1 SUPERSIZE ME
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft ©2007 PRS + MCPS
In my minds eye, I see cars fly,
Down sky highways.
Shiny buildings, Never ending,
Scrape the clouds away.Hold me tightly, I might fall off,
World is spinning too fast.
Take my cold hands,Lead me gently,
Through the scent of blue grass.Children’s echo, Empty playpark,
Reflection on a screen.
Fastfood junkyard, Couch potato,
Supersize me.Hold me tightly, I might fall off,
World is spinning too fast.
Take my cold hands, Lead me gently,
Through the scent of blue grass.Dirty washing, Hidden living,
Prying eyes don’t see.
Text, no talking, Drive, no walking,
Sense of community?Hold me tightly, I might fall off,
World is spinning too fast.
Take my cold hands, Lead me gently,
Through the scent of blue grass.
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2 DOUBTING THOMAS:
Words + music by Chris Thile, Published/Administrated by Mad German Music & Queen’s Counsel Music
3 OCCASIONAL CHINA:
Words by Dave Gill + Gaia Holmes, Music by Sophie Bancroft ©2008 PRS + MCPS
I’ll brush the cobwebs off his skin
pick the spiders from his hair
I’ll kiss him like a wasp-sting
And shock him into loving me, and shock him into loving.When he wears his saddest face
I’ll put his smile back in place
I’ll pin him down so kindly
spread his hair across an open bible, spread his hair across me.Precious things get cut and broken
we patch them up
but the thanks go un-spoken
and the cracks show on us
like occasional china, like occasional china.I’ll be subtle and supple
adding grace to the kettle
make Holy Water tea and pray
that one day he’ll do the same for me, that one day he’ll do the same.
Precious things get cut or broken
we patch them up
but the thanks go un-spoken
and the cracks show on us
like occasional chinaThere’s veins of hope in broken things
See my blood re-inflate his wings
I’ll kiss him like a wasp sting
And shock him into loving me, and shock him into loving
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4 I CARRIED YOUR HEART:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft ©2007 PRS + MCPS
Some years ago in lace and bows
And something borrowed, something blue,
A promise of love was sealed with a kiss,
And I carried your heart in mine my love,
Carried your heart in mine.As towering trees stand side by side
Our roots did strengthen, intertwine.
And ne’er a shadow darkened our growth
And I carried your heart in mine my love,
Carried your heart in mine.Time passes by
The earth turns completely around once every day.
Seasons continue to change
And still I can see from my front door the same piece of sky.
The itch did pass without a scratch
And all the rows that didn’t last
Prepared our shelter for the next storm
And I carried your heart in mine my love,
Carried your heart in mine.The children came and grew and pushed
And pulled and laughed and learnt the truth.
And then they were gone and loneliness cried
But I carried your heart in mine my love,
Carried your heart in mine.Time passes by
The earth turns completely around once every day.
Seasons continue to change
And still I can see from my front door the same piece of sky.The wrinkles crease, the silver glistens
And still my need for you is ripe.
And year after year and day after day
I will carry your heart in mine my love,
Carry your heart in mine.
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5 NO SMOKIN’:
Words by Dave Gill, Music by Sophie Bancroft ©2010 PRS + MCPS
No smoke without you,
Just unlit cigarettes -
One posin’ on the ashtray
One clinging to my lips.
There’s one behind my ear,
And nothing in my lungs but air,
Twenty in the pack
waiting for your match to flareI’m waitin’ on you to light me again
I’m waitin’ on you to ignite me again
I need you to drink my musty tears,
I need you to light my cigarette
I need you to tell me you’ll always be hereNo music without you,
Not even The Blues
No wine without you my vine
Just bitter the beer
Fag burns on the table
Rings from those red-wine days
Smoke from dying embers
that wisp and curl awayI’m waitin’ on you to light me again
I’m waitin’ on you to ignite me again
I need you to drink my musty tears,
I need you to light my cigarette
I need you to tell me you’ll always be here
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6 BIRD OF PARADISE:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft ©2009 PRS + MCPS
I am a housewife and I talk to my kitchen wall.
I am a bed bound man, afraid that I might fall.
Earn a decent salary, but I work in a dead end job.
I’m what I can be, but I keep my blinkers on.I am a coal miner, searching for black diamonds.
I am a pearl diver, finding the oyster gems.
