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Songs In Black & White

by Glenn Bidmead

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Breathing Slowly 04:15
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Breathing Slowly We can descend or we can fly drifting through these dark skies there's a million things running through my mind don’t say a word don’t ask me why why I’m breathing slowly time is deceiving love is only in the silence you can feel love in my heart there is no sound tonight no no no no you say I catch my breath each time those words cut right through me I die a thousand deaths still I find comfort in this pain I really must confess so I’m breathing slowly time is deceiving love is only in the silence you can feel love in my heart there is no sound tonight we lost our way I lost my heart in my world it rains we fall apart behind your eyes no one lives there anymore I sympathise I do but when you leave just close the door rain rain rain wash over me sometimes I look right through you and sometimes I can’t see sometimes all I know is how it’s meant to be CHORUS
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Through My Eyes 03:59
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Through My Eyes Within our conversation You disagree with everything that I say Theres no hiding behind these walls no pretence gets in the way You make me angry you make me crazy like I don’t know what to do Now I’m looking for something that don’t exist Theres a breakdown between me and you If you could hear the things I hear If you were standing in my shoes If you could see the things I see through my eyes Can’t even reach a decision can’t even change your mind No idea of who to turn to still looking for a sign Yeah I don’t need an explanation of where you’re going or where you’ve been I can look into your past by everything I’ve already seen CHORUS The world is wild and fast and mean And we can hope and pray and dream But the reality is just something so obscene Just want to hide yourself away for ever Close your eyes and look away as the story unfolds But theres always a price some kind of sacrifice or haven’t you been told You’re like a man with a mission driven by a fire You can’t make up your mind you walk the fine line between madness and desire CHORUS © 1999 (GLENN BIDMEAD) Control/APRA
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You Know I Know 04:31
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You Know I Know Baby think i’m crazy without you Darlin’ I let you down through and through When the night time comes and the colours disappear What can I do? When my day is done thats when I have to face the fear My heart goes out to you You know and I know i’m miles and miles away The future is a dream and I live for yesterday I’m falling in slow motion And I can’t find the words that I should say Never have I ever cried tears alone Feel i’m spinning out of control on my own When the darkness falls and my ghosts come alive What can I do? Tell me what do I have to do to survive And go on living without you CHORUS Sometimes I don’t understand the things I feel for her What can I do? I feel my fingers slip and everything’s a blur I’ve got to talk to you CHORUS You know I know, you know I know
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Find Love 03:41
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Find Love There was a friend of mine once upon a time Took a step across that line never to return It was the longest night And nothing seemed to fit right But he had hope in sight And a willingness to learn And there's a place in your heart Just waiting for the moment That someone steps into the part When you find love you've got to hold love Close to your heart don't let it slip away And when you find love if it's real love You can feel love it's more than you can say I'm only trying to reach you Trying to get these feelings through But it takes so long to attain that state of mind And with a little contact There's no more turning back When opposites attract It's a force you can't define But there's a place in your life When everything and nothing Merge to make it right CHORUS There's a road somewhere To take me home And i'm looking for a sign from you So i don't have to go alone And there's a place in your heart CHORUS
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Always Far Away 03:35
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Always Far Away She says she doesn’t fit in into the scheme of things It’s never easy wearing other skin Above the noise and chaos she begins To make her plans She can destroy me with a wave of her hands She’s always far away Always in another state of mind (place & time) She’s always far away The moment our worlds collide She says she doesn’t agree and then lets me know She’s burning turning I’m just faintly aglow Give me your answer now in sentences slow But I know what she’s thinking As I helplessly watch my whole world slip away CHORUS But tell me how will it end And every message you send Like all the things we pretend are just wasted time and why do I put so much faith in logic and me as the night time enfolds me like love CHORUS ©1999 (GLENN BIDMEAD) Control/APRA
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Dangerous Game 03:51
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Dangerous Game Questions asked I answer but you don’t believe why can’t I just drop it walk away and leave while you’re lost in schemes inside your head you never realise anything I‘ve said I need a sign or some kind of reprieve so why am I falling at your feet sending you messages complete but all the confusion that you meet just takes you further from me You say love is a dangerous game it’s killing me and you’re to blame ‘cause every time I call your name you turn and walk away now I’m writing the letters to you that I won’t send sometimes I close my eyes and wish I could pretend with my cautious steps and well laid plans I drop my heart right into your hands can it be so hard to make you understand I’m taking my problems underground i’m checking in daily lost and found maybe I should just leave I won’t hang around if you’d just let me know and CHORUS and maybe I might not be the answer to your dreams but things aren’t always what they seem if you would only let me through how can I get across to you CHORUS
