One Thing (lyrics)      Nick Stephenson Music © 2016

One thing about love, you can’t lie to it, looks you up and down, it’s not a torturous crime 

One thing about hate, we won’t learn from it, cause love is there any day, anyway all the time 

I’m leaning through the balcony in a mood of near content; the vines keep creeping up the terrace to wrap around my neck
This pull is gravitational, I’m addicted to it’s force, I’m lost in admiration, I’m governed by these thoughts

One thing about love, you can’t lie to it, looks you up and down, it’s not a torturous crime 

One thing about hate, we won’t learn from it, cause love is there any day, anyway all the time 

Ooo don’t run away, oo lie on the bed and stay
Ooo don’t run away, oo lie on the bed and stay

We’re stirring up this hatred, won’t someone change the tune or take a matchstick to these ways and finalise us soon. Wreck the park and fields, run naked through the flames, to the endless sweep that pulls us one step further from the rain

And I’ve got no inhibitions when staring at your eyes, there is no contradiction in their movement or their shine
It couldn’t be the devil, dragging me to hell
Impossible, as I know that’s what somebody wants to sell

One thing about love, you can’t lie to it, looks you up and down, it’s not a torturous crime 

One thing about hate, we won’t learn from it, cause love is there any day, anyway all the time 

Cause love is there any day, anyway all the time 
Cause love is there any day, anyway all the time 



Nick Stephenson - One Thing

Black And White Movie (lyrics)      Nick Stephenson Music © 2016

Roof gliding on the paving sand, tantalising in our hands
Hearts race, morphing higher. Come guide me beautiful flower. 
You said it and I listened, special lover not imprisoned.
I caught you’re silent stare, I caught you unaware. 

You freed me in my mind, you’re warm like spitting fire, and I couldn’t put you out 
You freed me in my mind 
You freed me in my mind 
Oh you freed me in my mind 
And it’s been cutting close 
It’s been cutting close 

I knew him very well, like my own twisted head. 
Wisdom doesn’t sell; it’s tucked up in our beds.
I’ve got not pick and choose, I don’t have cruel intentions
Put colours in the park, fever pitch, hang the dark

You freed me in my mind, you’re warm like spitting fire, and I couldn’t put you out 
You freed me in my mind 
You freed me in my mind 
Oh you freed me in my mind 
And it’s been cutting close 
It’s been cutting close 

Dream Logic 

Nick Stephenson - Black And White Movie

Shaking Rain (lyrics)     Nick Stephenson Music © 2016 

I’d like to see you wearing sunshine
Swinging on a tree of stars
Walking through a magic doorway and feeling like the world is ours.

Talking at a pace only we know
Putting dark times to right
Burying the bad reactions and the armour we used to fight.

Holding hands
Shaking rain
Staying whole
Floating away again 

If I ever had to dig too deeply
Wadding through a mud graveyard
I wouldn’t trust people to save us and try to rescue what we have.

Coz people got their own agendas, hang-ups and histories
Projecting all their guarded feelings onto something only we believe.

Now I can see you wearing sunshine
Smiling with the kiss of stars
We’ve learned to swim across this ocean
Now we claim the worlds as ours

Nick Stephenson - Shaking Rain

London-based singer/songwriter Nick Stephenson has played at the likes of Glastonbury Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Secret Garden Party and Standon Calling. He has supported Toploader, Toyah Willcox, The Staves and Ade Edmondson and was a finalist in the National Songwriting Competition 2015 with his song 'One thing'. 
Nick recently appeared on BBC 6 Music's 'Memory Tapes' with Lauren Laverne and also performed 'One Thing' Live on BBC Radio London.


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