Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:25:33 +0200 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/ en-EN contact@hearthis.at contact@hearthis.at https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/ https://img.hearthis.at/5/8/4/_/uploads/9899086/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1612890184485.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/100-metre-medley/ You do haunt me, live in my dreams
There you taunt me, call me unclean/obscene
How you flaunt the, way you have been
Properly serene

Chorus
I’m not boring
I’m imploring
Stop this warring
Let the warmth in

You do argue, take to extremes
There your own view governs supreme
How I hate the way that you scream
Properly redeem

Chorus

And yes, this time, you miss the glow
And yes, this time, the tears will flow
And yes, in time, the sadness goes
And yes, in time, you will know
That there’s wonders to be found
When you view from higher ground
There’s wonders there to find
When you reach inside your mind

And don’t regret the love you’ve shown
As it reflects the way you’ve grown
As sense rejects the bird that’s flown
In some respects you’ve always known
That there’s wonders to be found
When you view from higher ground
There’s wonders there to find
When you reach inside your mind

On my noble, twin pot, fairground steed
I cover any ground
On my noble, twin pot, wooden steed
I see the whole playground
On my noble, twin pot, speedway steed
I never make a sound
On my noble, twin pot, painted steed
I ride the merry go round

On my noble, twin pot, high powered steed
I manage to gain ground
On my noble, twin pot, chain drive steed
Suddenly I’m downed
On my noble, twin pot, fish tail steed
I kiss the brutal ground
On my noble, twin pot, kick start steed
The chain was whipped around
My head was never found

Thought you'd bring peace to me
Thought you'd bring symmetry
But you were the disruptor
But you were the corruptor
But you were the destructor
But you were just a nutter

Offering resurrection by smelling imperfection
This process of detection will lead to this reflection
That such a small correction, a lifestyle redirection
Will lead to self-protection and even comfort

Did I forget to mention it wasn’t my intention
To elevate the tension and promulgate dissension
There was no condescension, it was misapprehension
That there was some pretension of lasting contentment

You ask me what it meant to be with Sue
You ask me how I was at twenty two
You ask me how I passed our rendezvous
Pretty much I spent it loving you
You ask me what I did that time in Kew
You ask me what I thought when I came to
You ask me what my life was hitherto
Pretty much I spent it loving you

You ask me if I meant to stay in tune
You ask me how I used my film debut
You ask me where’s the cash now payment’s due
Pretty much I spent it loving you
You ask me what I think, my overview
You ask me how I bore my Waterloo
You ask me how I spent the whole year through
Pretty much I spent it loving youow I hate the way that am
Properly redeem

Chorus]]> You do haunt me, live in my dreams
There you taunt me, call me unclean/obscene
How you flaunt the, way you have been
Properly serene

Chorus
I’m not boring
I’m imploring
Stop this warring
Let the warmth in

You do argue, take to extremes
There your own view governs supreme
How I hate the way that you scream
Properly redeem

Chorus

And yes, this time, you miss the glow
And yes, this time, the tears will flow
And yes, in time, the sadness goes
And yes, in time, you will know
That there’s wonders to be found
When you view from higher ground
There’s wonders there to find
When you reach inside your mind

And don’t regret the love you’ve shown
As it reflects the way you’ve grown
As sense rejects the bird that’s flown
In some respects you’ve always known
That there’s wonders to be found
When you view from higher ground
There’s wonders there to find
When you reach inside your mind

On my noble, twin pot, fairground steed
I cover any ground
On my noble, twin pot, wooden steed
I see the whole playground
On my noble, twin pot, speedway steed
I never make a sound
On my noble, twin pot, painted steed
I ride the merry go round

On my noble, twin pot, high powered steed
I manage to gain ground
On my noble, twin pot, chain drive steed
Suddenly I’m downed
On my noble, twin pot, fish tail steed
I kiss the brutal ground
On my noble, twin pot, kick start steed
The chain was whipped around
My head was never found

Thought you'd bring peace to me
Thought you'd bring symmetry
But you were the disruptor
But you were the corruptor
But you were the destructor
But you were just a nutter

Offering resurrection by smelling imperfection
This process of detection will lead to this reflection
That such a small correction, a lifestyle redirection
Will lead to self-protection and even comfort

Did I forget to mention it wasn’t my intention
To elevate the tension and promulgate dissension
There was no condescension, it was misapprehension
That there was some pretension of lasting contentment

You ask me what it meant to be with Sue
You ask me how I was at twenty two
You ask me how I passed our rendezvous
Pretty much I spent it loving you
You ask me what I did that time in Kew
You ask me what I thought when I came to
You ask me what my life was hitherto
Pretty much I spent it loving you

You ask me if I meant to stay in tune
You ask me how I used my film debut
You ask me where’s the cash now payment’s due
Pretty much I spent it loving you
You ask me what I think, my overview
You ask me how I bore my Waterloo
You ask me how I spent the whole year through
Pretty much I spent it loving youow I hate the way that am
Properly redeem

Chorus]]> 8657208 no no Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:35:50 +0200 2023-04-05T21:35:50+02:00 12:25 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/foster-love/ I say I love you
You say I know you do
No, I say, I love you
With a fervent intensity
What do you think it does to me when you’re

Chorus
Leaving in the morning
Giving me no warning
Don’t prosper love too
Leaving in the morning
Giving me no warning
Don’t foster love to
Grow and strive
Blossom & thrive
Like it ought to do

2
I say I want you
You say I want you too
No, I say, I want you
With a frantic intensity
How can you feel the same as me when you’re

Chorus

M8
Bask in the strangeness
Marvel at the strangeness
Captured in the strangeness of love

M8
Bask in the strangeness
Marvel at the strangeness
Captured in the strangeness of love]]> I say I love you
You say I know you do
No, I say, I love you
With a fervent intensity
What do you think it does to me when you’re

Chorus
Leaving in the morning
Giving me no warning
Don’t prosper love too
Leaving in the morning
Giving me no warning
Don’t foster love to
Grow and strive
Blossom & thrive
Like it ought to do

2
I say I want you
You say I want you too
No, I say, I want you
With a frantic intensity
How can you feel the same as me when you’re

Chorus

M8
Bask in the strangeness
Marvel at the strangeness
Captured in the strangeness of love

M8
Bask in the strangeness
Marvel at the strangeness
Captured in the strangeness of love]]> 8657192 no no Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:33:10 +0200 2023-04-05T21:33:10+02:00 3:30 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/because-im-yours/ Though I know nothing can come of it
We’re living in stasis and on the wrong basis
I know you took the brunt of it
In visiting places and leaving no traces
Let’s embrace because I’m yours
Don’t give chase because I’m yours
Fear erased because I’m yours
Danger faced because I’m yours

2
Though I never gave a thought to it
That you might be nervous and paying lip service
Button up your yearning yet
I’m wanting to taste it but fear to debase it
Please take care because I’m yours
Must be fair because I’m yours
Always there because I’m yours
Love to share because I’m yours

3
In the twilight zone of tenderness
So long that I’ve sought it, I start to feel thwarted
I hope you want to acquiesce
But yours is the power and yours is the flower
Quick, make haste because I’m yours
No time to waste because I’m yours
No more chaste because I’m yours
Every place is where I’m yours


M8
We will find
We can help everyone inside]]> Though I know nothing can come of it
We’re living in stasis and on the wrong basis
I know you took the brunt of it
In visiting places and leaving no traces
Let’s embrace because I’m yours
Don’t give chase because I’m yours
Fear erased because I’m yours
Danger faced because I’m yours

2
Though I never gave a thought to it
That you might be nervous and paying lip service
Button up your yearning yet
I’m wanting to taste it but fear to debase it
Please take care because I’m yours
Must be fair because I’m yours
Always there because I’m yours
Love to share because I’m yours

3
In the twilight zone of tenderness
So long that I’ve sought it, I start to feel thwarted
I hope you want to acquiesce
But yours is the power and yours is the flower
Quick, make haste because I’m yours
No time to waste because I’m yours
No more chaste because I’m yours
Every place is where I’m yours


M8
We will find
We can help everyone inside]]> 8657182 no no Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:31:46 +0200 2023-04-05T21:31:46+02:00 4:26 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/cant-help-loving-you/ Don’t make waves
That’s what you say
Keep the floodgates shut
I should be cautious but

Chorus
I just can’t help it
I just can’t help it
I just can’t help it
I can’t help loving you
(rpt)

2
Lock me away
Coz crime does pay
If the charge that’s put
Is it’s a felony but

Chorus

M8
Take a chance to re-arrange
Take a chance and things may change
See the thing I’m driving at
Is you can find great joy in that

Chorus

Chorus


Chorus

Chorus]]> Don’t make waves
That’s what you say
Keep the floodgates shut
I should be cautious but

Chorus
I just can’t help it
I just can’t help it
I just can’t help it
I can’t help loving you
(rpt)

2
Lock me away
Coz crime does pay
If the charge that’s put
Is it’s a felony but

Chorus

M8
Take a chance to re-arrange
Take a chance and things may change
See the thing I’m driving at
Is you can find great joy in that

Chorus

Chorus


Chorus

Chorus]]> 8657165 no no Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:28:53 +0200 2023-04-05T21:28:53+02:00 3:25 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/only-love-1/ Only love, that’s all it was
Only love so be more smart
Only love, what a fuss
Only love tore me apart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Only love, in it’s jaws
Only love can be that sharp
Only love can work for us
Only love that fills our hearts
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Chorus
And faster is my heartbeat
And closer till our minds meet
And never will be the same again
And now my heart is craving only love

2
Nearly love won’t work for us
Nearly love, not quite the part
Nearly love can’t take the rough
Nearly love will break your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Faintly love, oh what a mess
Faintly love will only smart
Faintly love won’t work for us
Only love will soothe your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Faintly love will only smart
Faintly love won’t work for us
Only love will soothe your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love]]> Only love, that’s all it was
Only love so be more smart
Only love, what a fuss
Only love tore me apart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Only love, in it’s jaws
Only love can be that sharp
Only love can work for us
Only love that fills our hearts
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Chorus
And faster is my heartbeat
And closer till our minds meet
And never will be the same again
And now my heart is craving only love

2
Nearly love won’t work for us
Nearly love, not quite the part
Nearly love can’t take the rough
Nearly love will break your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Faintly love, oh what a mess
Faintly love will only smart
Faintly love won’t work for us
Only love will soothe your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love

Faintly love will only smart
Faintly love won’t work for us
Only love will soothe your heart
Only love, only love, only love, only love]]> 7861279 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:02:25 +0100 2023-01-20T15:02:25+01:00 3:47 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/love-where-did-it-go-/ And if you’d been stronger
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made
And if you’d been wiser
And if you’d been bolder
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if only?

I’d held you tighter
Been more of a fighter
And never complained
Tried to explain
Castles in Spain
Always in vain
Never again
Caught in the rain

I’d heard your laughter
Swung from the rafters
And taken away
Stress of the day
Made more of play
Coloured the grey
Bought a bouquet
Been more risque

And if you’d been kinder
And if you’d been stronger
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made
And if you’d been wiser
And if you’d been bolder
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if?

Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if?

been more aware]]> And if you’d been stronger
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made
And if you’d been wiser
And if you’d been bolder
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if only?

I’d held you tighter
Been more of a fighter
And never complained
Tried to explain
Castles in Spain
Always in vain
Never again
Caught in the rain

I’d heard your laughter
Swung from the rafters
And taken away
Stress of the day
Made more of play
Coloured the grey
Bought a bouquet
Been more risque

And if you’d been kinder
And if you’d been stronger
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made
And if you’d been wiser
And if you’d been bolder
Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if?

Love – where did it go?
What difference would it have made if?

been more aware]]> 7861251 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:00:31 +0100 2023-01-20T15:00:31+01:00 3:42 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/jump-my-bones/ Collected specimens from a tree
Squirrel’s skull & monkey’s knee
No more flesh is left on these
Go with me out to the field
Lay them out now, 1, 2, 3
Stand in line and leap with me

Chorus
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, JUMP MY, jump my, JUMP MY bones

2
Collected specimens from the sea
Dolphin’s fin & whales baleen
Put them in a bag or three
Go with me out to the field
Lay them out in lines for me
Coil your spring and leap in glee

Chorus

M8
Jump the bones of my sadness
Leap the once darker tones
For to reach to the gladness
You must jump those bones

3
Don’t dig my garden by the tree
Don’t search my cellar ‘neath your feet
Don’t check the local cemetery
I only meant to set them free
My intent – to set them free

Chorus

My intent – to set them free

Chorus]]> Collected specimens from a tree
Squirrel’s skull & monkey’s knee
No more flesh is left on these
Go with me out to the field
Lay them out now, 1, 2, 3
Stand in line and leap with me

Chorus
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, jump my, jump my bones
Jump my, JUMP MY, jump my, JUMP MY bones

2
Collected specimens from the sea
Dolphin’s fin & whales baleen
Put them in a bag or three
Go with me out to the field
Lay them out in lines for me
Coil your spring and leap in glee

Chorus

M8
Jump the bones of my sadness
Leap the once darker tones
For to reach to the gladness
You must jump those bones

3
Don’t dig my garden by the tree
Don’t search my cellar ‘neath your feet
Don’t check the local cemetery
I only meant to set them free
My intent – to set them free

Chorus

My intent – to set them free

Chorus]]> 7861232 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:59:05 +0100 2023-01-20T14:59:05+01:00 3:50 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/oh-darling/ And then there was that night
That turned my world around completely
Nothing else to do
If she doesn’t want to be with you
I’m yet to work it out
We all need something to cling to
For me it’s you
You and me we have a certain moment in time

Chorus
Oh darling
You’re just another girl I wanted
Darling
I mean to say you’re really wanted
Darling
Don’t tease me with your book learnt vices
Darling
I mean

2
I know it’s just a ride
A crazy, lurching theme park ride but
With you I’m inside
I know there’s not a thing I need to hide
Don’t let it get too far
A million things tried to thrill you
Won’t change the truth
Won’t change what happened to us back in that time

Chorus

3
And ever since that day
I’ve always felt there’s something missing
Nothing here to see
When she doesn’t want to be with me
I’ve tried to work it out
We’re seeing hope where there is none
Forget the truth
We all need something to cling to

I’ve tried to work it out
We’re seeing hope where there is none
Forget the truth
We all need something to cling to]]> And then there was that night
That turned my world around completely
Nothing else to do
If she doesn’t want to be with you
I’m yet to work it out
We all need something to cling to
For me it’s you
You and me we have a certain moment in time

Chorus
Oh darling
You’re just another girl I wanted
Darling
I mean to say you’re really wanted
Darling
Don’t tease me with your book learnt vices
Darling
I mean

2
I know it’s just a ride
A crazy, lurching theme park ride but
With you I’m inside
I know there’s not a thing I need to hide
Don’t let it get too far
A million things tried to thrill you
Won’t change the truth
Won’t change what happened to us back in that time

