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Perpetual Motion Machines
I once had a marvellous dream,
to build my own perpetual motion machine
It would dance all around
make the strangest of sounds
In my head
Many more years have now passed
I'm sitting at home looking at
perpetual motion machines dancing round our big bed
What have we done? I said
You just smile instead
Who would ever believe (we did it now)
That dreams come true?
Just me and you
I once had a marvellous dream
to build my own ark in a freshwater stream
that would carry both sides of my Gemini heart to the sea
Many more years are now gone
And instead of an ark I set sail in a song
And the floodwaters rushed from your heart and they lifted me high
When will this end? I cried
You just turned to me and smiled
Who would ever believe (we did it now)
That dreams come true?
Just me and you
I once had a marvellous dream
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Young Lovers
05:27
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Young Lovers
She floats into town on the back of a northerly wind
Says she knows exactly where she’s going; never where she’s been
Smiles at the boys trying so hard to look like tough hard men
They all wanna love her but she’ll never throw it back to them
You met her at the beach all alone staring out at the sea
Asks you for a light come the night; you know just what she means
Takes your old guitar; sings a song; Buffy Sainte-Marie
You used to have a choice; now that voice is gonna be your queen
Look out! Look out, Young Lovers
Cause your life is never gonna be the same
Look out! Ya, Look out, Young Lovers
Cause this life will snuff out your flame
Get out, get out while you can, tonight
An engine full of gas rolling fast; four tires; no tread
You take the onramp as the clouds gather high over head
She turns down the music; says the weather’s always been her friend
You tell her that you love her; she laughs; turns up the music again
Look out! Look out, Young Lovers
Cause your life is never gonna be the same
Look out! Ya, Look out, Young Lovers
Cause this life will snuff out your flame
Get out, get out while you can before the early morning light
Get out, get out while you can tonight
You flew out of town on the back of a southerly wind
But driving through the rain ain’t the same when it’s two a.m.
Look out! Look out, Young Lovers
Cause your life is never gonna be the same
Look out! Ya, Look out, Young Lovers
Cause this life will blow out your brains
Look out! Young Lovers
Look out! Young Lovers
Get out, get out while you can tonight
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Summer Nights in Summertime
Can I lay down here next to you?
If I lay down my troubles too?
These words I speak can be misconstrued
I’m just thankful for this rendezvous
Take the 401 out to the coast
Leave the windows down and count each post
There’s a part of you that’s one part ghost
That part of you that won’t let go
Ooo summer nights
Ooo in summertime
The ocean air it stings your eyes
And heals the soul down deep inside
There’s a million ways to run and hide
But only those who seek can find
Ooo summer nights
Ooo in summer time
I stopped today to call you up
Stared at my phone and a coffee cup
There’s times I fear I’ve given up
Times I fear I’m not enough
She finds the light in every way
Left a message most everyday
Told me love is long past due
Hurry up babe I’m waiting for you
There’s a time and place to make amends
For how each moment came and went
Get those wheels rolling on their way back home
Get your heart in gear and your head down low
Ooo summer nights
Ooo in summertime
Can I lay down here next to you?
If I lay down my troubles too?
These words I speak can be misconstrued
I’m just thankful for this rendezvous
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Everything
02:51
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Everything
I was thinking
You were something
You were something
I was thinking about
And there was nothing
But our hearts thump’n
Our hearts were thump’n
Doin’ nothing at all
And there’s no one to blame
For things we don’t say
You get my meaning
Our bodies speak every word
That our ears have misheard
Including four-letter words
And it feels like
Everything is nothing at all
I was dreaming
that you were singing
Ya you were singing
in a dream that I had
And there was nothing
To stop us hummin’
Your motor’s running
It’s time to put it in gear
Oh the things that we hear
When there’s nobody near
Just cue the soundtrack
Your body speaks every word
That my head has misheard
Ya all those lovely three words
And it feels like
Everything is nothing at all
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Up Around the Bend
03:47
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Up Around the Bend
Late night, headlights
Split the road in two
But I’ll thread the needle through and through and through
You’re sleeping on my arm
Dreaming dreams to another song
I turn the music down to hear you breathe
Could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or would you rather spin the wheel again?
