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In the Heartland

by ebuskers

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In the Heartland 05:21
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The Heartland I’ve been living a dream Or rather it would seem I’ve been living in a dream All this time One day I woke up Only to find You weren’t really here And weren’t really mine Nothing ever turns out The way it was planned In the heartland In the heartland. You’ve been telling lies Now I realise You were lies All along Someone finally told me You’d done me wrong Now it’s all over I’m back where I belong Among all the lost souls Singing hymns, holding hands In the heartland In the heartland. Once more I search for love An angel from above Searching for the love Meant for me She’s out there somewhere Too far to see But once I find her I’ll be set free Beyond your control Beyond your command In the heartland In the heartland. Love is mysterious Crazy and delirious Always mysteriously Hiding out there One moment you’re floating Way up in the air The next you crash down It ain’t logical or fair Things always happen * No one ever understands In the heartland In the heartland.
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Some Lonely Old Guy 03:40
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Some Lonely Old Guy We’ve been together for so many years I’ve become so used to having you right here all day every day each and every night I can reach out any time and hold you tight. CHO What am I Without you Some old coyote Howlin’ at the moon Without you What am I ...Just some lonely old guy ...Some lonely old guy. So please don’t ever leave if you ever get upset over some thing I said or did I’d later regret you know I never meant it it’s just the clown within so scold me or slap me I’ll cop it on the chin. BRI When I see you sound asleep It feels like time stands still Lookin’ in the mirror it’s marching by Down the other side of the hill The other side of the hill.
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I Knew 03:14
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I Knew (the man between) I saw you With your new man the other day Sipping coffee In a trendy French cafe I saw you Stepping into his Porsche And he behaved Like a proper gentleman of course. I heard you You were crying on the phone Running fast From his fine stately home I heard you Come knockin’ on my door Said you learnt your lesson And won’t go back anymore. CHO I knew he was simply no good for you Yeah I knew it from the start I knew he was just gonna use you And break your heart. I saw you With your new man the other day At the airport Buying a ticket one way I saw you Both boarding the plane As he held you And put on such a loving display. I heard you You were crying on the phone Stranded in the rain On the backstreets of Rome I heard you Beg me to come and bring you home You said I was the best Best man you’ve ever known. CHO BRI Time after time Scene after scene I wish that you were mine But I was just the man between.
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The Dream I'm Dreaming 05:07
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The Dream I’m Dreaming CHO Take my heart it just stopped beating Take my soul it stopped believing Take it all there’s nothing I’m needing Just leave the dream I’m dreaming. Funny how everything turns out No matter how we twist and we shout Funny how we can laugh about it now Yet all those tears, they were real somehow. Ain’t it funny how it all ends up the same No matter how we play their little game Funny how every single thing’ll start to rhyme Once you’ve gone around the town a few times. BRI Sometimes you win Sometimes you lose I’ll always hold onto My dream of you.
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Noone Knew 05:41
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No one knew One lonely stormy shipwreck night I read your old letters by candlelight The words cried out inside my head Loud enough to wake the dead Memories I had of you Feelings I had for you. Cho Where on earth were you from Where on earth have you gone I looked up and down Asked all around No one knew, no one knew In tossing turning tortured sleep I heard your voice rise from the deep From ashes of years recklessly burnt From pages read yet never learnt To love selflessly To live peacefully. Bri Where on earth Where on earth do we stand Still total strangers Strangers in a foreign land Just ghostly voices Voices from years ago Haunting the earth Longing for life Not letting go.
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Time to Go 03:30
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Time to Go Never been Here before Never seen This open door Not quite sure What to do Where I’ll be If I walk through Cho Heaven knows It’s time to go We both know It’s time to go. (Rpt) Looking at An empty glass Looking through What came to pass I see all We hoped to be Footprints fade Into the sea. Half forgotten Tear drops fall Half the time Not here at all Kisses blown Through chilly air From fingertips From tired lips From hearts Beyond repair.
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All She Is 04:04
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All She Is All that she is Her beautiful face Her seductive form Her silk and lace She keeps locked up Till some lucky man Proves his love To win her sweet hand. All that she is Her strength and grace Her wit and charm Her warm embrace She will give away To just one lover Asking nothing but To be loved forever. CHO All she is I’d give anything I’d give everything for All she is I’d give all I had I’d give all I am. All that she is Her secret desire Her forbidden dreams Her smoking fire She keeps well hidden From all she meets And none will ever know Except, perhaps, for me. BRI All that I have Is a handful of brains A head full of dreams A pocket full of change All that I have Is a heart full of love An arm full of flowers And hopefully that’s enough.
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In Your Skin 04:35
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In your skin Are you comfortable in your skin Do you feel like you fit within Does your heart love the body it’s in Are you comfortable in your skin. You’re born with a beautiful plan You’re shaped by the hand of man You’re raised with your father’s sin Are you comfortable in your skin. They taught you to read and write They taught you wrong from right They gave you the keys to get in Are you comfortable in your skin. You gazed up at the shooting stars You reached out from behind the bars You travelled the world on a dusty wind Are you comfortable in your skin. You found love and you settled down You toiled all day on your patch of ground You learnt how to fight back and win Are you comfortable in your skin. She loved you these many years She gave you children and she’s still here She stood by you through thick and thin And made you comfortable in your skin. Inst on verse Did you make the most of every chance Did you get up or just sit out the dance The day will come when you hand it Don’t get too comfortable in your skin Yes the day will come when you hand it in So don’t get too comfortable in your skin.
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Out There Somewhere 04:41
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Out There Somewhere He was a silver haired gent Strumming an ancient guitar Singing his lonesome way Through old folk songs That pierced the heart. On a cold and windy day Yesterday’s papers blowing around Tumbling along dark alleyways Kicking up dust On sacred ground. CHO I can still hear him strumming It’s in the air Out there Somewhere I can still hear him singing It’s in the air Out there Somewhere. In this lazy seaside village Salt spray is drifting in From some far off horizon Scented with jasmine And Sapphire gin. Just like that last song he played Before his voice caved in To the roar and hiss of the waves The whispering breeze And the silence within.
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You'll Know Why 02:46
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You’ll Know Why If you’ve watched her dance Under a full blood moon And held her hands In a smoky room If you’ve seen her gaze At a cloudy sky And lose her way Then you’ll know why (rpt) If you’ve watched her play Like a little child Then run away And try to hide If you’ve felt her tremble As she laughed or cried And kissed her lips Then you’ll know why (rpt) If you’ve watched her pray For all she holds dear And chase demons away While frozen with fear If you’ve heard her sing When no one’s nearby And touched her wing Then you’ll know why (rpt)

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All sorts of things occur
beyond your control and beyond your command
In the heartland.

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released April 12, 2021

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ebuskers Brisbane, Australia

EBuskers is a one man band, helped out by friends and passers by from time to time. 'They' write and record their own songs, playing them in the alleyways of the internet, so you're welcome to stop by and have a listen any time you like.

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