1. |
Shake
06:11
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Trying to quench her thirst for a pale blue night
She takes a stroll to the bleak, bleak countryside
Against her wish a sickly moon just stood and watched and grinned
Taken aback
By the length of the track
Sorely in need
Of a change of luck
She shook
Just like a leaf
In a breeze
Blowin’
So much harder
Than it seemed
And if the lack of love in the face of most
Don’t vanish soon
Well she vowed to the clowns of worries and frowns in time
To ever be blue
Not the gay and merry
But those who muse
As an ancient art
Know the tremble when she starts
To shake
Just like a leaf
In a breeze
Blowin’
The stitches
Straight from her seams
And the fear and affliction of lacking direction
And having to beggar smiles from stranger’s eyes
Well it made her a sheep and she lost her peace
Before she learned to roll the dice
As she chanced
To try her luck
As an agent
Of wondrous lust
She shook
Just like a leaf
In a tempestuous breeze
Blowin’
Her a lot of
Sweeter things
Than she’d dreamed
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2. |
How Long
04:47
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How long must I wait
How long must I wait?
‘Til you make sense to me
Fill me with serenity
Your love is natural
Like your mind is ruled by heartstrings
While mine must ramble on
You like my charms sweet
I’d like to sweeten them up for you
But you’re always seeing a darkness
And you go where I can’t follow you
She lay in the sun and I loved her
She lay in the sun and that ain’t all
The next thing she done left and gone
You like my charms sweet
I’d like to sweeten them up for you
But you’re always seeing a darkness
And you go where I can’t follow you
Maybe we should lay low for a while
Or keep trying and die from crazy sorrow
Or maybe I should grab a great caliber shooter
And blow you out of my mind
For how long
How long
‘Til you make sense to me
Fill me with serenity
Only your love could make me
Roam the streets like a homeless dog
But ain’t it better than no love at all?
You like my charms sweet
I’d like to sweeten them up for you
But you’re always seeing a darkness
And you go where I can’t follow you
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3. |
Michini
05:23
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Michini, Michini
This is a song
To right all wrongs
And to show you
How chilled it can be
There were times I longed for you
There were times I wanted to
Choke the living life
Out of you
Michini, Michini
This is a song
To right all wrongs
You tried
To put down on me
Ah but please don’t misunderstand
Think me less of a man
For telling you no pleasant lies
It wouldn’t do
For to satisfy
Michini
Your mind may turn like the changing wind
‘Til my inners burn and I must keep adrift
Or be swept
From certainty
That I’m doing alright by me
Michini
This is a song
To right all wrongs
Done
By me and by you
Michini, Michini
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4. |
Julia
06:13
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Julia
Julia and I
Went walking side by side
To my delight
She struck a note
In my mind
And it rings still
It’s ringing still
Since our last
Goodbye
Julia has had
Some things turn out bad
She made a guy
Her home for a while
But he let her pay all their bills
Made her pay quite dearly
Until she had to bid him
Goodbye
And it’s a chip on my shoulder
Though I hardly know her
That her heart’s still split from missing him
For Julia has said
Wrapped up in my bed
‘You’re a sensitive guy you’ve struck a note
In my mind
And though I really should
I really ought to, I really should
I won’t, yet, bid you
Goodbye’
And as our passions flew
Both her eyes turned to blue
Though one was meant to be brown
She thought it all too much
That two strangers such as us
Should act, speak and feel as we’ve done
Julia
I want good morning, good evening
but I don’t want any
Goodbye
Julia I hope
you don’t act peculiar
when next I try to strike another note
in your mind
That’ll ring out
Ring all the way out
Without any hasty
Goodbye
Julia
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5. |
Lay Me Down
04:47
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The wind carried a whistle to my bewildered ears
And it didn’t tell me anything though I liked the way it screamed
And I would sail to Saragossa, not a penny to my name
Travel all the beaches and port towns, I may never stay the same
But then my sweet lover cries out with an appeal
She says ‘Baby, don’t you leave me and take to the Deep Blue Sea’
And her breast issued a promise with her fair face fighting a frown
And I, I’m so tempted to whisper ‘Lay me down, lay me down
Lay me down, lay me down’
But the Sea, the sea it calls me: ‘Don’t rest in your easy decline.
You’ve never rocked on my foam waves and there will come a time
You will peak out your city window, so terribly at ease
And will long, long to be buried in my Deep Blue Retreat’
And so the Sea did made a promise, I may never sleep too sound
Should I give in to my Baby’s arms and whisper: ‘Lay me down, lay me down
Lay me down, lay me down.’
