FINDING HOME
Produced by Mick Hart and Antoine L.
Recorded and mixed by Antoine L at L'Atelier Studio, Lille, France.
Except tracks 3, 5 and 9 recorded by Dave Gander,
at Stage Door Studios, London, England,
and mixed by Jamie Maher at BFD studios, London.
Mastered by Fayney at BFD.

Mick Hart - vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic lapsteel,
harmonica, wurlitzer, rhodes, mellotron, percussion.
Diego Bellorin - cajon (track 7)

Photography by Antoine L - www.antoinel.com
Artwork and design by Emmanuel Rivet.

All songs written by Mick Hart
© Mick Hart 2007

Finding home
Words and music © Mick Hart

so i wait for truth
to guide me now, to guide me through
and hope with hope somehow
i'll find it there, i'll find it soon

coz i don't know where to belong
i don't know where to belong
i long for finding home
for finding home

i lost myself at play
somewhere alone along the way
i toiled and fought the waves
of sinful storms for days and days

but i don't know where to belong
i don't know where to belong
i long for finding home
for finding home

and so the story goes
as patiently i wait the road
and dream of angels near
to guide me well, to guide me clear

coz i don't know where to belong
i don't know where to belong
i long for finding home
for finding home

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Don't walk away
Words and music © Mick Hart

time to face my fears tonight
time to face my fears for good
are you seeing clearly tonight ?
do you see things like you should ?

gone, gone again
gone, down down down

wondering why you seem so numb
wondering why things feel astray
do you feel my reach tonight ?
do your flavours taste the same ?

gone, gone again
gone, down down down

oh my love don't walk away
oh my love don't walk away
don't know why things spin this way
oh my love don't walk away

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Can't come along
Words and music © Mick Hart

still don't know what i'm saying
saying at all
is there a moment here to find out
find out where i fall ?

i felt your message tonight
i felt your message tonight
i felt your message but
i can't come along

i hear you tremble and your crying
crying so loud
i wish for something i could give you
to comfort your surround

i felt you reaching tonight
i felt you reaching tonight
i felt you reaching but
i can't come along

nobody likes a heart breaking
breaking to the ground
but where's the answer
when there's nothing
nothing to be found ?

i feel i'm losing my light
i feel i'm losing my light
forever sorry but i can't come along

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I'm going
Words and music © Mick Hart

nothing to do, nothing to say
nothing and nowhere to be
so i'm going, i'm going
wishing it was, wishing we could
see better days like we had
but it's showing, it's showing
we're slipping away

it's so hard to be somebody else
someone you need me to be
so i'm going, i'm going
it's so hard to place where it evolved
where it began to be wrong
but it's showing, it's showing
we're slipping away

it's been for a while, i felt it before
and not just a difficult day
and it's showing, it's showing
so this is the way, now is the time
this is the broken goodbye
and i'm going, i'm going
and slipping away

so now is the time, end of the line
this is the final goodbye
and i'm going, i'm going

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All at your door
Words and music © Mick Hart

cold to my face, cold to me eyes
cold in this place, no no surprise
burying deep my face, burying low
burying deep my face, nowhere to go

don't leave me here, don't leave me dry
don't let me stray free from your sight
don't let me fall again, don't let me fall
don't let me fall again, as was before

as i wait for you to come
i'm reaching for your love
your hand, your soul

do you feel, do you feel, do you feel ?
do you feel me now ?
do you feel, do you feel, do you feel ?
do you feel me now ?
i'm here

nowhere to lay, nowhere to hide
nothing to say, nothing disguised
it's all before you now, all at your door
it's all before you now, at your control

as i wait for you to come
i'm reaching for your love
your hand, your soul
do you feel me now
as i wait for you to come
i'm reaching for your love
your hand, your soul

do you feel, do you feel, do you feel ?
do you feel me now ?

i'm here

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Smile
Words and music © Mick Hart

and so it goes here rolling along
another night of moments
misguided and wrong
though wisdom escapes me
i know i'll be ok
and i'll smile again another day

sometimes it feels like
a merry-go-round
blurred on the inside
by images and sounds
i wish that i could find
a steady hand to lead my way
but i'll smile again another day

and i hope that it won't take too long
yeh i hope that it won't take too long
to see the sun in the end of my song

nothing to consider
nothing left to fear
i'll rest in sweetness
as morning light appears
coz i know if i keep living every
wish will have it's way
and i'll smile again another day

yeh i know if i keep dreaming
everything will be ok
and i'll smile again another day
yeh i'll smile again another day

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From now on
Words and music © Mick Hart

when you feel
all is lost inside you
and when you think
there's nothing else to guide you
find a reason for believing
it's something easy
just help yourself along

here it comes, here it comes
happiness coming on
here it comes, here it comes
happiness from now on

when you're down
and everything seems broken
hide your frown
and keep your eyes wide open
there's a reason for believing
it's something easy
just help yourself along

here it comes...

when you sleep
don't stop your dreams from breathing
and when you wake
reach inside the meaning
coz there's a reason for believing
it's something easy
just help yourself along

here it comes...

from now on

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Searching light
Words and music © Mick Hart

do you see me falling freely
to the ground ?
to the ground
don't know how this taste of trouble
came around
came around

i'm not the one
to be alone
i'm not the one
safe in unknown

take my hand and feel my skin
turning cold
turning cold
come now comfort give me shelter
in a sign
in a sign

coz i'm not the one
to be alone
i'm not the one
safe in unknown

can't escape from the face
haunting me inside
crying out to replace
just to be with hope again

don't want to be endlessly
searching light
searching light

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Rewind
Words and music © Mick Hart

seems every morning
i wake from dreaming
missing the silent
touch of your fingers
i can't avoid it
there is a reason
i want to be there
but i'm surrounded by fear
that it's too late

feels too far again

wrapped in a moment
beautiful picture
i still remember
the taste of your kiss
but now so much is
walled up between us
and though i'm reaching
i'm so surrounded by fear
that it's too late

feels too far again

when is the time to press rewind ?
why won't these clouds just roll away ?

