Mountain Highway

by The Smivets

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Somerset 05:37
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We were the ones The queens and kings of summer Wrapped in aspirations We were legendary And then we moved on Over the furthest of earth's horizons Still the pull's too strong We know we belong Because the times are so great when we get back together To celebrate or whenever we feel like it And we feel like it OK, time to go Just throw your stuff in the car and drive You heard from the others yet? Yeah, they say they're on their way See you in Somerset And it feels like it's been forever And it feels like no time at all Since we danced in the sunset Oooh ooh ooh See you in Somerset J and B will be in the air now Cos they texted us from Pearson The girls are stuck on the 303 And the lads are at Temple Meads Whatever possessed them to go that way Must have cost the best part of half a day But they'll be here They'll all be here Because the times are so great when we get back together To celebrate or whenever we feel like it And we feel like it OK, time to go Just throw your stuff in the car and drive You heard from the others yet? Yeah, they say they're on their way See you in Somerset And it feels like it's been forever And it feels like no time at all Since we danced in the sunset Oooh ooh ooh See you in Somerset For this day After so many years For this day Rainbows of tears If we feel like it And we feel like it OK, time to go Just throw your stuff in the car and drive You heard from the others yet? Yeah, they say they're on their way See you in Somerset And it feels like it's been forever And it feels like no time at all Since we danced in the sunset Oooh ooh ooh See you OK, time to go Just throw your stuff in the car and drive You heard from the others yet? Yeah, they say they're on their way See you in Somerset And it feels like it's been forever And it feels like no time at all Since we danced in the sunset Oooh ooh ooh See you in Somerset
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Hey Bon 04:22
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Live wire Back to bare metal On fire Bright like acetylene Voice like an angel Smile like a devil Imminent danger From the soul of a rebel Hey Bon Well it's the bad boy boogie that we like best Full throttle rocking like a thing possessed Hey Bon High explosive Rock and roll scream Like a locomotive At full steam Ain't no riff raff No problem child Jack od diamonds Aces wild Hey Bon For dirty deeds you know we come to you If we want blood like you know we do Hey Bon Hey Bon, what's going on? They tell us that the glory days are gone Who's gonna rally us on? You're the only one Hey Bon The greatest singers In the greatest bands All snapping their fingers And clapping their hands LA to Timbuktu Tokyo to London You're who they look to You're who they want Hey Bon Smile like a devil in a wild fire Back to bare metal like a bright live wire Hey Bon Hey Bon, what's going on? They tell us that the glory days are gone Who's gonna rally us on? You're the only one Hey Bon
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Better Than Rock and Roll 06:04
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When I was a young boy I didn't much like school Everything had a restriction, a regulation or a rule Well I kicked against the system Every chance I got Everything they said I should I said that I would not Yes they pegged me for a fool Because I didn't want to be there But it doesn't seem that foolish Looking back on it from here By the time they tossed me out I'd had enough of hearing nonsense Because nothing they tried to teach me seemed like any use at all So I turned up pirate radio As loud as I could make it go And everything made sense instantly And nothing sounded better than rock and roll to me So I bought me a Les Paul copy Started bashing it around Tortured and abused the poor thing until I liked the sound Then I set biro to paper Wrestling down on the page Songs to capture the zeitgeist, songs of ignorance and rage Then I set out to make an impact Trying to look like a contender Decked in every rising fashion Like the panoply of war But it's hard to wage a battle When you don't know who you're fighting With one eye on the leader And the other on the door So I resolved to play the the waiting game With two brass ha'pennies to my name Never better than tenth place in the queue And nothing better than rock and roll to do Well I felt the dream get closer Almost close enough to clutch Too close to let it go too far away to touch Every passing bandwagon I'd follow it blind Changed my style a thousand times, one step behind But I figured out too late It's best to lead and not to follow And be blessed with chiselled cheekbones And a liberal dose of luck But while I was drowning in self pity Someone dived straight in to save me Who took me for what I was And who didn't give a About unachievable fantasies That come with rock and roll disease And in the bolt of lightning moment there I knew The only thing better than rock and roll was you
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Tourmaline 04:55
