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Ocean Blue

by Alan Walker

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1.
Please don't look for me Through your winter window It won't be my face you see When December winds blow I've got to keep moving on Won't let the grass grow I've never stayed around too long Just a face in a fading photo It won't be my voice you hear In your sleeping hedgerow Just a note in the call Of the lonely laughing black crow I asked you when this all began With summer's first swallow Did you really need a man Who just lives for tomorrow My steps are quiet memories On your frosted meadow Made by a ghost set free That never casts a shadow Please don't sit & cry This love has caused you sorrow All that's in this world must die Like melted summer snow In the spring's warming light A quiet whispered "hello" Like a fingers dancing flight On the strings of a cello Before the winter comes again And the leaves leave the willow You won't remember me Forgotten song on the radio
2.
There's blue sky above me and soft southern rain Storm clouds are clearing I'm smiling again What is the reason for this new happiness I've married the girl in the green summer dress White sheets of morning and a step on the stair I open my eyes and she's standing there There's no one in this world I need to impress 'Cause I married the girl in the green summer dress I can see her Running down the roads of my memory Blowing through the years That she gave to me Wearing that dress So gracefully I saw her out walking on the first day of spring Picked her a flower she didn't say anything I made up my mind then and I think you can guess To marry that girl in the green summer dress There's a glow of promise before the sunrise There's a lifetime of wisdom in an old man's eyes If there's meaning to this it's in the caress Of the girl I married in the green summer dress I can see her Running down the roads of my memory Blowing through the years That she gave to me Wearing that dress So gracefully Are we here for a purpose, it's too soon to tell Has it all been for nothing a final farewell I'll keep just one day; they can take all the rest The day I married the girl in the green summer dress The day I married the girl in the green summer dress
3.
The waves on the shore Have got my mind wandering To a time we shared Long before The sun on your face And your hand on the violin Close my eyes and listen To the rain Walked out today to the gulls call Swear I saw you by the sea Reached out to you in freefall Woke up drowning in memories There's a shadow on the water It's getting too dark for me to see Only the echo Of her laughter Takes me to the place Where I want to be On the tide today Washed up on the sand, Fading flowers from a wreath Or a bouquet Walked out to the south stood in the salt spray I could taste your last tears In my mouth There's a ship that sails To places I've never seen I could board her and ride On the trades You know that I Will never leave here But my mark will fade away Bye & bye Walked out today to the gulls call Swear I saw you by the sea Reached out to you in freefall Woke up drowning in memories There's a shadow on the water It's getting too dark for me to see Only the echo Of her laughter Can take me to the place Where I want to be
4.
I'm leaving here tomorrow I'm freeing you Please don't try to follow I guess it's true That being lost Is worth the cost Of the love that we knew The love that we knew This world is full of strangers I'm close to you A sea of broken faces and a thought that flew A thousand miles Through endless aisles Of colours flooding through Colours flooding through The fading light I don't want to fight lets hold it to the sun Hold it to the sun You're the only one Your cotton dress one soft caress your eyes of ocean blue Eyes of ocean blue I still love you I'm holding on Still holding on A voice inside is calling and I want something new Don't be sad and crying this is long overdue The empty days Just tick away Could you save me a few Please save a few I'm sitting in this cafe on a warm summer's day Watching people talking but I've nothing to say They cant't see How it feels to be Just drifting away The fading light I don't want to fight lets hold it to the sun Hold it to the sun You're the only one Your cotton dress one soft caress your eyes of ocean blue Eyes of ocean blue I still love you I'm holding on Still holding on
5.
The Road 04:12
Do you wake to find your life unwind Same picture every day There must be more on a far off shore Why would you want to stay? But the road is cold, dark and old So this is what I say Listen hard 'cause yard by yard It took my life away Trucker's stops and coffee pots A waitress trapped in time Years of dust and old red rust Another glass of wine Gunmetal days, forgotten ways To lose this soul of mine Red leather booths and country tunes I can't get off my mind Fields of grain and summer rain To wash away the dirt But a hundred miles of frozen smiles Can't take away the hurt Winding lanes and weather vanes Faded in the sun Empty barns, abandoned farms Where wild horses run Angry skies and false goodbyes That leave me with a lie Leaning poles on dusty roads As the trucks go rolling by Old cars in yards, a wind so hard It will take your breath away Rotting dreams and headlight beams That turn the night to day The cold green eyes and soft warm thighs Of the girl that I've just paid To keep me warm and calm the storm From the mistakes that I've made Motel rooms, the truth that looms This is not the way to live Lessons learned, bridges burned I can't take more than I give Soft leatherette, another cigarette The last one in the pack I can't restore what I had before I can never bring it back Neon bars a Dome of stars But drink can't kill the ache Stood outside as worlds collide And the mist rolls off the lake A sea of graves, Jesus saves But he looked the other way But just the same I called his name Helped keep the ghosts at bay So if you see me passing by A cold light in my eyes Please toss a coin into my cup To pay for my sunrise
