The Long Run

This life
Although it may be real
We never signed a deal
Or held negotiations
To get some changes
But life
Has cast us in this drama
A badly-scripted saga
Through that we have been granted
A Z-list stardom

And that's a role that's ample for me
Who wants to know the top of the tree

In the long run we are all dead
What is the point of getting ahead?
In the long run we are all dead
What is the use in making your bed?

High life
The pressure on the famous
Is almost always dangerous
And we enjoy spectating
As it claims them

Then we mourn for a fading star
But it's only our fate writ large

In the long run we are all dead
What is the point of getting ahead?
In the long run we are all dead
What is the use in making your bed?

In time
You'll join me as you come down
We'll both be on the way out
Supposing that we've got round
Some global meltdown

It's the closing argument
In the case for my defence

In the long run we are all dead
What is the point of chasing success?
In the long run we are all dead
What is the sense in breaking your neck?

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

The Long Run (Edit)

Defiance

We are rolling the rock up a hill
To watch it roll down where it was before
Always rolling that rock up a hill
And sometimes that's hardly a metaphor

Then you stumble on a mode of resistance
That some others seem to know without thinking

The arrival at a style
Of defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance

This contract, it is sometimes insufferable
And despite that you're intended to suffer it all
The outlook predictably unpredictable
For a life's work that will recede to nothing at all

Can you summon up a show of resistance
Like some others seem to do without blinking

The survival of your trials
In defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance
Is the strategy to chose

To resist in the face of what's certain
May appear on the face of it worthless
But you're showing your disgust at the format
That you'll grant life some purpose despite that

I am offering this course of resistance
As the closest thing I've heard yet to wisdom

The survival of your trials
In defiance
It's a noble attitude
The appliance of a science
Of defiance
On the only path we use

You don't have to stand for this
And you don't have to take it lying down either
You don't have to stand for this
And you don't have to take it lying down either

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Defiance (Edit)

Whatever Works

There is no grand design that we can know from here
There is no smoking gun to make the culprit clear
We're only sure there's time to kill before time kills us
And where we seek our light is still the burning issue

There are as many truths as there are tongues to speak them
And all those motives for you choosing to believe them
But they can't all be right and might all be misleading
You must find your own way home

Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever the punchline is to be

He lived preoccupied with what may follow after
And then death struck him down and granted him the answer
But it was in that quest that his life found a meaning
And now he's laid to rest he doesn't need a reason

Do some dangerous sports or start a coin collection
Take in jazz and hope they like your new direction
Go wherever feels like home

Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever works, works whatever

Until you're brought above the clouds
Or lowered in the ground
How are you gonna to know
Which was the way to roll?

Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever works, serves whatever
Whatever works, works whatever
Whatever the reckoning reveals

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Whatever Works (Edit)

Married Life

He’s the right one, he’s the keeper
If you reassure yourself enough you might believe it
But you’re wistful in those pictures
Like you’ve made your bed up far too neat for you to sleep in

Can a soul like yours want to stay secure
When your whole life’s theme is curiosity?

You have to meet him in the middle
You chose to live there on the common ground
You have to meet him in the middle
Where married life is a compromise

I’m a live one, but a loner
And when they get to close to me then I get frozen
But you fix things, like addictions
And if you led me past this we could make a home there

Will a soul like yours never ask for more?
When your whole life’s theme is reading people’s dreams?

