SHAUN BELCHER SONGS 2003

SMALL TOWN GRAVE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. burning bridge by the waters edge when the ice breaks underfoot this empty space spoil marie shooting stars turn blue down the tracks cant make you love me black water love falls down man the world forgot small town grave california sands solid froze black well blues ghost of Sheryl Crow box of dreams this wind a human coin silver birch part of me is missing love stings and a candle burns

SHAUN BELCHER HORSESHOE SONGS 2003

BURNING BRIDGE Im alone and the night is cold Nowhere to run to nowhere to go Im alone and Im far from you Nothing to do but walk through this snow And if I could go back In time and find you Id go back to you and make it alright Cross this burning bridge Cross this burning bridge I would go Burning bridge in the snow But theres only ever one way to run it seems Were always driving forward in our dreams Keepin on travellin is all we can ever do Cos only angels make it to heaven its true Now Im standing on this burning bridge Looking down at the water as it floods the fields Thinkin of you and things we never did and the tears welling under my eyelids Ill never make it back across this burning bridge its true Well what the hell was I supposed to do Once a bridge starts burning itll never let you through Sure is pretty this burning bridge in the snow burning bridge in the snow

capo 4 F Em C Em ch AG BY THE WATERS EDGE Oh how I wish I could just walk Around this town And not feel so down I watch the sun turn red By the waters edge I always remember you By the waters edge No matter how long I stand Ill never guess Why it was you left By the waters edge All thats left Is floating through my mind By the waters edge

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WHEN THE ICE BREAKS UNDERFOOT

Twenty years shed stayed in that place Twenty years staring at the same dam face Something cracked and then she ran Across the night From all her broken plans When the ice broke underfoot She headed for the sea in a coach Looked through the trees for something to trust A face that wasnt as cold as stone A touch that didnt make her shiver to the bone When the ice broke underfoot Well everythings ok and then its not One morning the sun comes up but youre not in love So you pack a few things in a bag and you walk away Turn a corner and everything melts away like frost When the ice breaks underfoot When the ice breaks underfoot

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THIS EMPTY SPACE

No this song dont fill the space This pc screen dont smile like your face Theres only so many things I can do To fill in the empty space that was you This empty space Aint filled with tears and broken hearts It comes creeping up in the dark Its made of all the small things we forgot That wait to drag you back to the past Somewhere I pulled off the road Found myself staring at some telegraph poles Carrying a million words across the globe But me and you cant exchange a single word This empty space Now this records running in the fade out groove The voice goes silent under a silver moon I aint calling you but I am sad its true Sitting here waiting fro someone to fill your shoes This empty space Like the space between the clouds and the moon This empty space in my heart grows cold Every time I think of you This empty space

c/w straight 4/4 CFG

SPOIL MARIE

I live on my own since we split My wife looks after her all the week I get her every Friday evening Its my favourite night of the week Cos thats when I can spoil Marie Spoil my Marie Well I take that train every night Between the cities bright lights I see the families in their Sunday best Going out for the night with their kids Hell it gets hard sometimes I admit But Friday nights when I forget about ii Spoil my Marie Well my wife and me hardly speak She just stands there spinning her keys I try chit chat but she just leaves Cos her new mans waiting in the street Hell it dont matter to me at all I just care about my sweet Marie Spoil my Marie Shes the whole dam world to me Spoil my Marie Gonna spoil my Marie.

SHOOTING STARS TURN BLUE In the movie in my head This is how it ends Were walking through a quiet city I take you in my arms Then you kiss me But them shooting stars always turn blue Before they get to me and you God must have used them all up On all those other couples it seems Cos theres no shooting stars left For you and me Even the shooting stars turned blue Well the moon is shining The rivers silver too In fact even the city lights are bright Every roof flashing in the moonlight But God forgot the shooting stars Now what are we to do? Even the shooting stars turned blue Hold me that much tighter Cos the world is turning dark All our hopes and dreams Been eclipsed by the way we broke each others hearts And standing on this hill looking all around All I see are a thousand shooting stars Turning blue Turning blue

C Am

DOWN THE TRACKS

It all comes back to me She was smiling as she walked away Said I had it coming anyway Should have known then Thats where Id end up one day Somewhere down the tracks She said who do you think you are You aint never gonna be a star Its obvious where youll end up honey Youll never get anywhere today Youll be crawling on your knees Somewhere down the tracks Well I suppose I had it coming anyway Was in the stars so they say When you dream you dream alone Some place I sit on my own Thats the place where I stay Somewhere down the tracks When the nights are cold And the moon is bright I stare out of this window At the rails in the moonlight I know youre out there somewhere Far from me Somewhere down the tracks is Where well always be.

