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Redemption
03:26
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Redemption
(Bella Hardy)
The darkness turns familiar trees to strangers
The snowfall shapes new outlines of the land
Our lives can seem the game of rich men’s wagers
Our days do not unfold the way we planned
But hope is a celebration
Friendships is the key to all things true
Love is each day’s redemption
Where kindness shines then love will see us through
The darkness turns small fears to storms before us
But we can face the worst of life’s demands
If through the years we join each voice in chorus
The moors may shift but still the mountain stands
And hope is a celebration
Friendship is the key to all things true
Love is each day’s redemption
Where kindness shines then love will see us through
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Learning To Let Go
04:24
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Learning To Let Go
(Bella Hardy)
In California I cried
Familiar world but not my own
Electric buzz the TV’s shown me all my life
Another way of being known
Another way of being
I’d had my fill of city sounds
Of pacing San Francisco round and round and round
So we took the Golden Gate to another land
Down winding roads out to the sea
but still I could not hear the waves
Just the work I’d left behind
whispering poisoned words to me
In California I cried
And with each breathless tear I realised
that I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
California, California
I know the who but I still don’t know what I want to be
California, I’m still learning to let go
I write it on magnolia leaves
California, stay with me
In Berkeley, on a call through
While the barber does his thing to you
I find myself sat beneath the pink white trees
while streams of students flow around and around me
Such rivers of potential
In an intangible symphony
and I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
I’m still learning to let go
California, California
I know the who but I still don’t know what I want to be
California, I’m still learning to let go
I write it on magnolia leaves
California, stay with me
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3. |
Driving Through Harmony
03:19
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Driving Through Harmony
(Bella Hardy & Iain Thomson)
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Driving through harmony
In love, we look for a middle
To last us for a life time
of love, stretching.
Driving through harmony
In love
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Riding down highways
Of sun, in time coexisting
Breath held in waiting
For what’s to come
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Always a start, always a middle, always an end
Our minds lost in worry, at how we measure up
Romance aspirations, are we doing well enough
Love lives on a schedule
Well this is the middle so set yourself free to enjoy the ride
Through Harmony
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4. |
Queen of Carter's Bar
03:42
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Queen of Carter’s Bar
(Bella Hardy & Peter Groenwald)
Watching from the corner of the bar
Remembering the night I found you at my door
You were running away, drenched by the storm
I said “Listen to the thunder, tells you what you need to know”
The best thing you can give is as good as you get
Another day’s coming, and I’m not done yet
We circled round the sun, and you grew wild and free
With the barn owls and the stars keeping company
Then you woke from a dream and I was bad luck
And she was plucking at my roses, doe-eyed, red-lipped and moon-struck
The best thing you can give is as good as you get
Another day’s coming, and I’m not done yet
But I can’t help remembering
How once you were my own
But when you gave your heart to me
I should have swapped it out for stone
Instead I’m sitting in the corner here in Carter’s Bar
And I’m watching you pretend to be the things you aren’t
First you were a lion, then a snake, then a black dog
But the truth of you has faded, I don’t know you anymore
The best thing you can give is as good as you get
Another day’s coming, and I’m not done yet
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5. |
In My Dreams
03:45
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In My Dreams
(Bella Hardy, Peter Groenwald & Konrad Snyder)
I hold you in my dreams
I hold you in my dreams
And we ask for forgiveness
I hold you in my dreams
Heart unsteady between haunted walls
Will I be ready when tomorrow calls?
Who’s knocking so loud? It broke through the darkness
The leaves and shadows danced all around
But when they flew away
I was left with all the things you didn’t say
You hold me in your arms
You hold me in your arms
This is imagined kindness
You hold me in your arms
Heart unsteady between haunted walls
Will I be ready when tomorrow calls?
Who’s knocking so loud? It broke through the darkness
The leaves and shadows danced all around
But when they flew away
I was left with all the pieces of you
Who’s knocking so loud? It broke through the darkness
I asked two ravens and a crow
But then they flew away
And I was left with all the things you didn’t say
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You Don’t Owe The World Pretty
(Bella Hardy)
Little girls are born into a world where their bodies are a tool to please
Your face and every action, every placement of a word or leg to be approved
You’ll learn to do you best, to score top marks in every test
And all regardless of the cost
(They say) It takes a village, if that’s true
Then this is what I’ll teach to you
You don’t owe the world pretty
You don’t owe anyone perfect
You just do what you can, and
You don’t owe the world pretty
Little one you’re going to need and little one you’re going to bleed
And you’ll be taught that it’s a shame, to hide the pain and do whatever keeps you most appealing
You’ll learn to bear disgrace, to keep the peace and know your place
But darling, you can set your own pace
(They say) I wish I’d known what I know now
I’ll pass it on to you somehow
You don’t owe the world pretty
You don’t owe anyone perfect
You just do what you can, and
You don’t owe the world pretty
If you can make and shape an outline you can call your own, your home
Then all you need to build this thing, no armored prince, no diamond ring
Just you
You don’t owe the world pretty
You don’t owe anyone perfect
You just do what you can, and
You don’t owe the world pretty
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7. |
Busy Head
03:02
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Busy Head
(Bella Hardy & Tom Gibbs)
Busy head, busy head
Won't you give me one sweet second's dark and silent rest
I'm still playing catch up with the things I've gone and said
With what I said
Busy mouth and busy head
Busy heart, busy heart
You think you've got so much to say but can't find where to start
So desperate to fit in and so in need of staying apart
Of standing out
Busy heart, vain and vacant busy heart
I chase my will to care around the corners of the morning
cold and grey
I would make a map for you, lazy drawn with tired fingers
folded once, folded twice,
to give to you when I feel brave
Busy world, busy world
It's just a set of choices makes you who you are
And who you are you have to own, it's all that you have got
It's all you've got to lose
In this busy world
With your busy heart
and your busy mouth
I chase my will to care around the corners of the morning
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8. |
Heartbreaker
02:48
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Heartbreaker
(Bella Hardy & Tom Gibbs)
Pink light on your pink skin
Would it be so hard to let him in?
