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Here We Sit
04:06
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It’s been 50 years since they told us about,
Increasing temperatures, flooding and drought.
Not everyone listened and caused us to doubt,
The powers in charge did nothing about
The prediction that SRI told us would happen,
Like melting of ice caps and sea levels rising.
The burning of fossil fuels, human consumption.
The Kyoto Protocol argued against - the science replaced with wilful ignorance
Business dictated it’s too much to spend,
Reducing their profit was more their concern,
How much has it cost us, but still we don’t learn?
Resistance is useless unless we tend
To the cry from our planet, Mad weather events,
Mother Nature is at her wits end.
Political papers are easy to write,
But these are no good unless all wills unite. Tipping points already clearly in sight.
Our factories belch out their spurious poison,
Fills the atmosphere to the horizon,
Average temperatures constantly rising,
Wildfires and floods are now not surprising.
Melting glaciers, Bleached coral reef,
Drilling the seabed, Factory ships,
Plastic pollution that’s eaten by fish,
Human consumption is killing our seas. Sometimes I think that we are the disease.
And still we continue to chop down the trees,
Burn fossil fuels and empty the seas.
So, you pay your invoice for your energy,
While the wind and the sun and the rivers run free.
And still there are those who sit on the fence,
Argue the science, Ignore evidence.
Filling their pockets with dollars and cents
Today it’s the poor who bears natures offence. Soon all your money will be no defence.
So here we sit with the sun on our face,
Leaving our rubbish all over the place,
And we call ourselves the superior race,
The waste we create is a downright disgrace,
From the bottom of the sea to the darkness of space,
Let’s find another planet, Just in case…
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The End Of An Era
03:35
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3. |
Just Another Day
05:17
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Can I ask you a question?
Can I make you a reuse?
Not because I lack reason,
Not because I’m confused.
Cause I want your opinion,
On what this all means
Are we here for a reason?
In our faded old jeans
Chorus
It’s just another day
Mooching along (Time moving on)
By no means a perfect day
But I’ll soldier on (But I’ll carry on)
It’s just another day
And there’s nothing wrong
I’ve (got) nothing at all to say
While time ticks along (lingers on)
I’m not expecting an answer
Cause there isn’t just one
A rhetorical question,
For minds on the run
So, you do, or you don’t
What you see or you say
Till you wake up tomorrow
And forget yesterday
Chorus
Yea I said I’m alright
Yea I said I’m ok
But underneath it all
Its just something I say
If I say what I feel
Would you feel what I say
Well I think I’ll just smile
‘til my blues goes away
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Havin' A Moment
02:33
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12 stone 5 foot 6 and a quarter,
Feeling like a kid sitting wrapped in a corner,
Mind is flapping like a fish outta water,
Yesterdays gone and todays getting shorter
One deep breath required
Well, I could sit here and tell you all my story,
A life full of love and loss and glory,
Now I’ll be as honest as I think I should be
But will you know if I’m lying because you know I could be
One deep breath required
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6. |
Dance In Your Pants
02:36
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7. |
Closer To Me
03:32
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There’s a place I know,
And you go there in your dreams,
Not a place you want to go,
I know I’ve heard the screams.
When I wake at night
And I can’t get back to sleep
I know somethings not right
Can feel your dancing feet.
I can feel your breath, On my neck as you sleep
I can feel your heartbeat racing, skip a beat
You tell me your dreams as they mix with memories
All that I can do is to hold you closer to me
When you come looking for my hand
You think I’m no longer there
When will you understand?
That I’m going nowhere.
And in the morning when we wake,
You say you’re still feeling tired
And your head and body ache
Not the night that you desired
I can feel your breath on my chest as you sleep
I can feel your heartbeat racing, skip a beat
You talk in your dreams. Mixed up memories
All that I can do is to hold you closer to me
All that I can do is to pull you closer to me
All that I can do is to hold you closer to me
All I can do is treat you right.
Give you all the love I have.
So, when you’re dreaming in the night
Know that I’ll be there.
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Lullaby
02:55
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Akrasia
04:36
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Sitting at the station, Waiting for a train,
See the train a coming, watch it go again.
Akrasia. Going to Akrasia
Grab a cup of coffee, Look at my e-mail,
Watch the train a coming, leave it go again.
Akrasia… Going to Akrasia.
When you go there days can turn to years,
You can safely wallow in your deepest fears,
Things can happen while you’re there or so it seems,
Empires fall and are rebuilt inside these dreams.
Watch the news on TV, Google something strange,
Leave it there for later, Nothings going to change,
Grab a cup of coffee, Look at my e-mail,
Watch the train a coming, there it goes again.
Fall into a self-imposed hypnotic state
Where nothing maters,
All is silent, all is blurred,
And time does not exist….
Akrasia… Tangled in Akrasia…
Akrasia… Got to leave Akrasia…
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Noel O'Reilly Southampton, UK
Noel is a singer/songwriter from Dublin, now living in Southampton UK. Acoustic rock inspired by Thin Lizzy, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Radiohead, Muse, Dream Theatre, Bob Dylan, Lennon/McCartney and Neil Young. He now releases independently via his website www.noeloreilly.com His first album "Here We Sit" released February 20 2021 is a 10-track album of songs and instrumentals. ... more
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