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Coming Up For Air
01:39
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Coming Up For Air - by Janet Crawford and Jim Byrne
Coming up for air
Eyes are damp from tears
Counting down from ten, nine, eight
You’re holding every hour
Together with your trust
Every day goes, one by one
Do not fear, lift your eyes
lift them up from the ground
Trust yourself
Look around
Look around
Trust yourself
Look around
Look around
Reaching out for now
It will be alright
Love and hope will, see you through
Soon the time is done
Clouds no longer drawn
The sun will burn right through
Do not fear, lift your eyes
lift them up from the ground
Trust yourself
Look around
Look around
Do not fear, lift your eyes
lift them up from the ground
Trust yourself
Look around
Look around
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A Heart Made Of Gold
03:31
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A heart made of gold
Well I imagined my life, it was turning out fine
And I’d find a love in the fullness of time
I’d be meeting that girl and she’d be so bold
And as for her heart, a heart made of gold
It will be sweetness and light and candy for days
Because when you’re planning for love, music it plays
And we’re always dressed, we’d be ready to go
Never caught in the rain always making the show
And the curtains they'd raise for my girl, she’s so bold
and we’d be together until we grow old
And every flower she’d pick it would colour my day
And If I’ve broken those stems, she won’t turn away
But then I met a girl with a heart made of gold
She just caught me off guard when I wasn’t so bold
When the curtains they raised, for that girl I was sold
Now we’ll be together until we grow old
And sometimes she’s sweet, sometimes she’s blue
But nothing is wrong, when everything’s you
And sometimes we dance, the music it plays
She still gives me her heart on the darkest of days
Now we laugh and we cry, get caught in the rain
Just greeting each tear with its comfort and pain
And now we just smile if we’re missing the show
When every once in a while we've somewhere to go
Because I met a girl who’s ever so bold
And as for her heart, a heart made of gold
Yes I love a girl she’s ever so bold
Because I’ve found a girl with a heart made of gold
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If You'll Be Mine
03:37
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If you’ll be mine
Fate will be kind to you
Shine a light on your path
Love will reach into your heart
To make good what you feel
Summer days will be bright
The warmth of the wind on your face
The spirit of life will hold you tight
And make good what you feel
Love will not fade
Days will be kind
Sweet time, sweet love
If you’ll be mine
Sweet time, sweet love
If you’ll be mine
This promise I make to you
Only love can make it true
Forever a friend in your heart
To make good what you feel
Love will not fade
Days will be kind
Sweet time, sweet love
If you’ll be mine
Sweet time, sweet love
If you’ll be mine
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Smile with me
Smile, with me
Open your eyes, wipe away all your tears
Tell me your troubles, tell me your fears
And you can smile with me
Take the time, to heal
Hold out your hand and your heart will be seen
Your dreams of tomorrow will be your dreams today
If you can smile with me
If you can smile with me
To all you kings, and queens of sad
The dark thoughts, the pains you've had
Those winter clouds, the rain that fell
Spring has a tale to tell,
You can Smile with me
you can Open your eyes wipe away all your tears
You can Tell me your troubles, tell me your fears
And you can smile with me
Time changes, all you see
You can hold out for hope, sing out for free
Let those cannons of words, blast your troubles away
And try, to smile, today
Smile with me
Open your eyes wipe away all your tears
Tell me your troubles, tell me your fears
And you can smile with me
Smile with me
Hold out your hand, and your heart will be seen
Your dreams of tomorrow, can be your dreams today
If you can smile with me
Yes you can smile with me
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Sweet Maria
03:28
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Sweet Maria
I watch the flowers on the table take a bow
Raindrops on the window form a tear
For my love, my dear, my sweet Maria
And It’s a blessing to be where I need to be
For this kiss upon your hand will set you free,
My love, my dear, my sweet Maria
And this hurt upon my heart
Too soon we are apart
We find our peace somehow
I let go somehow
the earth it turns until the morning shows
the birds they sing, their sweetest songs above
For my love, my dear, my sweet Maria
And this hurt upon my heart
Too soon we are apart
We find our peace somehow
I let you go somehow
The earth, the sun, the stars
Let the spirits play their part
Now this world is in our hearts
We can never part
My Sweet Maria
So I watch the flowers on the table take a bow
The raindrops on the window form a tear
For my love, my dear, my sweet Maria
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Don’t you know I’m innocent
I pick up a penny for your thoughts
post off a pencil printed with my name
and you asked me why
I get you so high
So I make canvas and paint it with your smile
write down all the numbers for the colours that I try
I see you back up your phone
Don’t call me at home
Don’t you know I'm innocent
Don’t you know my crime was just to play for you
I can never be the man you see - that’s all, that’s all
And as far as all my kindness goes
I’m right behind your righteous cause
But I cannot pay the final costs - at all
So I push in a candle, and light it for my prayers
Post of a letter printed with the story of your tears
Now I pick up the phone
and I call you at home
Don’t you know I'm innocent
Don’t you know my crime was just to play for you
I can never be the man you see - that’s all, that’s all
And as far as all my kindness goes
I’m right behind your righteous cause
But I cannot pay the final costs - at all
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Take my heart
You say, you hear the wind in the pines
But it tells you no secrets
But I know the sound of its song
And it’s singing for me
And those twinkling stars
In those honey jars
You say, dear, that means nothing.
