Playlist Mat Mchugh

mat mchugh - a pocket full of shells

I got a pocket full of shells
And not much of anything else
I got a locket full of notes
Old melodies, uncounted votes

And it's been so long since i've seen you
And i've been so gone and out of my mind
And things they move on, but i just need you
So i still wait for you most every night

When are you coming home?
It's so lonely here tonight

Followed a trail of poison crumbs
We got lost pretending, undone
Then our blood fell from the clouds
The wind it screamed, the sea it howled
And every cold, dry morning, crows sing
Of how there's ice forming on the lake
And somebody called me, said they saw you
Said you were looking older but just the same

When are you coming home?
It must be freezing out today

And we'll sing galilee, we'll sing reverie
Dance for the broken, break these chains
We'll sing of wrongs and lies and alibis
We'll take a chance and start again

We'll take a chance and start again
We'll take a chance and start again

mat mchugh - bad blood

The queen is in the parking lot
Counting all the things she's got
Jack tried being a communist
But just kept counting all the things he missed

And after all this talk of bad blood
Of enemies and of destruction
We realised there really was none
It just gets lonely
Spinning around the sun

The aces in their motorcades
The joker and the king of spades
I'd try being your best mistake
But i know that it's my heart you'll break

And after all this talk of bad blood
Of enemies and of destruction
We realised there really was none
It just gets lonely
Spinning around the sun

mat mchugh - cash money

Going, my boat's leaving today.
Gonna get down to the water,
gonna wash these blues away.
Man this city's taken too much from me,
gonna head out to the country,
find a place where i can breathe.
I've been working 9 to 5,
trying to lead a gracious life,
but my hard work only ever went to keeping me in strife.
Gonna take another road.
Gonna find myself some soul.
Gonna do my best in every way,
to pay attention as i go.

Cash money,
aint got no use for you.
Unless you can buy me true love.
And it's funny,
how many time's they've proved,
that the only true fortune you can save,
is the truth.

Slowly, time keeps slipping away.
Leaves still change their colours,
prophets lay still in their graves.
Erasing all our liberties.
Gonna take this axe, apply it,
chop injustice at its knees.
The fundamental laws,
of suffering and of its cause,
man they lay in being human.
Everybody has their flaws.
What if we could overcome,
insecurity for love ?
fear for empathy ?
education in place of push and shove ?

mat mchugh - darling this scene must end

Drinking alone under the streetlight
Waiting for you to come on out
There's nowhere to run
There's blood in the sky tonight
There's blood in us
In all of us tonight
We can pretend we'll both be falling
Up into the sky, not to the ground
We may be undone come monday morning
But just for now, let's wager on this town

And i know that it just don't make no sense
But darling this scene,
This scene must end

Been caught in the black heart of this city
For too many nights i can't recall
Oh, thorn in my side, seems they won't pity us
Won't remember us
Not much of us at all
Been covered in rust stuck here without you
Lay still in the mud, could hear no sound
We'd crumble to dust still i won't doubt you
But when does enough
Become enough for now?

And i know that it just don't make no sense
But darling this scene,
This scene must end

mat mchugh - fall to pieces

Too high to get out
Too loaded again
We'll never escape until this ends
We'll figure it out on one of these lonely, lonely days
Called by at your house but you're never in
For something to end it must begin
Guess it was about exactly when all those feelings changed

See maybe we all just fall to pieces
Or maybe we all just float away
And maybe these songs we sing release us
And we'll take our bows
While we let this whole world be our stage

Guess everybody has feelings they show
Feelings they hate
Feelings they don't
But what if it takes all of the strength i have to hold?
Hold on to the days?
The falling aways?
Hold on to the same things that won't change?
And what if it takes all of my heart to let you go?

See maybe we all just fall to pieces
Or maybe we all just float away
And maybe these songs we sing release us
And we'll take our bows
While we let this whole world be our stage

Oh, and if these things we do deliver us away from sadness
We'll dance under a broken moon
Our broken hearts amongst the madness
We'll burn under a naked sun
We'll die a thousand times and i'll do
And i'll do all i can
And i'll do all i can
All i can,
To love you

mat mchugh - famous aimless

Well I heard they built an island in the pacific
Size of texas, made of plastic.
Well I heard they built a bomb
that could mow us all down that won't make a sound.
Well I heard they built a monument to broken things,
To money, power, fame, all brings
Where people gather 'round in their diamond rings
Hoping things start spreading

While another day goes by,
There's famous aimless and I don't know why.
On televisions screens, in our dreams,
in our magazines, shine so bright like the stars in the sky.
So tell me what it is I know,
I must be missing something but I'm not so sure.
So tell me all the days, all the ways, all the time it takes,
All the real, all the fakes, where this show
Will go?

