Davemann Collective

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Album: Heart Over Mind

All That I Want
Fishing
We'll Be Fine
Everybody's Girl
My Time
Just To Know
I Always Said
Heart Over Mind
Locked Out
Grace Emily
Reach Out
Crashing Down
Long Distance Love

All That I Want

I want to be in that frame of mind
That is exempt from all time
No past to hang on to and
No future to consume you
All that you have is the now
Just for that moment you have
No possession you have no opinion

All that I want is to feel like that again
Nothing could taste or smell so sweet
All that I wish for is to feel like that again
All I got is a memory

From here all I see is good
And I just want this too last
It goes just as fast as it came
In time I’ll learn to hold onto

Fishing

Do I dare to compare to my competition friends
As a consequence I slip into a state of self-defence
Are you good at D&M’s cause I’m your regular abuser
Anyone anytime anywhere, if you start I’ll be the loser

Can I be excused?
Can I leave the room to adjust my mood?
I was just fishing

I’ve got a little game that we can play
It’s called who’s the biggest brown nose
I’ll be the dummy you can test all your skills on me
I am getting good at asking the right questions
I only hear what I want to hear
I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m sorry, I was just fishing for a compliment

I called on for your comment
Even though I new what you’d say
I was just fishing

We’ll be fine

She’s got a dream that does not involve me
She wants to be free like prisoner on reprieve
We’re riding on our train a losing the wheels
Shooting our own movie that ends bitter sweet

She’s got a dream that she has to follow
And I‘ve got a wish that I’ve already made true

So it’s just for a while that we have to part
We’ll follow our dreams, be true to our hearts
We’ll be fine, we’ll be fine, we’ll be fine, we’ll be fine

We’ll living our dreams just not together
We can sweep our stuff back to our corners
You can play your game your way on your court
I can say, I’ll run like never before

She’s got her plans for the future
And I’m on a ship that’s already set sail

If I convince you to stay
The price that I pay
Could be double in the future babe
A bottled up dream
Is like holding back steam
It’ll build up and burn you

Everybody’s Girl

She is the lines of a picture I love
I painted colours with the words I wrote about her
I wrote her a song that won her over
I wrote her ten more that sold her over to all ears listening

I didn’t think of consequence
I sold in dollars what I paid in cents
Now she’s everybody’s girl

I waved it around like bait to a bird
I sang it out loud so everybody heard about us
I broke the shell that hid her pearls
I Uncovered secrets of her world to all ears listening

I didn’t think of consequence
I sold in dollars what I paid in cents
I shouldn’t put the blame on me
But now she’s out like a magazine
Now she’s everybody’s girl

My time

I’ve been livin' tomorrow today
Operating future plans
Too busy being a busy bee
I’ve been missin’ relaxing

I settle into a routine
And succumb to want and greed
Never thinking what I need
I forget about me

My time goes faster than it should
Cause I let my time get overbooked
Yeah I have overlooked, my time

Some one said to me one day
“You’re acting older than your age
What you need is growin’ down
So you enjoy here and now
Every now and then you need
To remind yourself to breathe
See the beauty in simple things
Only comes with time free

Just to know

Sometimes I feel like I’m riding my bike up hill
Sometimes I feel like I’m walking into the wind
Nothing seems to go quite where it’s supposed to
I don’t seem to know how come and what I can do

All that I ask is just to know
How do we move from hot to cold?
If only I could just be told
All that we ask is just to know

Was I supposed to do my diary this morning?
Was it the fact that I made coffee instead of tea?
Was it because I ran two laps instead of three?
Because I did not spend enough time on me

In good times gone before we let our routine slide into apathy
And we take for granted the things that we deal with so easily
How did we move from hot to cold?

