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Let's Get Away From It All

by Friends

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1.
Let's Get Away From It All 03:04
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A summer day The city heat is killing me I couldn’t stay Another moment here but We could be a thousand miles away, anywhere We could leave a thousand times a day, everywhere Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all I couldn’t say As if it ever mattered how But every day I see you all around me Now I think of nothing at all, except you Now I dream of no-one else at all, only you Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Another year As if it’s just another day However near You’re always far too far but Stay with me and never let me go, for ever Worlds away from all I ever know, together Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Let’s get away from it all Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Far And Away 03:49
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Far far and away the best days Of our life we still recall Nothing to say anyway All we used to do was Fall in the waterfall Float away and never care at all Time time and again we would end This affair that we’d begun Only intend to be friends All we used to do was Run where the rivers run Hide on the mountainside Burn in the summer sun Ride on the ebbing tide all right Say what I should be saying Feel what I could be feeling Stay where I should be staying Here when I could be far away Up up and away, never stay In a life of childhood games Never betray yesterday In another world I’m Saving myself for you Though I see you everywhere However old it’s always new However long I’ll still be there oh yeah Years after the years we were here We return each summertime Shedding our fears and our tears Fall like cherry blossom We’ve come far from where we started Seems like only yesterday Feels as though we’d never parted Only waiting till you say okay Say what I should be saying Feel what I could be feeling Stay where I should be staying Here when I could be far away Say what I should be saying Feel what I could be feeling Stay where I should be staying Here when I could be far away and away and away and away … Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Falling 04:07
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Everything I say Everything I do can fall apart Every single day Every night I make another start And when I feel it coming And when I think of something And when I’m doing nothing And when I try to run I’m falling And I’m falling through the air And I’m falling And I’m falling everywhere and never care Making up my mind Making a decision yet again Taking what I find Staying in control till you say When I feel I’m hesitating When I feel my heart is racing When I feel the time I’m taking When I feel my legs just shake I’m falling And I’m falling through the air And I’m falling And I’m falling everywhere and never care I could tell you something that would make you notice I could tell you something that would make you care I can think of nothing that would make a difference I can tell you nothing when you’re never there Feel the way I do Everything I touch can turn to gold When I look at you Anything can make my blood run cold I only know this madness I never show this sadness I only feel this gladness I only feel so bad I’m falling And I’m falling through the air And I’m falling And I’m falling everywhere and never care All that ever mattered was the colour of your hair All I ever wanted was whatever wasn’t there All that ever happened was another waste of time All you ever wanted was whatever you could find Why I ever cared Why it ever mattered I don’t know How I ever dared Now I see you everywhere I go And now the weather’s changing And now my will is failing And now my body’s waking And now the summer rain is Falling And I’m falling through the air And I’m falling And I’m falling everywhere And I’m falling And I’m falling through the air And I’m falling And I’m falling everywhere and never care Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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The Deserter 03:21
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I arrived on Easter Day In valour and in vain A field of blood and rain A harvest of tears and pain Christ I can’t believe my eyes I prayed I’d soon be dead The voices in my head Are telling me run instead And I held out my hand Fired and I stared as they fell to the ground I turned away I might have been dreaming I couldn’t say No telling right from wrong One endless day And far from the screaming I was gone And never would return And never would return And never would return again I covered up my eyes I covered up my face My heart began to race I’m out into open space And I ran till I fell Crawled till I just couldn’t take any more Sunrise appeared Mist swirling around me I couldn’t tell But shadows caught my eye I raised my head Saw I was surrounded I was tried And sentenced where I lay I’d never see the day And never feel the shame I heard the gun shot Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Every Summer 03:31
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Whenever I think of you it’s through a summer haze Whenever I dream of you it’s sky blue Wherever I look I see your half-forgotten face Chase her through the trees Feel the summer breeze through the window Open up your eyes and she’s gone now I feel it in the air I feel it everywhere Never let it go till it’s over Here we go again Round and round again Here it comes again Every summer Darker now Fading into autumn Lighter now Winter turning into spring And every year it’s just like turning back again However I try I can’t resist it As if I could every find the way that we were then Happens anywhere A heart is only there to be broken Find the hidden door and it’s open I feel it in the air I feel it everywhere Never let it go till it’s over Here we go again Round and round again Here it comes again Every summer Far away Shifting out of focus Clear today Moving into view again I feel it in the air I feel it everywhere Never let it go till it’s over Here we go again Round and round again Here it comes again Every summer Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Breaking Away 05:01
