1. |
Under The Bonnet
05:29
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The confidence within you
And almost justified
The vengeance you were seeking
On those who'd victimised
Heads that turn behind you
Pupils that dilate
What desire's betrayed through
Leaving no mistake
But something under the bonnet
Didn't want to get on it
Oh no, oh no
Something under the bonnet
Didn't want what you wanted
Oh no, oh no
This nymph who sways before you
Young eyes burning bright
All that deprivation
She could make it right
But something under the bonnet
Didn't want to get on it
Oh no, oh no
Something under the bonnet
Made you strangely myopic
Oh no, oh no
Is it fear of success
Or fear of failure?
Call it fear
Is it set in your bones
Or in your memories?
From those years
At the start of the track
And you remain there
Corrosion setting in soon
Decay brings clarity
You feel the now or never
With burning urgency
Still something under the bonnet
Doesn't want to get on it
Oh no, oh no
Something under the bonnet
Wants it all to be squandered
Oh no, oh no
And what lies under the bonnet
Is it safe to uncover?
Uh-oh, uh-oh
What lies under the bonnet
Dare we shine a light on it?
Uh-oh, uh-oh
What lies under the bonnet
Dare we shine a light on it?
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2. |
Married Life
04:44
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He’s the right one
He’s the keeper
If you reassure yourself enough you might believe it
But you’re wistful
In those pictures
Like you’ve made your bed up far too neat for you to sleep in
Can a soul like yours want to stay secure
When your whole life’s theme is curiosity?
You have to meet him in the middle
You chose to live there on the common ground
You have to meet him in the middle
Where married life is a compromise
I’m a live one
But a loner
And when they get to close to me then I get frozen
But you fix things
Like addictions
And if you led me past this we could make a home there
Will a soul like yours never ask for more?
When your whole life’s theme is reading people’s dreams?
I could have met you in the middle
We could’ve settled in a halfway house
I could have met you in the middle
But married life is a tie that binds
We get one life
Only one ride
Yeah as you travel farther down the road you realise
And was that the one?
That ship that’s sailed on?
The memory that’s got to see me out of this life
Now you’re sat online with a tracking eye
Cos you stayed behind where it’s safe and dry
I could have met you in the middle
We should be lovers in the here and now
But you chose to meet him in the middle
Where married life is an alibi
I could have met you in the middle
We should be lovers in the here and now
But you choose to meet him in the middle
Where married life is your alibi
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3. |
Sniper Of Life
04:06
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Woke up today
Remembered somebody died
Woke up today
It happens I’m still alive
Now everything’s broken
But something is fixed
The question of meaning
There’s no meaning to this
TV’s a distraction
Turns out it always was
Whisky’s an attraction
Who ever knew it was?
But I ain’t got no survivor guilt
Although the sniper at work he took in your prime
No I ain’t got no survivor guilt
Because the sniper of life could have me on his mind
Got up this morning
Sore head but alive
While people with causes
Don’t get through the night
Squandered the daytime
Still hung up on your plight
The same old timewasting
But now done out of spite
I’ve offering a retraction
Of most of my own complaints
No right to feel any anger
That life hasn’t met my aims
But I ain’t got no survivor guilt
Although the sniper of life has cut me down to size
No I ain’t got no survivor guilt, no
Because the sniper of life could get me any time
And hey, I’m left standing
That’s some kind of result
But should I be cowering
Waiting on the assault?
Waiting for god only knows what comes next
Only know god has no role in this mess
Could be making the most of
But not fair when you have been denied
Should be seizing the moment
But something has ruined my appetite
But I ain’t got much survivor guilt
Because the sniper of life could have me in his sights
And I don’t want more than idle thrills, no
Because the sniper of life could halt them any time
And should I be thankful
For this chance to revolt?
I think I will survive the guilt, yeah
Because the sniper of life is always on my mind
The sniper of life could have me in a line
The sniper of life will get to me in time
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4. |
People Person
05:10
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There are saints among us
And saints below
Where they end up
Some before their time
Got the measure of life
And yet they still decide
To get in there
With their dreams rolled up
That every little little helps
And never in it for themselves
They’re born under another star
But show us that it’s not so far
You were a people person
You found people worth it
You were a people person
Who saw people hurting
So he shot you down
On the latest round
Of your mission
Oh how we’ve been robbed
And we came together
And shared a pledge
For the future
Though we’ve parted since
Still every little little helps
And someone’s channelling you themselves
Somebody who’ll perpetuate
The battle of love over hate
You were a people person
You let people hurt you
You were a people person
Who got people working
There are saints among us
Who don’t stop to ponder
They adopt the struggle
Like there’s no way other
When it cut you down
You had just got out
Of the smog
Of a working life
Found a world to be changed
And if God was your game
Doesn’t matter
It’s the thought that counts
There’ll never be a kingdom come
Not down here nor above the sun
But the way around religious speak
Is to take it allegorically
You were a people person
You found people worth it
You were a people person
Who decreased their burdens
You were a people person
You’ve left people hurting
You were a people person
Now there’s people worsening
There are saints among us
Who don’t stop to ponder
They adopt the struggle
Like there’s no way other
And the saints among us
Are our sons and mothers
But they’re unconnected
To our dread of peril
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5. |
It's What Happens
04:39
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There is never a fairer word said
But never a stranger word said
Than it’s what happens
It’s what happens
There is never a flatter word said
But never a sadder word said
Than it’s what happens
It’s what happens
It is all we can make of decay
Can’t be halted or explained away
But it’s what happens
It’s what happens
And there’s only one other way of saying it
That it is what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
It is all we can say of that day
Can’t ignore it or chase it away
It will happen
It will happen
And there’s only one other way of saying it
That it is what it is
It is what it is
It is what it is
There is never a saner word said
But never a braver word said
Than it’s what happens
It’s what happens
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6. |
A Rothko And Your Face
04:12
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As the photo reached my eyes
It caused butterflies to rise
With my vision swimming too
At this vision seen of you
Only one thing I had seen
Caused such swirliness in me
Only two sights bring that state
They’re a Rothko and your face
It’s religion without God
Or an inkling of love
It is living’s saving grace
It’s a Rothko or your face
There’s a Mona Lisa smile
But that isn’t what beguiles
It’s the luminosity
That you robbed from Rothko’s dream
And that man is truly rich
Who can always survey it
But would Rothko call disgrace
Hoarding a Rothko or your face
And though both of you’ll degrade
Those sensations will remain
Till the day my brain gives way
There’s a Rothko and your face
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7. |
People Just Leave
04:25
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We came from nothing
Well don't you remember?
