Digital Booklet - Strangeland

8/12/2019 Digital Booklet - Strangeland

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1 YOU ARE YOUNG2 SILENCED BY THE NIGHT

3 DISCONNECTED4 WATCH HOW YOU GO

5 SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAF6 ON THE ROAD

7 THE STARTING LINE8 BLACK RAIN9 NEON RIVER

10 DAY WILL COME

11 IN YOUR OWN TIME12 SEA FOG

13 STRANGELAND14 RUN WITH ME

15 THE BOYS16 ITS NOT TRUE

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YOU ARE YOUNG

Fearful child, have faith in brighter daysStay until this darkness fades awayLie still beside meIll hold you now, Ill hold you forever

Winters hand will freeze your heart againDoors will close, no time to start againNothing is givenExcept the ties that hold us together

Lay down your loadBecause every day its going to growAnd bask in the sunshineTry to pay no mind,Try to pay no mind at all

To all the things that you dont know

Youve got time to realise youre shielded by thehands of loveBecause you are young

Fading light may make a fool of meCourage fail, strength slip away from meLie still beside meAnd hold me now and hold me foreverLay down your loadBecause every day its going to growThese days are sacredHey now dont be scared

Baby dont be scared at all

Of all the things that you dont knowYouve got time to realise youre shielded by thehands of loveBecause you are youngYouve got time, youve got to try to bring somegood into this worldBecause you are young

SILENCED BY THE NIGHT

In a city like mine theres no point in fightingI close my eyes, see you and me drivingIf I am a river, you are the oceanGot the radio on, got the wheels in motion

We were silenced by the nightBut you and I, were gonna rise againDivided from the lightI want to love the way we used to then

I lie in the dark, I feel Im fallingFeel your hand on my back, hear your voice callingIm out of my depth, girl stick close to meBecause the people in this town,they look straight through me

We were silenced by the night

But you and I, were gonna rise againDivided from the lightI want to love the way we used to then

Because baby Im not scared of this world when youre hereNo baby Im not scared of this world when youre here

Oh you and I were gonna rise againOh you and I were gonna rise againWe were silenced by the nightBut you and I, were gonna rise againDivided from the lightI want to love the way we used to then


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DISCONNECTED

Somethings crept in under our doorSilent, soaking through the floorPinching like a stone in my shoeSome chemical thats breaking down the glueThats been binding me to you

Ooh I feel like I just dont know you anymoreBut Ive been burned and Ive been wrong so many timesWe walk in circles, the blind leading the blind

Well, I thought that love watched over this houseBut youre boarding up the windows nowWeve been leaning on each other so hardTied so tight we wound up miles apartMaking simple things so hard

Ooh I feel like I just dont know you anymore

But Ive been burned and Ive been down so many timesWe walk in circles, the blind leading the blindWeve been disconnected somehowTheres an invisible wall between us nowBut Ive been wrong and Ive been down so many timesWe walk in circles, the blind leading the blind

I see the landscape change before my eyesThe features Ive been navigating byNo, nothing looks the way it did beforeI dont know where to look, or what to look for

I feel like I just dont know you anymore

But Ive been burned and Ive been down so many timesWe walk in circles, the blind leading the blindWeve been disconnected somehowTheres an invisible wall between us nowBut Ive been wrong and Ive been down so many timesWe walk in circles, the blind leading the blindWeve been disconnected somehowTheres an invisible wall between us now

WATCH HOW YOU GO

The more we rush about, the less we doI never saw you drift awayThe more we spin around, the less we moveI never saw your spirit break

I wish that I could be your journeys endBut you were only passing through, yeahIts not for me to try to steer your wayI wish you well in all you do

Just say youll watch how you goBe gracious with your lightAnd may the years be kind nowJust say youll mind how you rollThe things that we have sharedWill soon be left behind now

I hope you know that youre a graceful soulYou fill the room with hope and light

Its only right that you should go your wayBecause nothing ever lasts that long

The things that we have sharedWill still remain behind now

SOVEREIGN LIGHT CAF

Im going back to a time when we owned this town

Down Powdermill Lane and the battlegroundsWe were friends and lovers and clueless clownsI didnt know I was finding out how Id be tornfrom youWhen we talked about things we were going to doWe were wide-eyed dreamers, and wiser too


