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Only When it Rains

by Pete Brazier

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1.
Knife Blade 02:44
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Living on the edge of a knife blade playing the games of an emperor, Did you ever really expect me to keep playing all these games? Did you ever think about the things you say or do? Cause living on the edge of a knife blade aint easy, you see.
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It's You 04:47
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Verse1 You touched my heart and made me want you Like I’ve never wanted anyone before I’ve been so logical for many years I never seemed to feel the pain inside But then you rocked me from this pedestal That has kept me so cold And suddenly there seems to be a part of me That I never knew Chorus And it’s you It was you all along And it’s you, forever and always It was you who broke into my heart And it’s you I had no other choice but to love you And it’s you, forever and always I never will recover from your smile From your smile, from your smile… From your smile Verse 2 I never thought that anyone could make me feel the way You’ve made me feel today You’ve cast a spell over me that makes me want you And will never let me go Sometimes I wonder whether you could ever love me In the same way I love you There has to be a way to show to you And I must Find it if I can Repeat Chorus
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Give them a Chance 03:21
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Insecurity’s a very sad thing; So many people making so many mistakes. You see them running everywhere you go, They keep on asking but then never know. All they wanted with somebody to love them; You keep on smiling, but you don't want to know them Know them, know them, know them. So, give them a chance, give them a chance, Whoa, whoa, give the others a chance. Give them a chance, give them a chance, Come on everybody give the others a chance. So many people just pass you by; Ignore your opinion like you’re telling a lie. I make a plea from the bottom of my heart; come on everybody let's make a new start. All the people who've been trodden under, All because we never stopped to wonder, Wonder, why, why. Repeat Chorus We've all been through it in the heat of the night, We've all experienced the pain And now there's someone else who’s suffering, Whoa, let's give them a chance. Standing in the rain getting soaking wet doing my best but what do I get? You never listen to a word I say; I keep on yelling but you still runaway. All they wanted was somebody to love them; You keep on smiling but you don't want to know them, know them, know them, know them,
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Love Games 03:45
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Verse 1 I'm floating along on the crest of a wave My love is blinder than a lover’s slave Don't touch me now you love means nothing to me I've seen this happen to so many before I came I thought you'd change But I was wrong once again Verse 2 I was making excuses for all your actions Explanations for my distractions All I needed was somebody to show me how blind I've been I should have seen this coming before it was too late But now you've sealed my fate Chorus Deep in my heart I know I never really loved you It's just my nature of insecurity That made me want you I was thought there was something strange About the way you spoke to me I had to look through the eyes of another Before I could see Repeat intro Verse 3 You're taking my words and changing them round Trying to tread my name into the ground I'm sorry girl but that just won't work with me You've played this game before but not again No not with me Coz I can see just who you are Repeat chorus
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Listen 05:05
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Intro Someday I'm gonna get through to you I've gotta get show you What I really mean Someday I'm gonna say to you What I've been trying to say all along. Verse 1 You never let me inside No matter how much I tried You never wanted to let me have the chance To spread my wings and fly away Verse 2 You never tried to understand You never saw the blood and sweat on my hands you never understood how much I tried for you How hard I tried to get it right Verse 3 So many kinds of suffering in this world But nothing like pain that's in my heart I know coz nothing seems to hurt as much as a world that doesn't care Cos no one seems to understand Chorus All I wanted with somebody to listen I never asked anymore of you I never asked you to believe in me All I wanted was to have the chance Repeat verse 1 and 3 Repeat chorus
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I'll Be Waiting 03:54
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Verse 1 Well, I've been losing sleep over you It’s just these things that you do I just want to understand I can't help but take your hand Chorus I can't help but notice that you’re holding something back I can see that you're hiding your tears Please remember you need never to be alone If you ever need to talk to me, I'll be waiting Verse 2 Well I've been losing sleep over you It's just these things that you do I kiss your picture goodnight Then I turn out the light Repeat chorus Verse instrumental Last chorus I can't help but notice that you’re holding something back I can see that you're hiding your tears Please remember you need never to be alone If you ever need to talk to me, I'll be waiting Repeat last chorus
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Please Respect Me 04:18
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Please Respect me 2022 It hurts me so much, When I can’t get through to you. I speak honest words, But I don’t think you hear me if only you were more like a child still with that sense of wonder but you act as if I can't understand Like there’s nothing left to learn (Please) please, respect me You know you ought to show me some respect (Please) please, respect me You don’t think how you act has some effect? I never can decide How to answer your questions as I never can be sure If you’ll taking me seriously If only you would give me a sign. Show me who you truly are Then maybe we can have something real Or maybe I‘m just dreaming Chorus The only way our trust can ever grow The only me that you will ever know I feel like you might never set me free You’ll never see the best that I can be (You know you ought to take me at my word) (I feel as though this voice was never heard) I never could confide My secrets in you No matter how much I wanted to I never could believe in you. Was it just because you never understood me? Or was it just because you never really took the time? Oh, I don’t know why I ever wasted mine