And so I drift along here and I don’t know where to go
I’m imprisoned by my longing and shackled by my love
And one day I may sit back with the teardrops pouring down
I’ll have lost my love and my wisdom for a whisper: ‘Lay me down, lay me down
Lay me down, lay me down’
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6. |
I
04:08
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I want to be rid of you
I want to be rid of you
You’re always hangin’ round
Doin’ my heart no good
You ain’t nobody’s cure
You ain’t nobody’s cure
Whether you’re up or down
I can never be sure
It makes me lonesome to have you by my side
It makes me lonesome to have you by my side
Seems like you’re all I’ve got
And that does not
Seem right
I want to be rid of you
I want to be rid of you
You’re always hangin’ round
Doin’ my heart no good
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7. |
On & On
04:31
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And I do
Catch you when you’re cold
And I do
Teach you when you’re bold
And I’d like
To spend a spring in your arms
So I might
Catch some warmth off your charms
Trust me Love
I’ll save my time for you
And if you
Feel cast aside and blue
Tell me Babe
I’ll come running to save you
All I want
Is to steal a little love
And we’d go
On and on
But we stumble on a stone to bliss
You blame our fortune
I blame your wits
And you cry
Oh Baby do you cry
Seaside’s sunny but my Baby’s blue
What the hell is wrong with you?
And you cry
Oh Baby do you cry
Still I do
Take you out to town
Buy you drinks
And all you do is frown
Well I thought
Our tie was etched in stone
And we’d go
On and on
But we stumble on a stone to bliss
You blame our fortune
I blame your wits
And you cry
Oh Baby do you cry
Seaside’s sunny but my Baby’s blue
What the hell is wrong with you?
And you cry
Oh Baby do you cry
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8. |
My Baby's Eyes
03:08
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Well well my Baby’s Eyes
They’re so sore from cryin’
But I’d never keep her guessin’
You know she gives me such a blessing
When she rolls with ease
When she’s on her knees
Takes a lot of loving
To satisfy me
Oh Baby satisfy me
Or I’ll stay in the bottom of a whisky bottle
Let my soul drift away while I wait for better days
Though she rolls with ease
When she comes to please
I don’t want to live
In a world up the creek
Ah Baby satisfy me
So tell me: What’s the use
of a worried mood
When there’s strange men in taxis
Sellin’ me my vaccines
And I’ll catch a train
Someplace far away
If you’re alone and bored
Get high and roam
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Oh Lordy Lord
How could you
Place me so
In-between yet far apart?
Mmmh Mmmh
Oh Lordy Lord
Sometimes I
Hear you call
Other times I don’t hear at all
Mmmh Mmmh
And sittin’ inside
Don’t do no good
So I go walking
Round my neighbourhood
Yeah when my mind’s stopped spinning round
I feel good a little while
But this game ain’t for winning
Ah come again after night
Mmmh Mmmh
I call my buddy at six o’ clock
At seven PM we hit my favourite pub
I barely wake up the next morning
I’m back where I started again
Oh Lordy Lord
How could you
Place me so?
Sometimes I
hear you call
Other times
I don’t hear at all
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10. |
Babe, Am I Losin' It?
06:54
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Enchanted by your nursery rhymes
I dance to the bells that chime
Fate have Mercy
Do I see my
Babe coming back at me
If God above is one of Mercy
Why did he send you me
And then take me
From your thought-dreams
Turning Grace to Jeopardy
Babe, am I losin’ it?
Babe, am I losin’ it?
Swam a while in dull seas of pain
Owning but a bottle and my name
Then I saw you and you showed me
Magic hides when eyes are closed
Babe, am I losin’ it?
Babe, am I losin’ it?
Now we sleep as sun fills the room
But your light expels all the gloom
Fate have Mercy
Do I see my
Babe coming back at me
Babe, am I losin’ it?
Babe, am I losin’ it?
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Cairn McBain Berlin, Germany
Cairn McBain is a Scottish-German guitarist & singer based in Berlin.
He has performed countless concerts all
around Europe and beyond to form an amalgam of Mississippi-Delta-Blues and Scottish-Folk Music Traditions. He writes about his experiences in love, travel and adventure and delivers his stories and snippets with refreshing guitar playing, a gustful voice and a charismatic appearance.
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