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The Bees
03:15
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THE BEES
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 2005 Smallboy Songs
Hey did you catch it?
It smells like honey in the trees.
If we lay here and sniff the sweetness
We might learn something from the bees
Hey, did you hear that?
A pair of pigeons on the ground.
If we listen - i mean really listen
We might learn something from the sound
All the simple things running round the world
Make me want to sing just as much as any girl
That i have ever loved
Yes i know I'm not too bright
But if push comes down to shove
Maybe thats what makes things right
Hey can you feel that?
A roll of thunder in the hills
It's a good vibration coming up through my gym boots
That says that heavens with us still
Hey could you touch me?
I dont mean nothing untoward
I just need someone - another someone
To make me welcome in their world
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2. |
All I Love
05:27
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All I Love
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 2011 SmallBoy Music
In a field of flowers, in a field of broken glass
There aint no difference where I am without you
In the quiet hours when sleep should come at last
I'm always looking backward at the rear view
Coz all i love is waiting in the distance
Is standing at a corner
Where i cant be tonight
On a piece of paper the lines are all roughed out
Of you and me and chritmas trees and reindeer
And the snow is falling down upon our little house
And i cant see an easy way to get there
Coz all i love is somewhere lost in silence
And looking over shoulder wont bring it back again
And all i love is growing out of it's innocence
And burning all my bridges
I cant go home tonight
Things could be different
Things could change in a wink of an eye
Or maybe im lying to keep my desire and dreams both alive
Things could be better
Things could be somewhat closer to home
Things could be less impossible
Out on a ledge while the whole world takes pictures below
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3. |
Breathe
05:09
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Breathe
Music & Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright © 2011 Smallboy Songs
Can you lie?
Can you lie close again tonight?
Fingers soft, soft and trace your dreams against my skin?
Whispered flesh - sweet familiarity of your flesh - is so safe
Loving hands, loving hands against my chest - theyre searching me
Tonight I cut myselr wide open to you
Id lay at your feet if you wanted me to
The deepest place inside me has a wind rushing through and it's cold
Please touch my soul
Tonight, tonight, tonight my love
Tonight I am open, fractured and broken
Bleeding and frozen
Tonight is escaping, two souls embracing
Touch on the face of God and breathe
And every night id cut my chest and hold it here wide open to you
Id throw myself down at your feet here baby if you wanted me to
The deepest place I know inside me has a mighty wind rushing through
And it's cold
Please touch my soul
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4. |
The Wavy Sea
04:11
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THE WAVEY SEA
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 1988 Smallboy Songs
The waves come from the wavey sea
They crash and they foam
And break over me
The rain comes down and soaks all my bones
Into the ocean
That carries me home
Oh theres a ship on the horizon
Oh there are fish beneath the waves
Oh im drifting on the wavey sea
Save my soul
Im drifting on the wavey sea
Save me
The ship comes from the seven seas
It comes through the storm
And into the peace
The fish swim the waves
And take all my skin
This sure is a wet place
Ive got myself in
I just cant swim me any faster
I need your love to keep me warm
Oh im drifting on the wavey sea
Save my soul
Im drifting on the wavey sea
Save me
Save my soul
Save my ass as well
Cant take it anymore
As far as i can tell
Oh i can see i'm going under
I'm going down without a line
Is that a ship i see?
I wonder is it mine?
Is it mine?
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IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 2007 Smallboy Songs
If I should fall from grace
Spill my seed upon the floor
Would you love me anymore?
If I should fall from grace?
If I should break my word
Turn a vow into a lie
Could you look me in the eye?
If i should break my word
If I should fall from grace
Would the flowers cease to bloom into my face
Would the ceiling fall onto me in disgrace
Would you pack your bags and leave without a trace?
If I should break your heart
Trade our holiness for sin
Crush the tenderness within
Would you leave and start again?
If i should break your heart
If I should take a walk into the deep blue sea
If I should take a walk into the deep blue sea
If I should take a walk into the deep blue sea
Take my swagger and my talk
Till the waters covered me
Would you take me to your breast
Tell me everythings alright
Say that love was just a test
To push my soul into the light
If I should fall from grace
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6. |
What Ashes Are To Fire
03:52
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WHAT ASHES ARE TO FIRE
music and lyrics by Mark Robinson
copyright 2004 Smallboy Songs
All the things we might have had
Are mounted round my shoulders
And some are good and some are bad
But i still want you
Not an empty word was spoke
No secret bullshit waiting
No subterfuge or counterstrokes
Just open invitations
And i am such a lucky man
To taste my hearts desire
But now it's gone i understand
What ashes are to fire
In hidden places of my soul
Your tender kiss has wandered
And all the emptiness and cold
Was filled with fire undaunted
And our two bodies make a pact
And our two minds were kindred
And our two spirits walked a track
All through the burning tinder
And i am such a lucky man
To taste my hearts desire
But now it's gone i understand
What ashes are to fire
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In the Wonder of Your World
music and lyrics by Mark Robinson
copyright 2011 Smallboy Songs
When i turned away
Did i shake the house you built to it's foundation?
Did i rock you to the core
Till belief in love did sway
And totter on the edge of self recrimination?
