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Spangleland

by Friends

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1.
Juliet 05:39
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Juliet, Juliet Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I can’t forget The first time I heard your name Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I must confess My world’s never been the same Juliet, Juliet Juliet would smile And stay with me a while Juliet was fair The sunlight in her hair Could shine through my shaded eyes Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I never dreamt I’d wake up and see you there Juliet, Juliet Juliet, don’t know you yet But I’ll be with you anywhere Juliet, Juliet Juliet was fine And maybe she was mine Juliet came first I wanted to be hers I’m asking you one more time Will you promise darling? Don’t make a move till then Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I always meant To show you my secret life Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I might have guessed You won’t get to see those sights Juliet, Juliet Juliet flew high The laughter in her eyes Juliet swam low The darkness in her soul won’t die Juliet, Juliet Juliet, what happens next? I don’t know what’s in your mind Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I can’t expect To steal all your precious time Juliet, Juliet Juliet, I don’t regret The days that I spent with you Juliet, Juliet Juliet, we never met So how come you know me too? Juliet, Juliet So how come you know me too? Juliet, Juliet Juliet, Juliet Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Happy New Year 03:07
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A thousand crazy messages Are filling up my phone I just don’t want the company I’ll spend this one alone At midnight sing that stupid song And count the seconds down Just call me if you ever come around A bunch of faded daffodils You’ve thrown them all away Another New Year’s resolution Broken every day You know I want the best for you You want the same for me But God is this the best that it could be? Still you do the strangest things Just to spite yourself And then you make that injured face The one I know so well You know I’ve heard it all before It doesn’t matter any more It doesn’t mean I didn’t ever care The same performance every time You know I know the words Pretending it’s original That no-one’s ever heard The audience will all applaud And think it’s something new But me I know exactly what you do I thought about it then I don’t remember now I never saw the signs I can’t imagine how And here we go And here it comes And there you go again I think I’ll take a shower in the rain I wish you every happiness I wish that I could stay I’ve tried to be a better man Is that all you can say? And one for all and all for one I still believe today It never made a difference anyway So Happy Birthday, Happy Christmas Happy New Year, happy life And all the best for all of you and me Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Missing Person 07:59
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When I was fifteen I saw you on TV I felt that you knew me You’re saying it to me When I had grown up Or when I was older And all that I know now Is nothing beside how I would have said it to you Today I was thinking Of something that’s missing Something unfinished That never continued Now that I want to Where do I find you? What happened about you? And where did you get to? And did it turn out alright? Through those many years I wish I’d made some sort of sign Just some clumsy kind of move To see if I could ever find Where you had gone Will you fly high Climbing through the blue sky I’ll see you through my closed eyes Way above the world Will you please say I will see you some day On a superhighway Heading for the sun Heading for the sun Missed the connection Lost the direction Dreaming of something Was better than nothing Never forgotten The memory frozen Never forgotten Only grew older When I was fifteen When I was thirty When I was fifty When I was sixty And now that I’ve found you And now that it’s over I’ll tell you about things And all that drifted away Will you fly high Climbing through the blue sky I’ll see you through my closed eyes Way above the world Will you please say I will see you some day On a superhighway Heading for the sun Will you fly high Climbing through the blue sky I’ll see you through my closed eyes Way above the world Will you please say I will see you some day On a superhighway Heading for the sun Heading for the sun Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Give Me Back My Life 04:55
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I’m going to tell you I might as well do Some of the painful facts of life ‘cause what you don’t know The way the world goes Nobody else will put you right And when you first start You’re trying so hard To get ahead and don’t look back And then you realise It’s nearly midnight You’re going to soon run out of track So give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I had Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I loved Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I had Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I loved And every weekend It’s what you can’t spend Because it all went yesterday You’ve done a lifetime To meet a deadline That didn’t matter either way So give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I had Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I loved Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back my precious life Give me back my life Just give me back my life Just give me back the life I had Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Time To Move On 06:53
