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Amy Macdonald (born 25 August 1987 in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire) is a Scottish recording artist. Macdonald rose to fame in 2007 with her debut album, This Is the Life (2007) and its fourth single, "This Is the Life". The single charted at number one in six different countries worldwide, and charted inside the top ten in another eleven countries worldwide.
The success of the single achieved Macdonald success in the American music market, where she was a guest on shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2008, where she performed two singles from the album, leading her album, This Is the Life to reach ninety-two on the Billboard 200. In the European Union, This Is the Life reached number one in six European countries, including the United Kingdom, Denmark and the main European album charts. This is the Life has sold three million copies worldwide.
"Don't Tell Me That It's Over" was released in March 2010 as the lead off single from Macdonald's second studio album, A Curious Thing which was released on March 8, 2010. Five singles have since been released from A Curious Thing. The album's lead single, "Don't Tell Me That It's Over" was released worldwide on March 1, 2010 and this was followed by the release of a second single "Spark" on May 10, 2010. Further singles were released, with the third being "This Pretty Face" which was successful in European countries such as Germany, where MacDonald holds a strong fanbase. A further two singles were released, "Love Love" and "Your Time Will Come" which were both released in late 2010. Worldwide, A Curious Thing, the album has sold 1,000,000 copies worldwide.
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Amos originally served as the lead singer of 1980s synthpop group Y Kant Tori Read, and as a solo artist was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s. She was also noteworthy early in her solo career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996.
Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 13 she began playing at gay bars and piano bars, chaperoned by her father.
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
Here
Here
Here
She's convinced she could hold back a glacier
But she couldn't keep Baby alive
Doubting if there's a woman in there somewhere
Here
You say you don't want it again
And again but you don't really mean it
You say you don't want it
This circus we're in
But you don't you don't really mean it
You don't really mean it
if the Divine master plan is perfection
Maybe next I'll give Judas a try
Trusting my soul to the ice cream assassin
Here
You say you don't want it again
And again but you don't really mean it
You say you don't want it
This cirucs we're in
But you don't you don't really mean it
You don't really mean it
How may fates turn around in the overtime
Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find
You thought that you were the bomb yeah
Well so did I
Say you don't want it
Say you don't want it
Say you don't want it again
And again but you don't really mean it
Say you don't want it
This circus we're in
But you don't you don't really mean it
You don't really mean it
She's addicted to nicotine patches
She's afraid of the light in the dark
6:58 are you sure where my spark is
I'm saturated. I'm wet with your tears, you spill so easily.
In reflection I'll see you again.
Approach me, soak me.
Faith, faith, breathe.
'Cause it's here, it's where the air is clear,
Where far off things could be quite near.
No repairs are needed, just a spark.
I'm interested, you've always been a subject, that I could learn.
Splendid hills, unconquerable mountains.
Climb, don't ever turn back.
Seed, seed, grow.
(chorus)
(Repeat first verse and chorus)
I'm saturated. I'm wet with your tears, you spill so easily.
In reflection I'll see you again.
Approach me, soak me.
Faith, faith, breathe.
'Cause it's here, it's where the air is clear,
Where far off things could be quite near.
No repairs are needed, just a spark.
I'm interested, you've always been a subject, that I could learn.
Splendid hils, unconquerable mountains.
Climb, don't ever turn back.
Seed, seed, grow.
(chorus)
For how much longer must I bleed
Intro the soil before I see
The one who holds the blade is me?
For how much longer must I stand
On destiny’s uncertain sands
Before I find stability?
CHORUS
One spark among the embers
One voice against surrender
One dream that’s worth defending
One love that’s never-ending
Ignore the underlying cause
Among a thousand last hurrahs
Where every promise is a lie
Externalize the blame for now
The voice of reason disavowed
A slave to all that I decried
(CH)
I wear a stranger’s face
Not so different from my own
All the steps that I retraced
Left me wounded and alone
For how much longer must I burn
Until I’m able to discern
The root of all this suffering?
