A Life More Beautiful

A Life More Beautiful - lyrics

The Mountains of Wicklow

Time after time, I have turned this circle around
Looking for answers, searching for Holy ground
So many places, so many blind dead ends
So many faces, so many long-lost friends
I’ve been looking to find a place where I
Can lay on my back and look up at the sky
Where my heart is free and my dreams can fly
Where I have peace of mind

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I am hearing the call of this verdant land
With my hands in the earth and my feet on the sand
From the airy heights of the mountain tops
To the wild Atlantic foam
I’ve been feeling this longing so deep inside
And it’s closer now as I open my eyes
The Mountains of Wicklow
Are calling my spirit home

Here is the space where I feel my heart can belong
In this beautiful place I can here so many songs
Here we have time for our hearts to make a quieter sound
To lie on a hillside and watch the sun go down
I know I will make so many new friends
I will smile much more; feel this old heart mend
And maybe we’ll find our rainbow’s end
And learn to live again

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People of Ireland, join me in my song
I know I’ve found the place where I belong

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The Mountains of Wicklow
Are calling my spirit home

Words and music © Mark Robinson 2004

Who I Am

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You know who I am by the songs that I sing
By the dream in my heart, by the love that I bring
Through my music this world can understand
Exactly who I am

In the eagle flying high on the wind
There’s a voice deep inside me that’s calling again
There’s so many things that I must do
But my love is just for you

In the touch of your hands, in your sweet tender kiss
All my life I have waited for love like this
You touch me with your gentle ways
You bring peace to my days

You know that I am always chasing rainbows
You know my spirit dances with the wind
You know inside your heart how much I love you
You’re the reason I am flying again

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In the last red light of the evening skies
I’m the breeze in your hair; I’m the love in your eyes
I’ll be right there, standing by your side
To watch the falling tide

When my time is gone and my story’s told
I will still be there when the long nights are cold
I will hold your hand when the angels come
To take you to the sun

CHORUS

You know who I am
You know who I am
You know me now
You know who I am

Words and music © Mark Robinson 2004

Just A Boy

He was just a young boy, only seventeen
He never had been kissed before; he’d had no time to dream
But they took him out this morning as the sun began to rise
Tied his hands behind his back and put a rag over his eyes
He was just a boy…just a boy…
But the army says the only place for cowards
Is a lonely, unmarked grave

Yesterday he sang a song his mother taught him long ago
He recalled an older story that his father used to tell
His brother died at Passchendaele, in fire and earth and blood and hail
For three months now in mud and rain, he’d been living in this hell
He was just a boy…just a boy…
They tell us God has said the only place for cowards
Is a lonely, unmarked grave

The guns of dawn are crashing around the courtyard this morning
I hear the Ravens calling, but they at least can fly
The boy lies on his side now; so hard to go on breathing
The captain stands above him, his pistol at his side
He is just a boy…just a boy…
And the captain says “The only place for cowards
Is a lonely, unmarked grave”

I don’t want to die today
Father, hear me as I pray
That German should be my friend
Oh, where will this madness end?

I hear the whistles calling me; they say we’re called to victory
But the only thing that I can see is blood and pain and fear
And all these men are only boys and yesterday we played with toys
Will they hear our screams above the noise? And who will shed a tear? We are only boys…only boys…
What madman said the only place for cowards
Is a lonely, unmarked grave?

I don’t want to die today
Father, hear me as I pray
The murdered my only friend
Oh, where will this madness end?

So proud to be the ‘human’ race
God help us when we stand at Heaven’s gates…

Words and music © Mark Robinson 2004

Every Golden Sun

Close your eyes and listen to my song
For this love, we’ve waited oh, so long
My heart is open just for you
I share this pain you’re going through
Through this darkness I will hold your hand
I’ll always love you; I hope you understand

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You are my love, my world, my heart’s desire
Your beauty sets my soul on fire
Through the days I fall and days I run
You are every golden sun.

