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Like You Did Back Then
03:55
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Like You Did Back Then
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Cracks are forming in the ice now honey
Water beading down my windowsill
I make my way through the darkness running
Fast as I can till I get my fill
But the air is cold
It’ll sting your skin
Kick the breath right out of you
And it won’t be long
Until the warm north wind
be blowing in our faces
Oh so close, I can feel you now
Wanna hold my breath don’t wanna breath you out
Would you pull me close, will you know how
To love me like you did
Like you did back then
Like you did back then
I never knew just how to let go
I built my walls no-one could get in
There were truths that went unspoken
Superficial like a salesman's grin
But I did my time
And that’s over with
And I don’t take for granted
When when the ice it thawed
You saw right through
And placed your bets on me
Oh so close, I can feel you now
Wanna hold my breath don’t wanna breath you out
Would you pull me close, would you know how
To love me like you did
Like you did back then
Like you did back then
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Big Lies
03:24
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Big Lies
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
When you’re promised real big things
And you give all that you’ve got
When you trust yourself with all your might
but your trust don’t get backed up
Oh and you push and pull
and pull some more
maybe wear it out on your sleeve
Another year rolls by
You ain’t gained a thing
Backed a failed machine
On the limelight streets
Big lies
I feel broken but I’ll
get back on my feet again
Great heights
I ain’t jumping, no no
Big lies
I feel broken but I’ll
Get back on my feet again
Then you find yourself
And truth be told
You knew back then
Trust with a grain of salt
gotta trust your gut
cause your gut’s got brains
And it knows your heart
Like it knows the game
But you still got heart and you still got love
You know you’re living now, among the lucky ones
So go pick your time
Find what’s dear to you
You invest in love
And she’ll find you too.
Big lies
I feel broken but I’ll
get back on my feet again
Great heights
I ain’t jumping, no no
Big lies
I feel broken but I’ll
Get back on my feet again
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Back Road
03:47
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Back Road
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Talk is cheap
If you want it
I ain’t buying a word you’re selling
Cause I been round here too long
To see the truth in the light of day
And every time that you come ‘round here I get uneasy
And the hate that you’re spilling round here
It’s only gonna fall on deaf ears.
We’re slipping down this back road
Trying to stand strong
Heading toward this black hole
Got me crying No No No
Down this back road
Trying to stand strong
Toying with the devil
How could we be so very wrong
With your fear you gain power
Together we stand, yet divided we gonna fall
Putting up fences instead of building bridges
But now that writing is on the wall
And every time that you come ‘round here I get uneasy
And that hate that you’re spilling round here
I can hardly hold back my tears
We’re slipping down this back road
Trying to stand strong
Heading toward this black hole
Got me crying No No No
Down this back road
Trying to stand strong
Toying with the devil
How could we be so very wrong
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4. |
Carousel
03:26
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Carousel
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Carousel
Spin me around
I’m happy here with my head in the clouds
My imagination
Don’t fail me now
I ain’t ever coming down
I can’t cope with this day to day monotony
Worked to the bone
Just so you can buy a seconds peace
Every little stumble
Sets you back another day
It’s time for a change of direction
So give me one more spin
Carousel
Spin me round
I’m happy here my head in the clouds
My imagination
Don’t fail me now
I ain’t ever coming down
Maybe it’s just this time of year
A little luck wouldn’t go a stray
Jumping through these hurdles
If i see one more bill to pay
It’s time for a change of direction
I’ll get to them one day
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5. |
Overstayed My Welcome
04:23
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Overstay My Welcome
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Picked up my belongings
I left here in the Fall
Bunch of hard back books, some CD’s and a key
You still got that picture
And its hanging on the wall
From the time you took up painting in the spring
I sat down at the table
Where we’d chat and joke and drink
Spark another joint and play guitar
Yeah sometimes it got real heated
You never really valued what I did
Then you’d blow up and make me feel real small
Did i overstay my welcome?
Honey its time I said goodbye
Pushed you to the limits
Honey, was I out of line?