For how much longer must I flee
These harsh responsibilities
For the sinking rock to which I cling?
Take me with you I do declare
I love you dearly through here and there
What can I do to make you share?
What can I do to make you care?
The world is harsh
I’m stuck in the dark
I’ll make my mark
I’ve got my spark
We’d be together through bad or worse
Sending letters we shall converse
We could do better but we must first
Make amends
That depends
Will you be my friend?
The world is harsh
I’m stuck in the dark
I’ll make my mark
It's not the spark that caused the fire
It was the air you breathed that fanned the flame
What you think you'll solve with violence
Will only spread like a disease
Until it all comes 'round again
Was John the only dreamer?
Sleep with one ear close to the ground
And wake up screaming
When we lay our cold weapons down
We'll wake up dreaming
Obsessions with self-preservation
Faded when I threw my fear away
It's not a thing you can imagine
You either lose your fear
Or spend your life with one foot in the grave
Is God the last romantic?
Sleep with one ear close to the ground
And wake up screaming
When we lay our cold weapons down
We'll wake up dreaming
Only love can turn this around
I wake up dreaming
Everything we've lost can be found
It happened oh so fast it takes me by surprise, it took me where I haven't been, way back it happened when I looked into your eyes I know it hurts to make a sin. Don't tell me how you don't expect and uprising I won't go, I can't explain that someone deep inside of me told me so. It happened oh so fast it makes me wanna lie, lights in my eyes they're sort of dim, I pictured feeling when my temperature it rised, sights when your high above the rim. Don't tell me how you don't expect a side effect i've hit low, I can't explain why someone deep inside of me told me so. YEAH!!!! didn't go my way it didn't fly. YEAH!!!! damn you'd never know unless you tried.
I am chewing on power lines
Spraying the yard in spark
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
You're in this town
You're in the ???
Stinging my eyes enthralled (?)
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
I went abroad, wrote a line home
Wouldn't write again
'Til the cruel year was gone
My lips
Kisses cotton (?)
Got stuck here forever
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
Clouds were bruised when the day broke
Chewing on power lines
Spare a thought
for me, my love,
while you stare at the distance;
for the spark that was born in your eyes
lit my senses.
Dream of me, my dear;
press my song on your temples.
Let my voice draw away all your fears
and embrace you.
As the night extends over the daylight
please remember
that for a glimpse of your smile I'd give
my everything:
smiles and secrets, hopes and fears;
tears and wishes, words and dreams.
Spare a thought
for me, my love,
when you wake from your slumber.
To the spark that was born in your eyes
All the colors are crackling, the leaves are alive
With a note from your heart I keep written inside
Frozen air surrounds your eyes
As you speak fountains collide
With a mouthful of stars I trip over my feet
You've blown me away, I can hardly speak
Stolen my silence, scattered my peace
I'm lost in the dark, mislaid my spark
Memories of you fading into the past
To keep you inside, freeze your kiss so it lasts
In the shadow of your light
I live my days like they were nights
With a mouthful of stars I trip over my feet
You've blown me away, I can hardly speak
Stolen my silence, scattered my peace
I'm lost in the dark, mislaid my spark
All the space that you need and the silence you plead
I've thrown them away 'cause your signs I can't read
Forgotten thrills in the sudden chills
Frozen air surrounds your eyes
With a mouthful of stars I trip over my feet
You've blown me away, I can hardly speak
Stolen my silence, scattered my peace
I'm lost in the dark, mislaid my spark
I'm lost in the dark, mislaid my spark
Don't wanna see the stars; don't wanna see the moon
Don't wanna see the sun that rises up too soon
Don't wanna see the day; don't wanna see the night
Oh the afternoon, it feels about right
I am the spaceman flying high
I am the astronaut in the sky
Don't worry, I'm okay now
I am the light in the dark
I am the match; I am the spark
Don't worry, I'm okay now
After the sun always comes the rain
Followed by hurt and pain
After the light comes the dark
After the love comes the breaking of my heart
I am the spaceman flying high
I am the astronaut in the sky
Don't worry, I'm okay now
I am the light in the dark
I am the match; I am the spark
Don't worry, I'm okay now
I am the spaceman flying high
I am the astronaut in the sky
Don't worry, I'm okay now
I am the light in the dark
I am the match; I am the spark
Don't worry, I'm okay now
Just dry your eyes, and I'll be there
Don't live for anger or despair
Don't worry, I'm okay now
Before the dawn is when it seems most cold.
