As you are

2011
Music & Lyrics By Anton Walgrave All songs published by Sugarbeat Produced by Mario Goossens
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Hannah

Remember the dreams
Faithful it seems
If we take this moment now
Names on our lips
Iike passing ships
Coming in before the tide

oh it’s such a cold night
oh it’s such a long drive

wasting your time
losing your mind
on the cares of every day
Thoughts running round
Covering ground
Where a shadow fades away
All you’ve ever known
And all you’ve ever had, a bit of soul relief
Cold relief

oh it’s such a cold night
oh it’s such a long drive

grateful in dreams
grateful in seems
in this blind man’s game
Like shifting sandsw
In far away lands
waiting for the rain

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ALL YOU HAVE TO DO ( listen )

Words come out at last
Buried in the past
I wondered just how long that it would take
Before we hit the break

lips moving fast
hovering in the past
And I wondered just how deep that we could go
Before they overflowed

But all you have to do is give me time
All you have to see is there between the lines
And all you have to know is where we are
Because today we’re in the dark

Words come undone
lives go unlived
And I wonder about the truth of it all
I know that’s not your fault

We live up to high goals untill we see
No boundaries no walls no refugees

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AS YOU ARE

Hourglass running dry
Blue suede shoes, boot lace tie
Miles away, lost in time
You’re still there, passing by

As you stare, at the flame
For a while, we’re the same
Miles away, when you try
You’re still here
Passing by

As you are in confusion
waiting for the big illusion

Big machines, little men
From ugly caves hungry then
Miles away, hear them sigh
they’re still here, passing by

Tossing, turning in your bed
will you be sorry when you’re dead?
All you are all you know
Goes with you when you go

As you are in confusion
waiting for the big illusion

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SOMETHING WRONG

In these crazy times I wish you well
But my lazy mind won’t let me tell
Thru these hazy eyes the world’s a blur
And in this crazy mind the page will turn

There’s something wrong
I read the signs from you
Something wrong
Nothing much that we can do tonight

By the break of dawn we will all have changed
Some for the better some will be dead ofcourse
When the mist has cleared we will walk away
Leave the ruins behind and move on

There’s something wrong
...

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SWEET MINE

Winters fading
But in my mind
war is raging
between the lines

Oh sweet mine

The wind is howling
Through empty streets
My thoughts are prowling
Between the sheets

Oh sweet mine

As you are, I’ll be with you
As you are, I confess that you were mine
And we are, I’ll be with you

Someone’s leaving
for other grounds
someone’s grieving
left in doubt

As you are, I’ll be with you
As you are, I confess that you were mine
And we are, I’ll be with you
I’ll be with you
Come see me through

Maybe you don’t change
As you wanted me to know
And as you wanted me to show

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LOVE IS BLINDNESS

So you get out of bed
And go over it again
As you get out of bed
And you turn on the light
Telling me to be contrite
As you turn on the light

Ooh love is blindness
Love is sadness again
Ooh love is blindness
The unkindest, my friend

And you try to reveal
The way I really feel
And I try to retreat
And the winner writes the book
The loser only looks
But you just look away
Ooh love is blindness
Love is sadness again
Ooh love is blindness
The unkindest, my friend

I had it coming
Saw the writing on the wall
I heard you knocking
But I never heard you call

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ICE

Blue sky or ice
a safe compromise
Red goes too deep
when you’re drifting to sleep

Wade through the crowd
Where eyes never meet
Grey city walls
and you know I won’t call
You just sleep through it all

Talking from the outside
Funny how those eyes can suck you dry
Talking from the outside
Strange so hear these words just slip away
You just sleep through it all

Don’t say too much
Never stare, never touch
Amen to being insincere
That’s the way it works here
that’s the way it’s always been
You just sleep while you can

Talking from the outside

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CITY LIES

These city lies were not meant to be in poor taste
These city lies were not meant to be so hard faced

These city lies everybody wants to keep inside
These city lies weren’t meant to show the reason why

And then you turn the light on
And show me where you are
And if you turn the light on
Leave the door ajar
And then you turn the light on; on me

Such a quiet place
Such a quiet face

These city eyes were not meant to see daylight
These city eyes were not meant to see the grey skies

There’s no one out there
and the stage was empty all along
There’s no one out there

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NOBODY MOVES

Wake up God
I think I’m falling down
Moving at the speed of light
Back in time

Wake up God
I think I’ll crawl back home
Wake to see I’m still alive
Nobody moves

Down deep you know, how things are meant to go
Down there you see, a blind man’s history
Down deep you know, where the wind will blow
When the fires rage, through your empty cage

Wake up God
I think I’m falling down
Back to where the story ends
turning back time

Down there you try for another straw
Down there you know that you’ve been here before

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LIFT ME UP

Lift me up into your bloodstream

Lift me up into the heat
You’ll grow tonight
I’ll wait for you outside

Lift me up into your quiet ocean
Lift me up into the cool
You can’t deny
We might grow old again

Will you open up your heart?
Can you show me who you are?

Give it up, give it all to you girl
Give it up all the hurt that’s been locked inside
Make everything all right

Get it right; get it right for you now
Get it out you know I’m at your beck and call
But hey, just a moment now;

Will you feel my love
And will I ever know

Will you open up your heart? 


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SILENTLY MOVING ON

Silently moving on
To a place you’ve been before
Silently moving on
From a place that you adored

Would you be thrown against the wire ?
Would you have all your heart desires ?
Would you corrode into the fire ?

Who will keep your thoughts alive ?

Silently moving on
Making waves without a sound
Silently moving on
With your head above the clouds

Would you be thrown against the wire
Would you need more than you can give ?
Could it be blown into the fire ?

Who will keep your thoughts alive ?

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Anton Walgrave: vocals, guitars, harmonium, piano, stringarrangements, programming
Jelle Van den Bergh: bass
Mario Goossens: drums
David Vertongen: drums on “lift me up”
Ruben Block: additional guitars on “Ice”, “As You are”, “Something wrong” and “Hannah”
Chantal Acda: Backings on “All you have to do”
Beatrijs Deklerck & Astrid Leeman: violin
Ngoc Phung Ha: viola
Liesbeth Meynen: cello

Recorded @ Sugarbeatstudio by John Morand
Mixed by Peter Obbels @ Goldenman studio
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian

Pictures by Dirk Leunis
Drawing by Cristabel Barbosa Garcia
Artwork by Jelle Van den Bergh