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Tom Rosenthal

Tom Rosenthal Songs

TOM ROSENTHAL

Favourites

Take Your Guess is available on: 
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Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3

VIDEO for Take Your Guess is here - http://youtu.be/oLAnfZR3BO8

I didn't walk how you said i should walk, i walk how i do walk, and that's fine 
I didn't go how you said it would go, it went how it did go, and that's fine. 

I look out the window somedays,i see a million ways and that's fine 
I didn't dance how i wanted to dance, i did a bit of prance and that's fine 

Take your guess, spurious at best, can't you see its all just chaos. 

I breathe in and then i breathe out, i've got a trillion doubts and that's fine 
I took a road that wasn't a road but it was something i chose and that's fine. 

Take your guess, spurious at best, can't you see its all just chaos. 
Take your guess, spurious at best, can't you see its all just chaos. 

I didn't go how you said it would go it went how it did go, and that's fine. 
Take your guess, spurious at best, can't you see its all just chaos. 


Who's That in the Fog?

Take Your Guess

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'Sex, Death & Landscapes' is available on: 
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Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3

VIDEO - http://youtu.be/khZ8pQ8mNVo

Sex, death and landscapes, its all the mistakes and how you did them well. I fell for you in the summer and that was bummer because you left in the spring. 

Don't sigh, nothing's going to take you away from me girl. You were there all along. 

An old boy on a park bench, thinking in the past tense, looking for the words. I'll wash my face tomorrow, and for the days that follow i'll do it all again. 

Don't sigh, nothing's going to take you away from me girl. 
You were there all along. 

Sex, death and landscapes, its all the mistakes and how you did them well. I fell for you in the summer and that was bummer because you left in the spring. 

Don't sigh, nothing's going to take you away from me girl. 

VIDEO - http://youtu.be/khZ8pQ8mNVo

Sex, Death and Landscapes

'Outerspace Mover' is available on: 
iTunes -  goo.gl/j2cpJs
Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3


LYRICS: 
Sometimes i go to Neptune to sing a little song or hum a little tune and i don't know why i go there but i do. 

I went to Mars the other day, wasnt much there i have to say but 
i sure was a long way away from you. 

If you want to track my movements look into space and there you'll see that the Outerspace mover is me. 

I used to go Pluto but then they said it wasn't so and i felt 
a kind of celestial malaise. 

So now i'm off to Mercury to have some fun in the galaxy oh these are the best of all my days. 

If you want to track my movements look into space and there you'll see that the Outerspace mover is me. 

I flew to Venus on my spacebike,  i had a few walks and i had a few hikes and i didn't meet anybody there. 

Oh mostly i just glide around and lark about at the speed of sound 
and take in a bit of cosmic air. 

If you want to check my movements look into space and there you'll see that the Outerspace mover is me. 




Outerspace Mover

'As Luck Would Have It' is available on: 
iTunes -  goo.gl/j2cpJs
Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3

VIDEO - http://youtu.be/GXF4a27ouqc

Unsung don't say it, touch it, or replay it, it only happens once. 
So long to last lines, every time's the first time, i'm off to have some fun. 
A cauldron of potions, drops of the oceans, couldn't solve this one. 
As luck would have it i'm on the planet, and so it seems are you. 

As Luck Would Have It

'Away With The Fairies' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/MEQJ0k8gcyk

LYRICS: 
Boopa boopa boopa boopa boopa. 
I love her and she loves me and we love everybody from tin tin to tarzan expect robert mugabe.
 We dance along and sing along in tall grass and daisies and everybody were away with the fairies.

Keep a Private Room Behind the Shop

Away with the Fairies

'Forgets Slowly' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/QzQxY8wDVRU

LYRICS: 
I loved you once and I’ll love you twice but love is cold and love aint nice and
He who loves well forgets slowly
I see your face from day to day, in a hundred years what will they say?
They’ll probably won’t say nothing cos we’ll be dead, wo 
I made your funeral speech in your head even though you’re not quite dead
And I thought I would have done things differently and
You know what ,I’ll do it all over again
You know what, I’ll do it all over again
 
It’s all just chapters in the end, some we receive and some we send and some
are just written really badly
A million words wouldn’t do the trick and love cannot build a bridge
You need construction workers for this
oh Love killed me with a thousand blades and gave me a melancholy phase
For he who loves well forgets slowly.
 