6.
I took a drink in Murfreesbro Now the drink has taken me I've been running hard since Tupelo Drinking Jack and cold coffee A dark eyed woman out of Knoxville Stopped and gave me a ride I should have stayed with her forever But that part of me has died I've fallen fast and far since Gatlinburg The last town that I recall Now I've got lizards on my ceiling And long lost dreamers down the hall The only thing that keeps me going Down the parkways and the pikes Is the memory of never knowing What a good life looks like The whiskey is seeping through my paper cup Daylight is creeping and I know my time is up My mother would be weeping if she could only see The state that I've come to in this state of Tennessee When you sing for me baby Please keep it high and clear The voice of an angel To take me from here From the bright lights of Memphis Through the pine scented trees I carried your face with me All across Tennessee The whiskey is seeping through my paper cup Daylight is creeping and I know my time is up My mother would be weeping if she could only see The state that I've come to in this state of Tennessee
7.
The good book says three score and ten Is the span of life for all mortal men And if you'd asked to see what's to come From, your birthday, your first day Would you do the same again? A dragonfly has days to live his life As he flashes by on his cobalt cathedral flight Do you think he dreams of future scenes In the riverside sunshine Or does he live just for the light? The church bells are sadly tolling And the worn pages are turning The fields are gently rolling And the funeral pyres are burning I can hear people talking I can see figures walking And I know the leaves are falling And the Blackbird is softly calling So Look around and see all that's gone Cut down like corn as it shines in the sun Are you asking why they passed you by On the shore side, ebb tide Before the race was run? The church bells are sadly tolling And the worn pages are turning The fields are gently rolling And the funeral pyres are burning I can hear people talking I can see figures walking I know the leaves are falling And the Blackbird is softly calling So lay me down in fields of green When everything I've ever known loved or seen Has flown away on silent wings Like a moonbeam, daydream Too brief and fine to have ever been The church bells are sadly tolling And the worn pages are turning The fields are gently rolling And the funeral pyres are burning I can hear people talking I can see figures walking I know the leaves are falling And the Blackbird is softly calling And the Blackbird is softly calling
8.
When October comes stealing out of the summer Pour the cider from barrels for you and for me The laughter that rings through the cold days of winter Makes the happiest song of the old apple tree When soft evening light flows over the orchards Young couples come courting to flirt and to tease Words under boughs so heavy with promise Make the softest song of the old apple tree For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood Covered the land from sea to sea There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree When spring brings the brides into the churchyard There's blossom for blessings let handfulls fall free New lives and hopes for the next generation Make an ancient song of the old apple tree When night comes marching between the gravestones And the ghosts of the dead dance on the breeze The windfall that rots and the waste of forever Makes the saddest song of the old apple tree For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood Covered the land from sea to sea There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree When the Robin comes and sits in the meadow And I'm an old man taking my ease The song that he sings and will sing me tomorrow Makes the sweetest of sounds for the old apple tree For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood Covered the land from sea to sea There's been bone bare winters and 4,000 summers Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree For the apple tree has been here since the wildwood Covered the land from sea to sea There's been falcon flown summers and 4,000 winters Since the fresh blossom of the first apple tree
9.
Standing stooped at crossroads Waiting for the trains Crouched in the underpass Taking shelter from the rain Early morning sunshine Too bright on my face A week of growth, old overcoat And a cup of Gods' own grace A whistle blows, hands are cold There's another town ahead Empty streets beneath my feet And the sweet earth for my bed But I can hear the trees breathing In the mist and morning dew A pretty voice is softly singing This lonesome song from me to you Now I didn't choose this life It kind of chose me You can right that in your book The truth might set me free Lost in a dream last night I was smiling, I was warm No aching bones bed os stones No distant, drowning storm I came awake feeling old White winter in the air Old army pack on my back And a washed out empty stare But I can hear the trees breathing In the mist and morning dew A pretty voice is softly singing This lonesome song from me to you Watching an old man die Miles from his kin Nowhere to go, nothing to show For all his wandering White picket fence, Mercedes Benz Roses 'round my door That other life I could've lived I can't see it anymore The six ten that takes me north Slows down for the grade Take a breath to blow it out Only a liar's not afraid But I can hear the trees breathing In the mist and morning dew A pretty voice is softly singing This lonesome song from me to you
