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Forget About Yesterday
03:18
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Days when you feel like red is green and all the birds, they're sounding mean. Heat of the sun it feels like rain and your thoughts drive you insane. Too bad! When you're in it up to your knees. Too bad! Take my advice and will you please stop thinking about tomorrow. Forget about yesterday. Days when your life is upside down. It's time to turn your head around. Everybody's getting sick of you. You can't figure out why you’ve got the blues. Just do it! When your life makes fun of you. Do it! Remember that it's easy to stop thinking about tomorrow. Just do it! When your life makes fun of you. Do it! Remember that it's easy to stop thinking about tomorrow. Forget about yesterday. Stop thinking about tomorrow. Forget about yesterday. Stop thinking about tomorrow. Forget about yesterday. Forget about yesterday. Forget about yesterday. Forget about. Forget about. Forget about (what?) yesterday.
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Little Boat
04:23
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Got a medal for rising above the tall waves that keep crashing right in. Didn't mean to say it like this, but you were part of the deafening din. Little boat has been rowed down the bay, smashed to pieces all over the shore. Clear to see there's no use in believing this boat, it won't float any more. Now the tide it rises again takes the wreckage with it out to the sea. Something good in the way that it happens, washed the boat and a soul and we're free. Now I stand there, void of my resistance, in the wisdom of the stillness I see. Now I stand there, horizon in the distance, surrounded by the calm of the sea. Now I stand there, horizon in the distance, surrounded by the calm of the sea. Ooo little boat is waiting to sail on the tides again. Out on peaceful water to the place where the winds begin. Little boat yeah, yeah, ooh, ooh.
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For A Friend Of Mine
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Wait for me and I’ll be right there by your side. I hear your voice with a smile and a real sense of pride. The air that we breathe, and the joy that we share. You are my friend I can depend upon. This song is for a friend of mine. Friendship will always remain. This song is for a friend of mine. Some friends have gone, but the friendship’s still strong as the memories. Sharing with you the moments of pleasure and pain. With you I would go through the past all over again. My life and our friendship is a long happy road. Leading me from nowhere to eternity. This song is for a friend of mine. Friendship will always remain. This song is for a friend of mine. Some friends have gone, but the friendship’s still strong as the memories. When I can't go on and everything goes wrong, I need a helping hand. Time and time again, when I need a friend, I call your name. This song is for a friend of mine. Friendship will always remain. This song is for a friend of mine. Some friends have gone, but the friendship’s still strong as the memories, memories.
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Pennies To Gold
03:24
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Coin in a well. No one can tell. Where wishes they end and begin to enlighten your heart’s secret place, and cover with grace, the bittersweet tears that you cry in the deep of the night where you find, love and delight, move into day’s blinding light. How, how can I look in your eyes, open the veil of disguise that’s your pain, what’s there to gain, by hiding the love that you know is the best part of what you could be, try hard to see, and turn your back to the wind. Now, now that I see through your eyes, oh what a pleasant surprise waits for you, wishing wells do turn all your pennies to gold. Now, now that I see through your eyes, oh what a pleasant surprise waits for you, wishing wells do turn all your pennies to gold. Turn all your pennies, to gold.
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Oh Angel
04:10
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Oh Angel, did you have to say that nothing ever lasts forever. Ah, you tempted, you tempted providence. Now I gaze in silence, it's all over. Take it while you can, is what you used to say. Take life as a joke and you took, and I hoped and prayed, don't go too far. Oh Angel, I hope you made your cloud, and that you're up there somewhere and still laughing. Can you see me, it's kinda lonely down here now, though I know ends mean brand new beginnings. Take it while you can, is what you used to say. Take life as a joke and you took, and I hoped and prayed, don't go too far, oh Angel, oh Angel. Oh Angel, I know you knew too well, your final curtain call has already called you. You bowed out, the only way that you knew how, as long as you could still look in your mirror, oh Angel. long as you could still look in your mirror. Yes, I know ends mean brand new beginnings. Oh Angel, oh Angel. Oh, oh, hey, hey, oh Angel. Oh, oh, oh Angel.
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Ordinary Memory
04:23
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I didn't care a little bit 'bout the way you broke this heart of mine. Then I did and I hid it in a place you couldn't touch me where it hurt so bad I wanna cry. Hide away this heart you broke. Way back then, way back when, I was so much less of me. Now it's an ordinary memory, just an ordinary memory, it's an ordinary memory of my time with you. Did you know? There is so much more inside of me now that I have finally set you free. Can you see? I am right here where I need to be. You couldn't take myself away from me. I picked myself right off the ground. The pieces of my heart were there, then I stood 'cause I could, and I headed for the doorway up where the air was so much clearer then. It doesn't matter anyway 'cause I'm here and I'm near all the things that count right now and you're an ordinary memory, just an ordinary memory. You're an ordinary memory that I keep with me. Did you know? There is so much more inside of me now that I have finally set you free. Can you see? I am right here where I need to be. You couldn't take myself away from me and you're an ordinary memory, just an ordinary memory. You're an ordinary memory that I keep with me. I didn't care a little bit 'bout the way you broke this heart of mine. Then I did. Yes, I did.
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Comedian
02:45
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Somebody said that the world is a stage, we play a part on it. I think it's true when I think of you and the plots you constrict. Don't really mind if a change of the heart will bring you back to me. A love affair is a simple play when you act naturally. I play the part of comic relief and the joke was on me from the act number one to the last curtain call. Comedian! A tragedy couldn't drive you to tears, you know all the moves. I was so sure till you threw me a line to confuse and miss my cue. Now I'm playing the part of comic relief and the joke was on me from the act number one to the last curtain call. Comedian! I play the part of comic relief and the joke was on me from the act number one to the last curtain call. Comedian!
