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Child in your Eyes
04:20
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Child in your eyes
Growing up, sweet sixteen going out in a limousine
All dressed up in your party dress, looks to me that your hair’s a mess
You were the apple of my eye, I used to wake up to hear you cry,
Now I wait and wonder why?
Just don’t forget the child, don’t forget the child
Don’t forget the child, In your eyes
Tall dark and charming too, texting boy in love with you
The world at his fingertips, just be careful of his lips
You will fall in love one day, I’ll try not to stand in your way,
Listen to everything you have to say
When the world wants something of you,
keep your light shining through
When your love, cuts like a knife
Baby blues in the middle of the night
You can call me anytime, I’ll come running cause your mine,
Keep on talking, hold the line
Words and Music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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2. |
One Life
03:25
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One Life
One life, to lose, one kiss to miss
One peace to break, hold me in your arms
You’re there when I need a shoulder
You make me young when I’m feeling older
Forgive the past when times were colder
Hold me in your arms
When the world feels so much smaller
Secrets lost and mysteries over
Search me out like a supernova
Hold me in your arms
The more we know the more we don’t know
The more we search the least we find
Letting go and letting you in
Is the hardest thing to do
When I’m feeling this blue
Words & music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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Pilgrims
07:00
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Pilgrims
When I’m feeling lost and found
When I’m on this Pilgrim road
Hoping for a destiny
Will you then come to me
To hold me, find me take me to the other side
Cause I’m dreaming, wishing
I was somewhere in you mind
Beauty, jewel like radiant in my visual light
Beyond me, I’m thinking
Is this a dream or is it right, O God
If I stray off this path
If I slip and lose my way
Show a sign that I may say
Someone in my life today
Can this path be so cruel
So many prints are left behind
Each pilgrim making their own way
History tells us were all the same
Words & music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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4. |
War Zone
03:48
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War Zone
It’s a war zone, can you feel it in the air?
It’s a war zone, can you feel it in the air?
I get troubled, by what I see
By what I read, what comes through my TV
It’s a war zone, can you feel it in the air?
The streets are burning, for a love that cares
Look behind you, can you feel it coming?
Broken families and children unloving
It’s a war zone, can you feel it in the air?
The conflict within us, the war out there
Waiting for my saviour to come
Which one should I choose?
A state politician or a God in heaven
Something that can’t be moved, moved, or proved
It’s a war zone, can you feel it in the air?
This friction inside of us, is driving me to despair
World government’s, boundary lines
People famined, it assaults my mind
It’s a War zone, can you feel it in the air?
It’s a War zone, can you feel it in the air?
Words and music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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5. |
Listen to Your Soul
05:57
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Listen To Your Soul
Tell me, tell me boldly
The old story of Heaven and Hell
Speak to me, rant and rave at me
Fix your stare on me and give me fear
Sing to me, make it real to me
Sonically, in my ear
Cause I just don’t know what to believe
It’s like a post-modernist disease
I’ll be what you want me to be
Just tell me what you mean
Give it to me thick or lean
Just tell me what you mean
Give it to me thick or lean, oh yeah
I see you and I hear you
You’re telling me, to vote for you
You promise me, promise me everything
Equality to living things and freedom shared
Oh can I? Can I trust you?
And do you, really care?
Hear me, oh won’t you hear me?
Can’t you see me, coming up for air?
Rest now, oh won’t you rest now?
The worlds grown weary, no need to care
The wind blows, east and west knows
God only knows a mystery shared
Listen, to your soul
Listen, to your soul
Listen, to your soul
Words & music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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6. |
One Morning in May
03:16
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7. |
Whirlwind of Lovers
04:34
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Whirlwind of Lovers
I went to the river to pray, to wash my life away
To wash my life away, no longer wished to stay
Out of the depths an angel came to me
An angel came to me saying, I can set you free
Above all this toil and strife, this tyranny
This tyranny, come take my hand and see
And when you’re feeling lonely when you’re feeling sad
Come to the river to wash and pray leave what you have
She took me by the hand and a myriad more behind
A myriad more behind singing this life is mine
A whirlwind of lovers were joining hands
Were joining hands from different lands
Soaring above this planet earth leaving wars behind
Leaving wars behind no boundaries were defined
And then I rubbed my eyes, laying by the bank
Laying by the bank and wondered what I drank
A flock of Starlings swept on by singing in the air
Singing in the air do not despair
What you see and what you get is only in your mind
Only in your mind clouding the sunshine
I went to the river to pray, to wash my life away
To wash my life away, no longer wished to stay
Words and music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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8. |
Sing it to Me
05:00
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Sing it to Me
You’re looking so nice in my sight
Your eyes are shining radiant and bright
Your beauty is revealing
A desire for love and healing
Tell me what I want, tell me what I need
Tell me everything you see
I don’t know who I am now
I don’t know where I am going here with you
We’ve been treated wrong
Life’s been putting us down
Trying to take us, trying to beak us
Trying to make us a clown, sing it with me
I need more time I need to slow down
Talk some more that’s have some wine
It’s not that I don’t love you
It’s not that I don’t care
Look at the night the stars are bright
A summer breeze makes it feel right
We need take it gently
While he music’s playing sweetly in our ears
Before you go, I want you to know
You fill my life this gaping hole
But do you really love me?
