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by Peter Farnan

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gary978 I watched and enjoyed many of these songs live at MCT. I found myself immersed. What a revelation. Huge Ups to Peter for a magnificent LP and why has it taken me so long to jump on board ?
Jon Baxter
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Jon Baxter Joyous, angsty, clever, bloody good.
Pete has the knack with a hook from a different angle that sticks.
Favorite track: I'm Singing Again.
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1.
Home 03:09
(Ho - ome Ho - ome) Everyone has beginnings Then we roll down years Never know when we’re ending ’Til we just disappear Through I try hard to leave you I am pulled in reverse And you find me and heal me As my atoms disperse Home, behind us Home, inside us Home, please find us Home Home, outrageous Home, contagious Home will save us Home (Ho - ome Ho - ome) Theres a street, there’s an ocean There’s a village in ruins There’s a war never ending In the very next room We are chickens and foxes We are germs in a jar But we should count our blessings That we made it this far Home, you made me Home, you break me Home, please take me Home Home in my bones Home all I’ve known Home, I must phone Home (Ho - ome Ho - ome Ho - ome Ho - ome Ho - ome Ho - ome Ho - ome) Ho - ome
2.
(Ooo - Ooo - ) Finally I’m released My birds have all flown I’m kicking ‘round the house I’m dancing alone Just me and my bones Deep within The great unknown Is trying to call me Now where’s my phone? Who knows where this could end? I’m singing again (Ahhh - Ahhh - ) Finally I’m released I was struck dumb I’m a broken bell Couldn’t be rung Cat got my tongue Now I can finish What I’ve never done So stick your hands up Don’t try to run There’s no competition That I’ll ever win Just ears I’m gonna bend I’m singing again 
(Ahhh - Ahhh - ) Over the rainbow Down in the valley Somebody’s calling Somebody’s calling C’mon just do it Shoot out the lights The heat seeking verses The chorus that bites I’m no bird in the treetops But I can pretend You might wanna join in I’m singing again (Ahhh - Ahhh - ) I’m singing again (Ahhh - ) Like a bird (Ahhh - )
3.
Time 03:38
Look at my face I can’t believe Time, time, time Creases and cracks No turning back Time, time, time Every year, shorter by half Forty years stampeding past Leaving lines each time I’m Llaughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Time There are the young Once I was one Time, time, time Looking through me All they can see Time, time, time Sure, I was just like them Eventually they’ll remember when They were dreaming it was Never ending Never ending Time Never ending Time Never ending Never ending Time I don’t wanna know I don’t wanna go I wanna move fast Keep up with the show I just wanna bow out slowly Plenty of dark Plenty of space Dots of light Plenty of what The universe makes Long, long time At twenty three the world was mine Waters rose by thirty nine At sixty four please pour me more Time More time More time More time Once I was burning with lust Soon enough, cosmic dust Knock knock knock I guess it must be Must be Must be Must be Time Give me Time More time More time More time More time Please Time More time More time More time More time Time More time More time More time
4.
When your parents go At first stunned Still in the world Abandoned Then you start to run When your parents go Some things Revealed Boundaries collapse Edges disappear Then you start to run Run for the exits Run from the church Run with the coins From Mummy’s purse Run from the demons Run from the curse Run run run Run run run So starts the rot The lid comes of the pot Your siblings bicker over what You’ve become what you thought You were not Run in the darkness Run from the worst Run like a child When it hurts Run from the memories Run ’til you burst Run run run Run run run When your parents go Finally, air At last you're free to go there So just go there
5.
Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home Hello hello hello At home Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home Hello hello hello At home Is there anyone there? I hope you’re living somewhere Can you make-like-a-roof Cuddle up with the truth Good riddance and thanks To all the markets that tanked Now we’re fighting a war With a sign on the door Saying Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home You’re fiddling with your phone Hello at home Hello hello hello At home Hello at home We’re going with the flow Hello at home ‘Cause we’re all in the zone Hello at home You’re not alone Hello at home Woo-ooo Haven’t seen you for days But I held onto everything That your screen tried to say You were blowing your nose When everything froze It’s gonna be ok (ok) President clown’s Gonna soon just go away I got Jesus on the line It’s not the end of times Just yet Hello at home Hello hello hello Hello at home Turn on your microphone Hello at home Your hair has grown Hello at home Hello at home We’ve nowhere else to go Hello at home Don’t worry ’bout the loan Hello at home We’re not alone Hello at home Oooo Hello at home Ooo