So many words are in a lover’s eyes
A thousand times ‘I love you’ in a sigh
The promise that’s whispered in a kiss
I never thought that I could feel like this

Why you love me, I will never know
But you’ll always be the other half of my soul

CHORUS

Life is like a million grains of sand
Be sure to hold them tightly in your hand
Our dreams are not so far away
Remember as I kiss your tears away
That we have something no one else can share
Two hearts in harmony, a love beyond compare

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Repeat chorus

Words and music © Mark Robinson 2003

You Make Sense Of It All

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You make sense of it all
When I close my eyes you’re right there beside me
You make sense of it all
You’re the light always there to guide me
In the darkness of the longest night, when I am most alone
You’re the one that brings me home

When I wake in the dark and another dream is broken
Or angry words are spoken and I have lost my way
When surrounded by my fear I can’t even shed a tear
And I wish I didn’t have to face another day
You’re the one that gives the reason back to me
You open up my eyes so I can see

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When the sun is in my heart, I know you are the reason
For the changing of the seasons in this life of mine
You’re the one that set me free, you’re the seed of hope for me
You are right there beside me as I walk the line
You’re the reason that my heart keeps going strong
You are every inspiration for my songs

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When the night is cold, like ice inside in my heart
You’re like the breath of a warm summer morning
When life and hope seem so very far away
You are the Eastern light softly dawning
You’re the one that I will walk with to the light
You’re the one that makes this living worth the fight

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Sometimes I feel my mind is torturing my soul
Then you come to me and make my spirit whole

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Words and music © Mark Robinson 2004

The Keeper Of Your Dreams

Sometimes I cannot sleep, my feelings run so deep
I gaze across the darkness into space
I guess I’ll never know the journeys of your soul
Or how my life has brought me to this place
Though many mysteries remain, I know that I have found
A place where I can stand on solid ground

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Peace now, my friend, rest for a while
Lay beside those sparkling crystal streams
In your Rocky Mountain memories and Colorado skies
My love will be the keeper of your dreams

As a hawk you fly so high, in the Colorado sky
But as your Mother said, I’d rather see you stand
I’ll always sing your songs; I guess it won’t be long
Before I get the chance to shake your hand
For life is like a Summer blossom, then the Autumn comes
It only seems a breath since I was young…

CHORUS

As I play this old guitar I can see you in the stars
As you raise my soul to soar across the sky
In the trees I saw your face, at the high cathedral lake
In the place where you wrote ‘Rocky Mountain High’
And forever as I sing your songs my love will never cease
And every day I’ll always pray for peace

Your songs have helped me dance upon the ocean
Your spirit was the wings that made me fly
Forever in my heart, you have always played a part
I promise I won’t let your music die

CHORUS

Words and music © Mark Robinson 16.10.2003

Another Star in Heaven Tonight

Softly like a spinning top, the oak leaf tumbles down
Horse Chestnut and Candytuft lie silent on the ground
In the darkness all around me now I see a brand new light
There’s another star in Heaven tonight

Boyhood dreams and quiet streams are running through my mind
Happy days and gentle ways, when love was oh, so kind
Memories of the tenderness you brought into my life
Are floating down from Heaven tonight

My Father’s voice was calling you, so he could heal your heart
It is true that you would never be apart

I see the dawn light coming as the Earth turns slowly round
Though I feel you all around me now, you do not make a sound
While the petals of my heart are breaking in this morning light
You’re with my Dad in Heaven tonight

I know you will be here beside me every single day
And if I’m ever lost your light will guide my way

Life is just a mystery, a journey for us all
I promise I’ll be listening, and I will hear your call
Your simple ways, our golden days, will lead me to the light
For there’s another star in Heaven tonight

And softly like a spinning top, the oak leaf tumbles down
Horse Chestnut and Candytuft lie silent on the ground
In the darkness all around me now I see a brand new light
There’s another star in Heaven tonight
And I see your star in Heaven, tonight

Words and music © Mark Robinson 18.05.2003

Small

In just one breath, it washed them all away
All their dreams, their hopes and fears
As the mighty wave came crashing down
It left a world of tears
None of us can claim to ever understand
Why people live and die
But all of us can reach out with our hands
And wipe away the tears that have been cried

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Why did so many have to fall?
Do our leaders now seem so tall?
In this stressful world we live in and the comfort of it all
We forget that we are small

Last night I heard the howling of the wind
As the rain lashed down outside
We are merely drops in the ocean of this universe
There is no place we can hide
All of the people living in this world
Are one big family
We have so much between us; we can change so many lives
If the men of war would only see

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Our mother earth’s heart is broken
We poison her skies and her waters
Oh what kind of world are we leaving for
All of our sons and daughters?

Why did so many have to fall?
Do our leaders now seem so tall?
With our hatred of each other and the madness of it all
With our weapons of destruction and the power of it all
In this stressful world we live in and the comfort of it all
We forget that we are small

A Life More Beautiful

I remember long ago, long before the winter came
We had the sunshine and the snow, but never so much rain
The summer fields were greener then, my road a straighter line
Now sometimes in the night I feel I’m about to lose my mind

Where are those golden summer days?
Where is my mother’s kiss?
Where is a life more beautiful than this?

