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Look Ahead
02:59
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Hello again my friends
Good to know you're still around
The long cold winter's end
A new road to go down
Look ahead
Look ahead, look ahead, look ahead
Look ahead
As long as you can see
Travel to tomorrow
With only faith and trust
Following the future
The past is in the dust
Living for the children
Those that went before
Living for each other
Every day that’s left in store
There's no taking life for granted
In the struggle to survive
Cast off the spell of disenchantment
It is good to be alive
Look ahead
Look ahead, look ahead, look ahead
Look ahead
As long as you can see
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Make the Change
03:39
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Rain fallin' from cloudless skies
Your heart come callin' from behind your eyes
And 'though the news is strange it's right up to the minute and
In spite of all the pain it causes to begin it
The road leads on again and for reasons I can't explain
Today's the day and it's time to make the change
Snow driftin' down a mountainside
A ship gone sailin' 'cross the far and wide
And 'though there are no words to help the situation and
The price is hard, I can't change my inclination
The road leads on again and for reasons I can't explain
Today's the day and it's time to make a change
A change in who we are to each other
A change of mind, a change of heart
And no good time to start
The road leads on again and for reasons I can't explain
Today's the day, it's time to make the change
it's time to make the change, time to make the change
Rain fallin' from cloudless skies
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3. |
The Story
02:57
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Hear the chimes / Hours in your mind
Voices telling you you've got to find the time life stole away from you?
I think it's a crime
But that's how the story goes / That's how the story goes
Now and then I stop / And take a look around
Stare at the broken road I cannot go back down
Thinkin' that if only I knew then what I know now
That's how the story goes / That's how the story goes
And I wish that all our absent friends could be with us today
To reminisce and laugh and cry and sing and dance and play
With one more chance to get it right before we slip away
With all the sadness we must do the best we can
Through all the madness / Following the plan
Love living every day / Try to understand
That's how the story goes / That's how the story goes
Hear the chimes / Hours in your mind
Voices telling you you've got to find the time life stole away from you?
I think it's a crime
That's how the story goes / That's how the story goes
That's how the story goes / That's how the story goes
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Colleen
03:54
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Bring down on a bar stool / Death of a lonely night
Front door blows open / In walks a welcome sight
Colleen! Where ya been?
Colleen! Where ya been?
It's good to see you / It's been too long a time
I heard that you were uptown / Commitin' yourself a crime
Well if you're a fallen angel / You sure look good to me
Let us raise a glass now to future memories
Colleen! Where ya been?
Colleen! Where ya been?
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6. |
When My Ship Comes In
04:31
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Winter wind and evening showers
The turning hands / The passing hours
Time's slow river rolling onward
Carries us away
A lonely victim of circumstance
In a world of our own making / A world of chance
One more step in the cosmic dance
Well can you say?
One of these days I'm gonna come to my senses and stop wasting time
I'll be tearin' down walls and mending fences
Happy with the things that can be mine
When my ship comes in / Riding on the water
I'll be outward bound o'er the earth's cool daughter
I'll begin again on a tide of change
I'll be comin' round
In the sweet decay of the afternoon
The comfortable strains of a favorite tune
Rolling along / The familiar sound
My heart's at peace as the world spins 'round
When my ship comes in / Riding on the water
I'll be outward bound o'er the earth's cool daughter
I'll begin again on a tide of change
I'll be comin' round
When my ship comes in / Riding on the water
I'll be outward bound o'er the earth's cool daughter
I'll begin again on a tide of change
I'll be comin' round
When my ship comes in
When my ship comes in
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7. |
Where Would I Be
03:15
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All I want to do is talk to you
And get a line of reference on the state of our affair
Wake up to an empty room
The silence draws me in and plays with my head
Paint a portrait of a poor boy
In a gilded palace of loneliness
You get a pretty fair picture of your lover man
And woman he's in an awful mess
Where would I be without your lovin' arms around to hold me close
Nothin'll take the place of time with you when you're so far away
Where would I be without your laughing eyes looking back at me
Nothin'll take the place of how I'll feel when you come back to stay
I know you get the same feeling
When all you really need's a little company
Telephones and a letter make you feel better
But nothing like the touch of you on me
All I want to do is talk to you
And get a line of reference on the state of our affair
Telephones and a letter make you feel a little better
But nothing like the touch of your hair
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8. |
Long Night
05:17
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Long night / So this what it all comes to
Long night / This what we all go through
Long night / Another friend is gone
Long night / Leavin' us to carry on
Death is a mighty uniter
The defeat that comes to every fighter
Live on the dawn will be brighter
Live on, live on, live on!
