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The Hoping Door
03:55
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Keep it open keep it open
Hold the hoping door
Keep it open keep it
Like the good who went before
Keep it open keep it open
Show the vital signs
Keep the light alive
Through the blackest night
The door of hope must be there and shown to everyone
Whether living in a caravan, a palace, or a slum
There has to be a hope of more good things to come
If you’ve had your day then leave some for the young
People slaving to be free with a hope to end despair
They look to the likes of me - the lucky ones to share
You can raise your eyes to heaven and pretend that they’re not there
But pretending isn’t hope - only shameful lack of care
You can look for it in leaders or those wanna-bes
Put your faith in cheap believers and their phony panaceas
Look for it in your brothers eyes that inside there will be
Strength and knowledge and reason
And good ol’ t.l.c.
You can hold it with a pen or a paintbrush or your mouth
You might have to put your foot in it and never take it out
You can dream of pastures greener or say ‘this is all we’ve got’
No matter what you think - it’s what you do that counts
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There
02:43
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It was there in the woods
It was there in the sea
It was there flying in the sky
It was there on the avenue
It was there everywhere
There all around (waiting) to be found
I saw it from the roof
I heard it in the wind
I smelt it in the air
I felt it when you touched me
We built a book on diving deep
Going out and taking it in
They never tried to understand
So we bit their tails just to show them
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Winterin
03:21
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Beauty for Us
06:20
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Surmounting monumental mental mountains we got here
Overcoming, understanding, climbing over fears
Awakening from dazed confusion, stepping into day
To at least appreciate, if not quite knowing the way
There’s beauty in what we can hear, in what there is to see
Beauty to behold and know in discovery
Beauty in a learning child, in that joyous smile
Beauty in the innocence
Beauty makes it all worthwhile
There’s nothing to compare with us, no-one else to speak
Nothing to compare with us, unique
But ignorance is bliss till you get
Hit and sit there stunned and wondering why
Innocence like pure white snow will melt away
Making way for new things of beauty to grow
Surmounting monumental mental mountains to get here
Overcoming inhibitions, superstitious fears
Stepping out from dim confusion, savouring the day
Beauty on our journey, beauty to sustain
Beauty in discovery, to behold and know
Beauty in our memory, beauty in what has gone by
Beauty in the now
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Mo
05:10
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I love you Mo much more than I’ll ever know
When you’re here every day nearby my side
I know from before if I let you go
There’ll be nothing for me but to cry
I love you Mo much more than I’ll ever know
When you’re in so close that I can’t see completely
All that you do and you mean to me
In the whirl of the worldly grind
But stand back too far
And I see all the space
Become an empty void
Without your loving grace
I love you Mo much more than I’ll ever show
As we grow deeper down into each other’s souls
More so much more than I can know
When I’m lost in the warmth of your embrace
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Sensual Feelings
03:43
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Sensual feelings tingle through my veins
Sensual feelings come back fresh again
I look at you
And feel it all anew
Can’t deny it
It’s just true
Sensual notions spring to my head
Through every nerve end I can feel them spread
Come with me love
Enough thinking of
Wondering, worrying, waiting -
That’s enough
Let’s calmly cruise on a pleasure that’s all free
Dive on down below
There’s a universe beneath the stormy sea
Sinking slowly to the beautiful deep
You and me is all we need
Sensual beings such as you and me
As long as we’re alive we will long to feel
Come with me now
Stars aligned
Fantasies combine
And we’re in love
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No Clue
04:39
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There’re many things that you know that
I never would have thought of
Gifts you bring that
Cannot be bought love
You teach me things that
I’d never have learned
Instinctive loving that
Cannot be earned by me
And though you’re kind and wise and strong
You don’t have a clue what you do
When you show your love to me
You don’t have a clue how I feel
When you steal my heart away
And I know for sure it’s somewhere safe
I don’t have a way to say how I feel
In the day-to-day jumble of ups and downs
And ins and outs and tos and fros
Backs and forths and pros and cons
That ebb and flow round and round
My twisty head
I don’t have a way to say what I mean
I know that’s nothing new but that is why
There’s music and rhyme
And all that kinda thing
I can sing
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Star
06:24
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I’ve been searching for my star
It wasn’t in the bar
I’ve been gazing at the sky
In the blackest night
Looking for the light
The one so bright
To guide me to the day
To carry me away
From this lonely stagnant stream
I need a running dream
I’ve been fearing that my star
Has shot away
For I saw the clearing
Of the clouds
In the nighttime sky
Revealing a billion
Distant flickering nameless flames
Oh but none were mine
Where is mine
Hope is playing
With my mind
I thought I saw it east
I thought I saw it west
I thought I saw it south
Oh no it wasn’t north
It was just a false dawn
Oh star oh star oh star oh star
Wherever you are
Please return to me
Because I’m deep in need
In need indeed
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How my eyes caught that page
I can’t tell but the truth is big
And it can’t hurt more than nothing
From where I sit that must be true
I suppose since I read it in the paper
It may happen any one of these times
That do seem to run me over
With their wheels that roll on anyway
It’s a game but not sporting
Many frills beneath the dress
Beneath the dross, beneath best
Behind the rest some emptiness
There’s a row outside my window
I don’t know but it can be guessed
They don’t have the feeling I have here now
Of melancholy
Mellowness
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Springin
02:11
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You made me smile and happy for awhile
And a while is all we get at a time
Digging in the dark, deep down for a spark
Seeking sunlight in the night
Shoulder that ol’ stone up though down again ’twill roll
Nothing at the top to show
Times you get to win
Enjoy and revel in
But stay in that day
And you’ll fade
You made me smile and happy for awhile
And the memory’ll help me through sadder times
Keep going forward on a line and you’ll end up back behind
Look around, up and down, to see where we’re bound
There’s joy in today, on the road along the way
View it all and we’ll know more where to go
Living is a mess
Even at its best
Each success and failure
Just another door
But you made me smile and happy for awhile
Here’s to many more of those times
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Adam Murphy Ireland
Adam Murphy was born and raised in Cork, Ireland, but is a long-time Galway resident after periods living and working in
Europe, USA, and UK.
‘Progress’ is his ninth album of original material. Each collection has a discrete flavour and is a set of thematically linked pieces. His work has been aired regularly on RTE and other radio stations in Ireland and abroad, most recently in the Far East.
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