The Lost Albums (2010​-​2014)

by Andy Pratt

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It's not the end of the world It's not the end of the sky It's not the end of my life Just the end of you and I It's all right Losing is the only way It's all right Just a little bit less than yesterday Your love Is like a dried-up stream Your love Is not for me It's all right everything has to die By the time you're dead half your friends will be gone You need some practice in loneliness You'll have to die alone Your love Is like a dried-up stream Your love Is not for me It's not the end of the world
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Orphan child daughter of the angels We will be forever true Far away from every kind of danger You in me and me in you And all the times I've waited The times I've been alone Doesn't matter anymore Take it all away Take it all away Take it all away Anyway you want to is all right with me I was alone drifting out to sea Then she came to be my anchor She's the one, the one I've always needed And I'm the one, the one to love her And everything that went before Doesn't matter any more So come on and Take it all away Take it all away Take it all away Anyway you want to is all right with me
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How Are You? 03:48
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Close To You 04:08
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Sing 05:23
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Every piece of mud Every drop of blood Every pint of sorrow Every slicey cut Every dicey mutt Every strange tomorrow All the way home All the way home Forty thousand miles Seven hundred years That's how far we will go To leave the human race To look upon your face To keep our promise to you All the way home All the way home All the way home Steal away Steal away Steal away home Steal away Drive away There's no reason to stay I would leap a wall I would trash it all But I would never leave you Now I know for sure This love will endure Now I can believe you All the way home
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I'm all alone in a great big zoo I'm all alone in the city Ain't got nobody to see me through I'm all alone and it's all right cuz I"m with you You are the potter I'm the clay Don't have to listen to what the people say But I'm taking too many hours to find my way Too many days and years and all kind of mistakes Can't seem to do it no other way I'm all alone and it's all right cuz I'm with you She is the anchor I"m the sea Got everything I need inside of me So don't go talking bout my old ways Don't go putting me out in the schoolyard I'm just as good as you any day I'm all alone and it's all right get out of my way I know the patience I know the fire And yes he keeps lifting me higher and higher and higher I'm all alone I'm all alone in a great big zoo I'm all alone in a great big corporate jungle It's all right I'm all alone in a mad mad mad mad world I've been listening for voices I never hear You can leave me alone I don't mind it's all right
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Why did you give your love then take it back Why did you take me in the send me away I was so foolish then wanting to taste it all I was an innocent boy I did not know The price you must pay for the girl The cruelty in the ways of the world Now I am farther along and you are just part of my past Now I can see it all now I am free The price you must pay... Will you stay alone the rest of your life Will you tell them how it really was Between you and me Everything changes and everything everything dies The price you must pay for the girl The tricks in the ways of the world
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Sailing on a stormy sea a mile from paradise Why should I think twice it won't change a thing Talking to somebody who never shows his face Oh the human race I'll be done with it One more song to go we're almost done One more little show on the run I was just a dying leaf trembling in the breeze You brought me to my knees long ago Now I see the setting sun it makes me want to cry You know the reason why I belong to you One more song to go we're almost done One more crazy show on the run They told me not to do it They said it would never work But what else can I do?
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Well there are two kinds of innocence Two kinds of mind Two kinds of people You find Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind Well she started out like an angel But she turned into a witch Love was so easy And then it was gone Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind Oh alright, alright Moving on, moving on Can't stop now Oh baby Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind Are you gonna be cruel Are you gonna be kind
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In the first three seconds of coming home I lose my phone Is that any way to run a career? Is there any way out of here? Then it dawns on me Maybe I left it in the car Is that any way to run a career Is that any way to run a career Is there any way out of here This time it was in the car there you are Oh thank you It was in the car I see it Oh thank you There are many ways a life can go Is that anything you want to think about Is that anything you want to think about Is there anything I can get for you You are there I know you care You are there my life to share Everywhere with you In the first three seconds of coming home I lose my phone Is that any way to run a career
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Rapture 04:54
It's a long long way to Valhalla It's an empty life till we meet We hatch an egg then we watch it We eat and drink like we'll never get another meal We talk of nothing We fly we fall we kiss What do we know of Rapture like this 9 times they deceived me 9 for 9 now they're gone And I'm on my own on a page from Kafka Eating and drinking like I'lll never have another good time I'm a stone soul leper in a crazy country I fly alone missing you all the way What do I know of Rapture today I'll fly away To a better world I'll fly away with you I'll fly away to my real home Someday soon
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Make me an army Don't make it out of men Make it out of every lie That burned our hearts again We fell for the dream When we were young It seemed so glorious But they turned it into mockery And the killing is victorious So make me an army To keep them all at bay I can't believe them any more They've taken my life And that's the way it should be That's all right with me I'll take my chances going out Singing for the memories The blood that's lying on the ground The pain in a million hearts The old walls are lying down It tears our souls apart So make me an army Don't make it the same old way It's been too long It's gone to wrong Make it like the Judgement Day
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The things I tell myself Will get me in trouble again What put me on the shelf Was not any person Blame it on the Moon Try to remember it well Blame it on the stars How can I blame it on anyone else? Days of mirrored glass Nights of raging fire This will also pass At the end of my desire Blame it on the Moon Try to remember it well Blame it on the stars How can I blame it on anyone else? Talking to an empty hole Taking it all to the sea Some people must live with nothing at all Some people want another me It will be all right Just wait a little longer Every time we fight We make the evil stronger Blame it on the Moon Try to remember it well Blame it on the stars How can I blame it on anyone else?
