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14 Verses
04:26
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14 VERSES
I didn’t see him coming but I sure did see him go
Like the light that dies in summer with the coming of a winter snow
Its confusing me
I found him in a scratch card that I picked up off the street
I thought I might have won a tenner but then millions fell in front of my feet
Its confusing me
He didn’t come alone though he came riding in a side car
With a distant gentleman who I refused to take seriously
Now he's confusing me
I must not entertain him lest I compromise myself
And anything that may arise from compromising his emotional health
He's already confused and I don’t need confusing anymore
His skins the kind of skin that drives me up the fucking wall
Its like it closes in around me and transports me up to heaven
And his eyes are like dreams that are using me
God its confusing me
I want to feel him cradled up against me
I wanna feel his fears release inside my grip and just for the night
Let him use me
Well Im confused and I am carefully protecting without thinking what could be
If I imagine he was mine and could pack up and live with me
If I let too many ideas present themselves in front of me
We’ll get confused and into trouble and it will not be the first time
Theres a million conversations going on inside my head
About the reasons why I should or shouldn’t get you into bed
And if my beds our destination then theres things we’ve overlooked
And the way your looking at me now its clear that we are fucked
I didn’t see him coming but I sure did see him go
I didn’t see him coming onto me and now I know
Why he didn’t close the door when he walked away
He wants me to follow him and I want him to stay
I want him to pretend just for a while I am in his bed
And life was easy and he knew that it was me he loved instead
And then wake up from the dream and go back to the man he's perfect for
This fairytales amusing me but fuck its confusing
So baby think of me with fondness think of me with you
And let your body daydream with those big old eyes so blue
We were not to be its not our destiny
I didn’t see you coming but I wanted you to be the one
Who’d finally get down upon his knee and make an honest man of me
I see our future and its shining brightly
You’re not ready for me, i'm ready for you
Our universes aren’t aligned, our timing, well, its not in time
So fuck the happy ending but I wish it all so well
I am a much better man for having met you what the hell
You would be better off inside of me than skirting my periphery
But love you from afar I will and not assume you’ll come for me
But I wish you all you want and if one day that should be me
I cant promise I’ll be single but I promise you that I will be
Everything you ever wanted, everything you need and Love Will Win
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Wake Up
04:49
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Wake up Wake chop your breakfast out on a plate
White boys wait looking for ways to dissipate
Seven days make a week wait whats the date?
Its been 6 weeks that’s 42 days
Blues come through me, wait
Don’t do me anything other than another favour you’ve lost me
Brains not awake yet wake me up
Wake up wake up wake up wake up
Ive seen forty two moons turn into the sun
Forty two boys dancing to noise in a club
clubs don’t stop but they always end too soon
one wait theres the sun wheres the fucking moon gone?
Ive had forty two lives over six weeks
six times forty two, two hundred and fifty two beats listened to
drugs don’t stop but they always end too soon
One boy waits in line the emergency room spins like a ball
Like a disco hall go go get a vice lose a virtue
Nice boys don’t but the bad ones hurt you
Im on a lad, ladder climbing up high trying to get higher this is fucking genius
Im in every element ever made
Ace club heart spade
Diamonds will die but the beat just wont fade
The beat just wont fade
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Better Things
03:34
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BETTER THINGS
Im playing a part that im not sure I was born to play
But still I act away like somethings gonna come of it
Life doesn’t owe you anything that’s what they say
So act like you're ok but you wish you knew a little bit
If this continues to bring up other things
Im gonna have to find my heart better things
If this continues to feel like shit
Im gonna have to find my heart better things
Than what im giving it
The cat didnt die on his own it was curiosity
That set the sucker free looking for a better way
Six of my lives might've been precarious and free
I'll live this final three like ive got nine more left
If this continues to bring up other things
Im gonna have to find my heart better things
If this continues to feel like shit
Im gonna have to find my heart better things
Than what im giving it
No letting go till it stops
Oh here we go will it stop?
No letting go till it stops
Oh here we go will it stop?
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You and Me
05:28
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Funny looking life making money looking let then right
make a run for it
Run until you find whatever feels right and then
take a piece of it
funny how you do what you swear you’ll never do i must be
getting older now
inhibitions falling through the blue sky
when my blue eyes landed on this guy
cos you and me want this
you and me do this
you and me fear
that you and me wont get
what you and me still bet’s
ever so clear
you and me did this
you and me hid this
you and me knew
that you and me kissed
and then you and me wished that
you and me could do
what me and you do
wonder where we’ll go if we ever get through this mess
its gon’ be difficult
the more i get of you the less i feel i can do
can do without you
but do what you have to do
but do me first before you do
cos i do think its gonna be hard if you go home without me
funny how a boy gets so bored
when he’s taking it taking it
sometimes you wanna give what you get instead of faking it faking it
if somethings in your way how you gonna get past it past it
just throw your money down
cos loving from the hearts gonna cost you
but its worth every penny that you’ll put down
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You and Me (acapella)
03:40
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Funny looking life making money looking let then right
make a run for it
Run until you find whatever feels right and then
take a piece of it
funny how you do what you swear you’ll never do i must be
getting older now
inhibitions falling through the blue sky
when my blue eyes landed on this guy
cos you and me want this
you and me do this
you and me fear
that you and me wont get
what you and me still bet’s
ever so clear
you and me did this
you and me hid this
you and me knew
that you and me kissed
and then you and me wished that
you and me could do
what me and you do
wonder where we’ll go if we ever get through this mess
its gon’ be difficult
the more i get of you the less i feel i can do
can do without you
but do what you have to do
but do me first before you do
cos i do think its gonna be hard if you go home without me
funny how a boy gets so bored
when he’s taking it taking it
sometimes you wanna give what you get instead of faking it faking it
if somethings in your way how you gonna get past it past it
just throw your money down
cos loving from the hearts gonna cost you
but its worth every penny that you’ll put down
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Declan Bennett London, UK
'Declan is the real thing. He sings from the heart, and I defy anyone not to be touched by his songs' – Linda
Thompson
Actor/ Singer/ Songwriter Declan Bennett : An artist who continues to carve out a fiercely independent path, constantly evolving, impossible to pigeonhole.
His newest EP, the second in the trilogy, ‘Unsolicited Material:NYC’ is out now.
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