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Rescue Street
04:44
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on Rescue Street the stakes are high
you play in, it's do or die on rescue street
the stakes are high, the stakes are high
on rescue street it's win or lose your fate is set you don't get to choose
on rescue street, it's win or lose, it's win or lose
but we’re all going down to rescue street
we’re making all our plans on rescue street
life could be so sweet on rescue street
depends on who you meet, on rescue street
on rescue street I’ll say I’m yours, oh please be mine
then I’ll get bored on rescue street
you’re boring me you're boring me
and we move so fast on rescue street and nothing lasts no one to keep
on rescue street, oh yeah
there's no one to keep there's no one to keep
but we’re all going down to rescue street
we’re gonna see who’s around on rescue street
cos life could be so sweet on rescue street
depends on who you meet, on rescue street
and once you’re lucky streak has passed
you fold so fast a jaw of glass on rescue street
you pay the price for your desire
your broken heart your home on fire on rescue street
on rescue street we play our games
at first we save and then we blame on rescue street
it's not you it's me, it's not you it's me
and with your last remaining piece, before you exit rescue street
you pull the handle for the gold and find you've nothing left to hold
on rescue street
but we’re all going down to rescue street
we’re gonna see who’s around on rescue street
cos life could be so sweet on rescue street
depends on who you meet, on rescue street
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don’t make me bitter
and don’t lead me on
just love me forever
and don’t do me wrong
am I a fool for believing
the songs that I’m singing
the words that I’m writing
when my heart is breaking?
cos I’m a fool when I see you
smile at the girls
and I watch as they open, and you gently uncurl
your hands from my finger
your arms from my waist
and I stare like a statue, as you walk away
I don’t want, to feel like this
I don’t want, to feel like this
don’t make me feel such bitterness
don’t make me feel such bitterness
don’t make me bitter
and don’t lead me on
just love me forever
and don’t do me wrong
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Don't Silence Me
05:07
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big boy plays around
holds you down
you don't make a sound
oh, please make him stop
but I don't wanna lose my job
oh, oh, don't silence me
what if they say you lied
felt obliged
crossed a line?
too late to ask for help
they’ll say ‘she brought it on herself ’
oh, oh, don't silence me
oh, oh, don't silence me
and take your hands off my sister
didn't you hear her say NO?
step away from her, mister
I think it's time for you to go
small town
people talk
just shake it off
and take a walk
law man
hangs around
the bullies of the playground
oh, oh, don't silence me
we’re all complicit
and this is how we do business
hey, hey NDA -
now I've got nothing more to say
oh, oh, don't silence me
oh, oh, don't silence me
and take your hands off my sister
didn't you hear her say NO!?
just step away from her, mister
i think it's time for you to go
you can't buy my silence
cos I'm not for sale
and I'm no longer buying
no matter how inconsequential
powerless and small
you try to make me feel …
so take your hands off my sister
didn't you hear her say NO!?
step away from her mister
i think it's time for you to go
now it's time to make it stop
now you know your time is up
ritual humiliation
power grabbing situations
take your hands off my sister
step away from her mister
now it's time to make it stop
now you know your time is up
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A Fighting Chance
04:48
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taking precious time watching the snowfall
soft and slow, it covers everything
and I don’t care where you’ve been
just don’t want you to leave again
you’ve got my heart in your hand
i don’t stand a fighting chance
cos I can see you now
and I can hear you now
for who you are
for who you are
and I don’t wanna talk about
what we did and what we said
all these scripts that we write
and follow to the bitter end
and I know nothings black and white
we all have so much to loose
but if I lose you tonight
then baby I’m the only fool
cos I can see you now
and I can hear you now
give me a fighting chance
just give me one more
fighting chance
now my coffee’s turning cold
the snow is melting in the drive
as I watch your car pull in
there’s nothing left for me to hide
sit down close by me
and I’ll spill out these words for you
this pen and this guitar
is the only truth I’ve ever known
cos I can see you now
and I can hear you now
give me a fighting chance
just give me one more
fighting chance
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Good Friday
05:20
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you ask me for forgiveness? Well you’ll have to take my pity
cos that's all I have, it's a bitter pill
until the landscape changes until my heart is mended
I'm sorry but I, I can't ease your guilt
on Good Friday, i'm trying to think of how to say goodbye
on Good Friday, i'm running through the stories in my mind
in my mind in my mind …
and your silence only makes me louder
and your kindness only makes it harder
I won’t adapt to your suffering
I can't keep score of these games anymore
cos I never know when you’ll leave me again
now I can let go and my life ... can begin
on Good Friday I drove my car through the rain
On Good Friday I drove my car through the rain
On Good Friday to say what i had to say
what I had to say, what I had to say
it cost me my heart to stay close to you
yeah it cost me my self to stay close to you
close to you, close to you …
on Good Friday
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Passport
05:01