6.
Oh, as the river flows Oh, as the river flows We’re drifting in a dream (Oh, as the river flows) Hearing cries and screams (Oh, as the river flows) Too soon we pass the scene (Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows) As the river flows Forests and fields bare (Oh, as the river flows) Towns, dull and in despair (Oh, as the river flows) Is anybody there? (Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows) As the river flows We’re drifting slowly Slowly drifting In a silent place where time has been suspended Ghostly we are creeping Who are we and where are we going? Weddings and funeral pyres (Oh, as the river flows) Factories and burning tyres (Oh, as the river flows) Sizzling electric wires (Oh, as the river flows, beware below) As the river flows Dead cars and dying trees (Oh, as the river flows) Wiped out by that disease (Oh, as the river flows) Buried in sites like these (Oh, as the river flows, we’ll never know) As the river flows We’re in the darkness, in the darkness Where we whisper and our voices hiss like paper No one dares remember But our memories hang and linger in the ether Closer - stay together Who are we and where are we going? We try to change the song (Oh, as the river flows) But we are dragged along (Oh, as the river flows) Soon… all gone We let it go as the river flows We’ll never know as the river flows Oh, as the river flows (Shhh) Oh, as the river flows (Shhh) Oh, as the river flows
7.
Asteroid 02:43
Are you at peace? How did you vote? Did you storm the streets Or stop the boats? How many sins will you admit? Your feeble wit? Your ‘80s hits? It’s come to this You’ll never get fixed Soon you won’t exist What else have you missed? How long, how long ’Til you fall to bits? How long, how long ’Til the asteroid hits? Down at the church Crammed in like fish The roof collapses Like a dying wish Four horsemen of the Apocalypse Come riding up And plant a kiss No one will remember us When we’re all turned Into cosmic dust Of all the fates That could be worse We’re everywhere In the universe Shake your fist Or just get pissed God doesn’t miss She doesn’t even exist How long, how long ’Til you fully commit? How long, how long? You gotta confess How long, how long Left to listen to this? How long, how long ’Til the asteroid hits?
8.
Happy daze again (ahh) Happy daze again (ahh) I can recommend (ahh) Happy daze again (ahh) Alright Look at my face in the mirror I see The monkey in me and I’m bananas PJs and shirt, completely alert I’m zooming to work (I’m in heaven) Ageing with grace I’m fully composed Bucket and hose, now I’m a fireman Ladders and poles and digging for souls In bottomless holes (I’m still in heaven) Happy daze again (ahh) Happy daze again (ahh) Follow my nose and follow the prompts I get what I want, I go to pieces Float like a stone, I’m flying alone My hair is un-mown (I’m in heaven) Eating a phone and holding a peach And pounding the street (I’m still in heaven) (Love is everywhere) In cobbled lanes (Love is everywhere) In blocked up drains (Love is everywhere) Just look again Take a look again The end of the road’s at the end of the street And you follow your feet and you gotta repeat And you gotta repeat and you float like a sheet You’re a ghost made of meat You search for contentment and during the sentence The past and the present, you muddle your tenses You come to your senses, amazed and incredulous Dazed and defenceless And ‘round and ‘round and ‘round you go The walls have ears The windows, noses One door shuts Another door closes And no one knows When the next live show is (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!) Happy daze again (ahh) Happy daze again (ahh) Bucking every trend (ahh) It’s happy daze again (ahh) Sink into happy daze again (ahh) Alright Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere Love is everywhere
9.
Ray Of Hope 02:40
Searching for a ray of hope Flickering here and there Blinding me with its glare Oh - oh Chasing down a ray of hope Like I’m delirious Though it’s deadly serious Oh - oh Maybe it’s a plane But it’s far too bright to see Squinting at the sun When a shadow swiftly flashes over me Searching for a ray of hope Hush at the cusp of dawn Blink and the moment’s gone Oh - oh Chasing down a ray of hope I am in hot pursuit Longing and resolute Oh - oh Waiting by the gates As the train is flashing by The light jumps through the cracks I am mesmerised and then the moment dies (Die-ie-ies) Hope! Searching for a ray of hope (Searching for the rays of hope) Chasing down a ray of hope (Searching for the rays of hope) Searching for a ray of hope (Searching for the rays of hope) Ray of hope Ray of hope
