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Open Sky

by Mothboxer

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1.
Tell me now or tell me later Promise I will write it down for always Show me how you feel today Pay no mind, we don’t know where we’re going Come listen, listen every day Play the sunshine sound Hear the sunshine sound Look at all the eyes upon the prize Of getting everything for nothing Play the sunshine sound Hear the sunshine sound You’re the sunshine sound
2.
Last night I dreamt but I kept one eye open to see What is a dream Then I became what I thought I could be yesterday What could it mean? I’m on the land taking it easy I’m on the land, won’t let it beat me Got to wake you up, got to wake you up Got to wake you up in the middle of the night Got to wake you up, got to wake you up
3.
Stop, just take a minute now Wait, can’t we just wait around Time, well the time’s going way too fast So now, just want this day to last I just don’t know how this thing works Wish I could tell it all before the nightfall I miss your smile, I miss your laugh And I can’t believe it that I’ve been awake all this time Maybe it’s better when it rains Put out the fire and the pain So it’s better when it rains down on me Go, try it another way Keep telling yourself today That you’ve got to know how this thing works You will just tell it all before the nightfall You miss my smile, you miss my laugh I’ll keep believing ‘cos you’ve been awake all this time
4.
I wonder how it is back in the place we used to go I bet it’s the same as it’s always been, the time it runs so slow And everything’s lazy and I’m going crazy, I think you read my mind And everything’s alright here by the shoreline I know we could be right, we could be right Now we lose time, you don’t see me In the sunshine where we should be A carpet of green on the TV screen, it seems to make no sense Falling away with a world of grey and dollars pounds and pence
5.
I couldn’t stand, you shook my hand and walked away Everything looked better yesterday Tell me the name of all the places you’ve seen Are they real or are they just a dream? I sit alone but your here by my side Talk to myself again, trying to remember when I didn’t feel like a child out of time Want to be there again, I wish you were here I’m in a dream with somebody like you When I awake it is all that I can do To stop all the rush, all the rain from above Cos I know every day all we need is some love I wish that we could spend all of the time just being who we want to be I saw you laugh, but it brought me to tears All the world is ringing in my ears I need to find out a place I can be Been looking for so long it’s hard to see
6.
Come on and tell me why it feels so good Show me the open sky, I knew you would It’s taken me all this time, turn on the light I’m still the same inside, but you don’t know, you don’t know All made up now All made up now All made up now You don’t know, you don’t know, you don’t know Walking a path I know, the dead of night Somehow I’m in control, do what I like I wonder if I can fly, well I don’t know, I’don’t know
7.
You in the suit are you telling the truth Well I don’t know Doesn’t seem right in the dead of the night Well I don’t know One minute you’re waking up and now you started breaking all the rules Listen to me one more time, I’ll tell you what I’ve found I can’t make out anything with all that goes around All the goes around, Call me by name in the picture frame by the window Painted in brown by a miserable clown going solo One minute I’m waking up and now I started breaking all the rules
8.
Never Enough 03:15
Play me side one again, didn’t catch everything you said Walk in time, I’ll tow the line Wish that I could hold my head up high Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Never enough Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Never enough Don’t think I fit in your mind of what you want me to be Then again, who does, my friend Everyone’s a version of themselves Play the fool, break no rules Drink yourself back down Don’t concern yourself with me
9.
Let’s wait for the time When the sun goes down you don’t even mind Wouldn’t It Be Nice you played to me Then we were on the upside down Hey, don’t look at the time It’s all you see and now it’s sublime Take me up to where you want to be I can see for miles when I can dream I’m a million miles away, but I think I’m getting closer I’m a million miles away, I don’t want to roll right over Some people are right Cos the life drifts out of everyone’s eyes All the while I know it’s just a dream How do they explain it all to me? I gotta know there’s a better way
10.
Open my eyes like every day, something about it Fall to the floor like yesterday, can’t do without it Well I know, yes I know it’s the same Well I know, yes I know I’m to blame Water is rising overhead, I think I can feel it Something just broke inside my mind, I need you to heal it Five long days I’m feeling nothing But a sense that I just can’t undo And I know not what the hell I’m s’posed to do And for five long days this is all I want to do So for five long days this is all I’m gonna do
11.
Mama 04:06
Stop all the time, forget what you were thinking This can’t be right, must be wrong now that I’m sinking Mama, tell me what to do Mama, You gotta help me through Sat in a car, I’m too far away from what’s going on Climb in the back of my mind and there you’re not really gone So whisper so sweetly that it’s gone completely the wrong way round This battleground has opened up, now I can’t feel anymore Here in the dark looking down at the floor and I feel Something inside so beautiful and real And I know, yes I know it’s the same thing But everyone says that it’s all in my brain But I know that you’re here with me now and you will be again
12.
I wanted to try, do I feel it tonight Been lying in wait now the time could be right And the people beside me keep rolling their eyes again You want us to play well now let’s all begin Taking the moment, the moment is gone I can’t help but walk into the sun I get so scared, feels like I’m on the run Now that I’m up here I want to get down But deep in my brain there’s a thing that I’ve found Keeps telling me over and over that I just can’t be I think all the love that I felt as a child Means nothing cos all of my yesterdays Means nothing cos all of my yesterdays are tomorrow

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Sixth full length album from Mothboxer, the follow up to 2017's Secret Art Of Saying Nothing. Open Sky contains 12 tracks written and recorded on and off over 12 months, expanding on the power pop sound of the previous releases and venturing into a new, progressive pop/rock sound.

"An album steeped in clever songcraft, Open Sky is a keeper, maybe Mothboxer's best" - Alan Haber, Pure Pop Radio

Mothboxer CD albums available at www.mothboxer.co.uk/cd-store

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released December 14, 2018

Dave Ody: Vocal, Guitar, Keys, Bass, Drums, Percussion
Patrick Martyn: Piano, Rhodes, Guitar, Vocals

Extra special thanks to Finchey for invaluable help
Cover painting by Matthew Burley

Produced by Dave Ody (c) 2018 copyright control - mothboxer.co.uk

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Mothboxer UK

The musical outlet of Dave Ody with invaluable help from others including, but not limited to, Robbie Burley, Phil Davies and Pat Martyn.

Mothboxer has been releasing music since 2007, and has released 9 albums to date.

“Packed to the gills with XTCesque pop perfection. Whatever you do, don’t miss it!” - popgruppen.com

"Fantastic power pop groove" Gary Crowley - BBC Radio London
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