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It’s time to move on We’ve been here too long Our best days have gone It’s time to move on We’ve come to the end You’ve been a good friend I won’t see you again We’ve come to the end It’s time to move on We’ve been here too long Our best days have gone It’s time to move on It’s time to let go Of all that we know Our faces all show It’s time to let go Over and over again in my mind Searching for something I know I won’t find So many years and I’m still here today Hoping I won’t find a reason to stay It’s going to be hard To make a new start Break all this apart You know it’s so hard We’re all getting old With the stories I’ve told I’m feeling the cold We’re all getting old I’ll tell you and tell you until you agree There’s no place in this place for someone like me You know yes you know that I’m telling it true You do understand what I’m going to do I’ll follow the flow Don’t know where I’ll go Just keep moving slow And I’ll follow the flow The sun’s going down The seasons go round The light’s fading out The sun’s going down On our own Where the birds have flown And be unknown And get away I want to go Where no-one knows Where the warm wind blows Every day It’s time for a change Start over again No more of the same It’s time for a change I just need to rest I’ve given my best And never done less And I just need to rest Time to move on And wherever I’ve gone I will stay Find a new home And to be on my own anyway I just want to see Whatever will be Break finally free I just want to see I’ll find somewhere new Whatever I do I won’t forget you I’ll find somewhere new It’s time to move on We’ve been here too long Our best days have gone It’s time to move on Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Natural History 04:54
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Can you come out to play? I’ve got off work today I know an easy way to town We’re going back to school Forget the book of rules Remember when we fooled around? There’s so much we could do Been always meaning to The things we lost and never found Now we’re stepping across the zebra crossing I’m showing you all my dirty washing I’ll carry your high street shopping home again With your psychology And my biology You know our chemistry is true Some weird geography Your rare philosophy I’ll share my history with you I’m running around in a souped-up motor Cracking my gags like a stand-up joker Getting along just drifting through the day My natural history is How all the world can see it And I will change my ways for you There’s no great mystery to My inconsistency so I’ll tell you all those deals I do Yes I do And I do And I do You’ll get a good degree The ancient faculty The university of me I’ll teach you all I know This isn’t just for show It’s how the way ahead could be From Tottenham Hale to Crystal Palace I’ll show you the world that I have travelled Finally drag my tired old body home You’re looking beautiful I’m feeling supercool We’re in a special mood tonight It’s unbelievable Not even feasible So let me get this absolutely right You don’t know where I’ve been and You don’t care what I’ve seen you’re Not even bothered what I’ve done I don’t ask your forgiveness You don’t need my permission To join my minority of one You know I never once dreamed Not in a month of Sundays That we would end up like we do My natural history is How even you can see it And I will change my ways for you Just for you Only you Only you Only you Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Constantly 04:52
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At last Everything happens so fast No more waiting to see For you Can everything come true And make it happen for me? A random conversation In an unexpected place Some sudden inspiration And an unfamiliar face Why now? I couldn’t imagine quite how My whole world would just change Not yet I’m trying to forget And are you feeling the same? But somewhere in the corner of my mind A feeling that it took so long to find I’m thinking about you constantly I want to be with you constantly I’m missing you near me constantly I’m finding it hard without you What for? Well I don’t want any more There’s nothing else we could do And then Do we begin again? And shall I start without you? You’re still in my dreams now constantly I’m feeling you with me constantly I’m seeing your picture constantly I’m counting the time without you I’m thinking about you constantly I want to be with you constantly I’m missing you near me constantly I’m finding it hard without you Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Twice Around 04:22
