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    • JUST AROUND THE CORNER (2020)
    • I WAS ON THE MOON (2016)
    • BEARS REPEATING (2013)
    • BEACH BUSKER (2011)
    • LIVE BY THE SUN (2008)
    • WE ALL (2007)
    • ROCK JUST A LITTLE (2005)
    • THIS IS THE ONE (2002)
    • ISLAND CHRISTMAS (2016)
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1. Just Around the Corner

Vic Riden & Owen Plant 

 

Life’s real good just around the corner

Gotta hold on (a) little bit longer 

She’s waiting there for only me to hold her

Feel her head tucked on my shoulder 

Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer 

My cider and cash, harder and colder

Hand in hand together growing older

Life’s damn good just around the corner

 

When I was a young man I was never wrong

If I said it was true or sang it in a song

Couldn’t bear a counter whether short or long

I been pulled from that smelter red hot in the tongs

So I’ll chop the wood and carry the water

Fix the fence, fire up the solder

Be kind yet firm with our sons and our daughters

Life’s real good just around the corner

 

Life’s real good just around the corner

Gotta hold on a little bit longer 

She’s waiting there for only me to hold her

Feel her head tucked on my shoulder 

Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer 

My cider and cash, harder and colder

I’m winning both, the over and the under

Life’s damn good just around the corner

 

Wise is as wise does but I’m sometimes confused 

Between hard determination (and) what amounts to a short fuse

I just found out I been paying the wrong kind of dues

For how long, I can’t be sure, but I know I stand to loose

Tír na nÓg is what they say in the bogs 

When they’re chopping peat and every day is a slog

But a better day is always just around the corner 

Gotta hold on a little bit longer!

 

Life’s real good just around the corner

Gotta hold on a little bit longer 

She’s waiting there for only me to hold her

Feel her head tucked on my shoulder 

Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer 

My cider and cash, harder and colder

I’m winning both, the over and the under

Life’s damn good just around the corner

 

I know my clock is already reading half past 

And noone on this earth can forever last

But I can wait a little bit longer if you ask

My nose to the grindstone and a fire under my ass!

If you don’t believe in that great reward 

Well that’s more for me and less for yourn

Just two more feet pushing this boulder

Life’s real good just around the corner

 

Life’s real good just around the corner

Gotta hold on a little bit longer 

She’s waiting there for only me to hold her

Feel her head tucked on my shoulder 

Sun’s gonna be a little bit warmer 

My cider and cash, harder and colder

Hand in hand together growing older

Life’s damn good just around the corner 

 

2. Together Always Be

Owen Plant 

 

She dreams about him every night

He ages as he would if he were with her in life 

She sees no need to visit his grave

They already talk at the end of each day 

 

Because death is not the absence of life

It’s more like the crossing of a sea

They call her ‘widow’ but still a wife in her heart she always will be

 

Her daughter Grace remembers his face but his voice in song she cannot quite place 

Her mother smiles when she hears the tune that he could have written coming from the other room

 

Because death is not the absence of life

It’s more like the crossing of a sea

They call her ‘widow’ but still a wife in her heart she always will be

 

So when at last their time has come to leave this shore for the other one

You generations left behind need not grieve, you need not cry

 

Because death is not the end of us

It’s more like the crossing of a sea

These souls of ours that travel must together always be

 

3. Keep the Change

Vic Riden & Owen Plant

 

Some of them girls took my worldly gold

Others made it their mission to break my very soul

They all walked away better than before

Left me with nothing, took a little more

 

Just when I thought there ain’t no ‘her’ to find

Gave love up as a ghost, put it out of my mind

She walked out my dreams from when my dreams were kind

Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?

 

She loves to give and gives to love

She’s like an angel sent from above

And when I ask how can I repay

She smiles and says, “baby keep the change”

 

Take take take

That’s what I seen

Me me me has been the general theme

So you can see for me how it’s a little bit strange

When someone says ‘you don’t owe me no way’

 

Just when I thought I’d always be alone

She came to me like some magic seeds were sown

Kind as a saint and oh so fine

Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?