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Everyday you hear it someone's going under Everyday there's something more What are we doing where are we going Doesn't anybody care I don't want to go under I'm sliding down the slippery slope I don't want to lose everything I don't want to be thrown out in the cold I can't make the payment I can't make the sky drop brainy acts I can't tell the people why i do it like I do it I've got to watch out for maniacs Look we're going under look we're sliding down the slippery slope Look we're losing everything look we're being thrown out in the cold Hey oh hey oh hey oh it's alright Hey Oh you know what you do it's not right I don't want to go under I'm sliding down the slippery slope Don't let us lose everything I don't want to be thrown out in the cold Set the wheels in motion take care of the ones you made We're like ships out on the ocean falling into the deep Getting afraid
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Johnny is a soldier Johnny wears a uniform The Grim Reaper is standing at the door Suzy is a mother She's worried about everything The Grim Reaper doesn't even sing Jesus is my best friend Standing right in front of me Saying 'keep on letting it all roll off your back 'Till there's nothing left of you. And I'll be true." Harry is a unicorn Eats a lot of grass Everybody keeps running out of gas 30 percent is way too much I don't know what to say You need a key to get in But there's nothing there when you stay Oh Johnny's still a soldier Johnny wears a uniform The Grim Reaper still standing at the door Forevermore forevermore Mary is a mother She's worried about everything That old Grim Reaper doesn't even sing
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Sail Away 04:40
From the lies and the problems From the bitter words and pain From the endless cost of living From the murder and the rain Sail away Sail away I would rather be a crab Scuttling on the ocean floor I try to be with you But I always fall down at your door I'll sail away I'll sail away From my window I see snow falling Never seems to go away There's a future I don't know calling I can only see today until tomorrow From the cruel voices Take me away with you I have made so many choices There's so much I cannot do I'll sail away I'll sail away From everything From the lies, money money money Sail away
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Survivor 02:14
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I don't wanna live anymore I don't want live anymore You're too far away It's been too long I don't wanna live anymore I don't wanna live anymore I don't wanna live anymore I'm all alone Nobody needs me Why should I live anymore? Take me away Far away from here I'm so lonely I don't wanna live anymore I don't wanna live anymore I don't wanna live anymore She said she was gonna stay That wasn't true I don't wanna live any more It's a horrible world Underneath the beauty The things people do aw Take me away Far away from here I'm so lonely I don't wanna live anymore But I will
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Everybody's got to change with the seasons Everybody's got to lose control Everybody's got run when the sky is falling Everybody's just a little bitty soul I was young and now i'm older The way it had to go I never could have said It's the way of it the way the cookie crumbles Come to think we're probably better off dead Watching the news you think that it's all gone crazy Turn the channel look at the pretty pictures Everybody's just a little bitty soul Everything's gonna be all right Don't you worry Baby keep on keepin' on From Boston to China Men and women got to live and die It's cruel evil and heartless Ain't nobody gonna tell you why
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Talk is cheap nobody cares what you think Stand and weep you're just gonna have to take it Ain't no other way out no Ain't no other way out Right through the middle I'm a fool to do what I do Breaking the rules made by no one Ain't no other way out And then there's nothing Me and my clock We talk and dream of heaven Stand and fight you don't know the half of it Do what's right I'm in the photograph of it Ain't no other way out no Ain't no other way out Right through the middle
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Grew up in the fifties in a time of plenty Heard Gene Pitney on the radio And I was found what a sound Pretty girls all around beer on Saturday Got married for the first time in 1969 broke up in 71 It was a crazy time got a crazy song was signed by Clive Knew I was alive driving through Boston with the Columbia promo men My song came on the radio, it sounded great That was a long time ago I will throw my life at your feet I will make you everything to me We will go on forever what's the use what's the use of chasing shadows As I watched the clock beside my bed as a child I didn't know, I didn't know what was to come things Haven't changed much except For one thing I found the one thing I will throw my life at your feet I will make you everything to me We will go on forever what's the use what's the use of chasing shadows
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Not My World 03:52
Misery secrecy hypocrisy It doesn't matter what you do as long as they don't see Doesn't matter what you say as long as they don't hear How long must we live this way I've got nothing to say It's not my world When the sun shines you can see what's going on But when it's dark you can get away with almost anything Take my hand and walk with me I will set you free To go anywhere Be with anyone