Chorus

3
And ever since that day
I’ve always felt there’s something missing
Nothing here to see
When she doesn’t want to be with me
I’ve tried to work it out
We’re seeing hope where there is none
Forget the truth
We all need something to cling to

I’ve tried to work it out
We’re seeing hope where there is none
Forget the truth
We all need something to cling to]]> 7861215 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:57:27 +0100 2023-01-20T14:57:27+01:00 4:44 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/for-heavens-sake-go/ For heaven’s sake go
What you want from me
I will not let go
The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go

Future
Uncertain
Throw back
The curtain
Back to
Flirting
Causes
More hurting

If you don’t love me
For heaven’s sake go
What you want from me
I will not let go
The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go

The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go]]> For heaven’s sake go
What you want from me
I will not let go
The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go

Future
Uncertain
Throw back
The curtain
Back to
Flirting
Causes
More hurting

If you don’t love me
For heaven’s sake go
What you want from me
I will not let go
The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go

The part you played to me
Was only for show
Dangling’s cruelty
For heaven’s sake go]]> 7861201 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:55:58 +0100 2023-01-20T14:55:58+01:00 3:53 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/salacious/ Taste the pleasures of this world
Taste the pleasures, taste the pleasures
Use the feathers, you’re unfurled
Use the feathers and the leathers
Taste the pleasures of this world
Taste the pleasures, taste the pleasures

Chorus
And when you’re spent
And when I’m spent
Wherever we went
Will come again

2
Press the treasure, you’re uncurled
Press the treasure, press the treasure
Take the measure, feel it firmed
Take the measure, take the measure
Press the treasure, you’re uncurled
Press the treasure, press the treasure

Chorus

3
Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure
Slide the nether, delay the seed
Slide the together, slides together
Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure

Chorus

Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure

Chorus]]> Taste the pleasures of this world
Taste the pleasures, taste the pleasures
Use the feathers, you’re unfurled
Use the feathers and the leathers
Taste the pleasures of this world
Taste the pleasures, taste the pleasures

Chorus
And when you’re spent
And when I’m spent
Wherever we went
Will come again

2
Press the treasure, you’re uncurled
Press the treasure, press the treasure
Take the measure, feel it firmed
Take the measure, take the measure
Press the treasure, you’re uncurled
Press the treasure, press the treasure

Chorus

3
Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure
Slide the nether, delay the seed
Slide the together, slides together
Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure

Chorus

Sense the pressure then the breach
Sense the pressure, sense the pressure

Chorus]]> 7861160 no no Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:51:40 +0100 2023-01-20T14:51:40+01:00 4:55 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-a-foundling-is-embraced/ Hey
You know that kid is trouble
Will make your life a struggle
Your workload will be doubled
Double trouble

Hey
You know that kid is strange
Ain’t never gonna change
You’ll just end up deranged
Exchange strange

A
I don’t care what they may say
I’m just gonna love you anyway

I
Child of mine
I don’t know where you came from


In which a foundling finds belonging]]> Hey
You know that kid is trouble
Will make your life a struggle
Your workload will be doubled
Double trouble

Hey
You know that kid is strange
Ain’t never gonna change
You’ll just end up deranged
Exchange strange

A
I don’t care what they may say
I’m just gonna love you anyway

I
Child of mine
I don’t know where you came from


In which a foundling finds belonging]]> 6969231 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:58:21 +0200 2022-08-06T13:58:21+02:00 3:12 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-a-foundling-belongs/ Lost and found and helped from the ground
When something’s real you know it
When something’s good you grab it

Was lost, now found; was dragged along the ground
When someone cares I feel it
When someone dares I sense it

Chorus
Sweet sanctuary, sweet sanctuary, sweet sanctuary, sweet

(rpt the above)

(repeat the above)

In which endless summers]]> Lost and found and helped from the ground
When something’s real you know it
When something’s good you grab it

Was lost, now found; was dragged along the ground
When someone cares I feel it
When someone dares I sense it

Chorus
Sweet sanctuary, sweet sanctuary, sweet sanctuary, sweet

(rpt the above)

(repeat the above)

In which endless summers]]> 6969229 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:56:58 +0200 2022-08-06T13:56:58+02:00 2:32 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-endless-summer/ So safe and warm like being back in the womb
Endless summer, till winter resumes
But even then we’re cosied up in one room
Endless summer, jelly and ice-creams
The days are so long and nights of pleasant dreams
Endless summer]]> So safe and warm like being back in the womb
Endless summer, till winter resumes
But even then we’re cosied up in one room
Endless summer, jelly and ice-creams
The days are so long and nights of pleasant dreams
Endless summer]]> 6969227 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:55:45 +0200 2022-08-06T13:55:45+02:00 2:20 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-first-love/ Both our hearts pitter patter
Both of us chitter chatter
What we say doesn’t matter
The chaos and uncertainty of love

Chorus
One bottle and 2 straws
It’s love on a budget
Walk home & earn for chores
It’s love on a budget
Long walks in the outdoors
It’s love on a budget

2
Explosive as anti matter
Hide yourself from the splatter
Everything on a platter
The chaos and uncertainty of love

Chorus
One bottle and 2 straws
It’s love on a budget
Walk home & earn for chores
It’s love on a budget
Rollercoaster
Cook’s a toaster
Ne’er a picture
Just a poster
It’s love on a budget


In which a calling is found]]> Both our hearts pitter patter
Both of us chitter chatter
What we say doesn’t matter
The chaos and uncertainty of love

Chorus
One bottle and 2 straws
It’s love on a budget
Walk home & earn for chores
It’s love on a budget
Long walks in the outdoors
It’s love on a budget

2
Explosive as anti matter
Hide yourself from the splatter
Everything on a platter
The chaos and uncertainty of love

Chorus
One bottle and 2 straws
It’s love on a budget
Walk home & earn for chores
It’s love on a budget
Rollercoaster
Cook’s a toaster
Ne’er a picture
Just a poster
It’s love on a budget


In which a calling is found]]> 6969226 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:54:51 +0200 2022-08-06T13:54:51+02:00 2:13 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-a-calling-is-found/ Getting something special
Getting something special come through
A sense, insight, beyond the, simple clue
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
A clear, window, into, a heightened view
Meaning no-one need go (x3)
Into that long dark night

2
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
Lost folk, can I help, others, to break the hoodoo
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
This gift, could be, a message, I’m one of few
Ending the cruel drop (x3)
Into that long dark night

3
Needing no more to go (x4)
Into that long dark night


Working motif 1]]> Getting something special
Getting something special come through
A sense, insight, beyond the, simple clue
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
A clear, window, into, a heightened view
Meaning no-one need go (x3)
Into that long dark night

2
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
Lost folk, can I help, others, to break the hoodoo
Getting something special
Getting something special come through
This gift, could be, a message, I’m one of few
Ending the cruel drop (x3)
Into that long dark night

3
Needing no more to go (x4)
Into that long dark night


Working motif 1]]> 6969225 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:53:50 +0200 2022-08-06T13:53:50+02:00 2:57 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/working-motif-1/ All is calm and all is bright
(rpt)]]> All is calm and all is bright
(rpt)]]> 6969223 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:52:51 +0200 2022-08-06T13:52:51+02:00 0:52 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/working-motif-2/ 6969222 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:52:28 +0200 2022-08-06T13:52:28+02:00 0:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-heaven-nose/ That must have been a different time
You know you’ve got to do it right
Don’cha, don’cha, don’cha, don’cha, don’cha
(rpt)

The world would take a darker course
If you were not to get it right
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
(rpt)

Chorus
Got to use your gift for good, you’ve got to use your gift
You’ve got to use your gift for good, you’ve got to use your gift

2
You try too hard to get it right
You’re gonna lose your appetite
Coulda, woulda, coulda, woulda, shoulda
(rpt)

You may think we should be polite
That you deserve an acolyte
Never, never, never, never, never
(rpt)

Chorus

You’ve got to use your gift (x2)


In which hubris?]]> That must have been a different time
You know you’ve got to do it right
Don’cha, don’cha, don’cha, don’cha, don’cha
(rpt)

The world would take a darker course
If you were not to get it right
Pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure
(rpt)

Chorus
Got to use your gift for good, you’ve got to use your gift
You’ve got to use your gift for good, you’ve got to use your gift

2
You try too hard to get it right
You’re gonna lose your appetite
Coulda, woulda, coulda, woulda, shoulda
(rpt)

You may think we should be polite
That you deserve an acolyte
Never, never, never, never, never
(rpt)

Chorus

You’ve got to use your gift (x2)


In which hubris?]]> 6969220 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:51:34 +0200 2022-08-06T13:51:34+02:00 3:48 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-hubris-/ I’m really proud of us
We’ve quickly made our mark
Beholden to others
Means we’ve no time for larks
Too soon we were lovers
Before we found the spark
Instead I need brothers
To help me see my part, so

Chorus
I’ll be moving on
Pretty soon I’m gone
But if you want me to
I’ll stay here with you, with you, with you
If it seems I’m strong
Then I’ll say you’re wrong
Pretty soon I’m blue
I’d rather be with you, with you, with you

2
Big stories, shared moments
I’m putting others first
Past horrors, mean comments
Historic harm reversed
Some day when dues are spent
I’ll let the bubble burst
For now though you will lament
Being with someone cursed, so

Chorus


Forlorn motif]]> I’m really proud of us
We’ve quickly made our mark
Beholden to others
Means we’ve no time for larks
Too soon we were lovers
Before we found the spark
Instead I need brothers
To help me see my part, so

Chorus
I’ll be moving on
Pretty soon I’m gone
But if you want me to
I’ll stay here with you, with you, with you
If it seems I’m strong
Then I’ll say you’re wrong
Pretty soon I’m blue
I’d rather be with you, with you, with you

2
Big stories, shared moments
I’m putting others first
Past horrors, mean comments
Historic harm reversed
Some day when dues are spent
I’ll let the bubble burst
For now though you will lament
Being with someone cursed, so

Chorus


Forlorn motif]]> 6969217 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:50:09 +0200 2022-08-06T13:50:09+02:00 3:55 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/forlorn-motif/ 6969216 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:49:32 +0200 2022-08-06T13:49:32+02:00 3:03 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-inconsolable/ It’s something in your nation’s story
A footnote in a book you lost somehow
Never thought it mandatory
But you said you made a vow
Raging to the crematory is all fate will allow

Where now is the glory, where is the glory now
You were never dilatory in answering the call to sword or plough
Seduced you with the oratory, never left the here and now
Now we sit in purgatory, like twigs from a fallen bough

I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life
I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life

Where now is the glory, where is the glory now
A penny in the offertory won’t buy me back the words said in that row
Comes inherent with the territory
But that bit me back and how
Couldn’t be so damnatory, slaughter now the sacred cow

I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life
I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life


In which beseeching]]> It’s something in your nation’s story
A footnote in a book you lost somehow
Never thought it mandatory
But you said you made a vow
Raging to the crematory is all fate will allow

Where now is the glory, where is the glory now
You were never dilatory in answering the call to sword or plough
Seduced you with the oratory, never left the here and now
Now we sit in purgatory, like twigs from a fallen bough

I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life
I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life

Where now is the glory, where is the glory now
A penny in the offertory won’t buy me back the words said in that row
Comes inherent with the territory
But that bit me back and how
Couldn’t be so damnatory, slaughter now the sacred cow

I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life
I can see your face; not a flicker or trace of life


In which beseeching]]> 6969214 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:47:45 +0200 2022-08-06T13:47:45+02:00 3:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-beseeching/ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Can anybody help me?

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I’m neither pupil nor mentor

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
However will I get there?


In which an acolyte]]> Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Can anybody help me?

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I’m neither pupil nor mentor

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
However will I get there?


In which an acolyte]]> 6969212 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:46:51 +0200 2022-08-06T13:46:51+02:00 1:29 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-an-acolyte/
I’m on the messiah’s side (x2)

Great, I arrived too late

I’m on the messiah’s side (x2)]]>
I’m on the messiah’s side (x2)

Great, I arrived too late

I’m on the messiah’s side (x2)]]> 6969207 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:45:20 +0200 2022-08-06T13:45:20+02:00 1:29 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-subversion/ Look into my eyes
Won’t you show me the fairy lights
(rpt)

Chorus
I don’t know if you’re ready, if you’re ready for this
(rpt)

2
Put me in the fight
I can show you a better side
(x3)

Chorus

3
Take me through your files
Share the secret of second sight
(x3)

Chorus
I don’t think you’re ready, think you’re ready for this
(rpt)

(rpt verse 1)


In which misgivings]]> Look into my eyes
Won’t you show me the fairy lights
(rpt)

Chorus
I don’t know if you’re ready, if you’re ready for this
(rpt)

2
Put me in the fight
I can show you a better side
(x3)

Chorus

3
Take me through your files
Share the secret of second sight
(x3)

Chorus
I don’t think you’re ready, think you’re ready for this
(rpt)

(rpt verse 1)


In which misgivings]]> 6969205 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:44:19 +0200 2022-08-06T13:44:19+02:00 4:08 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-misgivings/ Am I the torment in people’s lives
And not the salvation
No choice but to do things right
A route to stagnation

Chorus
We’re here
What can we do to make it better
The loss that you’ve found, to make it clear,
Is no longer a fetter

2
I took the moment and stole the plight
Replaced the privation
With a wariness and downright fear
Impromptu castration

Chorus

3
Little darlings playing with my heart
There’s nothing I can do, the whole affair is up to you
Little darlings tear my world apart
And sing that song again, they’re playing falsely now and then


In which a tip off]]> Am I the torment in people’s lives
And not the salvation
No choice but to do things right
A route to stagnation

Chorus
We’re here
What can we do to make it better
The loss that you’ve found, to make it clear,
Is no longer a fetter

2
I took the moment and stole the plight
Replaced the privation
With a wariness and downright fear
Impromptu castration

Chorus

3
Little darlings playing with my heart
There’s nothing I can do, the whole affair is up to you
Little darlings tear my world apart
And sing that song again, they’re playing falsely now and then


In which a tip off]]> 6969202 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:43:08 +0200 2022-08-06T13:43:08+02:00 4:04 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-a-tip-off/ Coz she thinks she’s invisible
No, no, no, no, no to the status of invisible

Don’t speak to Jeff right
Coz he thinks he’s all powerful
No, no, no, no, no to the status of all powerful

Look out for the bright light
Forming shadows that are credible
No, no, no, no, no, he’s making it seem risible

Turning to sweet from sour
With only a mouthful
No, no, no, no, no it’s anything but possible

Don’t speak to Steph, right
Coz she thinks she’s invisible
No, no, no, no, no to the status of invisible


In which duplicity]]> Coz she thinks she’s invisible
No, no, no, no, no to the status of invisible

Don’t speak to Jeff right
Coz he thinks he’s all powerful
No, no, no, no, no to the status of all powerful

Look out for the bright light
Forming shadows that are credible
No, no, no, no, no, he’s making it seem risible

Turning to sweet from sour
With only a mouthful
No, no, no, no, no it’s anything but possible

Don’t speak to Steph, right
Coz she thinks she’s invisible
No, no, no, no, no to the status of invisible


