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Diamonds And Gold
03:36
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I don’t need lovers I just need Love
I don’t need it all I just need enough
I need somebody to call my bluff
A body by my side when the going gets rough
I don’t need diamonds and I don’t need gold
Expensive things they make a mess of my soul
But maybe I’m just trying to break the mould
Cos I’m looking for something if the truth be told
I heard somebody say there isn’t room for everyone
But if you work hard you’d be the lucky one
I don’t need promises that you can’t keep
I’d rather have good nights sleep
I don’t need powder and I don’t need pills
I don’t need another case of cheap thrills
That’s an early grave I don’t plan to fill
And I’d like to make it over the hill
Theres a rumour going round that you’ve got to play the game
And ticking boxes is the way to make your name
But I’m not a ghost with a ball and chain
I don’t want to be a picture in a gilded frame
I’m looking for a heading, a place to be
With no expectations, a place to be free
Where no one tries to get the best of me
A place so fine that its hard to believe
Where there’s no more lies no more wisdom from the wise
It isn’t true, I can see it in your eyes
I know where I’m going I know where I come from
I can recommend it if you wanna come along
I know where I’m going I know where I come from
I can recommend it if you wanna come along
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Better Than That
03:53
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You didn’t get the job you tried for
nor make your way to the top
just remember there’s nothing up there
and they’ll work you, they’ll work you till you drop
like a dog with a bone, lonely but never alone
oh you can’t find your way home, just remember in time
you can do better than that
You’ve never made a million pound and now you’re living life in fear
just remember that money you crave
couldn’t buy back those wasted years
no it don’t come with ease and they say that nothings for free
and it tends to tease us, just remember in time
you can do better than that
as you face yourself again, struggling to lose
the weight of the world so heavy you don’t know just what to choose
come on ask yourself again, what are you living for?
pay no mind to other peoples choices
oh they don’t know what you have in store
no they don’t know what your living for
you didn’t get the girl of your dreams, your boyfriend never made the cut
you went out with them anyway and now you’re stuck in a toxic rut
like a mouse for the chase it all seemed so easy
but i don’t find the trap is pleasing,
just remember in time you can do better than that
You didn’t get that dream you dreamt up now you’re out in the cold
so just button your coat my friend and remember you were undersold
like a ball and chain, mistakes they come round again
just hop straight back on your train and be reminded in time
you can do better, I can do better, we can do better than that.
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One More For The Road
04:43
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Well I guess its really over, I guess your leaving for good
I always new you’d go someday, you always said you would
Its time for new beginnings, it’s time for you to go
Our paths will cross again someday, so for now lets raise a toast
One more for the good times
One more for the road
Lets drink to your adventures
Raise a glass to your new home
I cant believe its over
No more knocking on your door
You’ve been the best of friends to me
I never needed more
I guess your moving on now, It’s a parting of the ways
things can never stay the same, no more glory days
oh and yet I am hopeful that the memories will serve
as I look back over everything, I hope you find what you deserve
One more for the good times
One more for the road
Lets drink to your adventures
Raise a glass to your new home
I cant believe its over
No more knocking on your door
You’ve been the best of friends to me
I never needed more
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
One more for the good times
One more for the road
Lets drink to your adventures
Raise a glass to your new home
Well I cant believe its over
No more knocking on your door
You’ve been the best of friends to me
I never needed more
OUTRO
You were there with me through everything
I never needed more
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What Came Over Me
04:11
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Somedays I’m up and its plain sailing
Other days I am struggling to breath
What comes over me, well I’ve never really known
Somedays I’m fighting for a future
Other days I’m struggling for a hold
What comes over me, well I’m failing to see
Oh I’ve tried and I’ve tried
Ive been through it all so many different times
I’m trying to believe one of those days
could show me where I’m meant to be
Yesterday I got busy with my future
Yesterday I was planning for today
What came over me, I couldn’t really say
Yesterday I went looking for the answers
Answers that I already know
What came over me, well there’s a question in my soul
Oh I’ve tried and I’ve tried
I work hard To keep tomorrow in my mind
I’m trying to believe that another day could be the one that sets me fre
Oh I’ve tried and I’ve tried
To clear out all the shadows in my mind
I’m trying to believe that all these things should not be happening to me
Right now I’m living in the present,
Right now I haven’t got a clue
What’s come over me, Well I’m sharing it with you
What’s come over me, Well I’m sharing it with you
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5. |
Perfectly Normal
03:14
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I think that you’re perfect
Just the way that you are
I think you’re magnificent
From up close or from afar
So don’t change a hair for me
You’re in champion form
I think you’re perfectly normal
I think you look dapper
In second hand suits
I don’t mind the second hand smell
Or those second hand boots
You’ll never impress me
In Calvin Kleine jeans
You’re already complete
I think that your sexy
You come with all the right bits
You don’t need those implants
Or a pair of fake lips
So save all your money
Cos life is a gift
Well I completely adore you
Be strong beyond measure
Be a brave one, be a brute
face down your enemy
When its staring back at you
Smile at your appearance
swallow your pride
And take the world in your stride
I think that you’re perfect
Just the way that you are
I think your magnificent
From up close or afar
So don’t change a hair for me
Your in champion form
I think your perfectly normal
No don’t change a hair for me
I like you just as you are
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6. |
Wandering
04:16
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Lets climb a mountain High
For answers in the sky
Come with me wandering
We could fly in a jet plane