Yes, it means nothing but my love
she’s waiting for me.
And she’ll take my heart
And hold it tight
She’ll take my hand
And we’ll dance till light
And in the summer time
When The bells they chime on the hilltop
Yes I know that those bells they chime for me
Because the fish in the sea
They always listen
And they tell me, that my love she’ll soon be free
She’ll take my heart
And holds it tight
She’ll take my hand
And we’ll dance till light
Take my heart
Hold it tight
She’ll take my hand
And we’ll dance till light
You know those Dragonflies you see
they carry our dreams
And this gentle earth, it holds us tight
And every time you say dear,
all this means nothing
Yes, it means nothing, but my love
she’s waiting for me.
And she’ll take my heart
And hold it tight
She’ll take my hand
And we’ll dance till light
Take my heart
Hold it tight
She’ll take my hand
And we’ll dance till light
Take my hand
We’ll dance till light
Jim Byrne & Lesley O’Brien
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8. |
Love Breaks In Many Ways
04:32
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Love breaks in many ways
I know, it’s true
That love, breaks
In many ways
So I say, this night
No more, will,
I give, you take
This love…
I wish you well, my friend
This love…
I, hope you’ve chosen well, my dear
This love..
I wish you well
For this love, it breaks in many ways
And I hear you cry
In God's name you say (bv - ‘Why cut me from your heart?’)
but I know this game
love plays no part
So I cut you from my heart
My dear
I know (I wish you well my dear)
It’s true (I wish you well my love)
That love (I wish you well my friend)
love breaks
I know (I wish you well my dear)
it’s true (I wish you well my love)
This night (I wish you well my friend)
love breaks
Love breaks, Love breaks, Love breaks, Love breaks
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I'm Just An Informer
04:05
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I'm just an informer, in this game
I see the weather, I report the rain
I see the cadence to your life
I know who’s to blame
But who’s the joker, in this box
And does he scare you, when he knocks
He’s the man I know
He cannot tell, he can only show
And the plans that we make
All the castles we create
And all the coats we choose wear
We cannot shake
But there's a moment, I understand
It’s filled with promise, it’s a brand new land
There’s the key I have, fits this lock
I have to hand
And the plans that we make
All the castles we create
And all the coats we choose wear
All the stories we have to bear
And all the kings and queens we are
We cannot shake
I’m just an informer
In this game
I’m just and informer
In this game
I’m just…
And all the plans that we make
All the castles we create
And all the coats we choose wear
All the stories we have to bear
And all the kings and queens we are
We cannot shake
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Take Time
01:19
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Blind Blind Love - Alt Version
This heart of mine
is a blind blind fool
It just takes one smile
to break this lovers rule
A single glance
And I can cross the line
A careless touch
and I'm out of time
A gentle game
of playing two
Can take this man
away from you
don’t kiss the girl
Don’t kiss the boy
I've got a blind blind love
and that love is you
So if you catch my eye
Just know it’s true
I keep my love at home
and my kissin’ too
Though this heart of mine
is a blind blind fool
Got one true loves
And that love is you
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Jim Byrne Glasgow, UK
Glasgow based Jim Byrne is an accomplished folk blues guitar player and songwriter. Jim is a recording artist with Fox Star
Records.
He has released 4 critically acclaimed albums since going solo in 2008. ‘The Innocent’ and ‘Every Day is Sunshine’ where particularly well received by listeners and press alike (Q Magazine, UNCUT, Maverick, The Daily Record, Folk Blues and Beyond, Spiral Earth).
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