I could have met you in the middle
We could’ve settled in a halfway house
I could have met you in the middle
But married life is a tie that binds

We get one life
Only one ride
Yeah as you travel farther down the road you realise
And was that the one?
That ship that’s sailed on?
The memory that’s got to see me out of this life

Now you’re sat online with a tracking eye
Cos you stayed behind where it’s safe and dry

I could have met you in the middle
We should be lovers in the here and now
But you chose to meet him in the middle
Where married life is an alibi

I could have met you in the middle
We should be lovers in the here and now
But you choose to meet him in the middle
Where married life is your alibi

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Married Life (Radio Edit)

People Person

There are saints among us 
And saints below
Where they end up 
Some before their time
Got the measure of life 
And yet they still decide
To get in there
With their dreams rolled up

That every little little helps
And never in it for themselves
They’re born under another star
But show us that it’s not so far

You were a people person
You found people worth it
You were a people person
Who saw people hurting

So he shot you down 
On the latest round
Of your mission
Oh how we’ve been robbed
And we came together 
And shared a pledge
For the future
Though we’ve parted since

Still every little little helps
And someone’s channelling you themselves
Somebody who’ll perpetuate
The battle of love over hate

You were a people person
You let people hurt you
You were a people person
Who got people working

There are saints among us 
Who don’t stop to ponder
They adopt the struggle 
Like there’s no way other

When it cut you down 
You had just got out 
Of the smog
Of a working life
Found a world to be changed 
And if God was your game
Doesn’t matter
It’s the thought that counts

There’ll never be a kingdom come
Not down here nor above the sun
But the way around religious speak
Is to take it allegorically

You were a people person
You found people worth it
You were a people person
Who decreased their burdens
You were a people person
You’ve left people hurting
You were a people person
Now there’s people worsening

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

People Person (Radio Edit)

Invincible Summer

At a time like this
It's hard to see
How to live on
From a tragedy
In an hour like this
You can’t believe
Seeing the proof
Of our destinies

But stay around
Don’t add insult to their injury
Wear the frown
But remember that they are at peace

At times I feel an invincible summer
Although this world doesn’t lead to another
I summon up an invincible summer
Because he stood where I stand now

With a crime like this
It's hard to reach
Someone lost deep
In the heart of grief
And we've seen so clear
Life's frailty
Its gift replaced
With a cruelty

Oh but live a life, if only in her memory
Hold the line, if just to keep her legacy

At times you’ll feel an invincible summer
Though much of this is wintry sorrows
At times you’ll steal an invincible summer
Because she breathed as you breath now

We only die once
But we live everyday
We only die once
And they lived all those days
You're going to die sure
So now live for those days

In time you’ll greet an invincible summer
To carry you amid the horrors
Inside you’ll feel an invincible summer
Because they loved as you love still

Finally you’ll reach that invincible summer
In memories of the bliss they brought you
You’ll summon up an invincible summer
Because they lived as we live now
Because they lived you will live on

Invincible Summer (Radio Edit)

Certain Love

You’ve got a certain love
One that can’t be touched
You’ve got a perfect love now
One that won’t be rocked 

She’s one to last
Her spirit is sparkling on

You’ve got a certain love
We’re almost envious of
You’ve got a perfect love now
The sort there’s legends of

She’ll never change
Her presence is raging on

You’ve got a certain love
One they can’t switch off
You’ve got a perfect love now
One that won’t be lost

Time will dissolve
And memories hold
Until we dissolve ourselves

And so a senseless loss
Becomes an endless love 
The one you’re hurting from
But will take comfort from

She isn’t gone
She breathes in the world through us

You’ve got a certain love now
You’ve got a perfect love now
You’ve got a certain love now

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Certain Love (Radio Edit)

People Just Leave

We came from nothing
Well don't you remember? 
But it's too daunting
To know we'll return there
We hold a story
That we'll always defend
With a beginning
And a middle and an end

But what if it stops in the middle?
What if your works come to little?
What if that thought was a fiction?
As if we were lied to

And people just leave 
Into the ether
People just leave 
And don’t expect feedback
People just leave

Laid out in the hospital
His state beyond serious
But behold his family
Away with religion

There’ll be no divine intervention
It’s sought out of pure desperation
They’re gonna be shown the lesson

That people just leave
Prayers will not keep them 
People will leave
And we must just grieve it

Do you know you are gone?
I think not, I think not
If you know you've passed on
Knock once, knock once