 

She loves to give and gives to love

She’s like an angel sent from above

And when I ask how can I repay

She smiles and says baby keep the change

 

Got my back

Got my six

Got me covered when I’m in a fix

By my side when it can’t get worse

Don’t even have to ask

And for me that’s a first

 

Just when I thought there ain’t no ‘her’ to find

Gave love up as a ghost put it out of my mind

She walked out my dreams from when my dreams were kind

Can this vision be real or is it just that love is blind?

 

She loves to give and gives to love

She’s like an angel sent from above

And when I ask how can I repay

She smiles and says baby keep the change

She loves to give and gives to love

She’s like an angel sent from above

And when I ask how can I repay

She smiles and says baby keep the change

baby keep the change

baby keep the change

 

4. All the While

Owen Plant

 

Pushed just a little bit 

Might as well have been a mighty kick

As I flew through the air I saw you and your blank stare

If only you would scream at me or do anything more than wait and see

Then at least break or bend, there’d be no more pretend

 

All the while calling me

As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free

Oh son, father, spirit, three

Whatever works for you is good for me

 

Seven years tend to itch a bit

Times three, you think you’re through the thick of it

Then you wake up from a dream to find this wall in between

High and low, just the way it goes

Any lower we’ll be past the nose

If we push off for air we’ll maybe make it one more year

 

All the while calling me

As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free

Oh son, father, spirit, three

Whatever works for you is good for me

 

Beauty like I’ve never seen has come to us in evergreen 

But I’m a hopeless case, everything’s still out of place 

 

All the while calling me

As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free

Oh son, father, spirit, three

Whatever works for you is good for me

All the while calling me

As I wander aimlessly in the wilderness thinking I am free

How I wish, how I wish you could see you and me at the end of the journey

 

5. Bury Me

Vic Riden & Owen Plant 

 

Plant that seed of sorrow

Take away all our tomorrows

And at first, yes, I will weep

Bury me baby oh so deep

 

When that sun shines on through

And I grow right on past you

Watch me become stronger

And crave you no longer

 

Go on drive me deep into the ground

Let darkness and unknown surround

Throw on that hurt and that pain

They will serve as my dirt and my rain

 

And when you want to come back home

And you find I’m not alone

It’s cuz I grew tall and complete

Yeah, bury me baby oh so deep

 

Go on drive me deep into the ground

Let darkness and unknown surround

Throw on that hurt and that pain

They will serve as my dirt and my rain

 

Did you know when we took this way only you would get to leave and I’d be left to make my way from underneath?

 

Go on drive me deep into the ground

Let darkness and unknown surround

Throw on that hurt and that pain

They will serve as my dirt and my rain

Throw on that hurt and that pain

They will serve as my dirt and my rain

 

6. Side Two

Owen Plant 

 

I think we finished side two 

Hear that scratching on the table?

Well you know what to do 

Turn it over when you’re able

 

I can see you’re having a hard time 

Even lifting the needle seems to blow your mind 

But we can’t just sit in a dead room

It’s as silent as a tomb

 

I’m sorry it’s now up to you 

You are the new keeper of the tune

I know that when I was around 

I was the DJ you were the crowd

 

I can see that you’re missing me 

But hear my voice I’m telling you something

Keep playing that record till the end

I’ll be in your arms again

 

This one was playing when I met you

And again when you said goodbye 

Like a knot was tied in time

Undo it and then we can fly

 

I’m sorry it’s now up to you 

You are the new keeper of the tune

I know that when I was around 

I was the DJ you were the crowd

 

I can see that you’re missing me 

But hear my voice I’m telling you something

Keep playing that record till the end

I’ll be in your arms again

 

No two people ever hear this melody and think the thoughts that make us dream of each other except for us

No two people on planet earth can make it worth the time it takes to switch the record or the tape deck over other than us oh!

Remember this one? Loved to sing it for you and watch you smile 

Our friends said I did it better than the original but they were lying

Sometimes when I’m alone in bed I hear a snippet in my head 

Wonder if you’re haunting me

If I’ll dream that sweetest dream

You and I are hand in hand

Walking, talking making stands

Laughing, pushing working out

What this life is all about X 3

Will we ever work it out?

 

Are you saying that you’re missing me?