Long night / Let me be with you
Long night / I feel you need it too
Long night / Rollin' in each other's arms
Long night / Keep each other safe from harm
Love is a mighty uniter
The night can only make it tighter
Love on the dawn will be brighter
Love on, love on, love on!
Long night
(Dave Panting)
From the CD Reel ‘n’ Roll (1993)
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You will always have my love
You will always have my love
You have my constant dedication
My feelings for you, you may not be aware of
You have been my inspiration
You will always have my love
We may face indecision
Situations that we have no control of
Let division come between us
You will always have my love
I am an ember in the ashes of your fire of hope
Inside darkness inside doubt
And when you're sinking underneath a tide of tears
Remember I will not burn out
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
Everlasting adoration
This is something that you can be certain of
Just as surely as the sunrise in the morning girl
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
Just as surely as the sunrise in the morning girl
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
You will always have my love
(Dave Panting)
From the CD Make It On Time (1998)
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10. |
Wild Rose
02:37
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Sunrise in the morning / Birds singin' on every tree
A greeting and a warning / The song that they're singin' is be free
Young rambler on the roadside / All around the world he goes
Never knowing where he will 'bide
In his search for the great unknown
Wild rose in the forest / Wild rose on the moor
Dawn mist on the mountain
Combers crashing on the shore
We rejoin our hero as he wanders from door to door
Heart full of legend / Dreams of love on a foreign shore
Wild rose in the forest / Wild rose on the moor
Dawn mist on the mountain
Combers crashing on the shore
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11. |
The Long Way Home
03:50
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Stolen moments and stolen glances
Bitter memories and true romances
You've paid your dues / You can take your chances
On the long way home tonight
Restless hearts and sneaky feelings
Poison darts and truthful dealings
And my how the past can be so revealing
It's a long way home all right
Life's an open book / The turning pages
Speak of ancient lies / The truth of ages
The open doors and the self built cages
Of the winners and the losers / The sinners and the sages
There's hungry sharks anticipating
Easy marks and ruthless trading
And who knows what might be out there waiting
On the long way home tonight
Deep despair or a sense of wonder
Riding high or going under
The human heart and it's hidden dangers
The givers and the takers / The lovers and the strangers
Read the news / Believe it or not
Sometimes an opinion may be all you've got
Love may be gone but it's not forgotten
On the long way home tonight
A ship of dreams on a sea of plastic
The fiery depths and the light fantastic
Another telling of an old old story
A question of freedom / A rumour of glory
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12. |
A Matter of the Heart
05:09
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Down a passage through the deep
In the restless arms of sleep
From a fire in the mind
A vision is divined
With a message to impart
On a matter of the heart
In a locked and silent room
Strange disguises truth assumes
In a pool a stone is cast
Shattered midnight looking glass
Every facet plays a part
In a matter of the heart
Tell me when the right time comes
Tell me where the right time goes
Underground the river runs
All around the water flows
Long ago and far away
In a patient yesterday
Lie the seeds of who we are
Mystic beauty hidden scars
So we end up where we start
In a matter of the heart
In the living lies the art
It's a matter of the heart
A matter of the heart
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Reel 'N' Roll
05:01
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All day punch a time clock
We get to play when the work is through
Let's meet / Take stock
Find a beat / We can feel it too
Take it downtown get it plugged in
Turn it on / Turn it up on ten
Sound the tom toms / Let the big bells toll
Reel 'n' roll / Reel 'n' roll
Let's think of the future
Try to link both the young and old
In the heart is what could be
Make a start / The story will unfold
Take it downtown get it plugged in
Turn it on / Turn it up on ten
The piper's paid and now it's time to go
Reel 'n' roll / Reel 'n' roll
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14. |
Some People
04:20
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ome people think they've got time to kill
Some people think they've got it goin'
Some people got a way with a will
Some people got a line worth towin'
Beatin' all the raps / Avoidin' all the traps
Some people got the magic potion
They've got the way to be
They're makin' history
Some people get that big promotion
Read that headline / Pass that test
Let's bring on our special guest
In confusion / Feelin' vexed
Learn the password / What comes next
Uptown / Downtown / Hurry up! Slow down!
