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it takes a whole lot of fools to build a pyramid, but love just takes two

by YOU RASKAL YOU

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1.
golden arrow 03:45
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golden arrow please point the way where did my luck go how did I stray my words are certain my heart is true yet my hands are shaky and hazy is my view stars have failed to guide me the sun has blinded me the moon has turned its face eyes like water and lips like wine what I’d give to hold her tiny hand in mine I know the wager I know the deal reason won’t change the way I feel golden arrow I rest my fate in your tip so thorough your aim so straight I pull you from the quiver and I send you off go on and deliver to her my love
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machine and man 03:13
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so machine and man where made to be one bolted down to the same cold ground some ideas don’t blend they can’t be spoken they must float like oil on the water how I long to feel its power in me spark a flame and grow into a fire I stretch out an arm toward the mountain hold it in my hand it crumbles like a tiny lump of sand now I can hear the clatter and the noise blend into a voice quietly calling out to me from my chest my heart beats like a hammer it won’t rest before this night is through hours pass each one lasts a lifetime the morning whistle blows I step outside into the cold now I can hear the stirrings of the day ring into my ear quietly coming back to me
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blue alps 03:50
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on a train down the track we roll watch the mountain high and watch the sea below it’s them blue alps we’re leaving France for Italy I’ve been waiting on my chance to see them blue alps I squint my eyes against the brazen light I watch your face as you take in the sight of them blue alps just to see you smile them dolphin teeth at least for a while that’s all I need the clear blue sea and the clear blue sky sure bring out the clear blue colour of your clear blue eyes it’s been twenty days since last I shaved sometimes it feels good to even forget your own face by night we drink and we make love by day we swim and we sleep it off in the shade and then we make love again
4.
leaves of love (free) 04:45
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baby you’re the one I won’t have another you don’t have to bother I’ve made up my mind the night is feeling young and we ain’t getting younger sitting on our hunger we must understand and can you be so kind to help me from my seat, dear I will be your man as long as I stand baby let’s get married take your clothes off, love when there’s something in the wind that makes me want to wander when the feeling’s getting stronger and you must wait for me when I don’t have the time to explain to you my reasons as I’m changing with the seasons and with you it’s always spring baby take this ring so you and I will both remember these golden days baby don’t be worried I’ll take with me you love and when we both are gray and the automn days grow shorter standing on the border waiting for the day the ferryman will guide us to a place where they can hide us far away baby we’ll be buried underneath the leaves of love
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the plow 05:31
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who can blame a simple man who works the plow on barren land and who will fail to understand the silent plight that works him up inside you stood in line with all the other fools when they called you in to be handed out the tools you felt the icy grip of death around your throat and as you choked a soft voice spoke: like the smallest twig on the tallest tree just to take care of a pair of leaves put in your share and raise a family what consoles a broken man with a furrowed face and calloused hands not a bet was placed and not a token spent not a stone was raised at the race’s end
6.
the bucket and the rag 03:33
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baby's gone she ain't comin' back hand me the bucket and the rag a train it rolls on down the track hand me the bucket and the rag lonelyness is a heavy kind of chain it's a heavy kind of chain to drag clouds a-gather and it's fixing to rain hand me the bucket and the rag a tree falls in the forest and there's noone around there's noone around to hear a branch crack so the heart it breaks without a sound hand me the bucket and the rag they say life goes on the planets they still revolve around the sun the sun it still grows everybody know in six billion years it will implode baby's gone she ain't comin' back hand me the bucket and the rag train still rolls on down the track hand me the bucket and the rag
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it's gone 05:09
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I’ve outstayed my welcome on this earth the very day my mama gave birth she didn’t even hold me by the heel when she dipped me into the stream down the icy river I was flung an immortal boy with a weak set of lungs there must be someone down in here who know just how it feels come and gather ‘round the fire down a sea of failure you sailed your leaky boat come and gather ‘round the flame I have been a slave of every sort I’ve worshipped the devil and I bowed to the lord sat silent on a hill for forty years they still talk about it there all I ever wanted was freedom I’ve been around the whole wide world I couldn’t find me none there must be someone down in here who know just how it feels come and gather ‘round the fire up the hill and down again you roll your heavy load come and gather ‘round the flame I roamed the edges of this cage I finally came upon its golden gate all I had to do was unlock it fumbled for the golden key I had inside my pocket it’s gone I swear it was there now it’s gone it’s gone It has always been there now it’s gone
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lover 05:22
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lover won’t you come with me away from this city lover they say that it never sleeps who would ever want that the scratch of its claw its ruminant’s jaw won’t stop moving I don’t understand it why we must suffer any longer lover we don’t belong here this place has too many corners although we where born here we have always been foreigners the tone of it’s tongue the drone of it’s song like a dull knife working my vertebrae why should it burden me any longer lay down you head in the soft dewy grass close your eyes from the sun now it won’t be long before it will rise lover won’t you come with me this place is so ugly lover they say that it never sleeps who would ever want that the scratch of its claw its ruminant’s jaw won’t stop moving
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my love (single) (free) 03:09
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my love she knows how to get things done and understands what birds say by listening to their song she runs the house with ease she says she lives to please and never raises her voice unless she has no choice my love is more than just a nurse when my wallet’s empty she will lend me her purse and at night when the stars are shining up above we both know love’s a curse it’s just what we deserve it’s so nice to watch the sunset how it sets the field on fire every day again what’s on the tv did the blind man find his friend or did he disappear sunday morning the mowing of the lawn its neverending yawn my moaning and my tears have lost their charm
10.
taken by surprise 04:05
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no need to take me by force just take me by the hand girl, I was yours since on these shores you landed I’m taken by surprise every time I look into my baby’s eyes the love just pours it feels so good to be drinking by the light of the kitchen hood softly strumming my song there’s very little that I care about I care about you it takes a whole lot of fools to build a pyramid but love just takes two they say beauty’s in the eye of the beholder I wanna hold her and honey’s in the hands of the beekeeper I’m gonna keep her money’s gonna buy me luxury it ain’t gonna give me elation when you lie right next to me baby it’s the sweetest sensation

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released March 1, 2014

recorded by Joes Brands at SputnikStudio
in various sessions throughout 2013

mixed by Joes Brands at SputnikStudio
mastered by Gert van Hoof at Cochlea Mastering

everything written, composed, played and sung by you raskal you
except for horns, bass and banjo in the finale of 'the bucket and the rag', arranged and performed by the Marckriver Jazzband

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