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Late afternoon is a peacock's tail Shimmering by Colours are scattered like coins from a fountain Of fire A moment of liquid solidifies A droplet of time And she trips in, left of centre A true love of mine The hand of the sculptress draws treasures From deep in the earth Tracing with crystalline facets The stones of our birth Carven chalcedony creatures Spiral in line And dark lapis lazuli whispers A true love of mine Like a bough without a tree Tree without a bird Bird without a sea Sea without rhythm Rhythm without a beat Beat without a heart Heart without love Love without a kiss A kiss without a dream Dream without sleep Sleep without waking Waking without life Life without limb Limb without a bough Oh Tourmaline Oh my Tourmaline Like an isle on dry land Land without earth Earth without a harvest Harvest without fruit Fruit without a vine Vine without rainfall Rain without a cloud Cloud without a sky Sky without air Air without heat Heat without light Light without the sun Sun without the moon Moon without a stone Stone without a ring My ring without her hand I'll never understand Land without earth Earth without a harvest Harvest without fruit Fruit without a vine Vine without rainfall Rain without a cloud Cloud without a sky Sky without air Air without heat Heat without the sun Sun without the moon Moon without a stone Stone without a ring My ring without her hand Oh my Tourmaline Oh my Tourmaline
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Mountain Highway 05:11
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Pulled in off the mountain highway The sparkling stars were closer than before Isiah said 1997 Ezekiel 2024 But all their prophecies came to nothing Which should have been no surprise Because faced with a wait for truth We are comforted by lies Mountain highway Mountain highway Well it never fails to stop your heart That majestic mountain highway As it twists betwixt the rocky rifts From Domodossola to La Valais The ascent has a scent of victory Like for Bonaparte before This impressive means of transportation Became an avenue of war Mountain highway Mountain highway We drove the mountain highway We were the best we'd ever been Came across an ugly crowd of misfits And found we fit right in But as we crested the airless summit We didn't see which way they went Stomping on the brakes Against the mad headlong descent Mountain highway Mountain highway Mountain highway Mountain highway
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I Think She Loves Me 04:46
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I get that feeling Every time we talk It's like I stop breathing And my heart does somersaults Each time I see her She always makes me guess Next time I'll ask her I hope she answers I think she oh I think she oh I think she loves me All the strange things that she says Must mean she loves me It finally makes sense I think she I think she's proud of me Heard her talking 'bout me to her girls Does that mean she loves me? Incomprehensible She is my torment EWhen she acts so nonchalant But in this moment She's all I'll ever want I think she loves me All the strange things that she says Must mean she loves me It finally makes sense I think she oh I think she oh I think she oh oh oh oh oh I think she oh I think she oh I think she oh oh oh oh oh I think she Why does she tease me And cause me so much pain? She could just leave me Then the pain would never end I think she loves me All the strange things that she says Must mean she loves me It finally makes sense I think she oh I think she oh I think she oh oh oh oh oh I think she oh I think she oh I think she oh oh oh oh oh I think she etc etc
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Untouchable 05:16
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I'm untouchable Walked up to that big door and walked right in Untouchable Took a look around walked straight out again I'm invincible And the night's made of broken glass Invincible J-J-J-jeopardy just makes me laugh I'm invincible And I'm not concerned any more I'm untouchable And I'm not afraid any more I'm unstoppable I did it all and came back for more Unstoppable I walk four inches off the floor I'm indestructible Catch machetes in my teeth Indestructible Cold as the stones beneath I'm unstoppable And I'm not afraid any more I'm indestructible And I'm not real any more Take my dignity Drain it away My humanity Let it decay Take my darkness Take my light Give me chemicals, pure and bright Keep me comfortable, keep me clean Keep me hooked up to the machine Take my fire and all such I'm a pariah, don't touch Untouchable I'm untouchable I'm untouchable And I'm not alive any more Take my dignity Drain it away Take my humanity Let it decay Take my darkness Take my light Give me chemicals, pure and bright Keep me comfortable, keep me clean Keep me hooked to that damned machine Take my fire and all such I'm a pariah, don't touch I'm untouchable I'm untouchable Untouchable Untouchable Untouchable
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Jesus, the Devil and So On 03:46