But as sure as the sun rises in the east, we know that
the stream of evolution is a constant flow,
and the current evolution says that I should really go.
Don't you know that every seed wants to grow?
We can't stay underground forever.
They can cut us off as soon as we begin to show.
What they don't know is that the roots still grow.
When the roots pop up... [repeat]
They can try with all of their might to push us down to the ground,
but I know we'll be all right (right?)
They mean to break my spirit through this exile,
but I can use this time to further refine and fortify my style.
The world that we're all living in is in need of a plan for the brotherhood of man.
So I'm off and running fast as I can, and the antidote I'm bringing is the pen in my hand.
We're finally doing all the things we were meant for!
Consume abide what the mass media dictates
This shallow culture of fear seems to eradicate
Our community's strength determines our own fate
We fall to the allure of mass consumption
Reject this fear, embrace my anger,
unleash this firestorm
We are on the brink of revolution
These nation states execution
Defiance is sweltering in the streets
One spark is all we truly need
Suburban lockdown, populace subverted
Frustration of a nation, this retaliation
Chains of consumerism are deterred
The masses are tired of manipulation
Here in the dark I sense the start of something
Beautiful but incomplete
I'm not the same
Somethin' has changed the heart in me
And I'm certain forever that we'll be together
I'll be singin' of Your love
Your love lights up the dark
Your love lights up the part of me
The spark in me You've always seen
Right here deep in my heart
Your love lights up the spark in me
The spark in me You've always seen
As time goes by
People may try to say
You're not really there for me
I live for You, they'll see Your love is true Lord, I know
We'll be together, standin' forever
An example of Your love
All around God's love came down
And shed His light for all to see
Showering love
Showering light
Showini His love for all to see
It's the spark
In the heart of me
Your love set me free
Burnin' this fire in me
Your love came to me for eternity
The spark in me
You've always seen
I heard a spark, something that glowed hundred feet higher
I opened my eyes when there is light to see if I'm closer
What if I stopped just for a while to make it go slower
Still half the night, just for a while to see if I'm finer, live like I'm finer
Tell me a tale, something with fire to break from the sorrows
To break through the dirt, piles of earth, to see where the sun goes
What if I stopped just for a while to see if I'm closer
Still half the night, just for a while to see where the sun goes, oh, oh, oh
I heard a spark, something that glowed hundred feet higher
I opened my eyes when there is light to see if I'm closer
What if I stopped just for a while to see where the sun goes
Still half the night, just for a while to see if I'm finer, live like I'm finer
Another spark has set you off and I don't know the way
The person of the satellite that tracks us night and day
Ah, but it takes us longer
Ah, but it makes us stronger
Another spark has set you off against recovery
The burning of a heavy heart surrenders like a dream
Ah, but it takes us longer
Ah, but it makes us stronger, ooh, ooh
And all our consciousness drifts away
And all our consciousness drifts away
And all our consciousness drifts away
Ooh, I was let out, I can't walk away
There were eyes all over me
I stopped breathing only just halfway
My sin is greater than any sea
I grab everything I can for me
My life is worth nothing on my own
I reap the seeds I have sown
I give excuses day after day
Its a lighted path but somehow I find a way to stray
(chorus)
I'm the one that nailed your feet and wrists
I placed the thorns and swung my fist
How can you love someone like me
Why did you shed your blood and set me free
I do the things I do to please me
Does the pain come back from the tree?