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If I Should Fall 04:21
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If I Should Fall Now you’re in pieces just a heart lying on the floor A second glance but theres nothing more And nothing less just some loneliness Your waking hours you cry yourself to sleep Making promises that you can’t keep Now somebodys leaving you’re alone again Why’d you leave me on the edge I try to balance on this ledge And every time I’ve got something to say Well you just turn and walk away And if I should fall You’d be the only one I’d want to rescue me And if I should fall I’d want to fall in love with you Come tomorrow you’ll be wrapped up in your pain Though my intentions still remain And I try everything but nothing’s changed CHORUS Cause you’re not the only one who feels The depth and the truth of something real No you’re not the only one And it’s only time or so you said But I’m still stranded on this ledge Listen I’ve got something to say Please don’t turn and walk away CHORUS ©2000 (GLENN BIDMEAD) Control/APRA
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Lately 04:12
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Lately I can still see your light on are you thinking of her again did you ever really think it would take this long to find the truth and then transcend and last night I saw you staring with that look upon your face what can I think anymore when i see your world disappear without a trace and everything underneath and in between will just crash down on me and love’s not what it seems anymore lately the sun don’t shine the rain don’t fall there's nothing left at all without your love late last night you looked so confused like you’d never been so alone trying to live with the guilt at the end of love when your house just ain’t a home lately there’s always more to believe when you hide from the truth for years and for someone like you who wears a heart on your sleeve it’s time to reassess those fears and everything underneath and in between will just crash down on me and love’s not what it seems anymore CHORUS and everything underneath and in between will just crash down on me and every time I get a little bit further away it just helps me to see that love’s not what it seems anymore CHORUS
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Sad Cafe 03:48
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Sad Cafe It's a sad cafe and the lights are low You can come on in if you wanna see the show Something to do if you've got nowhere else to go Where the blues are alive in cappucinoland Where you can still survive with no money in your hand Sit yourself down and you can listen to the band Don't be scared don't you be afraid It's money spent and it's money that's made Life is for free but it's not readymade There's a sad cafe and the lights are low It happens everyday it's the same old show Something to do if you've got nowhere else to go Don't be scared don't you be afraid It's money spent and it's money that's made Life is for free but it's not readymade There's a sad cafe and the lights are low It happens everyday it's the same old show Something to do if you've got nowhere else to go To the sad cafe, to the sad cafe © 2014 (GLENN BIDMEAD) Control/APRA
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A World Away 05:03
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A World Away as we walk along the road of life and love there’s so much push and shove to get around show me all the places you go in your mind somewhere we can find some light and sound waking up inside the brand new morning always listen to the warning coming through the air night time comes in a peculiar fashion mixed emotion but no passion takes me nowhere takes me nowhere just a world away dream in colour while I’m sleeping just a world away tomorrow seems like half a world away a world away sometimes I feel disconnected from the world outside cause it’s a lonely ride on your own and all the secrets I’ve been keeping while humanity is sleeping just blow me away waking up inside the brand new morning always listen to the warning coming through the air CHORUS and all the secrets I’ve been keeping while humanity is sleeping just blow me away night time comes in a peculiar fashion mixed emotion but no passion takes me nowhere takes me nowhere CHORUS
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A Sense Of Shelter 04:21
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A Sense Of Shelter there's an overcast sky and a rising tide and it crosses our hearts like some great divide follow your instincts down to the sea water cold and clear as night casting the nets underneath to the silence out of sight for ten thousand years we’ve been watching it smoulder like some pheonix preparing to rise through the heat and the dust into black then to grey to the secrets that lie in other mens eyes a reason a sense of shelter a habit to dull all the pain but memory and time will outlast us all these are the things that remain when that cold winter comes and love breaks your heart we can put up those walls or risk being torn apart try to ignore those waves inside that feel so wrong but you know are right blind to reason and blind to love at the mercy of the night for ten thousand years we’ve been watching it smoulder like some pheonix preparing to rise into days and then nights through the cold then to older discovering there is so much more CHORUS