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Crying in the Sun 03:04
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No one wants to play the game anymore, Cos everyone has their own rules And no one wants to change their mind. No one wants to make it up anymore, Cos everyone has their own pride And no one has the sense to step down. You're crying in the sunlight, baby. You're dreaming of a long-forgotten place. You're crying in the sunlight baby. But oh, oh dream on. No one wants to care for you anymore. No, they’re too busy shedding their own tears, Over things that only matter to them. so many people, Don't want to dream anymore. They do what's expected of them And never do more, But what does it get them? Chorus x2 Chorus x2
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Till the Sunrise 04:27
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Sitting in this room with the lights down low With the wind and the rain beating hard Against the window it's so warm and dark in here I only wish that I could hold you within my arms tonight Walk with me, till the sunrise Talk with me, till the sun goes down Be with me, in the moonlight Sing with me, till the sun goes down feel my loving, in the sunlight Be with me till, the sun goes down keep me going, through the bad times Keep you fighting, when times are rough Keep on shining, through the sad times Keep on loving, when times are tough Repeat chorus So many people are against us They just never understand They can't see what I can see in you but then again they never do Repeat chorus be with me till the sun goes down till the sun goes down till the sun goes down till the sun goes down
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On Your Own Again 04:45
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Means so much more to me now, When I see you standing there On your own again. I never thought it could be this way; I always thought it would be different For me. But you took my breath away, I had nothing left so say; All that was left for me to do Was to love you; And I do. Oh you know it wasn’t easy to get used to the thought of loving you, honey. I always thought of myself as a loner, But I was wrong again, wasn’t I? Wrong again now honey. Takes me back to years ago, Back to before I had to worry About what I had to do. Suddenly it’s the same again, And I don’t have to worry, Cause I know where I’m going. Repeat Bridge & Chorus
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Keep Running 03:25
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Verse one You keep running away from me You keep running across land and sea But I'll get you baby just you wait and see You ran across the city Still you don't get no pity Chorus Coz I left my heart behind When they told me you had lied How could you do this to me When you know how hard I tried Verse 2 All I wanted was to be your friend Why did you have to make it end? I need you baby just why can't you see You ran across the night Still you can't see the light repeat chorus
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The Winter of Eighty Seven 04:38
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I wanted to stay with you, forever and ever I wanted to be with you, please stay by my side I never wanted to say goodbye I never wanted all the lies I never had the chance to show my feelings Please don't say goodbye I wanted to stay with you, forever and ever I want to be with you, please stay by my side These situations get me down Confusion gets you in the end I strive to get my thoughts across to you But there's always something in my way I wanted to stay with you, forever and ever I want to be with you, please stay by my side Oh Mama, I can hear the wind blow And it don't show me the way to go But I've been growing up a lot today And I think I can make it on my own I wanted to stay with you, forever and ever I wanted to be with you, please stay by my side Repeat chorus ad Lib I’ll Keep on standing, through whatever happens Given the chance, I'd do it all again Are keep on smiling, coz I know where I'm going I'll never forget, the winter of 87
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Walk Away 05:23
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Standing on the back streets Waiting for you to come round the corner, looking for me I'd don't know why I waited for so long I guess it was the only way that I ever knew Walk away, to a life, that I can believe in Walk the road, that holds for me, no preconceptions cut the line, breakdown the walls, tear up the contract coz I'm moving (on) Live on, dream of perfection love still hurts, but the dream goes on like kissing the mind of the dragon With the lips of the fairy Queen heart to heart unfold Or these treasures I've never seen Chorus
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She's Only Human 03:23
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Think of the concept everyone is human Now think of how you treat that girl like a God The one in the corner with the perfect complexion The one with the pretty eyes and a bow in her hair She's only human, (Thinks of you always) looking for a new man (There’s two sides to every story yeah) She's just as scared as you are (woah yeah) she doesn't know which way turn (Ooh) Hey, don't you know she feels the same about you Think of a night sky, a thousand stars are shining Think of the moonlight shining through her pretty hair Think of a sunset, a silhouette embrace Reach out and touch it coz the dream is for real Chorus It’s standing there in black and white, see the dark and I can see the light And it's you, it's you I'm thinking of You know how much I need you to stay See the night and I can see the day and it's you, it’s you I’m dreaming of Chorus
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Only When it Rains 07:08
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I’ll hold your memory for a thousand years, Though I know I never meant a thing to you; I’ll keep your memory as a lesson to be learned, And I’ll hide it away to be recalled again, Only when it rains. You can never depend on the rain, but you know that it will always fall, And you can view the world in a similar way If you can find some solace there. But you never know where you’re going, And you’ll never have a place to hide, Cause you know you need a dream That no-one can take away, And you need someone to share it with. I cut this atmosphere with a blood like blade, And a heart to dream of love to come; To keep this sanity on the distant mists of your mind, So I hide my head in the fear and shame, Till the beast within is tame. Only when it rains, I will remember you

