Gerry Cinnamon - The Bonny Album Lyrics

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Canter

This is the beginning of the rest of your life
You better start movin' like you're running out of time
The realisation coming over your mind
That it should be a canter
If you could just find the answer
You know it could be a canter
If you were just a wee bit less of a wanker
More than half ae' the time

This is the beginning of the rest of your life
You better start graftin' 'cause you're running out of time
The roof is on fire and it's raining outside
But it should be a canter
If you could just find the answer
You know it could be a canter
If you were just a wee bit less of a wanker
More than half ae' the time

Because the hardest part of the game
Isn't even playing the game
It's caring enough to care about the things that you're daein'
Oh it's a wee crying shame
Here comes the rain

This is the beginning of the rest of your life
You better start graftin' 'cause you're running out of time
The roof is on fire and it's raining outside
But it should be a canter
If you could just find the answer
You know it could be a canter
If you were just a wee bit less of a wanker
More than half ae' the time

They tell you it's no easy
They tell you that it's hard
They say it's impossible to mend a broken heart
The lead role in a tragedy pretending that it's art
And it's hard to see the finish when you don't know where to start
I could write a stanza and put you in a song
Detail all the times when you were right and I was wrong
Flashbacks to the only place I've felt like I belong
You'll never be a king when you're acting like a pawn

Because the hardest of the game
Isn't even playing the game
It's caring enough to care about playin' the game
Oh it's a wee crying shame
Here comes the rain

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War Song Soldier

I can start me a war
Be a war song soldier
I can stand on my head
I can walk on water
Haven't even begun
If you wanna talk evil
Now my mouth is a gun
I'ma let my words rain down
Like flames on cardboard
Gangster fools who
Wave their tools in
Pictures on their wall

I could write a song and pretend it's worth my time
Shake guitars, through smoke-rings framed by candlelight
Memories so perfect liquid fills your eyes
Written down on paper and burned inside my mind

La-la-la-la-la-ha-hah
Oh-oh-oh-oh
La-la-la-la-la-ha-hah

Every night we hide
Between my dreams and rhymes
Risk it all to taste your fever one more time
Cut my heart and leave you enough to kill your pain
Proof enough that love must always be in vain

La-la-la-la-la-ha-hah
Oh-oh-oh-oh
La-la-la-la-la-ha-hah

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Where We're Going

Can I get back to my loneliness
I don't know what to do with all the happiness that you're giving me
Lately
You know that I could tell my heart do anything
But it seems that in the end I f*ck up everything and it's killing me
Slowly

Endless time, love
There'll be another place for you and me
Endless time, love
Nothing really matters, really
I hope one day, love
You could open up your eyes and you will see
It's only destiny
Where we're going this shit don't matter

La la la la la la
La la la la la la

La la la la la la
La la la la la la

Hanging 'round the places that I shouldn't be
Taking no shit and making enemies like I gotta be
F*cking crazy
Rolling in directions that I don't believe
Pretending that I'm someone that I'll never be
I will never be
I could never be

Endless time, love
There'll be another place for you and me
Endless time, love
Nothing really matters, really
I hope one day, love
You could open up your eyes and you will see
It's only destiny
Where we're going this shit don't matter

This shit don't matter
Where we're going this shit don't matter
This shit don't matter

Tryna get back to my loneliness
I don't know what to do with all the happiness that you're giving me
Lately
You know that I could tell my heart do anything
But it seems that in the end I f*ck up everything and it's killing me
Slowly

Endless time, love
There'll be another place for you and me
Endless time, love
Nothing really matters, really
I hope one day, love
You could open up your eyes and you will see
It's only destiny
Where we're going this shit don't matter

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Head in the Clouds

Head in the clouds
Or under the weather
More late nights
Of the same old shite
Than you care to remember
Rough as a stone
But light as a feather
You're on top of the world
Do you smile lookin' down inside
With a lover
They tell you nothin' is free
Only thing guaranteed
Is a load of palaver

Head in the clouds
Or under the weather
Havin' your fun
With two weeks in the sun
And the rest is December
But something's appearin'
It's blurrin' your vision
And it's cuttin' a shape
Like a hot razor blade
With a deadly precision

Now you're caught in a game
You don't know how to play
But you win by decision

The bonniest bondin'
The craziest feelin'
Down in your guts
Where you hide all the things
You don't want to be hearin'
The feelin' is buildin'
You try not to fight it
So you try to be cool
But then act like a fool
You don't know how to hide it
'Cause it feels like a dream
That you're through on goal
In the final and skied it

The answer is starin'
Though you're no very clever
You're still stupid enough to know
That you can't run forever
On your mind every day
Gives the pain, goes away
Anytime you're together

Take a trip to the jungle
Become a magician
Find an army of wise
Old cheermen and hope
That they cure your condition
No more satellite navigation
To read your position
I don't know
If you're really in love
But I have my suspicions

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Dark Days

The weather was nae great
I was a black cloud floating
You were a moonbeam in the sky
Longing for the day
I threw myself into your light
Unthreatened by the night

Nothing stays the same
But still the world is turning
At least 'til some things never change
If life is just a game
And luck is for losers
Then I'm winning again

Dark days, these are dark days
But I heard that there's an easier way
These are the best days that you're ever gonna have
Dark days, but I got sun rays
'Cause I know that there's an easier way to love
These are the best days that you're ever gonna have