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Somebody Told Me 03:48
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Somebody Told Me so now you don’t know me somebody told me still I just can’t quite believe it some things have to happen things born out of passion I wish that they’d all just leave it alone And all the dreams you smash Can’t be mended Now you’ve met your match There’s no pretending alone How long must I wait Till I see you again Please give me a break I can change I can bend And I can’t believe you don’t know me Still it must be true somebody told me All this endless travel See the truth unravel But I think that you’d rather fiction It’s less intimidating And you can get your hate in Or is it that you can’t admit that you’re wrong And all the time you waste Can’t be saved up And all your changing tastes Are only made up and now CHORUS I lost my way somewhere last night I cannot see the darkness for the light My heart just stopped and so it goes Goes on and on And all the time you waste Can’t be saved up And all your changing tastes Are only made up and now CHORUS
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The Cat's Mother 02:38
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The Cat's Mother She said you don’t understand anymore she is the cat’s mother she could be anyone She put the do not disturb on the door locked me outside I dissolved through the floor And the walls closed in and decisions were made I was spinning in love in love She said that we just don’t see eye to eye she said you don’t see anything that you don’t want to see Now I’m just trying to live out the lies that I read in some book in some past life of mine CHORUS She says a lot of things she doesn’t mean that hurt me desert me again And the walls closed in and decisions were made I was spinning in love in love…
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Streetlife 03:24
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Streetlife Streetlife I’m looking for you You’re looking for me That’s how I like it to be Watching your streets and your lights Summer days and hot nights Cold cold winter bite The streets are paved with gold they say And this it must be true Streetlife can give a man wealth you know Just like I give myself to you Walking on ice in the park Whispers in the dark Neon leaves it’s mark Shelter yourself from the chill City winters can kill For a ten dollar bill Paved with gold yet written in blood Night time the big city breathes Too many lost souls and a few broken hearts The way that you came is the way that you leave Oh streetlife I’m lookin’ for you You’re looking for me That’s how it’s always gonna be
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Trick Of The Light 03:13
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Trick Of The Light A trick of the light my mind plays havoc with my senses fifteen times a night You flee or you fight in uncontrollable circumstances get to the point of feeling alright You say it’s gonna be fine You say I want you for mine but nothing, nothing is alright Just a nightmare or three you know it’s nothing I can’t handle when all my days turn strange CHORUS And when I look I can’t see The things I fear still haunt me Always, always the same A trick of the light My mind plays havoc with my senses You say it’s gonna be fine You say I want you for mine but nothing, nothing is alright and you say its gonna be fine
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Walk On The Wire 04:03
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Walk On The Wire no one told me it could be so bad no one told me men were made of stone without you I’d throw it away this world’s not perfect I’m the first to admit we got to get right to the heart of it hey baby what do you say somebody’s got to find a way to bend the rules to tear it all down somebody’s got to find a way to take that chance and walk on the wire walk on the wire pockets are empty and it’s freezing outside those restless souls they got nowhere to hide they just keep on running running away deep in the midnight I feel safe in your arms floating sleeping immersed in this calm take me away chorus and my mind keeps twisting and turning around that’s when love comes falling you can hear the whisper the soul and the sound of somebody somebody of somebody somebody chorus
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The Long Goodbye 03:46
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The Long Goodbye Walking through the strangeness of your life Looking out for something to call home Lost among the ruins of your world Still you’ll survive You might take the long road that’s alright It might lead to nothing who knows But it just might go somewhere that is why We follow our hearts Still this guilt has a hold on me But its all for the best you’ll see And it’s just one more long goodbye That burns into my memory And it’s not that I didn’t try It’s just I didn’t try hard enough you see You can criticise me like you do It only reminds me to hang on Patience is a virtue so they say We’ll just see And then love breaks your heart sometimes And all the things that are left behind CHORUS Everything just turns to dust Love and life and all that trust And you can just forget about us And all the things you wanted Time will tell but it won’t last You can’t reinvent the past Even though you think you can And then love breaks your heart sometimes CHORUS

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Songs In Black & White features 17 Glenn Bidmead songs stripped back to basics. Acoustic versions with guitar & vocal.

© & ℗ 2018 G K BIDMEAD

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released August 23, 2018

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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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