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Young Eyes Burning Bright

by Worldview

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1.
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?
2.
Married Life 04:44
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
Certain Love 04:32
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
9.
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
10.
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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After a six year absence Oliver Shaw’s Worldview returns with Young Eyes Burning Bright. The rock/pop album’s ten songs address twin, related themes: midlife regrets and lessons (‘Under The Bonnet’, ‘Married Life’, ‘Sit Me With You’), and mortality and bereavement (‘It’s What Happens’, ‘People Just Leave'), the fragility of life being reflected most starkly in the current Coronavirus pandemic (‘Sniper Of Life’). The lamentation of loss becomes political and humanitarian on ‘People Person’, a eulogy for the murdered Labour MP and campaigner Jo Cox. Other songs offer more consoling sentiments, asserting the timeless nature of a love departed (‘Certain Love’, ‘Invincible Summer’) and the transcendent qualities of beauty and art (‘A Rothko And Your Face’). Musically an established love of the sounds and songwriting of the 1960s is augmented here by a belated reconnection with his formative ‘80s and ‘90s influences. The evocation of Abbey Road is married with the subsequent few decades’ classic synthesizers and drum machines, then brought into the present via modern elements from electro and urban genres. Meanwhile kalimbas, sitars, Egyptian flutes and bagpipes expand the Worldview palette.

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released April 23, 2021

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw.

Photography by Adam Davy.

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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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