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There's an old grey tower in the corner of the city What does it mean? I've been alone for too long It doesn't matter, get on with your life I was born a long time ago The grass was green the butterflies flew The way I see it the way I feel it the way it looks to me I try to understand, there's so much confusion That I can't help but get it wrong sometimes Take all our money like it was nothing Put us in jail if we object Water the plants please There's food on the table Sleep in golden sheets as long as you can I'm on the train, I still believe it But that don't make me stupid Waiting for magic waiting for the end to come Waiting for magic I'll be there no mater what
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With You 03:21
Attention wanders Get memories from long ago Feeling different from the people all around me It's all right I'm with you There's a hole in my tooth Dead Bob Marley's on the radio Singing 'no woman no cry' Scrooge Mc Duck What the f It's all right I'm with you Walking in Iceland Listen to the birds sing Fingers and toes Anything goes It'll be over someday It's all right I'm with you You'll be true to me
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Just another thing, means nothing at all, Just another thing on the way to heaven Just another thing, means nothing at all, Just another thing on the way to heaven If you got no money, and no one seems to care And you're surrounded, can't see me anywhere, I'm there I was around on the day you were born I am the one who gave you life I will surround you till nothing else is there I am the one you must follow When you wake up in the morning Let the light fill your eyes Nothing's gonna get you down I'll keep you alive Just another thing, means nothing at all, Just another thing on the way to heaven Everything's Solving the mysteries of life isn't easy But I'm gonna help you And you're gonna make it home I was a lonely man living in a crazy place I didn't know what to do with myself I was walking around like a lonely man Like a mealy burger until I found grace
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Just another day in Paradise Just another way to make it all nice You are everything and you are in me Take the sting out of the inevitable Take the promises into morning The sun is my desire The sky is my home I'm free in rain and fire Snd I'm warm in this peaceful breeze I believe Half the day I pound my brain on the concrete What to change and how to make it all a little more sweet Forcing poetry to get there on time But you might see a smile on my face A starlight shine in my dreamer's eye The sun is my desire The sky is my home I'm free in rain and fire Snd I'm warm in this peaceful breeze I believe You got no courtesy You answer before I speak You don't wanna listen to me And that's all right that's all right The sun is my desire The sky is my home I'm free in rain and fire Snd I'm warm in this peaceful breeze I believe
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Time To Go 04:16
What do they know about it It's just another scene What do I care about it They're mixing up a fine salad And pouring the beer And I'm here The one thing I've gotta know The one thing I've gotta know The one thing I've gotta know Is when it's time to go I started out a long time ago And the clock just keeps on ticking There's nothing I can do about that And nobody tells me when I'm walking into a trap Oh dear oh dear The one thing I've gotta know How am I ever gonna know that If nobody tells me How am I ever gonna know? All Homer had was a green pen to make a new world He worked on his words hour after hour And Jesus took a whip and drove the businessmen out of the temple No one could stand up to that power And he knew very well When it was time to go Time to go
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So Good 04:47
It's so good for me to have you Doesn't matter how it goes The river of love is always flowing And we just have to let it You and I will climb this mountain To Paradise And live forever Live forever I was lost I could not find you I was blind I could not see I was crawling right behind you Then you turned and rescued me And I will stay with you forever I will never leave 'Cause it makes me complete Just to have you Just to know that you are mine Only love can make a miracle And we have that right here You and I can see tomorrow And the road that stretches on and on and on We will never die And the reason why Is for everyone it's for everyone
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It's so good for me to have you Doesn't matter how it goes The river of love is always flowing And we just have to let it You and I will climb this mountain To Paradise And live forever Live forever I was lost I could not find you I was blind I could not see I was crawling right behind you Then you turned and rescued me And I will stay with you forever I will never leave 'Cause it makes me complete Just to have you Just to know that you are mine Only love can make a miracle And we have that right here You and I can see tomorrow And the road that stretches on and on and on We will never die And the reason why Is for everyone it's for everyone
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This Is Love 04:30
All the times that I have waited for you, you never said a word All the times that I have prayed for you, you didn't want to know This is love in all it's bright splendor This is love in all it's sweet pain Let it rain all over me You were lying when I first saw you Worn out in the car I approached you in my stupid way You let me find you there Grew into love Let it rain, let it rain, let them do what they will Let the same things happen over and over I will never be a bricklayer With his bucket and his grime I will never work a liquor store Though I've been there many times I'm a slightly weird musician And I walk a fragile line but I know love I will be free
