Mark Owen Album

Early morning juices blend he chooses
Bowl of seed and water cleanses
Caffeine free with herbs for tea
Clear and fresh he won't be tempted
High on C he's staring at me
We make us seem far apart
Dead for awhile, resurrects with a smile
Pulls my conscience inside apart

Green man

I'll take a leaf from your book
Found a new love
I say peace man

Green man

I'll take a leaf from your book
Found a new love
I say peace man
Second sight no sense of fright
He lives his life for the moment
He stands like a god an enlightened god
Ruby centres in his crown
Man of wealth loaded with health
A lion with a mother's heart
Magic man with your save Earth plan
Thanks for giving me my part

Green man

I'll take a leaf from your book
Found a new love
I say peace man

Green man

I'll take a leaf from your book
Found a new love
I say peace man
Our body is a precious thing, treat it with care, treat it as bare
As a snake sheds its skin you've got to shed your past over and over
Again the more that you give the more you'll receive so give your

She heard a voice from so far away
It told her her mother had gone away
In the next room down the corridor
Her baby started to cry
Her whole life had just fell apart
There was nothing then the hurting started
In her heavy head on her knees she prayed
could somebody help her

Clementine
It was never meant to be this way
It was never meant to be this way
Clementine
It was never meant to be this way
it was never meant to be this way
If only I'd told you yesterday

Got in her car and she sped away
Into the floodlit street down by your way
As the sun rose by the morning dew
Well she returned in such a state
Her baby knew not what was going on
But it could tell from her tears that something was wrong with mum
Desperation let out its final scream
But our clementine didn't hear a damn thing

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Into the mirror she stared at herself
Asked is that my life is that what I'm here for
Her reflection chose not to respond
As she froze to the spot like a cold hard statue

Sleep peacefully now my child
I hope that you go away
To a place where your dreams can play
Wipe all the tears from your eyes
There is a sky of blue
This is your time of truth

Like a bird high on the wind
May you fly away
Like a snowfall in the spring
may you cares melt away
CHILD, innocent child
our hope lies inside
your starry eyes
my innocent child

Hero, now that you are free
You have no need to fear
so go out and find your smile
Like a candle in the stream
May you float away
Like a feather on the breeze
May you blow away

[REPEAT CHORUS]
Like a candle,
Like a snowfall
Like a feather
like a bird: fly away
Like a candle,
like a snowfall
like a feather
like a bird..fly away

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Sleep peacefully now my child
I hope that you go away

Taking a walk
Through the valley of a roadside
Taking a walk through the valley of a roadside
on a sunny afternoon
Smoking a smoke
Through the streets of a poppy field
Smoking a smoke through the streets of a poppy field
on a sunny afternoon
I'm travelling down a man made avenue
Theres a stop sign this time I'm going through

Are you with me
on my journey
Are you with me in the search for the sunshine
On a sunny afternoon

Now I'm driving in my car
Down the path of a hillside
On a sunny afternoon
Holding your hand
Down a lane made for lovers
on a sunny afternoon
I'm travelling down a man made avenue
Theres a stop sign this time I'm going through

[REPEAT CHORUS]

I'm travelling down a man made avenue

Loving comes naturally
Loving comes naturally

As the sun rises above
Shadows are formed
of the two of us
As the bird calls out its song
See flowers dance
with the two of us
as we bare our souls
to the purest form
And let our hearts run free

Loving comes naturally
Loving comes naturally

As the sun hides in the shade
Rain takes its place
Cleanse the two of us
Drink the falls
Feeding the lands, flowing to sea
Just the two of us
As we see our world
From deep inside
And turn our flames up high

Loving comes naturally
Loving comes naturally

Playing outside as the rains coming
Was under the shade of the tree
Was under the shade of that apple tree

Last night in my dreams
I sae you with another
and when I turned around
You were gone
It all came back to me
trough a postman and this letter
That bought the words
I fell in love with another
How does it feel when you wake up in the mornig
Do you ever think of me lying here
Cause when I go to sleep, you become my pillow
And I hold you tight and whisper in your ear

Does he hold you the way I used to
Does he smile you from the centre of his heart
Does he live for you, would he die for you,
If you told him that you want him to.

Could he love you the way I always will
Well could you ask him to

I ventured out today
I really wished I hadn't
Cause everything I seen and heard made me think of you
I know I have to get over you but at the present I'm finding
It hard to do. So I beg you please to take a moment to ask

Does he hold you the way I used to
Does he smile you from the centre of his heart
Does he live for you, would he die for you,
If you told him that you want him to.

Could he love you the way I always will
Well could you ask him to

Now I'm a speck on your horizon
a fading light inside your eye
I've come to understand that you were far beyond me
but I'll never understand exactly the reasons why.
You never explained to me.