In which duplicity]]> 6969200 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:42:02 +0200 2022-08-06T13:42:02+02:00 2:44 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-duplicity/ And touching nothing
Needs us to be aware
But do we really care
When taking the dollar
And seeking Valhalla
The answers have not come
The skate doesn’t stay long

Can’t see the hydra
And trusting the serpent
Says time for Diana
Thinks it’s a savannah
Hyena in the rat race
Chameleon in the face
But really a leopard
With a seven record

He registers apathy
And denigrates sympathy
Feudal’s his watchword
He dies by his own sword
Needs to find a niche
Among the nouveau riche
He can’t shoot the dam
To reach the promised land


In which Nemesis]]> And touching nothing
Needs us to be aware
But do we really care
When taking the dollar
And seeking Valhalla
The answers have not come
The skate doesn’t stay long

Can’t see the hydra
And trusting the serpent
Says time for Diana
Thinks it’s a savannah
Hyena in the rat race
Chameleon in the face
But really a leopard
With a seven record

He registers apathy
And denigrates sympathy
Feudal’s his watchword
He dies by his own sword
Needs to find a niche
Among the nouveau riche
He can’t shoot the dam
To reach the promised land


In which Nemesis]]> 6969199 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:41:11 +0200 2022-08-06T13:41:11+02:00 2:20 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-nemesis/ I never knew (x4)
The lengths that you (x4)
Would go to (x4)
To cause me harm (x4)

Chorus
Nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis

2
I couldn’t know
How could I know (x2)
That you would throw (x4)
Goodwill away (x4)
And legacy
What legacy
Some legacy
I may have had

Chorus


In which hesitancy]]> I never knew (x4)
The lengths that you (x4)
Would go to (x4)
To cause me harm (x4)

Chorus
Nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis, nemesis

2
I couldn’t know
How could I know (x2)
That you would throw (x4)
Goodwill away (x4)
And legacy
What legacy
Some legacy
I may have had

Chorus


In which hesitancy]]> 6969197 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:40:14 +0200 2022-08-06T13:40:14+02:00 2:19 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-hesitancy/
(extract from “first love”)

I’m looking at you and I feel conflicted (x2)

(extract from “hubris”)

I’m looking at you and I feel conflicted (x4)


In which reconciliation]]>
(extract from “first love”)

I’m looking at you and I feel conflicted (x2)

(extract from “hubris”)

I’m looking at you and I feel conflicted (x4)


In which reconciliation]]> 6969196 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:39:08 +0200 2022-08-06T13:39:08+02:00 2:39 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/in-which-reconciliation/ You know I need her to love me
I know she gives me her love, true, true
Because she tells me and shows me

I’ve always needed a good deal of loving
I never could take the pushing and shoving
And she gives me the best of the best
Who needs them, who needs all the rest

I’ve always wanted to feel there’s progression
That you and me could become an obsession
It’s all about the special feeling
The feeling, the feeling we’re blessed
Who needs them, who needs all the rest


There’s a future]]> You know I need her to love me
I know she gives me her love, true, true
Because she tells me and shows me

I’ve always needed a good deal of loving
I never could take the pushing and shoving
And she gives me the best of the best
Who needs them, who needs all the rest

I’ve always wanted to feel there’s progression
That you and me could become an obsession
It’s all about the special feeling
The feeling, the feeling we’re blessed
Who needs them, who needs all the rest


There’s a future]]> 6969193 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:35:26 +0200 2022-08-06T13:35:26+02:00 2:19 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/theres-a-future/ My walls come crashing down
What a difference you have
Have brought to me quickly
There’s a folly to bear, a folly to bear
That is just for me
Now I want to show my meaning is so true
And no more past tense
You’re the only one
The only one seeing a role in a play that was bust
Existing in more that day to day

There’s no tightrope now to run
No burden to decline
That’s the obligation you
Have saved me from meeting
There’s no folly to bear, no folly to bear
You have set me free
Now I want to show my love for you is true
And the power is past tense
You’re the only one
The only one with any say in the things that I do
Building to more with every day

And the power is past tense
You’re the only one
The only one with any say in the things that I do
Building to more with every day]]> My walls come crashing down
What a difference you have
Have brought to me quickly
There’s a folly to bear, a folly to bear
That is just for me
Now I want to show my meaning is so true
And no more past tense
You’re the only one
The only one seeing a role in a play that was bust
Existing in more that day to day

There’s no tightrope now to run
No burden to decline
That’s the obligation you
Have saved me from meeting
There’s no folly to bear, no folly to bear
You have set me free
Now I want to show my love for you is true
And the power is past tense
You’re the only one
The only one with any say in the things that I do
Building to more with every day

And the power is past tense
You’re the only one
The only one with any say in the things that I do
Building to more with every day]]> 6969191 no no Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:32:35 +0200 2022-08-06T13:32:35+02:00 3:29 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/acceptance/ You need to find the light
The light that shines inside your mind
That light belongs to you and shines so bright it makes them blind
So when you find that light
So when you find that light
So when you find that light
Maybe you’ll find acceptance

Take that light into the dark
Take that light and make it spark
Don’t let the world snuff it out
Take your light and banish doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt

Chorus
I’ve got so much anger
I’ve got so much sin
Can’t seem to hold it
Can’t seem to hold it in
She gets more demanding
He gets more withdrawn
There is no understanding
Of what each one has borne.

2
You need to find the truth
The painful truth that shows the way
That way is yours to take and maybe leads to brighter days
So when you find that way
So when you find that way
So when you find that way
Maybe you’ll find acceptance

Take that truth into the cold
Take that truth and make it bold
Don’t let the world drown it out
Take your truth and let it shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout

Chorus

Chorus]]> You need to find the light
The light that shines inside your mind
That light belongs to you and shines so bright it makes them blind
So when you find that light
So when you find that light
So when you find that light
Maybe you’ll find acceptance

Take that light into the dark
Take that light and make it spark
Don’t let the world snuff it out
Take your light and banish doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt, doubt

Chorus
I’ve got so much anger
I’ve got so much sin
Can’t seem to hold it
Can’t seem to hold it in
She gets more demanding
He gets more withdrawn
There is no understanding
Of what each one has borne.

2
You need to find the truth
The painful truth that shows the way
That way is yours to take and maybe leads to brighter days
So when you find that way
So when you find that way
So when you find that way
Maybe you’ll find acceptance

Take that truth into the cold
Take that truth and make it bold
Don’t let the world drown it out
Take your truth and let it shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout, shout

Chorus

Chorus]]> 6741039 no no Fri, 06 May 2022 11:27:22 +0200 2022-05-06T11:27:22+02:00 5:14 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/just-a-kid/ I’m an Exocet
Gonna take you down
But I’ve got to go
With a sea change
Losing a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month

You’re a hypocrite
And I’ve found you out
And I’ll decimate
At a short range
Losing a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth

Chorus
Just a kid
Just a kid with a chain on a train
Just a kid with a brain under strain
Just a kid with a lifetime of blame
Just a kid, just a kid, just a kid
Just a kid
Just a kid with a chain on a train
Just a kid gone insane in the rain
Just a kid with his life down the drain
Just a kid, just a kid, just a kid

2
I’m an exorcist
Gonna drive you out
Coz you’ve got to go
Then you feel strange
Pulling a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length

You’re a parasite
Gonna cut you out
Even if it means
There’s no exchange
Spoiling your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength

Chorus

Chorus

Just never good enough


Chorus

Just never good enough]]> I’m an Exocet
Gonna take you down
But I’ve got to go
With a sea change
Losing a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month, a month

You’re a hypocrite
And I’ve found you out
And I’ll decimate
At a short range
Losing a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth, a tenth

Chorus
Just a kid
Just a kid with a chain on a train
Just a kid with a brain under strain
Just a kid with a lifetime of blame
Just a kid, just a kid, just a kid
Just a kid
Just a kid with a chain on a train
Just a kid gone insane in the rain
Just a kid with his life down the drain
Just a kid, just a kid, just a kid

2
I’m an exorcist
Gonna drive you out
Coz you’ve got to go
Then you feel strange
Pulling a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length, a length

You’re a parasite
Gonna cut you out
Even if it means
There’s no exchange
Spoiling your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength, your strength

Chorus

Chorus

Just never good enough


Chorus

Just never good enough]]> 6722274 no no Fri, 29 Apr 2022 10:55:44 +0200 2022-04-29T10:55:44+02:00 3:07 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/1984/ Through the gate and on inside
It seemed the other man was on our side
Those streaks of clumsiness I cannot hide
I knew the answer but could only cry

Chorus
I needed to look beyond the dark arch
I’d hoped for light from a new spark
I’d hoped you might come with me
I chose the wrong time to be true to you
I fought the urge to try something new
I promised the earth but was lost in the sea

2
Saw the chance and let it pass
A faint new hope that fades, a final mass
With time to think I bowed to the fear
No lasting link, no rousing cheer

Chorus

With time to think I bowed to the fear
No lasting link, no rousing cheer

Chorus]]> Through the gate and on inside
It seemed the other man was on our side
Those streaks of clumsiness I cannot hide
I knew the answer but could only cry

Chorus
I needed to look beyond the dark arch
I’d hoped for light from a new spark
I’d hoped you might come with me
I chose the wrong time to be true to you
I fought the urge to try something new
I promised the earth but was lost in the sea

2
Saw the chance and let it pass
A faint new hope that fades, a final mass
With time to think I bowed to the fear
No lasting link, no rousing cheer

Chorus

With time to think I bowed to the fear
No lasting link, no rousing cheer

Chorus]]> 6704048 no no Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:43:21 +0200 2022-04-22T10:43:21+02:00 3:45 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/so-i-go-so-she-goes-so-i-go/ Will your need for complication
Mean you start an altercation
When you should be on vacation
In the Dales
With a trying disposition
You will gain a reputation
For a pointless imposition
That impales
Can’t you sail, can’t you sail
On the back of a whale
To a friendly destination
Where the local population
Has a certain reputation
Love prevails

Chorus
Then you say that, say that, say, say, say
That there’s nothing new to try and there’s nothing to discover
Then you say that, say that, say, say, say
You no longer want to cry
And no longer want to bother
So I go, so she goes, so I go, so she goes

2
If you tolerate effacement
And don’t challenge a debasement
When you need to make a statement
You will quail
If you don’t take a position
And co-agulate contrition
Then the certain supposition
Is you’ll fail
Don’t you sail, don’t you sail
On the back of a whale
To a place of insulation
From the risk of accusation
Then you face the connotation
Hate prevails/that entails

Chorus


Then you face the connotation
Hate prevails/that entails

Chorus]]> Will your need for complication
Mean you start an altercation
When you should be on vacation
In the Dales
With a trying disposition
You will gain a reputation
For a pointless imposition
That impales
Can’t you sail, can’t you sail
On the back of a whale
To a friendly destination
Where the local population
Has a certain reputation
Love prevails

Chorus
Then you say that, say that, say, say, say
That there’s nothing new to try and there’s nothing to discover
Then you say that, say that, say, say, say
You no longer want to cry
And no longer want to bother
So I go, so she goes, so I go, so she goes

2
If you tolerate effacement
And don’t challenge a debasement
When you need to make a statement
You will quail
If you don’t take a position
And co-agulate contrition
Then the certain supposition
Is you’ll fail
Don’t you sail, don’t you sail
On the back of a whale
To a place of insulation
From the risk of accusation
Then you face the connotation
Hate prevails/that entails

Chorus


Then you face the connotation
Hate prevails/that entails

Chorus]]> 6684719 no no Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:00:42 +0200 2022-04-15T13:00:42+02:00 3:03 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/martha-1/ Martha – hang your pretty head in shame
Martha – gave those vicious thoughts free reign
So the ones that stole the joy from you
Will never be the same … again

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Martha – fight the everlasting pain
Martha – with the armaments there lain
Then the ones that stole the joy from you
Will never be the same … again

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Chorus
A snatched kiss in a stairway and an age of regret
A broken heart on a cold day is a feeling I can’t forget

2
Martha – seeking solace in the grain
Martha – will it take away your pain?
Or merely whitewash over what you
Feel to be the stain of your shame

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Martha – wear my coat in the rain
Martha – use my love to see again
That when they took the joy from you
You could never be the one that’s to blame

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Chorus

Chorus]]> Martha – hang your pretty head in shame
Martha – gave those vicious thoughts free reign
So the ones that stole the joy from you
Will never be the same … again

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Martha – fight the everlasting pain
Martha – with the armaments there lain
Then the ones that stole the joy from you
Will never be the same … again

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Chorus
A snatched kiss in a stairway and an age of regret
A broken heart on a cold day is a feeling I can’t forget

2
Martha – seeking solace in the grain
Martha – will it take away your pain?
Or merely whitewash over what you
Feel to be the stain of your shame

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Martha – wear my coat in the rain
Martha – use my love to see again
That when they took the joy from you
You could never be the one that’s to blame

Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha
Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha

Chorus

Chorus]]> 6669368 no no Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:15:45 +0200 2022-04-08T10:15:45+02:00 7:23 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/instrumental-1/ In all that has come to pass]]> In all that has come to pass]]> 6653918 no no Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:31:04 +0200 2022-04-01T10:31:04+02:00 4:00 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/put-it-away/ All those things you used to do
Are colliding in your life
And there’s nothing you can do
To prevent it
All those people that you knew
Are colluding in your strife
And there’s nothing you can do
To prevent it
All those problems will renew
If you don’t put down the knife
That’s the one thing you can do
To arrest it
I implore you

Chorus
To put away those things that cause you harm
To put away those things that cause alarm
And put away those things that were your charm
How do you see, what do you see
So put away those things that cause you harm
So put away those things that cause alarm
And put away those things that were your charm
How do you see, what do you see, what’s lost to me, you’re lost to me

2
No excuses for the view
That you don’t deserve the dive
When there’s nothing that you do
To prevent it
You’re a victim of the few
In a neighbourhood that’s rife
And your anger only grew
To distend it
I feel for you

Chorus

3
If I take you from this place
And subsume the rising gall
In a blanket of my love
You’ll resent it
I adore you

Chorus

You’ll resent it
I adore you

Chorus]]> All those things you used to do
Are colliding in your life
And there’s nothing you can do
To prevent it
All those people that you knew
Are colluding in your strife
And there’s nothing you can do
To prevent it
All those problems will renew
If you don’t put down the knife
That’s the one thing you can do
To arrest it
I implore you

Chorus
To put away those things that cause you harm
To put away those things that cause alarm
And put away those things that were your charm
How do you see, what do you see
So put away those things that cause you harm
So put away those things that cause alarm
And put away those things that were your charm
How do you see, what do you see, what’s lost to me, you’re lost to me

2
No excuses for the view
That you don’t deserve the dive
When there’s nothing that you do
To prevent it
You’re a victim of the few
In a neighbourhood that’s rife
And your anger only grew
To distend it
I feel for you

