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Chorus song
04:12
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All i’m doing ids searching for a chorus
A simple line or two, and everyone can join in on
And when i find, one how will i know if it’s the right one for us ?
Simply by the people singing along
They’ll be singing
Keep it simple keep it simple
Cause that’s the way that we like to be living
Keep it simple keep it simple
So everyone can join right in
And if you’re hoping to be holding my attention
Me, i’m quickly caught, you’ll see but often just as quickly gone
So don’t be going over the top cause if it feels good to me
I’ll be right there with you singing along
And we’ll be singing
Keep it simple...
Now everyone’s got something to say
But me – i ‘ve got a feeling like i’m out of touch
So try to keep it on my level
Tell it to me straight or it won’t mean much.
iano 1981
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2. |
Nowhere in particular
03:56
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Casting an eye along the street
Thinking of a place I’d rather be
Nowhere in particular
Just in good company
And there’s a lot of things I know
That make living high to me
And nowhere’s a place to go
That has good company
How have you been going
Tell me what you know
I feel sure that you must have some
Stories to be told
Just a dream, a dream dream or two
That you never sold
Some memories that maybe we could hold
And everyone should have some place
Where they can be in perfect peace
Aint nowhere in particular
Just in good company
In good company
And how have you been going....
iano - early spring 1986
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3. |
Walking and hoping
04:21
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It’s 4 o’clock int he morning
And we’ve been walking since the city streets
And for most of the way it’s looked like rain
But we aint ready – no,no – to admit defeat
And here we are walking
Walking and hoping
Hoping that someone
Will show a little mercy
But it don’t look likely
And i think that we are gonna be walking
‘Til the morning comes
The railway track
Stretches out before us
It’s the road the road beneath our feet
And we’re riding
Riding oh so high and at a million miles an hour
On a night that just couldn’t be beat
And here we are...
Well when old Mathew
Was pumping that harp
Me and Eddy we weren’t feeling no pain
And now, it’s a long walk home
But that’s the price you’ve got to pay
When you ride too long on that old blues train
And here we are ...
iano - early '85
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4. |
Making me younger
04:03
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So far from anywhere
Sitting on a roof
With the full moon pouring into me And drawing me to you
You’ve got magic in your eyes I’ve got music in my ears
So far from anyone
On a crowded city street
Just wishing that you were near me And shuffling my feet
You’ve got magic in your eyes I’ve got music in my ears
I feel so warm inside
Apprends moi quelque chose Apprends moi ce que tu voudras
Mais prends moi, prends moi
Prends moi avec toi quand tu partiras
You’ve got magic in your eyes
I’ve got music in mye ars
I feel so warm Inside
You make me younger than my years
iano - 20/4/90
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5. |
Serious situation
04:16
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Well my car won’t go
And it’s pelting down with rain
And you, you said we were through If I was ever late again
So I tear some of my hair
Out and I wonder what the hell I’m gonna do
And then some mug lair,
Some joker on the radio says
Man the country’s got the blues
Don’t talk to me
About the state of the nation
Cause this is serious
Can’t you see that this is a serious situation
I fell back in the payments
On my rented tv set
So the shop that owned the thing
They sent sent some men round – big heavy type dudes – to collect
And I tear some of my hair...
Well I schemed up a foolproof system
Thought I’d give getting rich a shot
And so I took three weeks pay
Down to the track and I lost it
Lost the whole damned lot
Now i tear some of my hair...
iano - 06 / 89
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6. |
The type you are
05:39
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I surely hope as hard as I might
That you’re not one of a kind
For if I ever travel far, it’s just the type you are
That I’d surely hope to find
You’ve got just what it takes
To pick me up and quickly put that smile back on my face
And speaking of smiling, when I’m with you it don’t take much to keep it in place.
And I surely hope....
And if I’m troubled
By the turning of the world or simply something on my mind
Whatever the reason I know something you say or do will make everything alright.
And when we go our ways
What if the story reads that we will never meet again?
Yes what if the story reads that we will never meet again?
Well I know that you know
Wherever you are
And wherever I go
I’ll be thinking of you my friend.
iano - 31/5/86
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7. |
Helping me out
04:19
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Some of my friends they aint always easy
But that’s how it goes and we’ve all got our reasons
For anything, anyone ever could think of
Like anger and crying
And laughter and love
I’m a lucky guy i’ve got lots of good friends
Me, i’m so lucky
Man i know so many friendly people
And they’re always helping me out
Yeah they’re always helping me out
Well the best of my friends
They’re always teaching me
Teaching me how to pleasure and tease
And they’re showing me when
To say thank you and please
And they’re always...