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Bereft 03:24
I loved you pretty well We had joy But then I lost you oh well Happens to every girl and boy In a wheel we stand And then we turn around And we are bereft and grieving Waiting for them all to leave When will you all be leaving Bereft and grieving Over-achieving Dance to be deceiving I loved you very well I was believing That it would never end And then the leaving Turning my face to tomorrow I'll get by without you And we are bereft and grieving Waiting for them all to leave When will you all be leaving Bereft and grieving Over-achieving Dance to be deceiving I'm leaving this place It's enough more than enough my friends I'm leaving And we are bereft and grieving Waiting for them all to leave When will you all be leaving Bereft and grieving Over-achieving Dance to be deceiving
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I can't stay mad at you baby 'Cause I got better things to do I shouldn't eat out my heart But you know I do sometimes The feast is on the table Why does it take so long to find out It's a horrible world But you can't let that get to you I'm in love with you And you're a shining light in my darkest night So throw me a bone and I'll be happy All through the day All through the night I remember all my time with you Everything we did everything we said Shining like a fire in my head I can't stay mad at your baby 'Cause I got better things to do I can't stay mad at you 'Cause I love you That's what we need Everybody needs love We need love That's what we need I walk a thousand miles to shake off the Devil Trying to make me hate everybody Trying to make me give up oh no 'Cause you're a shining light in my darkness And I need you by my side When you can Love is something we all need Something you can't shoot your way to Something you can't bomb your way to Drone your way to oh no It's a human thing Not a machine I can't stay mad at your baby 'Cause I got better things to do I can't stay mad at you 'Cause I love you
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Got run over by two beautiful young girls in a Chevrolet They were laughing and looking straight at me But they didn't stop and they hit me And I flew up in the air And I was Flying so high flying so high Flying so high Went by Boston went by Rye Flew over New York Went by Miami Havana Mozambique Tirana Hamburg Amsterdam London town I was I was Flying so high flying so high Thought I'd have to come down But I did and I would up in the same place with the same body But I saw his face and he took me to the charm school What's the rule? You gotta let them kick you around sometimes And I was I was Flying so high flying so high Though I'd never have to come down Flying so high flying so high
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Sleep Father of movement How many times will I lay in your arms Mother of dreams How many secrets and sweet unions before the morning Awake during my rest How many times will you sit by my side And sweet loving feelings Drift in between us as we close our eyes In the Kentucky Mountains There is nothing so deep As the peace in the mountains When the rocks are asleep Woo woo sweetie pie Red Eagle he sits on my shoulder Flies with my spirit through the moods all my moods By which I slay him But I always remember to chant his name In the Kentucky Mountains There is nothing so deep As the peace in the mountains when the rock star's asleep
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Keep your head down Don't make a sound We'll walk away someday In this place we're on our own But this love is real Stand by me while the color fades Stand by me 'cross the naked blade Stand by me I wanna know you very well Time will tell Keep your head down Don't make a sound Don't let them know how you feel All you've been through can't be for nothing Not if there's any justice in this world Take my hand and don't give up We'll make it to the promised land It's all right Doesn't matter what happens to us Keep your head down Don't make a sound This world's on a course for destruction We've been saved, don't have to worry This is just the introduction Stand by me Keep your head down
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Tomorrow 2 03:35
Cold in my fingers Cold in my toes No one around To pick up my clothes I'm older than yesterday But what about tomorrow Tomorrow tomorrow May not come Somebody told me A long time ago I was on a course for destruction I'm glad that I listened 'Cause what about tomorrow Tomorrow tomorrow May not come You can have it Life on earth You can have it What is it worth I'm older than yesterday But what about tomorrow Tomorrow tomorrow May not come I'm getting a phone call But it's nothing just a sales call I'm older than yesterday But what about tomorrow Tomorrow tomorrow May not come
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It's morning it's morning And I"m alive I'm alive The birds are singing like they always did Another day has arrived It's morning it's morning And I"m ok The people have to go to work They almost hit me In their cars They go so fast It's morning it's morning And I'm ok She's getting up to yes I know I saw her Tuesday It's always good The Lord is giving me Object Constancy With her Not to be a drag Not to be a drag It's morning it's morning And I'm alive I love you so I love you so
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Hell 03:57