I hear your voice It’s telling me something

Keep playing this record till the end 

I’ll be in your arms again

 

Here it is again, end of side two 

I know you got things you have to do 

Just leave the needle where it is 

And the room with the crackle and the hiss

 

7. Sorry Anymore

Owen Plant

 

We are all out of ‘Apologies’

No more ‘Scraping on our knees’ 

And don’t you bother checking back for day-old ‘Pleases’

All our stock is overdrawn 

No deliveries coming with the dawn 

Let this notice serve to inform 

You have been warned 

We don’t carry sorry anymore 

 

We want to thank you for your patronage 

And for any inconvenience 

You may now experience 

We do feel some regret 

For the moment we have to shut it down 

Change a few things around 

Store the rest in a room uptown

Maybe open up again 

But we won’t carry sorry anymore 

 

Everything must one day end

No matter how we try and defend 

It’s always better to stretch and bend 

Than to snap in the wind 

If you plan on stopping by our place

For some ‘Contrition on a face’

Well as is said “you’re short one ace”

There’s none of that in store 

You might want to try the guy next door 

Cuz we don’t carry sorry anymore

 

Extra verse for live version (spoken after solo):

 

Don’t stress about what you should confess

Say what’s on your mind then you don’t have to guess

The good the bad the ugly - put ‘em all to the test!

For me I know which ones are best

In fact I think I’ll stock some of these here shelves

with ‘scowls’ and ‘howls’ and ‘watch yourselves’

Maybe even try and sell one of those old ‘hells bells’

There’s a whole world to explore

I’m definitely not gonna carry sorry anymore!

 

8. Ride With Me

Vic Riden & Owen Plant 

 

You popped up my hood, took a look inside

Now you got shotgun but you can even take the wheel 

As long as you’re with me on this fine fine ride

I trust you baby and that is for real

Slide over here right by my side

Let’s cruise the open road, nothing to hide no no

 

Ride with me to the end of the line

Drive me baby ‘til the end of time

Doesn’t really matter where we begin

We ride together ‘til the road’s very end

 

When darkness comes and hard rain falls

When the journey long and the worry is so tough

Or maybe baby we just gone and stalled

Well we got each other and that is enough 

Slide over here right by my side

Let’s cruise the open road, nothing to hide no no

 

Ride with me to the end of the line

Drive me baby ‘til the end of time

Doesn’t really matter where we begin

We ride together ‘til the road’s very end

 

I see others race on by, I think ‘hey what’s the rush?’

I like the speed we got child, not too little and not too much

How lucky a man am I that you just agree

I could be that poor guy, thumb out, with no one but me

But that ain’t the way it’s supposed to be 

 

Ride with me to the end of the line

Drive me baby ‘til the end of time

Doesn’t really matter where we begin

We ride together ‘til the road’s very end

Doesn’t really matter where we begin

We ride together ‘til the road’s very end

 

9. Listen to How I Play

Owen Plant

 

Love is one of those funny things

If you want it gotta give it away

Try and win it just for you

You will lose

See it everywhere if you look

But you can't catch it with a hook

You'll be swinging at thin air

Saying "Hey it just ain't fair!"

 

Make a little time today

Listen to how I play

Ain't no rules to follow just fun

When you check the clock and say

"Wish so much that I could stay"

You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone

 

Love is one of those funny things

If you want it gotta give it away

You can share it at a rapid pace

With just a smile upon your face

Want to figure it with your head

I'm telling you try your heart instead

Can be so close, then so far away

It's a funny thing I say

 

Take a little time today

Listen to how I play

Ain't no rules to follow just fun

When you check the clock and say

"Wish so much that I could stay"

You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone

 

Take a little time today

Listen to how I play

Ain't no rules to follow just fun

When you check the clock and say

"I wish so much that I could stay"

You're wishing alone when you could be loving someone

Oh you're wishing alone when you could be loving someone

Wishing alone when you could be loving someone

 

10. Wheel In The Sky

Journey 

 

Winter is here again oh Lord

Haven't been home in a year or more

I hope she holds on a little bit longer

Sent a letter on a long summer day

Made of silver, not made of clay

I've been runnin' down this dusty road

 

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning

 

I've been trying to make it home oh Lord

Got to make it back before too long

I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm stranded in the sleet and rain

Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again

The morning sun is rising, it's kissing the day

 

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning

 

 

 


 


 

 


 




 

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