Chorus

3
If I take you from this place
And subsume the rising gall
In a blanket of my love
You’ll resent it
I adore you

Chorus

You’ll resent it
I adore you

Chorus]]> 6640274 no no Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:07:06 +0100 2022-03-25T10:07:06+01:00 5:10 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/respect-1/ Walking, talking, hand in glove
I’m looking to the skies above
I’m falling
In love
Seeking, finding needs no shove
I’m feeling like the blessed dove
I’m falling
In love

Chorus
Coz I’ve met
Someone who affords me respect
Who won’t give me a cause for regret
And yet
we wander through places concerned what responses we’ll get

2
Warming, calming, in the groove
I feel I’ll finally start to move
I’ve nothing
To prove
Raging, beating heart to soothe
The bumpy road becomes the smooth
I’ve nothing
To prove

Chorus

3
Living, breathing love that’s pure
Uncertainty is changed to sure
I’m feeling
Secure
The past was something to endure
A kiss from you becomes the cure
I’m feeling
Secure

Chorus

I’m feeling
Secure

Chorus]]> Walking, talking, hand in glove
I’m looking to the skies above
I’m falling
In love
Seeking, finding needs no shove
I’m feeling like the blessed dove
I’m falling
In love

Chorus
Coz I’ve met
Someone who affords me respect
Who won’t give me a cause for regret
And yet
we wander through places concerned what responses we’ll get

2
Warming, calming, in the groove
I feel I’ll finally start to move
I’ve nothing
To prove
Raging, beating heart to soothe
The bumpy road becomes the smooth
I’ve nothing
To prove

Chorus

3
Living, breathing love that’s pure
Uncertainty is changed to sure
I’m feeling
Secure
The past was something to endure
A kiss from you becomes the cure
I’m feeling
Secure

Chorus

I’m feeling
Secure

Chorus]]> 6626608 no no Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:33:25 +0100 2022-03-18T10:33:25+01:00 4:00 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/mend-a-city/ Are there others here?
Will they want to come too?
Is your mother near?
Will she know that it’s you?
Always breaking things off me
You know that it’s true
Always stealing things from me
That helped me get through

Chorus
Now you take a stock of who
Will provide you with a shield
Will provide you with the glue to mend it
Take a lesson from their mirth
Take a lesson of your worth
Take a lesson on rebirth
And if the lie becomes a truth
Will you ever find the proof
That enables you to upend it
Take a lesson from their mirth
Take a lesson of your worth
Take a lesson on rebirth

2
Can you fight the fear?
You must to make it through
Don’t bring up the rear
When the purging is due
Always taking things cross borders
You know what that drew
Always making things harder
For me and for you

Chorus



Chorus]]> Are there others here?
Will they want to come too?
Is your mother near?
Will she know that it’s you?
Always breaking things off me
You know that it’s true
Always stealing things from me
That helped me get through

Chorus
Now you take a stock of who
Will provide you with a shield
Will provide you with the glue to mend it
Take a lesson from their mirth
Take a lesson of your worth
Take a lesson on rebirth
And if the lie becomes a truth
Will you ever find the proof
That enables you to upend it
Take a lesson from their mirth
Take a lesson of your worth
Take a lesson on rebirth

2
Can you fight the fear?
You must to make it through
Don’t bring up the rear
When the purging is due
Always taking things cross borders
You know what that drew
Always making things harder
For me and for you

Chorus



Chorus]]> 6612569 no no Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:11:57 +0100 2022-03-10T19:11:57+01:00 5:02 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/younger-days/ Looking back no longer sad
It wasn’t meant to be
That world no longer clings
Onto my arm

Looking back and feeling glad
The thing we had was real
Your name no longer brings
Bittersweet alarm

Chorus
Younger days
Days of wonder
When the possibilities were endless
Everything stupendous or horrendous
Younger days
Though I’ll always look back with affection
I am so in love with you today

2
Looking back on younger days
The people that I knew
They never seemed to stay
Not like you do

Took so long to realise
Only so much I can do
Through imperfection’s way
Was all that’s true

Chorus]]> Looking back no longer sad
It wasn’t meant to be
That world no longer clings
Onto my arm

Looking back and feeling glad
The thing we had was real
Your name no longer brings
Bittersweet alarm

Chorus
Younger days
Days of wonder
When the possibilities were endless
Everything stupendous or horrendous
Younger days
Though I’ll always look back with affection
I am so in love with you today

2
Looking back on younger days
The people that I knew
They never seemed to stay
Not like you do

Took so long to realise
Only so much I can do
Through imperfection’s way
Was all that’s true

Chorus]]> 6600052 no no Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:26:36 +0100 2022-03-04T10:26:36+01:00 4:22 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/the-ex-and-why/ Right now I’m failing without you, gone are
The wonders that I knew, I’m fading away
Teach me the way to excite you, make me
The guy who you once knew, I’m fading away

2
I’m taking in mind that last desperate summer
Picturing you as you were, as my friend
Waking to find a dark, desolate silence
Wishing and hoping this isn’t the end

C
I love you
I can’t be your friend
And though it makes me so sad
I know there has to be a final end

3
Finding a candle extinguished by frostiness
There in the heat of a wild August night
Imagining you in a soft haze of romance
Knowing deep down that I couldn’t be right

C

Knowing deep down that I couldn’t be right

C]]> Right now I’m failing without you, gone are
The wonders that I knew, I’m fading away
Teach me the way to excite you, make me
The guy who you once knew, I’m fading away

2
I’m taking in mind that last desperate summer
Picturing you as you were, as my friend
Waking to find a dark, desolate silence
Wishing and hoping this isn’t the end

C
I love you
I can’t be your friend
And though it makes me so sad
I know there has to be a final end

3
Finding a candle extinguished by frostiness
There in the heat of a wild August night
Imagining you in a soft haze of romance
Knowing deep down that I couldn’t be right

C

Knowing deep down that I couldn’t be right

C]]> 6398252 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:57:54 +0100 2021-11-17T14:57:54+01:00 4:51 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/mirror-on-your-heart/ Bright colours fill the sky with impurity
Why did you lie?
Soft music gives a sense of security
Why would you cry?
Cheap perfume gives a cloak of impunity
Why be so shy?
Strange flavours fill your mind with intensity
Yet still you try

Chorus
Touching romance
Feeling different
‘Till it falls apart
Caressing mischance
Tragic that there’s
A mirror on your heart

2
Faded pleasures in the ground for eternity
How came they lost?
Warm winds warn of impending acridity
At subtle cost
Seeking solace in the empty cavity
You’re double-crossed
What price to reach the height of modernity
Now bathed in frost

Chorus

Touching romance
Feeling different
‘Till it falls apart
Caressing mischance
Mirror on your heart

Find your soul
Find you are sole

Mirror on your heart

Find your soul
Find you are sole]]> Bright colours fill the sky with impurity
Why did you lie?
Soft music gives a sense of security
Why would you cry?
Cheap perfume gives a cloak of impunity
Why be so shy?
Strange flavours fill your mind with intensity
Yet still you try

Chorus
Touching romance
Feeling different
‘Till it falls apart
Caressing mischance
Tragic that there’s
A mirror on your heart

2
Faded pleasures in the ground for eternity
How came they lost?
Warm winds warn of impending acridity
At subtle cost
Seeking solace in the empty cavity
You’re double-crossed
What price to reach the height of modernity
Now bathed in frost

Chorus

Touching romance
Feeling different
‘Till it falls apart
Caressing mischance
Mirror on your heart

Find your soul
Find you are sole

Mirror on your heart

Find your soul
Find you are sole]]> 6398245 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:56:26 +0100 2021-11-17T14:56:26+01:00 5:46 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/before-the-war/ There is a man that no-one knows
Devoid of purpose, life without reason
Dying slowly in the festive season

And they came together and were one
Before the war

The house that once had held a secret
The man that once had held his sweetheart
Miasmal mist clouds hiding a desert
Whoever dies in the seaside resort

And they came together and were one
Before the war

Ha, life, you conceal nothing
I see through the sham
Who says I am bitter
I know who I am
What I am
Why I am
Strawberry jam

I know who I am
What I am
Why I am
Strawberry jam]]> There is a man that no-one knows
Devoid of purpose, life without reason
Dying slowly in the festive season

And they came together and were one
Before the war

The house that once had held a secret
The man that once had held his sweetheart
Miasmal mist clouds hiding a desert
Whoever dies in the seaside resort

And they came together and were one
Before the war

Ha, life, you conceal nothing
I see through the sham
Who says I am bitter
I know who I am
What I am
Why I am
Strawberry jam

I know who I am
What I am
Why I am
Strawberry jam]]> 6398238 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:54:26 +0100 2021-11-17T14:54:26+01:00 3:33 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/is-it-me/ All I ever do is smile and you can’t reach me knowing that
Hopeful glance and mad’ning style and you can’t reach me knowing that
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Chorus
Long as I’m with you
They can’t touch us
Long as I’m with you
They can’t touch us

2
There’s fear behind your smile and I can’t touch you knowing that
Reflects in grace, reflects in style and I can’t touch you knowing that
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Chorus

3
Friends of mine know what to do they can see the meaning that
I could bring, could bring to you they don’t see a caveat
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?]]> All I ever do is smile and you can’t reach me knowing that
Hopeful glance and mad’ning style and you can’t reach me knowing that
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Chorus
Long as I’m with you
They can’t touch us
Long as I’m with you
They can’t touch us

2
There’s fear behind your smile and I can’t touch you knowing that
Reflects in grace, reflects in style and I can’t touch you knowing that
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Chorus

3
Friends of mine know what to do they can see the meaning that
I could bring, could bring to you they don’t see a caveat
Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?

Even she’s gotta need someone
Is it me? Could it be me?
Even though she could have anyone
Is it me? Could it be me?]]> 6398232 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:52:19 +0100 2021-11-17T14:52:19+01:00 4:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/from-behind-love-Iup/ Your love is all I wanted
Your love is all I care for in the world
It’s all that’s needed
It’s all that’s needed for my life to be complete
To turn the salt to sweet
And when we’re strong
We can turn to right from wrong

Chorus
I’m always walking behind love
I never see it beside of me
I’m always walking behind love
I never see it, I never, never see it

2
Your love is all I ask for
A little bit of time that we can share
Some time together
Some time together would be such a proper treat
A chance for minds to meet
And when you go still the wonder seems to grow

Chorus

3
Your love is all I look for
The haven of your arms when I am down
I need that loving
For with that loving all my fears I can defeat
Your love lets my heart beat
It spurs me on ‘till I’m bursting into song

And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow behind me
And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow, I’ve left, I’ve left my sorrow

And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow behind me
And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow, I’ve left, I’ve left my sorrow]]> Your love is all I wanted
Your love is all I care for in the world
It’s all that’s needed
It’s all that’s needed for my life to be complete
To turn the salt to sweet
And when we’re strong
We can turn to right from wrong

Chorus
I’m always walking behind love
I never see it beside of me
I’m always walking behind love
I never see it, I never, never see it

2
Your love is all I ask for
A little bit of time that we can share
Some time together
Some time together would be such a proper treat
A chance for minds to meet
And when you go still the wonder seems to grow

Chorus

3
Your love is all I look for
The haven of your arms when I am down
I need that loving
For with that loving all my fears I can defeat
Your love lets my heart beat
It spurs me on ‘till I’m bursting into song

And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow behind me
And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow, I’ve left, I’ve left my sorrow

And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow behind me
And now I’m walking beside love
I’ve left my sorrow, I’ve left, I’ve left my sorrow]]> 6398223 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:50:11 +0100 2021-11-17T14:50:11+01:00 4:41 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/theme-from-the-film-seffy-park/ 6398212 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:47:16 +0100 2021-11-17T14:47:16+01:00 1:29 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/bus-station-zebra/ A cold day
A day when acid rain was falling
A day when all the world was mourning
As love was to die and there would be no warning
A wet day
A day the world was unprepared for
The shock when someone doesn’t care anymore
For love was to die so there’s nothing to live for

M8
Everything was black & white to you
There were never any shades of grey
So as I stand here in the bus station and watch you leave
On the Greyhound bus, I think of the irony

2
A bad day
A day when all emotion died out
A day when caring people cried out
For if love can die then there’s nothing here but doubt
A sad day
For then my life was strewn in tatters
And nothing ever really matters
For love it had died

And nothing ever really matters
For love it had died]]> A cold day
A day when acid rain was falling
A day when all the world was mourning
As love was to die and there would be no warning
A wet day
A day the world was unprepared for
The shock when someone doesn’t care anymore
For love was to die so there’s nothing to live for

M8
Everything was black & white to you
There were never any shades of grey
So as I stand here in the bus station and watch you leave
On the Greyhound bus, I think of the irony

2
A bad day
A day when all emotion died out
A day when caring people cried out
For if love can die then there’s nothing here but doubt
A sad day
For then my life was strewn in tatters
And nothing ever really matters
For love it had died

And nothing ever really matters
For love it had died]]> 6398205 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:45:39 +0100 2021-11-17T14:45:39+01:00 5:06 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/or-deal/ I didn’t want to go
You made me, you made me
Forsook our love and so
Betrayed me, betrayed me
Making my weakness show
You played me, you played me
Now I just do not know
Destroyed me, destroyed me

Chorus
Why couldn’t I just stay
Keep all the truth away
Now I see what’s for real
It’s simply an ordeal

2
I lived in my own world
You shade me, you shade me
A flower I unfurled
You aid me, you aid me
Now tight I am curled
You failed me, you failed me
I bloomed in my own world
You saved me, you saved me

Chorus

I bloomed in my own world
You saved me, you saved me

Chorus]]> I didn’t want to go
You made me, you made me
Forsook our love and so
Betrayed me, betrayed me
Making my weakness show
You played me, you played me
Now I just do not know
Destroyed me, destroyed me

Chorus
Why couldn’t I just stay
Keep all the truth away
Now I see what’s for real
It’s simply an ordeal

2
I lived in my own world
You shade me, you shade me
A flower I unfurled
You aid me, you aid me
Now tight I am curled
You failed me, you failed me
I bloomed in my own world
You saved me, you saved me

Chorus

I bloomed in my own world
You saved me, you saved me

Chorus]]> 6398195 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:42:42 +0100 2021-11-17T14:42:42+01:00 3:15 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/older-order/ Time takes a tithe from you and me
On with new feelings each separately
Once with a fire, now indifferently
Who says true love could never be

Chorus
In a war of attrition
There’s time to inflate a vision
To create ammunition
To despair of redemption

2
Reach through the fire or stay away
Novel and tempting or just the same
Answer with feeling or merely play
Dodge, weave and scatter but never say

Chorus

3
One recollection of days gone by
One dying voice that seems to cry
Once was and can be if we try
It’s “Time takes a tithe from you and I”

In a war of attrition
There’s time to fake a position
To create ammunition
That is my supposition

In a war of attrition
There’s time to fake a position
To create ammunition
That is my supposition]]> Time takes a tithe from you and me
On with new feelings each separately
Once with a fire, now indifferently
Who says true love could never be

Chorus
In a war of attrition
There’s time to inflate a vision
To create ammunition
To despair of redemption

