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There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
One side’s autumn and the other’s spring.
First way, everything looks so bad.
Next way’s the best time you ever had.
If it ain’t one, then it’s the other.
Either you’re a hater or you’re a lover.
The way you feel could easily swing.
There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
Heads or tails, spinning, turning.
One day friends through thick and thin.
The next day you can’t stand to look at them again.
If it ain’t one, then it’s the other.
Your enemy could be your brother.
Flip that coin remembering.
There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
We should stop this bickering.
Give your lover a second chance.
Do you want revenge or do you want romance?
If it ain’t one, then it’s the other.
Forgivin’s divine. Not to’s a bummer.
In the doghouse now and you wanna spring?
There’s two ways of lookin’ at the same thing.
So lift your feet and start to dance.
Shake your blues, drop your trance.
Open up, let your heart sing.
There’s at least two very different ways of lookin’ at the same exact thing.
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One
04:32
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The day, the night
The dark, the light
The left, the right
One
The friend, the foe
The high, the low.
The quick, the slow
One
The pious priest
The infidel
The West, the East
The sick, the well
The strong, the frail
The truth, the tale
The flea, the whale
One
The border guard
The prison yard
The spared, the scarred
One
The rich, the poor
The needless war,
The cannon’s roar
One
The troops deployed
The naïve youth
A town destroyed
The brutal truth
The refugee
The bound, the free
They’re you and me
One
The sun, the rain
The joy, the pain
Each John or Jane
One
The twilight hush
A luscious thrush
A teenage crush
One
The winsome maid
Her nights awake
The dashing blade
The lovers’ ache
The sweet perfume
The perfect bloom
The bride, the groom
One
The ocean’s deep
A world asleep
The wolf, the sheep
One
The hallowed ground
The lost, the found
The softest sound
One
The things you tried
The plans you made
The changing tide
The years that fade
The wounds you nurse
The lifted curse
The universe
One
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When morning comes to wake me and my curtains dance and glow
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
I take my first breath of morning and it warms me so.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
My friends say “Won’tcha come and visit?
You know your house won’t blow away.”
Butcha know I’d surely miss it.
So it’s here I’m gonna stay, here I’m gonna stay, here I’m gonna stay,
here I’m gonna stay. Yeah, yeah.
Night comes in so softly and the breeze is warm and low.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
Take me to your heat wave.
Set me by the sea.
Cuz I’m livin’ in my land of sunshine.
And it’s , here I wanna be, here I wanna be, here I wanna be, here I wanna be Yeah, yeah.
The clouds are puffs of ice cream
And the fields pistachio.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
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Tannenbaum
03:14
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Last 6 or 7 years
That’s all I needed to prove my fears
I’m a busted, dusted man and that’s the truth.
Rumblin’, tumblin’ Tannenbaum.
If a town could cry, you would surely drown
For the wasteful, distasteful lie they made out of you
When he calls you do you listen?
When he speaks are you at home?
How long can you think of a reason
To pretend that you don’t know him?
When he pulls you to his breast what will you do?
You remember, Jo,
it was quite here but, Holy Moses,
Where there once was nothin’ now there’s everyone.
Once a town’s a ghost town
That’s the top, Girl, the rest just goes down.
And I’d rather live with what’s dead and done.
When he calls you to his side, where will you go?
Ridin’ fast past Tannenbaum
There’s a high-tone man to the manor bound
And he says he’s gone and come to take you away.
But in his heart he’s thinkin’ the opposite
And it’s hangin’ him up because of it.
All you little girls and boys, stay out of his way.
When he holds you in his heart, are you alone ?
Suitcase in your hand.
Is that anyway to treat your man?
You can pick your chin right up and head for the hills.
Goddamn it, Josephine,
You can blame it on your sex machine
And Tannenbaum and I will never will you ill.
When he calls you to his side, what will you do?
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King Lear's Blues
04:24
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I was feelin’ down and broken-hearted
Like there was very little left for me to lose.
So I started to sing about the way it all started:
A pyramid to all of my dues.
Fell into a trance and I started to dance
And imagined myself King Lear
Alone on a heath with tremblin’ teeth
And nothing but fear to fear.
Cordelia, Cordelia, my darling daughter,
Don’t you recognize your old man?
I suffered for sure when I froze on the moor.
So give me all the sympathy you can.
“Say, Daddy,” she said. “You’re a long way from dead.
You can walk, you can talk, you can bend.
And, if you think you’ve seen the worst of it
Then no one’s told you ‘bout the end.”
Well, that scared me some so I started to wonder
Just when things got out of control.
“You made a pact with the Muse of The Blues and she called ya’.
You’re bluffing your ace-in-the-hole.”