10.
I'm coming back to you in the morning, Feeling empty,running dry Like a wounded bird I've been falling Free falling from the sky I've been away from you for a long time, Seems a lifetime, fading light Shadows grow long in the evening, Eyes deceiving, losing sight So if you hear me coming Lay a place at your table, And pour me a drink for old times And when I see your face Same face I've been seeing, Every night and every day down the line In my mind There's too many places behind me, To remind me, fading smiles Moving on is easier than staying, No betraying for a while The world is a cold place But there's warmth in your memory, Enough to keep me coming for a while All I needs a small space If you still remember me I will make another mile There's a part of my mind you've been keeping From the creeping, endless night Too many days I've been wasting, Instead of tasting, the sweet sunlight
11.
It's just a simple country song To sing when you're lonely It's old and bittersweet Like a taste of mountain honey For the love we have known In the hours that have flown And all those times We were crazy Our lives were lost in perpetual motion Cheap box of dreams adrift on the ocean We came so far without compass or bearing A breath on the wind without reason or meaning I can hear harmony and chords that chime With the promise of a new tomorrow These parts I tried to rhyme Some were mine and some were borrowed Secret words whispered low Of life passing slow On a melody I stole From a Blue Jay Now a still in the air feel the trees breathing Mist on the hills is finally clearing Listen hard in the place I am lying For this is the song you'll hear me singing
12.
Bible Belt 03:45
White board churches, white bored lives Faithless children, cheating wives It's a lesson I've learned well Another hole in this Bible belt You see I'm leaving, Tennesssee Because my faith is leaving me In the shade of the mountain pines I'm cutting loose the ties that bind I searched for truth in all the wrong places All I found were a few passing traces Ink on the lines of the letter you're reading Can't stand in for me 'cause baby I'm leaving Sunday morning pews are full Preachers preaching, his eyes are dull From the whisky and last night Cold thin hands on his neighbour's wife You can tell me I'm a fool Had it all on a silver spoon The bed I made has grown cold And there's rust on the band of gold Now I'm riding on an old dirt road Empty wallet and worn out clothes But my soul is sanctified I'm walking on the sunny side I searched for truth etc
13.
Hard Times 04:11
On Monday morning The man is coming And he will take Our farm away And On Tuesday We'll be homeless On the road The laid long day Three bad winters And 2 dry summers Crops lie dying In the barren fields Brother Joe is drinking Bourbon whiskey From the bottle So it won't be real You can pray for me, mother Sister, shed your tears Father, cousins and brother Hope to God someone hears There's an east wind that is blowing Can you feel it in your bones There's no good that's a-coming A devil's bargain set in stone Hard times are here don't you know There's cracks in the walls of Jericho Too many people lied While others stood aside There's no gold and no rainbow Grandfather told me That he remembered As a small boy In the dustbowl days Piled all they owned In their old Packard Headed out west To Californiaay There's no new land now, no promise No sweet, unturned earth Just a battered old trailer On the edge of Nothingworth It takes a lifetime, of working Long days and sleepless nights In a day the bank took it You can't tell me that is right Hard times are here don't you know There's cracks in the walls of Jericho Too many people lied While others stood aside There's no gold and no rainbow There's no gold and no rainbow
14.
Billy Wright Was a country lad Born in 1893 In the sight of St Saviours Spire On a cold grey January His father was a working man Back bent in the fields This was the way in England's shires For the past thousand years Billy boy grew straight and strong From years at the plough He loved to walk the woods and lanes Taken by the tarmac now Billy loved a pretty girl Her hair was fine spun gold They dreamed of the life they'd live And together they'd grow old From far away came the battle call Sign up boys, we need you all From the longbow's sting to the cannon's roar Young men have left for a foreign war Billy Wright was a country lad With dreams of marching home In that hell of blood and bone He was destroyed and died alone From far away came the postmans call His death kissed face said it all A life unlived is like an empty hall Where widows walk and empires fall When you walk through an English wood Soft green beauty all around Spare a thought for Billy Wright A hundred years in the cold dark ground Billy Wright was a country lad Born in 1893 He has no grave just a marker stone And immortality

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This is a collection of the best songs from my first 2 CD s which are not available on-line. I have variously re-written, re-recorded, re-arranged, remixed and/or re-mastered them. I hope this overcomes some of the technical deficiencies of my early recordings and makes them more appealing to the listener.

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released November 6, 2018

All songs written by Alan Walker.

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