You always felt like home
With that laughter and that smile
Guess you wont be seeing me round here for a while
I ain’t never felt a kinship
As strong as I did
You were someone I could spill my thoughts out to
Later in the evening
When we’d had a few
you’d air the scars that I had laid on you
I guess that age ain’t got no bearing
On how wise we become
I for one was always late to grow
And when I catch my own reflection
I still see that same old kid
Who never learned to own the seeds he’d sown
Did i overstay my welcome?
Honey its time I said goodbye
Pushed you to the limits
Honey, was I out of line?
You always felt like home
With that laughter and that smile
Guess you wont be seeing me round here for a while
If by chance you hear this
And you read between these lines
I hope that you gonna find it in your heart
And I pray that you’ll reach out again
When life have settled down
But if that chance has gone
And I’ve left it too long
Wont you hear me when I tell you I was wrong
I know I overstayed my welcome
Honey its time I said goodbye
Pushed you to the limits
Oh and I was out of line
I overstayed my welcome
Honey its time we said goodbye
Pushed you to the limits
Honey I was out of line
You always felt like home
With that laughter and that smile
Guess you wont be seeing me round here for a while
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6. |
Pockets Of Gold
04:00
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Pockets of Gold
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Everybody’s digging
yeah we’re all out for something
Gonna fill up all our pockets with gold
We’re all optimistic
We’re all in it to win it
Come and get it it’s your pockets of gold
I don’t need religion
Theres just one thing to believe in
come and get it it’s your pockets with gold
When I'm done receiving
I roll over and I sleep
I ain’t parting with my pockets of gold, no no no
Then we will have it all
Then we will have it all
When will we have it all?
We ain’t got nothing...
Then we will have it all
Then we will have it all
When will we have it all?
We ain’t got nothing at all.
Lets all fuck the system
Like a greedy politician
Come and get it, it’s your pocket of gold
Run circles round the question
’til we wear out your defences
Little people you gonna do as your told
Lets not tax the rich
Cause we’ll make it big
A we’ll be sitting on our mountain of gold
Those lefties just don’t get it
With their political correctness
Say what you want when you got pocket of gold
Then we will have it all
Then we will have it all
When will we have it all?
We ain’t got nothing...
Then we will have it all
Then we will have it all
When will we have it all?
We ain’t got nothing at all.
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7. |
9929 Miles
04:12
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9929 Miles
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
When the basil on your windowsills given up the ghost
And the skyline looks eery in this light
People in metal boxes skimming over tv towers
Are they flying home for Christmas?
Are they starting a new life?
I been there before
Seems like many moons ago
That I once took a chance on love
But that ended up so cold, with a refrigerator note
Saying I’m always gonna love you but I’m leaving you tonight
It’s all that I can do to hold myself together
I know its gonna take a little while
When your broke down and your freezing
That lover you’ve been seeing
Is slowly putting in between you 9929 miles
I find solace in my solitude, solace in my songs
After a while they just stink of desperation
The poetry is gone, I find shelter from the storm
Find myself tired and worn out, heaped up on the floor
I need a little sunlight
These winter months are long
And the darkness keeps leading me astray
Yeah my housemates leaving me cups of coffee by the door saying
If you make it through December it’s all gonna be ok
I take a walk down to down town Kreuzberg
But I can't stand the people and their smiles
When the very thing thats keeping, keeping me from laughing is the thought of a mere 9929 miles
Sure ‘nough the Winter thaws right through and so do these old blues
Just like life nothing lasts forever
So I pick up off the floor and start thinking maybe there is more
To this ol’ life than I’d given credit to.
I guess I came to grips with all my mess ups and my slips
I’m in Kreuzberg again playing me a song
It’s just another night where I am underneath these lights
Least down here, I can do no wrong
I’m in another place and I wouldn’t wish it different but sometime I stop dead for a while
What if I’d made the journey to see what waited for me at the other end of those 9929 miles.