Hop a freight train, there and back again
Lets go wandering
The horizon calls to me
Come with me to the sea
Lets go wandering
I wont tell the boss man of our plans
I don’t think he’d understand
Lets go wandering
Oh well theres nothing for me here
And I’m burning through my best years
I’m gonna make a break for the railway station
buy my life a new destination
I wont be back again
Oh but I could use a friend
so lets go wandering
We could swim the deepest blue
Take a rocket up to the moon
Lets go wandering
We could chase the stars across the night sky
find out where the crow flies
Come with me wandering
Oh I’ve just got to get away
I couldn’t take another day
I’m gonna lace my boots and just start walking
you can come along and do all the talking
I’ll need the best of friends
Right there with me to the end
So lets go wandering
Lets climb a mountain high
For answers in the sky
won’t you come with me wandering
We could fly in a jet plane
Hop a freight train, there and back again
Lets go wandering
come with me wandering…..lets go wandering
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7. |
Way Up
03:13
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Way up, way up, way up, way up
When I’m lonely and feeling confused
Spent all my money chasing the blues
When I’m falling, falling down on my luck
Well you always catch me and its always enough
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
you take me way up
When I’m jaded and down at the heel
Searching and searching for how to feel
When I’m tired, and I can’t get to sleep
Well you always knock me, knock me right off my feet
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
you take me way up
When I’m homesick, with no place to go
And all of my efforts left me nothing to show
When I’m broken and the pieces are gone
you bring me together, melt me back into one
Don’t forsake me anytime soon
Always needing and believing in you
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
you take me way up
When I’m lonely and feeling confused
Spent all my money chasing the blues
When I’m tired, And I can’t get to sleep
Well you always knock me, knock me right off my feet
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
You take me way up, way up high
you take me way up
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8. |
You'll Never Get Back
03:55
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Some days theres a ghost in your cupboard
Some nights theres one under your bed
And you spend all your time worrying
about the place where you lay you head
Some days there’s no cover to run for
Some nights you just can’t get to sleep
And you find yourself snowed under
and you just cant get no relief
Some times theres a fight you cant run from
Sometime you’re just under attack
But If you start running you’ll never get back
In you life there will be things that you long for
But somebody stands right in your way
And you don’t need anymore conflict
that’s a price that you struggle to pay
In your life there’ll be things you must reach for
But theres nobody to help you get there
And all of those things that you’ve been longing for
they seem broken and beyond repair
Some times your name won’t appear on the list
Sometime you just fall through the cracks
But If you start running you’ll never get back
You haven’t found your fairy tale ending
getting out there seems as hard as can be
1 step forward and 2 steps back
if your looking thats where you’ll find me
right now is the right time to change things
but you find your self wasting the day
The moments that make up your life time
they are gradually ebbing away
In your mind theres a bold voice thats cheering you on
and its full of the courage you lack
but if you start running you’ll never get back.
if you start running you’ll never get back
No, you’ll never get back
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9. |
Who Knows
04:15
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Who knows
Who knows
Who knows what out there for me
Who knows
Who really knows
Who knows what the future could be
I’ve always been a dreamer
And right now your dreaming with me
I’ve always had my head in the clouds
Its seems like a good place to be
Cos I can see for miles around
Any trouble thats coming my way
Its when I look for the meaning in the things I’ve been dreaming
And never mind what they have to say
CHORUS
I still haven’t found a direction
But like a ship I must sail on the sea
No need for intervention
There’s no schedule to the life that I lead
I don’t walk in other mens shoes
I make my own way one step at a time
So i’ll keep on moving down the pathways I’m choosing
Where the trouble just passes me by
CHORUS
I should have given in sooner
to a life thats authentically mine
Cos when I found the meaning
in all the things I was dreaming
My life started turning out fine
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10. |
Dance With The Devil
03:14
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If you’re gonna dance with the devil you might as well lead
throw away those thing you’ve been led to believe
if you’re gonna walk on ice come on and walk with me
I sing to hell with the rules lets see what you can achieve
So you played it safe and you wound up hurt
you tried to douse the flames and wound up with your fingers burnt
you tried to live and let live with all your regrets
and now your tangled and trapped, locked inside your safety net
you kept on smiling and you played the fool
given the choice it was the easiest of things to do
Don’t be hard on yourself its better the devil you know
But the truth is you’ve been lied to
I don't know how they hypnotised you
its time to change your fortune lets begin
If you’re gonna dance with the devil you might as well lead
throw away those thing you’ve been led to believe
if you’re gonna walk on ice come on and walk with me
I sing to hell with the rules lets see what you can achieve
Cos the truth is you’ve been lied to
I don't know how they hypnotised you
its time to change your fortune lets begin
If you’re gonna dance with the devil you might as well lead
(you might as well lead)
throw away those thing you’ve been led to believe
(throw away those things)
if you’re gonna walk on ice come on and walk with me
i sing to hell with the rules and see what you can achieve
i sing to hell with the rules ………..lets see what you can achieve
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CHRIS FOX Cambridge, UK
Chris's music spans the roots lexicon of Folk, Americana, Country and Blues. Audiences are enthralled by his rich vocals,
complex guitar playing & loop pedal alchemy, he is funny & thought provoking in equal measures. A laid back style draws listeners in with tales of the everyday and the unexpected.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Raw and powerful, a solid set from a rising star
James Searle RnRmagazine 9/23
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