My reward should be death
But you set me apart from the rest, even though...
You changed my life and turned me all around
I was forever lost then you made me found
My rewards should only equal death
But you set me apart from all the rest
(chorus)
I'm the one that nailed your feet and wrists
You forgave me and unclenched my fist
You shed your blood on that tree
How can I explain something not of this world
A man hung between two thieves
Blood dripping from His hands and brow
Pulling with His nailed wrists for each breath
People spit on Him and mocked His name
This was a man that came to die for me
(chorus)
You can believe it or not
You can say that it's a myth
You can trust and obey or
You can say He doesn't exist
But I know He came and died and shed His blood on a tree
And three days later He arose and set me free
Three crosses on a hill, dark clouds in the sky
Tear falls to the ground from His mother's eye
Hanging in innocence as His Father watched Him die
Three days later the stone was rolled away
Breath came to His words as He arose alive
The sinner's debt did He pay with His death
After His truth was told it wasn't the same
She sits in a room with fear
Painting a wall with iron tears
Her looks change to fit her own
Leaving her fading friends for love
Broken window on her wall
Sun of luminous brings her fall
Memories fill the broken pains
Breathing out her fall gains
(chorus)
You want it, You need it
God's got it, Let it go
Filter thoughts color the white
Clinching fists crash the light
Words hang like feeble threads
A heart that pierced and left for dead
Shutting eyes and turning away
Leaves her here for another day
If your without blame throw your stone
Can I have just a few seconds of your time
I see you've been searching and you can't seem to find
He came to this earth to die for me
He says if I believe I will be free
This gift He has given me He's given you
Just as He loves me He also loves you
(chorus)
I don't want to miss you
We haven't very long
I don't want to miss you
To whom do you belong?
You say you're not ready everything is fine
He's promised us life but He's never promised us time
What will it take to make you see
That just as He does, I want you there with me
I don't want you to be just a memory
I pray every night down on my knees
He picks a yellow flower on a Sunday afternoon
The love he had for her only he and God knew
The smile she gave him said all the unspoken words
With a glance in her eyes he saw a love so pure
(chorus)
Just as a boy can love a girl
And just as flowers can brighten your world
There's someone who died to show His love
The love you seek comes from above
He picks a white flower on a Friday afternoon
He never thought it would come so soon
She looks at him as she walks down the aisle
With every step she says "I love you" with her smile
He picks a yellow flower on a Sunday afternoon
And placed it in her hands just like he used to do
Time has changed the way their outside eyes see
But the love they feel inside is all they'll ever need
Just as a boy and girl can fall in love
Never letting go of all the things I made
To have and to hold so everthings o.k.
I cherish what I bought, yet I cherish what I sold
Think someday it would great to have a mansion when I'm old
(chorus)
So what if I ever rode a horse
So what if I ever drove a porsche
So what if my swimming pool was full of
So what pretty girls that want my number
Everyday I want to say o.k.
