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The Balladeers

by The Balladeers

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1.
Can it be the same when we've grown older Will you still know how to laugh if you’re at my shoulder Will our fates move together through all the toils ahead Will we pay the price for our hour of leisure So pillaged and abused is the house of pleasure And we're blind as we walk alone but we're holding hands Now Jesus belongs to me Who will lead the way as we turn the corner We're entering the bay of uncharted water And the girl at the shore says there will be no more Let it now be known that the window’s closing No one will be left there will be no chosen To raise up the new the old must be destroyed Now Jesus belongs to me Can we weep for what we've lost when we see the final cost As the earth melts in the sun all the joy has just begun We were led into temptation and lord how we've had our fun Now Jesus belongs to me
2.
She had a house and lived by the sea With a garden full of trees We would go round and knock on her door And get down on our knees She was so happy, she was insane Playing her favourite game She was so happy, she was insane Playing her favourite game She had a face all men would adore Make every woman roar She had a grace like no one on earth Who ever came before Take me away and I promise to behave Take me today and i'll be happy in my grave
3.
The Garden 03:55
Please don't walk away Never leave my side Cause i'll be needing you Every step of the way Don't know where it’s going But it will be OK It could take all night But we will get it right If we reach the garden together baby We can wake up feeling alright If we try today we can sleep tonight, yeah Da da da da da da da We'll have to wait for evening To understand the day The sun has give us light The moon will make our night So let me come inside now There's nothing left to hide You know I won’t be around for long
4.
The Guest 02:46
She would come and visit in the middle of the night Always glad to see her we would welcome her inside We take her in and make her feel at home She has a drink and sits down on the floor She likes to take her time because she's so unsure Her playful eye will signal when it's time She was always worried that she'd end up on her own Wandering the wilderness with nowhere to call home She had a dream she never would realise She tried her best to reach up to the skies She likes to take her time because she's so unsure Her playful eye will signal when it's time
5.
Feel our world Fall apart Watch our world Unwind Watching the people I think isn't it sad I can't help wondering why I don’t go mad We've left behind everything good we ever had We work and we sweat and we toil Then we come home to bed We laugh and we dance and we cry Then we find ourselves dead So you must Come to the fair and no one will find you Come for a ride and let yourself go Keep at my side and no one will hurt you again We no longer do what we are told We no longer do what we are told For now we are out in the cold again While others are counting their gold Stumbling through the pathless woods Rapt before the shore
6.
We sailed off from a distant shore To find the girl we all adore The captain wanted it to be So drunken sailors went to sea A light will guide us from above And help us find the one we love If we can listen to the wind The carnival can then begin Don't run away now Just wait until the morning On hard times we are now falling Back to the garden now we go We are now ready to be told The shrouded secrets that you hold The clouded night has given way For us to live inside the day So come and stand beneath the sun The ancient dance has just begun There will be things to leave behind To make the room for what we find
7.
We built a world Made up the rules Sailed the streams of midnight dreams We used to joke We shared a hope All was well inside our shell How things went wrong I do not know Now i'm alone Down and alone I haven't smiled since I heard the story Now the days that go by hold nothing for me I have seen in the light there is nothing holy And the girl at my side can never hold me We saw the height of the heavens above us She carries on as I live through the storm While she is flying I look up from the bottom Lord i'm ready to come home Cause you're the only one who can save me now Show me a way out of here Late in the night when I come to you Open your arms again
8.
Saw a girl through the window Who was looking so fine Yeah I saw a girl through the window Who was looking so fine Will she ever love me Will she ever be mine I'd like to know what she's thinking As she passes me by I'd like to know what she's thinking As she passes on by Just want her to tease me But she passes me by No way in, no way out I guess i'll figure it out Never expected it to be easy Woman on the cover of a magazine Tell us all about the things that you have seen Little lady you're the one who knows Take us to a place of better shores
9.
We don't need an answer to things that we know We don't need a reason for letting it go We don't need a problem to work it all out Some things were forgotten and now we're without We should arrive there by night I'll have a place at her side She never meant me no harm Soon i'll be back in her arms Time has gone slowly since she went away Now we are ready to find a new way Forget the old promise that's now standing bare We'll seek a new morning to light our despair And then I found her there beside a narrow stream She looked at me with eyes i'd never seen And told me of the places she had been And smiled for us all
10.
Surrender 04:06
Come take a walk with me into a dream Things can be simple yeah just as they seem Never wake up keep on chasing the gleam Come cuddle up and start sowing the seed Surrender yourself to me Give me everything I need baby Give all your love to me Give me all of your love Children wake up and the morning is bright Some never find sunlit hours in the night Never to know if they’re up or they're down Some distant shores will just never be found

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released January 13, 2012

All songs written and performed by The Balladeers:

Jackson Scott: vox / guitars / keyboards
Gav Troon: bass / backing vox
Ruaraidh MacLeod: drums

Piano on "Her Favourite Game", "The Garden" and "No Way In, No Way Out" by Del Meade.

Recorded at The Bottling Plant 2011-2012, engineered and mastered by Iain MacDuff, mixed and produced by Iain MacDuff & The Balladeers.


Artwork by Theresa / Design by ScotArt
Photo by Garry MacLennan @ YHFPhoto

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The Balladeers Glasgow

The Balladeers are a psychedelic 3-piece from Glasgow with an ear for timeless melody and a melting pot of sound and styles.

Medieval riffs, 60's influences, romantic poetry, nursery rhymes and carnival fairground sounds. Blues and classical arrangements intertwine with gypsy stylings, and jazz and afro-based rhythms are all thrown into this insane mix, bound together with a distinctly minor key.
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