let’s just sit here in the sun.
Sitting here with you
I felt that it was true
We had all the time in the world,
All the time in the world,
All the time in the world.
© Sam Chaplin 2017
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8. |
The Lovely Month of May
04:01
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You took my hand
And said we'd walk together.
I showed my heart
Part buckled down and tethered.
You kindle fires
Cut back the briars
So we can breathe in.
The snow is melting
The streams now flow as rivers.
The sunlight drenching
And wrenching us from shivers.
You hold on tightly,
Entwine me quietly
So we can breathe in.
The lovely month of May,
When all the buds are blooming.
You stole my heart away
And filled it with a sweet yearning.
You took my hand
The brutal spell was breaking.
I showed my heart
From dreamlands now awaking.
Your eyes search deeply,
I rise up steeply
To meet you there.
In the lovely month of May,
When all the buds are blooming.
You stole my heart away
And filled it with a sweet yearning.
© Sam Chaplin 2009
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9. |
Unbearably Light
04:05
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Floating, flapping, feather free,
I miss the brakes you put on me,
I feel the place they used to be,
They held me to the ground.
I lost the grace of gravity,
I’m left with unchained melodies,
And I languish in the levity,
of not having you around.
Unbearably light,
Unbearably late.
Feeling inside
I’m missing your weight.
And you softly sing to me,
Yes you softly sing to me.
You pinned me down with just one kiss
These leaden boots were made for this
And I yell into the great abyss
Hoping that’s where you’ll be found
I lost the grace of gravity,
I’m left with unchained melodies,
And I languish in the levity,
of not having you around.
Chorus
Your kisses, your kisses pin me down.
Floating, flapping, feather free,
I miss the brakes you put on me,
I feel the place they used to be,
They held me to the ground.
Chorus
© Sam Chaplin 2005
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10. |
Lengthen Your Table
03:16
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Feel the churning
The seas are getting wilder.
Feel the turning
Of plates beneath our soil.
And the great divide
Is ready to consume us.
Feel the rising tide
And dive into the waves.
Let your heart be wide
And lengthen your table.
Let your eyes delight,
Let love be your label,
Let love be your label.
So surround us
With random acts of kindness.
All around us keep blazing in the night.
For the great divide
Is ready to consume us.
Feel the rising tide
And dive into the waves.
Chorus
For the great divide
Is ready to consume us.
Feel the rising tide
And dive into the waves.
Let your heart be wide
And lengthen your table.
Let your eyes delight
Let love be your label.
Let the feast begin
And feel all the flavours.
Sigh within your skin
Find rest from your labours,
Find rest from your labours.
© Sam Chaplin 2016
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11. |
It's Time
03:04
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It’s time, time.
It’s time, time.
It’s time to break that ground
Time to dig the land,
Time to clear away the brambles where the fruit trees stand.
Time to breathe in deep,
Time to feel the heat,
Feel it pressing in your stomach
Feel it loosening your feet.
It’s time, time.
It’s time, time.
It’s time to take that stand,
Time to find a song,
Time to step out of the shadows where you’ve stayed too long.
Time to shake the dust,
Time to feel the fear,
Feel it pressing in your stomach
Feel it ringing in your ears.
It’s time for your learning to be robed in adventure
And time for your yearning to burst into flame.
It’s time to break that ground etc.
Time to dig the land,
Time to clear away the brambles where the fruit trees stand.
Time to breathe in deep,
Time to feel the heat,
Feel it pressing in your stomach
Feel it loosening your feet.
It’s time for your learning to be robed in adventure
And time for your yearning to burst into flame.
And when this is over you will stop and remember
That all you have longed for is all you can see!
It’s time to take that stand etc.
It’s time to break that ground etc.
© Sam Chaplin 2017
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12. |
I Love You Now
05:09
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I’m not waiting for sunnier days,
I’m not waiting for coloured hues in the greys.
I’m not waiting till the shadow disappears,
I’m not wondering when or how.
I’m not waiting till we sing without those tears,
‘Cos I know I love you now.
I love you now,
‘Cos it’s plain you’re the same when I loved you then.
I love you now,
Take a bow and believe what we just can’t explain.
I’m not waiting till you feel you’re alright,
I’m not waiting till finally sleep through the night.
I’m not waiting till your worries slip away,
I don’t care what you’ll allow.
I’m not waiting for that shiny sparkly day,
Cos I know I love you now.
I love you now,
‘Cos it’s plain you’re the same when I loved you then.
I love you now,
Take a bow and believe what we can’t explain.
I love you now,
I adore what’s before me every day.
I love you now,
Take a bow and believe what we just can’t explain.
Take a bow and believe,
Take a bow.
I’m not waiting till your worries slip away,
I don’t care what you’ll allow.
I’m not waiting for that shiny sparkly day,
Cos I know I love you now.
I love you now,
‘Cos it’s plain you’re the same when I loved you then.
I love you now,
Take a bow and believe what we can’t explain.
I love you now,
I adore what’s before me every day.
I love you now,
Take bow and believe that whatever may change
I’ll always vow,
To love you now.
© Sam Chaplin 2014
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