Running round in circles won't get lost along the way
So I guess it's not that easy cause somehow I ran astray
Need some money, need it fast, So I sold my cat for cash
So I live and so I learn
That I do not want to burn
Well if ya think this song is only seeming like it has no freakin meaning
It was a long time ago
There was a man I've come to know
He was born from God's own hand
To die for all those who stand
His love is yet unfailing
His grace ever prevailing
He promises eternity
All you have to do is believe
(chorus)
How could it be that the Lord could set His people free
2000 years ago
Broken promises is all you see
Never felt the presence of He
What you live is the world around
Always lost and never found
The heart of yours that's grown cold
He'll turn around and make it bold
And what you think He'd never do
Can now be done and be renewed
There is no way to heaven
Except through the father above
There is no way to the father
What is the time, oh I've fallen again
How can' You love me with my life of sin
My eyes want everything that I see
They pull me down when I think I'm free
Each day I try to focus on You
But it always seems something gets in my view
(chorus)
I'm being torn between two worlds
Once that my eyes see
And one that my heart feels
I'm being torn between two worlds
One I know that's right
And one I know that's wrong
How is it that you can expain your love
Each time I fall, Your hand's reaching from above
My heart calls out to You ever hour
But I always seem to fall like rain in a shower
This struggle within keeps pulling me down
It was an ugly thing to look into my soul
I thought You'd taken everything but You just filled the hole
Give me the thorn, drive it in deep
I'll take the pain cause love ain't cheap
(chorus)
My heart bowed in shame
As I called Your name
You shall always be the one for me
Can't explain the things You've done for me
Keeping me from the fire, Oh precious memories
Farther along I go, take my hand precious Lord
Making excuses because I'm just a man
Making excuses for my fallen stand
Wanting more than what is really my share
Taking more than what I can bare
I can not see, I've lost my way
Making excuses day after day
But I see Your hand, and I see Your smile
I feel Your presence at every extra mile
You call my name when I walk away
You search my heart day by day
(chorus)
Every where I go You are there
Every step I take You always show that Your care
What I don't deserve You give me more than my share
Your loving touch shows me You are always there
Wordly values seek my searching mind
Taking Your time and making it fit mine
Living how I want for others that are seeing
Hoping they will like this
I can not see, I've lost my way
Making excuses day after day
But You touch my heart, and open my eyes
You reach in and fix inside
You lift my burdens so I can walk again
You came to this earth to die for my sins
What I thought I had was nothing
What I have in Christ is more than something
I still struggle throughout His days
Oh, Friend, You've been on my mind lately
I've seen how you've been getting by
I can tell there's something different
You can see the hurt deep in your eyes
And when your world comes crashing down
I'll be the freind to help you turn around
(chorus)
I'm gonna be there
When the storms come crashing in
I'm gonna be there til the very end
I'm gonna be there
When the darkness calls your name
I remain the same
There are things to be said
But not this time
I just want to see you
See you from the inside, from the inside
And when your world comes crashing down
I'll be the friend to help you turn around
I wish that you were here right now
My arms would be around you
There's nothing you can't do
Together we'll make it through
And when your world comes crashing down
The rain is falling down
I feel like a dog that's been kicked out into the street
I know that dogs can't drive cars
But that's about the only difference between us now
But wait, there's a rainbow across the freeway
And I think I feel the morning sun
Another song is number one
Golden days have just begun
Change every dog is gonna have his day
Change every loser's gonna have his way
Change I don't care what other people say
You can argue all day long about whether love really exists or not
It's a complete waste of time
Like arguing about whether Santa Claus really exists or not
I've got better things to do with my time
I've got places that I've got to be
And people that I've to see
Mountains that I have to ski
Golden days ahead of me
Change every dog is gonna have his day
Change every loser's gonna have his way
Change I don't care what other people say
Change just ignore them and they'll go away
Paradise was here, paradise is gone