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Wed go down to the rides on East ParadeBy the lights of the Palace ArcadeAnd watch night coming downOn the Sovereign Light Caf

Im begging you for some signBut youve still got nothing to say

Dont turn your back on me, dont walk awayIm a better man now than I was that day

Lets go down to the rides on East ParadeBy the lights of the Palace ArcadeAnd watch night coming downOn the Sovereign Light CafLets go down to the bandstand on the pierWatch the drunks and the lovers appearTo take turns as the starsOf the Sovereign Light Caf

I wheel my bike off the train

Up the North Trade RoadAnd look for you in Marley LaneIn every building, every street signOh why did we ever go so far from home?

Well youve got nothing to hideYou cant change who you really areYou can get a big house and a faster carYou can run away boy, but you wont go far

Yeah Im going where the people know my name

ON THE ROADHave you been feeling that pull?And are you hearing that call?Because youve got everything that you need to make a start

I had a dream of my ownJust walking out of my homeAnd going I dont know where to sing beneath the stars

Your whole life lies aheadIts just around the bend

So when the sun is coming up and you goAnd theres still so many things you dont knowDont you look back, Ive no doubt that IWill see you on the roadAnd when the worlds laying you lowWhy dont you let me carry your loadWhen things get bad, you know youll have a friend

All along the roadAnd I would love it some timeIf you would walk at my sideGoing I dont know where to sleep beneath the stars

If in your life you need a handReaching the promised land

Golden light lies aheadIts just around the bend

So when the sun is coming up and you go

And theres still so many things you dont knowDont you look back, Ive no doubt that IWill see you on the roadAnd when the worlds laying you lowWhy dont you let me carry your loadWhen things get bad, you know youll have a friendAll along the road

So when the sun is coming up and you goAnd theres still so many things you dont knowDont you look back, Ive no doubt that IWill meet you on the roadAnd when the worlds laying you lowDont you let it rattle your bonesSometimes the dream itself can keep you safeAll along the road


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THE STARTING LINE

This town was our lovers stageBut now you cant recogniseThe streetlights that are daggers to your eyes

You cant find your bearings

Youre slipping into the groundThe scene has no colour and no sound

Do you still believe in meAfter the things Ive done?Do you fear for what we have become?

The ground is unevenWe stumble from day to dayBut shelter where its easyI know your feet are like leadBut youve got to get underway

Drag your heart up to the starting lineForget the ghosts that make you old before your timeIts too easy to get left behindI know youve been kicked aroundBut tie up your thoughts and lay them down on me

Each heart is a paper kiteBlown around by the breezeLove wont rest till it brings you to your knees

Some find it easySome will never even know

You think youve done your journeyThen you stumble and find that theres sucha long way to go

Drag your heart up to the starting lineForget the ghosts that make you old before your timeIts too easy to get left behindI know youve been kicked aroundYou want to be lost and not be foundBut lets take the back way into townAnd drink to the bad times

Lay them down on meGirl I still believe in youYoure too good to fall so lowWere going to find a better life I know

Things will be clearerAnd soon as we make a startWell be that much nearerWere too old to just stand hereWaiting to break apart

BLACK RAINI open my eyes, everything shinesWe swim as the breeze blows down the coastDown on my luck, breathing my lastDirty your hands, carry me home

Red sky turning round, black rain falling roundIf youve got love youd better hope that thats enoughSandstorm cuts your skin, Black Kites circlingIf youve got love youd better hope that thats enoughWe came from the south to Lebanons shoreFolded our clothes, dived into peace


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The blackest of seas glittering redLit by the fire over our heads

Red sky turning round, black rain falling roundIf youve got love youd better hope that thats enoughSandstorm cuts your skin, Sunbirds circlingIf youve got love youd better hope that thats enoughYoud better hope that thats enough

NEON RIVERWell you were happy where you wereBut that girl she reeled you inThis town was never good enoughBecause she was going to everything

And if you ever spoke of loveShe just smiled and put you downBecause she was making other plansShe had a vision of light and sound

