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When Push Comes To Shove
03:27
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When your life comes apart at the seams
And tears start to come to your eyes
Nightmares come truer than dreams
And pain comes as no surprise
When push comes to shove
When push comes to shove
Come hell or high water you'll have my love
Come to me when push comes to shove
When no one comes down on your side
Your past comes right back from the dead
Anxiety comes along for the ride
And always comes with you to bed
When push comes to shove
When push comes to shove
Come in from the cold and into the sun
Come to me when push comes to shove
Right now your life is coming on strong
You're coming good, that's so good to see
But when hard times start coming along
You can come crying to me
When push comes to shove
When push comes to shove
I'm the only one you should think of
Come to me when push comes to shove
Come to me when push comes to shove
Come to me when push comes to shove
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2. |
Dancing With Myself
04:55
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An empty glass,
a plate too clean,
a lipstick case
just one stiletto
A vacant chair,
a hollow room,
with walls so bare
our song still echoes
All around me
Dancing, both hands floating in mid air
Held as if they still could feel you there
Hips and lips all moving freely
Closing eyes and breathing deeply
You would laugh if you could see me dancing with myself
The lightbulb quips,
the window jokes,
they all join in the mirror’s mocking
As they watch me
Dancing with my face turned to one side
Held as if your cheek was touching mine
Whispering how much I miss you
Turning now as if to kiss you
They just laugh as I continue dancing with myself
Do memories and colours fade
and lips of scarlet turn to grey
And spectres like yours slip away from men?
One day, will skin and flesh and hair,
that feels as though it’s really there,
Ever feel just like fresh air again?
I’ll be here ‘till then
Dancing with a fantasy of you,
tracing circles that our feet once drew
But now our feet don’t touch the ground
In and out and up and down,
I’m twirling you around and round and
Dancing with delight that's tinged with fear
If, at any time, your ghost should disappear
The old year ends, the new arrives
And clocks strike twelve on both our lives,
I’ll cease to live ‘cause I survive by dancing with myself
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3. |
Make Me Fly
04:09
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You touch my skin
I feel it in my soul
You breathe on it
I shiver to the bone
You hold me
Control me
You take me to the brink
And leave me hanging on a string
And take me back down
Then go to town
And take me right back to the brink
But, this time, open up my wings
And make me fly
Here in the afterglow
We're at the rainbow's end
But before we know
It starts to rise again
As you hold me
Control me
And begin to me touch there
I'm so completely unaware
Of anything else
In this mad world
And yes you touch my spirit where
it makes feel as light as air
and makes me fly
One minute I'm just lying there
The next I'm floating in mid-air
I'm flying through a naked fire,
I'm singing like a female choir
Suddenly I can't get any higher
Ooh Ooh ooh
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4. |
Another Year Without You
04:02
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Some say Christmas is a choir
Or a lone soprano voice
Some say carols round a fire
Make their heart and soul rejoice
I say Christmas words and music
Make the very saddest songs
They remind me that at Christmas
Yet another year without you has gone
Some say Christmas does to tragic
What morning does to night
Some say Christmas has a magic
That sets the dark alight
I say Christmas nights and heartache
Are tough and built to last
Cause at Christmas I remember
That another year without you has passed
Wish Lennon would stop telling me
he wants an end to war
And McCartney kept his pipes in peace
Their sound is still too raw
I cannot hear another diva
singing 'Santa Claus'
Give me the choice, the only voice
I'd ever hear is yours
So this Christmas, if you see me
Down a glass or two
Just remember It's at Christmas
When I most think of you
Though every month without you
Is as hard as the first one
It's at Christmas I'm reminded
Yet another year without you just begun
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5. |
Real Love
04:39
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All my life I had striven
Like I simply had no choice
Felt really strangely driven
To fill a massive void
Cant give love you aint been given
You gave it, my life changed from that point
Real love
I never felt it like this
It stopping me breathing
Real love
I never felt it like this
It's so what I needed
Real love
Now I know what it is
To feel real love
All my life I've been governed
By a strong internal voice
Persistent, stern and stubborn
Like a critical white noise
Echoing through the chasm
But I'm free
It's time now to rejoice
Real love
I never felt it like this
It's constantly healing
Real love
I never felt it like this
What a fabulous feeling
Real love
Now I know what it is
To feel real love
And it aint nothing mystical baby
And it aint purely physical baby
It's just real love
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6. |
Let It Pour
04:45
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My cup of real love
Is oh so big
and baby it's filled right up
Overflowing here on the floor
Come right here beside me and just let it pour
And this cup of real love
Is yours to hold
To savour, to taste the flood
To let its waves crash on your shore
Lay right here beside me and just let it pour
"My cup runneth over with love" are, methinks,
The words most apt to ever flow through Shakespeare's streams of ink
How sad to let them ooze unused so swiftly down the sink
Baby all you have to do is take a drink
Yes, my cup of real love
Is yours for life
Like my body, my mind, my blood
To quench your thirst forever more
Stay right here beside me and just let it pour
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7. |
I'm with You
03:37
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Let the rain begin to pour
Let it soak me to the skin
Let it fill the boots I'm standing in
Next to you
Let the wind blow down the door
Let it cut right through my soul
Let it slam and slash and rock and roll
I'm with you
Let the army turn its tanks on me
Let the rivers burst their banks on me
Let the ocean crash upon my shore
Let it be, let it be
you are here once more
Let the snow begin to fall
Let it chill me to the bone
Let it do its worse, I'm not alone
I'm with you
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8. |
This Child Cries
03:20
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This child kicks
This child schemes
And yes he seems as hard as nails
But when he falters and he fails
This child hurts
This child spits
In everyone's eyes
Yes he seems hard and cold of heart
But when he's laying in the dark
This child cries
This child woke
On starting to dream
This child choked
On trying to sing
The sadness provoked
A tentative word
So this child spoke
But nobody heard
So this child shouts
This child screams
Yes he is hard and quick to strike
And so very hard to like
This child shocks
This child cuts
This child bleeds
Yes he will fight with sword and shield
But when he's off the battlefield
This child cries
This child tried
To be good and please
This child tried
To be all you dreamed
This child tried
but he was almost ignored
This child tried
He sure don't try anymore
So Yes he grew into the monster
Everyones knew would be so vile
A pariah - The world's most wanted
A beast of a man but yet a child
Yeah I'm still a child
And this child cries
This child cries
Why the surprise
That has broken every rule
You know you gave him all the tools
This child cries
Yes this child plans
For your demise
See here, reflected in my eyes
Is you, the very reason why
This child cries
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Ken Wood Greenwich, UK
Ken Wood has 30 years of songwriting behind him. In that time he has covered just about every genre of popular music and several genres of world music too. A qualified music teacher, Ken teaches songwriting and writes musicals for children too (link to one below). He is now accepting commissions and applications for collaborations with lyricists and singers who require quality original material. ... more
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