2
Reach through the fire or stay away
Novel and tempting or just the same
Answer with feeling or merely play
Dodge, weave and scatter but never say

Chorus

3
One recollection of days gone by
One dying voice that seems to cry
Once was and can be if we try
It’s “Time takes a tithe from you and I”

In a war of attrition
There’s time to fake a position
To create ammunition
That is my supposition

In a war of attrition
There’s time to fake a position
To create ammunition
That is my supposition]]> 6398188 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:40:20 +0100 2021-11-17T14:40:20+01:00 5:38 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/nobody-famous/ Fame is a capricious tyrant
Caressing my root then suddenly violent
Shouting the odds then deafening silent
Paving the way to no say in my day

Chorus
I’m not him, I just look like him
I just walk like him
Though I talk like him
I’m not him, I’m not him
I’m nobody famous
Nobody famous
I’m nobody famous
I’m no-one famous

2
Fame is a pernicious doubt
Holds your hand then yanks you about
Gets you in then leaves you out
Presents a bouquet to mark out the prey

Chorus

M8
You’re someone when you’re no-one
There’s people to rely on
A shoulder you can cry on
Mistakes can be forgotten

3
Fame is an atrocious liar
Dragging your truths onto the pyre
Stacking your hopes in a tottering spire
Playing away with no guilt or dismay

Chorus

Stacking your hopes in a tottering spire
Playing away with no guilt or dismay

Chorus]]> Fame is a capricious tyrant
Caressing my root then suddenly violent
Shouting the odds then deafening silent
Paving the way to no say in my day

Chorus
I’m not him, I just look like him
I just walk like him
Though I talk like him
I’m not him, I’m not him
I’m nobody famous
Nobody famous
I’m nobody famous
I’m no-one famous

2
Fame is a pernicious doubt
Holds your hand then yanks you about
Gets you in then leaves you out
Presents a bouquet to mark out the prey

Chorus

M8
You’re someone when you’re no-one
There’s people to rely on
A shoulder you can cry on
Mistakes can be forgotten

3
Fame is an atrocious liar
Dragging your truths onto the pyre
Stacking your hopes in a tottering spire
Playing away with no guilt or dismay

Chorus

Stacking your hopes in a tottering spire
Playing away with no guilt or dismay

Chorus]]> 6398173 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:36:25 +0100 2021-11-17T14:36:25+01:00 4:04 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/walk-away/ How many people do you see standing in the street
That you love but you’ll never see again
How many people do you know you will never meet
You might love them but they simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

2
How can it be that I see you every day
Yet my feelings cannot seem to reach to you
A lover or a friend? I cannot say
If I dither will you simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

C
Regrets
Inform my thesis
On falling to pieces
Breaking my heart and
Driving me insane

3
I’ve got a feeling that you know just where I stand
But a fear of some rebuff keeps you at bay
I cannot run because the ground is shifting sand
And now it’s easier to simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

I cannot run because the ground is shifting sand
And now it’s easier to simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away]]> How many people do you see standing in the street
That you love but you’ll never see again
How many people do you know you will never meet
You might love them but they simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

2
How can it be that I see you every day
Yet my feelings cannot seem to reach to you
A lover or a friend? I cannot say
If I dither will you simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

C
Regrets
Inform my thesis
On falling to pieces
Breaking my heart and
Driving me insane

3
I’ve got a feeling that you know just where I stand
But a fear of some rebuff keeps you at bay
I cannot run because the ground is shifting sand
And now it’s easier to simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away

I cannot run because the ground is shifting sand
And now it’s easier to simply walk away-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay
Simply walk away]]> 6398162 no no Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:33:22 +0100 2021-11-17T14:33:22+01:00 5:12 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/the-yip-zip-hayho-song-lss/ I should like to live up a tree
There’d be a place there for you and me
And we’d sing when we were able
I’ll be John and you be Mabel
I should like to live up a tree

2
I should like to dance with glee
Just like a bumble bee
And we’d rest when we were weary
I’d be Fred and you’d be Deidre
I should like to dance with glee

A
I’d think of laying us a path
You’d think of running us a bath
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d make a squirrel out of wood
You’d say that it was very good
Hup-hup hup-hup

3
I should like you to come for tea
There’d be buns, cakes and fripperies
And we’d stop when we were sated
You be Kay and I’ll be David
I should like you to come for tea

B
I’d make a pattern in the sand
You’d seek the truth to understand
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d play this tune to make you smile
You’d put all our documents in a single file

You’d seek the truth to understand
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d play this tune to make you smile
You’d put all our documents in a single file]]> I should like to live up a tree
There’d be a place there for you and me
And we’d sing when we were able
I’ll be John and you be Mabel
I should like to live up a tree

2
I should like to dance with glee
Just like a bumble bee
And we’d rest when we were weary
I’d be Fred and you’d be Deidre
I should like to dance with glee

A
I’d think of laying us a path
You’d think of running us a bath
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d make a squirrel out of wood
You’d say that it was very good
Hup-hup hup-hup

3
I should like you to come for tea
There’d be buns, cakes and fripperies
And we’d stop when we were sated
You be Kay and I’ll be David
I should like you to come for tea

B
I’d make a pattern in the sand
You’d seek the truth to understand
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d play this tune to make you smile
You’d put all our documents in a single file

You’d seek the truth to understand
Hup-hup hup-hup
I’d play this tune to make you smile
You’d put all our documents in a single file]]> 6128140 no no Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:34:21 +0200 2021-08-03T16:34:21+02:00 3:03 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/see-anomoly/ Come and talk to me
And set me free
From all my doubts and fears
See not he or she
But of degree
Perception then appears
Your philosophy
Must never be
To be the one who leers
Become a devotee
And hear my plea
To see the world as peers

Chorus
See anomaly, embrace it
In a place we’re not invited
Imperfection leads to vibrancy
See anomaly, don’t break it
Inner strength’s for you to wake it
In a New Year be all you can be

2
With diversity
We hold the key
Acceptance opens doors
On the rolling sea
Come be my glee
My haven in the storm
I know that we’re strange
But if we change
Then we’re the system’s whores
Come breakfast with me
And then you’ll see
My needs can chime with yours

Chorus

Hey, be true to you

Come and sit by me
I’ll set you free
From all your doubts and fears

We’re all just trying to get by without sand kicked in our eye

I’ll set you free
From all your doubts and fears

We’re all just trying to get by without sand kicked in our eye]]> Come and talk to me
And set me free
From all my doubts and fears
See not he or she
But of degree
Perception then appears
Your philosophy
Must never be
To be the one who leers
Become a devotee
And hear my plea
To see the world as peers

Chorus
See anomaly, embrace it
In a place we’re not invited
Imperfection leads to vibrancy
See anomaly, don’t break it
Inner strength’s for you to wake it
In a New Year be all you can be

2
With diversity
We hold the key
Acceptance opens doors
On the rolling sea
Come be my glee
My haven in the storm
I know that we’re strange
But if we change
Then we’re the system’s whores
Come breakfast with me
And then you’ll see
My needs can chime with yours

Chorus

Hey, be true to you

Come and sit by me
I’ll set you free
From all your doubts and fears

We’re all just trying to get by without sand kicked in our eye

I’ll set you free
From all your doubts and fears

We’re all just trying to get by without sand kicked in our eye]]> 6128210 no no Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:33:46 +0200 2021-08-03T16:33:46+02:00 3:45 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/found-love/
1
Dreams of Santa chimney hopping
While the world is sleeping
Have you been good – I know I have
But for one or two things
I can be forgiven
Will the carollers sing

Chorus
Found love
Underneath the mistletoe
Found love
Hot enough to melt the snow

2
Cinderella gets her fella
When she goes out dancing
Shyly glancing eyes are meeting
Something is igniting
Keep believing in the magic
And perhaps you will say

Chorus

Astonishing has been the journey of love
Astonishing will be the journey of love

Chorus

Astonishing has been the journey of love
Astonishing will be the journey of love

Chorus]]>
1
Dreams of Santa chimney hopping
While the world is sleeping
Have you been good – I know I have
But for one or two things
I can be forgiven
Will the carollers sing

Chorus
Found love
Underneath the mistletoe
Found love
Hot enough to melt the snow

2
Cinderella gets her fella
When she goes out dancing
Shyly glancing eyes are meeting
Something is igniting
Keep believing in the magic
And perhaps you will say

Chorus

Astonishing has been the journey of love
Astonishing will be the journey of love

Chorus

Astonishing has been the journey of love
Astonishing will be the journey of love

Chorus]]> 6128207 no no Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:33:21 +0200 2021-08-03T16:33:21+02:00 4:31 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/humanity-is-corruption/ Which must surely be
I 'll look after you if you'll look after me

1
Chaos & war, poison & death
These are our legacies
Torment & pain, violence & hate
Is what we breed
Nobody will let you win
No-one will let you in
Bang on the door, cry on the floor
No-one will let you in

Chorus
Humanity is corruption
We give birth to our own destruction
Humanity is destruction
We give birth to the Earth’s extinction

2
Power & fame, money & gain
These are our fantasies
Just me & me, just me & me
This is our cherished peach
Make me the king, then we’ll begin
To make the worls more free
Made me the king, now it’s a sin
To even question me

Chorus

3
Kindness & love, beauty & truth
These are what we need
Balance & joy, karma & light
Only then will we succeed
When will we see to serve is the key
A duty to the world
Wanting to be above you and me
Won’t be a joy affirmed

Chorus

Wanting to be above you and me
Won’t be a joy affirmed

Chorus]]> Which must surely be
I 'll look after you if you'll look after me

1
Chaos & war, poison & death
These are our legacies
Torment & pain, violence & hate
Is what we breed
Nobody will let you win
No-one will let you in
Bang on the door, cry on the floor
No-one will let you in

Chorus
Humanity is corruption
We give birth to our own destruction
Humanity is destruction
We give birth to the Earth’s extinction

2
Power & fame, money & gain
These are our fantasies
Just me & me, just me & me
This is our cherished peach
Make me the king, then we’ll begin
To make the worls more free
Made me the king, now it’s a sin
To even question me

Chorus

3
Kindness & love, beauty & truth
These are what we need
Balance & joy, karma & light
Only then will we succeed
When will we see to serve is the key
A duty to the world
Wanting to be above you and me
Won’t be a joy affirmed

Chorus

Wanting to be above you and me
Won’t be a joy affirmed

Chorus]]> 5943915 no no Wed, 26 May 2021 15:04:47 +0200 2021-05-26T15:04:47+02:00 2:53 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/04-sickness-in-a-public-place/ Fear’s closing in like a spectre on me
And I can’t seem to think and I can’t even see
And my whole body shakes with an ear splitting plea
But I’m trapped in a cage, can no drug set me free?

Chorus
Illness in a public place
Got to somehow hide my face
Want to disappear, no trace
Illness in a public place

2
Though there’s nowhere to run I’ve just got to get there
And the portal of hope is the door to the lair
Oh I know what’s my fate and it’s that I can’t bear
It’s the glad return of sight that I’ve got to beware

Chorus

3
There’s a lover, there’s a friend with their hands on my head
And they want me to return all the words that they’ve said
But the pressure of their smiles make me wish I was dead
As my mind writhes in torment with the pain that I dread

Chorus

4
Only in the darkness can I feel the fall
And only in the darkness can I hit the wall
And only in the darkness is there any hope at all

4
Only in the darkness can I feel the fall
And only in the darkness can I hit the wall
And only in the darkness is there any hope at all]]> Fear’s closing in like a spectre on me
And I can’t seem to think and I can’t even see
And my whole body shakes with an ear splitting plea
But I’m trapped in a cage, can no drug set me free?

Chorus
Illness in a public place
Got to somehow hide my face
Want to disappear, no trace
Illness in a public place

2
Though there’s nowhere to run I’ve just got to get there
And the portal of hope is the door to the lair
Oh I know what’s my fate and it’s that I can’t bear
It’s the glad return of sight that I’ve got to beware

Chorus

3
There’s a lover, there’s a friend with their hands on my head
And they want me to return all the words that they’ve said
But the pressure of their smiles make me wish I was dead
As my mind writhes in torment with the pain that I dread

Chorus

4
Only in the darkness can I feel the fall
And only in the darkness can I hit the wall
And only in the darkness is there any hope at all

4
Only in the darkness can I feel the fall
And only in the darkness can I hit the wall
And only in the darkness is there any hope at all]]> 5943935 no no Wed, 26 May 2021 15:04:22 +0200 2021-05-26T15:04:22+02:00 2:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/03-my-dear-anna/ He hangs around her now
Always just seeing how
He can get in somehow

Age on his side you see
Though he’s maturity
Don’t turn away from me

Chorus
My dear Anna
My dear Anna
She don’t love him

2
He tries to play it cool
Play it all by the rule
I see him as a fool

Why does she speak to him
I’m out here on a limb
The prospect’s just too grim

Chorus

3
Give me the chance, oh please
I am so ill at ease
Can it be just to tease?

Why can’t I make the break?
Valour into me take
It will soon be too late

Chorus

Repeat verse 1

Chorus

Repeat verse 1]]> He hangs around her now
Always just seeing how
He can get in somehow

Age on his side you see
Though he’s maturity
Don’t turn away from me

Chorus
My dear Anna
My dear Anna
She don’t love him

2
He tries to play it cool
Play it all by the rule
I see him as a fool

Why does she speak to him
I’m out here on a limb
The prospect’s just too grim

Chorus

3
Give me the chance, oh please
I am so ill at ease
Can it be just to tease?

Why can’t I make the break?
Valour into me take
It will soon be too late

Chorus

Repeat verse 1

Chorus

Repeat verse 1]]> 5943933 no no Wed, 26 May 2021 15:04:08 +0200 2021-05-26T15:04:08+02:00 3:04 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/02-no-tar-mate/ You’re quite welcome to your stinking breath
Your blackened lungs and your drawn out death
You’re quite welcome to your yellow teeth
Your yellow fingers and your yellow wreath

Chorus
But don’t give me your fucking cancer
Fucking cancer
Don’t give me your fucking cancer
Fucking cancer

2
You’re quite welcome to your phlegmy cough
Your smelly skin and your smelly cloth
You’re quite welcome to your growing debts
You’re really dying for a cigarette

Chorus

On the bus
In the pub
In the club
In my house

On the bus
In the pub
In the club
In my house]]> You’re quite welcome to your stinking breath
Your blackened lungs and your drawn out death
You’re quite welcome to your yellow teeth
Your yellow fingers and your yellow wreath

Chorus
But don’t give me your fucking cancer
Fucking cancer
Don’t give me your fucking cancer
Fucking cancer

2
You’re quite welcome to your phlegmy cough
Your smelly skin and your smelly cloth
You’re quite welcome to your growing debts
You’re really dying for a cigarette

Chorus

On the bus
In the pub
In the club
In my house

On the bus
In the pub
In the club
In my house]]> 5943931 no no Wed, 26 May 2021 15:03:51 +0200 2021-05-26T15:03:51+02:00 2:07 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/01-dont-know-which-side-im-on/ Seeing the right boys fighting the left boys
Which side is really bad?
Seeing the rich folk, seeing the poor folk
Which side is really sad?
Walking down Drake Street, walking down Park Lane
Seeing the people throng
Meeting the good guys, meeting the bad guys
Don’t know which side I’m on

Chorus
Don’t know which side I’m
Don’t know which side I’m
Don’t know which side I’m
On

2
Some people spend big, some people save it
Which one am I to do?
What of Africa? save all the people
Won’t the problem renew?
Who’s in the army? who’s in CND?
Which side is really right?
Why cannot people see the other side?
Why must we always fight?