Heartbreaker
Never needed anything
Blue light on your blue heart
Who saw disaster from the start
Heartbreaker
Never needed anything
It's naked brick, it's peeling walls
He never writes she never calls
Heartbreaker
Never needed anything more
Pink and blue light cross your hair
A neon jazz folk love affair
Heartbreaker
Never needed anything more
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9. |
Hey Sammy
03:09
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Hey Sammy
(Bella Hardy)
Hey Sammy
I saw you kicking the ball round with your friends outside
A ford fiesta bore the brunt of a tussle by the kerbside
Your friend ran into the road
And he was lucky that day, nothing was coming
But Sammy, tell him that he must be more careful
Life’s gone in a second
And I wonder if you know
That they’re saying you should go?
They’re saying you should go
Hey Sammy
I saw your mother with the others looking at you down the street
She has the kindest smile you’d even hope to meet
On your way out the door in the morning
And I wish she never knew
What the papers say about you
Do you wish you never knew?
Do you wish you never knew?
What our ignorance has done?
What our carelessness can do?
Well I hope you never know
That they were saying you should go
Five boys playing at fighting
Five boys caught up in a here and now moment
With not a thought spared for what’s coming up ahead
I saw you set up a game on the pavement
And call across the street to see who would play
And from my window I saw the border’s kicked away
On a grey afternoon in Glasgow
Do you wish you never knew?
Do you wish you never knew?
What our ignorance has done?
What our carelessness can do?
Well I wish she’d never known
Oh I wish she’d never known
What the papers say about you
How heavy words are lightly thrown
And I hope you never know
That they were saying you should go
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10. |
South Lake
04:07
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South Lake
(Bella Hardy)
Between the heavens and the land
the whole world captured in this shining, shaking skin
A temple tall as it is deep
A thin and shifting double take,
Nan Hu, South Lake
The sun from stormy skies has rolled
to turn the grey to gold
Mountain circle hold me here
I tunnelled through and I found
White clouds in muddy water
Between red flowers and concrete pathways
people rush through muggy days
while all around the whole scene plays again
We are pond skaters
We are boatmen crossing to and fro
We are the watchful eyes who stretch our wings
and drop and soar into this complicated and messy world below
Oh to tumble in and down
Oh to tumble in and drown
among white clouds in muddy water
Between each tree, white painted waist to root
I sit with arms bare and rippled
as the breeze upon the shallows
And folded seed pods large as lemon
hang down from these unknown trees
in unknown lands with unknown words
It’s leaves dance and sing out twice to me
Once above and once below
Once in sunlight once in shadow
White clouds in muddy water
Oh to tumble in and down
Oh to tumble in and drown
among white clouds in muddy water
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11. |
Stars
06:20
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Stars
(Trad (Shijing)/Bella Hardy)
Starlets small, starlets small, three or five in all, starlets small
Starlets small, starlets small, shining in the east, starlets small
Swift by night we go, to the early dawn
Our lot, is not, like hers
Starlets small, starlets small, shining in the east, starlets small
Starlets small, starlets small, one thousand in all, starlets small
Starlets small, starlets small, white tiger of the west, guard us all
Swift by night we go, to the early dawn
Our lot, is not, like hers
Starlets small, starlets small, white tiger of the west, guard us all
Yunnan
Your stars are so beautiful
Dark skies of bright diamonds
Yunnan
Your stars are so beautiful
They are little lights dancing
You can tell by their flashing
They are a million billion light years
And a thousand unique atmospheres
Yunnan
Some of your stars are my stars
They shine down on my valley
Yunnan
Some of your stars are my stars
Their small voices are singing
Can’t you see that they’re waving
They are fascinating satellites
Orion’s belt like disco lights
They are a million billion light years
And a thousand unique atmospheres
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Bella Hardy UK
“Brit folk's finest” Mojo Magazine • “Enduringly seductive” The Telegraph • “A fine, no-nonsense interpreter of traditional music and an excellent songwriter” The Guardian • “An aura of sophisti-cation that will win over listeners who never set foot in a folk club” The Sunday Times • “…a shining star in the folk scene’s firmament” fRoots Magazine • “A triumph of folk art-pop” Songlines Magazine ... more
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