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Work in Progress

by Pete Brazier

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1.
Shooting Stars 04:45
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Shooting Stars Your beauty underlines you, but it is not who you are And even though you’re walking in the sunlight Something feels much colder than it ever was before And you’re waiting for another light to warm you Some embraces leave you wanting more Than you had before, or could ever hold within those hands Passing faces made you think of days Back when you were small, and never questioned who you were Your future hasn’t found you, but it’s waiting in the wings Listening to hear its cue to enter The light has never left you but it sometimes burns so low That people cannot see and wander past you Shooting stars used to calm you down Keep you on the ground, but with your head still in the clouds Crashing waves told you not to fear Brining heaven near as water washes over stone Do not wait for reason to find you Do not wait for purpose to walk away again And when it comes you will be waiting When it comes, you will be ready Your beauty underlines you, but it will not take you far No further than the eyes of men will wander And though you search for love still, it’s everywhere you look Hiding in those unpredicted places Shooting stars, frosty morning air Sunrise on the sea, or in the nightclub’s thumping beat Crashing waves, the stranger’s smiling face Finding heaven’s place like water rushing through your soul Do not wait for reason to find you Do not wait for purpose to walk away again And when it comes you will be waiting When it comes, you will be ready…
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In this life 03:44
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In this life There are places where we'll never walk, Landscapes we will never see, Horizons we will never know of, People we will never be. There are sunsets we won't even look at, Dreams that pass when morning comes, Oceans we will never swim in, Songs that we will never hear In this life, at least in this life, In another, my sister my brother, Who knows what we may see, Who knows what we may see. There are thoughts that will elude us, Memories that fade away, There are cliffs to high to climb, Caves where light will never shine. There are reasons we will forfeit Purposes that won't be known, Places we just can't go back to, Friends that we won't meet again In this life, at least in this life, In the other, my sister my brother, Who knows what we may see, Who knows what we may be. In this life, we pray, just this life In the next, the unwritten text, God knows what will become of us, God knows what will be done. His will be done, and everything under the sun. And after the battle is won, his will be done.
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This Town 06:07
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This Town Verse 1 This town, this bundle of towns Confuse me, diffuse me and my inner fight Leave me mourning the missing light “Hey” I say to them, “don’t you want to be?” They say “no sir not me” Verse 2 This town, this bundle of frowns Bungalow crowns and every kingdom cracks, Under the strain of a new idea Don’t you want to be something? No sir, no sir not me There has to be a reason to be here Something more than everything with chips The tacky bars and the hen nights, the bitch fights under the streetlights There has to be a bigger plan than this Chorus Across the water we hear a whisper Across the water we hear hope Take a look beneath the surface Put you ear to the ground Across hills we feel the movement Across the days the tale is told Put your hand to the wheel And drive the future home And drive the future home And drive the future home Verse 3 This bay, this meaningless stay It takes the biscuit and the remains of the day It throws caution to a wind that never blows Such beauty with no spirit Like a long dead Pharaoh or a valley of bones There has to be a reason to be here Something more than Free Church politics The companies and the factories, the hotels and the motels There has to be a deeper wage to earn There has to be a spirit still that keeps us here Something more than “we can’t be arsed to move” The local bar, Cinema or the neon lights beneath your car There has to be a brighter light that burns Repeat Chorus
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Encircle Me 05:00
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Spirit of God to surround me Spirit of God, to protect me Spirit of God, to uphold me Spirit of God, to enfold me Spirit of God, to redeem me Spirit of God, to restore me Spirit of God, to empower me Spirit of God, to bind me Spirit of God, go before me Spirit of God, be above me Spirit of God, walk behind me Spirit of God, lay beneath me Three in one, one in three Encircle me
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Patterns in the Sand 04:16
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Patterns in the sand It was one of those days when I was looking for promises Somewhere between the sun and the moonlit sky Do you think I found a sunset, do you think I saw a cross Do you think I saw the most ridiculous angels It was one of those days when I was looking for miracles Something to say the man was still alright Do you think I ate the chips, do you think I read your lips Do you think I saw the answers in the poems (chorus) From the patterns in the sand To the holding of your hands When I asked for proof that only I could see From your wild rebellious feelings To the man who did the healings I recognised the God who valued me It was one of those days when the stranger smiles as walking past And you never know just what it is they’ve seen And I had to see the ring, and I had to hear you sing And I had to hear the calling once again It was one of those days when I knew how to write the songs And the wings inside my soul began to spread And you showed that you knew me, and everything inside me And you held out your hand and took me home (repeat chorus) (middle) I realise the challenges are bigger than I thought I’m gonna have to move myself again And if I keep on searching, and if I keep my head And if I keep my eyes upon the signs along the way (repeat chorus)
