Playlist Foy Vance

foy vance - at least my heart was open

Well, I tried to do what I felt was right
And I know I fucked it up sometimes
But at least my heart was open

You're the one that crossed the line
But you could not go the extra mile
So I did what you were hoping
And at least my heart was open
At least my blood's still pumping
I know that it won't sometime

I have known your love and I have known your hate
I watched you devastate to liberate
Oh, but every moment's golden

And though our withered hands entwined was not your fate
Now we can't be lovers, friends, or even mates
Well, your chances come, I'm folding
Because every moment's golden
I did what you were hoping
But at least my heart was open
And at least my blood's still pumping
I know that it won't sometime

If you get out of this nightmare
And think to call me to tell me how somebody broke your heart
Don't try, I won't be there
'Cause when we ended I found somebody new that I could start with
And she's younger
Her and I, we never really wanna be apart
You're my craft and my sullen art

Oh, I was far from perfect
But I tried to do what I felt was right
And I know I fucked it up sometimes
But at least my heart was open

foy vance - be the song

When nightmares come,
Keep you awake,
Baby close your eyes,
I'll take the weight,
If I go to speak,
I will refrain and be the song,
Just be the song.

When inner scars,
Show on your face,
And darkness hides,
Your sense of place,
Well I won't speak,
I will refrain and be the song,
Just be the song.

Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys,
Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys,
Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys,

And when you run
Far from my eyes,
Then I will come,
In dead of night,
But I won't speak,
Till mornin' light,
I'll be the song,
Just be the song.

Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys,
Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys,
Flow down all my mountains,
Darlin' fill my valleys

foy vance - be with me

Her hair was copper and her beauty bold
And it warmed me to my soul
Her eyes were green brown orange and gold
And her lips like cherry cola

Man, the way she looked that night
Made my heart skip a beat
The way she laid everything on the line
And said 'baby what's it gonna be? "

Do you wanna be with me
Or do you wanna bum around this town
Do you wanna be with me baby
Or do you wanna bum around this town
With your golden brown
Do you wanna be with me
Or do you wanna bum around this town
Do you wanna be with me baby

I just smiled and I held her eye
And tried to play it cool
I said "babe I ain't gonna lie
You know you caught me on the back foot
Well it seems we've both been playing
You as much as me
And the only question to remain
As far as I can see is"

Do you wanna be with me
Or do you wanna bum around this town
Do you wanna be with me baby
Or do you wanna bum around this town
Drinking till you drown
Do you wanna be with me baby
Be with me

foy vance - closed hand full of friends

The scenery's changing
And it warms my soul
I'm two hundred miles down
And a long way yet to go
So get your boots on
And your walking coat
And we'll together leave our footprints
Out upon the virgin snow

That ancient sunrise
Will soon descend
And we'll be left here pondering
On the things which we can depend
So let's start over
With no means to an end
Just an open-hearted hope and a closed hand, full of friends

Yeah, well, london was alright but I was dead in the water
Couldn't see in its light, I couldn't kneel at its altar
All I wanted was to tear it right down to the ground
But I'm feeling alright now
Yeah, I'm feeling alright

Every morning
When the coffee's on
And I rediscover that color in your eyes
And it's gold and it's bronze
And in the moonlight
We'll get the candles going
With the recitations of the parish poets popping on our tongues

Yeah, well, london was alright but I was dead in the water
Couldn't see in its light, I couldn't kneel at its altar
All I wanted was to tear it right down to the ground
And then sing from the fleeting-less culture
And hide it away from all the wolves and the vultures
All they wanted was to tear me right down to the ground
But I'm feeling alright now
Yeah, I'm feeling alright

In the recitations of the parish poets
In the building of the bowers and in the loch tay boats
I will find my means to an end
With an open-hearted hope and a closed hand, full of friends

foy vance - doesn 039 t take a whole day

When I first saw you, baby
Something strange happened inside
Well my heart skipped a beat
But my blood raced in time
And I knew then and there
You would be part of my design
And I may be the only one to make you feel
Whole inside

Yet I knew within seconds you would be mine
Like my grandpa said
"Doesn't take a whole day to recognize sunshine. "
And I remember the smell
Of rain in your hair
And the view from the window
Everything looked so small from way up there

And the way they
Your weight on me walking down the stairs
And I don't think I could ever forget
That careful, careless step
I could smell you'd been drinking
When you said "will you be mine? "
Like my grandpa said
"Doesn't take a whole day to recognize sunshine"

I can never take you or leave you baby
You can chew me body, soul and mind
There we were
On the stairs
With your skin pressed against mine
Though you led me astray baby
At the same time it was alright
When they say, "the wages of sin is death"
But that night we sure created new life, ooh