Well I heard they found a message written on the sun,
Said 'love's the only way to end what we begun'.
They're keeping it a secret, got a race to run,
More money to come.
Well I saw my baby born, saw my father die,
I felt a cold wind blow, heard my mother cry,
Stood in a hurricane, lay under the sky,
Found a road, kept treading.

While another day goes by,
There's famous aimless and I don't know why.
On televisions screens, in our dreams,
in our magazines, shine so bright like the stars in the sky.
So tell me what it is I know,
I must be missing something but I'm not so sure.
So tell me all the days, all the ways, all the time it takes,
All the real, all the fakes, where this show
Will go?

If we keep running to escape,
Going in circles, finding ways
To envy, conspire, covet, hate
Then we'll just be wasting our time
Falling in line, heeding no sign
Stuck neither asleep nor awake

mat mchugh - go don t stop

I've been holding out for way too long,
Been hoping you say you're mine.
I've been so in doubt you'll play along,
Down low and always behind.
So, go slow, don't rush, don't care too much.
Don't make me hold onto you.
Girl, beware you touch me just enough,
And maybe i'll play your fool.
Be singing

Go, don't stop.
Won't feel no strain, no pop.
Won't be no lonely days, not anymore.
Keep saying,
Go, don't quit.
Just stay, get used to it.
Won't be no lonely waves run to the shore.
To the shore, to the shore

It's all waiting, chancing, true romancing.
Stay, we're too young to go.
Lights are fading, dancing crazy
Like there's maybe too much to know.
It's the same old life, all pay the price.
No dice, we all fall for love.
Run away, think twice, no sacrifice,
No stalling, no push and shove.
Just singing

Go, don't stop.
Won't feel no strain, no pop.
Won't be no lonely days, not anymore.
Keep saying,
Go, don't quit.
Just stay, get used to it.
Won't be no lonely waves run to the shore.
To the shore, to the shore

mat mchugh - i ll be for you

I'LL BE FOR YOU

well it's cold outside and i'm losing sleep
well i feel no change but a change in me
on a one way road, by a one way sign
with a one track soul, and a one track mind

and i can't help feeling that it's real this time
but i've never been too good with signs
and i don't wanna let it pass me by
but i'm afraid to even open my eyes
be true to me, and i will be true to you
just be for me, and i promise that i'll be for you

will i be so wrong when it comes around?
will i be so strong when it holds me down?
what do you think i better try to say,
when all the words i've got have all gone away?

and i can't help feeling that it's real this time
but i've never been too good with signs
and i don't wanna let it pass me by
but i'm afraid to even open my eyes
be true to me, and i will be true to you
just be for me, and i promise that i'll be for you

By: Ricardo Grams

mat mchugh - it isn t me

IT ISN'T ME

no, don't you say you love me
when you don't love me
you only wanted me to be there when you fall
now everything is changing
but you're not changing
then say you'll blame me if i change at all
but i'm the same
i'm the same
it's just circumstances
they always spin around as far as i recall
and then if we're not taking all our chances
one day regret will come and surely kill us all

and when i try to work it out
just what this whole damn thing's about
you say we're running to be free
but it isn't me
it isn't me
it isn't
me

we all have hearts for someone
we all have no one
we all have everything conceivable between
bold ideas of sorrow
pain and redemption
where is the love i need to keep me off my knees?
where is escape?
where is escape?
where is the final battle fought upon for my soul to see?
where all the ways to break me
they give up on me
and all the ways to live
they come to rescue me

and when i try to work it out
just what this whole damn thing's about
you say we're running to be free
but it isn't me
it isn't me
it isn't
me

and after all this time i thought
'well i can't go on just keeping saying nothing'
i'll scream until these lungs are raw
if it means that i at least stood up for something
you won't kill me with those words you say
and i will never change in my direction
because maybe it's just all a game
and i will never fall at your suggestion
until it all
until it all
falls away...

mat mchugh - loneliness

Light a candle, leave it out (oh no!)
Leave it out for the hungry ghosts
Every time we wander out, it shows
All the fear we hide in these bones

Somewhere they wonder why the rain's still falling down
We live between the wars in this northern town
The dancehall where we met has fallen down
It couldn't stand the loneliness
The loneliness

Many eyes out has the night, be sure
Not to be seen where we've been before
Down where the shadows all collide and fall
They're waiting on
They're waiting on us all

Somewhere they wonder why the rain's still falling down
We live between the wars in this northern town
The dancehall where we met has fallen down
It couldn't stand the loneliness
The loneliness

And when the night it falls
It calls us all to sleep
We'll handle the fright because it's all we've got to keep
Some days it seems this place is all we'll ever know
But i've seen those lights go on
There
Further down the road
Further down the road

La la la la la la
Loneliness

mat mchugh - love come save me

What would you say if we had never wasted,
All of the time it took to be ok ?
What would you say if we had never wasted us ?
Somedays they burn into a gold horizon,
Others they fade into the course of time.
Another day, another memory crumbles to dust.

