Beach Baby: The Greatest Hits

Beach Baby

When I need you - Leo Sayer

Potter
I went to Istanbul to shop,
As a souvenir I bought a clay vase:
– Peace and greetings, master potter,
You had a better vase….
The vase slipped from my hand and fell
And it broke into twenty-five pieces,
The Sea of Marmara came around me
And the Turkish shop opened up like a pit.
The potter cursed at me in Turkish,
I cursed at him in Albanian and he lost his mind;
Surprisingly, the potter did not faint,
I saw only two tears in his red eyes.
Has this Turk gone crazy, this Qerata?
I curse him, he with his hands on his neck!
He took another vase from the shop
And said to me: "Curse me, by faith, again!"
He sighed like me, he said: "I am Albanian,
Albanian, brother, you cursed me once more,
The Albanian word is not bought in the bazaar,
I haven't heard it in the store for years,
Men and women left the store,
I and one potter and another didn't have it,

Pocari.

Text:
Verse 1
My grandmother raised fourteen souls,
in a house of dust, on borrowed goals.
Now we count just one or two,
the cradle’s silent, the dream feels new.
Cities shine but hearts grow old,
future’s traded, bought and sold.

Pre-Chorus
And I ask myself tonight,
is the silence wrong or right?

Chorus
It’s a burning fuse, slow and deep,
a ticking clock we cannot keep.
Is it mercy, is it pain?
A gentle loss or heavy chain?
The world is holding its breath, confused –
watching the fire on the burning fuse.

(Solo)

Verse 2
Nations cry for newborn hands,
but the fields turn back to sand.
Empty schools, forgotten songs,
who decides what right belongs?
Will the earth sigh out in peace,
or beg for voices that will cease?

Pre-Chorus
Tell me, is it doom or grace,
when we fade and leave no trace?

Chorus
It’s a burning fuse, slow and deep,
a ticking clock we cannot keep.
Is it mercy, is it pain?
A gentle loss or heavy chain?
The world is holding its breath, confused –
watching the fire on the burning fuse.

(solo)

Bridge
Some say blessing, less to fight,
less pollution, less midnight.
Others fear the empty years,
lonely cities, broken gears.
Truth lies somewhere in between,
a fragile dream, unseen, unseen.

Final Chorus / Outro
It’s a burning fuse, we all ignite,
dark or dawn, no black, no white.
Is it blessing, is it curse?
Are we healing or getting worse?
The world is whispering, can’t refuse –
we’re all a spark on the burning fuse.

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