Well, I’ll throw in my hand. “Wouldja be happy then?”
Cried the resonant voice form the skies.
“Well, so is the man who sings the blues,
No matter how much he cries.”
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Open Up Summertime
03:15
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Open Up, Summertime.
Lemme see that old sun shine.
He’s an old friend of mine.
Only he can make me whole,
Warm up my summer soul.
Open up, cloudy day.
Chase those mother-fuckin’ clouds away.
Chase ‘em far away.
And drop me in a sunny spot.
I’d rather be hot than not.
When I was small
It was no fair at all’
When a cloudy day
Took away my play.
Then the summer sun
Would finally come
Peekn’ through
And the sky turned blue.
And now, even though I’m 6 feet tall
In the summertime I feel I haven’t grown up at all.
(Chorus again)
Birds in the trees
Singing those melodies
From another place
With amazing grace.
And your lover true
Next to you
On a starry night
When the moon shines bright.
And now, even though I’m 6 feet tall
In the summertime I feel I haven’t grown up at all.
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Irresistible
04:04
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I find you irresistible
Yes, it’s true
And when they ask what I did in life,
I loved you
You are to me like the river-rushing forest
Like the mountains, like the sky,
Like the rolling-ocean sea
And, when I see you, I tremble like the aspen leaf,
I tumble like an avalanche
A fire’s inside of me
I find you irresistible
Yes, it’s true
And when they ask what I did in life,
I loved you
You are the rain
You are never-ending sunshine
In your laughter there’s that rhythm
In your language there is love
And when I hold you, there are halos in the heavens
There’s a smile upon the world
There are angels, angels
I find you irresistible
Yes, it’s true
And when they ask what I did in life,
I loved you
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Camden, London, Middletown, Hamden
Railroad Train Runnin’ Up My Back
Willy, Millie, sad-eyed Billy
Wishing bones couldn’t bring ‘em back
Camden is the town where all this comes from
All this comes from
Billy was the best boy in the town
All the little girls followed him around
Until he left for Middletown
To be a success
Well, you know the rest
Camden, London, Middletown, Hamden
Railroad Train Runnin’ Up My Back
Willy, Millie, sad-eyed Billy
Wishing bones couldn’t bring ‘em back
London is the town that Millie came from
Millie came from
Millie was the best I ever saw
But Billy was as smooth as a kitten’s paw
And Millie had to leave for Arkansas
To keep her respect
Well, what’d you expect?
Camden, London, Middletown, Hamden
Railroad Train Runnin’ Up My Back
Willy, Millie, sad-eyed Billy
Wishing bones couldn’t bring ‘em back
Hamden is the town I’m writing this from
Writing this from
Millie and me were as close as came
Lovin’ me was her cliam to fame
Willy McGilligy, that’s my name
It was Millie and me
And Billy made three
Camden, London, Middletown, Hamden
Railroad Train Runnin’ Up My Back
Willy, Millie, sad-eyed Billy
Wishing bones couldn’t bring ‘em back
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When morning comes to wake me and my curtains dance and glow
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
I take my first breath of morning and it warms me so.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
My friends say “Won’tcha come and visit?
You know your house won’t blow away.”
Butcha know I’d surely miss it.
So it’s here I’m gonna stay, here I’m gonna stay, here I’m gonna stay,
here I’m gonna stay. Yeah, yeah.
Night comes in so softly and the breeze is warm and low.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
Take me to your heat wave.
Set me by the sea.
Cuz I’m livin’ in my land of sunshine.
And it’s , here I wanna be, here I wanna be, here I wanna be, here I wanna be Yeah, yeah.
The clouds are puffs of ice cream
And the fields pistachio.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
I’m livin’ in a land of sunshine. Got no inclination to go.
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10. |
Can't Get Enough Of You
03:06
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Rabbit, he jump back in his hole
Woodpecker climb up the telephone pole
I’ve got an ache down in my soul
Cuz I can’t get enough of you
Can’t get enough of you
Frog in a mudpuddle on my right
Butterfly havin’ a helluva flight
And I can’t wait till Saturday night
Cuz I can’t get enough of you
Can’t get enough of yo
Giant squid is one mean dude
He’s jello-in-a-bag with an attitude
And I’m in a light-headed kinda mood
Cuz I can’t get enough of you
Can’t get enough of you
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Pablo SOLO Santander, Spain
Solo's first LP became one of the most critically acclaimed indie albums in Spain of 2020, ‘Alondras’.
During lockdown,
Solo recorded a song written by John Simon (producer of the Band, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel…)
Simon heard the cover and recognized the talent of Solo’s musical range. Ten months later, the fortuitous collaboration of ‘Solo Sings Simon’ came to life.
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