My dads old truck now there's a thing
he used to start it with a piece of string
on days like these

Skippin' on the concrete slabs
tryin' hard to miss the cracks
on days like these

On days like these
Sunny days like these
for a while I lift the lid
and I am just a kid
on days like these

Tadpoles in a water jar
wait all day to see a car
on days like these

scrumpin' apples from the trees
comin' home with dirty knees
on days like these

 On days like these
 Sunny days like these
 for a while I lift the lid
 and I am just a kid
 on days like these

    Where did the time go?
    I just don't know

Boillin' kettles on the gas
fillin' up the old tin bath
on days like these

lyin' on the hot tin roof
of that old Bedford in my youth
on days like these

 On days like these
 Sunny days like these
 for a while I lift the lid
 and I am just a kid
 on days like these

 for a while I lift the lid
 and I am just a kid
 on days like these


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On Days like these ©  2021

You were so different
to everybody else
they never got you
they never got you

They didn’t laugh
never got your jokes
they talked about you
but never to you

Maybe someday
when love is stronger
there’ll be enough to go around
no one will be in the lost and found

Maybe somehow
no one will feel lonely
they’ll be included with the crowd
yes included, not put down

You left a letter
with desperate words
now they can see you
now they can feel you

Maybe someday
when love is stronger
there’ll be enough to go around
no one will be in the lost and found

Maybe somehow
no one will feel lonely
they’ll be included with the crowd
yes included, not put down

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Different ©  2021

I know, you don’t have the room for me
but I will always be
lookin’ out for you

I know, you’re livin’ on a different plane
oh but all the same
I’m lookin’ out for you

Didn’t you know what fame could do 
lift you up so high
you couldn’t see who really loved you

I know, you’re busy tryin’ to look the part
but deep down inside your heart
I’m still lookin’ out for you

Didn’t you know what fame could do 
lift you up so high
you couldn’t see who really loved you

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Lookin' out for you © 2022

The shadows deep inside your heart
are warring with your soul tonight
and though they’ve been there from the start
you don’t have the strength to fight

  living in the shadows 
  in silence and shame
  the shadows
  but you’re not the one to blame
  you’re beautiful to me
  and I wish that you could see who I see

You’re so quick to destroy yourself
while you’re caring for everyone else
conflicted in all you do
as the shadows turn the screw

  living in the shadows 
  in silence and shame
  the shadows
  but you’re not the one to blame
  you’re beautiful to me
  I wish that you could see who I see
  
    There’s more to you
     than what you’re going through
     
  living in the shadows 
  in silence and shame
  in the shadows
  but you’re not the one to blame
  you’re beautiful to me
  and I wish that you could see who I see

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Shadows  ©  2022

By The lake was written in Sweden in Summer 2000 sitting by the Vomb Lake seeing that everybody and everything is one and FREE.
lyrics/music by Nic KOray

By The Lake

So many questions...
Lyrics /Music by Nic KOray

Questions

Gritty little tune from myself &  friend Piyali

Plus Billion

This was a one take live performance. So I could only work from one track in my DAW.
                                        LETS PRETEND

  part of you is absent
you're like a room with an empty chair
when I open the door there's no one there

  No kind of distraction
can fill your soul with the pretty things
that you once wore when you had wings

 you're unreachably high, but way down low
sometimes in life you just don't know.. what's goin' on
               I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend....that everything's gonna be alright
                      I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend.... everything's gonna be alright

 A part of me is missin'
The part of me that's me and you
that lifts me up like a big balloon

 I passed your audition
but the curtain closed with no encore
something left through the back stage door

you're unreachably high, but way down low
sometimes in life you just don't know.. what's goin' on
               but I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend....that everythings gonna be alright
                      I wanna hold your hand tonight.
                      lets pretend that everything's gonna be alright

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