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Bring Down the Worthless Day 03:42
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Bring Down the Worthless Day Bring down the worthless day Let its heart be washed away May the sadness of things and the wrong and the rain Be lost in the ground with the past and the pain For the future is here with us now It’s here with us now Drink in the sweet red wine See the light that’s down the line Close your eyes breathe in the air Soon you’ll see that spring is here Let not the bottom line Be a thing to count as mine With the numbers of nothings, and losing and losses May idiots hush and the reasonless bosses And the ignorant voices be gone All the voices be gone No longer the wisdom of empty men No longer the words of an empty pen Time for real words and actions No more factions or reactions born in hate or fear The future is near I’m getting younger I can see I’ve been the oldest I can be A lot of ways I know how to die But now it’s time to be alive Will of God be nearer still I’ve got no heart to climb the hill now the people must stand and walk hand in hand To sing out the song the for the weak and the banned For the poor ones are here with us still They’re here with us still No longer the wisdom of empty men No longer the words of an empty pen We’re stronger when reason is in our mind Look deeper you never know what you’ll find Time for real words and actions I’ve got no time for these distractions No more factions or reactions born in hate or fear The future is near
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Five Years 04:41
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Five years (Chorus) Five years flow like presents now Tear the paper screen Pull the past towards my heart Warming bitter time Five years not the healing, but Words on either side Spirits caught free falling, love Is such a sweet surprise I have often sifted through All the memories that haunt me And I have often lost myself In self indulgent pain I’ve bottled up and run away Cut myself from living hearts What was it I couldn’t face Well what ever it was must have passed (Repeat Chorus) If I travel far away And though my life may change Five years will not pass before You hear my voice again Is this what I need to make me breath A mallet to my heart What I need to bring me back To all my secret parts I am not heaven for her now But the beast within her shadows Once you saw that creature too And five years did I run (Repeat Chorus) Love is such… a sweet… surprise
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New Town 07:22
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I am a Work in Progress 04:44
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I am a Work in Progress here I am finding a voice as if I had a choice of who I am cos this is who I am if you give a damn about what I got to say and the colours of my day born in the south east grew up in the south west In a part of Devon that has no roots in the Earth - no sense of worth, no respect for the Mysteries that surround us I’m not from Brighton Manchester or Liverpool or any of those places where the accent is a bit more cool but Jesus got me breaking down the classes And I will fight for justice for the masses that would rhyme if I came from another part o town - Still its time to get up of our assets Chorus I am a work in progress, an incomplete design A shadow of my creator, a reflection of the divine A curious invention, built to fall apart To discover in my breaking, the reason for my art I am a work in progress, an imperfected scheme A child on a journey, towards his makers dream The point is I’m not finished yet, my story isn’t done I know it never will be, until we all are one So where do I go? I’ve been hiding in my Studio – Trying to write the songs that speak to you In the language of the world around me But you ain’t got the words I need in your vocabulary I wanna talk about angels and demons I wanna talk about rebuilding the world I wanna talk about purposes and reasons I wanna see your wings unfurled I wanna dream up a vision of the future Where everything is brilliant and OK isn’t good enough I want you to listen to the wisdom of the teacher And ask bigger questions when you don’t understand stuff The blinds are down in spite of the sunshine – time for me to step outside now repeat Chorus
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I Wish the Darkness Would Fall 04:34