And will you sing so sweetly?
When Autumn comes and the music stops
There’s little more we have in stock
I’ll try not to hurt you
I’ll try to make it sweet till the end
Words & music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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9. |
Peckham to Paradise
04:09
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Peckham to Paradise
The way she looked, the way she cried and the way she sighed
She was looking for something
Her auburn hair, her hazel eyes and a voice inside
She was looking for something
Come over to my place darling
What will be, will be
The hour is late and waiting
For a coffee and something nice
From Peckham to paradise
In the crowd, in the noise and the void
She was looking for something
Like a jewel, like a light, shining bright
She was looking for something
The way she moved, through the air without a care
She was looking for something
Without a noise, in the night no one in sight
She was looking for something
Music & words by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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10. |
Across the Tyne
04:17
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Across the Tyne
I was wondering, I was wondering, what was on your mind?
I was wondering, I was wondering, across the Tyne
When you went back, when you went back did you find your heart?
When you went back, when you went back across the Tyne
In the fatherland, in the fatherland, was there anyone left?
In the fatherland, in the fatherland, across the Tyne
The people you knew have changed and have gone
Memories are left a heartland of stone
A part of you here, a part of you there
The spirit of the moors will always be yours
Times are changing, times are changing, things are moving on
Times are changing, times are changing, across the Tyne
Cast you chains off, cast your chains off, time to sail away
Cast your chains off, cast your chains off, across the Tyne
Will you come to me? Will you come to me? It’s a new world
Will you come to me? Will you come to me? Across the Tyne
Words & music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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11. |
Lottery Life
05:23
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Lottery Life
What ya gonna do when the money runs out?
What ya gonna do when the bank gives a shout?
Working all your life on the brief case train
Then you find out there’s nothing to gain
A mortgage and a wife and a little kid
The boss says son I want your head
Filling in your time sheets, drinking at the bar
Seems like everyone’s made your bed
It’s your life, it’s your life
You’ve gotta fight for what’s right
Stand up and hold your ground
Before you are taken over
Like the passing shadow clouds
The light grows dim and feels, colder
Better beware cause the money man’s about
He wants your share and he doesn’t care
Coming through the letter box and telephone
Gotta get out before he gets you alone
My head spinning around, amusement arcades
Levers pulling and a clattering sound
Everyone’s living a lottery life
Lucky numbers and Mystic Meg
Have you seen the stars shining late at night
The blue of the day and the sun shining bright
Funny you forget with your head in the sand
The chain gang life of a working man
You load sixteen tons and what do you get
Another day older and a deeper in debt
Peter don’t you call cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
Word & Music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
Verse 6 words by Merle Travis 1946
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12. |
Make Poverty
03:50
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Make Poverty
Make poverty
Make poverty
Make poverty, history
Make poverty
Make poverty
Make poverty, history
Fifty thousand die each day
Living on less than a dollar a day
Owe too much to pay their way
Corporation trading games
Feed the rich and starve the poor
Make the rules to claim back more
Infant mortality
And social disability
Crying out for humanity
Children dying
Mothers crying
Fathers despairing
Words & Music by Jonathan Thompson Meadow Music 2008
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Jonathan Thompson Hampshire, UK
Jonathan Thompson writes and performs songs drawn from everyday experiences and observations to foot tapping folk and blues guitar grooves. His musical journey as a songwriter has been relatively new but his roots and influences started early by listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stevens, Simon & Art Garfunkel and Blues artist's. In 2001 he started to perform and has produced two studio albums ... more
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