All lyrics written by Adam Beattie

1.Somewhere Round The Bend

I'm going round in circles

In and out of love

Each time I come back around

I see my old self from above

I'm just climbing up a screw thread

Never coming to an end

So I know I'll see you again

Somewhere round the bend

I met the love of my life

But we were far too young

We said we'd meet ten years later

But she never rung

Then I got an invite to her wedding

But I could not attend

Maybe give it ten more years

Somewhere round the bend

Well I said I didn't love you

But that just wasn't right

Or just as true as to say

That I loved you at first sight

But I had to tell you this

And I told you as a friend

So you'd go your own way and

I knew someday I'd see you

Somewhere round the bend

We said we'd never be together

And we'd never be apart

We'd just take our own paths

Right from the start

But now our story's being written on

Same page but by a different pen

I know that the lines will cross

Somewhere round the bend

2.A Thousand Roads

No matter how sweet

The love that flows

Nature hangs her head

Because she knows

Even the gentlest breeze

With time corrodes

This love’s gone down

A thousand roads

Alone we both

Thought we could stay

'Til love knocked on

Our door one day

Held out her hand

And we both followed

This love's gone down

A thousand roads

We hopped on board

And she led us blind

All our past lovers

Swung on behind

When would we buckle

Under the load?

This love's gone down

A thousand roads

No matter how sweet

The love that flows

Nature hangs her head

Because she knows

Even the gentlest breeze

With time corrodes

This love’s gone down

A thousand roads

We could fill a train

With all our dreams

But these old wheels

Are out of steam

Up until now

They have never slowed

This love's gone down

A thousand roads

In a far off mirror

At the end of the trail

Two dreamless beggars

Growing frail

We both returned

The hearts we had borrowed

This love's gone down

A thousand roads

No matter how sweet

The love that flows

Nature hangs her head

Because she knows

Even the gentlest breeze

With time corrodes

This love’s gone down

A thousand roads

3.All Of The Love

To fall in love

without the place to take it

To make a promise

without the chance to break it

Just a seed

without the soil to bed down in

A suicide without the lake to drown in

All of the love we'll never give

All of the lives we'll never live

There is a place

Where we'll embrace

All of the love we'll never give

The early hours of the morning

don't come for free

The day light showers a warning

and can always see

You can't hide

from the heavy hands of time

So come on take the ride

but you'll have to face the climb

All of the love...

So if your heart

has ever been broken by another

If you wanted more

than just to be a one time lover

Let's all surrender

to this game played by the stars

In all it's splendour

love will find you wherever you are

All of the love...

4.Stripped To The Bone

Bombs fell on your house

Wiped out the whole street

You grab what you can

You’re out on your feet

The bombs keep falling

It’s raining stones

You keep on running

Stripped to the bone

Gave all your money to a smuggler

Boat leaves in the night

Across the dark ocean

Out of the coastguard’s sight

You get to the other side

They can’t send you home

You're stuck in no man’s land

Stripped to the bone

Barbed wire fence

Rivers of mud

Damp rots your feet

Screams chill your blood

You got to jump the fence

Dog’s teeth and mouth foam

Took the flesh from your leg

Stripped to the bone

Laying on a park bench

Dirty hands and bare feet

Sleeping in the doorway

In the rain and sleet

Going where the begging is good

Nowhere to call home

All out of favours

Stripped to the bone

All in a shopping trolley

And plastic bags

One man’s rubbish

Another man’s rags

Washing in the river

Wake with the dawn

Sleep beneath a bridge

Stripped to the bone

What man can endure

Like many men hence

The temple of Zeus

I see through the fence

Surviving earthquakes

A spine of lead and stone

Well I’m still standing too

Stripped to the bone

If this is a man

Then so it be

He’s just as often here

As he’s prospering and free

It must be nature’s law

To be high on a throne

Then to fall so low

Stripped to the bone

5.Grottammare

Fly to Ancona or Rimini

Take a train along the sea

There's a place for you and me

To sing a song in fine company

You can see it from the motorway

Though it's a thousand miles away

There'll be music night and day

Come rain or shine the band will play

Grottammare, Grottammare

The place where dreams come true

6.Sickle Red Moon

I watch the sickle red moon rise

I count the days and close my eyes

I recall the party in the street

Your waving hair, our dancing feet

With the red moon rising full and proud

I wished to steal you from the crowd

Wait my chance to take your hand

And lead you down on to the sand

But friends they summoned me

to sing a song

And before I knew

the chance was gone

You were dancing with another guy

And now the moon was full and high

The band was playing tenderly

The night was ending I saw you leave

I looked above and I cursed the moon

"Why did you need to rise so soon!?"

Now I watch the sickle red moon rise

I wonder if it's in your skies

I promise you this I'll never miss

the chance of a kiss for a song

I promise you this I'll never miss

the chance of a kiss for a song

7.Lovers Old And Lovers New

The tap left on and overflowing

They knocked on the door

but we kept going

You asked me for the here and now

I recited wedding vows

You disappeared with another

Just your dealer, not your lover

Time the healer brought you round

In my arms safe and sound

Lovers old and lovers new

Dancing the whole night and through

They all knew the ship would sink

But no one likes to think about it

I danced with a stranger

Across the very same spot

on the floor

Where we'd had our first kiss

all those years before

You sang “I’ll be seeing you,

In all the old familiar places”

The walls and the floor unchanged

Around all these brand new faces

Lovers old and lovers new...