If we're on our way through hell Well that's all right You can never tell What's just around the corner And if we're going into the night That's all right This is not our fight And you know you know you know The flesh is weak and easily fooled Don't get fooled We're on our way we're on our way And we won't stop No matter what goes down Or what the people say And this love is stronger than the grave More beautiful than diamonds On the ocean waves This love, older than the moon Sweeter than a symphony Or a flash of lightening in a night in June
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Songbird 03:53
For you there'll be no more crying For you the sun will be shining 'Cuz I feel when I am with you It's all right I know it's right To you I would give the world To you I'll never be cold 'Cuz I feel when I am with you It's all right I know it's right And the songbird keeps on singing like he knows the score And I love you I love you I love you Like never before And I wish you all the love in the world But darling most of all I wish it from myself And the songbird keeps on singing like she knows the score And I love you I love you I love you Like never before Like never before
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Everything is gone still I'm holding on all day and all night Through the darkness I will be there for you as long as I can Yes I will be there I will be there 'till the sky goes black And I lose my way forever into the night Take it all away you can't take my dream call me anything you Can't take my love away go and die on me just another thing you Can't stop the wind you can't stop the sky 'Till it's time you're just another dying person it's not the way I feel Or the way I want it just the way it is can't do nothing about it, ah Into the night into the fight into tomorrow Everything is gone still I'm holding on I'm alive I'm alive
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It helps me to go out walking in the air Then I can remember he's always there Everything just piles up and I get disturbed I don't need some friendly advice Just a little time to straighten out my mind And I'll be all right again That's what I need I'll be right back It helps me to know when I"m under attack Everything just piles up It's a normal reaction Don't make it more than it is Let it be hold on you'll be all right again I want to be your friend until the end But it's not easy whoa I want to be your friend until the end 'Cuz it's wonderful It's not a sleigh ride it's a war We will win it we will for sure But in every battle you taste the bitter defeat Don't make it more than it is Hold on we'll be all right again I want to be your friend until the end But it's not easy whoa I want to be your friend until the end 'Cuz it's wonderful
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Dog days long days no end in sight No say no way to stop all the fighting Time is a steady force swallowing us all How did we get so far away From the way we used to be Take this little piece and make it a mountain No one else can save the world We are the fools breaking all the rules How could it ever go some other way Children of the sea Walking on quicksand Fading to nothing Beautiful dreamers will never die
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We ran through the hills and forests As two under a spell He was a city boy, Floyd the outlaw But I thought I knew him well Long after that great summer When I first came into my fame And the avenger from Oklahoma Was added to my name The avenger I became Well, they call me Avenging Annie I'm avenger of womanhood I spend my whole life telling lies Lead you on and mess you over good I take all you spoiled young hippies Running around, playing games Mess around in your bed I blow your head I put you through a change What you've done to others I do unto you And then I met my Sensitive outlaw He was the best thing I had ever seen I wanna be his wife And give him my life I was so blind I could never have seen, no So I joined up with my outlaw And headed for California He treat me worse than I ever imagine He even say he don't want me around Kept it up so long I couldn't be strong He run me right into the ground After five long years He picked me up and Then he slapped me down Well I told my friends about him They all were on my side When I could see through the haze He looked so crazy I put my head right down and I cried For my poor lover I cried like a mother For my poor lover Well, I felt so sad about it But I knew I couldn't do him no good He was so far gone Well standing on the lawn I left him, I knew I should
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Andy Pratt's Lost Albums presents four complete albums originally released between 2010-2014 by the Boston singer-songwriter best known for his 1970s hit Avenging Annie - one of the most ambitious singles of the decade which introduced the world to Andy Pratt's sweet and ambitious brand of pop music. By 1976, he had Rolling Stone magazine boldly claim “Pratt has forever changed the face of rock.” Many artists from that golden era went on to create uninspired or uninspired work at best, but Pratt is as enjoyable, interesting, and confident as he was back in the 70s, thanks to sympathetic production by Fernando Perdomo.

"Whether the songs are pure pop, soulful or a bit jazzy, you’ll feel a whole lot better after listening to this box set." - David Bash, IPO Festival

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released June 4, 2021

Compiled, remastered and co-ordinated Roger Houdaille.
Produced by Fernando Perdomo and Andy Pratt.
Originally released as "Love You", "Life After Death", "Chasing Shadows" and "The New Normal?" on Forward Motion Records.

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