Lifeblood - (Official Music Video) by An Odd View Creative
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Lifeblood
It’s the beating sun
The stinging rain
The big sky country that remains
It’s all the hard yards we’ve all done
Learn to walk before you run
Years of drought
Will they ever stop?
Adding up each precious drop
In times of need we just get on
Like those before have always done
For every child and every man
The future's in our hands
It’s the lifeblood of this country
In the heart of all we know
It’s the liquid gold for every soul
The sky above the ground below
It’s the lifeblood
It’s the lifeblood
Where the rivers flow
The cities grow
And every town along the road
Look to the sky and pray and wait
For rain to fall at the farmers gate
For every child and every man
The future's in our hands
It’s the lifeblood of this country
In the heart of all we know
It’s the liquid gold for every soul
The sky above the ground below
It’s the lifeblood
It’s the lifeblood
Sometimes when it gets too hard to see
Never run and hide
Just reach inside
The heart of you and me
It’s the lifeblood of this country
It's the heart of all we know
It’s the liquid gold for every soul
The sky above the ground below
It’s the lifeblood of this country
In the heart of all we know
It’s the liquid gold for every soul
The sky above the ground below
It’s the lifeblood
It’s the lifeblood
It’s the lifeblood
It’s the lifeblood
© 2019 (Lorraine Baker/Glenn Bidmead) Control/APRA
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Between Lonely And You
04:05
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Between Lonely And You
The desert sky feels like a blanket
Keeping me warm and safe from this mean old world
Don’t know where I am
I feel like half a man
Trying to cross a bridge that I’ve already burned
As I drive down this road
I won’t ever look back
And I don’t know why I love you like I do
But if you really want to know
Why I strayed off the track
As a matter of fact I just don’t have a clue
Cause I’m lost somewhere between lonely and you
Moon shines down just like a spotlight
Getting me hot and crazy and ready to scream
I sit outside your house
Ready to break those vows
That we both made Once upon a time in a dream
Chorus
You and I
We had some dreams we were meant to fly
You and me
How could we know what we didn’t see
And I don’t know where you’re gone
I guess what’s done is done and that’s all
Cause in every life a little rain must fall
Chorus
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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Red Dirt Road
05:16
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Red Dirt Road
Heading out early morn
The sun is coming round
Boots are dirty jeans are torn
Wind that window down
This highway goes a long long way
My destination, god only knows
Well I ain’t got no plan mapped out so I guess
I’ll just follow my nose
Miles go by I’m thinkin bout you
And it don’t make no sense
You just want someone to be true
Not sitting on the fence
Well commitment it’s not my thing
And confrontation don’t sit quite right with me
So I’m packing up my guitar and I’m gone
To see what I can see
You can call me a loser
You can say what you will
You could say it’s my destiny
But I’m hurtin’ still
It’s gonna be a
Long day, longer night
Feelin like this world ain’t right
Miss you and I miss us
Broke your heart and I lost your trust
So I’m out here searching for something
That I could never ever show
And I’m looking for the truth
Down the red dirt road
Well out here there’s only me and god
Under a big blue sky
I got the will to search my soul
And look me in the eye
People tell me it’s only time
That can heal this hurting inside me
But I can’t seem to find my way back out
Won’t somebody set me free
I hear the desert calling me
From another place
Indecision is stalling me
So it’s time for a change of pace
CHORUS
You can lose yourself for days
This road it never ends
It’s only you against the elements
Out here you just can’t pretend
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) Control/APRA
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Where Her Lonely Started
03:24
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Where Her Lonely Started
She thought about her life as one
Left here alone now they’ve all gone
And all the years she served their dreams
Now here she stands, no one to greet
Now that all her boys have gone
She found the strength to carry on
She’d fought the bank and kept her home
Now here she stands
An empty house, an empty heart
But all her dreams about to start
She is soft, and she is tender
She is anger and resentment
She is toil and blisters sore
She’s a widow of the war
She is heartache she is torn
She has weathered every storm
It’s a brand new day
She’s a long long way
From where her lonely started
A lonely woman, twice a wife
She hides her pain beneath her pride
Though years have passed, deep inside
She still feels a yearning
Sometimes she needs a helping hand
Find a man who understands
CHORUS
And as the years fly by
No one can tell
No one can see
Where will her lonely end
CHORUS
Where her lonely started
© 2019 (Lorraine Baker/Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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One For The Road
04:02
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One For The Road
It’s a long hard road trying to build a good life
The horizon’s your home and you’re missing your wife
All the diesel and dust make you think of those things
That you yearn for most as the highway sings
And it’s one for the road two for the two of us
You’ll never know what lies ahead of us
The white line’s calling I think of my love far away
But I’ll be back in the morning and I’ll be home to stay again
The hours we spend apart are the hardest of all
It’s just me and my thoughts till the radio calls
And your voice on the wire can take me away
From the lonely miles and the long hot days
CHORUS
And the wheels they keep on turning
And the highway keeps on burning into my soul
But it’s all I know this road and me
And my mind tends to wander in the dead of the night
I can hear distant thunder though I know it’s alright
Cause this rig and the darkness bring me back home to you
I just follow my heart I can make it come true
CHORUS X 2
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) Control/APRA
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Last Chance Cafe
03:32
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Last Chance Cafe
Heard the door slam watched the wheels spin
Livin’ in a shadow, some things that might have been
Don’t know where I am don’t know where you’ve gone
Left me sitting here lost and all alone
I felt that lonesome yearning
For what once were better days
Left me in a cloud of dust
At the last chance café
You got some attitude I thought I heard her say
The past was coming back then she drove away
Saw my life go by with a screech of tyres
The rain that’s in my heart is feelin’ more like fire
I felt a sense of sadness