Showing me life and how to be living
Making me humble and making me proud Never putting me down
But always taking my case
When i’m getting too loud
And they’re always...
iano - 29/2/92
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8. |
Lonely soldier
03:23
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Unto you i must say
Should we drift away
That it’s sure been a pleasure to know you
This friendship of ours
Sometimes sweet sometimes sour
Somewhere love still peacefully smoulders
Different fathers and mothers
Still we are brothers
Each of us lonely soldiers
Your sister she loved you
A love strong and sot true but you
You just took all you could then you sold her.
May your ears turn into arseholes and shit on your shoulders
Go on run away, hide away
Find a way to slide away
You’ve come a long way since you first started faking
Day after day it’s always the samedi and i’ve got to say
That it seems like for you that the truth is a film in the making
Now the shooting’s been done i guess you’ll have to run
And i’ll put my gun back in its holster
But i wish you the best for the rest of your war
And i do hope you find what you’re looking for lonely soldier.
iano 12/12/17
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9. |
One thing for sure
04:33
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Now and then I get tired of waiting
And the time that it’s taking
Seems to be slowing the beat of my heart
And I’m feeling lazy
But angry and bored
These are two things I’m not
And that’s one thing for sure
Sometimes I wish I’d
Fall on my face
Get back up on my feet again And go searching for paradise
Or some kind of place
But I’m feeling lazy
But angry and bored...
Are you coming with me ?
Or will you be running ?
Wild and free
Racing away, chasing your own kind of dreams
Somewhere there’ll be love to be found
But if it’s bringing you down
It could be that you’re trying too hard
Or are you just lazy ?
Take me out
Of this endless delay
Overcome my resistance
I can learn quick if I’m taught the right way
But I’m feeling lazy
But angry and bored...
Are you coming with me...
I know I can safely say that
Whatever way that you choose
There’ll be times when you win
There’ll be days when you wish
You had nothing to lose
Are you angry, are you bored ?
Does your happiness dépend
On what it is that you’re looking for ?
Need i say more ?
Try singing...
iano - 8/86
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10. |
Two people
04:54
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You and I, no longer strangers.
You and I, we’ve been through changes.
There was distance in your eyes
But a breath between us
Our thoughts were all we heard
Then the moment found us
We were only, we were only
Two people, with each other in our eyes.
Two people, with each other in our eyes.
You and I, we took our chances.
You and I, know how fine romance is.
There’ll be times when we’re down
But we’ll rise above them
When we look at what we’ve found
We’ll be only, we’ll be only
Two people, with each other in our eyes
Bede Ritchie/ iano/ Andy ODonnell 7/95
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11. |
Under the jetstream
04:48
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As i travelled by bus
A woman with child
Crossed my path
And i knew that she had
What i was yearning right there in her smile.
And as i travelled this world
That woman she lived a hard life
Filled with children and toil
‘Till came her time to fly
And that’s just what she did you know
She flew away and she left us all down here
Under the jetstream
Red
Dust
Rise
Life it rolls on.
There is nothing i need
And almost nothing i want
Well except for maybe just some
Pure joy in my heart and
A mind full of peace.
Under the jetstream
iano 2009
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12. |
Follow me
06:46
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If my road was paved with gold
Would you follow me ?
High or low, far or near
If my road was paved with gold
Would you follow me ?
And if my feet had wings to fly
Would you run with me ?
Over mountains high, across the sea
If my feet had wings to fly
Would you you run with me ?
And if my life was tied to yours
Would you stay with me ?
Young or old, night and day
If my life was tied to yours
Would you stay with me ?
If my life was tied to yours - would you?
And if my feet had wings to fly - would you?
And If my road was paved with gold - would you?
Would you stay with me?
Would you run with me?
Would you follow me?
Come on now.
iano - 7/99
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Barefoot iano Grenoble, France
Originally from Wollongong, on the East Coast of Australia, iano has been sharing France with the French since
1995.
Founding the group “MouNtain Men” - 6 albums recorded and over 600 concerts in France, Europe, Quebec and the U.S.A. since 2008, iano has also 4 self-produced albums : I Got a Feeling (2000); High on Life (2003);Acoustic Rack Trip (2008), and Keep it simple (2019).
Bon voyage.
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