Capo 2 E Am finger on GAE

I CANT MAKE YOU LOVE ME

Can charm the birds from the trees Can charm the honey from the bee Can make the clouds flow back to the sea But theres one thing aint so easy I cant make you love me Well Ive been around Ive seen it all Ive been watching you from the door Your smile like the sun, your hair like straw You float around like you had no cares at all Well if words were all it took Id be alright Id be king and this world would be mine But words arent enough to make you smile For me and me alone in the middle of the night No I cant make you love me

CGF

BLACK WATER MOAN

Walking across a bridge at midnight Cold rain stinging my face Been walking across this city of shadows Seems like I just cant find my place And I heard the black water sigh Calling out my name Yeah I heard the black water sigh Calling me away Well I been here just a short while Left the kids with their mum down south Walked away when things went wrong Ended up walking for two whole months Seems like my whole family had trouble Every one born ended up just the same Lost or sinking slowly in some foreign place Thats why we got our troubled name My father he was no different He drank and he abused my mum But now hes out there on a sandy bed He sailed east one day and never returned So I stand on this bridge mid-winter Watch the flood spinning the trees away Wonder if our blood is like this muddy water Unclean and just flowing down the drain I hear that black water calling out my name I hear it sigh Wants to wash my sins away.

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LOVE FALLS DOWN

Around and around We span around Since we came to this town Love fell down Like a leaf from a tree Down, down, down Love falls down And I will live with you And you will live with me In a beautiful house In a beautiful street Down, down, down Love falls down And we will be so happy It will be until eternity Everything will be so easy It grows like a leaf on a tree Down, down, down Love falls down

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MAN THE WORLD FORGOT

I work in the city Sometimes I stay late With the boys from the office Always the same damn place Been there for years Never a raise Sometimes I wonder what happened to my life the man the world forgot I ride the same train See the same faces Every morning from nine to nine-thirty Come rain or shine or sleet I see a familiar face In the seat ahead of me the man the world forgot Sometimes I stare out of the train windows At all the new office blocks And all the rows of desks like mine And wonder if they are happier than me The man the world forgot Now Im 50 and the years have caught up with me But the guys have asked me out Theres colour in my hair but my livers fading fast Im staring at a girl half my age and dreaming Later on the train I turn the handle And take a leap into the dark The man the world forgot

SMALL TOWN GRAVE

Well he said when my race is run Lay me down in the sun Somewhere under those shady trees Somewhere people can forget about me It all comes down to dust Every part of us All I want is a small town grave And flowers that fade On a small town grave The businessman, the banker, the delivery-man The nurse, the cook the woman pushing a pram Everybody one day lays down Under a shady tree in the setting sun In a small town cemetery When the race is run

CALIFORNIA SANDS

Every year we had a week away Same place on the edge of space Across the flat fields of the Norfolk Broads To a camp full of red brick chalets that was called California Sands, California Sands Ohh Ohh Ohh its true Anythin you wanna do, Its all waitin for you At California Sands A hundred chalets and a clubhouse Amusement arcades, fish and chips and crumbling cliffs It was nearest place to heaven its true Cos wed never seen a sea this blue California Sands, California Sands Ohh Ohh Ohh its true Anythin you wanna do, Its all waitin for you At California Sands Eating sticky rock, playing crazy golf My sister always beat me of course Yarmouths beer garden and end of pier show And a light that bleached our hair Somewhere now a part of me dreams Of steel blue seas and 99 ice creams Something inside yearns for those days When a million pennies were about to fall in the penny arcades California Sands, California Sands Ohh Ohh Ohh its true Anythin you wanna do, Its all waitin for you At California Sands Friday always came too soon at California Sands

SOLID FROZE

Ice for eyes, hand stuck to the lever Hat rimmed with icicles, hair solid white He stood like a statue looking out across the fields Engine stuck to the tracks, boiler cold The only thing moving was the Northern Lights Flickering in his dead eyes Solid froze The whole damn county disappeared under a drift Way out west the cattle froze where they stood It took them two days and a steam plow To get to the place where he was waiting The only thing moving was the Northern Lights Flickering in his dead eyes Solid froze First they melted away the frozen train Left its shadow sculpted in the snow Then they lay his stiff body down so gently One arm pointing up at where he was heading.. The only thing moving was the Northern Lights Flickering in his dead eyes Solid froze