Well they’ll never know what they’re missing
They don’t even know that they’re missing
People who lived so insistent
Despite all they cried through
They never finished their mission
While some of us left here are drifting
Unsure that there is a reason
 
When people just leave
Dying is easy
People just leave
Removed so indifferently

And we roll on too easily
People will leave
That’s people meaning you and me
We will just leave
We will just leave
We will just leave
People just leave

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

People Just Leave (Radio Edit)

The Exceptions

It’s all over the internet
When you’ve not had your breakfast yet
How members of the A-list set
Were falling out of bars
A pageant that we have to see
Of glamour and debauchery
And who we crown celebrities
Can show us who we are

The exceptions are the high few
Whose living we aspire to
Whose sinning we admire too
The exceptions set the mood
The exceptions are our royalty
We scrape and bow and curtsey
While peeking past the curtain
For exceptions to their cool

This culture that’s enveloped us
Can turn you into Narcissus
Imploring you to star in it
Get preening for the role
Ignoring that the odds are long
That one in several million
Might just become a household name
In one that’s not their own

The exceptions captured their dream
The exceptions had the right means
The exceptions backed the right scheme
The exception to the rule
The exceptions stash their own cash
The exceptions bag the free stuff
And they get to practice free love
The exceptions know no rules

And I know that some would say it’s sour grapes, and you could
Cos I tried and failed to climb up to the great and the good
But I only sought to prove all this is true, this is true

Them being flawed and tragic souls
Is seen as in the package though
To mitigate our envy
And our common miseries
And yes their fame compounds it all
Cos they can burn through thousands more
In their self-medication for
The very same disease

The exceptions are the high few
Whose living we aspire to
Whose sinking will remind you
The exceptions have their wounds
The exceptions are our royalty
We scrape and bow and curtsey
While scratching at the surface
For a trace of inner gloom
The exceptions live out our dreams
Those exceptions with the right means
Connections, luck or good genes
The exceptions won’t be you

A pageant that we have to see
Of glamour and debauchery
And who we crown celebrities
Will show us who we are

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

The Exceptions (Edit)

Artifacts & Heirlooms

The case was lost
And he is moving on
To an austere flat
With no room to swing his cats
But we’ve cared to keep
Some articles of proof
From when fate and she
So briefly smiled on you

Memories change or fade
But these things remain to say
It wasn’t any dream
It was so very real

Artifacts and heirlooms
The indelible effects
Of a time that came and left
Artifacts and heirlooms

The light has gone
And we are moving on
While inside the place
Some strangers start afresh

The green inlay
In an ice cube tray
The wooden frame
Of the guest room bed

Artifacts and heirlooms
Purchased of necessity
Now they form a legacy
Artifacts and heirlooms
The least prepossessing kind
Can make mincemeat out of time

We’ll all move on
Till moving can’t be done
But in the long shadow
Of the greatest days we’ll know

A print on the wall
That was once mine before
And Martini glasses
From nights that have passed us

Artifacts and heirlooms
Undeniable evidence
Of the time that came and went
Artifacts and heirlooms
Purchased of necessity
They take on a poignancy

Photographs of old rooms
Call those years back into life
Launch a tear into your eye

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

Artifacts & Heirlooms (Alt Version)

This House

We were at your house last Wednesday
Though you weren't there of course
Still felt like your place though
And perhaps a little more like trespassing
An abstract sign saying "beware of the fiery character"
It was your edifice, your fortress
Built up only for you to be knocked down

It’s the clearest reveal
Of what lies underneath

This house that was a home
Is now a cold museum
And wild winds bemoan
The woe that has befallen
This house that was a home
It now exhibits sorrow
It makes a mockery of 
Our notions of tomorrow

It still stands in testament
And has him still prone to saying "we" instead of "I"
Outside winds blow heavy and long
Expressing open, empty, uncaring space
Sounding a lament
The space outside you fought to keep spare
Spare it now is 
Gusts whistle through it