10.
(Woh … Woh …) Holy water. cross myself Holy water. cross myself Leaking into every crevice Holy water fills my eyes I never asked to be baptised But I was judged and I was sentenced Oh, how my childhood self was coerced and bent They buried it deep and put me to sleep To hell I was sent Holy water fills the street In the rivers and the creeks Polluting and dividing Holy water in the sewers It’s never gonna cure All the misery and violence But oh, how my life, so long, is so short tonight It’s dark like a moat I’m trying to float towards the light Cross myself (Woh…) Cross myself (Woh…) Holy water in the veins Of the missiles and the planes Raining down from heaven As the young man plants the bomb On the road to kingdom come Is he blasted to his senses? Oh, how the village burned and the sky turned red The witches were drowned, the children were found All silent in bed Cross myself (Woh…) Cross myself (Woh…) Cross myself (Woh…) Cross myself Cross myself
11.
All I wanted was the common touch But maybe I would feel too much Or what I’ve got Is simply not enough I used to try so hard to please All I got was ‘You’re all at sea Way off key What kind of songs are these?’ (Ah) I have struggled to get through (Ah) To myself just be true (Please) Asked myself ‘just who are you Who has the common touch?’ The common touch I’ve observed how others go (What is that?) Eyes and lips and hands and clothes I’ll be exposed ‘Look, a real wierdo’ Maybe there’s some magic code That connects us node-to-node Sparks explode Electricity flows (Ah) How I wish that I could feel (Ah) Some emotional ideal (Please) Just how do I appeal To the common touch The common touch? There are those who fake it all Politicians who have the gall To grab, to feel, to hug, to maul To stoke the fires To traumatise (Remember the fires) (Ooo) (Ah) There’s something brutal, something fake (Ah) Those who grab our hands and shake (Please) Eventually our bones will break From the common touch The common touch Now’s the time we must resist
The all too canny populist (Please) The jackboot and the fist behind The common touch The common touch It feels too much (Feel it) Feels too much (Too much) The common touch (Ah) The common touch (Ah) The common touch
12.
Me in my corner You way beyond belief I don’t want to hate you But I violently disagree We’re not talking Sleepwalking through it all No love or deep hugs gonna save our souls Save my soul Ooo Now that push has come to shove Ah What the world needs now is more than love Love won’t overwhelm the views Of flag wavers and anti-vaxxers Shouting how they have to be so free Free to choke, free to grasp To hurl insults, to now wear masks To raise the temperature by two degrees I feel like we’re sliding into a dark age False gods and demagogues turning up the rage Turning up the rage Ooo Now that push has come to shove Ah What the world needs now is more Is more than love It feels like the end but it’s not the end Oh no History rhymes, time goes forward and back again ‘Cause we’ve been here before Make love, not war Pleading sense But we can’t break the spell And nothing can quell the grievances Ooo Hold me closer anyhow Ooo Whisper in my ear What the world needs now (What the world needs now What the world needs now)
13.
Less 02:54
Take off your clothes Throw out all your files Feel the earth between your toes Breath a while Welcome to less Welcome to less Welcome to less Less Less Empires fall So does fruit Enough for all Undershoot Don’t leave town Slow down The sky’s above All you need is Less Less Less Eventually the lights go out On consultants in executive wings Slowly drawn towards the fire Everybody sings Welcome to less Welcome to less You’ve earned it Less Less Less Less Oh Oh

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This is my third solo album.

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released October 17, 2022

Recorded and mixed at Busy Bee by Peter Farnan
Mastered by Martin Pullan at Edensound

All songs and performances by Peter Farnan with:
Backing vocals - Maudie Farnan, Stella Farnan, Jane Bayly (singly and/or severally on 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Drums - Soren Maryasin (1), and Ben Wiesner (4, 7)
Bass, electric and noise guitars, ‘cello - Richard Pleasance (6)
Violins and Violas - Maudie Farnan (9, 11)

Photography by Stuart Spence
Artwork by Sebastian White
All songs by Peter Farnan (Mushroom Music)

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