Oh baby if i had your love inside me
I'd dance in the wonder of your world
In the person you have made
Theres a strength of joy I challenge with my emptiness
Your love is equal to the task
Every moment you have prayed and your truth employed
Aroused me from my bitterness
Oh baby if you could only see
I'd dance in the wonder of your world
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8. |
Feel
06:03
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FEEL
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 1992 SmallBoy Songs
I wanna feel.
I wanna just feel something;
Head in the clouds,
The pain or joy that's on your face.
Rattle my cage
And register next to nothing
Yet I cannot spak
Round the easy movements of your grace
It's hard to say I want you, to say I need you
Its hard to say I love you, to say i need you.
I wanna touch.
Whisper your heart's soft beating
Hold in my hands
The hungry aching of your flesh
Kiss in the black;
Kiss in the nightshade's keeping
Surrender the virgin lands into the meeting of your legs
It's hard to say I want you, to say I need you
Its hard to say I love you, to say i need you.
To say i need you
To say I want you
To say I love you
All my life I have believed
That Love is what my soul was needing
And love is a tender reed.
The gentle lift of your sweet breathing
Holds me death and dumb
I cannot tell you what I'm feeling now
I cannot lie.
Make me.
It's hard to say I want you, to say I need you
Its hard to say I love you, to say i need you.
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9. |
I Want To Hold You Now
06:36
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I WANT TO HOLD YOU NOW
music and lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright 2007 Smallboy Songs
Moonlight in my face, theres no lights in my place
The keys are just rattling in my hand
I cant see the hole
The door squeaking open, the kitchen bulb broken
Theres nothing but my smell inside and the darkness at all
And furniture lays like some crouching combatants
All whispering secrets in secretive accents
It's cold and it's foreign but full of a warmth gone before
I want to hold you now
Come from behind that door
Break out the streamers and confetti
I want to hold you now
Theres nothing that i need more
Scream out surprise and then come get me
It's quiet at night time, the junk of a lifetime
Explodes in an ambush of sorrow and useless regret
And maybe its boring just constantly drawing
The dark shaky outlines of stuff others seem to forget
But nothing erases the guilt of the sinner
As conscience grows deeper defences grow thinner
No nothing erases but somebody softens the lines
Let me dream
Face up in my headphones, a stillness in my bones
And cobwebs above me and carpet lays under my back
Im floating outside me - a ghost in the gumtrees
When suddenly colour ignites like a flame in the black
And waiting below me are ghost celebrations
My babies, my friends and my closest relations
And seeing you clapping your hands and laugh feels best of all
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10. |
Paper Flowers
05:49
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PAPER FLOWERS
words and music by Mark Robinson
Copyright 1989 SmallBoy Songs
What'd I say
I really can't remember anything more
Or less designed to hurt you
What'd you see
To make you run away from me?
What'd I want to make it now or never?
Wouldn't you beg a little
For something that lasts forever?
Anything we give each other
Except for maybe love will pass away.
Sweet sister she don't understand
She gives me paper flowers
What are we but flesh and blood?
Between the grave and the cradle
Sure enough I need your love
And I will give you mine
Just as far as I am able
Yeah but have we got
Besides from one another?
Look at my soul
You think I want a lover?
What'd I say?
I can't explain it any other way.
Sweet sister she don't understand
She gives me paper flowers
I wanna walk
I wanna be something
I wanna walk into tomorrow with my hands deep into something
Sweet sister she don't understand
She gives me paper flowers
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11. |
Wait For A Train
07:51
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WAIT FOR A TRAIN
Music and Lyrics by Mark Robinson
Copyright © 1990 Smallboy Songs
Can you walk slow by the side of the road while the movers and shakers all speed?
Can you say no while the weeds choke and grow,
Can you stand there and wait round for me?
While the love we believe in is far from deceiving us
Still the old faithfuls are pulling past, gone far ahead
When it should be us up there instead.
You’re dying to break but you won't move or shake
Like your promise is written in blood.
Your dignity's suffered , your pride is all covered in mud
And you wait for a train that may never charge through here again .
And the cold and the rain makes you wonder if it's worth it when you stand on your own with your pain
And the promise is all you defend.
Still you wait anyway.
Look at the dust we were made from; it must be that something is kicking up that.
All those left behind are all wheezing and blind as they stumble their way off the track .
There's a trap for the lonely that says you and only you understands everything anyone ever has said -
It's squeezing me now half to death.
And the headlights are streaming, their stereos screaming,
They're picking us out of the dark
While the dirt and the stones and the weeds and the thorns leave their mark .
Sometimes they want to squeeze and squeeze and still squeeze;
They wanna squeeze your life away.
Sometimes I wanna let 'em.
But you wait like a man who just won't understand
It's easier walking alone.
And you wait for a train that has promised to take us back home.
And you wait for a train.
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Mark Robinson Australia
I am Mark Robinson.. No.. NOT that one. I have been a singer/songwriter/guitarist since the age of 13 to now.. which is..
well.. old. I currently live in Katoomba, NSW and still write and record.
Previous bands have been The Noise Toys, Billion Park, The Inklings, Auto De Fe`, White as Red, Mice and Men and FunnyBone
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