And the words I couldn’t say
Left me in a lonely place
At the last chance café
It’s about half a mile from heartache
A lifetime from lovers lane
Somewhere way out west in the wilderness
Where the nights are filled with pain
But I guess I had it coming
And there’s only myself to blame
So join me in another drink
At the last chance café
CHORUS
The days they come and go, Some nights are good some bad
Inside I know she was the best chance I ever had
When I think of her and what we could have had
It was down to me, a good love gone bad
I guess we live and learn
But that was just yesterday
When she left me here alone
At the last chance café oh
Now I’m living with myself
At the last chance cafe
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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Riding The Rails
04:15
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Riding The Rails
One more day in my life
Well who’s to say what’s in sight
You and I have weathered the storm
From the day we were born
The day we were born
Now I’m riding the rails
I’m coming back home
With the wind in my sails
I gotta keep moving on
In search of my heart
It’s all I can do
To get to you
Time is the future it’s ours to share
Dive too deep come up for air
Chances come while years go by
We can light up the sky
Just as long as we try
CHORUS
Every road I travel down
Brings me closer to that sound
And every breath I take is you
I feel your heartbeat coming through
There’s nothing else that I can do
CHORUS
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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So Close
03:44
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So Close
Looking out this window
The window to my heart
Watching all the fires glow
This world tears me apart
There are some things that will not change
The heat and the dust and the wind and the rain
And a screaming silence is all that remains in my heart
In my heart
You’re so close yet so far away
Can’t tell tomorrow from yesterday
But you’re so close yet so far away
I can’t wait till then anyway
Sometimes it’s like a nightmare
Living on this land
People ask me what I see out here
They don’t understand
When I see them burn those fields of cane
And get down on their knees and pray for rain
But an empty sky is all that remains in my heart
And it tears them apart
CHORUS
There’s not one damn thing I can do about it no
Just kick my heels in the dust and shout it
SOLO
There’s a storm on the horizon
I feel it in the air
Heavy clouds and heavy heart
But I think we’re nearly there
There are some things that will not change in my heart
In my heart
CHORUS X 2
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) Control/APRA
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Ferris Wheel
03:45
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Ferris Wheel
There's a quiet in my mind I can't explain
So this is how it feels, they call it sane
You don't see its true,
but this is how I feel ‘bout you
This Ferris wheel we’re riding is to blame
When I woke up this morning I saw the light
Opened up my eyes, to wrong & right
Well I got no time for your blame,
So damn you and all your games
And I ain’t leaving here without a fight
I'll be fine, You know it's true,
You hurt my pride, I'm feeling blue
Don't like your lies and the things you do
So leave your baggage at the door
When you walk through
It’s never easy when it's time to change
These people here all treat me like I'm strange
Sometimes it’s hard to face the day
but I’ll do it my own way,
When there’s nothing left but everything to gain
CHORUS
If we travel in the same direction
then I’m part of you, I’m your reflection
But if this wheel keeps spinning round and round
Then one of us is up and somebody’s always down.
It's been so hard for me to let this slide
I'm not happy buying tickets for this ride
Oh can't you see what I went through,
and it’s all because of you
I can’t seem to close this great divide
CHORUS
© 2019 (Lorraine Baker/Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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The Thing You Wanted Most
Never knew what happened to you and me
Out of the blue eyes open I didn’t see
Some things can creep up on you
While they stare you in the face
You walked away from everything
Packed it up threw it out on a whim
How could you take that step
Leave me here this way
Like I was just anyone
But here I am
I’m still waiting for you
Though you blew me apart
By just walking away with my heart
And there you go
Out of my life forever
But I’ll find you again
Bring it back home to you
Coast to coast
With the thing you wanted most
Days go by but nothings changed
My life goes on but still it seems so strange
Try as I might I can’t help but just
Livin’ in the past
Cause we coulda done anything
So here I am
I’m still waiting for you
Though you blew me apart
By just walking away with my heart
And there you go
Out of my life forever
But I’ll find you again
Bring it back home to you
Coast to coast
With the thing you wanted most
Guess I never you you
I stood and watched you pass me by
Cause when love goes through you
You don’t feel a thing till it hits you
Right between the eyes
Here I am
I’m still waiting for you
Though you blew me apart
By just walking away with my heart
And there you go
Out of my life forever
But I’ll find you again
Bring it back home to you
Coast to coast
With the thing you wanted most
© 2019 (Glenn Bidmead) APRA/Control
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Railway Tracks
03:52
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Railway Tracks
Railway tracks no looking back
Just forget about that and you
You should dry your eyes cause those tears you cry
They were meant for her you know its true
And sometimes love doesn’t think too much
About what it does or says
Railway tracks some cowboy shack
Me and a bottle of Jack and blue
She don’t care if you ain’t goin' nowhere
Or the cross you bear still for her
And the flame you burn will you ever learn
To see things clear or blurred
Lonesome things they can make you sing
Or howl like some dog at the moon
Railway tracks some cowboy shack
It’s me and a bottle of Jack
I’m thinkin’ bout you
And everything is just left for the taking
The things she told you in the heat of the night
All the plans you were making
Just gone...
So now you’re going home on this train alone
Maybe on your own is best for you
Sometimes love doesn’t think too much
About what it does or says
Some railway tracks a cowboy shack
A bottle of Jack and blue
Just some railway tracks there ain’t no turning back
It’s me and a bottle of Jack
Cryin' over you
Written by Glenn Bidmead
© 2019 (GLENN BIDMEAD) Control/APRA
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Glenn Bidmead Sydney, Australia
Glenn Bidmead is an Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and live performer. He has co-written with many successful artists such as Mick Jones from Foreigner, Brooke McClymont and The Veronicas.
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