Dark days, these are dark days
But I heard that there's an easier way
These are the best days that you're ever gonna have
Dark days, but I got sun rays
'Cause I know that there's an easier way to love
These are the best days that you're ever gonna have
The best days that you're ever gonna have
The best days, the best days

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The Bonny

I dreamed a dream of the bonny
A bonfire, big and high
A fire so big
That the flames light up the sky

I dreamed a dream of the bonny
In a vision in the back of my eye
And when the walls came down
It was the only thing that kept me alive

You can build the bonny
I can tell by the look in your eye
For the people that you loved and lost
That you never got to tell goodbye

Believe and build your bonny
Gonna never know unless you try
One life is a short time
And no one knows where you go when you die

Go on and build the bonny
Build the bonfire big and high
A fire so big
That the flames light up the sky

Believe and build your bonny
Gonna never know unless you try
One life is a short time
And no one knows where you go when you die

Go on and build the bonny
Build the bonfire big and high
A fire so big
That the flames light up the sky

Believe and build your bonny
Gonna never know unless you try
One life is a short time
And no one knows where you go when you die

For the people that you loved and lost
That you never got to tell goodbye
Stand tall while the walls fall down
With a smile and a tear in your eye

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Sun Queen

Sing my songs, never thought I'd make it this far
Weren't so long ago that I used to sell nine bars
I live my life, I can prove it 'cause I got scars
Chant my name while I'm strummin' on my guitar

She said she had a thing for James Dean
And the music from the fifties
When they used to keep the streets clean
Faded memories of a young teen
Like the echo of an old dream
I carved her name into a sunbeam
'Cause she's my sun queen

Fakes in bands only wanna get wasted
They wear nice clothes but they'll never even taste it
Ripped off songs, first you copy, then you paste it
The boy's got soul but he must of misplaced it

She said she had a thing for James Dean
And the music from the fifties
When they used to keep the streets clean
Faded memories of a young teen
Like the echo of an old dream
I carved her name into a sunbeam
'Cause she's my sun queen

She said she had a thing for James Dean
And the music from the fifties
When they used to keep the streets clean
Faded memories of a young teen
Like the echo of an old dream
I carved her name into a sunbeam
'Cause she's my sun queen

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Outsiders

Dark outside
I got some bright ideas
I got a fire like a midday sun
And it burns inside
I wouldn't pay no mind
To your opinion even if you had one

'Cause I spend my time
Standing on the outside
I don't wanna come in
'Cause beneath this smile
I'm dying on the inside
I don't care if I win

It's a sin

Spend my time

Outside in
I spill my guts again
I cut my heart out in a piss stained field
While you scream don't shout
'Til I believe again
My heart is open
But my fates still sealed

'Cause I spend my time
Standing on the outside
I don't wanna come in
'Cause beneath this smile
I'm dying on the inside
I don't care if I win

It's a sin

Spend my time

'Cause I spend my time
Standing on the outside
I don't wanna come in
'Cause beneath this smile
I'm dying on the inside
I don't care if I win

'Cause I spend my time
Standing on the outside
I don't wanna come in
'Cause beneath this smile
I'm dying on the inside
I don't care if I win

I don't care if I win
I don't wanna come in
I don't care if I win

I don't wanna come in

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Roll the Credits

It's over
So why do you need me
To answer your questions
Like we're still alive

I told ya
All your words they mislead me
To think 'cause our bodies ain't broken
Our hearts might survive

Roll the credits there's no happy ending
The monsters got over the wall and tore us apart
Pull the curtain there's no use pretending
This writer ain't sick in the mind and sick in the heart

La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la

There ain't no denying when I seen you it moved me
The tracks of your tears let me know that you've cried
Did you think it would happen like it do in the movies
Lift you up on a train and kiss you goodbye

Roll the credits there's no happy ending
The monsters got over the wall and tore us apart
Pull the curtain there's no use pretending
This writer ain't sick in the mind and sick in the heart, heart

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Mayhem

Mayhem in your eyes
Some say that's no surprise
If only good men die
Then who the f*ck am I

Mayhem
Mayhem
Mayhem
Mayhem

She crawled out of bed wiping the sleep from her eye
I opened the door unprepared for the weather outside
I threw on my shades to hide from the sun in the sky
I spat on the pavement ignoring the demons inside

La da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da

Walk of shame take me home
Home is where I belong
I promise I'll do no more wrong
I might even sing you a song
Walk of shame take me home
Home is where I belong
I promise I'll do no more wrong
I might even sing you a song

She crawled out of bed wiping the sleep from her eye
I opened the door unprepared for the weather outside
I threw on my shades to hide from the sun in the sky
I spat on the pavement ignoring the demons inside

La da da da da da
La da da da da da
La da da

Walk of shame take me home
Home is where I belong
I promise I'll do no more wrong
I might even sing you a song
Walk of shame take me home
Home is where I belong
I promise I'll do no more wrong
I might even sing you a song

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Six String Gun

Well I try to be an honest man
I do my bit when I can
I might fall but I have my fun
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one

With a six string gun
La de da, la da da da

The world's on fire and the Gods know it
So we don't pray anymore
Our eyes burn in the red hot sun
Sometimes I feel I'm the only one

With a six string gun
La de da, la da da da