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Living in a frozen wasteland This place has become my home Living on a promise built on sand This ghost town is all I have known All that I believe All that I hold dear Should I take my leave Or stay and watch it disappear? Breaking away Out of a life I never really knew at all Get away Into a world I’ve never been before And I want to stay exactly as I am And I’d rather stay exactly where I am Getting on a train at midnight My friends are all long since gone How can I be sure that I am right Where five hundred thousand are wrong? Scattered by the wind Battered by the storm Give up everything Or stay where I am safe and warm Breaking away Out of a life I never really knew at all Get away Into a world I’ve never been before And I want to exactly as I am And I’d rather stay exactly where I am Stranded on a desert island Heading for a far horizon Where I will think of you all Looking at it through a child’s eyes I’m glad to have grown up here Looking at it from the other side The time to move on’s getting near Nothing more to give Nothing left to learn Stay where I once lived Or stand aside and watch it burn Breaking away Out of a life I never really knew at all Get away Into a world I’ve never been before And I want to stay exactly as I am And I’d rather stay exactly where I am And I wonder just exactly who I am Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Burning Bridges 04:01
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When you lay down your life In the far fields of sorrow And you pray through the night And you see no tomorrow any more When the pain never hurts God and faith, king and country When you crawl through the dirt When you climb from the trenches Then you die every minute of the day In a world of your own In a place you remember Where the work has all gone In a land fit for heroes There’s a new order coming in its place Guns away, run away Come away, get away from here today Run away, come away Get away from here today In the depths of the town In the heart of the city With the lights going down When they strike without pity We must hide all our privilege away Run away, come away Hide away, get away from here today Come away, hide away Get away from here today Never go, never know Never so afraid as now Never go, never know Never so afraid as now When they crawl through the streets Like a new model army Out of sight, out of reach When they kill without mercy And we hide in our doorway till it ends And the pain in your body never mends And we’re still burning bridges in the end Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Many Places 05:25
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There where I belong Far away, long ago One long lost home Secret past, I don’t know Far beyond the hills Far across the water Through the deepest fields Far beyond the roads that brought me here Up in the clouds Spinning round, upside down Shouting out aloud Echoes sound, all around Where the journey ends There the journey started Every day I spend Leads me ways so long departed Fading away, never stay Where my heart is longing Time floating by, only find Distant years returning I’ve climbed the hills and I’ve seen the valleys I’ll live in many places And die where I was born Where the skies are clear Where the bells are ringing Where the sea is near Where the trees and birds are singing Fading away, never stay Where my heart is longing Time floating by, only find Distant years returning I’ve climbed the hills and I’ve seen the valleys I’ll live in many places And die where I was born There where I belong Far away, long ago One long lost home Secret past, I don’t know And in my end Is my beginning Years that I spend Never start and never finish Fading away, never stay Where my heart is longing Time floating by, only find Distant years returning I’ve climbed the hills and I’ve seen the valleys I’ll live in many places And die where I was born Fading away, never stay Where my heart is longing Time floating by, only find Distant years returning I’ve climbed the hills and I’ve seen the valleys I’ll live in many places And die where I was born Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Nothing Matters 04:40
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Day after day I live inside an empty room For all I say The end is never too soon Break down the door Walk through the walls Nothing matters till it’s over Nothing makes the time go faster Nothing changes, only faces Nothing’s ever just the same again For all my tears I’m just an ordinary man Through all the years It gets more than I can stand Shout down the hall Fall through the floor Nothing matters till it’s over Nothing makes the time go faster Nothing changes, only faces Nothing’s ever just the same again Please don’t tell me any more Than I already know Don’t tell me till you’re sure It’s time to let it go And in the end It’s only tenderness that dies Wounds never mend Turn into hatred and lies Draw down the blinds Turn on the fires Nothing matters till it’s over Nothing makes the time go faster Nothing changes, only faces Nothing’s ever just the same again but Nothing matters till it’s over Nothing makes the time go faster Nothing changes, only faces Nothing’s ever just the same again Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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It's Getting Louder 03:24
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I never say I think of nothing else On any day I could betray myself I never spend I only waste what’s mine I never lend When I can borrow time I’m staring into space I’m hiding in disgrace I cover up my face I leave this lonely place It’s getting louder I feel it ringing in my head It’s getting nearer It’s like a stranger in my bed For every word To pass unspoken by For every dream That’s left unbroken I can count a thousand times Can read a thousand lines Can see a thousand signs Which say the blame is mine It’s getting louder I feel it ringing in my head It’s getting nearer It’s like a stranger in my bed It’s getting harder I can’t go anywhere alone It’s getting darker I feel it raining in my room Now I’m standing on my head I’m lying in my bed Believing what I said I close my eyes instead It’s getting louder I feel it ringing in my head It’s getting nearer It’s like a stranger in my bed It’s getting harder I can’t go anywhere alone It’s getting darker I feel it raining in my room Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd

about

The first Friends album sees the band find and develop a definitive sound, and break through to a wider international audience after the more limited success of their first two singles. The bright, trumpet-led title track sets the tone for the album, which ranges from the purest pop of Falling and Every Summer to more reflective songs such as Many Places and Nothing Matters. The album includes re-recorded versions of It's Getting Louder, Far Away and Burning Bridges from the first two Friends singles, and has a very live feel to it, being recorded and mixed in a single week. Let's Get Away From It All was made available again on vinyl in 2001 by Vinyl Japan, but otherwise exists now on CD only. Still the best-selling album by the band, this is the sound of classic early Friends, with some of the band's most enduring and popular songs.

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released May 30, 2011

William Jones: voice, acoustic & electric guitar
Jo Spayne: electric & acoustic guitar
Peter Maude: bass
Stewart Moffat: trumpet, keyboards
Graeme Robinson: drums

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