Chorus

3
What of religion or atheism
Which one do I believe?
Dangerous Jesus, evil Barabbas
Which one do I reprieve?
Who wants abortion, or should they live on?
Which one would save a life?
Why do we take sides, compare and contrive?
It causes so much strife

Chorus

Why do we take sides, compare and contrive?
It causes so much strife

Chorus]]> Seeing the right boys fighting the left boys
Which side is really bad?
Seeing the rich folk, seeing the poor folk
Which side is really sad?
Walking down Drake Street, walking down Park Lane
Seeing the people throng
Meeting the good guys, meeting the bad guys
Don’t know which side I’m on

Chorus
Don’t know which side I’m
Don’t know which side I’m
Don’t know which side I’m
On

2
Some people spend big, some people save it
Which one am I to do?
What of Africa? save all the people
Won’t the problem renew?
Who’s in the army? who’s in CND?
Which side is really right?
Why cannot people see the other side?
Why must we always fight?

Chorus

3
What of religion or atheism
Which one do I believe?
Dangerous Jesus, evil Barabbas
Which one do I reprieve?
Who wants abortion, or should they live on?
Which one would save a life?
Why do we take sides, compare and contrive?
It causes so much strife

Chorus

Why do we take sides, compare and contrive?
It causes so much strife

Chorus]]> 5943927 no no Wed, 26 May 2021 15:03:36 +0200 2021-05-26T15:03:36+02:00 3:30 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/love-makes-fools-of-us-ro7/ Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
I can see you
In the city
And in my heart there is a sudden wonder
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

2
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
I can see you
At a party
And the atmosphere hangs with potential
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

Chorus
Love makes fools of us, our dreams are so unreal
Love gives hope to us, makes us believe dreams can be real

3
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
Armed with details
Of your interests
I could talk and maybe entertain you
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

When I glimpse her dark brown hair
From across a crowded bar
I just feel so terrified that she should be there
And if I have a chance to speak
I just always act so meek
If you could know me then perhaps you’d like me

4
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
In the middle
Of the dancefloor
I could whirl and sway and sing and tempt you
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

Chorus

Chorus]]> Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
I can see you
In the city
And in my heart there is a sudden wonder
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

2
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
I can see you
At a party
And the atmosphere hangs with potential
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

Chorus
Love makes fools of us, our dreams are so unreal
Love gives hope to us, makes us believe dreams can be real

3
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
Armed with details
Of your interests
I could talk and maybe entertain you
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

When I glimpse her dark brown hair
From across a crowded bar
I just feel so terrified that she should be there
And if I have a chance to speak
I just always act so meek
If you could know me then perhaps you’d like me

4
Don’t you want me?
Don’t you need me?
Don’t you know me, can’t you even see me?
In the middle
Of the dancefloor
I could whirl and sway and sing and tempt you
But I just watch you
From a distance
Won’t you know me, can’t you even see me?

Chorus

Chorus]]> 5906231 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:34:03 +0200 2021-05-11T16:34:03+02:00 6:48 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/free-wheelin-wom/ I didn’t think I could feel the loss
Of something I never owned
When I’ve finally shed the dross
I must give back the hope I loaned
I seem to think it’s your right
You seem to think it’s my right
I couldn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Entertain the thought
Of a bond

Chorus
Freewheelin,
Freewheelin’ on my own
Reliant
Reliant on no-one
Freewheelin,
All on my own
Reliant
Reliant on no-one

2
She seemed strong yet oblivious
Or was it me that didn’t know?
So many things, so much discussed
I’m self denied, left nought to show
Just something not quite right
In feelings that you might
I didn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Re-assess the hope
Of a bond

Chorus

3
A year that’s past is left to swell
And take over my every thought
There is so much that I could tell
The sharing was already bought
I used to think it my right
I fool myself it’s my right
I wouldn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Recognise the need
Of a bond

Chorus

Isetta Trojan to AC in a Powerdrive Raleigh to Berkeley square

Isetta Trojan to AC in a Powerdrive Raleigh to Berkeley square]]> I didn’t think I could feel the loss
Of something I never owned
When I’ve finally shed the dross
I must give back the hope I loaned
I seem to think it’s your right
You seem to think it’s my right
I couldn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Entertain the thought
Of a bond

Chorus
Freewheelin,
Freewheelin’ on my own
Reliant
Reliant on no-one
Freewheelin,
All on my own
Reliant
Reliant on no-one

2
She seemed strong yet oblivious
Or was it me that didn’t know?
So many things, so much discussed
I’m self denied, left nought to show
Just something not quite right
In feelings that you might
I didn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Re-assess the hope
Of a bond

Chorus

3
A year that’s past is left to swell
And take over my every thought
There is so much that I could tell
The sharing was already bought
I used to think it my right
I fool myself it’s my right
I wouldn’t
And perhaps I shouldn’t even
Recognise the need
Of a bond

Chorus

Isetta Trojan to AC in a Powerdrive Raleigh to Berkeley square

Isetta Trojan to AC in a Powerdrive Raleigh to Berkeley square]]> 5906223 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:33:41 +0200 2021-05-11T16:33:41+02:00 4:11 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/carefree-again-sgf/ I want to be old and I want to be new
I want to be glad and I want to be blue
And I want to be carefree again
I want to be carefree again
I want to be good and I want to be bad
I want to be calm and I want to be mad
And I want to be carefree again
Like I used to be carefree again

Chorus
I will not encumber you
I will never encumber you

2
I want to be poor and I want to be rich
I want to be well and I want to be sick
And I want to be carefree again
I want to be carefree again
I want to be quick and I want to be slow
I want to be wise and I want to not know
And I want to be carefree again
Why can’t I be carefree again?

Chorus

Chorus

And she said this about the future –
I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back
(rpt x 3)

Chorus

I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back
(rpt x 3)

Chorus]]> I want to be old and I want to be new
I want to be glad and I want to be blue
And I want to be carefree again
I want to be carefree again
I want to be good and I want to be bad
I want to be calm and I want to be mad
And I want to be carefree again
Like I used to be carefree again

Chorus
I will not encumber you
I will never encumber you

2
I want to be poor and I want to be rich
I want to be well and I want to be sick
And I want to be carefree again
I want to be carefree again
I want to be quick and I want to be slow
I want to be wise and I want to not know
And I want to be carefree again
Why can’t I be carefree again?

Chorus

Chorus

And she said this about the future –
I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back
(rpt x 3)

Chorus

I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back, I can’t hold it back
(rpt x 3)

Chorus]]> 5906220 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:33:29 +0200 2021-05-11T16:33:29+02:00 4:26 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/nigels-much-travelled-harmonica-1/ Starting out to hitch from London
Make the boat and don’t be late
Got to get across to Europe
On the road not long to wait
Gonna get to South East Asia
Maybe to Australia
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

2
Once we’re off the journey’s easy
Towns and cities flying past
Doing 40, doing 90
Stopping off a quick repast
Got no time to stay in Austria
For the goal is India
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

Colours and noises
Creatures and plants
Mountains and grasslands
Stillness and dance
Temperate and humid
Oceans and lands
The sun in your eyes and
The wind in your pants
These are the days
The dog days of romance

3
Time is nothing time don’t matter
Time we have in good supply
Sleeping, eating, drinking, tasting
All these spices yet to try
Life of leisure life of pleasure
Overdose on novelty
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

4
Near the end or near the start then?
When is it that we’ll arrive?
Oh you know there is no answer, ask
Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica]]> Starting out to hitch from London
Make the boat and don’t be late
Got to get across to Europe
On the road not long to wait
Gonna get to South East Asia
Maybe to Australia
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

2
Once we’re off the journey’s easy
Towns and cities flying past
Doing 40, doing 90
Stopping off a quick repast
Got no time to stay in Austria
For the goal is India
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

Colours and noises
Creatures and plants
Mountains and grasslands
Stillness and dance
Temperate and humid
Oceans and lands
The sun in your eyes and
The wind in your pants
These are the days
The dog days of romance

3
Time is nothing time don’t matter
Time we have in good supply
Sleeping, eating, drinking, tasting
All these spices yet to try
Life of leisure life of pleasure
Overdose on novelty
Oh you know it’s quite a journey
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

4
Near the end or near the start then?
When is it that we’ll arrive?
Oh you know there is no answer, ask
Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica

Nigel’s much travelled
Nigel’s much travelled harmonica]]> 5906218 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:33:19 +0200 2021-05-11T16:33:19+02:00 3:12 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/unclear-war/ Say that creed doesn’t matter
What if we assert our right
What if we don’t falter
What compels hate to thrive
Love and reason to scatter
What if we refuse to fight

1
No fallout for those
That push the button
It won’t be them that die
Nor even their offspring

Chorus
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer
Though we’re unclear
Though we’re unclear
Though we’re unclear
‘bout what we are fighting

Let Winter come
Though this should be Spring
We’ll be living a half life
For a thousand years

Chorus

It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer

Why don't we refuse to fight?

It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer]]> Say that creed doesn’t matter
What if we assert our right
What if we don’t falter
What compels hate to thrive
Love and reason to scatter
What if we refuse to fight

1
No fallout for those
That push the button
It won’t be them that die
Nor even their offspring

Chorus
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer
Though we’re unclear
Though we’re unclear
Though we’re unclear
‘bout what we are fighting

Let Winter come
Though this should be Spring
We’ll be living a half life
For a thousand years

Chorus

It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer

Why don't we refuse to fight?

It’s you and me
It’s you and me
It’s you and me
Who suffer]]> 5906201 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:33:09 +0200 2021-05-11T16:33:09+02:00 4:43 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/fear-becomes-irrational-0if/ Two lovers, two fighters, one jury, nine good men
Know what to think but they cannot believe
No hopers, sad gropers, too early, too surly
Struggle and grasp but they cannot retrieve

Chorus
Fear becomes irrational
Mental state unnatural
Loving you is visceral
Reason is impossible
Fear becomes irrational

2
Escapers, time wasters, pill taking, not many
Take what you want but return what you need
False papers, March capers, get seven, no fractions
Fail to enjoy what they call to succeed

Chorus

3
Partaker, mould breaker, bright Monday, chance taken
Break through your words with my questions and doubts
Hell raiser, ice breaker, brand symbol, push strongly
Ready yourself I am here for the bout

Chorus

4
No talking, no feeling, two roses, one bedtime
Knowing the thought is no longer the deed
Slow build up, quick thinking, compassion, be careful
Will not be lead but neither will lead

No talking, no feeling, two roses, one bedtime
Knowing the thought is no longer the deed
Slow build up, quick thinking, compassion, be careful
Will not be lead but neither will lead]]> Two lovers, two fighters, one jury, nine good men
Know what to think but they cannot believe
No hopers, sad gropers, too early, too surly
Struggle and grasp but they cannot retrieve

Chorus
Fear becomes irrational
Mental state unnatural
Loving you is visceral
Reason is impossible
Fear becomes irrational

2
Escapers, time wasters, pill taking, not many
Take what you want but return what you need
False papers, March capers, get seven, no fractions
Fail to enjoy what they call to succeed

Chorus

3
Partaker, mould breaker, bright Monday, chance taken
Break through your words with my questions and doubts
Hell raiser, ice breaker, brand symbol, push strongly
Ready yourself I am here for the bout

Chorus

4
No talking, no feeling, two roses, one bedtime
Knowing the thought is no longer the deed
Slow build up, quick thinking, compassion, be careful
Will not be lead but neither will lead

No talking, no feeling, two roses, one bedtime
Knowing the thought is no longer the deed
Slow build up, quick thinking, compassion, be careful
Will not be lead but neither will lead]]> 5906198 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:32:57 +0200 2021-05-11T16:32:57+02:00 4:55 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/she-doesnt-know-ydy/ When she says she’ll go
She says she’ll leave you
You know it’s not the truth it’s just to tease you
And yet the feeling lasts, the feeling that you’re just a toy
That you and her are just a game, you’re just another boy

Chorus
She doesn’t know how much she means to me
She doesn’t know how much she gives to me
She doesn’t know what she’ll be taking away

2
My friend she’s not your type
She has to go now
You’ll realise the folly I must show now
And don’t be sad no more when she has left and gone away
Just you recall there’s people here who true will always stay

Chorus

3
[repeat first verse]

Chorus

3
[repeat first verse]

Chorus]]> When she says she’ll go
She says she’ll leave you
You know it’s not the truth it’s just to tease you
And yet the feeling lasts, the feeling that you’re just a toy
That you and her are just a game, you’re just another boy

Chorus
She doesn’t know how much she means to me
She doesn’t know how much she gives to me
She doesn’t know what she’ll be taking away

2
My friend she’s not your type
She has to go now
You’ll realise the folly I must show now
And don’t be sad no more when she has left and gone away
Just you recall there’s people here who true will always stay

Chorus

3
[repeat first verse]

Chorus

3
[repeat first verse]

Chorus]]> 5906191 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:32:46 +0200 2021-05-11T16:32:46+02:00 3:31 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/between-us-hyx/
1
No-one
Can hurt me like
You can
Can scare me like
Your plan
Won’t you set me free?

No man
Can help you like
I do
But you want to
Be cruel
Won’t you set me free?

Chorus
When will you start accepting
What can surely be seen
If ever there was
Now there’s nothing between
Us

Set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free

2
Your love
It stifles me
And then
It frightens me
I hide
‘Till you set me free

No-one
Should suffer in
This way
Should be in dread
Each day
‘Till you set me free

Chorus

I don’t know if you’ll go, but I wish you would leave
You show no remorse, don’t deserve a reprieve
I gave you my love now you’ve got to believe
I’ll stifle my tears, allow me to grieve

3
My love
Can blossom and
Grow strong
Can be good for
Someone
When you set me free

Chorus

Someone
When you set me free

Chorus]]>
1
No-one
Can hurt me like
You can
Can scare me like
Your plan
Won’t you set me free?

No man
Can help you like
I do
But you want to
Be cruel
Won’t you set me free?

