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2050

by Gavin Downs

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1.
The Magic in the Music 05:12
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So if you like it Come on, get inside it Any time Let the magic in the music Take you home And if you love it, Come and be part of it All the time Let the magic in the music Take you home Let the magic in the music Take you home Take you home When I, When I was a young boy I remember my father placed A guitar in my hand And so for hours Honing all my powers I resolved making magic out of music Was my plan So if you like it Come on, get inside it Any time Let the magic in the music Take you home And if you love it, Come and be part of it All the time Let the magic in the music Take you home Let the magic in the music Take you home Take you home Now I'm, Now I'm that much older I've got so many things to do Not enough time on my hands 'Cause when you're grown up Grown up stuff takes over But I still always pick up that old Guitar when I can 'Cause I still like it And I'm still inside it Any time Let the magic in the music Take you home And I still love it, And I'm still part of it All the time Let the magic in the music Take you home Let the magic in the music Take you home Take you home © 2015 Gavin Downs
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Go With the Flow 02:04
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Honey please consider the neighbours They don't want to see you sunbathing In the nude They think it's rather rude Honey please now don't even start it Kill that pig and take it to market If you don't The family gets no food And that won't be too good If you want to be a free spirit You gotta go where the free spirits go But if you want to stay here then One thing is clear, you got to Go with the flow What's with all these clothes that you're wearing? Don't you see the neighbours all staring? And your hair's Like something lives in there What's in all those books that you're reading Makes you lead the life that your leading? It's a sin How almost everything You do is embarrassing If you want to be a free spirit You gotta go where the free spirits go But if you want to stay here then One thing is clear, you got to Go with the flow © 2015 Gavin Downs
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Nothing to Do 02:49
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Sunny day Hip hip hip hooray What do I care She has gone away And she wants nothing to do with me now She wants nothing to do with me now Love returned Makes you warm inside Love that's spurned Kicks you in the pride She wants nothing to do with me now She wants nothing to do She wants nothing to do with me now She cut off Her pretty nose in spite She said no Now I can't sleep at night Coming back Coming back to life So relieved Away from all that strife She wants nothing to do with me now And I want nothing to do I want nothing to do I want nothing to do with her now © 2015 Gavin Downs
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England in Summertime 03:20
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England in summertime, Don't you complain Green are the rolling hills, That's my domain Cliff is at Wimbledon, Pray it don't rain Folks in the violet sky, Jetting off to Spain Why would you go? Midsummer mysteries On Salisbury plain Who's playing Glastonbury? Bowie again Hiking the Yorkshire Dales, Fun in The Fens Let's hope this weather holds Till the Weekend Why would you go? © 2015 Gavin Downs
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She Was Making Her Way through the Fayre 02:54
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She was making her way through the fayre As I came by the coconut shy Her raven hair Like gypsies of old, Yeah, that's when she first caught my eye I have seen her in many a market square And I've seen her in fields far and wide To track her down And ask her her name There's no trail that I wouldn't try Is she just a memory, is she Something made up for a melody, maybe? I often wake up in the morning and I can't recall what is true She was making her way through the fayre If I hear that she's travelled afar To reside in more favourable climes All over the water I'd happily sail That raven haired girl for to find And if I could see with the sight of the sun Yeah, from which no shadow can hide I'd pin her down with an arrow of light And then she'd be a true love of mine Is she just a memory, is she Something made up for a melody, maybe? I often wake up in the morning and I can't recall what is true She was making her way through the fayre © 2015 Gavin Downs
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Theme from 2050 01:57
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The Wind Blowing 04:00
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It wasn't so long ago When you said to me We'd meet up some summer day And head for the sea Oh, look how it goes So softly it glows See the nights drawing in Oh, listen to the wind blowing You gave me a silk kerchief A token to hold I stood at the forest gate My hands clenched and cold Oh, travellers came by As day turned to night Said, 'Who have you heard on the road?' 'Oh, no-one but the wind that blows!' So was it the alcohol That made you so bold? Or was it the stirring spring Arousing your soul? Oh, I traded my troth For hollow oaths Hear these words that I sing Oh, carried on the wind blowing! © 2015 Gavin Downs
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City of Stone 02:42
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In the city of stone With no money and no computers I'd walk the streets alone With my head in my future But it hasn't really gone the way I hoped But it hasn't been as bad as it might have been In that city of stone Honeycomb like a biscuit So far from home But I don't feel alone And I don't think about it all the time No I don't think about it all the time And I don't think about it all the time No I don't think about it all the time In that city of stone © 2015 Gavin Downs
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The Belle of the Ball 04:23
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Tommy is whispering the name of the rose Who said she back once she'd powdered her nose All his friends have gone off down the road There's couples in corners with glitter on lashes A cymbal it crashes and fades Don't be afraid Find her down the hall Look no other way She's the belle of the ball There's no time to hide Days are getting by like the leaves there that fall Now she is coming back into the room Men drawn towards her like moths to The Moon Though the evening is over too soon They'll always remember that fifth of November Will burn like the embers that lie Where they walk by Find her down the hall Look no other way She's the belle of the ball There's no time to hide Days are getting by like the leaves there that fall Take her on the lawn Look no other way it's the will of The Norns Never be denied Days are getting by like the fireworks that fall © 2015 Gavin Downs
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Give Me Direction 04:16
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I'm in the wilderness Got no GPS And I can only guess The ways I have to go Give me coordinates Help me navigate Send me sure and straight So I can make it, oh yeah Give me direction to your heart If you want me to find the way Give me direction to it, Oh, I'm getting nowhere Give me direction to your heart I'm in the darkest night Not a town in sight Give me a satellite 'Cause I can't read the stars Draw me a dotted line On this map of mine Give me an exit sign So I don't go too far, oh yeah Give me direction to your heart If you want me to find the way Give me direction to it, Oh, I'm getting nowhere Give me direction to your heart © 2015 Gavin Downs
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Kingfisher 01:27
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12.
Remain 05:32
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Over the bridge over the weir With its music washing in my ear Up the river and around the bend You remember an old friend The water boatman bobs along Washed in the cold river's song I wonder what that sounds like Always when I get home Night fallen and the curtains are drawn The day and all that it's shown To me all alone Will remain See the photographer who frames A scene that will never be the same Just a click in auld lang syne Like a word without a rhyme The sentimental organ plays believers see God in its rays While others just see sunlight I hope these things we explore The sounds we make and the pictures we draw Will stay in eternity's store And forevermore Remain © 2015 Gavin Downs

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released July 31, 2015

Written, performed and recorded by Gavin Downs

Drums on track 9 by Matt Watts

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