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Fire Up Your Cylinders
04:11
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Fire Up Your Cylinders
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
You knew more about most things
Than you ever lead to believe
Like how to be strong, or when to move on
You never failed to intrigue
And I could just sit with you for hours
And hear all that you had to say
Your voice had a depth that rose from your chest
When you talked about lands far away
So fire up your cylinders
Raise all your guns
Now ain’t the time to be cutting or running
They’ll be waiting outside
With their cannons drawn
They’ll show you no mercy
’Til you are no more
So lets give them all that we got until the dawn
You taught me dreams had a purpose
To chase and to catch every one
Sure there’ll be times, when life brings you wine
Or times you’ll be down in the dirt
So fire up your cylinders
Raise all your guns
Now ain’t the time to be cutting or running
They’ll be waiting outside
With their cannons drawn
They’ll show you no mercy
’Til you are no more
So lets give them all that we got until the dawn
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9. |
All My Hope Is Gone
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All My Hope Is Gone
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Lord it’s wrong to prey on the needy
How I hope that I am never one
That loses touch with the souls that surround me
I got my feet in the dirt
I get my heat from the sun
And I know there’s a heartless among us
how it pains me to hear of the despair
Men in high places gonna talk of peace through violence
Fuelling enemies with weapons
As they strip each other bare
And I hope that peace will find us
Even if I'm the only one
And I try, I try, to look towards the sky
But I fear that today, all my hope it is gone
Tell me Jesus where can I find the answers?
Up on the hillsides or in the valleys below?
None of our leaders take heed of the warnings
Together we gonna gather and rise up as one
Life is more sacred than the dollar
Fighting for freedom we’ll pay a cost
Oh and I try, I try to look towards the sky
but i fear that today all my hope it is gone
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10. |
I Can't Hold On
04:39
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I CANT HOLD ON
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Like a dark night deep in winter
Like a cold hard driving rain
Like the weight that’s lifted in ya
When the good Lord calls your name
Like the deep and muddy water
On the Mississippi plain
Like the tree that's torn right from it’s roots
In cat. 5 hurricane
When you think you found the answers
And your stars seems to align
But buried beneath your wisdom
Is just your foolish pride
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
Now you you’ve got a problem
That pumps right through your veins
You made the choice to disconnect
From all that is humane
Like the man who gives whole hearted
Should never stand to gain
So why does it feel like we’re draggin’ at the chain
When your scraping at the bottom
Feel the need to pawn yourself
But you can’t seem to find a value
You can’t justify your wealth
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
Like a winner you’re a natural
Yet you never really tried
You told me once, you told me twice
You’re just in it for the ride
Who am I to cast aspersions
on all you’ve said and done
Yet you protect your second
with your smoking gun
When you base all your existence
And to everything else your blind
On some abstract saint who roams the earth
gives all meaning to your life
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
When you think you found the answers
And your stars seems to align
But buried beneath your wisdom
Is just your foolish pride
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
I can’t hold on
Holding on to the trust that I once know
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Tell Me Where Does All The Time Go?
Lyrics & Music - Jaimi Faulkner
Tell me where did all the time go honey?
I still can’t make my rent
I’m bursting at the seams
Oh this worn out dream
No it don’t make no sense
Tell me where did all the time go honey
I’m out here on my own
Couldn’t make a break if I wanted to
No, its all I’ve ever known
Raised up on Whitley, Mr lang and Dylan’s prose
Small hands on six strings
Strumming hard and bending every note
I’ve played in Memphis town
I’ve been highway bound
Ever since I left the nest
Heard the preacher preach
Love and happiness
Nothing else ever made no sense
Tell me where did all the time go honey?
I still can’t make my rent
I’m bursting at the seams
Oh this worn out dream
No it don’t make no sense
Tell me where did all the time go honey
I’m out here on my own
Couldn’t make a break if I wanted to
No, its all I’ve ever known
Long hauls and pit stops,
Bleary eyed, long distance calls
Bright lights, big city
Someone tell Jimmy that he weren’t half wrong
Ain’t no-one wanna leave, when you just hit town
And the nights gone to your head
Morning rolls on by
Pack your leaving trunk
We’re rollin’ out again
Tell me where did all the time go honey?
I still can’t make my rent
I’m bursting at the seams
Oh this worn out dream
No it don’t make no sense
Tell me where did all the time go honey?
I still can’t make my rent
I’m bursting at the seams
Oh this worn out dream
No it don’t make no sense
Tell me where did all the time go honey
I’m out here on my own
Couldn’t make a break if I wanted to
No, its all I’ve ever known
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