But it's too daunting
To know we'll return there
We hold a story
That we'll always defend
With a beginning
And a middle and an end
But what if it stops in the middle?
What if your works come to little?
What if that thought was a fiction?
As if we were lied to
And people just leave
Into the ether
People just leave
And don’t expect feedback
People just leave
Smoking across from me
And well lubricated
You scoffed at the infamy
Of your brush with danger
But within months of that meeting
You were snuffed out in the middle
Showing that life is no riddle
That there is no wherefore
People just leave
But we can’t conceive it
People just leave
With nothing to receive them
Laid out in the hospital
His state beyond serious
But behold his family
Away with religion
There’ll be no divine intervention
It’s sought out of pure desperation
They’re gonna be shown the lesson
That people just leave
Prayers will not keep them
People will leave
And we must just grieve it
Do you know you are gone?
I think not, I think not
If you know you've passed on
Knock once, knock once
Well they’ll never know what they’re missing
They don’t even know that they’re missing
People who lived so insistent
Despite all they cried through
They never finished their mission
While some of us left here are drifting
Unsure that there is a reason
When people just leave
Dying is easy
People just leave
Removed so indifferently
And we roll on too easily
People will leave
That’s people meaning you and me
We will just leave
We will just leave
We will just leave
People just leave
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8. |
Certain Love
04:32
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You’ve got a certain love
One that can’t be touched
You’ve got a perfect love now
One that won’t be rocked
She’s one to last
Her spirit is sparkling on
You’ve got a certain love
We’re almost envious of
You’ve got a perfect love now
The sort there’s legends of
She’ll never change
Her presence is raging on
You’ve got a certain love
One they can’t switch off
You’ve got a perfect love now
One that won’t be lost
Time will dissolve
And memories hold
Until we dissolve ourselves
And so a senseless loss
Becomes an endless love
The one you’re hurting from
But will take comfort from
She isn’t gone
She breathes in the world through us
You’ve got a certain love now
You’ve got a perfect love now
You’ve got a certain love now
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9. |
Sit Me With You
05:20
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The other side of the bus
The other side of experience
That moment I was in love
With your shot at experience
There’s a secret you must never know
That all you’ve got to do is show up
It’s a privilege you already own
That all you’ve got to do is rock up
Sit me with you, call me back
To the start of all of that
Remind me all the truths you don’t know yet
Sit me with you, bring me back
You have everything I lack
I promise not to sow the same regrets
The other side of the bus
And glowing with inexperience
But with the beauty you’ve got
You’ll be taking the royal road
That’s a destiny I never owned
So all I had to do was screw up
Done by chasing what I thought was owed
So somebody like you would rock up
Sit me with you, call me back
To the start of all of that
Remind me all the truths you don’t know yet
Sit me with you, bring me back
You have everything I lack
I promise not to make the same mistakes
You are my conscience
Cos I too was young once
With of all of these problems to chose
You are my conscience
Cos I got it wrong once
And never held someone like you
I’m headed over the hill
Fading out of obscurity
And though the years will get you, too
You will always be short of me
But you gave me an affirmative
Through your eyes of a child
Finally put the blue tick by my life
With a laugh and your smile
Sit me with you, call me back
To a time before the fall
Remind me all the proof you don’t have yet
Sit me with you, bring me back
Past the warnings we ignore
I promise not to sow the same regrets
Sit me with you, call me back
You have everything I lack
I promise not to make the same mistakes
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10. |
Invincible Summer
05:31
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At a time like this
It's hard to see
How to live on
From a tragedy
In an hour like this
You can’t believe
Seeing the proof
Of our destinies
But stay around
Don’t add insult to their injury
Wear the frown
But remember that they are at peace
At times I feel an invincible summer
Although this world doesn’t lead to another
I summon up an invincible summer
Because he stood where I stand now
With a crime like this
It's hard to reach
Someone lost deep
In the heart of grief
And we've seen so clear
Life's frailty
Its gift replaced
With a cruelty
Oh but live a life
If only in her memory
Hold the line
If just to keep her legacy
At times you’ll feel an invincible summer
Though much of this is wintry sorrows
At times you’ll steal an invincible summer
Because she breathed as you breath now
We only die once
But we live everyday
We only die once
And they lived all those days
You're going to die sure
So now live for those days
In time you’ll greet an invincible summer
To carry you amid the horrors
Inside you’ll feel an invincible summer
Because they loved as you love still
Finally you’ll reach that invincible summer
In memories of the bliss they brought you
You’ll summon up an invincible summer
Because they lived as we live now
Because they lived you will live on
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Worldview UK
Worldview is the alias of Oliver Shaw, an Oxford UK-based songwriter, performer and producer mingling rock, pop, dance and folk with insightful lyrics and an overarching melodic sensibility.
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