Does he hold you the way I used to
Does he smile you from the centre of his heart
Does he live for you, would he die for you,
If you told him that you want him to.

Could he love you the way I always will

We're all the same now
We're all the same
We're all the same now
We're all the same

In this picture
I'm going to try and get an overview
In this picture
The lines are blurred but my colors are shining through
I start with a canvas
And think about what I want to achieve
From another angle
The paintings gonna make a print of me
Choose the texture

Carot gold, the kind fit for a king
But that aint what I'm about
So I'll take this earth and I'll mix it in
Now my paintings ready to begin
But how big should it be
Big enough for the mantlepiece of every home
Or small enough for my back pocket and me

[REPEAT CHORUS]

I start with the heart now
The rest will develop from its beat
As it takes shape
The picture no longer resembles me
It resembles every living thing I've ever seen or heard
From the heart of me to a flying bird
So now how big should this picture be
Should it fill the world or my back pocket and me
In this picture
I"m going to try and get an overview
In this picture
The lines are blurred but my colors are shining through

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Everything, everything will be ok
It will be ok
Cos now I know how this picture should be
it should fill the world, but it also should fill me

Ok so now its over
It'll never be the same again
The shade has changed its color
The light is shining through you
Cause its over
Its time for you to face the fact
You've got yourself a whole new track
The problem aint without
Don't hide under your pout
Cause its over

You gotta move on
move up, and move through
You've gotta move out
move up, real soon

Nobody knows the sadness that I'm feeling today
nobody knows

Who said that it was over
Don't let your efforts go to waste
You've done your time of graft
Let go and you'd be daft
It aint over
You've gotta come to terms with it
Don't get left in the has been pit
You've still got seven lives
The trier never dies
it aint over

You gotta move on
move up, and move through
You've gotta move out
move up, real soon

Don't be afraid to take hold of your reins

Mother's girl has fallen in love
And dad has already told her he has heard enough
He has taken sides of his wife
And he tells is little petal she's too young for life
So she goes to her room and shut the world outside
Lays down to sink into her private mind, her other life inside
She sings

Secondhand rocking horse
Let me ride high on you
To a secondhand wonderland
Secondhand lover boy
Let me meet up with you
In a secondhand wonderland

Husband's drunk once again
And he rages round the room sign of her real man
She is numb from her pain
But she's too afraid to leave she just hides it in so deep within
Cries herself to sleep another lonely night, but in her dreams she sings

Secondhand rocking horse
Let me ride away with you
To a secondhand wonderland
Secondhand wedding day
Let my virgin dance again
In our secondhand wonderland

This hour I feel insecure
Got a bag of plastic worries from the grocery store
Wild dogs stand prepared to savage at my flesh if I appear too scared
So I walk the tightrope line without a safety net
As the rope begins to fray I buy another set,
From a secondhand rope store
I sing

Secondhand rocking horse
Let me ride away with you
To a secondhand wonderland
Secondhand wooden horse
Take me far away with you

Today I feel a change,
in the way you look at me
And all I have to say
is that I like it
Today I feel a change
In your glowing, loving, chestnut eyes
And all that I can say
is that I feel it

You are everything to me
You are everything I need

My love
And so much more than that
My love
And so much more:so much more

Today I hear a change
In your gentle, whispering singing voice
And all I have to say
is keep talking
Today I felt a change
as your hands, they touched the soul of me
And all I have to say
is keep touching

You make this world for me
You are all that I could be

My love
And so much more than that
My love
And so much more:so much more

I never knew
What love was all about,
until I started looking at you
No one ever tried to tell or show me so I finally figured it out for myself,
that what you need:
is someone, who without, you can't breathe

My love
And so much more than that
My love
And so much more:so much more

How I wish, that I could be like you
How I wish, that I could feel like you
How I hope, that I touch you..like you.

My love
And so much more than that
My love

Looking at me through the eye of a needle
is a scary thing to do
I feel a mole hill lies in front of me to climb
Is your primary purpose in life
to scrutinize every move I make
cos if it is I think your wasting precious time

Well I know that I have got a job to do
And I know, that my job is pleasing you, but

I am what I am
The way god made me
I am what I am
Don't try to change me

Well I know I have my weaknesses
as you point them out to me
but I'll confront the spots of doubt as they arise
Never born to be a leader
but I'll take my role with pride
cos a soldier with his honours lies inside

Well I know that I have got a job to do
As you say, that my job revolves around you

I am what I am
The way god made me
I am what I am
Don't try to change me

Well I know that I have got a job to do
But my life, wasn't made:for you

I am what I am
The way god made me
I am what I am
Don't try to change me

I am what I am

Could somebody give me an answer
a solution to fill up my space
As I take a peep out of the whole in my window
I see a land that is filled with disgrace
Now is it me, or did it used to seem better?
Now I tear grows in every man's eye
but the tear never once reached the surface
And the tree which I climbed slowly dies

Is that what its all about
Hiding our feelings away
Let the problem be that of another man
I'm living my life in this way
Far away from a troubled face
Is that what its all about?

