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Life Limitless
03:10
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(Words: Emma Watson / music: t.h. gorman ©2023 teztunesmusic)
Listen to Emma's work here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wvinW1h6Em6DG0kDsGuF8
So many people think that they have it really bad
They live their lives moping around in a constant state of sad
I’m here to kill the myth that an illness is the end
Just take a seat , put your feet up and let me tell you friend
In life you have a choice they call it fight or flight
I’ll be the first to tell you that the former's always right
Inside you is a power of your ancestors before
Now stand up, dust off, wipe your tears and let them hear you roar!
I was told many years ago that my life had a date
An end of life, expiry, I wont accept my fate
It's all the little things you see that make you what you are
The sky’s the limit, tell yourself “You’re born to be a star”
Limits are for speed you see and I’m not stopping yet
If you think I’m down or nearly out you wanna have a bet
I just don’t take for granted all the blessings that I’ve had
And so for each and every day im just so, so fucking glad
Life is what you make it and here’s where I wont mess
My life is never limited but always limitless
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2. |
Permanent Condition
03:16
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I’ve been waitin’ for the time
When you’ll be mine
I’ve been waitin’ for the day
When I can say
That you and I are one
A permanent condition
I don’t wanna waste my time
With empty lines
I don’t want for you to feel
That this ain’t real
When all is said and done
A permanent condition
BREAK
Don't want a fix that's temporary
Cause that won't cure these ills
'Fraid I'll have a lovesick coronary
And you know that that can kill
Honey, you're that one apothecary
Can prescribe the curin' pill
Don't wanna write no love obituary
I got no more time to kill, I'm
Finished waitin’ for the time
When you’ll be mine
I'm done waitin’ for that day
When I can say
By the time the day is done
We’ll sail into the sun
You and I will be as one
A permanent condition
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The past becomes you
It’s the only room in my life
Where you still reside
It’s the only place I can go
And still be beside you
The past becomes you
You grow prettier every day
And you’ll always be
Hangin’ round in my empty heart
When I need to see you
And I always need to see you
Doesn’t matter which way I turn
Your angel eyes keep haunting me
In my soul there’s a fire still burns
I just can’t set your memory free
The past becomes you
It’s the only time in my life
I can still abide
It’s the only place I can go
And still be beside you
The past becomes you
Like the time when you kissed my lips
And said that you’d be true
And our love spread its wings and soared
Into the crystal blue
Doesn’t matter when spring returns
Your autumn eyes keep haunting me
As I watch January turn
December’s past, a memory
You left me dwelling in the past
For as long as these memories they last
The past becomes you
You grow prettier every day
And you’ll always be
Hangin’ round in my empty heart
When I need to see you
And I always need to see you
The past becomes you
(December’s gone)
The past becomes you
(December’s gone)
The past becomes you
(December’s gone)
And love has gone away
December’s gone to stay
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie lyrics © Rytvoc Inc., Rytvoc, Inc
Headin' for the station with a pack on my back
I'm tired of transportation in the back of a hack
I love to hear the rhythm of the clickety-clack
And hear the lonesome whistle, see the smoke from the stack
And pal around with democratic fellas named Mac
So take me right back to the track, Jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Woo-woo, woo-woo ch'boogie
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, Jack
You reach your destination, but alas and alack
You need some compensation to get back in the black
You take a morning paper from the top of the stack
And read the situations from the front to the back
The only job that's open needs a man with a knack
So put it right back in the rack, Jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Woo-woo, woo-woo ch'boogie
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, Jack
Gonna settle down by the railroad track
Live the life of Riley in the beaten down shack
So when I hear a whistle, I can peep through the crack
And watch the train a-rollin' when it's ballin' the jack
Well, I just love the rhythm of the clickety-clack
So take me right back to the track, Jack
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Woo-woo, woo-woo ch'boogie
Choo-choo, choo-choo ch'boogie
Take me right back to the track, Jack
Take me right back to the track, Jack
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5. |
God's Imaginary Friend
04:10
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Life throws you every kind of loop now
With a little teasin' now and then
Just chasin' rainbows for the scoop now
While stuck inside this mental pen
Hopped on that mental train this morning
The one that goes to nowhere fast
Without a signal or a warning
My destination's flyin' past
I guess I'll just pretend
I'm God's imaginary friend
Dunghills of dogma doin' damage
Damage control just not my thing
Dogmatic dunghills droppin' daily
Dear darlin' death, where is thy sting?
