1. |
New Skin
03:20
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NEW SKIN
Our haven was a change taking place
Rearranged and unexplained
We were afraid
Woven into place we felt safe
Unashamed we overcame skin so tame
No one knew our names or our face
Or our games we would play
Underneath the stars
It’s going to take some time
To break in the life of new skin
We metamorphosize
Shedding life we were draped in
Flying high we look down
As I hold you close
Say goodbye to old skin
Trembling in the cold
A heady haze of questions
Mountainous and bold
There’s a million answers
I long to know
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2. |
Wait in the Car
04:16
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WAIT IN THE CAR
Hey sun, it’s getting late
You’re dying like fire
The days are long
And I can hardly face all my fears alone
I need you to call the way somehow
The past’s too big a place
To follow me now
Wait for the waking sun
Our fate will decide
We could wait a long lifetime
Too late for the ride
While we wait in the car
Abandon our traits that weigh us down
An answerless place has too many clouds
Wait for the waking sun
Our fate will decide
We could wait a long lifetime
Too late for the ride
Too busy waiting
Do we wait in the car?
Or will fate take us far?
To a place full of stars
Or do we wait in the car?
Forever wondering how
We never made it out of town
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3. |
My Selfless Moon
04:11
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MY SELFLESS MOON
I owe it to your heart
To give you every part
The acres of my existence
Dead roses past their charm
My petals in your palm
My blooming takes persistence
I bend I bow
More weak than strong
Carefully the fragile break
Tender from the night
I’m her fear
I’m miles from moonlit sky
Guiding her blind
Throw selfish to the sharks
The cruellest of remarks
Blindness and its resistance
She needs these days unarmed
Days without facade
Days when she showed resilience
She bends she bows
More weak than strong
Carefully the fragile break
Tender from the night
She’s my fear
She’s miles of moonlit sky
Acres of white
Break her so blue
I hope she pulls through
My selfless moon
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4. |
Anniversary
04:03
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ANNIVERSARY
He raised a glass to hour’s past
Remembering someone, once a flower
Unsurpassed, the shadow’s cast
Her silhouette’s the sun every hour
Drinking merrily under the sun, life’s a haze
Unsteadily the year’s begun as he turns the grains
She is momentary
They are solitary
Yearly he’ll meet her there
She whispers profoundly,
“So glad you found me”
April’s in the air
With the same old kiss on her head
Dancing alive on their anniversary
Locked away, they’re handcuffed high
He wonders, “Can we hide the keys tonight?”
“Cast away your worried eyes,
Tomorrow doesn’t know where we lie”
Sleeping soundly with the one you love
The one who gives the kiss of life
She is momentary
They are solitary
Yearly he’ll meet her there
She whispers profoundly,
“So glad you found me”
April’s in the air
With the same old kiss on her head
Dancing alive on their anniversary
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5. |
The Tide
04:57
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THE TIDE
Surrender in twilight
Sleep with the tide in a moonlit room
I levitate on a joyride
Solitary in the sea marooned
The push and pull is tireless
Child-like it wears me out
The waves roll over my heart now
I’m pulled apart now
Sheets of white so cold
Tease my heart now
I’m pulled apart now the tide’s in
So far the waves are kind
Their undertow feels safe
Waves become a way
To wash away the pain and doubt
That’s more than you’ll know
More than you care
More will flow again
The waves roll over my heart now
I’m pulled apart now
Sheets of white so cold
Tease my heart now
I’m pulled apart now the tide’s in
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6. |
Morning
04:09
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MORNING
Where do I start while breaking in the morning?
I shuffle down the aisle of the morning
And deliver my vows
But I am somehow stalling
To make a commitment to you
Wake with the stars falling in the morning
We laugh until we cry in the morning
There’s screaming aloud as trivial clouds storm in
And I don’t know why it rains
It’s in for the day and we soon retire
Heroic in heart while aching in the morning
I’m waiting for the sky to stop bawling
There’s dreaming abound but nobody comes calling
And I don’t know how to live with pain
Forgetting to love when it rains
But our saving grace
Is what we reclaimed from embers so tired
A glimpse of a flame still on fire
Morning can wake in a veil of surprises
Morning’s afraid of the dark
Morning’s the face with a million disguises
Morning’s a healing of the heart
Morning’s the eyes of a woman looking through her man
Morning’s the child with a dream we confide in
Morning’s forgiveness in your hand
Our vigil of light is fragile come morning
I’m praying for the day that’s in mourning
When I can walk on the water with you
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7. |
Autopilot
03:34
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AUTOPILOT
Life can feel so remote
Lost in the hood of my overcoat
So tired and nowhere
Subconsciously the lines flow
Finger maps on steamed windows
So wired and so unaware
Finding a space in the dark
When you’re lonely
Hurting like hell in your heart
Uncontrollably
Drifting away
How far is never-ending?
My automatic senses blow
Now mindful of the signposts close by
I count my blessings
Finding a space in the dark
When you’re lonely
Hurting like hell in your heart
Uncontrollably
Drifting away
How far is never-ending?
On course now I’m descending
It’s your love that I’m depending on
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8. |
Our Time
04:59
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OUR TIME
Reckless and brave
It’s happening now with you
Our laughter is laced
With infinite smiles for two
This will never be the same
Here and now in this fleeting day
Don’t fade out once more
Alive in our age
Hearing our sounds of youth
We’ll reminisce this page
When life’s perfect flower bloomed
This time will never be erased
Hold my hand in this perfect place
We frame now on our wall
Where we gave it all
It’s so clear, our time here now
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9. |
Intruders on Earth
03:02
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INTRUDERS ON EARTH
A strange night to walk these empty streets
As my eyelids flicker like the movies
In a screening of my dream
A scene where time has no repeat
No cause for alarm in a world asleep
No mourning for the life we froze
What a way to live
Is it time worth travelling?
We couldn’t say
In the open arms of wherever
Let’s lose our way
In the slow motion snow
Anywhere now
Intruders on earth tonight
The first signs of any life with you
We’re taken in like strays
In a timeless paradise
And we’re fed on aimless wonder I
’m cage-less by your side
I feel immortal
In the slow motion snow
Anywhere now
Intruders on earth tonight
The first signs of any life
But when the whole world’s open-eyed
And they watch you
Our hands back on earth are tied
Our life as intruders dies
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10. |
The Light
04:10
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THE LIGHT
Faced with the sea
Like an old enemy
There’s a light bulb that’s breaking
There’s nothing worth saving
Our hands become oars
In a lifeboat that once was our bed
Tread carefully
Hear the creak underneath
There’s a cyclone parading
And serenading restless lullabies
I am tuneless and void of the light
‘Cause I gave up believing
As I often do
It’s just you and me
And our child to feed
All our spirit’s forsaking
Now Elliott’s waking
Embraced in a storm
With our hands clasped
And braced for the fight
Endless repeats
Where’s our moments relief?
Our spirits a painting
Of gold emanating
From faraway shores
I think I can make out the light
Now I won’t stop believing
While your eyes cry for meaning
The clouds are conceding
I love you
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Scott Matthews UK
Scott's ground-breaking debut album, Passing Stranger earned serious critical acclaim, with his first single ‘Elusive’
winning the Ivor Novello for ‘Best Song Musically and Lyrically’.
His eighth studio release, Restless Lullabies due for release in April 2023 is of the purist acoustic delicacy, cementing Matthews’ undeniable mastery as one of our greatest songsmiths.
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