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Oooooooh oooooh
just like an angel
you stood at my door
you saw me broken
and picked me up off the floor
in a million little pieces
my heart it was torn
you wrapped me up
in tender love
wiped the blood from my wounds
and now that my heart is free
I wanna take you everywhere with me
you’re my passport
and I could go anywhere with you
oh baby now
you’re my passport
and I’m taking you with me, taking you with me wherever I go
from the hot desert sands
to the cool mountain breeze
I’ll take you to places
you’ve never seen
I’ll show you a world
you’ve only seen in your dreams
high above on wings of love
like a king and a queen
cos now that my heart is free
I wanna show you everything
everything I’ve seen
Woah yeah you’re my passport
I could go anywhere with you
oh baby now
you’re my passport
and I’m taking you with me, taking you with me
wherever I go, you unlock the door
you open my heart
you’re the passport to my soul
And I could go any, anywhere with you
oh lemme tell you now
You’re my, my passport and I’m taking you with me,
taking you with me, wherever I go now
you’re my passport, I’m taking you with me, taking you with me,
I’m taking you with me
wherever I go, wherever I go
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Leonard's Waltz
05:05
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I last saw you in Holland
the end of New Year
just after the parties were over
we talked about brexit
and Dutch architecture
and Cohen and Bowie and music
you looked so tired
your eyes fallen into your face
the pain and the morphine
had clearly left their trace
but they still danced before me
and saw me
and held my gaze
and said everything we’d never been able to say
la la la la la la la la la la la la
then your Russian wife served us tea from China
just like in your favourite song
and you said you just missed him
when he played in Berlin
and that’s something you’d always regret
So where will you go to
when absence covers your face?
how will I find you my friend
with no forwarding address?
And for all of the beauty and riches
this world has to lend
none of it replaces a friend
and we sing..
la la la la la la la la la la la la
and outside it was cold
with the snow coming down
and the kids let off fireworks into the night sky ...
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on the wilder shores of love
cutting bullets from our flesh
from way below to high above
from the east side to the west
I jumped the night train to Trieste
tried to find my friends out in the west
I heard they were living near Cologne
but the border took my phone
they bombed us in the night
until the break of day
rounded us up like vultures prey
and in the morning light
before my very eyes
took my wife and baby away
I used to be a businessman
a thousand jobs at my command
but now you call me refugee
my broken life is all you see
I look for her on every street
and I ask everyone I meet
I wear her absence like a uniform
it spurs me on
I don’t even need to sleep
they bombed us in the night
until the break of day
rounded us up like vultures prey
and in the morning light
before my very eyes
took my wife and baby away
I don’t understand your war
this is no better than before
I don’t believe a word you say
and God will make you pay
On the wilder shores of love
from the east side to the west
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we pledge to wake each morning face to face
to shun the orders of the busy sun
we promise to disturb each other’s peace
we promise to disturb each other’s peace
we want the risen life before we’re dead
you start and finish me, you’re my extent
and we will, yes, gaze at the pining moon
we’ll pick out brine blown glass gems from the strand
well read our future scratched on to stone
we’ll read our future scratched on to a stone
we want the risen life before we’re dead
you start and finish me, you’re my extent
we both believe that silence turns to sand
and promise not to add to the unsaid
we meet here as the raging sea meets land
we meet here as the raging sea meets land
we want the risen life before we’re dead
you start and finish me, you’re my extent
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been a long time since I cracked a smile
been a while since I looked up at the blue skies
I spent so much time inside of my own head
gonna start thinking about somebody else
and don’t be afraid to give it all away
cos it’ll come back to you one of these days
and what you give will come back
a little way down the track
you’ve gotta have some faith
in the human race
and what you give will come back
I see a troubled man
I see how hard he works
fifteen hour shifts on a wage as cheap as dirt
still he’s struggling
just to make the rent
with bills to pay
kids to feed
his money’s always spent
but don’t be dismayed, cos he’ll find a way
cos things’ll get easier one of these days
and what you give will come back
a little way down the track
you’ve gotta have some faith
in the human race
and what you give will come back
and when the road is dark
trouble in your heart
just shine a little light in someone else’s life
and it’ll make it easier
and don’t be afraid to give it all away
cos it’ll come back to you one of these days
don’t be afraid to give it all away
cos it’ll come back to you one of these days
don’t be afraid to give it all away
cos it’ll come back to you one of these days
don’t be afraid to give it all away
cos it’ll come back to you one of these days
and what you give will come back
a little way down the track
you’ve gotta have some faith
in the human race
and what you give will come back
you’ve gotta have some faith
in the human race
and what you give will come back
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Sadie Jemmett London, UK
London-based singer-songwriter and music composer for theatre
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