Sweet reasoning, don't be a buzzkill
Don't tell me now this ain't your zen
Twelve blackbirds perchin' on the clothesline
God's lozenge trippin' on my tongue
And finally in the end
Just God's imaginary friend
BREAK
Juggling surreal perambulations
Has now become the latest trend
Equal and opposite reactions
You know God wants to be your friend
He's just been pining there forever
Yeah, He's been lonelier than you
One mouse ran up the clock at midnight
At 12:01 ran down again
So finally in the end
Be his imaginary friend
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6. |
Touchstones
03:48
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The world descends into a deeper gray
As all the touchstones fade away
As one by one, then one again
These landmarks fade away, they rend
The brushstrokes of the happy years
Dissolved into a well of tears
As all the touchstones disappear
They whisper of the journey's end
As one by one, then one again
Go pale as though were only dreams
The memories that once did teem
Don’t know when I first started
Noticing the signs
Crept up like a thief in the night
Stealing precious memories
From the soothing to sublime
Now a life that’s lived between the
Seams in the dark corners of the mind
BREAK
And now I’m dreamin’ of a different time
It’s getting harder to return
As one by one, they leave this world
As one by one, these bridges burned
To follow them, I wait my turn
I follow them, I wait my turn
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In her world of solitary woes
She don’t care much for time
Or where it goes
She wishes all the tears away
Even as they flow
She’s the loneliest person that she knows
She tucks all her hopes and dreams away
For a dowry that might never
Find its day
She’s waiting for her prince to come
But no-one can impose
She’s the loneliest person that she knows
Oh, that she knows
She locks herself inside her mirror’d cage
Looking out to see that
All the world’s a stage
She wants so much to play the part
The girl she never shows
And not the loneliest person that she knows
She once had a love
She called her own
Now the mirror only shows
A lonely figure waiting
By the telephone
Where she practices the things
Her heart would say
Like unfinished symphonies she writes
But never plans to play
Doesn’t know a single heart out there
While hers just overflows
She’s the loneliest person that she knows
Feels like she’s the only one
Who rises to a lonely sun
To herself she says she doesn’t care
But she knows there’s a world out there
And maybe someone waiting for
That passage through her open’d door
A tender lover to ensure
She’s not that lonely person anymore
She’s not that lonely person anymore
In her world of solitary woes
She don’t care much for time
Or where it goes
She wishes all the tears away
Even as they flow
She’s the loneliest person that she knows
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8. |
Just To See Your Face
04:56
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I only have to look your way
It puts me in my place
Your eyes, they shine like diamonds
On a satin pillowcase
Sometimes life's a hard affair
But when I see you standing there
The sorrows vanish in thin air
Just to see your face
I'm old enough to notice things
I might have missed before
I've had my fill of pretty things
And treasures by the score
And when I thought I'd seen it all
Then you appeared, a living doll
I'd scale the highest mountain tall
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
I've made a list of all the things
That make you dear to me
But though the list goes on and on
What most I long to see
It may not matter anymore
But one thing that I know for sure
I'd travel to a distant shore
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
The lonely time goes on and on
From morn to night
From dusk til dawn
The only thing I've left of you
Is locked inside a heart so blue
It barely beats anymore
BREAK
I only had to look your way
It put me in my place
Your eyes, they shone like diamonds
On a satin pillowcase
And if I'd been a braver man
I might have asked you for your hand
And now I'd sail an ocean grand
Just to see your face
Just to see your face
To see that perfect face
Just to see your face
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af8L24kvtCQ
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9. |
N.O.W. (No Other Way)
03:39
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There’s no other way to say it
There’s no other way to tell you how I feel
I just won’t find another
Who makes these feelings oh so real
There’s no other woman like you
I could travel the world for all eternity
But I'd never find that angel
Who does what you do for me
Cause every time I see you
A new song, it starts dancing in my head
Voices long silent til you came along
Just when I thought
Those voices all were dead
I’ve been tryin’ to put a finger on it
Called it everything
But what my swollen heart knows is true
A crush, mere passing fancy
Or infatuation, that won’t do
No longer a way to hide it
The truth will come out
As surely as daylight follows night
I’ve never imagined
This feeling could feel so right
As Tuesday’s the proof
That Monday is over
And sweet, sweet luck
Follows finding a four leaf clover
BREAK
N.O.W. every time I see you
A new song starts romancing in my head
Voices long silent til you came along
Just when I thought
Those voices all were dead
There’s no other way to say it
There’s no other way to tell you how I feel
Girl, I will not find another
Who makes these feelings so damn real
There’s no other way to say it
There’s no other way to say it n.o.w.
There’s no other way to say it
There’s no other way to say it n.o.w.
There’s no other way to say it
There’s no other way to say it n.o.w.