I always said

I’ve never stepped these stones before
Doesn’t mean that I don’t know the course
It’s all about adaptability
And getting used to the vicinity
What I’ve done has got me here
On top of what once I made of fear

I always said that I wanted this
Ever since I started this
I always said that I wanted this
Now I find myself just right here

What I dreamt is now reality
What I spoke I have now said
What I wrote is now part of my book
I hope that I can now dream again…

I’ve come to a point
And now I can see my fall
It’s nice to reflect but now I must go on

I always said that I…
I wanna say goodbye…

Heart over mind

There’s something in the air tonight
I am down wind of something so bright
Every now and then you get a sign
That there must something your doing right
I know a change is good
But it’s hard to take the first bite of something new

Heart over mind, the difference is unkind
Now I must decide

Now I have to be in control
Of my own direction and soul
It’s just a shame to see
So many before me
Under the hand of the money machine
It’s all up to me to find
What I need to stop the bleed

Heart over mind the difference is unkind,
Now who’s turn to drive

I get lost and overcome
I must get to see the sun
Some time soon my time will come

Locked Out

I’m outside your window
And your talking but it’s hard to hear
I’m being diffused by your amour
Surrounding what you hold near

I’ve got things to say
But the words are no deeper than skin
Year your stones are well laid
I’ll keep looking for a way in

And I’ve been locked out of your house again
Up till now you did let me back in
Now I am the coldest I’ve been.

Well you won’t fall down your stairs
If you’ll only lend your hand
You won’t unlearn your lessons
If you’ll teach what you have gained

And I‘ve been locked out of your house again
Up till now you did let me back in
Now I am the coldest I’ve been

Can you see through my eyes?
Can you understand why?

Grace Emily

Hotel rooms they do nothing for me
Tonight I’m lonely
I’ve got no comfort here
Sleepless night and morning near

Early rise another flight
My eyes feel dry as lies
All I can do is imagine
You in my mind and your passion

And I miss you
It’s been two days
I thought that I’d last a bit longer

And I miss you
And all of your attributes
I keep you in my mind
To ease the pass of time

I wish you were here I need some company
You’ve always got the answers, you know what I need
You're so good to talk to, I want you here
In my fictional mind you're so clear

Reach Out

1400 hundred miles from Jigalong
Taken by wadjula cause they though I did not belong
A half cast camp full of motherless kids
Of all ages, from all places

The darker you are, the harder they’d hit
I tell you white man my skin does not conform to your intelligence scale

And I Reach out and mother sing for me
Sing me your greatest prayer cause I’m about to leave
And I Reach out and mother sing for me
Sing me your greatest prayer cause I’m about to leave

Blisters on my feet, crows up above checking on me
Seeing if I’d make it, or if I am their next feed
No god damn white man was gonna tell me what to do
So I started walking, I started walking all the way home

And I Reach out and mother sing for me
Sing me your greatest prayer cause I’m the one in need
And I Reach out and mother sing for me
Sing me your greatest prayer cause I’m the one in need

Crashing Down

One mans view is another mans void
Don’t take as gospel
One mans word is another mans lie
Don’t believe everything

Exercise your right to choose
Not everything said is true
There’s always a different view

So don’t come crashing down
It’s just what you don’t need right now
You were doing so well
Before you weakened and bowed out

If you filter out the shit
You can find something good in everything said
Keep your skin just thick enough
To let what you want in

Try to keep your glass half full
Don’t let it overflow
And don’t let it get too low
Or you’ll get cut down

Long Distance Love

I’m waiting for you to call me
I want you to tell how you feel
Phone conversations are all I have for gauging
One confirmation will give me back some patience

I wonder if you will miss me, while I’m not around
Doubt has crept in, I wish you’d

Call me, to top up what’s been taken
By our long distance love

Well the truth is all I want
To be told by you in my ear piece
That I’m loved

I know that trust is the key
Come what may – be
I know I just have to believe
But sometimes I get weak
And all that I need is

Love.

Sometimes I feel a little weak, and I just need to be, told by you sweetly
That I’m loved.

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