I loved you once and I’ll love you twice but love is cold and love aint nice and
He who loves well forgets slowly
I see your face from day to day, In a hundred years what will they say?
They’ll probably wont say nothing but
You know what ,I’ll do it all over again
You know what, I’ll do it all over again

Forgets Slowly

'Toby Carr's Difficult Relationship With Tuna' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: http://youtu.be/jLEaYLx42uI

LYRICS: 
He put it on his toast and those he liked the most 
He stole it from his cats and from the fishmonger 
He would run fast as he could His hat blew off in the wind 
He was a rapscallion It all was a game It all was game. 
Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna 

In his school photo he held one high above his head 
So the future boys could see what he had done done done. 
  Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna

In the dead of night, he drew them high on city walls 
In the light of day he showed the girl he loved Love love loved 
Oh Toby Carr has got a difficult relationship with tuna 

Oh the love did end , one day he found them sickening 
So he threw them all far into the sea 
They swam away from him, to the lows to the lows 
He waved goodbye to them from the coast, from the coast.

Toby Carr's Difficult Relationship with Tuna

'Take Care' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/p8hN7fJMl6g

LYRICS: 
The old the young, the brave got stung all around you 
The lights fell down upon the world and did surround you 
Take care of all the lonely souls and love will hold you 
Oh how you walked through the dark and love destroyed you. 


Take Care

Can't Help Falling In Love (cover)

'Eyes Eyes Eyes' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/298H_0N0SHE

LYRICS: 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
Oooo my eyes are on eyes your again tonight. 
I'm happy to be near you. 


Eyes Eyes Eyes

A cover of the global hit 'Happy Birthday'. 

Happy Birthday (Dear Human)

'Same Time' is available on: 
iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/album/b-sides/id995568875
Bandcamp - tomrosenthal.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides

LYRICS: 

I hate it when i know and i don't know, same time. 

I am what i said, i meant what i said, but i don't know what i just said.

B-Sides

Same Time

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Watch the VIDEO for the song here - http://youtu.be/L_jCubglck0

There's a party in your brain, 
no one is invited and no one ever came, 
what is going on? 
what on earth is going on in there? 

There's magic in your feet. 
Diamonds in your feet, wolves in your eyes, 
Wait for the surprise, wait for the big surprise. 

Hey Louis Louis don't bite me, 

Tough to be a genius, 
tough to be a man, 
tough to be a horse, 
tough to be a frog 
tough to be a football 
tough to be alive 

You're not getting wiser, 
you're not getting smarter, 
but you're sure getting bolder, 
oh what a love 
what a love for the shoulders 

A psychoanalysts dream 
you gotta lie down, 
tell them what it means 
maybe they can work it out 
maybe no one can work you out 

Always carry snacks, 
save your fellow man 
from your crazy mouth attacks , 
oh louis we all get hungry 

Hey Louis Louis don't bite me 


Hey Luis Don't Bite Me

'Pingu in the Igloo' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/pW76qtP1Zd4

LYRICS: 
You looked liked Pingu in the Igloo 
Your nose was cold , you showed me the icicle, that you found, hanging from the roof 

I remember your entrance to the room i was in and the 
half pint glass you were holding, that made you look bigger than you were

You drew a charming stick man on my left hand and you told me not to wash it off. 
we loved you, we loved you. 






Pingu in the Igloo

'Asleep on a Train' is available on: 
iTunes - https://goo.gl/n7kbDy
Bandcamp -goo.gl/248AK7

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-_bg5dOvOO4

Asleep on a Train

'Lights are on but Nobody's Home' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/p_sXz5IL2kI

LYRICS: 
God stood my up and i don’t know why. 
Lights are on but nobody’s home. 
THERE AINT NO LOVE LIKE OUR LOVE

Falling down and over again 
Lights are on but nobody’s home. 
THERE AINT NO LOVE LIKE OUR LOVE

Lights Are on but Nobody's Home

'There is a Dark Place' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/sW0ljH4VW0w

There Is a Dark Place

'Tony' is available on: 
iTunes - goo.gl/iMh6W
Bandcamp - https://goo.gl/Uhk4qM


LYRICS: 
TONY WORE HIS PJAMAS TO THE BEACH. 
HE SAID ‘LIFES A BEACH LIFES A BEACH, LIFES A BLOODY BEACH 

HE PICKED UP SOME SAND AND HE THREW IT IN THE SEA 
I’VE GOT A SANDY HAND, A SANDY HAND, A SANDY HAND 

TONY FOUND A BOOMERANG AND HE THREW IT IN THE AIR,
BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE THE BOOMERANGS IN THE AIR 