Think real quick and win that showdown
You've been beaten to the punch
Arrivederci! / let's do lunch
Well..
Some people / Some people
Some people / Some people
Some people think they've got it all sown up
Some people have no cause to doubt it
Some people claim to know the ways of love
Some people learn to live without it
Leave me be
Don't say no to me
I'll be free
Momentarily
Livin' on the need to know
Up above and down below
Forward! Backward! Forward! Halt!
Take it with a grain of salt
Ways and means and plans and schemes
Livin' out there land of dreams
Grown accustomed to your station
Learn to live on information
Some people / Some people
Some people / Some people
Some people say it's gettin' better all the time
Some people really wanna go there
Some people think there's nothin' better on your mind
Some people think you're goin nowhere...
So there!
Some people....
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15. |
The Near Dearly Departed
03:16
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In a world of changes we live and so
The tide will turn and the cold wind blow
Friends and lovers that we’ve come to know
So swiftly have departed
But I’ve lived to learn that this much is true
The days we have are a precious few
And we all become the things we do
I will not be downhearted
Changes come and change has come again
With the rising sun and the passing of a friend
Through the wiles of nature and the hand of fate
We finish what we started
You take your chances and you leave behind
The near dearly departed
World of wonders on the silver screen
On a starry night in a childhood dream
No use dwelling on what might have been
Or otherwise pretending
Claiming as a victim of circumstance
On a wayward trek in a loner’s trance
You can’t give living a second glance
Waiting for the ending
Changes come and change has come again
With the rising sun and the passing of a friend
We live the mystery right to the end
To see if we’ve been outsmarted
Or if hope lies waiting on the other side
For the near dearly departed
The near dearly departed
(Geoff Panting)
From the CD Make It On Time (1998)
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Forever Dancing
03:09
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Tip the hourglass over / Listen to the chimes
The meter's runnin' and the pressure's risin'
Watch the numbers climb
Step out on the hometown stage
Tell the story / Turn the page
Hear the drummer coming near
Forever dancing through the years
Back then / That's when we sowed the seed
I want to be around to see the tree
Natural magic / Tragicomic force
This living river runs it's course
Share the laughter / Shed the tears
Forever dancing through the years
Thunder on the Babylon skyline
Sophisticated savages sniff the wind
Cling to clocks and calendars
We'll still be everything we've been
We are the shouts that ebb away
Echoes of our yesterday
Asking the answer to appear
Forever dancing through the years
Now the story's come of age
Close the chapter / Turn the page
Begin again the way is clear
Forever dancing through the years
Forever dancing through the years
Forever dancing through the years
Forever dancing through the years
(Dave Panting)
From the CD Living River (1996)
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Rawlins Cross St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador
Rawlins Cross are one of Canada’s most accomplished and beloved Celtic rock bands. Since forming in 1989 the band has toured the world, released nine recordings and been honoured with a plethora of East Coast Music Awards and Juno Award nominations.. Band members hail from Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario. ... more
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