A cure aint been found for my problem just yet
behind the wrought iron gate, it is there, I bet
but the key got a caught in a fishermans net
With a dolphin the boy wanted for his pet
Well I know I aint getting no younger
pretty soon I guess I'll be extinct
and all that I'll leave to remember
is this problem I once paused to think

Is that what its all about
Hiding our feelings away
Let the problem be that of another man
I'm living my life in this way
Far away from a troubled face
Is that what its all about?

Put it behind you
Turn a blind eye
Though you always know that its here
Living your life through the line of defence

Sitting at home with my head in my hands
Wondering what the day's gonna bring
Sitting alone with my feet in the sand
Been waiting for a change in direction
Dreaming of days when the night never came
Wishing for a night with no day
Dreaming of a life where the bulb never blows
Wishing to be left in the darkness

Today I know where I'm going
Tomorrow I'll be somewhere else
This morning I'll be a somebody
This evening I'm finding myself
Well are you confused, I guess you would be, so, so am I

Thinking of people calling my name but living life in solitude
Thinking of receiving an OBE, but it was over before I knew
Thinking of kissing a girl in the park but I'd rather be walking my dog
Thinking of teaching myself to play chess but i'd rather play drafts instead

Is it true, what they say
did you really lose your way
Up and down I see you stroll
never looking out, to see which way to go
Should I stop to ask you why
Should I stop and take a wander round
with me

To where you always wanted to go
Where you've never been before
a place where you can take off,
your hat, and your coat
I'll make a cup of tea
You can talk, to me
When you wanna leave I'll take you
When you wanna leave I'll take you
When you wanna leave I'll take you home.

Where do you go inside your head
space and emptyness, becomes your flower bed
In your veins a knowledged man
kids are looking up, to find his master plan
When I see your eyes I'll ask you why
Would you like to rest your legs and fly
with me

silver hair, tired feet, walking the world every day

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Johnny [x16] Johnny's a child, we better watch out
was top of the class before he was even born
Johnny was hard, he was nails, we were not
and when he opened his mouth, then out came the foghorn

Gimme your money or I'll have ya
Gimme some food or your dead
Gimme the answers to your homework
Gimme gimme gimme gimme

Stuck in such a funny place
has no name, no time, no space
heading for the pavement once again
been here many times before
between the ceiling and the floor
heading for the pavement once again

Oh dear I'm back here again (now I'm back again)
Oh dear I'm back here again (now I'm back again, now I'm back again)
Johnny [repeatedly]

Johnny was mean
captain of the rugby team
six feet tall with a fist like a bowling ball
Johnny was mad, mad, Johnny was bad
he was hungry for blood and he screamed down my earhole

Gimme your money or I'll have ya gimme some food or your dead
gimme the answers to your homework
gimme gimme gimme gimme

stuck in such a funny place
has no name, no time, no space
heading for the pavement once again
been here many times before
between the ceiling and the floor
heading for the pavement once again

Oh dear I'm back here again (now I'm back again) [x3]

Johnny [repeatedly]
Gimme your money or I'll have ya
gimme some food or your dead
gimme the answers to your homework
gimme gimme gimme gimme

I'm falling [x2]
Stuck in such a funny place
has no name, no time, no space
heading for the pavement once again
been here many times before
between the ceiling and the floor
heading for the pavement once again

Oh dear I'm back here again (now I'm back again) [x4]

We're still waiting out here for you
we're still waiting come back soon
you said that you'd make things better
but we're still waiting in the queue

The queue of Mr You [x2]

Mr You in your pinstripe suit
with your hair slicked back from an oil pack
and your handkerchief in your pocket shaded blue
my friends put their faith in you
so you took their minds and then turned the screw
and now I see them queuing in the queue

The queue of Mr You [x2]

Mr You you're looking flash with you're highlife strapped upon your back
and your 52 week holiday per year
champagne corks pop in your ear
the only sound that you choose to hear
mute the voices of the people in the queue

The queue of Mr You [x2]
we're still waiting out here for you
we're still waiting in the queue

People are talking
they're starting to walk away
better start watching, coz people are leaving

The queue of Mr You [x2]
we're still here, waiting out here for you
we're still waiting, come back soon
you said that you'd make things better
but we're still waiting in the queue

The queue of Mr You [x2]