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SOMETHING GOOD COMES ALONG
Words and Music © 2011 Desmond Grundy (SOCAN)
Took a bus down the hill to the station.
Gonna’ get off when I‘m done.
Everyone wants freedom.
Gonna’ buy a ticket.
Leave some things undone.
Took a train to the plane they call heaven.
Let it be known I was for sale.
Everyone wants freedom
Gotta’ buy on credit.
Leave some things undone.
I can’t relate.
I don’t belong.
But just when I think I’m gone Something Good Comes Along.
Took a walk on the beach in the daytime
Gonna’ go lightly where I go.
The ocean is freedom.
Gonna’ go past my limit
Leave some things undone.
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Spiral Arm
03:08
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SPIRAL ARM
Words and Music © 2012 Desmond Grundy (SOCAN)
I woke up along the spiral arm.
Left my suit of clothes back on the farm.
Putting seeds in the ground, I set out to find my way.
Left my home to be a alone, found myself, then I couldn’t stay, alone.
There’s a light within me I can’t see.
Tells me that I’m only frequency.
Planting seeds in my mind, now I'm a coloured glow.
Leave my brain, look again, see the seed begin to grow. At home.
I got a plan to save the world.
Exactly the way you want it to be.
Ships are coming down for sure.
Nothing’s gonna’ stop this now.
I nod my head at things I understand.
Hold my nose and try to be a man.
Throwing thoughts, catching rocks. I know what you’re trying to say.
Hurting them is hurting me. We’re all one anyway.
Sittin' in a cafe on the dark side of the moon.
I was holding forth on Capricorn and sunny afternoons.
Car drives up, you get out, come in and take a seat.
Taking up where we left off, change my world and never miss a beat.
I got a plan to save the world.
Exactly the way you want it to be.
Ships are coming down for sure.
Nothing’s gonna’ stop this now.
Tell them about us. Make the news.
Tell everyone. It’s the truth.
Tell them about us.
We’re from the stars.
Love is the plan to save the world.
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Debt Jubilee
03:43
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DEBT JUBILEE
Words and Music © 2012 Desmond Grundy
You are the dream I dream
Next to air, you are all I want to breathe
You are the only one
On my plane
Let me take you there
Let me show you how to fly
Let me take you to that place we know
We know
You take me for real
Even when I blink, in and out
You are the only one
On my plane
Let me say you’re right
Let me see you in this light
Let me take you to that place we know
Let’s have our own debt jubilee
Let’s have our own change in the sea
You know
You know
You are awake
Always in touch with more than me
You are the only one
On my plane
Let me hold the door
Let me show you so much more
Let me take you to that place we know
Let’s have our own debt jubilee
Let’s have our own change in the sea
You know
You know
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Straw Into Gold
03:01
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STRAW INTO GOLD
Words and Music © 2012 DesmondGrundy (SOCAN)
Beach girl take me down.
Along your peach shores.
Space is light.
Time is out of sight.
Please stop your wandering.
And drop your mystery.
Space is night.
Time is lost in flight.
There’s a moment, we are changing.
It’s an ocean. We are swimming.
You're the feature in my story.
You're the Straw turns Into Gold
Please take me down.
Behind your peach door.
Space is tight.
Time is black and white.
Speed love.
Gotta love now.
Speed, love gone.
Beach girl are you wondering.
About what’s you and me.
Space is made.
Time is all made up.
There’s a moment, we are changing.
It’s an ocean. We are swimming.
You're the feature in my story.
You're the Straw turns Into Gold
There’s a moment. It’s an ocean.
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She Could See Me
03:08
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SHE COULD SEE ME
words and music ©2012 Desmond Grundy
Learn about Sandra, your new connection
She’s got currency, with all your friends
She’s the one to know, a lovely binary
She makes the nexus, appear in dreams
And if she could really see you
she would want to know
more than you would want her to
And if she could really see me
I would disappear
My name is Beverley, I like your address
I saw your name and thought it strange
She wants my sanity, she has a plan for me
She said we’ll work it out, in the van.
And if she could really see you
she would want to know
more than I would want her to
And if she could really see
I would disappear
Unless she asks me to take her to bed
Then I’m ready. I’m ready
Unless she asks me to take her to bed
Then I’m ready. That’s why I clicked on her name
She takes all the calls, and leaves you hanging
She makes all the plans, ahead of time
Meet Terry, she’ll text you endlessly
She’ll make your head spin if her image fails
And if she could really see you
she would want to know
more than I would want her to
And if she could really see me
I would disappear
Unless she asks me to take her to bed
Then I’m ready. That’s why I’m here.