And could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or do you wonder how all this will end?
Up around the bend
The fog begins to break
Trees swing into view
You wake to find the whole world there for you
This love’s a leaky boat
But we’ll bail it out and make it float
Just turn the music up and sing with me
Could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or would you rather spin the wheel again?
And could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or do you wonder how all this will end?
Up around the bend
Hey there mumble bee
Could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or would you rather spin the wheel again?
And could you ever be safe and sound with me?
Or do you wonder how all this will end?
Up around the bend
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Savannah Blue
05:39
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Savannah Blue
Late September
Comes like a flood
Slow in the veins
Cold in the blood
I was done waiting
Hoping you’d change
But sometimes the cure
Is a good dose of pain
Take the highway heading south
Till the salt air fills your mouth
And let it all out
Take the pain down deep inside
Let it drift out on the tide
And come back alive
Oh Savannah I still miss you
Oh Savannah at least we tried
Oh Savannah you tore my heart in two
And left me feeling Savannah blue
I still remember
The gardens in bloom
All of the good
And the evil there too
We’d meet at the river
Walk on the stones
Till you cast me away
And set sail for home
Oh Savannah I still miss you
Oh Savannah at least we tried
Oh Savannah you tore my heart in two
And left me feeling Savannah blue
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Till the End of Time
04:41
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Till the End of Time
Ballerina comes to me
Wrapped up in her memories
Straight toothed but crooked smile
She says it’s been a while
Since anyone had found a way
To heal her love with a hand grenade
But sometimes a frightful blast
Can shake loose all that broken glass
She used to live downtown
Said she can’t afford the rent
She would have moved uptown
Said she can’t stand the scent
Of bankers in their morning suits
Leisure ladies in their yoga pants
And millions of free-trade coffee cups
That people only pay to rent
I’m gonna love you
Till the end of time
Sometimes it’s a drug
And sometimes it’s never enough
And sometimes it’s a distant feeling
And sometimes it’s never enough
And sometimes it’s like a flood
And sometimes she waiting for me
She once hitched her way to the coast
With a band on borrowed time
Hooked up with a chosen son
Slumming it for the summertime
He thought he could keep her close
But lightning only strikes the trees
He tried to clip her wings
But she took flight on the late-night breeze
I’m gonna love you
Ya I’m gonna love you
Till the end of time
Sometimes it’s a drug
And sometimes it’s never enough
And sometimes she whispers to me
I’m gonna leave you
At the end of time
And I’m gonna love you
Till the end of time
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8. |
Getting Lost in Paris
03:48
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Getting Lost in Paris
Getting lost
Getting lost in Paris
We’ll stop and ask directions
in broken Québécois
Feeling slow
Feeling slow in cafes
As pretty dresses sashay
Past old boulangeries
You don’t even know
How your soul
Outshines them all
Getting lost in the light
Getting lost in the night
Getting lost in the sight of you
Finding all that we are
Drifting far down the Seine
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Light in My Day
02:36
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Light in My Day
I’ve got a sweet love this time
Least I think that it’s mine
Like a ray of sunshine
Blasting through my dark mind
And I know that some days
I’m a beast in the cage
But she keeps me quite tame
With her whip and a stage
Oh believe in the night
And the calm in the fight
And the wrong in the right
And the song taking flight
And the warmth of the rain
And the peace in your pain
What is left now to say?
You’re the light in my day
We don’t have lots of time
But I’m quite sure it’s mine
Pour a glass of wine or three
One for you two for me
Shall we dance a bit more
Cut a path cross the floor
You’re a vision, you’re pure
Can I claim you? Je t’adore
Oh believe in the night
And the calm in the fight
And the wrong in the right
And the song taking flight
And the warmth of the rain
And the peace in your pain
What is left now to say?
