Brett Every: new album MENU

Featuring: 
Brett Every - vocals, guitar, piano, acoustic bass
Lauren Allison - drums
Robin Dixon - double bass, cello
Stuart West - trumpet, flugelhorn, xylophone, glock
Luke Telford - guitars on 8
Lance Horne - piano on 5

MR SMITH 

Mr Smith, I am sorry for the way your front door slammed
I sure hope you understand
And Mr Smith, I am sorry for the fact you hurt your wrist
But it was your wall and your fist

Hmmm...

Mr Smith, I am sorry for the words that we exchanged
But I was just trying to explain
And Mr Smith, I am sorry for the fact my voice was raised
But sir you just weren’t listening

Hmmm...

Mr Smith, I am sorry this was not what you had planned
For how your son should be a man
But Mr Smith, I am not sorry for the fact that we’re in love
We’re nineteen now, we’re old enough
And I’m his, oh yes I is, and mine is he, oh yes he be
And I’m his, oh yes I is, and he’s mine, it’s him and I

PRINCE CHARMING

So it’s not all your dreams come true
There’s only so much your Prince Charming can do
Your Fairy Godmother’s gone to Vegas
She’s fallen for some guy who says he’s Elvis
Give me two minutes alone with him, I’ll prove him wrong

But back to you boy, and your teacup’s storm
There are clouds in your coffee, it’s gonna rain some more
Is it a coincidence he’s saying just what
Your last two ex’s said before they walked
Out together through the swinging door
Of your college dorm

Don’t explain away, or your way out of this
Don’t evade the blame, because it comes around
It will, it trills, like the little birdie on your windowsill
 
But back to you boy, and your teacup’s storm
It’s in the way that you stand that your shadow forms
And running, boy you won’t outrun it
It follows you, it’s always gonna
And the ghost of who you wanted, he will haunt
So if it’s him you want then...
 
Don’t explain away, or your way out of this
Don’t evade the blame, because it comes around
It will, it trills, like the little birdie on your windowsill

So don’t explain away, and don’t evade the blame
And don’t underestimate:
The little birdie on your windowsill
And the fact that this boy loves you still
And perhaps he always will

HEARTBREAK AIN’T MEASURED IN TEARS

Heartbreak ain’t measured in tears
My eyes have been dry since you left here
That I’ve not cried might strike you as queer
But heartbreak ain’t measured in tears
     You won’t find the signs of nineteen nights crying
     But know that I still am keeping count
     You won’t find the trace of tears on my face
     The heart breaks on the inside, not out
And heartbreak ain’t measured in salt
Or by the times that, your number, I’ve called
But by all the times I didn’t for knowing all this was my fault
And that heartbreak ain’t measured in salt
     You won’t find the trace of twenty drowned days
     But know this - I still is keeping count
     You won’t find the clues of how bad I got the blues
     The heart quakes, ripping invisible ground
     So this isn’t to say that I ain’t lost my way
     But that a man ain’t always as he appears
     So please don’t assume that I’m not broken in two
     Because if you could see my heart
     You would see it so clear that I’m falling apart
     And that heartbreak ain’t measured in tears

SWING BY

So you’re in Berlin on business, you say
It must be meetings and greetings all day each day
Well you can rest that corporate smile for a little while
I’m in 209, if you have time, during your stay, hey –
   Swing by, swing by - you don’t have to stay all night
   Just swing by
Ah but it’s Tokyo tomorrow, you sigh
Although it’s not til ten o’clock you fly
Well if you've time before you leave, come check in with me
Now that we’ve met, we’d both regret a half-baked goodbye
Why not –
   Swing by, swing by
   Just stay a little while - swing by
And I know you can’t swear to forever
I know time is ticking itself off the wall
But half an hour is better than never
So while you wheel your suitcase down the hall, stall, and –
   Swing by, swing by – just stay a little while
   Swing by, swing by – remember 209
   Swing by, swing by – I said half an hour’s fine, swing by

CLOSE

Close. They’ll never know how close we were
Close to that loving flame that glows and burns
Crossing over all the distance
That is set between two misters
We were oh so close

Close. They’ll never know how close we got
It goes to show that love can do what its absence cannot
Out beyond all expectation
I never knew until I was taken
Oh so close

And I don’t know just what this love counts for
But like all great counts
It started out with a one-two-three-four

Close. They’ll never know how close we came
Two firethrowers who, for the most, made magic of their flame
It was the brightest light I’d ever seen
And for as far apart as we might have been
We were oh so close 
Yes we were so near, we were so close

THE NIGHT IS NOT LONG ENOUGH

The world turns away from the sun
It buys the time ‘til morning comes
So hurry sweetheart, we ain't got long
To get all that we've got to do done
   And the morning light, well it’s just too bright
      The night is not long enough
      Night should roll on and on
      The night is short, this dream's too long
Stars shine in a line, stretch it out
The time it takes ‘til then from now
Make this last longer, somehow
Should the sun come up just take it down
   Could we bargain for a few hours more…
       The night is not long enough
       Night should roll on and on
       The night is short, this dream's too long
   Could we cheat the hand of time and have it bend
   Back again…
      The night is not long enough
      Night should roll on and on
      The night is short, this dream's too long

JULY 31st

You gotta close your eyes to see it – 
Colour of that kind
When you were seven and believing,
You don’t even need to try
Until you tried to understand it –
The length and width and weight of why
     Goodbye July
And all that adolescence - all that struggle, toil and tear
Just to find you somewhere in it - in all of this there
For a place to stand within falling distance
Of a place to lay your head, singing -
     Goodbye July - I’m with August now - Goodbye July
You gotta shut your mouth to hear it - colour of that kind
And stand still to get near it to see silence so bright
In the water falls a mirror
To see it clear you gotta close your eyes singing
     Goodbye July - I’m with August now
     Goodbye July - and I’ll see you around
I said I'd never have got through it, not without you, friend
And you know I never would undo it – this way we’re tied in

THE FIRE THAT WAS NEVER LIT

It never happened baby –
The prize, it was never got
On the other side of maybe,
I’m left standing with a maybe not
The dance is undanced, ain't it?
The band they never showed
For a song that no-one's playing
cause the song was never wrote
     But still this swirling dream
     It’s a swooning moonlit scene
     And if I'm dreaming then I don't wanna wake from it
     Not yet...
It never came round, did it?
It never quite occurred
The way I had envisaged,
the way I'd have preferred
Which is that it had existed,
that you could touch it – having heat and shape.
So it's strange how much I miss it
The love we never made.
     But still this swirling dream
     It’s a swooning moonlit scene
     And if I'm dreaming then I don't wanna wake from it
     Not yet...
It never turned out, quite so.
Call it the fire that was never lit
But I am reading by its light
though I am burned by it
It ain't as cold out here as it looks dear
Go, you've got a lucky girl to find
I'll just stay a while to watch the smoke clear
The spot where our desires couldn't quite align

SHE’S SINGING STORMS

Are you there? It’s Storms
Can you hear her? She’s wonderful
And I just had to call
Cause I know you love that song

It’s me. Can you hear?
Is the line clear?
And I’m wishing you were here
Cause I know you’d sway along

I know you would be swaying in a sea of light
I know we would be swaying side by side
I know you would know just when she sings my favourite line

Are you there? It’s Storms
They’re playing it faithful
It’s like ’79 again
And I just had to call you
I just had to call
I just had to call you friend