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I wish the Darkness would fall I wish the night would come in its comforting shroud So I could fall in love with myself in your arms You say that this is not real but there’s truth in the lies And you don’t know the half of me you foolish girl I am afraid of you I am lost in you And every word that’s lost on you flows from the heart Do I not show the darkness that drives this machine That I should fall in love with myself in your arms I wish the darkness would fall The road tumbling over us all In the rumble of the engine’s song In anyone sure what they see? A huddle of travellers side by side We speak with touch but few words confide We are gently lost on a sleepy crowd So let this moment wash over me You are my secret tonight My angel of sodium light In defiance of all that I know And all that I thought I would be Which face is the true one I dare not say But speak no words that bring back the day You are quiet now and the lies don’t sound So let this moment forever be So what’s the fire that burns in the safety cage now That steals your laughter and tells on your dishonest month I know you’re scared to trust and you have to take charge But the tighter you’re holding the more that you’re losing control And you are full of colours so beautiful still So trust won’t turn your smouldering spirit to grey Why don’t you let the world come in and take a look round So they can fall in love with themselves in your arms
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This Tiny Place 05:26
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This tiny place Need to find salvation in every word Need to find God in all the absurd Need to find the stillness at the centre of the wheel Need to understand the way that I feel Just the end of another incomplete day And all of these things were not put away The papers not sorted and the wound it never healed The gravy on the unwashed plate has congealed There is an island, and all the ships that pass Stop to rest awhile in its port And there is a mountain, that’s higher than the rest And you cans see the world from its peak Need to play again like I did as a child Need to climb the hill to look over the bay See the places where men walked in days gone by Pray that I may learn from the marks they left Yet another inconclusive search All the answers locked in the pictures we see But the key is not found and all our lives remain unhealed May this unwashed soul someday be clean There is a house and all the walls are white Shining in the glory of your love And there is a shop, and all the things they sell Are labelled with the price they’re really worth This is the world, and everything that’s in it If we build heaven here, in this tiny place This is the future, and all that we can make of it If we build heaven here in our open hearts These are the choices, and every time we get it wrong There is another chance, but not forever These are our lives, these lands the spirit’s hiding place Will we hold it dear, or let it fall away? Need to put the lid back on the pen Need to call my old friends now and then Need to remind myself of the reasons why I’m here When all the world seems so unclear Yet another disaster on the news And every fool wants to hare their views And all we needed was humility and grace Reach out our empty hands and greet them face to face And there was a man, who walked there long ago And everything he said seemed to make sense Wouldn’t it be great if we could call on him right now To see if he could shed a little light
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Home 06:33
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Home When you leave me here I will darken down Fall into silences close my desire Cold seems the sun though the summer draws on Life keeps it’s meaning but faintly displays All of its purpose so far from our eyes Time has us waiting like winter again Do you want to save the changes you made? Stay with this child till he grows up again (Chorus) So the seasons turn and so our skin will burn We’ve got a lot of things to learn and every lesson leaves a scar Every time we have to lose and every day that won’t return Every injury we face self inflicted or predicted Every lie we tell to a precious friend All the hope that went every dream that had to end All the times we swore we would never fall again Bring us here, or at least near You remind me of the soft summer sun Come early in April late afternoon You wander in full of your freshness and warmth Leave the sweet taste of the day on our lips When the bell rings I won’t answer the door No one I long for is calling on me Only the fish man, the salesman, the crook Memories of spring now are lost in the heat (Chorus) Here comes the autumn, the time of ingathering All that we’re left in the summer fields Here comes October, it’s so underrated Where we count all our blessings and nurse all our wounds And we’ll sit in dark rooms, and make plans for the future We’ll dream and have visions, of the places we’ll build We’ll drink to the future, the one that is coming And we will recall all the places we’ve been Now you’re my sister my brother my friend Summer is over but light lingers on Enter this house with tomorrow in mind Unpack the things that you’ve carried so far Sit down and rest till you’re ready to move Many a day will we spend in this place Wonderful things will we build on this ground For here the foundations of heaven are found

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Work in Progress was an album essentially recorded in a small room in Devon in 2007. It contains several songs that were new at the time and a number of others that I had been working on for several years before hand. The oldest of these is 'Patterns in the Sand' which first saw the light of day on my album 'Big Tree' way back in 1996. This version of the album is slightly updated from the 2007 version as Patterns in the Sand has been remixed slightly and Shooting Stars had a significant remix and an extended intro added. Also I really disliked the original album cover so I changed that too.

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released January 16, 2012

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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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