You’re the light in my day
Can you see the shooting stars above you?
While I carry you, carry you, carry you home?
If you reach your arms up high above you
You can carry them, carry them, carry them home
Watch the weather turn to grey
As the car takes her away
What is left now to say?
She’s the light in my day
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Widow's Walk
04:01
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Widow’s Walk
Watch the water break down the twisted rock
And the rain tumble down the blackened sky
Soon and then they’ll return from their watery graves
Soon and then they’ll return across the thundering waves
There’s a house on the shore
Battered bones still remain
With a face full of light; one eye blind
And a halo of light to shred the darkening sky
Soon and then she’ll return to her wooden grave
Soon and then she’ll return to find her deepening age
As the rain rains on
As the rain rains on
And on
And on
Watch the water break down the twisted rock
And the rain tumble down the blackened sky
Soon and then they’ll return from their watery graves
Soon and then they’ll return to find her deepening age
As the rain rains on
As the rain rains on
And on
And on
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11. |
We Shall Be Bound
04:23
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We Shall Be Bound
I hear the early birds so clearly
As they greet the morning sun
And though a cloud is slowly forming
They fear not from where it comes
We all search for hidden meanings
Look to the stars up in the sky
Everyone has had that feeling
Even children will ask why
The kings and queens are all leaving
Jesters now all wear the crown
And though the earth has stopped its turning
Through all this we shall be bound
The marching feet have got their orders
But mother nature’s still in charge
I have seen their banners flying
And their truth is written large
The kings and queens are all leaving
And all the Jesters now wear the crown
And though the earth has stopped its turning
Through all this we shall be bound
Can you hear the birds more clearly?
As you greet the morning sun?
Yes, it’s true the clouds are forming
But through all this we shall be bound
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12. |
Hope and Chance
04:29
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Hope and Chance
Hope is losing sleep
Always gettin’ wrapped up in-between
Poly-cotton scenery
The best she’s ever seen
And Chance is not awake but he’s still
Pulling at the drapes
He likes to touch the greenery
Crouched down on bended knees
He’s got the chemicals to prove it
And the temperature to use them
Hope just cleans the room
While Chance is building his cocoon
It’s a locomotion tragedy
The best I’ve ever seen
Hope must find a way
But she’s still waiting for Chance to say
“I love you to the moon and back”
But Chance he ain’t ever comin’ back
She’s got the temperature to prove it
And the chemicals to ease it
Well how they gonna go when the goin’ just gets in the way?
How they gonna live when the livin’ won’t hesitate?
She said I’m tired of meeting people with a weak handshake
Drinking too much wine and staying up so late
I’d travel round the world but I never could do it alone
Giving all I got but never what it takes
I diet all the time but I’m still gainin’ weight
Living all my life as though I’m living for yesterday
Well hope springs eternal they say
Once upon a time they had the whole world spinnin’
But further down the line
They’re just spinning in a million little different ways
Everyone tries to beat the race
Standin’ in line or just sittin’ lookin’ pretty
Lights will never change
And we’re always feelin’ strange no matter where we go
Life moves fast when you’re feelin’ slow
We’ve got the temperature to prove it
And the chemicals to ease it
Well how we gonna go when the goin’ just gets in the way?
How we gonna live when the livin’ won’t hesitate?
I’m tired of meeting people with a weak handshake
Drinking too much wine and staying up so late
I’d travel round the world but I never could do it alone
Giving all I got but never what it takes
I diet all the time but I’m still gain’n weight
Living all my life as though I’m living for yesterday
Hope springs eternal they say
But this hope has gone quite astray
And our last chance faded away
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Bryce Thomas Toronto, Ontario
Canadian singer-songwriter Bryce Thomas writes, performs, records, and produces his unique blend of alternative folk / folk-rock music. His songs are smart, quirky, heartfelt, and bombastic… everything one could want for their life’s soundtrack.
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