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BUSH TELEGRAPH
03:25
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BUSH TELEGRAPH
Come in come in can anyone hear this?
Come in come is there someone there?
I hear echoes of distant thunder
Come in there must be someone there
Alright you have all my attention
I heard you knocking all night long
So say something
So say something
Home-made drums and satellites
Antennae thrust into the night
That’s me waving high on the hill
You’ll make contact I know you will
Hello? Are you receiving me?
Smoke signals from my garage
I hear /you have/ been trying to reach me
These are/ the on/ly words I have
I’m just trying to make connection
An S/O/S using
Home-made drums and…
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ONCOMING TRAIN
03:31
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ONCOMING TRAIN
Ready or not this day’s about to start
Better get going ‘fore it breaks my heart
I lost the last one – there’ve been some I’ve won
This could go either way before it’s dark
What’s that light in the tunnel?
Could be good, could be trouble
Either way – hey
This is it – jump the tracks and stare it down
It’s an oncoming train
No-one’s against you but it feels like it
The worst you imagined hasn’t happened yet
Want some attention? Go out and get some
Nobody’s watching, take what you can get
What’s that noise engineer?
What’s that sound I can hear?
Hit the brake – hey
Yesterday ran me over
Not today! Jump this oncoming train
Words and music: John Ellis
Published by Jellisongs/ Admin. by HereWeAreMusic
© John Ellis 2013
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ALL TOO SOON
03:59
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ALL TOO SOON
All too soon the party’s over
I’m standing in the driveway
Dressed up for the night but dawn’s already breaking
No sign of the car I came in
Looks like I’ll be walking
To my rented space and bed of my own making
But where did all the time and money go?
Nothing’s ever made to last
Things just disappear so fast
All too soon – all too soon
All the things I held so tightly
I should have learned to hold more lightly
All too soon
There came a day I reached a summit
And I surveyed my kingdom
In the distance higher mountains called me by my name
It’s too easy to get used to
Oxygen that pure
All too soon I’m in the valley far beneath me
I never thought I’d have to stoop so low again
Nothing’s…
It’s only fair that morning follows night
High tide replaces low
It can’t be all just honeymoon that’s over all too soon
Here today, gone later on today
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SOON THERE WILL BE MORE OF US
Did you hear that?
Thunder rolling
From the gold mines
To the coast
Sleeping giant
Had a bad dream
Wakes up tied to a
Whipping post
One by one, rebellious
Soon there will be more of us
We can only take so much
You have gone to war with us
Once I turned my
Back on the ocean
Before I knew it
Swept away
Running water
Always seeps through
Your finger won’t keep
The flood at bay
One by one…
And we won’t stop
Until we get what we want
And we won’t stop
Until we get what we came for
Till it’s clean
Until it’s shining again
Just like it was
When we
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WAITING TO BE RESCUED
04:54
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John Ellis Durban, South Africa
A singer-songwriter from Durban, South Africa, John has played his music all over the world. His fifth full-length solo album "Native"will be released on April 27 2022.
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