There’s no other way to say it
There’s No Other Way
As Tuesday’s the proof
That Monday is over
And luck follows finding
A four leaf clover
There's no other way to say it n.o.w.
There's no other way to say it
There's no other way to say it n.o.w.
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10. |
Love's A Lonely Game
03:37
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Tell me somethin’ ‘bout hope
Tell me somethin’ ‘bout dreams
Cause I’ve lost my way
I don’t know if I can cope
With the pain
As I turn to face another lonely, lonely, lonely day
Tell me ‘cause I’ve gotta know
Fill me in on how to make it
From day to day
Show me the seeds I’ve gotta sow
To make love grow
Baby, show me, show me, show me a better way
I already know
Too much about pride
I’m up to here with information
On how to lose
I know it’s up to me to decide
To live with the pain
Or get rid of these lonesome blues
Tell me somethin’ ‘bout love
Let me in on the secret
That’ll fill my soul
Is it from heaven above
Come on the wings of a dove
To take it’s tender toll
Take it’s tender toll
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11. |
Love is a Dance
03:45
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Love is a Dance
And you swept me off my feet...
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12. |
Shallow
04:24
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It was shallow on the face of it
But deep within a place in his heart
She was ev’rything he’d hoped to find
The face, the walk, the style, the mind
He knew she was the one from the start
But he didn’t have the nerve to tell her
And now she’s swimmin’ in the deep end
With a gutsier feller
He’s shallow, but he’s still drowning
In a sea of heartbreak
So shallow, but deep enough
To engineer a heartache
Cool, calm, collected on the surface
But underneath you’d never find
A body so nervous
He’s been shallow from an early age
It’s just the way he learned how to cope
Now he finally sees a love so real
The eyes, the voice, the x appeal
But when she’s near he gives up all hope
He don’t know what to say around her
So he ends up just avoiding her
It’s gotta confound her
He’s just so
Shallow, but he’s still drowning
In a sea of heartbreak
So shallow, but deep enough
To engineer a heartache
Cool, calm, collected on the surface
But underneath you couldn’t find
A body so nervous
Well, he sees her nearly every day
And wishes she would walk his way
But wishing’s all that he can attempt
And when he gets the chance
To make her smile
He turns away and all the while
He’s wishing he was shallow-exempt
Maybe he should just lie down
With the fishes
God, he’s never contemplated
A solution so vicious
Thank God he’s
Shallow, cause it protects him
From a move so stupid
Shallow, the hidden strength
To stand the wounds of Cupid
And move on in a new direction
Cause there’s gotta be a shallow way
To find some affection
That’s right, he’s
Shallow, he’ll wear it proudly
Like a badge of honour
So shallow, he’ll wield it
Like it’s what it is, a power
A power that’ll keep him
Just as strong as a stone
The problem is he’ll prob’ly spend
A lifetime alone
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Wettin' it down, boss
Wet it down
Wipin' it off, boss
Wipe it off.
Doin' ten to twenty hard
Swingin' twelve pounds in the yard
Every day
Every day.
I came in with a group of twenty
There ain't left but half as many
In the clay
In the clay.
Long line rider, turn away.
There's a farm in Arkansas
Got some secrets in its floor
In decay
In decay.
You can tell where they're at
Nothin' grows, the ground is flat
Where they lay
Where they lay.
Long line rider, turn away.
All the records show so clear
Not a single man was here
Anyway
Anyway.
That's the tale the warden tells
As he counts his empty shells
By the day
By the day.
Hey, long line rider, turn away.
Someone screams investigate
'scuse me sir it's a little late
Let us pray
Let us pray.
This kinda thing can't happen here
'specially not in an election year
Outta my way
Outta my way.
Hey, long line rider, turn away.
BREAK
There's a funny taste in the air
Big bulldozers everywhere
Diggin' clay
Turnin' clay.
And the ground coughs up some roots
Wearin' denim shirts and boots
Haul 'em away
Haul 'em away.
Hey, long line rider, turn away.
Well I heard a brother moan
Why they plowin' up my home
In this way
In this way.
I said, buddy, shake your gloom
They're just here to make more room
In the clay.
U.S.A.
Long Line Rider lyrics © BMG Rights Management US, LLC
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Tez Howes Moncton, New Brunswick
I'm just an old Canadian fart writing & recording tunes, trying to capture the vibe of pre-millennial popular musics, rock,
blues, jazz, funk, country, pop, etc. Lumiere and Knowhere are primarily indie pop, and The New Codiac Blues is a collection of blues-based tunes.
They're dotted with selected collabs with uber-talented friends in the UK, USA, Australia and Bulgaria of a variety of sounds.
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