Rise Up Waking Dreamers (with Ella Clayton)

Sunrise

Come Around

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I sat down to write you a letter
had some things to get off of my chest
felt very strange messaging you haven't had contact in many years
like when I hear the word, Jessica
it's a strange thing to get my head around
went through all these things between 16 and for 4 years after that
and they're still somehow relevant to who I am and to those I keep around

Tried to reach you like someone might talk to someone at the end of their life
irrespective of context, temporary things and what we do think
and don't think is right
I had to level, so you know what you meant and mean to me
what I mean if I level with you is, just see it for what I say for I will no longer try
to add to you, to take from you
these things I will no longer seek to do
Never had an agenda, wouldn't try to hurt you

If it wasn't on that page I wouldn't want you to know it
and if it was then, Jess, take it down the line
keep it for some day just in case you need some words that will tell you something kind
I respect you have a partner
so do I and we recently got engaged
I started that letter saying ''I've been thinking about when your man will ask you to be his bride.''

And I guess what I meant is ''this is what I'm thinking, so if you've anything to say then say it now''
Yeah, you, you got the home town
so it always felt like so much of who I am is rooted in somebody else
feels like this is my kind of crazy coming out
when I'm smoking weed or in the house by myself
It's because of how you were to me I was to you at that time
we were a tender age and love was so big that it was exploding from me with no hope to be keeping it in
I was soft
You were graceful and were wise in ways in which I was still naive
and you washed over me like a song I had expectations for the ending of
at the time felt I was being brushed aside
as I child always got my own way
you've got to remember: I'm a Mama's boy and my father's only Son
you were the first thing that went wrong
you were the first thing that went wrong.

Jessica

The Awakening

[Tom Perciballi & Passman Productions]

4th of July

It was the 4th of July 
When I finally said goodbye 
To the family and friends I once lied to 
I said I's doing fine 
Though I didn't wanna fight 
Or give in to the pressures of Society 

If I were young again 
I'd still run ahead 
These lines coming out of my pen 
Would still write the words I spend my time writing 

So it was the next day 
When I finally went my way 
And I told the girl I loved I'd go searching 
She said you're running away 
But from what I can't say 
So just stay here with me till you go 

If I were still in her bed 
I'd probly forget myself 
These lines coming out of my pen 
Would not write the words I spend my time writing 

It was some day in September 
On a year I don't remember 
When I told those I loved I's returning 
But too much now has changed 
Everybody's gone their way 
And succumbed to the pressures of Society 

It's foolish to say my friend 
If I were young again 
These lines coming out of your pen 
Just words with no meaning 
Dammit I'm late again 
Get a job stop pretending that you're someone 
Better than me 

If I were younger my friend 
I'd do it all again 
These lines coming out of my pen 
Write words no other pen can write

A Songbook for Sundays

4th of July

[Tom Perciballi & Passman Productions] 

Stones II 

There's a stone on the path that I picked up 
It's the stone by my bed when I wake up 
There's a stone in my heart and it's dragging me down 
I got stones stones I got stones 

There's a stone on the path that I picked up 
It's the stone by my bed when I wake up 
There's a stone in my heart and it's dragging me down 
I got stones stones I got stones 

When I grew up I told myself 
I would be free of all of them 
Go to a sunny beach and lay them down 

There's a stone on the street where I grew up 
It's the stone I will see from my death cot 
It's the stone I was told my heart was made of 
So 
I got stones stones stones I got stones

Stones II

Jim Blackmann was born in Liverpool but grew up in Canada, where he learnt the music of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. He returned to the UK and lived and worked in the North of England. He set off on a period of travel before finally settling in the South.

He is a writer, with two non-fiction books and a novel to his name, and wrote a great deal of poetry before turning to song-writing. His writer background shows in his lyricism. He plays guitar and piano and performs regularly in and around the Southwest of England.

Come Around

Jim Blackmann

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