TONY, I MADE YOU DINNER, WHY DONT YOU CARE 

THEY LIVED IN A OLD HOUSE ON A CLIFF 
SHE RODE TO WORK ON A BICYCLE AND HE HAD A PEN TO WRITE WITH 

TONY, I MADE YOU DINNER, WHY DONT YOU CARE

Tony

B-side taken from 'Lungs Quicken' single (2010)

Sapsorrow

One direction as you've never heard them before. 

One Thing (One Direction Cover)

Have We Met Before? is available on - 
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/b-sides/id995568875
Bandcamp - https://tomrosenthal.bandcamp.com/album/b-sides

WATCH THE VIDEO - https://youtu.be/TxaUc412_0k

LYRICS: 
are you thinking
is she close
do you struggle with umbrellas
are you leaving
are you home
have you timed this badly
have we met before

are you staying
did you fall
can you count to ten in German
can you whisper
can you lie
did you design your own website
have we met before

are you sleeping
are you wise
what can you see from your window
are you hungry
are you calm
are you on a great adventure
have we met before

are you reading
did you choose
can you see into the future
are you listening
are you scared
will you know it when you see it
have we met before




Have We Met Before?

'Ian' is available on: 
iTunes -  goo.gl/j2cpJs
Bandcamp - goo.gl/0rAkx3

LYRICS: 
Ian, the life the life 
The dusty old books 
Port on the carpet
The stains the stains 

Oh Ian, the face the face 
The sense of a lifetime 
Snap of the old light 
The room the room 

Oh Ian i'll bring the old box 
Where the quiet lies and the time died 
Oh Ian i'll bring it all for you to see 

Oh Ian, the words the words 
Valiant moments 
Sewed from the old hope 
The life the life 


Violin - Adaq Khan 
VIDEO - http://youtu.be/rXRSHo8MJ7Y

'Yolo' is available on: 
iTunes - https://goo.gl/n7kbDy
Bandcamp -goo.gl/248AK7

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nE9TXEA5DEo

LYRICS: 
Lets go to Sarajevo, play a bit of play dough, nothing gonna stop me now i'm going Yolo.  

I'm like a dynamo, give me my own show, i've found 
of way of making difficult decisions. 

Shall i go to the shops? Yolo 
Shall i bring my dog? Yolo 

Shall i go to the moon? Yolo 
Shall i do it soon? Yolo 

Shall i kiss the girl? Yolo
Shall i give her a pearl? Yolo

Shall i climb the tree? Yolo
You probably get the picture now 

Buts Lets go to Sarajevo, play a bit of play dough, nothing gonna stop me 
now i'm going Yolo. 

I'm like a dynamo, give me my own show, i've found 
of way of making difficult decisions. 

I fell asleep, Yolo was too much for me 


YOLO

'We're All a Bit Scared' is available on: 
iTunes - https://goo.gl/n7kbDy
Bandcamp - goo.gl/248AK7

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/y0cpJOSnsuY

LYRICS: 
We're all a bit scared, we're all a bit scared 
but don't be wet, don't be wet, don't be wet. 

I've been running, mostly nowhere, but don't be wet 

We're all a bit scared, we're all a bit scared 
but don't be wet, don't be wet, don't be wet 
like a flannel 

I've been chasing mostly nothing, but don't be wet 
I've been running mostly nowhere but don't be wet

We're all a bit scared, we're all a bit scared 
but don't be wet, don't be wet, don't be wet 
like a flannel 

We're All a Bit Scared

'Bicycle Lane' is available on: 
iTunes - https://goo.gl/n7kbDy
Bandcamp -goo.gl/248AK7

LYRICS: 
Look at every single eye 
They will all give you a clue. 

You are longer than the road and 
You will be home so soon 

Can you see the colours change? 
Are they blurring into shapes? 

One of you had a thought - 
Its time to make the great escape. 

Theres no sign of cars 
You're in the bicycle lane. 

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Song written with the assistance and guitar skills of 
Alex Brenchley - https://soundcloud.com/alexander-brenchley