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Holiday
06:28
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I can’t wait to slow me down
Can’t wait to be around
Can’t wait to be the sound
As it comes to pass
Can’t stay in that crazy place
Can’t look at that stressed out face
I wander if I should fully erase
That frantic faze
Maybe I’ll take my soul on a holiday
It’s better than that day to day monotony
Maybe I’ll take my soul to the street parade
We’ll find out what it means to have it made
You know I can’t wait to find out
What you think life is about
In faith I have my doubts
We’re all just a little bit freaked out
By the fact we all live
With no real need to give
Anything to anyone else
Makes for an empty heart an empty shelf
Maybe I’ll take my soul on a holiday
It’s better than that day to day monotony
Maybe I’ll take my soul to the street parade
We’ll find out what it means to have it made
So come on now stop the fight
Journey with me in a new life
Just me and my sweet wife
In this moment alive
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The Old Pine Tree
05:02
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The Lonely Road
04:04
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Does not matter if you’re right or wrong
Or you’re rich and famous but don’t belong
Troubles gonna find you troubles gonna rip out your soul
No words will ever describe it
Saying nothing only riles the one you love
Either way that tunnel deepens
These are the cards that I’ve been dealt
Gonna to deal with them myself
Somewhere on the lonely road
Ive never been one to cry a lot
Got a cupboard full of shit I’ve bottled up
One day it may scream back from that jar
Til that day ill rise and say
Look at yourself you got a divine display
That If you try real hard you can reach out to so much more
These are the cards that I’ve been dealt
Gonna to deal with them myself
Somewhere on the lonely road
You get that check when you’re losing friends
Gone so young why did it have to end for them
But the mind ways heavy from time to time
And we all sight of it and that’s no crime
To wanna be
Oh to wanna be
Somewhere on that lonely road
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Captain Moonlite
04:22
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The master rose from slumber
Sent that young man on his way
The boy he befriended
As a guise to rob the safe
Born and raised to follow the faith
Digging for gold in an unfamiliar place
I rise to call morning home
Pull my skin back from the bone
I’ll run from you I’ll run all alone
Captain Moonlite was always by my side
Though he stood for what was right
He was court marshalled that night
Set out on the road before the dark
No stomach for the fight
With his lover by his side
set out on the trail before the skylark
I rise to call the morning home
To pull my skin back from the bone
I’ll run from you I’ll run all alone
Captain moonlight was always by my side
I ran to my death
So you could get away
But on seeing me fall
They got you anyway
Your letters said without me you could not go on
Perhaps we’ll meet again when the sunlight is gone
I rise to call the morning home
To pull my skin back from the bone
I’ll run from you I’ll run all alone
Captain moonlight was always by my side
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At Night She Dreams
05:17
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Shadows and spirits led through halls
Hauntingly this girl stands their tall
Strong as steel is she even real
She speaks to me now
I will not pretend To know how she copes
To feel no love yet still have hope
No child should suffer or try to recover
She speaks to me now
But at night she dreams
Her Safe place from fear
At night she dreams
No one will find her here
No stitches can can mend a heart
Broken by strangers hands
Each time trust is whittled away
But the strength still remain
Please just leave me with one so kind
For the first time I belong
Will they listen will they care
Too young to be forever strong
But at night she dreams
Her Safe place from fear
At night she dreams
No one will find her here
But at night she dreams
Her Safe place from fear
At night she dreams
No one will find her here
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Avenues of Broadway
04:14
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She landed in Liverpool
With five by her side
Left all alone
With a strength of desire
To leave a life behind
For the avenues of Broadway
No help from her brothers
She soldiered on through life
Living under one roof
With the ones she laughed and cried
And sang along to the classic songs
From the avenues of Broadway
She stood sound beside
Her loved ones she cried
With always time for a tea
And I stand aloud
And I know that she’d be proud
As if I were one of those stars
One of those stars of Broadway
Its been seems like so long ago
Since I heard your nickname
Sitting there together
yelling at the Liverpool game
Those memories are with me everyday
As if you where one of those stars on Broadway
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Betting Man
05:34
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The priest throws virtue onto his sinners
While the disciple intoxicates
His children's lives, his lungs and his liver
With distraction he pre meditates
If the 3:10 at the Curragh comes in 7-1
It will be a real good day
But if that filly falls he’ll still be drinking talls
It’s the kids that’ll have no where to stay at all
Expect that big old house in Mountjoy Square
The one you wouldn’t think would still be there standing there
I was only there for weeks back in 89
You know it stayed with me it stayed with me for a long long time
It rained turned to snow
Sometime around Christmas day
My eyes meet with those of a homeless girl
I felt guilt I have to say
Guilt for that man with his kids in the bar throwing it all away
He won’t be around to keep them sound
Somehow they’re going to find their own way
To that big old house in Mountjoy Square
The one you wouldn’t think would still be there standing there
I was only there for weeks back in 89
You know it stayed with me it stayed with me for a long long time
Soldiers died on these very streets
The bullet holes lie there in stone
All for a man
With no glory at all of his own
Except that horse that could change it all
That one that’s standing primed in it’s stall
For its that next punt its that next brew that will keep those kids always walking in your shoes
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Find A Way
04:41
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Smile when you’re alone
Scream and yell down the phone
Like it’s ma and you’re hungry
Turn on the charm
In a way to disarm
Like it’s pa and you’re looking for money
Run and ring the bell
Like you’re threatened with hell
Like it’s god you shouldn’t tell
I won’t pay the price if you can’t handle life
I’d rather run from home
Just to be alone
You gotta find a way
Won’t you look at your interactions
Are you fighting with the factions of your heart
Back from the start
I remember a time when all I could call was mine
Turned me down but I can back around
You gotta find a way
Through these walls
Out of your prison you can run
From the law you can run
From your duties you can run
From yourself there’s no escape
You gotta find a way
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As the dust settles we ask what did we learn
Did we find solace in ambition or watching a fire burn
We chastise those for decisions they made while we sit back with a fresh IPA
And wonder why
There feels no harmony at all
I turned off the tv cause it’s all misery and hate
Turned off a lot of friends and family of late
Yet all the time my world is fine though I should probably cut down on my screen time
And reconnect to what ever is left
All that we needed
Was good food, good friends and good wine
All we needed was a good time
Cast my memory back to the day it all fell apart
Standing on the corner in Geelong the wind it blew hard
And the arguments raged in the pubs and trains and all those people who think we’ve been framed
Are the dangerous ones who leave the truth stained
All that we needed
Was good food, good friends and good wine
All we needed was a good time
We play and we sing and act like it’s always been
There is a fear inside that weighs on the mind when it dreams
Yet the laughs are plenty and the vibe is strong funny how you get strung along
By the good food, good friends and good wine
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Joe Man Murphy Nambour, Australia
Joe Man Murphy is an Irish born Folk/Roots artist that now calls Australia home. A true singer/songwriter and storyteller, Joe Man draws on 20 years of performing and touring the world in his must-see stage shows. A multi-instrumentalist, Joe Man has captured the hearts of audiences through his warmth, honesty and stories from a life well lived. ... more
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