It’s the cruelest reveal of
What life will concede

This house that was a home
Is now a cold museum
And wild winds evoke
The traumas of its missing
This house is for the ghosts
Who never knew what hit them
It makes a mockery of
The tenets of religion

The house still stands
But those plans were built on sand
The house still stands
But its occupants were damned

Yet the home truths don't quite get home
We're wont to slip back into our zones
To grumble and groan
Our rotas not much changed
The home truth hasn't hit home
That it doesn't much matter anyway
That our worldly aims have feet of clay
It doesn't much matter anyway

It’s the hot wax seal
On what’s life’s deal

This house is not a home
It’s now a grim museum
And wild winds beseech
In echo of the children
Now living is a sham
Still we live on regardless
Though all of this expanse
Is whispering that it’s pointless

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

This House (Edit)

We Walk Among You

The ship has sailed
And left us to this stony ground
And past the age when we’re meant to make a sound
But which came first
The nightmare or that dream?
Which to blame as we’re staring out to sea

Fell out with the right crowd
And down with the wrong one
Hiding in plain sight
Denied any limelight
In a loveless town

We walk among you
Shorn of value
Under shadows
Drawn and pallid
We walk among you

We can’t complain
Amid your tribulations
So much more the civilians endure
For which we aimed
To craft some consolation
That’s our story, that is our defence

And for our disturbance
A few are rewarded
The rest left unheard of
Our nature unserviced
Tumbleweed spinning by

We walk among you
Lame and redundant
With calloused fingers
And no one listening
Uncalled for spirits

Left with only these afflictions
And no esteem to contradict them
Oh but in the larger picture
Our woe it merits but a whisper

Existence is gifted
Not to be sniffed at
But how to redeem it
How do you seize it
When you’re hollowed out?

The ship has sailed
The ship has sailed

We walk among you
Surplus numbers
Unsung wonders
Was all or nothing
We walk among you
Overcrowded
Undervalued
Was all for nothing
We walk among you
Soundly beaten
Vanished egos
Phantoms drifting
We walk among you

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

We Walk Among You (Alt Version)

In The Shop

Well the site may have changed
But the logo remains
Conditions have worsened
And the music for certain
Oh the times always change, sure
But these changes are stranger
Positions reversing
Now the young are the puritans

But they’re working for peanuts
And they can’t get a leg up
Do they still take their comfort in gossip and booze-up?

In the shop
It’s all mixed up now
In the shop
It sends me back

Now the tables are turning
Cos vinyl’s returning
And CD’s on the rack
They’ve been pushed to the back
It’s out with the new
And back to the old
And that goes for the pay
We’re in Dickens’s day

See her play with her phone on the counter
They’ll accept it as part of the outfit
Yeah they lean to your lifestyle
But they give you the breadline

In the shop
They stitch you up now
In the shop
I wish you luck

Well I passed through these parts
On my way to the stars
Which I never did reach
So I’ve lessons to teach
Was so sure of myself
That they’d furnish these shelves
With my musical tales
Well now that ship has sailed

I could play the prodigal son there
Sing my songs to less than a throng there
No the dream never landed, but it still has its charm yeah

In the shop
It’s set me off now
In the shop
I wish you luck
In the shop
I look back with love
I’m talking shop

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

In The Shop (45rpm Mix)

House mashup (ft drake , east end dubs , james bryne , orgon city , MNEK and more

House edit / mashup

Jakeobeats - House Mashup (ft Drake , east end dubs , James Bryne, Gorgon city, MNEK etc)

Scooby Doo

A Force Of Nature

You were a force of nature
Nothing man made could contain you
You were a force of nature
Only nature could restrain you

Our last argument is the best testament
To your zeal and your commitment 
I can still have you here 
Cos the memory was seared
By the heat of disagreement
It wasn't the world that did you in
It wasn't the violence that you'd seen
And there is comfort in that fact
Not any deed, by any hand