so where are we now ?
is this a fade out ?
all out of focus, i need to find out
there's still so much here
but life can be low
when you're surrounded by fear
that it's too late

feels too far again

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Ballad of a broken man
Words and music © Mick Hart

sitting lazy
in my lonely bedroom chair
wishing away
like it's the moment i begin
burn a candle
to find hope in this affair
trying to locate
to the part where i can win

you can see me
while i'm wandering at play
you can hear me
as i stumble on my way

but you won't know me after dark
yeah you don't know me after dark

wounded nights
follow up deserted days
mosquito company
bugging me like sin
conversations are now worlds
on worlds away
drifting outwards
like a deadwood broken limb

you can try to see
into my every thought
you can judge me
with my face in full retort

but you won't know me after dark
yeah you don't know me after dark
yeah you don't know who i be after dark
yeah you won't know me after dark

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On the run
Words and music © Mick Hart

out of it one evening
thought it time for leaving
but in she came and then she changed my mind
pretty like demeanour, smiling even sweeter
but something else was lurking there behind

just as i was sure that
this was surely something real
then she opened up
with all her craziness revealed
and now i'm on the run...

and as i made my escape
thinking all was now safe
i didn't know the nightmare had begun
stalking me in surprise
devil with the strange eyes
mixing up my days and all my fun

just as i was hoping
all this wierdness would subside
then i recieved her messages
of trouble in disguise
so now i'm on the run...

she followed me to all depths
constricting me to fake steps
haunting me so deep without relent
she tried to speak of true love
in poetry from above
bombarding me with words
that made no sense

and now just when i think
right to myself that all has passed
her presence reappears again
and freaks me to the last
so now i'm on the run...

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The taste of us
Words and music © Mick Hart

wait
you know it's not too late
you know it's not too late
you know it's not too late
for us

hold
i'm holding for you now
i'm holding for you now
holding for the taste of us
you heard it all
heard it all before
heard it all, heard it all
you heard it all
heard it all before
heard it all, heard it all

stay
all is sleeping still
all is sleeping still
all is sleeping sweet and calm

why
do you turn away ?
why do you turn away ?
why do you turn away from hope ?
you heard it all...

wait
you know it's not too late
you know it's not too late
you know it's not too late

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Seasons
Words and music © Mick Hart

seasons come and colours grow
and everything can shine
but seasons change and rearrange
the colours all the time
all i know is all i have
before me now and then
this is not, this is not
this is not the end

it comes and goes, it comes and goes

round and round and upside down
emotions moving fast
waiting for another wave
and wondering all it has
all in all it's good or bad
the truth concealed within
but this is not, this is not
this is not the end

it comes and goes, it comes and goes

seasons bring a difference
with innocence renewed
realness and imagination
walking it's way through
all i have is happening
before me now and then
this is not, this is not
this is not the end

all i know is all i have
ironic now and then
coz this is not, this is not
this is not the end

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So real
Words and music © Mick Hart

feel like i know you well
wish i could tap into your mind to tell
what lies inside these dreams
is all between us here within our reach

and so real
it's all here
all revealed
and so real
so real

i want to feel your skin
i want to touch your soul within
help you believe in love
help you believe the thing you want so much

is so real
it's all here
all revealed
and so real
so real

now i'm waiting
as i'm reaching
for the moment that our eyes next meet
and i hold you
in a cradle full of sweetness
full of everything

so real
it's all here
so revealed
and so real
so real

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Freedom song
Words and music © Mick Hart

here we go
found what we're looking for ?
i don't know
seems like been here before
separate from all revealed inside
can't relate
i need a new reprise

as i wait, as i wait for what ?
as i wait, as i wait too long

freedom, freedom, freedom
here it comes, here it comes
freedom song, freedom, freedom
here it comes, here it comes yeah

why do we have to stand in line
just to be, just to be alive ?
blanket rules never making sense
i don't see such a neat progress

too long, too long holding
too long, too long holding

freedom...

here we go, here we go, here we go
found what we're looking for
get it on, get it on, get it on
back to where you belong

freedom, freedom, freedom
here it comes, here it comes
low no more, low no more, low no more
back to where you belong

freedom...

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Stay another day (for Tiki)
Words and music © Mick Hart

yesterday seems long ago
and i been walking too slow
how i wish that i could run

but i'm still dreaming
can't make up my mind to go
think i'll stay another day
holding my way

laying on my own again
wondering where and when it ends
emotions stirring all too fast

but i'm still breathing
and i've a long long tale to tell
think i'll stay another day
holding my way
i'm going to stay
stay holding my way

now to make the moment last
seeing comfort in my past
reflection gives the sweetest sound

and as i'm smiling
life is dancing with me still
hope i stay another day
holding my way
i'm going to stay
stay holding my way
stay holding my way

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Til you forgive
Words and music © Mick Hart

you think you have
all that you need to prove it ?
you think you know
the way to go about it ?

but the wound never heals
the wound never heals
til you forgive

you say it hurts way beyond
what you deserve
you say it scars much deeper
than it ever was

but the wound never heals
the wound never heals
til you forgive

you can hold the pain
right to your chest
but nothing's gained
in nothingness

coz the wound never heals
the wound never heals
til you forgive

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