BLACK WELL BLUES

Down in the water So long nobody could tell When they found her Her bones were white as shells White bones in a black well Blues

THE GHOST OF SHERYL CROW ( in memory of June Carter Cash)

LAST NIGHT IN MY DREAMS SHE CAME AND TALKED TO ME SHE WAS DRESSED LIKE SOMEBODY FROM 1963 I SAID YOU LOOK LIKE DOLLY PARTON BEFORE SHE BROKE FREE YOU LOOK LIKE BOBBY GENTRY BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCENE HI HI HI LO LO LO SEARCHING FOR THE GHOST OF SHERYL CROW I BUMPED INTO THE GRAND-DAUGHTER OF KITTY WELLS I TOLD HER SHE SHOULD LISTEN TO LAURA CANTRELL NEXT TIME I SAW HER SHE SMILED LIKE TANYA TUCKER SHE PUT HER ARMS AROUND ME LIKE TAMMY AROUND JONES NOW THE NIGHT IS YOUNG AND THE BAND STARTS TO PLAY I SEE HER WALKING OUT ON TO THE STAGE SHE IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS THEY ALWAYS SAID SHE STEPS UP TO THE MIKE AND SHE STARTS TO SING

BOX OF DREAMS ROCKABILLY E/G/A/ No one told me it would be easy No one told me it would be this hard Seemed like it was always this way We just didnt listen to what they said Dont drop, dont drop my box of dreams There was always something about you Told me you couldnt be for true There was always something about you Made me feel youd what you do Could it be the two of us were always alone Could it be we were always both in the wrong Could it be that there is no reason to believe Everybody loses everything ends up broken

THIS WIND

This wind that breaks these trees This wind that makes your blue eyes sting This wind that makes you cry so easily This wind will blow us apart like leaves Yes this wind, this wind, this wind This wind that blows in off the sea This wind that is so cold and free This wind that ripples the red flag on the beach This wind that pushes clouds to the mountains to weep This wind, this wind, this wind This wind that leaves dust on my teeth This wind that lifts your plane as it leaves This wind that carries you away from me This wind that sets us free Yes this wind, this wind, this wind

A HUMAN COIN How did you get here? nobody seems to know Did you fall off a truck on a moonlit road Or was it a pink dawn on the edge of town When that driver said it was time to get down? A human coin You lay in that ditch for hours Waiting for it to grow dark again Scared to death of the customs men Who would beat you and send you back again Then twenty miles out of Dover On a freezing February night You were picked up by another man Who said hed give you a hand He took you home, gave you a bed You still shivered in the clothes he gave He asked you if you wanted to stay Three years later he still makes you pay

SILVER BIRCH Wind in the topmost branches Cold and blowing in from the arctic Blowing off the cold white mountains Blowing you on to me Like a spinning leaf How long will it take to fall in love Under the silver birch Where are the dreams we dream Do they just fly at night Like leaves spilling out of our minds And drifting through the city lights Heaps of them glitter in the drains Or like snow on a tennis lawn When it clogs the drains The dreams of love turn to mud Well I hold on to my dreams As the snows blow through Like a train headed through some wood Dreams spinning like leaves in its wake Spinning around across the cold snow Below the silver birches Trust me my love this world is silver Fall, fall in love Under the silver birch

PART OF ME IS MISSING

Down, down, down sinking like a wasp in a jar Still sticky with the thought of her Round, round, round like a spinning reel Where we are is where we feel A part of me is missing A part of me is gone A part of me is missing Never to return Empty, empty, empty something lost at sea Tipped over the side and floating free Who knows what the time was When the last bell tolled for us Was it really worth all the fears Was it really worth bringing you here We always seemed to be going backwards Always chasing something we could never see Our hearts just disappeared Somewhere where the mountains Dipped into the sea Something was missing A part of me.

LOVE STINGS AND A CANDLE BURNS Fire light and fire flies Down a darkened track And we turn to each other In the perfect dark Remember one thing Love stings A candle burns Whichever way you turn Love stings and a candle burns So old flames gutter and die The past dies like a cars headlights On a darkened highway to an open door No-one knows what theyre heading toward Out in the meadows Under a harvest moon Theres that truck we left Still smoking Turning red to blue Love stings and a candle burns.