When I saw his face, all I could see was mine
Like my grandpa said
Doesn't take a whole day, oh no baby
Doesn't take a whole day, oh oh ooh baby
Doesn't take a whole day--I knew right then and there
It doesn't take a whole day--oh oh ooh baby
It doesn't take a whole day
Doesn't take a whole day--sing it with me babe
Doesn't take a whole day to recognize sunshine

foy vance - dry wells

I care
You don't
I love
But you won't
And you scream
You run wild
You make me dream
Down by the streams like a child

And you live
You run free
You won't
Bow down to me
And if I me don't
Treat you right
You make me
Wilt like a flower in the night

You can make my father alive
You can make my sister try
You can make my spirit try
Me to death or life
You may make my brother cry
And you may make my mother sigh
You may make my well run dry
But you cannot make the stars leave the night

Because they shine
And you can't
They remain divine
And you're tainted by man
They gave me light
When I need it most
When you've left me dry
On my own in the dark by the coast

You can make my father alive
And you can make my sister try
You can make my spirit try
Me to death or to life
You may make my brother cry
And you may make my mother sigh
You may make my well run dry
Oh, but you cannot make divinity lie

Oh you can take my wells
And make them run dry
And that's alright, s'alright
You can take my wells
And make them run dry
And that's alrigh

foy vance - elshaneed

I'll be your ice cold water
When you're burning up and finding it hard to breathe
I'll be the wind that carries you fallen leaves
And anything else you need
And anything else you need

I'll give you the sweetest daughter
In whom we can plant a seed
I'll be the river running
For your oceans to greet
And anything else you need
And anything else you need

I'd have my eyes
Taken by satan for you
I would be burned alive
Just for one beat of your heart
Would sound in my mind

I'll be a gentle voice encouraging
As a soft wind whispers through the trees
You'll be the sailor sailing
And I will be the breeze
And anything else you need
And anything else you need

I'll pick you up when you've fallen down
And I'll pick you up when you bleed
And should death fall upon you
Then let me also be deceased
You are everything I need
And if there's anything else you need
Just breathe it in my ear and I'll heed
And anything else you need
Anything else you need

foy vance - fifteen

When you're only fifteen
How can you know what hurt means?
When I saw that look in your eyes
Right out into that cold night
Stole a car just to sleep inside

I realize when you're fifteen
You surely know what love means
When it gets taken aside and replaced
With nothing but fighting
You'll know what hurt means all right
I did not know where to go
I did not know showed up like a rainbow
I got much more than a pot of gold
I got a mate for my soul
Mate for my soul

We were only fifteen
Trying to work out what it means
To want someone by your side for the rest of your life
And it not over for vice
Before I met you at fifteen
Back in nineteen-sixty
I always on the run
Unsure of what to run from

Or where I would be when morning would come
I did not know where to go
Then you showed up by of a rainbow
But you brought me much more than a pot of gold
I got a mate for my soul
I mate for my soul
Mate for my soul
Baby, you were made for my soul

foy vance - gabriel and the vagabond

There's a man in the corner and his clothes are worn
And he's holding out his hand
You could see in his eyes as the people walk by
He knows they don't understand

Ya see they just think he's gonna take their money
And go and spend it all on dope
Then a man stopped by and I saw a smile inside him
As he gently whispered hope

Well the tramp started to cry, just kept saying,
"Why? why? why?
Could you see I'm a dying tonight
Well I'm 32 and I've got this one pair of shoes
And a bad taste in my mouth
I think it's clear to see that even God don't love me
Or else why would He leave me this way."

Then Gabriel just smiled and said be peaced my child
Salvation is here today

He got up to his feet and he sang Hallelujah
People were turning around in the street
He looked them in the eyes and he sang,
"Hallelujah
There's someone here that you gotta meet
Someone you just gotta meet."

When the vagabond turned around well without a sign
Gabriel just smiled and disappeared
Then he looked to the crowd and they were laughing out loud
But he could not see them fore tears
When his vision came round
There was a young girl on the ground
I knew she was fine and hard to cope
She never was a fighter until he laid beside her
And gently whispered hope

They got up to their feet and they sang Hallelujah
People in the street were turning around
They looked them in the eyes and they sang,
"Hallelujah
There's someone here we have found"
They sang,
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah
We are the voices crying in the wilderness
Hallelujah, Hallelujah."
The people in the street started their sins to confess
And a chorus of,
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Every knee will bow and every tongue confess
and the voice of one crying in the wilderness
crying
Hallelujah, Hallelujah"

foy vance - homebird

The orange was the size of a watermelon to me
well at least that is my memory
sunshine made my bare feet burn upon the road
far away we'd roam

I'd be howlin' song in the back seat
the boys would laugh and tease about my black feet
they'd tell stories that would warm my soul
Motorbikes and chrome
Jimmy could not wait to get home

Homebird sing
fly me high on an angel's wing
Homebird sing
leave out nothing tell me everything

