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Freeway
Flip top, hit the gas
Driving on the tacky black
Precious moments thick and fast, and the
Ships are on a wacky tack
Freeway, leave behind the
Rolling sea, the waterside
Driving on, take me home
Precious moments, come and gone
On the freeway
Young fun, beach ball bum
Shades and braids of the carefree ones
Flip flop, icicle pop
Melting me away, away, away
Big blue sky, tear in my eye
Stinging my face in the rippling haze
Mobilise, pelican dive
Better way to put it, get out of here
Yeah we drive a road by the ocean
Hidden road, forest green
Look a bear, deliver me
Slow up, logging truck
Tune into the blues and country
Pop that hood, needle’s on red
Big tooth dog, am I better off dead
Happy as a jack, cold beer trap
Little bit of this, hit the road again
Good old days, summer ways
Chevy to the levy couldn’t hold a candle
Keep the sweet memories
Brother ain’t nothing we can’t handle
Cotton fields, cotton clouds
What I wouldn’t give for a bed right now
Round the corner, almost done
Eagles kiss the morning sun
Cross a road, dream a day
Came an old man saved the way
Big slow water down below
Fast over the ironer we go
What’s that water, lordy me
Slip across the Mississippi
Son of a gun son of a gun…
On the Freeway…
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What of Your Heart
04:05
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What of Your Heart
There’s no place for argument here
In this place you are out of it
Holding fast to a tug of war
Pillow head is how I feel
I want to cry, want to talk around the subject
Want to believe you are nothing less than perfect
You say let your guitar take the lead, play the chords
But the chords ache like my heart
What of your heart
Is it much colder now, going down, down
Watching the walls move
It’s a pack of cards
Who’s the joker
Move closer darling, darling
Wo-hoh, it’s a mighty fine line
What of your heart
What of your heart
One bright spark, biding its time
Ran away with another flame
When I’m wide awake, you are up in bed
Oh it used to be you were looking at me now
Mr. Elusive don’t go too far
Face it, move up closer, look inside my tears
They hold a million reasons for my need to hold you near
Well what have you got to show
For your precious little family tree
When the bow breaks and the doors close
When the wind blows, is it much colder now
Do what you will, while I’m watching the walls move
Got to have money, money
What you really want, innit darling ….
Is it everything
What of your heart
What of your heart…
Nobody ever listens to it
Knock, knock, knocking
Is there anybody there
What of your heart
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1000 Miles
04:48
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1000 Miles
Minding my own business, walking down the street
Kicker nicker bocker glory chance rhythm to my feet
There’s a hunky dory sun up in the sky
Welling up in mind a distant dance, won’t let me walk by
I can be a 1000 miles
Travel clear a 1000 miles from here
Can you believe the speed
Underneath my feet
Earth is turning I am still
Ever will explore the before and after
When I shut my eyes
Time and distance seem to disappear
Embers in the fire, starry, starry night
Sitting in the flickering pools of love and light
Maybe take an elevator, maybe climb a mammoth tree
Maybe let a rainbow launch me off to get from A to Z-zee easy
I can be a 1000 miles
Travel clear a 1000 miles from here
Can you believe the speed
Underneath my feet
Earth it turning I am still
And I will explore the before and after
When I shut my eyes
Time and distance seem to disappear
On the highway of my mind
New horizons any time
Calling me, twinkling
Always within reach
Earth is turning I am still
As I will into the past and after
When I shut my eyes
Time and distance seem to disappear
I can be a 1000 miles
Travel clear a 1000 miles from here
Can you believe the speed
Underneath my feet
Earth is turning I am still
Ever will explore the before and after
When I shut my eyes
Time and distance seem to disappear
Disappear, disappear
Shut my, shut my eyes
Disappear
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Wow
05:29
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Wow
I’m in Sherburn Hill, here in 1931
Knock at door number 4, my father is born
On the edge of the coal, by a seam called The Busty
The slag heap in snow made a postcard for all
Gran was pretty far from field and feather
She was no fool for this colliery town
And she went down the aisle, they had three sons together
Happy as Larry in worn hand-me-downs
Oh wow, where did you go
Oh wow, tell me more I want to know
Oh wow, I feel you here
I feel you far away, keeping us near
Wow
He knew poverty but he knew he could trust it
Could ever give more when he was all out of luck
For he married my mother, a match made in heaven
Well that was the plan until tragedy struck
Oh my mother she was taken hard from us
Like yesterday’s news, seems so long ago now and
The papers all talked of a driver on whisky
Was the first man he’d ever let drive her back home
Oh wow, where did you go
Oh wow, tell me more I want to know
Oh wow, I feel you here
I feel you far away, keeping us near
Wow
Here I celebrate our mother and father
Born in the storm of the bitter north-east
Where you might like to travel, let
An answer unravel now, the question is begging
I fall to my knees and pray
Now tell me what I want to know
Oh wow, want to know where did you go
Oh wow, if you can hear me, if you can hear me
If you can hear - near
Oh wow, tell me more I want to know
Oh wow, tell me what I want to know
Oh wow, I feel you near
I feel you far away, I feel you here
Wow
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Roll of Art
05:47
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Roll of Art
(spoken words)
“What’s the crap, what are you doing?
You know that poster that was in the Mall?
No. This is Mike
I know
What poster?
There’s a poster and it was in the Mall and it was awesome
No, which one?
And it’s an awesome poster
Okay, what is it?
It’s an awesome poster - thought you ought to know
That makes no sense, Paul, how am I going to find it?
I tell you, it is the best poster ever conceived by man, you don’t have to find it It’ll find me?
