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Promised Land
04:23
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Sometimes it feels like I’m standing on this mountain
All the world beneath my feet
How high I’ve climbed, how many miles, I’ve stopped counting
Still the dream seems out of reach
But these days I’ve learned to count my blessings
Let the clean air fill my lungs
But there’s still a voice inside me whispering
It says the road has just begun
To the promised land
Only seems like yesterday that I was starting
Had the energy of youth
Said goodbye to all the rules that held my heart in
I’d be nobody’s fool
I had no plans, just ideals and my guitar and
A bunch of songs I thought I knew
Simone and me we would play the clubs and bars and
Tell the many and the few
Of the promised land
It was the music kept the wheels on the road
And the songs that kept our hearts filled with hope
And the love that would not let us go
Sometimes people try to change the road their given
Dig it up and start again
Back at the start, they don’t change their direction
And it turns out just the same
I thought by now I’d have reached my destination
But the road keep winding on
I trip, I fall but I know there’s nothing wasted
It’s all treasure that belongs
In the promised land
It’s the music that keeps the wheels on the road
And the songs that keep our hearts filled with hope
And the love that will not let us go
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Wild Horses
04:07
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Come Take Your Place
04:38
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Sometimes it feels like I’m standing on this mountain
All the world beneath my feet
How high I’ve climbed, how many miles, I’ve stopped counting
Still the dream seems out of reach
But these days I’ve learned to count my blessings
Let the clean air fill my lungs
But there’s still a voice inside me whispering
It says the road has just begun
To the promised land
Only seems like yesterday that I was starting
Had the energy of youth
Said goodbye to all the rules that held my heart in
I’d be nobody’s fool
I had no plans, just ideals and my guitar and
A bunch of songs I thought I knew
Simone and me we would play the clubs and bars and
Tell the many and the few
Of the promised land
It was the music kept the wheels on the road
And the songs that kept our hearts filled with hope
And the love that would not let us go
Sometimes people try to change the road their given
Dig it up and start again
Back at the start, they don’t change their direction
And it turns out just the same
I thought by now I’d have reached my destination
But the road keep winding on
I trip, I fall but I know there’s nothing wasted
It’s all treasure that belongs
In the promised land
It’s the music that keeps the wheels on the road
And the songs that keep our hearts filled with hope
And the love that will not let us go
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The Other Side
03:53
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When night is done and shadows have departed
And blackest blue is pierced by golden rays
When day has come and the only trace of darkness
Are memories that quickly drift away
I will see you there on the other side
When we have walked and the valley is behind us
When we have climbed and reached the mountains crown
When we are free from all the days of struggle
And reach a place to lay our burdens down
When storms have passed and all our fears subsided
And heaven’s sun shines brightly on our face
When battles gone and we are done with fighting
When we have come into love’s embrace
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When I Survey
04:21
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Bigger Than Me
04:21
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Wayfaring Stranger
04:11
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I’m just a poor wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world of woe
There’s no sickness toil or danger
In that bright land to where I go
I’m going there to see my father
Going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
Only going over home
Those dark clouds are all around me
I know that road is hard and steep
But beauteous fields lie there before me
Where God’s redeemed their vigil keep
I’m going there to see my mother
I know she’ll meet me when I’m come
I’m only going over Jordan
Only going over home
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You Never Can Tell
03:31
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She grew up in a God-fearing home
Was pure as the fresh laid snow
Had a laugh that sang like a mountain stream
And her face was sun-kissed gold
Everyone around said she would settle down
With a man who was raised up well
Just goes to show that you never can tell
He grew up in a place by the sea
His life was a storm-tossed wave
Spent his days having fun and his nights on the run
And his love on the broad highway
Everyone around said he was going down
With his life that was raising hell
Just goes to show that you never can tell
You never can tell
O you never can tell
Just goes to show that you never can tell
Call it fate or call it chance
Or call it meant to be
But two lives come from worlds apart
And collide for all to see
And they all said that they’d crash down
And they all thought they’d fail
Just goes to show that you never can tell
It was never gonna be an easy road
But then again it never is
But when you’ve got a love that’s closer than a glove
And sweeter than an angel's kiss
You don’t give a thought to what should or shouldn’t aught
Work out in this funny old world
Just goes to show that you never can tell
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Always Heading Home
04:28
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We knew it was coming
Still it caught us unawares
There is always fair warning
But we are so ill prepared
But the sun will rise again today
Like the sun has always done
And we carry on along that way
Always heading home
And promises were made
In good faith and in bad
And memories will fade
Of the darker days we had
And like a breath
Life is here and gone
Burn bright on the eye
And stay when breath has done
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Rob Halligan coventry
Award winning international artist who has worked with Graeme Duffin,Sandy Jones (Wet Wet Wet), Bob Halligan Jr (Judas Priest, Cher), After The Fire, and Paul Evans (Delirious). He has appeared on BBC Radio 2, BBC1 TV, ITV’s Daybreak and many local radio stations. ... more
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