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Before You Love Me
02:27
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Before you love me, make believe that you’re mine
Know how to make me laugh n’ know what makes me cry
You ought to know I don’t look good in blue, so careful baby, it’s your move
Before you love me, wind me up for the highs
Know how I fall, give me nothing but your time
I could be good to you if you’re good to me too, so careful baby what you do
Pretend like we’re fragile, so precious n rare
On the verge of extinction, gotta handle with care
Like glass between our fingers, don’t hold too tight or squeeze
Can’t let it cut or we’re both gonna bleed
Before you love me, you’ll know that it’s time
When dreams of my loving keep you up all night
Yeah, you’ll wake up one morning and know i’m for you
So go on baby, it’s your move
Before you love me … Like i love you
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2. |
Good Love
03:21
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One thing leads to another
You find love, become one oh it’s all you live for
High times, but then it goes under
You wonder what it was for?
Can’t see it now but up ahead’s a better day
You gotta believe me when I say that
Good love is just hard to find
Good love is hard to find (but you gotta keep trying)
Good love is hard to find
Somewhere, out there love’s waiting
Can’t see it, can’t feel it but you gotta believe
Oh, your heart may be aching
But when you’re ready you’ll see
Just cut and run up ahead’s a brighter day
You gotta believe me when I say that
Good love is just hard to find, baby listen
Good love is hard to find (give it some time)
Good love - is hard to find
You can’t give up
Just retreat and rewind
Anyone will tell you
You need a little more time
Good love is hard to find (you’ll find it someday)
Good love is hard to find
Don’t give up on good love
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3. |
Soul Searching
03:44
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4. |
Down For The Heal
03:52
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We got a wireless connection - and I’m sure that you feel it too
A magnetic force, heading right on course - and it’s pulling me right to you
You better believe it’s a good thing, what you feel’s for real - baby it’s real
So just move in my direction, cuz’ I’m down for the heal
You might go try a life elixir - you might wanna lose control
But I’ll bring relief to you quicker, yeah, let me restore your soul!
You better believe it’s a good thing, what you feel is real
So just move in my direction, if you’re down for the heal
No, we certainly ain’t mistaken, can’t deny something coming through
There’s really no point in us waiting if you’re reading the room like I do
You better believe it’s a good thing, what you feel’s for real
Come on and move in my direction, cuz we’re down for the heal
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5. |
Let's Call It What It Is
04:17
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Never mind, let’s move on
Knowing that we really gave it all babe
It’s alright, no regrets
The good times will outweigh the sad and blue
Life can only promise change
So why rely on forever anyway?
We got to pack it in and do right moving on
Let’s call it what it is – it’s over
Call it what it is
You want this, and I want that
We’re just compromising, trying to get along
Through the cracks in the walls
We could feel the cold come seeping in between
Now I don’t want to talk about how we used to be
I miss that just as much as you
But lately we’ve been getting on a bit too much like friends
So, call it what it is – it’s over
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6. |
Desperado
03:58
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7. |
Battleground Blues
04:18
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Challenged by some kind of new-world order
Trying to do right for our sons and our daughters
Political opinion’s become artillery
Open your eyes and tell me; do you like what you see?
Stepping on the poor to climb up that ladder
Blind eye turned to the lives left shattered
Mercy, mercy are we coming undone?
There’s gotta be a better world for everyone
I’ve got them battleground blues
How did it get this far to go to war with ourselves?
Battleground blues, I think I’m done, done spilling blood
Winters grow colder, summers hotter
Bitter is the soil that’s rotting our hunger
I can’t seem to tell the forest for the trees
And mother nature’s driving us to our knees
Take a good hard look at how we define one another
Politics, religion, background, and color
Searching for the truth in a big web of lies
Made to connect us but it only divides
And now we’ve got hose battleground blues
How’d we get this far to be at war with ourselves
Tell me ain’t we done? Ain’t we done spilling blood?
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8. |
Driving Wheel
02:48
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I can fool them with a smile, but my eyes never lie
See, when those blues hunt me down, it’s impossible to hide
I can’t dream of better times no, it don’t work when you’re this low
When those blues come around, I’m better off on my own
Alone and waiting
Waiting for the fog to lift
It blows in uninvited, smokey ribbons all adrift
And it starts me on a longing for a life that don’t exist
I can’t tell what’s up or down no ‘cause that melancholy’s thick
When those blues come around, I can’t give them the slip
So just leave me waiting, waiting for the fog to lift
I know better than to fight it, it’ll go when it goes
Waiting, I’ll be better off all alone, while I wait for the fog to lift
Just leave me waiting, waiting for the fog to lift
Waiting, I’ll be waiting for the blues to blow
There’s no use in me trying to fight it
I’ll just wait for the fog to lift
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10. |
Melancholy Room
03:51
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You’ll see a crackling neon sign hung above a wooden door
Casting a blue light on a poster covered wall
Just off the sidewalk, head on down the stairs
You don’t need a name here, sympathy prevails
Step inside, welcome to the Melancholy Room
Behind a heavy curtain, your eyes take in the dark
Not a face to recognize here, but your souls will interlock
The only light illuminates the stage where music plays
Melodies carried on a smokey haze
Close your eyes, welcome to the Melancholy Room
A soothing destination, a remedy for blue
Come dwell in the sensation, it’s all waiting here for you
Check your worries at the door, leave the world behind
Linger incognito if you’re so inclined
You’ll be glad you came, sad you had to go
Come again sometime and don’t forget you know
How it feels, how it flows, losing time, here inside
You’ll be welcomed anytime to the Melancholy Room
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11. |
Leavin'
03:25
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12. |
Where Do I Go From Here
04:45
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I started this song the day I was born
Drawn to harmony while this crazy life moved along
Always asking myself, where do I go from here?
But not a moment too soon, it all fell in tune
Some maybes then babies yeah, my life was in full bloom
But that question kept time where do I go from here?
See tomorrow’s untold, today is unfolding
It’s all touch and go but, I’ll always keep hoping
Destiny’s fine but she ain’t always clear
So where do I go from here?
Now sometimes sleep is a stranger and this body’s grown old
So, I’m hanging on to sunlight n’ staying out of the cold
Still asking myself, where do I go from here?
Sometimes if I slip, well, I do land on regrets
And good-byes can get me wondering’ who might go next
Still the elegy plays on, where do I go from here?
Bridge
Tomorrow’s untold, today is unfolding
It’s all touch and go but, I’ll always keep hoping
Yeah, destiny’s fine but she ain’t always clear
So where do I go from here
At the end of my song, that final refrain
You can bet I’ll be asking, again and again
Yes, I’ll question the outcome, I’ll question the end
Where do I go from here?
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Lilly Martin New York, New York
Lilly Martin possesses one of the most soulful blues voices in Switzerland and is the winner of the Swiss Blues Award 2020. She is currently on the road with her 5th solo album "Lookout".
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