Everywhere we went just looked the same to me
the skys were blue and the grass was green
I wonder how different I might see them now
yet I see them somehow

through the fallen memories when that angel baby sings
Oh the little magic that a solo brings
making up songs and words and singin from the soul
oh the stories told
none but him and Jimmy could know

Homebird sing
fly me high on an angel's wing
Homebird sing
leave out nothing tell me everything

Homebird sing
fly me high on an angel's wing
Homebird sing
leave out nothing tell me everything

foy vance - i was made

Well, I loved the devil
Loved his mind
Drank up all his barley wine
I didn't know I was missing
I loved a woman
Loved her wrong
Left my friends to tag along
I didn't know how to listen

And then you started to cry
Took me aside
And in my ear you whispered
"I'll put my heart in your hand
Show you the plan, though your love
For me is withered away. "

Then I came 'round
To all the truths I'd found
And I threw down
All the chains that bound me
I was made for loving you
So I skulked around a drunken swine
Took your heart and gave you mine
Your the song I sing to

I left you hanging all alone
Threw my stench upon your throne
After all you've been through
And then you started to cry
Took me aside
And in my ear you whispered
"I put my heart in your hand
Showed you the plan, and then your love
For me withered away. "

Then I came 'round
To all the truths I'd found
And I threw down
All the chains that bound me
I was made for loving you

foy vance - if only you could see yourself like i see you

When I look in your eyes, I don't want to grow old
And I begin to despise, all of my silver and gold
When I look in your heart, I see blood and water
Water and wine, like seeds in summer
Oh, if only you could see yourself like I see you, ay-aye

When I look at your smile, I see innocence so pure
My smile, oh but yearns and yearns
Oh, if only you could see yourself like I see you, ay-aye
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When I look in your light, I see green grass and trees

Seasons defined, by the colour of leaves
And you seem so whole, at this beautiful stage
Oh but as you get older, all of this beauty will change
Oh, if only you could see yourself like
I see you, ay-aye

foy vance - indiscriminate act of kindness

She came from the cold wet
Dropped her luggage bags
Looked the concierge in the eye
Said, "I need a room for the night,
But I don't got no money.
Would you take payment of any kind?"

He said, "It's alright
I got a room here, you can share mine.
Make the bed in the morning and that'll do fine.
You can change in the bathroom,
Hang your clothes on the line."
A tear came to her eye
She thought how could he be so kind
How could he be so kind (x2)

She sat down on the bed with a needle
He said, "I'd hate to see you bleed,
Just fetch a warm towel,
I'll sit with you til you're dry."
She started to cry
Said, "Why? why? why? why? why? why?"

Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.

She was cold turkey
He was holding her hand
She said, "I was ruined by man,
This was never in my plans.
I dreamed of men who loved me,
Together we'd see the world.
Somehow I lost myself among the insults they hurled."

"I'm sure your a wonderful woman,
And someday there will surely be someone.
So just relax now, it's important that you're calm."

She said, "How is it you can see past me as I am?"

Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.

"When you took your chances,
It was like you placed a bet.
And sometimes this is the reward you can get.
I was always taught
If you see someone defiled,
You should look them in the eyes and smile,
And take their heart, no better yet
Take them home, home, home."

She awoke early in the morning
Made the bed, gathered up her clothes to leave
Saw the concierge curled on the settee
Said, "What you did for me was hard for me to believe."

"I was just doing what was right.
No one that knows love could leave you out there on such a night.
If you can help someone,
Bare this in mind
And consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness."

Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.
Consider it an indiscriminate act of kindness.

foy vance - into the fire

I wanna be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
And walk right into the fire
If only I could know the truth in love
Then I would be so bold
Melt my idol of gold

I wanna be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
And see the fourth man in the fire
And if he is everything that I hope
Then I would be so bold
Melt my idol of gold

I wanna be like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
And walk right out of the fire
With no burn upon my skin
Or on my clothes
Then I would be so bold
Melt my idol of gold
I would be so bold
Melt my idol of gold

foy vance - joy of nothing

Waking up with the pouring rain
Same old sun and the sky again
Collared doves and fighter planes
Sharing the sky like it's nothing strange

Foliage silhouette on an evening sky
A morning greeting, a baby's cry
And the singing of late night lullabies

Oh the joy of nothing
Is a sweeter something
And I will hold it in my heart
I will hold it in my heart

Ulysses and eulogies
Gainsbourg, ginsberg, socrates
All mean naught and everything

Oh, the joy of nothing
Is a sweeter something
And I will hold it in my heart
I will hold it in my heart

Oh, the joy of nothing
Is a sweeter something
And I will hold it in my heart
Yes, I will hold it in my heart

Oh, the joy of nothing
Is a sweeter something
I will hold it in my heart
I will hold it in my heart

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