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Before You Forget Me
02:10
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I was clearing out for spring – a photo on the floor
You in a Venetian mall – so beautiful, unfeigned
“And I wonder how it takes
How long it takes before you forget me”
You were the apple of my eye – I your minstrel errant
As an adult, I know that all is born to die
Not why the pain’s so present
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What Is It to Love?
02:18
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What is it to love a Liverpool bojčíck?
I hope it’s exotic and real ‘cos we both know
We’re both unknowns
What is it to love, brush away bad dreams?
“All down my days there’s something in the way of love”
What is it to love a girl from New York State?
I never thought we’d hit it off but we do
By Christ we do
What is it to love deep inside your heart?
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Yours
02:37
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I savour the moment with you
‘Cos mayflies and love are no strangers
My heart here, waiting on for you
Say the word and it’s yours
“Here am I darling, yours”
Weak at the knees, will is strong
Whatever the bill is, I’ll pay it
My parts here, passionate for you
Say the word and they’re yours
Clouds in the water, omens and tides
The heart knows no quarter
When the soul meets desire
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4. |
A Palindrome
01:27
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Some would say that you’re no good
Though not to me, but who am I?
Just someone who holds you dear
I see in you part of my own troubled soul
“In a palindrome”
Names have power, we don’t know why
My name for you I can’t unhide
Running far two ways at once
Break your curse, take my strong arms
And we’ll dance
Let us dance
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Shall I Compare Thee?
03:38
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft his gold complexion dimmed;
And ever fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall never fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag though wandr’st in his shade
When in these eternal lines to time thou grow’st
So long as men have breath and eyes to see,
So long lives this – and this gives life to thee.
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My Funny Hannahtine
02:37
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That certain way you articulate my name
The breath that I spend getting your attention
You hold me with your words, but at some point they’re unheard
For I’ve drifted into my Hannatine
“All this dreaming of you and waking oh so forlorn
But am not giving up on one day being yours
However briefly”
Some day I will find words and melody combined
To tell you just precisely how I feel
Till then I’ve got this tune – there’s joy inside these blues
It’s not like I can choose my Hannahtine
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Oh Hannah!
03:01
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Oh Hannah, what you doing to me so wrong?
You got me aching in a place too rude for a song
“Won’t you be my baby?
Yeah yeah yeah, uh huh
Oh yeah, witcha long black hair”
Oh Hannah, blues eyes and skin so pale
You got a wry way of playing with a boy fresh out of his shell
Oh Hannah, there’s a twist in this tune
For am trying not to want you, fearing heartbreak and ruin
But…
I can taste your lips
I can taste your skin
I can taste your love
I can taste it all, on and on
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Easy to Love
02:03
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One hand running through your clothes, the other in your hair
And am fixing to kiss you in a place you sorely need
“‘Cos am so easy to love”
Your sweet sigh breaks a sweat in a warm welcome room
And your eyes engulfed in mine in a movement for two
Your smile when you see me is like the first day of spring
And your kind words make me feel I can do everything
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9. |
You're No Good
02:37
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One last attempt before you go and ruin another town
My curse and rebuke I take back now
Though words let slip like hounds
My love’s as strong as it was before
Though tempered by bad blood
“You’re so in love with being no good”
Tell yourself that’s just how it is, those bitter passing joys
Spoiled for choice, let your talents lead
To burn down femmes and boys
You think that girl who sang that song
Would change things if she could? No
“You’re so in love with being no good”
I’s just a passing flame on your way to the pyre
When sweetest memories taste like iron
Mistakes accrue with age
I wish this fate not befall you but
You’re chasing down that day
One last attempt, though our faith is spent
I wish each of us could
“Fall out of love with being no good”
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A Piece of You
02:28
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I guess I knew anyway, didn’t want to
Oh no, it takes a better man than me to own
The weakness in my need
“Lighting up when you show up
And I’d love so a piece of you”
Armed to the teeth with your ways
Am all turned around when you hold me in your gaze
The prettiest star
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11. |
Your Face
01:40
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No sleep tonight, for your heat is on me
I’ve echoes and scratches, a gorged memory
“Oh I won’t forget your face”
Movements are swift, and the beat of your breath
And I feel ever so hard
When you come
Your naked body, where the sun never lay
And my hat looks good on you
“… Oh I can’t forget your face”
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12. |
Put Out the Light
01:18
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Put out the light, then put out the light
My Desdemona dream
I love you like the breath’s candle flame
It’s so unfair, now air
Put out the light, then put out the light
Eyes closed in slippering stream
A place in time, a place in mine
All my love is now heir to nought
So I put out the light
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Trey Roque Prague, Czechia
Songwriter, musician, producer, author.
Trey’s influences lean into the 70s – whatever the genre.
His warm voice and song stylings have been described as “Bowie meets Beck on the back of the bus”.
From out of Liverpool, Trey Roque lives in Prague (CZ), where he makes his music by hand, soup to nuts. So to speak.
His music is only here on Bandcamp, at his shows, and his website.
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