I am a bus driver, Magical mystery tour.
I am a bird of paradiseI’m a commuter, caught in a daily rush.
I’m a beautiful woman, stroked by an airbrush.
I’m a single parent, a living statistic.
I am a crumbling wall, as strong as my weakest brick.I am an explorer, trekking the snow and ice.
I am a window cleaner, cleaning the peoples eyes.
I am an alien spaceship, a curiosity.
I am a bird of paradise.I am a long lost son, defined by a sense of greed.
I am a teenager, fighting to be free.
I’m an old woman in everybody’s eyes
In my escape route I’m a bird of paradise.
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7 DENTED:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft ©2010 PRS + MCPS
Sleep at the wheel, drink as I drive
Your hand of steel is keeping me alive.
Beating panels to smooth out my side,
But I’m dented by you.Caught like a rabbit ahead in the lights.
You dipped the beams and left me with no sight.
On a collision the wrong side of right
Cos I’m dented by you.Salvage yard inside my head
Missed the last chance Texaco.
Take the one way street instead
Past the dead-end road.Dry weather tyres, I’m changing the tread.
On winding hairpins I’ve often been misled.
Tarnishing paintwork and rust flaking red.
I’m dented by you.Road rage is building, the corners are blind.
Temperature blowing the gaskets in my mind.
This drive is leaving the others behind.
And I’m dented by you.Salvage yard inside my head
Missed the last chance Texaco.
Take the one way street instead
Past the dead-end road.
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8 WHEN THE GEESE FLY SOUTH:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft
©2007 PRS + MCPS
Hanging life in ikea frames
Pretty girl and wife and lifelong friends and me
All your family are there.Colours change as the years pass by.
Good old days when you pleased the eye until
He left and time stood still (for a while)Feel lost and lonely here
Your dreams of yesterday
Surround me as they fall in dusty silence.
Photos of this time of year
Are missing on the wall.
The time of year he left
Was when the geese fly south.Share your life in this gallery
Except the memories you cannot bear to see
Even after all this time.
Hidden from our eyes a snapshot view
Of the time of year when he left you alone.
Read between the lines.Feel lost and lonely here
Your dreams of yesterday
Surround me as they fall in dusty silence.
Photos of this time of year
Are missing on the wall.
The time of year he left
Was when the geese fly south.Wish I could take away the pain you breathe.
The past regrets that you cannot leave, Would you let them leave us all behind.
And when geese fly past would you not hide
From the feelings that you cast aside
Could you
Face the winter skies?
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9 HOME:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft ©2010 PRS/MCPS
I was raised from the ground by your loving hand,
With a spirit of old and your heart in the land,
And I breathe the sea with its wild caress,
Then I know that I am home, I know that I am home.I can drink from the burn on your mountain steep,
On the purple-laced hills I take my sleep,
And I feast my eyes where the eagles soar,
And I know that I am home, I know that I am home.And there’s gold in them there hills
And black diamonds line the seams.
And there’s always summer high above the clouds
Where the snow may melt your dreams.If I’m lost, I am found when I reach your shore
When the wind leaves my sail, you send me an oar,
And your forests green will shelter me
And I know that I am home, I know that I am home.And there’s gold in them there hills
And black diamonds line the seams.
And there’s always summer high above the clouds
Where the snow may melt your dreams.When I cover my ears I still hear your song,
And with eyes wide shut, I see where I belong,
In this mountain-land where the deer run free,
And I know that I am home, I know that I am home.
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10 CAROLINE:
Words + music by Sophie Bancroft + Boo Hewerdine ©2006 PRS + MCPS
Chrysalis Music
Caroline, if you’d seen me
You would have laughed out loud.
Thought I could dance, thought I could sing
Thought he would find me in the crowd.
I’m not who I used to be
Now at least I know.
Oh Caroline, can I please come home.Caroline, what does it mean
Bumper cars and kiss-me quick.
Somehow he couldn’t get it up,
He got tired and I got sick.
Drank too much, smoked too much
World is spinning round my bed.
Caroline, I wish you’d said.You were the voice, there in the back of my mind.
The eye of my storm, there in the back of my mind.There’s a number on my hand,
Taxi ride, we didn’t speak.
Caroline I never knew,
Took so much strength to be so weak.
The lipstick on the mirror said
Much more than goodbye.
Caroline remind me who am I.
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