Unless you ask me to take you to bed
Then I’m ready. I’m ready.
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Black Fly
04:25
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BLACK FLY
words and music © 2011 Desmond Grundy (SOCAN)
Is every Black Fly blind?
I know I'm getting bitten
My skin is hardly hidden
Nearly hurtin' now
Is every black fly blind?
Aiming for a killing
Ready but not willing
To come down and land
You're my black fly
You're my black fly
(And she lands...)
What every black fly reads
See it with their eyes
Infra-red I realize
Is the wandering pain
What every black fly needs
The dangerous lifestyle
Too many parties
And a taste for blood
Ooh ooh, dangerous lifestyle
Aah, aah, too much penetration
Ooh, ooh, friends with x-ray machines and chronic depression
She's that black fly, you know the one.
Stings you once, stings you twice and you're done
Is every black fly to be feared?
They manipulate then weedle
Then stick you with a needle
right through your skin
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Borealis
03:28
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BOREALIS
words and music ©2011 Desmond Grundy
I know you want it
but you don’t understand it
I know you need it
like your whole life depended on it
Hockey’s in the news again
Talk about the weather
Parliament raised the tax on me
Playoff time in the rain
I know you want it
Labrador to Vancouver Island
I know you want it
Nunavut to Niagara Falls
Borealis fading in and out
Skating ‘cross the sky
Lakes so wide we call them great
Thirty-one words for snow
Wait and see
Wait and see
Wait and see
Stand on guard
On the late night talk shows
French radio and The Nature of Things
On the road to Moose Jaw,
Wawa, Ottawa, Mississauga
Borealis fading in and out
Racing ‘cross the sky
Lakes so wide we call them great
Cirque do Soleil in the rain
Wait and see
Wait and see
Wait and see
Stand on guard
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8. |
Godot
02:35
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GODOT
words and music ©2012 Desmond Grundy (SOCAN)
Just getting fun now. This here life
Under surveillance most of the time
Taking my picture. For the millionth crime
Looking out for Godot Nothing to be done
He’s got the rapture. The Tai that binds
you and me brother all in a line
Taking our picture For the millionth time
Looking out for Godot Nothing to be done
Cathode ray tube
High definition
Big brother’s gun
High definition Earth mother’s son.
Watching the belly is leaving you numb
Watching the tv makes you dumb
Is it a crime to be the only one
Looking out for Godot
Nothing to be done
You are my slave and I am yours
It’s getting fun now. Lock all the doors
You and me sister. On the carpet now
Looking out for Godot. Nothing to be done.
Cathode ray tube . Opium
High definition. Big brother’s gun.
LCD. Alligator blood.
High definition Earth mother’s son.
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Guns, Liquor and Pills
03:34
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GUNS, LIQUOR AND PILLS
Words and music © 2012 Desmond Grundy (SOCAN)
She didn’t have a husband but she got along just fine.
With her kid and her dog and her car.
Her friends and family left her
when she went and got exotic
lessons from a man she met through a magazine.
She had bills to pay and love on her mind.
She knew it could take a long long time.
He can’t rub two cents together.
He left them all in a ‘stan.
Now he’s selling someone else’s news for a buck.
His firends and family left him
when they learned he was toxic;
from the DU like a bullet through his brain.
He had bills to pay and love on his mind.
He know it could take a long long time.
Guns, liquor and pills.
Guns liquor and pills.
They might have stayed together but for guns liquor and pills.
Guns liquor and pills. Guns liquor and pills.
They could never come together, guns, liquor and pills.
They gave him the stash
and told her where to take the stash.
They went their separate ways for the last time.
They had bills to pay and love on their mind.
Now it wouldn’t take a long long time.
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A Penny
04:36
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A PENNY
words and music ©2011 Desmond Grundy
Haven't stuck my nose up in a while
Not even for a poke in the machine
If I had a penny
All I want is you
All I need is you
Got out of bed early this morn'
Lying 'bout the floor, to my chagrin
I picked up a penny
I warned you
I cornered you
I earned a penny, at one time
I took it for granted there'd be more
But all I ever found
Was you and you
Found me
All I need is you
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Desmond Grundy Toronto, Ontario
This hooky, indie, guitar music is seeded in the creatively structured 4/4 song styles of the British Rock and R&B
invasions.
Lead singer and songwriter, Desmond Grundy, has an accessible creative signature. His studied musical influences — acquired sometime between 1974 and this moment of now — ring through his music and make the listener feel at home.
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