She said the neon on the river will light my wayAnd everything that weve been dreaming of,Well make it real one daySo save your money, pack your bagWed better run before we disappearShe took the train into the cityBut youre still here

You hear a song that takes you backTo some long-forgotten nightAnd friends who said they had your backBut they just turned and ran and let you fight

And on the bowling alley wallYou used all your smartest linesBut theyve been painted over nowLooks like youre going to get left behind

She said the neon on the river will light my wayAnd all the things that weve been dreaming of,Well make them real one daySo save your money, pack your bag

I want to run with you on Stamford HillShe took the train into the cityBut you stood still

You stood still above the trackYou knew as you watched her goThat she was never coming backYou stuck to places that you knowYou said you were scared of heightsAnd that you didnt want to goWhere everyone else goes

DAY WILL COMEThe winter night has wrapped a rag around your eyesAnd stolen your sight

Oh you seem so far awayI hope youll find your way back some dayI miss you, I miss you

Some days set your world on fireAnd some days they sink like stones


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Thats when your heart will cry outUntil your body is numbAnd the night will try to tempt youBut the day will come

We dream hard, we shoot highSometimes our fingers graze the sky

But we cant hold onSome days set your world on fireAnd some days they sink like stones

Thats when your heart will cry outUntil your body is numbAnd the night will try to tempt youBut the day will comeBrother dont hang your headUntil your distance is runBecause though it seems so far awayYou know the day will come

IN YOUR OWN TIME

Youve got nowhere to goGot no way out of this holeGot no one to say its all just the way things are

Well wouldnt it be goodTo look into a brighter dayIts just the way things are

In your own time

Theres no map to guide our waySo I say nothing, you say nothingIn your own wayThought I could help you find your placeBut Im as lost as you are lost these days

Oh wouldnt it be fineTo close your eyes and see somethingSomething more than this

In your own timeTheres no map to guide our way

So I say nothing, you say nothingIn your own wayThought I could help you find your placeBut Im as lost as you are lostIts not the way

Things are going to change you know

The battles you have fought wont go to waste you knowThings are going to change, it just takes timeIn your own timeTheres no map to guide our waySo I say nothing, you say nothingIn your own wayThought I could help you find your placeBut Im as lost as you are lostIts just the way

SEA FOG

The sun bleeds in, hear the magpie sing for sorrowIt makes things betterMaybe well get to spread our wings tomorrowIf luck will let us

Can anyone fly into these grey skies?Is there somewhere Im meant to be?

Sea fog comes, like a river rolls a stoneIts rolling me

I missed my turn in the dark - I hear your voiceIt makes things easy

I strayed too far from the roadWish you could always make things easy

And I wont fight through the rising tideIf thats the way it has to be

Sea fog comes, like a river rolls a stoneIts rolling meSea fog comes, like a river rolls a stoneIts rolling me

Sea fog rolling, sea fog rolling, sea fog rolling


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STRANGELAND

Lover I remember laying out our mapThrowing our possessions in the vanYour tapes piled on the back seatAnd a camera in your handDressed for our arrival in the strangeland

Strangeland blindYou got no reason, you got no rhymeYou get no time to put things right, to put things right

We drove across the border as the winter rains ran dryAnd only fitful birdsong filled the skyYou threw your head back, screamingAs we raced across wet sandAnd leapt into the waters of the strangeland

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You wound the rope around meAnd you pulled the knots in tightAnd shook me like a bad dream from your sight

And now the things Ive done to forget youWell its not what I had plannedThe sweetest thoughts get twisted in the strangelandStrangeland blindYou got no reason, you got no rhyme

You get no time to put things right, to put thingsStrangeland dreamsYou tore my baby away from meWe get no time to put things right, to put things rightYou get no time to put things right, to put things rightTo put things right, to put things right

RUN WITH MEWell you could write it in the dirt girlWrite it on a ten pound noteEverything that I have learned so farNothings worth knowing till you know your part

Times are getting leanerIf ever you were on my sideOh how I wish that you were stood here nowLeading me to shelter when the night comes down

Baby, you said, Were not ever gonna go home.

And Baby, will you run with me wherever I go?