Throw me a lifeline now I'm starting to drown.
Pull me a ripcord, soon I'm hitting the ground.
Tell me,
Is my time coming or a long time running
Singing,
Love come save me now ?

There's music blowing in the kona winds
It's singing,
Up in the clouds before the rain begins,
It's bringing me back my soul,
Gave my heart to the sea.
Just like the tide we all could come and go,
We could be everything we ever hoped,
So maybe,
All I could hope is one day you will remember me.

Throw me a lifeline now I'm starting to drown.
Pull me a ripcord, soon I'm hitting the ground.
Tell me,
Is my time coming or a long time running
Singing,
Love come save me now ?

Love,
Come save me now.

mat mchugh - my mind is an echo chamber

See, I feel so lost without you
Without you near to me
See, I feel so cold without you
Without you here to see
This world keep spinning
Round its orbit here in space
And, each time I look around
I swear I see your face
I see your face...

And I know at times I've tested
Your patience, hurt your soul
But never have I suggested
We ever let this go
Now I miss you more than you could ever realise
And, if I could take it back I promise you I'd try

I'd...
Tell you we could make it matter
Tell you we could make it good
I've got a heart that's made to shatter
Maybe that's the way it should
And I know this world gets crazy
Well I lost all self control
Where are you to come to save me
When I need you near to hold?

Oh my mind is an echo chamber

mat mchugh - no one left to blame

And when the stars are busy falling at your feet
Would you be busy calling after me

Would I be anywhere you wanna go
Would you say anything to give me hope

I dream that under water I can breathe
I dream to come the day I'll be released

Been drowned about the beating of my heart
I'd sleep, but I could fall apart

It's killing me slow
This weight on my shoulders
Been breaking my bones
Been hoping you know this
You know this mean go

Or would you away from me
Or would you take your time,
Turn and walk away
And leave me stay behind

So tell me do you know
If you would feel the same
With no one left to go
With no one left to blame

And when the lights are busy shining on you name?
Would remember when we were the same

When every thought we share was full of hope
When no one know how far this thing would go

Now days have come and days have gone away
Now I've been wondering how things have changed

That's when I fall apart and cry it on the night
That's wrong, but maybe still that's right

It's killing me slow
This weight on my shoulders
Been breaking my bones
Been hoping you know this
You know this mean go

Or would you away from me
Or would you take your time,
Turn and walk away
And leave me stay behind

So tell me do you know?
If you would feel the same
With no one left to go
With no one left to...

take those days, those ways, there's no one left to blame
Take those rains, those strains, there's no one left to blame
Take those lies, those times, there's no one left to blame
Retrace, rewind, resign, there's no one left to blame

mat mchugh - numb

So tell me now, what it is that you think that I've done
Its cold around here, without your love and I'm numb
So crucify me, if it makes you feel alright
But I'm around if you get lonely tonight

Chorus
Let's say goodbye now and let it go
'Cause loving you, like this is never ease
You'll be my girl always you know
But that doesn't mean that you will be with me
Time takes away the pain eventually

Verse 2
Every day ends, but another will come
And I won't regret it, never let it undone
Seems every mile has been walked by a better man than I
and I'mma try beleive way up in a holier might

Chorus 2
Those who never fall, never rise
But I'mma get through, no hurry in reason
Knelt down before a paradise
And said you never knew one thing about freedom
Time slowly washes by the seasons

Chorus
Lets say goodbye now and let it go
Cause loving you like this is never easy
You'll be my girl always you know
But it doesn't mean that you will be with me

Time takes away the pain eventually

mat mchugh - only you

Looking from a window above it's like a story of love
Can you hear me
Came back only yesterday I'm moving further away
Want you near me

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

Sometimes when I think of her name when it's only a game
And I need you
Listen to the words that you say it's getting harder to stay
When I see you

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

This is going to take a long time and I wonder what's mine
Can't take no more
Wonder if you'll understand it's just the touch of your hand
Behind a closed door

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
And all I ever knew
And all I ever knew
Only you

mat mchugh