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Pass It On

by bemuzic

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1.
I’m standing in a shop doorway hiding from the rain. It’s a five minute pause and then, here we go again. Chorus Flip flopping my way through the summer days, white arrows on my feet show the way to go. Tripping over clichés as I try to find something new to say about the summer. An English summer has to be too hot, or else it is too cold. Need something to talk about, distract us from the world. Chorus You’ve got to make the most of it when the sun shines down on you, ‘cos it can all be whipped away, nothing you can do. Chorus I have my head up in the clouds a big part of the day. It’s a pretty good way to spend your time until they blow away. Flip flopping my way through the summer days, white arrows on my feet show the way to go. Tripping over clichés as I try to find something new to say about the summer. Yeah something new to say about the summer. There’s nothing new to say about the summer.
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I’ve got a head, a head full of songs. A car park ticket tucked in my back pocket. The next four hours belong to me. I stroll on down the hill to the city below. I stop to rest on top of the bridge, let the feeling of the river flow into me. I see the young guys selling rides, they’re talking ‘bout what happened the night before. On past the cafes, they try to tempt me in, but I keep on walking, weaving through the crowds. I hear the sound of distant music and I know that favourite spot is gone. Yeah I’ve got a head, a head full of songs and I have found a place to sing them to you. La la la la la …..
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The books we read, they shape our mind. Life is elsewhere while we’re eating fire. It’s a wild sheep chase. We can’t see the joke. This is the book of laughter and forgetting. Chorus And the world is full of ignorance, as we dance, dance, dance after dark. And the world is full of ignorance, as we dance, dance, dance, to the end of the world. I want to see behind the door. Truth is surfacing about life before man. It’s a wild sheep chase. We can’t see the joke. This is the song of laughter and forgetting. Chorus The books we read, they shape our mind. Life is elsewhere While we’re eating fire.
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Pebbles 02:04
You and I are pebbles, pebbles in a stream, water flowing over us, wearing us down. You and I are wires twisted together, twisted ‘till we don’t even know who we were. You and I are wires twisted together long ago. You and I are branches, branches on a tree. The leaves have fallen off and now you see the spaces in between. Yeah the spaces in between, is where it all seems to be. Yeah, you and I are pebbles, pebbles in a stream, life is flowing over us, wearing us down, wearing us down, wearing us down.
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The sun comes up, the sun goes down, and everything is changing all the time. I breathe in, I breath out, now you’re not here and nothing is the same. I fill my glass, I empty it, we all drink more since you are not around. You were here, then you were gone, and I’m still trying hard to understand. I was young, now I’m old, and I am at the top of the tree. Don’t wanna be on top of the tree. Not ready for the top of the tree.
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Fruit Lady 02:25
My heart is made of mango and my fingers are ten ripe bananas. My head’s a big fat melon and my toes are segments of a tangerine, Chorus ‘cos I’m the fruit lady, yeah yeah. I’m the fruit lady, yeah yeah. I’m the fruit lady, yeah yeah yeah yeah. Well if I’m feeling hungry I’ll eat two of my fingers and grow some more. And when I run too fast my lychee eyes pop out and roll along the floor, Chorus Sometimes I get sad and I cry tears of lemonade. I cry until I’ve filled a glass, then go outside and drink it in the shade, Chorus
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Chorus This song isn’t true. Made it up just for you. Well people never lie and the sun will always shine. This song isn’t true. There’s a God up in the sky. You’ll go to heaven when you die. Every man should have a gun, every father, every son. There’s a God up in the sky. Chorus We haven’t messed up this world, still got time to turn it round. The air’s pollution free, there’s plenty more fish in the sea. We haven’t messed up this world. Chorus This is a happy song, makes you want to sing along. It’s good not to think and to drown yourself in drink. Yeah this is a happy song. Chorus
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Lines and marks upon your face are a map of where you’ve been, but they don’t show me where to go. Radio on the windowsill. No one ever turns it on. I hear it playing in my head. Chorus When the music stops we all sit down, when it starts again we all rush around. Looking through binoculars the wrong way round, I see back to where you were. Faded scenes in black and white dance around before my eyes, leading back to where I stand. Chorus In a box I find a key to a door that isn’t there, I keep it anyway. And the soundtrack of our lives keeps playing day and night, all feeling the same beat. When the music stops we all sit down, when it starts again we all rush around. When the music stops, yeah when the music stops, what happens, when the music stops?
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Chorus It’s one step forward, two steps back. One step forward, and two steps back. Been swimming against the tide for so long now. Hasn’t got me very far, but I’m not gonna drown. Chorus I thought we’d talked it over, thought we’d got it straight, but today you start to say the same old things. Chorus Seasons are flipping by, colours change. Everything has got to die before it grows again. Chorus
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You’re terrified of silence so you keep talking all the time. Can’t keep spinning plates forever, one day they’ve got to fall. But if we all get lost together we might not feel lost at all. You make your plans and they get broken, so you take one day at a time. Don’t know which way you’re going, just start walking anyway. But if we all get lost together we might not feel lost at all. You’re terrified of silence so you keep talking all the time. Can’t keep spinning plates forever, one day they've got to fall.
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Pass It On 03:53
Points of light in the blackness, been there for so long. It’s time to join them up. Chorus And we all hear the story, listen, pass it on. Is it all, or is it nothing? I can never tell, but you showed me where to look. Chorus Start a fire in the morning, never let it die. Stare all night into the flames. Chorus Points of light in the blackness, been there for so long. It’s time to say goodbye.
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All songs written and performed by bemuzic.
Cigar box guitars made by bemuzic were used on all songs except "Lost Together" (on which she played a dodgy old upright piano, and a children's glockenspiel)

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released August 13, 2013

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bemuzic Cambridge, UK

In Nov 2009 bemuzic bought two Cigar Box Guitars from eBay. Since then she has acquired quite a collection of home made instruments, most of which she built herself.
When not writing songs, recording, or building guitars she enjoys playing her songs on the streets of Cambridge and surrounding towns.
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