Well its the pressure of the years girlBurning little holes in loveTill we make every little thing so hardNothing comes easy to a cage-like heart

Now the light is failingIf ever you were at my sideThen love I need you to be stood there nowDown to the wire where the bad ones go

Baby, you said, Were not ever gonna go home.And Baby, will you run with me wherever I go?Well maybe those words never really mattered at allBut lately those words run with me wherever I go


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THE BOYS

The boys are grinning from the photographIts Friday night and theyre trying so hardThe sun is dropping and they want to goDriving into town to see some girls they know

The boys, blazing on a summer nightGirls they want to watch them rideIs that the way it was before?Because I dont remember.Boys, friends at every bar in townRunning all the good days downIs that the way it was before?Because I dont remember.

We felt like fighters when we caught the planeUntil that day wed never heard its nameWe did some things we didnt understandAnd now we feel like strangers in our own land

The boys, blazing on a summer nightGirls they want to watch them fightIs that the way it was before?Because I cant remember.Boys, friends at every bar in townRunning all the good days downIs that the way it was before?Because I cant remember.

This photograph, I hold it when I sleep

Because people soon stop askingWhen I cannot explain what I have seenAnd at the bars in townAll the boys in townAre running all the good days downRunning all the good days downRunning all the good days downAll the good days down

ITS NOT TRUE

Youve been watching dawn from the gutterTrading one bad move for anotherIts been a stormy night but its almost through

Friends you once loved dont know youEven your own eyes dont know youYou think this whole worlds trying to bury youBut its not true

So dont you sayTheres something in your core that cant be savedBecause its not trueAnd every atom of my heart is missing you

Well its OK to be scared whenYoure stuck behind a door that wont openThe shadows in your dreams that are chasing youTheyre not true

So dont you sayTheres something in your core that cant be savedBecause its not trueAnd every atom of my heart is missing you

The good will come throughI wish that you could feel it the way you used toI wish you could believe it the way you used toThe way you used to


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Written by Keane.Produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat for 365 Artists.Engineered by Dan Grech-Marguerat and Tom Hough.Mixed by Dan Grech-Marguerat assisted by Duncan Fuller.Additional programming on tracks 5 & 6: Dave Fridmann.

Recorded at Sea Fog, RAK and Air Studios.Mixed at The Engine Room.Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway.

Photography: Alex Lake.Design & art direction: Tourist.

Managed by Adam Tudhope, assisted by Beth Louise Warren.Published by Universal Music Publishing.

www.keanemusic.comwww.cherrytreerecords.com

Thanks to:Adam; Beth; Tom The Chief Hough; Dan Grech; Jayne;Rebecca Dugan; Sarah Pearson; Chris Salmon; Alex Lake;Sam Wrench; Dave and Mary Fridmann; Duncan Fuller;Robbie Nelson; Olga Fitzroy; John Prestage;Martin Oldham; Paul Warren; Mark Spike Stent;Colin Davies; Scott Johnson; Rob Sinclair; Kyle Tzrinske;Vikki Walker; Stuart Quinnell; Simon Hall; Gary Bradshaw;Colin Price; Alan Pollard; Matt Arthur; Sophie Lopez;Mike Mooney; Nat; Shona; Trevor Duplock; Dave Brolan;Jules & Harper; The Quins; The Christophers;The Monticolombis; ATFL; Tim Cattermole; Rob Chenery;Tom Rowlands; David, Suzanne and the gang; Felicity,John and Shinnosuke at Yamaha; Tina, Kirsten andSarah at Zildjian; Gary at Remo; Joe and Martin at VicFirth; Bruce Draycott; Stuart Flanagan; Jim Anderson;Dave Barnett; Stephen Hussey; Ivan Hussey; Ben Castle;Nick Etwell; Steve Crow at Audio Kitchen; David Joseph;Ted Cockle; Darcus Beese; Jon Turner; Chris Scott;Louis Bloom; Alastair Smith; Matt Brown; Jon Fisher;Rob Lynch; Jimmy Iovine; Martin Kierszenbaum;Julie Hovsepian; Andrea Ruffalo; Christine Wolff; Scott,John and John at Pinnacle; Russell and Kara at WME.


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