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Our lives are dictated. Our lives are dictated. Our lives are dictated by tiny screens. Our lives are dictated by tiny screens. We're drowning in debt way beyond our means. Our lives are dictated by tiny screens. My situation seems so insecure, time is ticking' on. Crimes breeding in the heat of the sun, yeah. Desperate hours of insanity, broken glass is on the streets. Still, I wonder who is on the run? My world, SOS to the universe. My world, tell me what will become of us. My world, SOS to the universe. My world. Kill your fears. Electric city, live wire, disconnecting all the ties. Short circuit and the panic takes a hold of you. There is somebody looking over your shoulder. Paranoia, that's my name. Isolation under cover of a million lies. My world, SOS to the universe. My world, tell me what will become of us. My world, SOS to the universe. My world. SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! SOS! Our lives are dictated by tiny screens. Our lives are dictated by tiny screens. We're drowning in debt way beyond our means. Time is ticking on. Manipulated, scrutinized, unheard. Money is abstract, it's become absurd. Phones in hand, headphones in. Blind and deaf to the state we're in. Time is ticking on. Blind and deaf to the state we're in. Blind and deaf. Blind and deaf. Time is ticking on. Swallow pills to kill your fears. To make you. To make you brave. Time is ticking on. To hide your tears.
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All For You
04:28
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Here I stand, holding my head in my hands, waiting for your command, I’m all for you. So much love, that you have given to me, there's nowhere that I’d rather be, I’m all for you. All the way, you're so easy. I remember the time, when I wasn't mine, 'til you came. Passing time, holding your hand in mine, can't wait to see what we’ll find, I’m all for you. I can see, from now to eternity, your love has opened to me, I’m all for you. I’m all for you. All the way, you're so easy. I was angry and blind, you helped me unwind; now I see. All for you. All for you. All for you. It’s all for you. All for you. All the way, you're so easy. I'm a fortunate man, now that I understand just what you mean to me. Now I see, just what you mean to me, your love has opened to me, I’m all for you, I’m all for you, I’m just for you.
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Turn Around
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There you go again. There you go again, spilling all your troubles to me. Be the way you are. Is what you say you're trying to be? Change your situation. Save your reputation. Stop making up the face you're wearing out. Turn around. What you can't give up is the easy life you're leading. All your luxury it doesn't bring the high you're needing. Change your situation. Save your reputation. It ain't no way to carry on. Life is so frustrating. Fun isn't there for taking. Stop making up the face you're wearing out. Don't you think I know; he pays your bills, displays and owns you. Got no love to show, money's all you're hanging on to. Change your situation. Save your reputation. That ain't no way to carry on. Oh, life is so frustrating. Fun isn't there for taking. Stop making up the face you're wearing out. Turn around. There you go again.
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Walking On The Water
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Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Like a desert moving slowly to the sea, like a mountain that never turns green. Like a painting that's been hanging upside down, I've been hanging to a dream, yeah. Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! Like a raindrop that falls upon the sand. Like a feeling that has no chance. Like a feather I’ve been trying to hang on to, I've been hanging on to your love, it's true. Like the fish is in the clear blue water, like a walk through the garden so green. For a vision of paradise, I have squandered my dreams, yeah. On a highway that's leading to no end, there is no message, there is no heaven-sent. No one's cheating 'cause there ain’t no play-by-rules. I looked for wisdom in a world of fools. Like the fish is in the clear blue water. Like a walk through the garden so green. For a vision of paradise, I have squandered my dreams. Walk, walking on the water, walk, walking on the sea yeah! like a desert moving slowly to the sea, like a mountain that never turns green. Like a painting that's been hanging upside down, oh yeah! Let me tell you now. Like a raindrop that falls upon the sand. Like a feeling that has no chance. Like a feather I been trying to hang on to, I've been hanging on to your, I've been hanging on to your, I've been hanging on to your love, it’s true yeah. Walk on water, walk on the sea yeah, walk on the water with you.
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There We Are
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Now, these thirteen years are somehow. Baby you tear me apart. Maybe you do sing me like songs in the wind. Then I'm flying again. There we are. What do you think of the people that we've been so far? What do you think about doing it right or not at all? Damn, you took my heart in your hand. Holding me close for the dance. There we are, there we are. What do you think of the people that we've been so far? There we are. What do you think about doing it right or not at all? Dance! Dance for the rest of the way. Swirlin' the nights and twirlin' the days. Two-steppin' our lives away. There we are. There we are. What do you think of the people that we've been so far? There we are, there we are. What do you think about doing it right or not at all? What do you think about doing it right or not at all? What do you think, what do you think now, yeah yeah. Tell me what do you think, what do you think now.
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All Your Thoughts
03:49
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All your thoughts used to be mine but then your mind unravelled again. Sure, it's not gone unrecognized the weight of your lies entangled in sin. To apologize it's only fair. They are not my crosses to bear. I could be rowing upstream like in my dream unleashing the wind. If I had my way, we would be moving on. But the ties they're bound oh so strong. To apologize it's only fair. They were never my crosses to bear. All my thoughts used to be mine, but then my mind unravelled again. And my mind unravelled again. And my mind entangled in sin.
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Ajay Mathur Lucerne, Switzerland
Ajay Mathur is a Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and a citizen of the world. Born and raised in India and residing in Switzerland, Ajay Mathur’s talent as a singer-songwriter and seasoned musician blends both pop and rock genres with Americana and traditional Indian instruments into something radically new and genre-bending. ... more
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