You were a force of nature
Nothing man made could frustrate you
You were a force of nature
Only nature could negate you

I did not know the half
Of how you'd had it hard
How that grin was forged by trauma
But battered and bruised
Was battle hardened
And you led the charge for woman
It wasn't the world that did you in
It wasn't the broken souls you’d seen
Nothing that’s out there made you snap
But your own brain was booby trapped

You were a force of nature
Nothing man made could derail you 
You were a force of nature
Only nature could curtail you

Far more than the sum of those woes
Instead grabbing life by the throat
And full of the arrogance of youth
A hubris you never got to lose

There are facts on the ground
But they can’t pare you down
To an empty statistic
Cos you blazed while you breathed
And you rest now in peace
While your gestures outlive you
Some say that life’s a comedy
But that’s only in its ironies
That are dealt out sadistically
In twists of fate that we don’t need

You were a force of nature
Nothing man made could have slayed you
You were a force of nature
Whose biology betrayed you
Gone as a force of nature
But you left your little acorns

Written, performed and produced by Oliver Shaw

A Force Of Nature (5th Ann Mix)


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Worldview is the alias of Oliver Shaw, an Oxford UK-based songwriter, performer and producer mingling rock, pop, dance and folk with insightful lyrics and an overarching melodic sensibility. Oliver began playing in bands, including one with Coldplay’s bassist-to-be, then spent several years honing a one-man band approach in his home studio, writing, singing and playing everything in the manner of Stevie Wonder, early Prince or World Party. Oliver then adopted a new format mixing live instruments and PC as Worldview, playing dates in Oxford and London and releasing the album Our Condition in 2008; Oxfordshire Music Scene wrote: “Worldview's aptly titled 'Our Condition' takes a snapshot view of modern living, with its raw honest exploration of life today...It's a strong offering with music that combines the ballads of REM with the dance beats of Duran Duran". The album track 'Entitlement' was later featured in the major BBC drama The Driver starring David Morrissey, broadcast in autumn 2014. The recent financial crisis was the subject of 2009's single, 'Party’s Over' which featured on the diverse personal and political album Schoolboy Errors, released in February 2012. This and other album highlights were aired on radio shows and podcasts worldwide, and Oliver discussed the album and his musical path in the UK's Vents Magazine. Now largely a studio act, Worldview's 2014 album Pop Philosophy was a mature reflection on life, loss and mortality in melodic, guitar-led rock songs with elements of electro, folk and funk. In its album review Skope Magazine concluded: “Pop Philosophy takes the basics of pop music, the hooks, the delivery, the thoughtfulness, and perfects them”. 
After a six year hiatus Worldview returned with Young Eyes Burning Bright. The rock/pop album’s ten songs addressed twin, related themes: midlife regrets and lessons and mortality and bereavement. Musically an established love of the sounds and songwriting of the 1960s was augmented by a belated reconnection with his formative ‘80s and ‘90s influences. Music blog The Static Dive wrote: “From the opening percussive arpeggios, live drums and analog synth of ‘Under the Bonnet’ to the New Order vibes on tracks like ‘A Rothko And Your Face,’ he blends modern Indie with the classic sounds of the pioneers of Rock and Pop. More often than not, the Worldview sound mixes dramatically different styles to create something entirely new. From the melancholy Americana Alt-Pop of “It’s What Happens’ to the cool experimentation of ‘Certain Love,’ it’s a great listen.”
The new album Everything Is Temporary is a collection of songs exploring topics of loss, nostalgia, changed times, and the vagaries of success; the common thread being contingency and impermanence.  These eleven tracks are a melodic, eclectic mixture of rock, pop and folk, incorporating everything from Moogs to musical boxes, Telecasters to Theremins, vocoders to violins, and ukuleles to uilleann pipes. Everything Is Temporary is released on digital platforms on 17th January 2025.

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