Chorus
When will you start accepting
What can surely be seen
If ever there was
Now there’s nothing between
Us

Set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free, set me free

2
Your love
It stifles me
And then
It frightens me
I hide
‘Till you set me free

No-one
Should suffer in
This way
Should be in dread
Each day
‘Till you set me free

Chorus

I don’t know if you’ll go, but I wish you would leave
You show no remorse, don’t deserve a reprieve
I gave you my love now you’ve got to believe
I’ll stifle my tears, allow me to grieve

3
My love
Can blossom and
Grow strong
Can be good for
Someone
When you set me free

Chorus

Someone
When you set me free

Chorus]]> 5906187 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:32:35 +0200 2021-05-11T16:32:35+02:00 3:55 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/bold-type/ Baby
I can grow old
With you by my side
Maybe I am too bold
But maybe I can be, maybe I can be
Our love
Will not grow cold
We’ll turn back the tide
Maybe I am too bold
But with you I can be, with you I can be

Chorus
You belong with me in my life
Bringing us together is so right
I’ll remove anything in the way
We’ll fulfil our dreams as man and wife
You and me we’re seeking love and light
We’ll remove anything in our way

2
Fate may
Deal us some blows
Take us for a ride
But if we can stay bold
Then we’ll drive right on through, we’ll drive right on through
Tastes may
Change as we grow
Adapt and we’ll thrive
Maybe stay as we know
But only we can say, only we can say

Chorus

3
Warming
The hands that are cold
Our hearts will not hide
From truths we are told
Nor heeding a warning, hearing a warning
Life might
Give us a chance
Take us on a ride
Basing faith on a glance
And trust when out of sight, trust when out of sight

Chorus

Basing faith on a glance
And trust when out of sight, trust when out of sight

Chorus]]> Baby
I can grow old
With you by my side
Maybe I am too bold
But maybe I can be, maybe I can be
Our love
Will not grow cold
We’ll turn back the tide
Maybe I am too bold
But with you I can be, with you I can be

Chorus
You belong with me in my life
Bringing us together is so right
I’ll remove anything in the way
We’ll fulfil our dreams as man and wife
You and me we’re seeking love and light
We’ll remove anything in our way

2
Fate may
Deal us some blows
Take us for a ride
But if we can stay bold
Then we’ll drive right on through, we’ll drive right on through
Tastes may
Change as we grow
Adapt and we’ll thrive
Maybe stay as we know
But only we can say, only we can say

Chorus

3
Warming
The hands that are cold
Our hearts will not hide
From truths we are told
Nor heeding a warning, hearing a warning
Life might
Give us a chance
Take us on a ride
Basing faith on a glance
And trust when out of sight, trust when out of sight

Chorus

Basing faith on a glance
And trust when out of sight, trust when out of sight

Chorus]]> 5906182 no no Tue, 11 May 2021 16:32:16 +0200 2021-05-11T16:32:16+02:00 5:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/07-since-youve-been-leaving/ 5789117 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:55 +0200 2021-04-09T16:57:55+02:00 4:06 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/04-i-love-her/ When I see her at some place
Recognition spreads across her face
And I turn away
When I see her walking by
I know she has no other guy
But I turn away

Chorus
I love her
She may love me
Just one chance
And I can see

2
I stare at her for a while
But is she gives me one shy smile
I turn away
Watching for her every day
When she appears I want to say..
But I turn away

Chorus

3
It’s a fear that can be fought
Her pretty face – I love the thought
But I turn away
Love so strong it cannot die
I’d never ever say goodbye
But I turn away

Chorus

I’d never ever say goodbye
But I turn away

Chorus]]> When I see her at some place
Recognition spreads across her face
And I turn away
When I see her walking by
I know she has no other guy
But I turn away

Chorus
I love her
She may love me
Just one chance
And I can see

2
I stare at her for a while
But is she gives me one shy smile
I turn away
Watching for her every day
When she appears I want to say..
But I turn away

Chorus

3
It’s a fear that can be fought
Her pretty face – I love the thought
But I turn away
Love so strong it cannot die
I’d never ever say goodbye
But I turn away

Chorus

I’d never ever say goodbye
But I turn away

Chorus]]> 5789142 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:26 +0200 2021-04-09T16:57:26+02:00 4:06 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/14-exit/ 5789162 no no Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:48:46 +0200 2021-04-07T15:48:46+02:00 0:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/entrance/ Our aim is to entrance]]> Our aim is to entrance]]> 5767106 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:52:18 +0100 2021-03-25T13:52:18+01:00 0:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/02-safety-is-sat-by-the-fire/ Can’t you see yourself as others see you?
Can’t you see yourself walking by?
If you saw yourself as I might see you
Would it make you laugh or make you cry?

Chorus
You always climbed the highest tree
Ignored the sigh, misheard my plea

2
When you fall you know that I will save you
When you fall you know I’m standing there
If you climb too high I just can’t see you
Dead leaves and branches mingle with your hair

Chorus

3
So it seems that you have neared the top now
The slender branches will they hold your weight?
The leaves are sparser and the wind is stronger
Then something snaps and you precipitate
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

The leaves are sparser and the wind is stronger
Then something snaps and you precipitate
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down]]> Can’t you see yourself as others see you?
Can’t you see yourself walking by?
If you saw yourself as I might see you
Would it make you laugh or make you cry?

Chorus
You always climbed the highest tree
Ignored the sigh, misheard my plea

2
When you fall you know that I will save you
When you fall you know I’m standing there
If you climb too high I just can’t see you
Dead leaves and branches mingle with your hair

Chorus

3
So it seems that you have neared the top now
The slender branches will they hold your weight?
The leaves are sparser and the wind is stronger
Then something snaps and you precipitate
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down

The leaves are sparser and the wind is stronger
Then something snaps and you precipitate
Down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down]]> 5767082 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:50:06 +0100 2021-03-25T13:50:06+01:00 3:25 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/03-fallin/ You tell me when you’re down
I can bring you round
I can cure you of your frown
Turn it upside down

Chorus
You make me feel I belong
Fallin’ for you made me strong

2
I bare my very soul
You already know
Hand in hand through the snow
I can feel the glow

Chorus

3
You touch me and I smile
Power to beguile
I’m enchanted by your style
Never be in style

Chorus

I’m enchanted by your style
Never be in style

Chorus]]> You tell me when you’re down
I can bring you round
I can cure you of your frown
Turn it upside down

Chorus
You make me feel I belong
Fallin’ for you made me strong

2
I bare my very soul
You already know
Hand in hand through the snow
I can feel the glow

Chorus

3
You touch me and I smile
Power to beguile
I’m enchanted by your style
Never be in style

Chorus

I’m enchanted by your style
Never be in style

Chorus]]> 5767041 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:45:49 +0100 2021-03-25T13:45:49+01:00 3:02 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/04-she-mustve-known/ You know you can’t hide
This time you gotta decide
Coz she must’ve known we were
She must’ve known we were friends
You’ll have to swallow your pride
I need you by my side
Coz she must’ve known we were
She must’ve known we were friends

Chorus
She must’ve known we were friends
She must’ve known we were friends
Can’t seem to hide coz
She must’ve known we were friends

2
Despite how hard we tried
We had to cross the divide
Now we can’t deny to her
We can’t deny we were friends
We’ll say that we never lied
There’s no intent to misguide
Now we can’t deny to her
We can’t deny we were friends

Chorus

3
No-one else would have cried
When we resolved to confide
That we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends
I want you for my bride
Our worlds are gonna collide
Now we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends

Chorus

Now we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends

Chorus]]> You know you can’t hide
This time you gotta decide
Coz she must’ve known we were
She must’ve known we were friends
You’ll have to swallow your pride
I need you by my side
Coz she must’ve known we were
She must’ve known we were friends

Chorus
She must’ve known we were friends
She must’ve known we were friends
Can’t seem to hide coz
She must’ve known we were friends

2
Despite how hard we tried
We had to cross the divide
Now we can’t deny to her
We can’t deny we were friends
We’ll say that we never lied
There’s no intent to misguide
Now we can’t deny to her
We can’t deny we were friends

Chorus

3
No-one else would have cried
When we resolved to confide
That we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends
I want you for my bride
Our worlds are gonna collide
Now we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends

Chorus

Now we’re so much more than just
We’re so much more than just friends

Chorus]]> 5767019 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:42:02 +0100 2021-03-25T13:42:02+01:00 3:43 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/05-im-losing-you-girl/ I’m losing you girl
And I don’t know what I can do
I’m losing you girl
And you don’t know what I’m going through

1
You say that I’m
Spending all of my time with you
But you know that I
Have nothing that I would rather do

Chorus

2
I wanted that bond
Of love uniting two
And I thought that that
Was something that you wanted too

Chorus

And it shakes me all to pieces
And it shakes me all to pieces
And it shakes me all to pieces
Ooh

3
I gave you my love
You gave me all your loving too
But your love it died
Whilst mine just grew and grew

Chorus

4
There’s no more, goodbye
Saying this you go away
Now what can I do
Where can I go, what can I say?

Chorus

Now what can I do
Where can I go, what can I say?

Chorus]]> I’m losing you girl
And I don’t know what I can do
I’m losing you girl
And you don’t know what I’m going through

1
You say that I’m
Spending all of my time with you
But you know that I
Have nothing that I would rather do

Chorus

2
I wanted that bond
Of love uniting two
And I thought that that
Was something that you wanted too

Chorus

And it shakes me all to pieces
And it shakes me all to pieces
And it shakes me all to pieces
Ooh

3
I gave you my love
You gave me all your loving too
But your love it died
Whilst mine just grew and grew

Chorus

4
There’s no more, goodbye
Saying this you go away
Now what can I do
Where can I go, what can I say?

Chorus

Now what can I do
Where can I go, what can I say?

Chorus]]> 5766984 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:36:18 +0100 2021-03-25T13:36:18+01:00 3:06 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/06-i-know-youre-leaving/ I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t know what we do this for
Is it trying, is it crying, is it dying and implying I am lying, I am sighing
Is it dancing in the rain?
Is it singing through the pain?
As I’m knocking on the door
Are you crying on the floor?

Chorus
I know
I know
I know
I know you’re leaving

2
I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t know what you need me for
Is it grinning, is it winning, is it sinning, are you spinning with the din involved in twinning?
Is it sex and nothing more?
Is it reaching to the core?
As I’m lying in your bed
Is my gun against your head?

Chorus

3
I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t want this to be a chore
Can we save it, can we waive it, do you crave it that we make it or we break it since the wave hit?
Is it time to say goodbye?
Is it best to live a lie?
If I say I’ll give you space
Will I simply lose the race?

Chorus

If I say I’ll give you space
Will I simply lose the race?

Chorus]]> I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t know what we do this for
Is it trying, is it crying, is it dying and implying I am lying, I am sighing
Is it dancing in the rain?
Is it singing through the pain?
As I’m knocking on the door
Are you crying on the floor?

Chorus
I know
I know
I know
I know you’re leaving

2
I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t know what you need me for
Is it grinning, is it winning, is it sinning, are you spinning with the din involved in twinning?
Is it sex and nothing more?
Is it reaching to the core?
As I’m lying in your bed
Is my gun against your head?

Chorus

3
I don’t know what you want anymore
I don’t want this to be a chore
Can we save it, can we waive it, do you crave it that we make it or we break it since the wave hit?
Is it time to say goodbye?
Is it best to live a lie?
If I say I’ll give you space
Will I simply lose the race?

Chorus

If I say I’ll give you space
Will I simply lose the race?

Chorus]]> 5766938 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:26:41 +0100 2021-03-25T13:26:41+01:00 2:58 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/07-the-sadness-of-knowing/ How can you say
You owe me nothing
When we’ve milled around and messed around
For so long now
How can you say
You doubt my loving
When the things we said and ways we lead
Were so in tune

Chorus
But it seems the time has come for you to leave me
You re-arrange my life and don’t say why
How can it be
That it happens to me
When I need you [most]

2
How can you leave
Me out in the cold
With nowhere to go but a place I don’t know
And do not need
It seems to me
That I’ve been sold
For the dream of a place that no-one can debase
That’s not real

Chorus

Did you say that you’d heard of the sadness of knowing?
Was it from a little bird or the crops that are growing?
Meet me out in the field and we’ll see where it’s going
See the tears we revealed and the cracks that are showing

3
How can you say
You owe me nothing
That the joy that we had has somehow turned bad
You need to be freed
How can you go
When I was so trusting
And you really don’t care if I’m left out there
Where I bleed

Chorus

And you really don’t care if I’m left out there
Where I bleed

Chorus]]> How can you say
You owe me nothing
When we’ve milled around and messed around
For so long now
How can you say
You doubt my loving
When the things we said and ways we lead
Were so in tune

Chorus
But it seems the time has come for you to leave me
You re-arrange my life and don’t say why
How can it be
That it happens to me
When I need you [most]

2
How can you leave
Me out in the cold
With nowhere to go but a place I don’t know
And do not need
It seems to me
That I’ve been sold
For the dream of a place that no-one can debase
That’s not real

Chorus

Did you say that you’d heard of the sadness of knowing?
Was it from a little bird or the crops that are growing?
Meet me out in the field and we’ll see where it’s going
See the tears we revealed and the cracks that are showing

3
How can you say
You owe me nothing
That the joy that we had has somehow turned bad
You need to be freed
How can you go
When I was so trusting
And you really don’t care if I’m left out there
Where I bleed

Chorus

And you really don’t care if I’m left out there
Where I bleed

Chorus]]> 5766876 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:17:00 +0100 2021-03-25T13:17:00+01:00 4:17 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/08-your-love/
1
Thought I heard you say you loved me
Thought I heard you say you cared
But it’s not so
But it’s not so
Thought I heard you say you need me
Thought I heard you say you’re mine
But it’s not so
But it’s not so

Chorus
Your love
Your love
Your love
Stopped suddenly

2
Once you said you need to touch me
Once you said you need to love
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so
Once you said it’s for eternity
Once you said I love you so
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus

3
Gave the love that left me breathless
Gave the love that made me laugh
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so
Gave the love that made me tender
Gave the love that kept me sane
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus

Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus]]>
1
Thought I heard you say you loved me
Thought I heard you say you cared
But it’s not so
But it’s not so
Thought I heard you say you need me
Thought I heard you say you’re mine
But it’s not so
But it’s not so

Chorus
Your love
Your love
Your love
Stopped suddenly

2
Once you said you need to touch me
Once you said you need to love
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so
Once you said it’s for eternity
Once you said I love you so
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus

3
Gave the love that left me breathless
Gave the love that made me laugh
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so
Gave the love that made me tender
Gave the love that kept me sane
Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus

Now it’s not so
Now it’s not so

Chorus]]> 5766837 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:12:52 +0100 2021-03-25T13:12:52+01:00 3:33 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/09-youve-got-to-say-goodbye/ When you see me sitting brooding
You know I’m making plans to get away
When you see me reading novels
You know I’m seeing how I’ll get away

Chorus
You know you’ve got to say goodbye
Even though it makes you cry
You’ve got to say goodbye
‘Cos I’m leaving

2
When you see me washing dishes
You know I’m making plans to get away
When you see me in the garden
I’m only making plans to get away

Chorus

3
When I catch the train to work
I’m just comparing times to get away
When you think I’m tied up in meetings
But now it’s gone away
I’m just discussing plans to get away

Chorus

4
When I’m coming home from work
You know I’ll never ever get away
And when we’re together again
You know I love you more and more each day

Chorus

And when we’re together again
You know I love you more and more each day

Chorus]]> When you see me sitting brooding
You know I’m making plans to get away
When you see me reading novels
You know I’m seeing how I’ll get away

Chorus
You know you’ve got to say goodbye
Even though it makes you cry
You’ve got to say goodbye
‘Cos I’m leaving

2
When you see me washing dishes
You know I’m making plans to get away
When you see me in the garden
I’m only making plans to get away

Chorus

3
When I catch the train to work
I’m just comparing times to get away
When you think I’m tied up in meetings
But now it’s gone away
I’m just discussing plans to get away

Chorus

4
When I’m coming home from work
You know I’ll never ever get away
And when we’re together again
You know I love you more and more each day

Chorus

And when we’re together again
You know I love you more and more each day

Chorus]]> 5766782 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:08:53 +0100 2021-03-25T13:08:53+01:00 2:06 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/10-disparate-amenities/ Have you ever been sad
So sad you didn’t think you’d live the night?
Has love driven you mad
So mad you’re living in a constant fright?

