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The Roamer
03:56
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Highway stretched before me
Horizon full of haze
Heading south, three hundred miles
Dry wind fills my days
My feet’ll keep on walking
Till someplace feels like home
I will roam
I will roam
I will roam
A wooden cross behind me
Marks a fellow travellin’ man
Couldn’t spare the time to dig too deep
In the baking sand
The desperate pull, the gravity
I’ll mourn him when I can
I will roam
I will roam
I will roam
My soul is filled with longing
Mixed with deepest dread
T'wards heaven or hell I drift on
My boots are filled with lead
Redemption or damnation
I know not where I head
I will roam
I will roam
I will roam
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Hello Old Friend
03:29
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Hello old friend
Feels like coming home
Hello old friend
Like stepping in out of the rain
Hello old friend
You were there for me when I needed you
Soothed my heart and took away my pain
Gave me a reason to live and a purpose once again
You were there for me, my friend
Hello old friend
You gave me wings to fly
Hello old friend
Then you took away the sky
Hello old friend
You were there for me when I needed you
Soothed my heart and took away my pain
Gave me a reason to live and a purpose once again
You were there for me, my friend
Hello old friend
Feels like coming home
Hello old friend
Like stepping in out of the rain
Hello old friend
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Theory of Ruins
05:26
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Have you ever heard the theory of ruins?
A design for more than life, extending past the fall
Gratefully crumbling into legend
What’s left behind never-ending
I have seen the burden laid on the human race
Everything is beautiful when considered in its prime
Eternity’s placed into our human hearts
No-one can fathom the path to the end of time
When I’m taken by the flames
What will I leave behind?
How many souls will I have touched?
That’s what stands the test of time
The theory of ruins
The theory of ruins
The days of kings have long since ended
The heart that fed besides a broken mocking hand
Look upon my works you mighty and despair
Two legs of stone standing in the sand
When I’m taken by the flames
What will I leave behind?
How many souls will I have touched?
That’s what stands the test of time
The theory of ruins
The theory of ruins
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The Green Man
03:58
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Way back in time before memories
We lived in the fields of our birth
We nurtured the soil and the forests and trees
In return we lived off the earth
What is seen is not all there is
There are two realms intertwined
A spiritual world just out of sight
But rarely far from mind
Closer still when the solstice came
Along ley lines and cairns of power
The mysteries of the spirit world
Came abroad for barely an hour
Brief shadows seen and the legends grew
A little perspective of our place in this scene
The balance of nature and spirit life
Respect for the space in-between
When the twilight comes and the worlds collide
That boundary between death and dark and life and light
The green man glimpsed in his ancient home
Out of the corner of the eye just out of sight
The green man
And now the chainsaws scream out their songs of hate
Commuters their willing slaves
The cranes they'll run up a pirate's flag
The bulldozers dig their unmarked graves
Shrines to money's indifference
It's gone further than anyone planned
Profit runs without boundaries
Spewing out concrete covering this land
When the twilight comes and the worlds collide
There's nowhere left to roam
The green man cries from a far-off wood
Remembering his long-lost home
The green man
A wise man once prophesied to me
That we'll rip up the roads and tear the buildings down
The forests will grow green and the streams will run clear
There'll be healing and harmony all around
When the twilight comes and the worlds collide
There might be just enough space to roam
The green man can be glimpsed in a far-off wood
Walking back through his long-lost home
The green man
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Buen Camino
03:45
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Buen Camino!
Walking down a dirt road just 20 miles in
And before we rest there’s 3 towns more
The sun is going down and my legs are going stiff
And I’m wondering what we’ve let ourselves in for
The threads of our lives are weaving round those we meet
All pilgrims on this ancient trail
A common destination no matter where we start
As we write another chapter in this tale
I’m gonna throw my boots away when I reach Santiago
I’m gonna sit right down and never get up
Wake, walk, eat and sleep – my mind has found stillness
But I’m going to throw my boots away
It’s easy to find peace on the top of a mountain
Or on a path through sunflower fields
Got to grab a little bit and keep it in my heart
As I head back to the urban battlefields
I’m gonna throw my boots away when I reach Santiago
I’m gonna sit right down and never get up
Wake, walk, eat and sleep – my mind has found stillness
But I’m going to throw my boots away
Buen Camino!
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Long Road Home
03:57
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What if I told you
You could find your way back?
That sometimes a person can change?
There’s a light in the window
We’re holding out hope
Don’t matter how long it burns
But remember this
The farther you go
The harder it is to turn
It’s a longer path back than the way that you came
Taking the long road home
I know that you’re out there
So many miles away
I believe you can hear my voice
My love is a beacon guiding your path
Just follow the long road home
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Funny Old World
04:54
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It’s a funny old world
With the games you used to play
You seemed to give up more than you ever gave in
You’d dress up, and make up, then you’d shoot to kill
Aiming low for maximum pain
It’s a funny old world
It’s a funny old world
Stumbling home in driving rain
You conquered a heart, but gave up your own all the same
Lipstick smeared and hair untied, like a flower underfoot
Sun’s coming up but the world’s going down
It’s a funny old world
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Grist for the Mill
03:24
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You take our crops, and they burn our fields
You take the tithe and they loot the coin
You took our sons and you marched them to war
They took our daughters and sold them as slaves
You’re all living for power, for wealth and a name
We’re just trying to live
We’re just grist for the mill
Grist for the mill
‘Tween the hammer and the cross
The river keeps running
The wheel keeps on turning
The mill-stones keep grinding us down
We’re just grist for the mill
Don’t care much for kings, for priests or for lords
Don’t care who takes when there’s none left to give
You want our loyalty but what does that mean
When there’s been no harvest and no planting of seed
Hunger’s our enemy, a fight to the death
Without mercy or recourse or plea
We’re just grist for the mill
Grist for the mill
‘Tween the hammer and the cross
The river keeps running
The wheel keeps on turning
The mill-stones keep grinding us down
We’re just grist for the mill
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62 ships, 10000 souls
Sailing right out of the sun
The empire's might sees the furious tribes
Lined up for the battle to come
No safe landing here
The fleet sails east to a landing at Walmer
The troops forced to swim from deep water
With the Britons attacking at range from the shallows
They're heading right into the slaughter
No safe landing here
A talisman of hope to England's friend
A beacon of welcome at long journey's end
This green and pleasant land is guarded over
By the ancient watchmen of the white cliffs of dover
After 2000 years, a greater threat
Rises from out of the east
The country defends in blackouts and fear
From the air not only the seas
No safe landing here
Batteries of guns and listening posts
Bristle along the cliff
Circling above a hurricane wheels
The few become part of the myth
No safe landing here
A talisman of hope to England's friend
A beacon of welcome at long journey's end
This green and pleasant land is guarded over
By the ancient watchmen of the white cliffs of dover
No safe landing here
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Hazel of the Rocks
03:02
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(instrumental)
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Wayfaring Stranger
04:18
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I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world below
There’s no sickness, no toil, nor danger
In that fair land to which I go
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is hard and steep
But beauteous fields arise before me
Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep
I'm going there to see my Father
And all my loved ones who've gone on before
I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home
I'm going there to see my Mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
So, I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home
I'm just going over Jordan
I'm just going over home
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Matt Steady Leicester, UK
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