about

This is very much an imperfect collection of songs, but an interesting one, nonetheless. I originally recorded them between 1986 and 1988 on a Tascam Porta One portable mini studio. I had intended to release a selection of around 10 of them on an album called ‘Only When it Rains’. At the time my band was called Vision, but I had chosen to record this album as a largely solo project under the pseudonym ‘Change in the Weather’, with just the help of a few occasional musicians playing additional tracks, including Mike Williams, the guitarist for Vision.

I was new to recording and the nearest I got to a finished album was an interesting but ultimately unpresentable rendering. Had the album been finished, it would of course have been copied, one unit at a time, onto cassettes and sold with black and white photocopied inlays to friends and family. Whilst this exact process found some limited success with several subsequent albums, 'Only When it Rains' and many of the songs on the album never saw the light of day. I gave one prototype mix to my brother Rick to take to university with him. His bag, along with the only original mix in existence, was stolen and never seen again. Who knows, it could still be out there somewhere.

Anyway, in my addled teenage brain, I somehow decided this was some sort of divine message and abandoned the album for at least a decade. I did attempt another mix in 1999. It was an improvement on the 1988 version, but the technology available to me was not really sufficient to make it something worth sharing with the public. It is possible that a couple of people might have a 1999 version, but I don’t actually remember selling any.

And so, we come to today. I produced this edition of my lost album by converting the original four track tapes to a digital format, cleaning them up, remixing the original audio and adding various layers of instruments and vocals over the top. 34 years after the original recordings, I have better recording skills, better guitar skills and a more stable if somewhat deeper voice. I could have chucked out the original recordings and started again, but instead I decided, for better or worse, to keep as much as I could of the original recordings, and where I could, I have retained the original lead vocal as the focus of the melody.

Some of the songs needed more extensive surgery than others, including attempts to replace missing sections accidently recorded over, correction of timing that had gone astray, replacement of sections missed in hastily recorded performances, and in one situation the rewriting of lyrics that felt unsalvageable (though you may feel that more should ultimately have fallen into that category). Some of the finished songs have remained very close to the original recording, with just a remix and some subtle additions here and there.

With all of them there was a point where I had to choose to stop tweaking and let you hear what I’ve done. It’s a little less than a year since I started the rework project, but 36 years since I first hit the record button on the originals. The finished product contains five additional tracks which, with the technology available to me at the time, seemed beyond repair. One of those being the title track itself, ‘Only When it Rains’. I hope you enjoy – It will be arriving soon.

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released May 1, 2022

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Pete Brazier Leeds, UK

Pete Brazier is a singer/songwriter, music producer, artist and Fractal Theologian. He has been writing songs since the age of 4 and recording since the age of 16. He is also a minister in the British Methodist Church.

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