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Round and round the town each day Up and down the same old way I’ve been around, just couldn’t find The one who understood my mind I never cared what people say They’re going to think it anyway I’m going to take my own advice That it’s alright so don’t think twice And all you say I can’t agree Your tortured logic’s teasing me But what you see it’s not quite real I’m twice the age I used to feel There’s just so much I’ve still to do Go twice around the block with you But certain things are meant to be And two times one sounds good to me But I never thought I’d need to offer everything And I don’t believe I heard you answer anything The best things in my life aren’t free They’re twice the price they used to be There’s no such thing as twice as true But if there was I’d say to you You really are the dearest of them all I’ve run my heart out just for you I’ve gone as far as I can do I’ve tried to go at twice the speed To be the best that I can be I feel I’ve known you twice as long As you’ve known me or am I wrong? And I’m never going to give you empty promises And I swear you’ll never need to doubt my honesty I’d keep you secret if I could But it’s twice around the neighbourhood His brother and the world can see I’m twice the man I used to be And I’m never going back to my old ways You’re treating me like no-one should I’m half as bad or twice as good You know that once you cared for me So won’t you say it twice for free And tell me in your very special way? And warm as fire or cold as ice What you describe is twice as nice And everything I’ve heard today It’s twice as much as I can say Is just one smile so very hard Although I’ve asked you twice so far? And what you say I just can’t hear You’ve said it twice, but it’s still unclear So can’t you tell me what you see Although you won’t look twice at me? I know I should but I don’t care Your precious jewels are twice as rare As any that I’ve ever seen before Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Spangleland 06:02
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Bed of grass beside the river Close my eyes, design the picture Move the orange sun above the sky Silver moon and pink horizon Way beyond the jetstream climbing Colour in the sketches in my mind Ripples where the boats are drifting Hear the songs the breeze is singing Paint the golden shade beneath the trees Sunlight flashes off the water Splinters that the mirror’s caught Are darting through the space between the leaves Only once and never come again Only once and never come again Confetti snowflakes tickertape Showering on my frozen face The icicles are turning crystal blue Avenues of ancient arches Patterns out of sleeping branches The mist is hanging low above the dew Happen once and never come again Happen once and never come again Special world in many colours Secret words and magic numbers Strangest moods and deepest feelings Precious dreams with hidden meanings here All the leaves have blown away Woodsmoke turns the evening grey Flickers from the bonfire flames The shadow of the day remains Happen once and never come again Happen once and never come again Happen once and never come again Only once and never come again Special world in many colours Secret words and magic numbers Strangest moods and deepest feelings Precious dreams with hidden meanings Out of my imagination Somewhere in my own creation Winding shapes and twisted reasons Silent days and distant seasons here In Spangleland In Spangleland In Spangleland In Spangleland Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Turn The Sun On Me 08:58
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Follow where the light is leading Highest place I’ll ever know Dirty dark and dreary morning Take me where I need to go Past the rows of terraced houses To the hill above the town Reaching up towards the heavens Only place to be alone Now my body’s made of music All my mind is full of air Here my eyes see every colour Feel I’m touching everywhere Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Follow where my mind is wandering Through the cracks between the clouds Shall I see the sun arriving? Will it ever come around? Down the lines of blackened rooftops Along the granite streets below Way ahead the grey horizon Through the smoke and sulphur glow Need the breeze of summer mornings Long for warm September rain Miss the cool of evening shadows Want the heat of August days Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me It takes the rain to make the garden grow The wind to get me where I want to go Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Follow where the river’s flowing Down the valley to the sea Back to birth and far beyond it Let the ocean cover me Carve the lines in ancient faces Grind the shale and pebble shore Mountains into sand dissolving Bathe in sun for evermore Now I’m only made of water Washing earth and wood and stone Mother, father, son and daughter Brother, sister, everyone Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Come and turn the sun on me Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd

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Spangleland is the ninth studio album by Friends. The London-based band, who this year celebrated 20 years in music, have spent the time since 2004's Late Night Early Morning developing a set of highly contrasting songs exploring several new directions for the band, and finally returning to live performance after a gap of several years.

The ten-song set kicks off with the glorious sunshine pop of Juliet, and takes in the regrets of Give Me Back My Life and Constantly, the enigmatic humour of Twice Around and Natural History, the hallucinatory weirdness of Spangleland, closing with a near-ten-minute sun-worship mantra Turn The Sun On Me.

Spangleland retains all the approachability and immediate qualities of classic Friends, while taking listeners down several new avenues as the band have done throughout their long career.

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released July 28, 2011

William Jones: voice, acoustic, electric & acoustic 12-string guitar, didgeridoo
Katherine Dow Blyton: voice
Richard Buckton: electric guitar
Jon Kirby: keyboards
Edwin Pearson: bass
Martin Parker: drums, percussion

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