Greece and Rome were here, Greece and Rome are gone
The Wild West was here, the Wild West is gone
Vaudeville was here, Vaudeville is gone
Change every dog is gonna have his day
Change every loser's gonna have his way
Change I don't care what other people say
You know I've been thinking
We'll get back together again someday
Your hair will be some weird color by then
Maybe we'll just start off again as friends, I wonder when
Change every dog is gonna have his day
Change every loser's gonna have his way
Change I don't care what other people say
Change just ignore them and they'll go away
Change every dog is gonna have his day
Change every loser's gonna have his way
Change I don't care what other people say
i'm inside a dream. the smogs blind the moonlight
i stand in the city of greed and crime byoushin ha ugoka nai
is there me in a fairy tale, cuz i'm lookin' for you everyday
i'm gonna find you tonight mou hazusa nai
the city has begun to shine
hiroga ru kimi heno omoi
doredake koware souna yoru mo
togireru koto naku mune no oku de
shizuka ni hohoemu
nin gomiwokakiwake hashiri tsuduke ru asa made
i wonder in a maze, but still chase
mitsu kerumade dokomademo runaway
biru no sukima kara noboru rising sun kasuka na kioku no naka kun gahanikamu
yura meku awai kaze ni
madowa sare kotae ga kasun deiku
toke souna omoi hanasa nai youni
tsuyoku nigiri shimeta
hiroga ru kimi heno omoi
doredake koware souna yoru mo
togireru koto naku mune no oku de
Steve: I keep stumblin' Jesus keep humblin'/ me to keep
my self seekin' pride crumblin'/ I'm nothin' without
you, there's something a/bout you no doubt your wild
style is coveted// Cats wanna be like you, brag up on
the mic/ I'm mad give me the right to smash some of
'em/ there I go again lettin' the flesh flow again/ I'm
startin' it over man, Lord help me to love on 'em// I
keep stumblin' Jesus keep humblin'/ me to keep my self
seekin' pride crumblin'/ I'm nothin' without you,
there's something a/bout you no doubt your wild style
is coveted/ Cats wanna be like you, brag up on the mic/
it's sad that I can laugh, your not feelin' 'em/ most
goin' to hell, got no Ghost in the shell/ oh, Lord of
hosts reveal that you don't live in 'em// but let's
start in the church, the set apart of the earth/ and
set a spark to purge, all of the leavenin'/ Satan's
confusin' em and the saints are confused again/ Lord we
ain't refusin' the fools, we're not listenin'// there's
somethin' wrong with our ears cause when you talk we
don' t hear/ the son of Solomon's peers make our
decisions and/ they're misleadin' the flock and what
they teach is a shock/ they got my people in locks over
the Benjamins// the world laughs and they mock, I get
mad when I watch/ and then I'm sad when I stop and see
who the victim is/ I feel bad for the sheep and all the
cats that peep/ the things that happen and leave
thinkin' your villainous// But you get shafted the
worse, with every chapter and verse/ these bishops
massacre surely you ain't feelin' it/ I pray you snatch
up the church and come back to the earth/ until it
happens we're hurtin' lamp is flickerin'//
Hook: In the midst of the darkness, Lord give us your
heart/ the world's quenchin' the spark that you've
given us/ please rekindle the light so we can minister
life/ to all the sinister types tryin' to live it up//
we don't know what to do and most folks in the pews
they overflow with excuses, no one's getting' up/ we
need somethin' new it's gotta come from you/ so here's
somethin' to use, all we can give is us//
Steve: What's gotta happen for the proper reaction/
your the Father we're askin', Lord turn up the
temperature/ we get caught up in fashion, all talk and
no action/ God give us a passion be our emperor// we
all walk in the night, we all wanna be light/ this
whole walk is a fight/ there's no givin' up/ I see the
hungry and sleep, they want somethin' to eat/ I got
somewhere to be, I don't give enough// I say I'm
strugglin' too, but it's the dumbest excuse/ you try
and tell 'em the truth it takes a minute bruh/ I've
only just begun, there's so much to be done/ we know
what's gonna come they need a Deliverer// I don't write
enough, let my life tie me up/ readin' while I ride the
bus, wishin' that I could minister/ too busy readin'
the Bible, not bein' the Bible/ God bring a revival,
Lord quicken us// Set our focus on you, we'll set our
scope on the truth/ we know our hope is in you, 'cause
your risen up/ we got a purpose to teach, a lot of
earth isn't reached/ and if the church is asleep, they
you'll get us up// we're still feeble, body can feel
the needles/ like the little tingle you get when your
limbs are numb/ though when it starts it'll hurt, I
pray it sparks a rebirth/ a new heart in the church
provin' you live in us//