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Special You

by Friends

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Special You 03:28
I start to see you everywhere Then you freeze me with a stare I try to find out who you are And all you say is blah blah blah Darling get out of my dreams Darling you know what I mean The people that you know The places that you go The things you think about The stars above your house I never thought I’d find the special you I fill the air with drunken words Or sit beside you in a church Stumble through the village streets I want to be here every week Darling you already know Darling I’m sure that it shows The things I never knew The other side of you You opened up my eyes I never realised The pleasure when we meet The bottom of your street I’m glad that I could find the special you You’re the vision in my eyes Sacred mother, sacred child You’re the sound I want to hear Getting closer, getting clear I’ll tell you something you don’t know A secret that I’ve never told You speak to me in foreign words In beauty that I’ve never heard I’m happy when you’re near I wish that you were here I mean it when I say You take my breath away You’re quieter than the breeze You’re wilder than the sea I’ll tell you how I feel I promise this is real I’m glad I got to know the special you Whatever people say They can’t take this away You’re filling up my time You’re always on my mind Seeing something grow Somehow I just know I’m giving this to you The best that I can do I’m glad that I could find the special you I never want to lose the special you There’ll never be another special you There’s just the one and only special you Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Reaching back to find The summers left behind The village in my mind was always here The railway tracks have gone The churchyard’s overgrown The school was closed in 1917 Forever stays the way it’s always been Lying on the riverbank to feel the sun Walk along the village green to see your chosen one The mornings drifting on The afternoons so long, so long, so long Their voices everywhere The Sunday evening prayers Fade into the air and disappear And echo down the ninety missing years The midday sun at harvest time still burns the fields Running down the shaded lanes beside the turning wheels The golden wives and men Will never come again, again, again Faded like the photographs from years of sun The choir has gone, the boys and girls Sing on and on and on and on The poppies once a year And carved in stone still clear The names of fifty heroes in the square Remembered through the breezes in the air And I know I’ll never find it anywhere The village in my mind was never there Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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Downstream 02:52
Sun through the breeze Drift down the river Slowly downstream to the sea Written by William Jones Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
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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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The first new Friends release since Folk Songs, Special You is a short, sharp blast of intensely romantic pop, and one of the band's most commercial offerings since their first album, featuring a glorious acoustic/electric guitar sound, a driving pop beat and a massive chorus.

Village In My Mind, also taken from the Beautiful You album, is a haunting, nostalgic song about a time frozen early in the last century with the First World War – a kind of musical Picnic At Hanging Rock, about a place that may or may not ever have existed.

Other tracks are Downstream, one of Friends' most unusual songs, almost orchestral in quality, and with minimal vocals (only thirteen words!), and Every Summer, an acoustic version of one of the most popular songs from the band's first album Let's Get Away From It All from 1988, performed solo by singer and guitarist William Jones.

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released July 30, 2011

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

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