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There was a glittering banquet at the Palace of Shame 10000 guests and every delicacy you could name But no clue to who had provided it all So I snuck into the kitchen at the back of the hall And there, cooking with cheap and nasty knives, I saw Jesus and the Devil and all their wives Cooking with cheap and nasty knives Cooking with cheap and nasty knives Serving up the canapes of our lives Jesus and the Devil and all their wives I said, uh, how the devil do you make this work, The heavenly harp and the pitchfork? They said although we occasionally disagree It's kind of like a democracy And we're mostly working towards the same ends Not so much enemies more like rival friends Mostly working towards the same ends Mostly working towards the same ends Despite what your catechism pretends Jesus and the Devil and all their friends Well it shook me down to the soles of my boots When I found those two were in cahoots Working together behind the scenes Corruption by all possible means Invented by humans without faces Keeping us firmly in our places Ruling over presidents and kings The final arbiters of all things Well when it came my time to die Weighed down by the terrible knowledge I had learned back then I felt relieved Knowing what would not be believed There to meet me at the gates Jesus and the Devil and all their mates There to meet me at the gates There to meet me at the gates Beware what comes to he who waits Jesus and the Devil and all their mates There to meet me at the gates There to meet me at the gates Beware what comes to he who waits Jesus and the Devil and all their mates
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Lets Get This Over With 05:30
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Well I can't believe this is happening The things they're putting me through The whole process is maddening Things I have to do It's like one thing after another thing I think I'm starting to crack And you can't blame me for wondering If I'll ever get my life back Well I'm not here to bandy platitudes About what is and isn't fair Because, in these lower lattitudes, No-one seems to care. I don't count it amongst my aptitudes To cope when things foul up It requires a change in attitudes Which I'm struggling to drum up Let's get this over with So I can get back on with my real life These modern days are a passing phase Don't you realise? When it all blows over I can relax a little bit Let's get this over with So I can get back on with it Well I've forgotten all my passwords Though I know they're written down somewhere And I missed the software upgrades And long lost track of what plugs in where I'd be happy that we're dealing With extraordinary times If it wasn't for that nagging feeling Of getting left behind Let's get this over with So I can get back on with my real life These modern days are a passing phase Don't you realise? When it all blows over I can relax a little bit Let's get this over with So I can get back on with it
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Foregone 06:21
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I've seen the future and I don't want it But I'm manacled, powerless to stop it I feel it creeping, creeping closer Cos I saw what took my father And now his face is in the morning mirror Can't describe the terror And all the money in the world can't buy your way out of it And all the anger in the world can't shout your way out of it And all the hope in the world can't wish your way out of it You won't know when it has come Your conclusion is foregone In my life, never feared anything Take on everything, up for anything I'd bring the fight and never fail I'd take the risks and live to sing the tale But I'm in mortal fear of this silent enemy And it's stalking me And all the money in the world can't buy your way out of it And all the anger in the world can't shout your way out of it And all the hope in the world can't wish your way out of it You won't know when it has come Your conclusion is foregone I'm like an animal trying to escape Clawing at the walls with broken nails Rupturing vessels and ripping skin Desperate for grip as I'm dragged back in Back into the pit of foregone despair There's no way back from there And all the money in the world can't buy your way out of it And all the anger in the world can't shout your way out of it And all the hope in the world can't wish your way out of it You won't know when it has come Your conclusion is foregone

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released December 1, 2021

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The Smivets Uttoxeter, UK

The Smivets are Steve Smith, a songwriter, guitarist, singer and musical dabbler from Staffordshire, UK.
Leaning heavily towards the music of the 70s, there's a cavalier disregard for any rules of genre. One minute it might be hard rock, the next pop, or prog-rock or punk or anything, but all with depth - they'll take your heart if you let them.
Press play - you never know what you'll get. ... more

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