Yeah
Hahaha!
It’s like the ring
What is it, dude?
It is the best poster ever
What is it?
A godlike poster
Shoot Paul! Shut up and tell me what it is!
I will...”
Roll of art, Roll of art…
“What is it?
Roll of art, roll of art…
“Shoot Paul!”
How am I going to find it?”
Ultimate art…
All the men think by far, all the men make come do
All the men here,
Faddle day dah, faddle day dah
Ultimate art…
Everybody’s thinking, ah man it’s phenomenal
"It’s an awesome poster, thought you ought to know”
Nobody saw, nobody see…
"It’s an awesome poster”
Ultimate art…
Just a roll of art…
“You don’t have to find it
It’ll find me?
Yeah
Hahaha!”
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Melody Man
04:35
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Melody Man
When you talk it’s slow-mo
When you touch it’s slow-mo
When you walk it’s slow-mo
When it’s all too much it’s slow-mo
Heavy heart is slow-mo
When it swing it’s slow-mo
What you feel is slow-mo
It is too far gone for anyone
All the steeples are raining down tonight
Inside is saying go to sleep, go to sleep, yeah
But I see a middle road in the dark
How I see it
How can I have you with me, how can I, how can I
How can I have you with me, how can I, how can I – how I see it
How can I have you with me, how can, I how can I - have you with me
How can I have you with me, how can I, how can I - have you with me
How can I have you with me? Love, love
Inside is saying go to sleep, go to sleep, yeah
Inside…
With the melody man
With the melody man
The melody man
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The Play So Far
03:59
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The Play So Far
White door
Red door
Black door
Zig zags, circles
Around, around
Back and forth, free lines this
Little girl is flying high
Making the moment
Watch it melting away
Dying for another one but it
Better wait for another day
The play so far
The white door is open
We walk in for more
I fall into your honeydew
Can we save it
Time ticks by
Is it really so free
A new day is breaking
We escape back to reality
You and I must be
True to the game
What shape are you in
What shape are you in
The play so far
The red door is open
We walk in for more
I fall into your honeydew
Can we save it
Can we save it
Can we save it
Can we save it, the play so far
Zig zags, circles
Around, around
Back and forth, free lines this
Little girl is flying high
You and I must be
True to the game
What shape are you in
What shape are you in
The play so far
The black door is open
We walk in for more
I fall into your honeydew
The Play so far
The door is wide open
I walk in for more
I fall into your honeydew your
Honeydew, your honeydew
Can we save it
Can we save it - can we, can we, can we
Can we save it
Save it, save it, save it
You say aha, you say aha, you say...
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Call of the Wild
04:24
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Call of the Wild
Snow lightly falling on your shoulder
Keeping me awake to you
Icy the mountains around are
Warm in our eyes
Green shoots are pushing through
Thumping bump bunnies
Keeping me awake to you
Snow may have taken us prisoner
But snow in the sunshine
Walls are collapsing around us
What an awful easy leap
Reinvented… you and me
Got a whole lot more to do
That’s how my heart leaps now my love
That’s how my heart leaps now my love
Call of the wild
Call of the wild
Call of the Wild, this is the call of the wild
This is, mmm… this is the call of the wild
This is the call of the wild
Can’t stop the stream nor the river deep
Valleys sound the tune around, easy leap
Noisy-full as the blood in vein
Tracks melt away
One moment come, one moment gone
Bellow baby bellow, I have seen
It is one big plan
Bellow, baby bellow
Bellow baby below
Bellow, baby bellow
Bellow baby below
Bellow baby below
Spirit, gentle bellow
Can’t stop
Can’t stop
It is one… got two
Light and the shadow
Inside of you
Got to be two
And when I think of you
All I do is love you
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Girlfriend
06:23
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Girlfriend
I wouldn’t stop you from
Walking away from your
Responsibilities to her
But don’t ever tell me
You never even cared
A little bird has told me so you need not lie
Find you an alibi
Pretty face, pretty girl
Hair of gold, smile of pearls
Look at you…
Don’t stab her in the back while
I’m around to watch reaction
Methods you will use will not hurt me
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Boy, that boy had a girlfriend
Every dream hit the hay, baby never cries
She’s melting away like snow on a spring day
Must be a disguise, see through her eyes
Baby never cries, baby never cries
Woman, oh woman
What can I say to you
It don’t seem worth the price you have to pay
What’s behind those eyes of yours, so
Big and deep and green, can’t see the
Hurt in you, it must remain unseen
Boy… hoo boy, had a girl hit the hay
Baby never cries
She’s melting away like snow on a Spring day
Must be a disguise, see through her eyes
Baby never cries, baby never cries
(repeat)
Ooooh, ooh nah, yeah, yeah
Woo girlfriend
Yeah, girlfriend
Mmm….girlfriend
Girlfriend, girlfriend
Girlfriend, girlfriend
In springtime
Girlfriend
A little bird has told me so you need not lie
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Free Dance
04:50
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Trouble
06:35
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ROA Dance
06:42
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Can We Save It
05:41
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Sine Wave
05:58
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Boy
06:31
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Driver on Whisky
04:46
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Wild Improv
05:28
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Heart Dance
04:41
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Alison Fleming Durango, Colorado
Alison is an English (UK) songwriter/ recording artist.
With renowned producer Tony Lowe two
Lowe/Fleming albums All of the Above in 2007 and Second Nature in 2008 landed on the Grammy lists. She's a contributor on Tony Lowe's star studded ESP project. Third Lowe/Fleming album Human Sleeping was released 2014 on label, Sunn Creative.
Alison has five solo albums produced by Paul Baggott.
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