LYRICS
Ripples
One day, you’re wandering along, focused on your little life
And suddenly, the world bursts into flame, makes you question everything you know
I can feel the ripples, crashing down on me
Can you feel the ripples? Crashing down on you and me
With all the pain and suffering, we see it all around us
Waking people from their slumber, opening eyes, opening minds
How much more do you need to see, before we realise what needs to be?
No more time for fear, no more time for doubt, we have to sort this mess out
What we need are leaders, what we get are tools
They’re always on holidays, all treating us like fools
It’s the action of individuals, that will make the difference
In the end it’s all down to us
Shit Deal
From many places, under the southern sky
They came and said it, from the heart
We said it was nice, took photos by the fire
Then got back to our whirlpools and bars
They were robbed, killed, and stolen
Shit deal, what a shit deal, they were dealt
Walk a mile in their feet, how dirty I would be
If someone pulled that shit deal on me
Lost their estate to technology and greed
Our gains brought their suffering, their fate was wrong
Terrible, pointless, diminishes us all
(And) we can’t be resolved, until we right these wrongs
Immigrants are we, new to this land
Could learn from them, in these days of fire
Is our dream to stay unreconciled?
Or build a fair and safe country?
We can afford, give them a hand to
Build their own future, for their kids
Their kids will be their hope for the future
and with ours, sort out the shit deal
We can make good if we want to
Can fix the shit deal, and let us all heal
Walk a mile in their feet, stop feelin’ dirty
And stop that shit deal, stop that shit deal
For Our Future
for our future, for our people, for our only planet
Storm clouds on the horizon, here now, brings us tears and pain
Who would’ve known what we know now? Who could have dodged this wicked game?
World leaders scramble for position, saving themselves, counter-collaborative
Their people dying in their thousands, collateral damage for their incompetence
Life may look grim, seeming like a bundle of doom
But we’ll get through this, my friends, together we’ll conquer our evils, soon
Our only planet is agonising, from the damage and grief that we’ve caused
Temperature’s rising, species are dying, or have long gone from our girt shores
Millions of creatures burnt up, some of our loved ones are here no more
Thousands are struggling and waiting for help, tied up in red tape and inertia
Take back the power from the buffoons, and the people they front, don’t play their game
take the wind from their sails, don’t buy from them, let’s work for us and for our future
Hey Trump and Xi, if you want a fight so badly, why don’t you get into the ring?
Don’t gutlessly send our young ones out to die, why don’t you leave them live, love and sing?
Your slogans and rhetoric don’t cut it, we can see right through your nasty lies
We’re going to take the power back, gonna take back our future and our lives
Take back the power from the buffoons, and the people they front, don’t play their game
take the wind from their sails, don’t vote for them, let’s work for us and our future
Drone
Happy little girl in a dirty little dress
A little boy, he throws her mud and teases her in jest
Playing all the same old games that they have played for days
Happy in their innocence, don’t know what comes today
Free me from your gaze, Save me from the haze
And their Da he toils away and breaks his back to feed them
And their Ma she walks for miles for water for their thirst
At night they watch the fire and tell their tales and yarns
On how to live a good, free life away from lies and harm
I’m miles away, thousands and thousands of miles
And I see them, they can’t see me, I see their many smiles
They won’t be smiling any more after I visit them
Give them the very special gift that turns their lives to flame
Free me from your gaze, Save me from the haze
Spare me from the evilest of days, Save me from the flames
And they’re so bloody righteous with their empire and their faith
In money and in twisted truths, that’s spun and spun again until
There’s no similarity to what they started with
Free me from your gaze, Save me from the haze
Save me from the flames, Spare me from the worst of days
And the very faceless man, he watches from afar
He don’t care, he gets his pay, he buys another car
He buys a phone, some whisky too and some little pills
To dampen down the pain he gives himself and all he kills
Can we hold you to your promises of wealth and glory?
Can we come and get you when it all turns black as shit?
Will you stand accountable and fix it? I think not
Can we make you suffer then for how you didn’t quit?
Take A Chance
Well, my woman, she treat me wrong
Well my woman, yeah she treat me wrong
Ran off with some other guy
Broke my heart in two
Gave my woman, all my lovin’ , yes I did
Gave my woman, all my lovin’ , I was so true
But she ran of with some (other) guy
And my heart broke in two
Take a chance on me baby, I won’t do you no wrong
Take a chance on me baby, I won’t do you no harm
Will you show me some lovin’, ………………….
please I, I can’t take it, no more
Glad I found you, I’ve been looking for so long
Glad I found you baby, been looking for so long
Gotta count my lucky stars
You make you feel so strong
You took a chance on me baby, I won’t do you no wrong
You took a chance on me baby, I won’t do you no harm
I’m gonna show you so much lovin’, ……………
You’ll never want no more
Being with you woman, I don’t want for anything
Living with you baby, makes my heart want to sing
Gonna keep showing you all my lovin’
That’s what I’m gonna bring
All songs & lyrics are copyright J. Standfast and A.Cole 2021.
All rights reserved.
Garden path image copyright Darcy Gall 2020.
