Song I wrote the day after leaving Liverpool, following 7 excellent years there.

Lyrics:

Now just a memory
Just a place I used to live
But all to early
I found I had to give
I had to give it all away

It was the last day 
A perfect last day
In a place I once called home
In a place I once called home
In a place we once called home

Woken by the sunrise
Woken by the sunrise
Rubbed our eyes and headed into town
We stopped for breakfast
And everyone was there
Everyone was there

And in the evenin’
And in the evenin
We headed down for Frisbee in the park
And we just lay there
For hours we lay there
We just lay there in the grass


The Perfect Last Day

Hard to say what this one is about - a bit about mortality and a bit about making the most of life. Something like that.

Lyrics:
Friendships are fleeting
Life is just a seating
At a table for a hundred years or so
Whoa o
You don’t want to know

Time will move past us
Rocks will outlast us
Never will know all the things to come
Oh No
You’re not the only one

Know that life will pass you by
In the blinking of an eye
If you lock yourself away
So you say
You say not today

Look at the whole picture there is far too much at stake
Everybody knows they will see pain and feel heartbreak
We all make mistakes

One chance is all you get
One chance is all you need
One chance to live your life
One chance to live your dreams

Know that life will pass you by
In the blinking of an eye
If you lock yourself away
So you say
You say not today

Something always missing, the mind it can deceive.
Something always missing, but you don’t know what it is that you believe
What should you believe

Only get a lifetime to do the things we may
Only get a lifetime to say all the things that you want to say
Things you need to say



Friendships Are Fleeting

Actually wrote this song (or at least the lyrics) a few years ago in a bored moment (the subject of which is entirely fiction). Bit of messing about the guitar over the last couple of months and this is the result :)

When I saw you today
You took my breath away
With eyes of deepest brown
Your look could strike me down

Though some things can’t be planned
I long to take your hand
And take you out to dance
Maybe we could find romance

We could spend some time together, just a moment or two
We could sing a song together, it is better when it’s with you

I recall the other day
We wondered far away
The moon a crimson red
The stars shone ahead
…and I thought

We could have our own adventure, an adventure made for two
We could run till we got lost, nothing matters when I’m with you



Drive me insane, burn me like a flame
Drive me insane, burn me once again

All the time we spend together, every moment so true, so new
There is nothing I would change, there is so much we can do


Took My Breath Away

This is a song about the songs that I might never sing again
Some were written out of love and some were written out of pain
Songs my be forgotten, but the feelings still remain

Play those songs all night long
Every song a tale to tell
Tales you could tell as well

Where would we be without melody

This is a song about the songs that I might choose to leave aside
Feelings once so powerful I hope that I can hide
Left behind the songs, but the feelings still survive

Play those songs all night long
Every song a tale to tell
Tales you could tell as well

Where would we be without melody

Many of the songs talk of feelings to forget
Others talk of brothers and the friends we’re glad we met
Many of the songs talk of feelings we withhold
Others tell of times that pass us as we’re getting old

This is a song about the songs that I don’t know if I should play
Feelings once so rational just getting in the way
The songs may be unplayed, but the feelings here to stay

Play those songs all night long
Every song a tale to tell
Tales you could tell as well

Where would we be without melody

Some May Be Forgotten

This is your life, you look around
There’s something that you haven’t found
There’s something that you haven’t found

This is your life, it feels so strange
You feel like something’s got to change
You don’t know what you wanna change

People you know move away
People don’t forever stay
People you knew don’t remain,

You don't know what lies ahead,
Don’t live for the future,
It’s best to live for now instead

Regret the things you didn’t do,
Too often you just played the fool,
Now life has made a fool of you

Your eyes are open, now too late
Too often you would hesitate
You can’t afford to hesitate

What you gonna do
What you gonna do now?
What you gonna do


This Is Your Life

I look at you and say I’ve never seen you look so sad
You smile but reddened eyes betray what little sleep you’ve had
You say that you’re okay but I have known you for too long,
To know that that is not quite true, to know that something’s wrong

To fool the world is easy, wearing shades to hide your eyes
You leave the house and wear a smile to serve as your disguise
You build yourself a prison, you think no one wants to know
The problems that may rest beneath, what really lies below

Oh, you think that you’re to blame
You think you’ll go insane
That things will stay the same
Oh, you hope in a year and a day
You hope that you're able to say
Why did I feel this way

I look at you and say I’ve never seen you look so sad,
You look surprised, thought this the best disguise you’ve ever had,
But it can make a difference to know you’ve got a friend
So take a breath and speak your mind, I’ll listen till the end

-Solo-

Chorus

I look at you and say I’ve never seen you look so sad
You smile, but reddened eyes betray the many tears you’ve shed
It feels as though you’ll never know a place that feels like home
A thousand people pass you by, you couldn’t feel more alone

Your happiness I treasure, but then more importantly,
The times when I have needed you, you were always there for me,
So don’t become an island and don’t feel you need to hide,
And if you fall a single call and I’ll be by your side

Chorus


I've Never Seen You Look So Sad

Thanks to Sarah Ribbands for singing with me on this little folky duet! That is why some of the singing sounds female. That is not me. That is not my voice.

When the snow came it fell
On all of the streets
And we fell as well
All losing our feet

Roads all glisten with ice
The suns in our eyes
The warmth is so nice
This sparkling surprise
 
And when I see you smile, it makes me smile too
For a while
And when I see you laugh, it makes me laugh too
I like laughing with you

When the snow came it fell
The air was so cold
You gave me your hand 
Your hand I could hold

When the snow came it fell
And covered your hair
I brushed it away
And kept my hands there

And when I see you smile, it makes me smile too
For a while
And when I see you laugh, it makes me laugh too
I like laughing with you

When I looked in your eyes
You looked into mine
We leant in to meet
A moment divine

Whe n the snow came it fell 
On all of the streets
And I fell as well
Yes I fell for you
You fell for me too

And when I see you smile, it makes me smile too
For a while
And when I see you laugh, it makes me laugh too
I like laughing with you


When The Snow Came

Had a lot of fun collaborating with good friend Jessie on this one! She's the one smashing the vox :)

City Of Silhouettes

Just another day 
Whiling time away 
Lying on the grass 
Watch the world go past 
But when evening came 
Walking from the west 
The sun it lit you up so bright 

And when I saw you all I saw was flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 

When the day got old 
And the sun went down
We grabbed ourselves a drink to drink 
At our favourite bar in town 
Where the music’s live, 
And we can’t resist the dance 
Hand on hips and lips on lips 

And in that moment everything was flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
And when I saw you all I saw was flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 

It’s not just what we see 
And it’s not just what we do 
I’d live again the moments when I’m spending time with you 
We could get away 
Go to somewhere new 
As long as it’s together then I’ve got a feeling it will all be 
Flawless 

But if cracks start peeping through 
Cracks dividing me and you 
Do you think you would want to… 
Call an end to this romance 
Say it was just circumstance 
Even though we knew a time when everything was flawless 

Flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
And when I saw you all I saw was flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 
Flawless 


Flawless

A song I wrote some time last year, and sorted the recording. Good friend Lizzie did her magic with the vocals and here it is!

Tom S Grant