But now the walls are painted white

Not a whisky stain in sight

And like all lost places in this town

Nobody cares what once went down there

And if life is just a book we write

Just a story we’d like to be in

You can paint the walls

and the ceilings

We’ll keep the memories

and the feelings

Lovers old and lovers new...

Lovers old and lovers new

Dancing the whole night and through

We all knew the ship would sink

But we can always think about it

I'll be looking at the moon

But I'll be seeing you

8. My Luv Was Here And Now She’s Gone

Like the river running

who knows where

Down from the hills

so brown and bare

My love was here

and now she’s gone

I am left here in this barren lands

With nothing in my tired old hands

I shake my head and carry on

I spent so long sifting gold

Cheating death and growing old

Then I found a jewel deep in the soil

And shuffled off this mortal coil

Down by the stream I wash my face

I try to wipe out every trace

It’s better now I know you’re gone

So hard to carry a heavy heart

A burden since we had to part

I would have had no chance

to carry on

I spent so long sifting gold

Cheating death and growing old

Then I found a jewel deep in the soil

And shuffled off this mortal coil

She shared with me a flash of bliss

And paired with me for a parting kiss

The end was here before the start

You will go on to inspire those

Like me who’s hearts had almost froze

The greatest gift tho’ we had to part

I spent so long sifting gold

Cheating death and growing old

Then I found a jewel deep in the soil

And shuffled off this mortal coil

9. The Boy Done Good

I don't want to set the world on fire

I don't want to climb any higher

I just want to get a little word

In the newspaper I used to deliver, something like:

"Local boy done good"

I don't want to compete down there

So much noise in the air

That even when you can win one's ear

There's such a din

that they'll never really hear you

But I still want to do good

I just want to be

a hero in my hometown

Get a little hello

when I come back around

I just want to be understood

For my old next door neighbour to say: "The boy’s done good"

I don't want to be a millionaire

I don't want my name lit up

in Time square

I don't want to be big in Japan

People coming to my grave like Elvis in Graceland

But I still want to do good

I just want to play your living room

Sitting round a campfire

playing my tunes

Singing my songs on a Paris street

Or in the little bar

where the locals meet

And it's gonna be sweet

I just want to be

a hero in my hometown

I don’t wanna let my parents down

The only thing I wanted

since my childhood

Was for my mum and my dad to say:

"Our boy’s done good"

And then one day

when I'm dead and gone

I don't need to be talked about

for all that long

Maybe a couple of words spoken by the grave, something like:

"He was honest and he was brave and he worked hard,

and the boy done good"

I just want to be

a hero in my hometown

I won’t need much

when I’m dead in the ground

Maybe a couple of friends

gathered around

And maybe a little sign made of wood

That says, something like:

"The boy done good"

10. To Conquer The Heart

I wanted to live

every moment I dreamt of

I wanted to give

everything to what I loved

I wanted to see deep inside

to pull it apart

I wanted to conquer

to conquer the heart

I wanted to make

every woman love me

I wanted to never again

gaze longingly

At any mission I had not

the courage to start

I wanted to conquer

to conquer the heart

I wanted to find

the steel bars hidden in the sky

When I fumbled blind

in the night time for the stars

I wanted to prove

it was the world that fell short not I

I wanted to conquer the heart

But I failed to see that heart

is an ocean so deep

An endless road in a valley

so wide and so steep

Even in a lifetime

we only just begin to chart

I wanted to conquer

to conquer the heart

11. Bad Man

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Your moon got lost

Round the back of my big hot sun

Now quit your job

And come with me on the run

They can try and ring my bell

But we'll be long gone

Your my bad bad girl

The only one who can do me wrong

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

The lights turn on

They're kicking us out of the bar

Broken phones

Sleeping in the back of the car

Fruit dripping from the trees

Right above where we lie

Like Adam and Eve

Oh baby won't you take that bite

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Even when the leaves decay

Eden's just a breath away

If this is called a life of crime

Baby we can do the time

When the money runs out

And we're back to the daily grind

Through rain and drought

Keep the bad man on your mind

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

I wanna be your bad man

12.All of the Gods

Everytime we fall in love

It goes a little deeper

Everything we’re dreaming of

Comes into view

The sun falls softly to the sea

Makes a bed for you and me

And all the gods sleep soundly now

Knowing you are in my arms

There’s a place true love hides

Right between the sea and sky

Far beyond the heavy storms

A little rain for you and I

Tears will come when love begins

And tears will come when old love ends

We are on the run from our old lives

We no longer recognise

What we’ve become

Thunder’s just a party trick

The gods just love to play with it

But they spend most of their time

On love like this

For we try to guard our hearts

And hide away in other arts

Our fate is resting in their hands

Whatever their plans

Tears will come when love begins

And tears will come when old love ends

We are on the run from darker times

But we can weather what they send

They can have their fun

Join me now in a bow

To the gods that gave us this

We sow our seeds and watch in vain

Offer gifts and pray for rain

Tears will come when love begins

And tears will come when old love ends

We are on the run to see the rain

Oh my and how it came

And how it came