The bells are ringing far away; Heaven’s calling me
The loves I knew of yesterday are scattered on the sea
I hear the angels singing and I hear them speak my name
They say I still have much to do; so here I must remain

Where are those fields for running free?
Where is my childhood kiss?
Where is a life more beautiful than this?

I lie here waiting for the dawn; a tear rolls from my eye
Not so long since I was born, so soon I have to die
I hear a voice out on the wind, it says you are never alone
The mountains, they are calling me; they’re calling me back home

Where are those golden Aspen leaves?
Where is a lover’s kiss?
Where is a life more beautiful than this?

I’m travelling down this road
Where it’s going I don`t know
The sea is just a mystery
To which this river flows

I sing for the wind, the mountain skies
This earth my mother’s kiss
Where is a life more beautiful than this?

I love the life that's in my eyes
I could feel my Mother's kiss
Oh, where is a life more beautiful than this?

Peace On Christmas Day

We called him Hans, we didn’t know his name, he held the white flag high
He walked out alone on the battlefield, in the pale December light
The sun was rising behind their lines; it didn’t feel like Christmas Day
In his other hand he held a ball, and he cried: “Do you want to play?”

The men behind him began to rise; they held their arms out wide
I felt the tears well in my eyes, a warmth down deep inside
The man next door put his rifle down and he turned to me and said:
“I’m going up there to join them boy; tomorrow we may all be dead”

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And we played football with the Germans; no one kept the score
Though both sides could claim victory, it didn’t matter anymore
If I could see my friend again, I wonder what I’d say
Most of all I would recall we had peace on Christmas Day

Last night I heard them singing as the winter wind blew cold
‘Stille Nacht’ and many other Christmas songs of old
Then I knew that we were the same and it made me want to cry
Why is it we stand in line and wait our turn to die?

Hans patted me upon the cheek; I saw his blue eyes smile
“You did your best there, English boy, but I beat you by a mile”
I slapped his back as he walked away; that memory’s still so strong
And every time I remember it, I know that war is wrong

CHORUS

That afternoon the leaders put an end to all our games
The screaming shells came crashing down and left the battlefield in flames
I never did see Hans again; I pray he did grow old
So somewhere in some German town, this story can be told

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Outside The Window

Outside the window, drifts the sound of my guitar
In the twilight you’re softly singing from afar
This rainy evening, I am lying here alone
Longing for home

The candle’s burning, so I cannot close my eyes
My life is turning, in love I never have been wise
But through the darkness of this cold and lonely place
I begin to see your face

There are clouds across the moon tonight and though I cannot see the stars
Your sweet and tender melody is here within my heart

I run my fingers across your silken skin
We close our eyes and let the dream begin
The steam is running down the window pane
As I kiss your lips again

Outside the window, no one can hear you sigh
No other man can see the fire in your eyes
Here in the candlelight where love is all around
Our souls are heaven bound

We are standing on a mountainside, bathed in golden light
Such love as I have never known is in my dreams tonight

I watch the candle as it burns down low
I hold you gently, here in the afterglow
The words you whisper are just like heaven in my ear
You take away my fear

Outside the window I hear the wind begin to blow
This day is dawning; my heart is flying with your soul
I watch you sleeping, so gentle and so wise
My heaven is in your eyes

Up with the angels, on eagles’ wings we fly
My heaven is in your eyes

The Sweetest Voice Of All

My friends, I thank you for sharing this time
For singing my songs with me
You’ve been on a journey inside my mind
Now you see the things I see
As you make your way back home again
You take my love with you
You’re the reason I am standing here
You make my dreams come true

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And together we have touched the stars
And opened each other’s hearts
Though I’ve sung my songs this whole time through
The sweetest voice of all is you

Maybe a love song has brought back some memories
Of another life or time
Or perhaps I have shown you a different perspective
A reason or a rhyme
But this time we’ve shared has given me
Such a feeling in my heart
Like a great and rushing ocean wave
Like a candle in the dark

CHORUS

Tread ever so lightly throughout the days
Until we meet again
I pray that the light will shine on you
For you are my dearest friends
And make the time in every day
To show how much you care
Hold your lover close and promise them
You always will be there

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Repeat Chorus

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