Chorus
I’ve found this to be true
Whenever I’m not with you
I live in fear
Whenever you are not near (to me)

2
Do you want me for love
My love forever and eternity?
Or am I just a friend
The friend you turn to in adversity?

Chorus

3
When you call me from far
So far it seems you’re in another life
It just makes me fear
The more, what you may be doing tonight

Chorus

It just makes me fear
The more, what you may be doing tonight

Chorus]]> Have you ever been sad
So sad you didn’t think you’d live the night?
Has love driven you mad
So mad you’re living in a constant fright?

Chorus
I’ve found this to be true
Whenever I’m not with you
I live in fear
Whenever you are not near (to me)

2
Do you want me for love
My love forever and eternity?
Or am I just a friend
The friend you turn to in adversity?

Chorus

3
When you call me from far
So far it seems you’re in another life
It just makes me fear
The more, what you may be doing tonight

Chorus

It just makes me fear
The more, what you may be doing tonight

Chorus]]> 5766714 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:03:45 +0100 2021-03-25T13:03:45+01:00 2:35 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/11-my-love-for-you/ My love for you, it’s a beautiful song
Won’t you sing it for me and I’ll sing along
My love for you, it’s a beautiful song
Won’t you sing it for me and I’ll sing along
My love for you
My love for you

1
Got love in your eyes, won’t you shout it aloud
And we’ll be dancing all through the crowd
With the sun in your hair I just feel so proud
Let our love be above the crowd
My love for you
My love for you

Chorus

2
A kiss from your lips starts a song in my heart
Let’s both agree we’ll never part
A lifetime of bliss is about to start
So let me never be apart
My love from you
My love from you

Chorus

3
When you are all mine is the day that I cry
For I will love you ‘till the day I die
For my only love there’s no need to sigh
Coz there is nothing that I won’t try
My love for you
My love for you

Chorus

4
Won’t you sing it for me, won’t you sing it for you
It’s a joy to sing of a love so true
If you sing it for me then I’ll sing it for you
It’s the smallest thing that I can do
My love, for you
My love, for you

If you sing it for me then I’ll sing it for you
It’s the smallest thing that I can do
My love, for you
My love, for you]]> My love for you, it’s a beautiful song
Won’t you sing it for me and I’ll sing along
My love for you, it’s a beautiful song
Won’t you sing it for me and I’ll sing along
My love for you
My love for you

1
Got love in your eyes, won’t you shout it aloud
And we’ll be dancing all through the crowd
With the sun in your hair I just feel so proud
Let our love be above the crowd
My love for you
My love for you

Chorus

2
A kiss from your lips starts a song in my heart
Let’s both agree we’ll never part
A lifetime of bliss is about to start
So let me never be apart
My love from you
My love from you

Chorus

3
When you are all mine is the day that I cry
For I will love you ‘till the day I die
For my only love there’s no need to sigh
Coz there is nothing that I won’t try
My love for you
My love for you

Chorus

4
Won’t you sing it for me, won’t you sing it for you
It’s a joy to sing of a love so true
If you sing it for me then I’ll sing it for you
It’s the smallest thing that I can do
My love, for you
My love, for you

If you sing it for me then I’ll sing it for you
It’s the smallest thing that I can do
My love, for you
My love, for you]]> 5766662 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:58:25 +0100 2021-03-25T12:58:25+01:00 3:54 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/12-she-said-she-loved-me/ I think of times we spent together
I think of them now we’re apart
I know that her I’ll love forever
Why can’t we make a brand new start?

Chorus
She said she loved me (and I believed her)
She said she loved me (the cruel deceiver)
She said she loved me
So why did she go?

2
“I need to be with you my loved one”
“I love you more than words can say”
It was too much for me to take on
Up until that dreadful day

Chorus

And if I ever get a second chance to lead my life
I know who I would surely take to be my wife
I’d show her all the depth of love I feel
That depth of love that I still feel

Chorus

3
I know I couldn’t say I loved her
I know I wasn’t always there
But that don’t mean I didn’t love her
That don’t mean I didn’t care

Chorus

But that don’t mean I didn’t love her
That don’t mean I didn’t care

Chorus]]> I think of times we spent together
I think of them now we’re apart
I know that her I’ll love forever
Why can’t we make a brand new start?

Chorus
She said she loved me (and I believed her)
She said she loved me (the cruel deceiver)
She said she loved me
So why did she go?

2
“I need to be with you my loved one”
“I love you more than words can say”
It was too much for me to take on
Up until that dreadful day

Chorus

And if I ever get a second chance to lead my life
I know who I would surely take to be my wife
I’d show her all the depth of love I feel
That depth of love that I still feel

Chorus

3
I know I couldn’t say I loved her
I know I wasn’t always there
But that don’t mean I didn’t love her
That don’t mean I didn’t care

Chorus

But that don’t mean I didn’t love her
That don’t mean I didn’t care

Chorus]]> 5766617 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:49:25 +0100 2021-03-25T12:49:25+01:00 3:19 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/12-know-you-are/ Is there no-one sees beyond the long blonde hair
And the pale blue eyes, For a lovely girl
You are lonely
You are lonely
Beyond assertions of who you are
And your jokey dreams of a Jaguar
Are you lonely?
Are you lonely?

Chorus
If the true affection you’ve always sought
Can no more be found with the friends you’ve bought
Find me

2
Is there no-one sees beyond the long blonde hair
And the pale blue eyes, For a lovely boy
You are lonely
You are lonely
Beyond assertions of who you are
And your jokey dreams of a Jaguar
Are you lonely?
Are you lonely?

Chorus

With horizons new you collect the fresh
And discard the rest, does it just conceal
You are lonely?
You are lonely?
Can you face the fear, that you feel the fall
And deny the call that you have no choice
But be lonely
But be lonely

Only tell the truth, daring to believe
Try to see the good Then you can achieve
No more lonely

Know you are loved


Only tell the truth, daring to believeTry to see the good Then you can achieve
No more lonely

Know you are loved]]> Is there no-one sees beyond the long blonde hair
And the pale blue eyes, For a lovely girl
You are lonely
You are lonely
Beyond assertions of who you are
And your jokey dreams of a Jaguar
Are you lonely?
Are you lonely?

Chorus
If the true affection you’ve always sought
Can no more be found with the friends you’ve bought
Find me

2
Is there no-one sees beyond the long blonde hair
And the pale blue eyes, For a lovely boy
You are lonely
You are lonely
Beyond assertions of who you are
And your jokey dreams of a Jaguar
Are you lonely?
Are you lonely?

Chorus

With horizons new you collect the fresh
And discard the rest, does it just conceal
You are lonely?
You are lonely?
Can you face the fear, that you feel the fall
And deny the call that you have no choice
But be lonely
But be lonely

Only tell the truth, daring to believe
Try to see the good Then you can achieve
No more lonely

Know you are loved


Only tell the truth, daring to believeTry to see the good Then you can achieve
No more lonely

Know you are loved]]> 5766536 no no Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:34:03 +0100 2021-03-25T12:34:03+01:00 3:58 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/08-radio-merseyside-interview/ 5613139 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:58:15 +0200 2021-04-09T16:58:15+02:00 4:41 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/07-such-sweet-sorrow/ Music - David Tomlinson

1
Lurch at the edge of last month’s dream
Attack life with all your intensity
Stumble towards your stairway to heaven
You may never know the propensity
Of whatever it is you seek

2
Perch at the edge of this month’s dream
Who’s happy? but let’s pretend
Fortifying your soul with spirit
Is the only way you can defend
Something you might not believe

3
Search at the edge of next month’s dream
Grasping for infinity
Meanwhile? Revel in your paradox
Of purity and masculinity
And don’t let anyone disturb you
]]> Music - David Tomlinson

1
Lurch at the edge of last month’s dream
Attack life with all your intensity
Stumble towards your stairway to heaven
You may never know the propensity
Of whatever it is you seek

2
Perch at the edge of this month’s dream
Who’s happy? but let’s pretend
Fortifying your soul with spirit
Is the only way you can defend
Something you might not believe

3
Search at the edge of next month’s dream
Grasping for infinity
Meanwhile? Revel in your paradox
Of purity and masculinity
And don’t let anyone disturb you
]]> 5613132 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:58:05 +0200 2021-04-09T16:58:05+02:00 4:45 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/05-your-love-was-not-strong/ I’m watching the road as it turns round the corner
And I see you are gone
For ever so long I know I will mourn her
For my love was so strong

Chorus
What will it take ‘till you believe in me
What will it take ‘till you believe in me
Your love was not strong I find out
Your love was not strong I find out

2
Now then I know you are not as I thought yet
I can still see your face
It’s the face that I love but it’s oh so contorted
With impassive distaste

Chorus

3
I’ve seen what is mine and I’ve touched it so often
Is it all hid away?
For ever so long I know I had fallen
But now all I can say

Chorus
]]> I’m watching the road as it turns round the corner
And I see you are gone
For ever so long I know I will mourn her
For my love was so strong

Chorus
What will it take ‘till you believe in me
What will it take ‘till you believe in me
Your love was not strong I find out
Your love was not strong I find out

2
Now then I know you are not as I thought yet
I can still see your face
It’s the face that I love but it’s oh so contorted
With impassive distaste

Chorus

3
I’ve seen what is mine and I’ve touched it so often
Is it all hid away?
For ever so long I know I had fallen
But now all I can say

Chorus
]]> 5613124 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:47 +0200 2021-04-09T16:57:47+02:00 4:34 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/04-old-order/ You say you always wanted to stay, but then you go
Can’t you see that I love you, woh-oh-oh
I need to hear that you love me, but you don’t know
If you don’t really like me, just tell me so

Chorus
Can’t you love me for my love?
Can’t you see heaven above?
Can’t you just pause to think of
Me?

2
I try to touch, I try to see you, my feelings show
You’re callous and you’re unkind, I feel so low
You tease me and you tease me and then say “no”
Just let your love, just like my love, grow and flow

Chorus

3
Change the pattern, change the colour and then we’ll see
Whether true love could ever be
I can’t see how you could ever do this to me
It isn’t real and could never be so to me

Chorus
]]> You say you always wanted to stay, but then you go
Can’t you see that I love you, woh-oh-oh
I need to hear that you love me, but you don’t know
If you don’t really like me, just tell me so

Chorus
Can’t you love me for my love?
Can’t you see heaven above?
Can’t you just pause to think of
Me?

2
I try to touch, I try to see you, my feelings show
You’re callous and you’re unkind, I feel so low
You tease me and you tease me and then say “no”
Just let your love, just like my love, grow and flow

Chorus

3
Change the pattern, change the colour and then we’ll see
Whether true love could ever be
I can’t see how you could ever do this to me
It isn’t real and could never be so to me

Chorus
]]> 5609462 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:37 +0200 2021-04-09T16:57:37+02:00 3:57 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/02-first-night-among-the-indians/ I saw the man in the multi-coloured mac
Spend his first night with the Indians in the bivouac
I saw the girl with the broken-down dream
Make the livermen take the aphrodisiac

Chorus
And they all saw me standing there
Taking notes on the progress of the love affair
And though they all saw me standing there
Yet my view of the details they did not impair

2
I saw the troops in the bright uniforms
Which were red to hide the colour of the blood they shed
I saw the nurse with the hard calloused hands
Giving Lucozade to those who were already dead

Chorus

3
I saw the king with a smile on his lips
Tell the people that they weren’t worth just the clothes they wear
I saw myself with a halo on my head
Telling anyone who’d listen that I really care

Chorus
]]> I saw the man in the multi-coloured mac
Spend his first night with the Indians in the bivouac
I saw the girl with the broken-down dream
Make the livermen take the aphrodisiac

Chorus
And they all saw me standing there
Taking notes on the progress of the love affair
And though they all saw me standing there
Yet my view of the details they did not impair

2
I saw the troops in the bright uniforms
Which were red to hide the colour of the blood they shed
I saw the nurse with the hard calloused hands
Giving Lucozade to those who were already dead

Chorus

3
I saw the king with a smile on his lips
Tell the people that they weren’t worth just the clothes they wear
I saw myself with a halo on my head
Telling anyone who’d listen that I really care

Chorus
]]> 5606584 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:16 +0200 2021-04-09T16:57:16+02:00 3:31 https://hearthis.at/david-tomlinson/01-an-end-to-a-means/ Music - Mark Tweedale

1
Now with your silence you seek to torment me
The void you’re creating is sucking me in
I’ve lost all the virtue I once prized so highly
For the sake of the smile of a desolate sin

My head is now low yet your step is still jaunty
Coz the sound of my death is all lost in the din
With a grin for the damned all those falsehoods you told me
Will sadness ne’er end and the anger begin?

Chorus
You and your clique
You and your lies
You and your friends
You and your
Vitriol

2
Though I cannot see you I still know you are there
Plaguing me with thoughts of an era that’s past
How can I be free when part of me you still bear
I cannot escape ‘till I’ve wiped out the last

I seek to erase you from all of my memory
I want you to do just the same for me too
Your bleatings now seem just to make me so angry
At last I have found it – a schism from you

Chorus
]]> Music - Mark Tweedale

1
Now with your silence you seek to torment me
The void you’re creating is sucking me in
I’ve lost all the virtue I once prized so highly
For the sake of the smile of a desolate sin

My head is now low yet your step is still jaunty
Coz the sound of my death is all lost in the din
With a grin for the damned all those falsehoods you told me
Will sadness ne’er end and the anger begin?

Chorus
You and your clique
You and your lies
You and your friends
You and your
Vitriol

2
Though I cannot see you I still know you are there
Plaguing me with thoughts of an era that’s past
How can I be free when part of me you still bear
I cannot escape ‘till I’ve wiped out the last

I seek to erase you from all of my memory
I want you to do just the same for me too
Your bleatings now seem just to make me so angry
At last I have found it – a schism from you

Chorus
]]> 5606547 no no Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:57:06 +0200 2021-02-08T14:48:01+01:00 4:48