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Confidentially Yours
03:14
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Confidentialy Yours
I’m the man with x-ray eyes I’m Jekyll and Hyde
I’m torn between the monster and the lover inside
If love is easy then why does it pain
And why must I wear these chains that hold me down…?
Confidentially yours…truly
I walked alone on a tightrope mile
I kept the world to myself awhile
I took a shot at real affection
I looked to you for my protection to stop my fall….
Confidentially yours…truly
I can see your wanting and you need blood
I can touch but I don't know if I should
I can feel the warmth beneath my feet
I can hear your heart beat
Beat beat beat beat beat…
Sealed away in some cryptic place
I searched the files for an absent face
A square in a round world inconveniently
The evidence is plain to see in the here and now….
Confidentially yours…truly
Confidentially yours…truly
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Time To Get It Right
03:17
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Time To Get It Right
Here we stand on the edge of a great beginning
Not knowing right which way to turn
There’s a chance to part from the way we were
A chance to change, a chance to learn
We need to burn the flags, tear the barriers down
Unload the guns of war somehow
If we hope to leave a better world
We need to make a difference now
Oh, I know that we are brothers when all is said and done
So why do we hurt the ones we love the most . . .?
Time To Get It Right
Sometimes there’s a need to make a decision
Which side of the line you’re on
But don’t go making a big mistake
…Just because you heard a protest song!
We need to break with tradition and speak our mind
Our ‘soapbox corner’ voice be heard
And when our hands are tied with political chains
We’ll still have the final word
Oh, I know that we are brothers when all is said and done
So why do we hurt the ones we love the most . . .?
Time To Get It Right
Lock away your hate of all these years
Heal the soul end these tears
Live for the future learn to give a damn
I believe it's possible if you reach and take a hand
We can get it right this time
(With a little understanding)
We can get it right this time
Time To Get It Right
Well I know that we are brothers when all is said and done
And still we hurt the ones we love the most . . .!
Can We Get It Right?
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Fit Into Place
03:21
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Fit Into Place
Clumsy on my feet tripping over a need to be cool
Always the last to be picked for the rugger in school
Hiding N.M.E to escape from the pressure of peer
A photo of Morrissey could only mean I was queer
Attention from girls and a kicking from boys
Made certain I left home when I did…
I’m so out of the in-crowd
I just want to be of the now-crowd
All out of step with the scene
If you’ve never fit into place
Then you’ll know what I mean
Unsure and bemused stumbling around in a daze
Latching and catching on too late for the imminent craze
Finding a hero in the fantasy of Lucas and Co.
Never prepared to leave my head at the end of the show
Pushing me away from all that I loved
Made certain I left home when I did…
I’m so out of the in-crowd
I just want to be of the now-crowd
All out of step with the scene
If you’ve never fit into place
Then you’ll know what I mean
You never gave a thought about
Never gave a damn about
Never gave a shit about me
So why should you care?
(Always a little left of centre...
Sometimes..., aint no bad thing!)
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Milestones
03:46
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Milestones
After all these years they've stood the test of time
These milestones guiding me to you
Heart over my head they make me journey on
These milestones tell me what to do
And if there is a mountain between us
Or a heavy load upon my back
I know what pulls me through
As I just keep on walkin' every dusty track
Each milestone is a step closer to you
Like a trail of tears and I cried every one
These milestones stand silent still and strong
A sound of ancient voices calling out to me
These milestones carry me along
And if there is an ocean between us
Or a sea of troubles to drag me down
Unto the Lord I pray
And he keeps me on walkin' every empty town
Each milestone is a step along the way
So many roads to travel we made it here somehow
We made mistakes and cheated hearts with every broken vow
The sins of each other are played out by a song
And now I'm comin' back to you admitting I was wrong
And if there is an ocean between us
Or a sea of troubles to drag me down
Unto the Lord I pray
And he keeps me on walkin' every empty town
Each milestone is a step along the way
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Don’t Leave Me... On A Sunday
We’ve had so much fun together
We shared our ways and means
But now you say you’re leaving me
To follow different dreams
You say its fact you won’t be back
You’ve found another man
But after all the love I’ve given you
I still don’t understand
Don’t leave me on a Sunday
Monday would be fine
I’ve got so much work to do
It’ll take my mind off you
Don’t leave me on a Sunday
I’m not much of a praying man
But tonight I’m on my knees
You played me for the fool I was
But I could never see
If I was a wiser man
I could turn the other cheek
Just promise me that you won’t leave
On the wrong day of the week
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Alive Again
05:18
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Alive Again
Thought I’d left you far behind me
So long ago, another time, another place
No matter where I go I find you
Haunting every line upon my face
I’m remembering the past
I thought I’d laid it all to sleep
You said my peace would never last
You said my faith would never keep
So I’ll take my car and drive
To anywhere but here
Leave behind my feelings
My pain, my guilt, my fear
I’ll drift on northern winds
To sooth my tired feet
Cradle mixed emotions
Within a warm retreat
Waiting somehow
To come alive again
Thought I’d given every reason
For letting go of what I knew
Now it all seems so unclear
Of what became of me and you
I’m recalling distant words
To songs I wrote before
Where the tunes were trapped in cages
Confined - unsung - secure
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Right For The First Time
04:23
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East Of The Sun
04:35
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East Of The Sun
Maybe life is short
but there are times when you could really use a smile
cause you haven’t seen one for a while
having met your lonely heart
I can safely say
that you really need to try to find your way again
I saw it once upon a time . . .
