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Simple Life
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An updated version of the song - just requires the vocals now and then a final mix.
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Songwriter, producer, musician. Blend of Genesis style progressive rock and Peter Gabriel's solo stuff, mixed with influences from as left field as Black Eyed P
Just me! Everything you hear is played on the synths in my home studio.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #376
Peak in subgenre #40
Author
Richard Jackson
Rights
2007 - 2008 Richard Jackson
Uploaded
April 02, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:09
Story behind the song
About the desire in many of us to break free from our lives and start afresh before it's too late. Mid-life crisis, anyone?
Lyrics
In the morning when she opened her eyes, She looked out across a dreary sky. Down below people moved about; No time to stop, no time to breath. Chorus: She wants to live the simple life, Away from all that she knows. “Please give me a simple life” she cried, At the end of the world. Walking through cities she didn’t know, Listening to the stories of its people. All wrapped up and nowhere to go, No time to eat, no time to sleep. Chorus Out in the country she breathed the air, Hoping here to find the peace she craved. But in the distance a storm could be heard, No time to look, no time to hide. Solo She’d heard of giving sight to the blind, Never thinking twice that that’s what they wanted. Tearing down all the mysteries of life, Making their dreams peak-time viewing tonight. “Oh why can’t I see my own dreams?” She cried every single night. “Oh can’t you see I’ve only got one dream left! Waiting for the end of the world.” She got up and packed up her bags, Leaving behind only her photographs. Addiction to the past now broken free, All the time in the world to be herself. Chorus (repeat)
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