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Catching a Free Ride
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Somewhere along the way I lost my direction;
Lost all enthusiasm and motivation;
In some ways you could call it a sense of convection-
Getting pulled by the needs of others no time for reflection!
Then you came along and you saved my life
You're sweet pure soul free from strife
You're a bandage for my bleeding heart
The first aid I need when I'm falling apart
And you know baby I'll always be on your side
Life with you is like catching a free ride
I gave you my heart with no hesitation
I fell for you from the moment of your creation
Your heavenly eyes say it all, you don't need words for communication
You lift my soul and raise me with a sense of elation
When you came along you saved my life
A breath of fresh air, a glimpse into paradise
You're the welcome I need when I come through the door
You pick me up again when I've been knocked onto the floor
And you know baby I'll always be on your side
Life with you is like catching a free ride
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Arctic Terns
03:06
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Some day soon I'll fly away
To where ice breakers are making way
Northern Lights will light the night
When darkness comes at blue twilight
And you and I will begin
You and I will begin
Where the arctic tern goes
Where the arctic tern goes
Some day soon I'll fly again
Through the wind and snow and rain
I will fly so very far
Above the waves, beneath the stars
He brought me so many fish after dancing on the moors
So I chased him up into the sky until my body soared
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Clyde Islands
04:55
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By the Clyde I'm filled with emotion
As the water calm and wide goes out to sea
Watching the water flow into the ocean
The calm and ever present stream
And those long forgotten islands
So forgotten they're almost like a dream
And those long forgotten islands
All around you the Clyde's current streams
In the morning when I wake up you are calling
From my window I can see daybreak clear
On a cold hard unfeeling morning
The light of dawn chases away my fears
When a cold frost holds onto the landscape
And everything seems too scared to move
From Winter for me there is no escape
But your free and rolling spirit's on the move
Your calm and ever present motion
As the river so wide flows out to sea
Watching the water flow into the ocean
Your calm and ever present stream
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Small Voyages
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Small voyages that take a night and day
Rocking around as you're underway
Not noticing the months you'll be away
Counting the hours on 4-8s
Counting the miles left in your wake
Small voyages the ones you remember best
Not how far you're going to travel West
Or if you're in or out of hours of rest
Struggling on the Pentland Firth
Trying to keep your course
Small voyages that take a night and day
Rocking around as you're underway
Doesn't matter even if you're making way
Just riding out the storm
Keeping the ship from harm
Homecomings the last time you alter course
Sailing back onto the Firth of Forth
Sailing until you reach your port
This is what you do it for
This is a voyage worth
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Floodplains
05:56
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Tonight is a night for a rainstorm
Forget the bonfires we planned
'Want the rain to wash away the world
I Want the skies to open on blue
Rain, rain, softly fall
Rain, rain, drench us all
Deep in the ground to fall
'Want the water to flood all the landscape
'Want to wake up to grass covered in dew
'Want the Earth to drink down the rain drops
I want a fresh start with you
The games that we played are over
And I'm putting the toys away
Now it's time that we sought shelter
For the rain clouds are gathering in
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Change of Light
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Once I thought I found a diamond
It twinkled where I stood on the ground
Almost overlooked I'd found a treasure
Beauty beyond belief, beyond measure
Then the light changed it lost it's glitter
Darkness all around me once more
How could I believe in this dirt
There could ever be more than hurt
Once I thought I found a rainbow
A pot of gold to call my own
When the light changed it lost it's colours
When I looked again it wasn't there
Once I wished upon a star
It hovered in the morning haar
When I blinked again it was gone
Vanished into air where it had shone
Once I thought I'd found a friend
Someone who offered me their hand
Then they showed me their true colours
They'd never be a true lover
Once I thought I found a diamond
It twinkled where I stood in the ground
How could I believe in this dirt
There could ever be more than hurt
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Frozen World
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Once upon a time an ice descended
It fell upon the fields the land was covered
After a howling wind the world was smothered
This beautiful world of mine now all around me icicles Chime
These glaciers are creaking
You'll hear if you're listening
This ice won't weigh me down
This ice won't way me down
Nothing was untouched, the green on the trees
Where normally the leaves would sway upon the trees
Winter'd made a wish that everything would freeze
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
Snow began to turn to ice as it kept on falling
It weighed down the world and it kept descending
And from the Northern hills ice was flowing
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
The people dreamed a dream the ice melt
They stoked their fires up in the homes where they dwelt
They went on living the fate they'd been dealt
This beautiful world of mine
Now all around me icicles Chime
Once upon a time an ice descended
But over time you hear if you're listening
Water begin to drip from ice that's melted
The ice is weakening, I can hear it creaking!
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Ships in the Night
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Somewhere under the southern cross,
I am sailing, sailing, sailing
Somewhere under Polaris
You are sailing, sailing, sailing
And the back breaking winds may blow
And may the mighty thunder clap,
As under the moon the seas rise and fall
And against the hull the seas may slap
And we are ships that pass in the night
Watching with passion for day's first light
And every moment of every day
We're on a voyage of parting ways
And us two star crossed lovers,
Intent on watching the skies above us,
I'll not find peace in any other
It's only you I would ever rather
Watching the skies until the part
Knowing that he will never lose heart
For he's under the same sky with the same watchful eye
Longing for when we're no longer apart
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Chloe Matharu Scotland, UK
"Her music is truly haunting" BBC Radio Scotland
Chloe is a multi Award winning singer
songwriter and harpist on the West Coast of Scotland. Her songs are inspired by her time at sea as a Navigational Officer in the Merchant Navy and the natural world, as experienced from sea. Through music she lends a voice to the modern day seafarer.
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