Maybe you could shut yourself away
for just an hour or a day
And the world can stay outside
perhaps for just a while
having found your empty heart
you can place it into my hands
I’ll give you all you need and more…
From the outside looking in
From somewhere deep within
We all know where we’ve been
When the moon comes `round again
East of the sun
Where the world lets us in
Maybe you have found the truth in love
and you almost gave it up
and the secret of your smile
you’re keeping deep inside
having almost lost your heart
you really need to try to find the space again
Where you keep a truth for me...
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Laptop Dancing
03:57
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Laptop Dancing
Time to find a new direction
Choose a different path to run
Time to jump into the water
Leaving fate to turn you on
Time to brave the new horizons
Take a break from it all
Readdress the situation
Touch it quick before you fall...
And go Laptop Dancing
And go Laptop Dancing
It’s live for the minute in this moment
Wipe the sweat from furrowed brow
Glance the fear in passing mirrors
Reflecting then and now
All you need to feel the warmth
Is a word from the sponsors to embrace
Fold it away with a touch
Put on a smile to save face…
And go Laptop Dancing
And go Laptop Dancing
Be anything you want to be in your fantasy world
Anything and everything
All or nothing at all
And go laptop dancing
And go laptop dancing
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I'm Only Me
03:38
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I’m Only Me
Like a child dancing in the pouring rain
Fascinated and amused I begin again
All my worries are falling by the wayside
They get washed away like paper
Disappearing down a drain
My eyes are wide open (ready to believe)
My eyes are wide open (ready to receive)
I’m not afraid to look upon the world
All of my life I've been trying to be
The greatest lover / The perfect son
All of my life I’ve been trying to be
The trusted friend whom you depend on
But I’ll never reach the goals you set
All that you see is all you get
After time I hope you’ll see
I’m only me
I’m only me
Like a writer searching for the missing page
But with a smile I realised I had come of age
All my worries now vanish with the sunrise
I become the player while you remain the stage
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Mine All Mine
02:48
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Mine All Mine
Unlead the coffee, I’ve a migraine coming on
The ashtrays crowded, I’ve the feeling that I don't belong
If time can make you stronger, thank god my hands are free
They say, “ it’s better to have loved and lost “, “ than not receive ! “
but I still wish you could be…
but I still wish you could be…
but I still wish you could be…
mine
Strains of “Miss Chaterlaine” bring tripping highs and lows
I lost my heart somewhere by following my nose
If pain can make you stronger, then I'm weakening your blows
They say , “Oh well, hey, never mind!“, “that’s the way it goes!“
but I still wish you could be…
but I still wish you could be…
but I still wish you could be…
mine
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Half Empty/Half Full
03:50
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Half Empty/ Half Full
If I could capture the essence of you
Like a butterfly caught in a jar
I’d be closer to viewing the world through your eyes
If there were ever answers to all of my prayers
And I could see the light
I’d be closer to holding the heaven you believe
But I don’t feel these things as you do...
To me the glass is half empty
To you the glass is half full
Always
If I could turn back all of the years
To each time I missed my cue
I’d be closer to being the whole perfection of you
But I don’t feel these things as you do...
To me the glass is half empty
To you the glass is half full
Always
Fill me up, `till my cup, runneth over
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Speak (To You)
04:08
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Speak (To You)
If you read my text but find no truth in their voice
You misunderstand the sound
If you lack nourishment in your soul my dear
Let me feed you life
Let me show you light
Let me educate
Listen
I can speak to you... if you let me in
I don’t ask for miracles
just read between the lines you steal
There is reason in the madness I reveal
I know I’m a dreamer and that cannot be forgiven
But maybe one day
My words will be spoken like any other
Don’t martyr me
Listen
I can speak to you… if you let me in
Ooh, speak to you… wherever you are
Ooh, speak to you... no matter how far
Ooh, speak… and let me in
My portrait is aging fast now, a coda, like dorian grey
The eyes remain young while this weakness decays
I told you, though I may be gone
I’ll never fade away
As long as you remember
The things that I say
Listen
I can speak to you... if you let me in
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Shadowlands
03:49
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Shadowlands
I dreamed of fame and glory years
An ambitious youth full of lies and tears
I searched for light in darkened rooms
That sealed me in like desert tombs
I heard applause from empty chairs
Took curtain calls for vacant stares
In the heart of the lions den
Where you never know who what why or when
Where they build you up so you can fail
And chase your fragile hopes away
In these shadowlands
In these shadowlands
Errors made and dues I’ve paid
With many a bridge burnt along the way
My reasons lost my senses wary
My nerves are shot my eyes are blurry
Take a hold your day will come
Take a chance and run run run . . .
From the heart of the lions den
Where you never know who what why or when
Where they build you up so you can fail
And chase your fragile hopes away
In these shadowlands
In these shadowlands
Almost joined club 27... a legacy to find
I needed to relax a while, I needed to unwind
Kicked off my shoes, hit the road
No clear destination
Found a way to trust myself – quite a revelation
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Michael Antony Austin Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Tasty Country tinged Pop Rock and Folk from an ex-pat Geordie Singer/Songwriter residing in
Germany!
Casual Crooner, part-time Popstar, hopeful Headbanger...!
For more Info, Photos & LIVE Dates go to:
www.michaelantonyaustin.com
Photos www.photographybymichealscott.co.uk
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