This Light Is Ours

Title: This Light Is Ours

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Martin Wroe

First Release: 2021

Available On: 
1960   (7:17)
Live at St David’s Hall Cardiff 7/2/23   (5:10)

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Some days it flickers
Some days it goes out
This little light
My faith and my doubt

It shows me a path
Does this light of mine
But still I get lost
And some days it don’t shine

But the light will shine on all of us
And not just for the few
Take me darlin’, take me where the grass grows green
Let me walk another mile with you

In blue sky and sunshine
The way becomes clear
We stop and give thanks
Understand that we’re here

Some days there’s no dawn
The night never leaves
We ache for the blue sky
But we travel in grief

And the light will shine on all of us
And not just for the few
Take me darlin’, take me where the grass grows green
And I’ll walk another mile with you

This light’s not mine
This light’s not yours
This light is brightest
When the light is ours

If you’re in the dark
But the light’s breaking through
That sense of just maybe

That’s us, holding you

And the light will shine on all of us
And not just on the few
Take me darlin’, take me where the grass grows green
Let me walk another mile with you

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

There Is A Field

Title: There Is A Field

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Martin Wroe

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (5:16)

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Somewhere beyond all this
Just out of reach
There’s a place we once met
Beyond sight and speech

When this is all history
A promise and a dream
We’ll sit, we’ll remember
We’ll laugh and we’ll breathe

There is a field
I’ll meet you there
There is a field
I’ll meet you there

Somewhere beyond all this
Just out of sight
All those we miss
Held in some new light

Lie down in the deep grass
Lie down every soul
In a field where love welcomes you
In a place where we’re made whole

There is a field
I’ll meet you there
There is a field
I’ll meet you there

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

Shadow Boxing

Title: Shadow Boxing

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (3:33)

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You stand there and shadow box me
Though it feels like I could blow you down
You’re still in there fighting like a good one now
Yeh you’re smiling and you’re ducking down
We played that game when I was a kid
Yeah we played it all our lives

The bottom line is love, my Father
The bottom line is love
The bottom line is love, sweet Father
The bottom line is love

That was you there in my corner
When I went down for the count
I could spit blood in the bucket
You’d patch me up and send me out
Some nights I’d dance there with you
Other days there’d be a thousand miles

The bottom line is love, my Father
The bottom line is love
The bottom line is love, sweet Father
The bottom line is love

I sit in dappled sunshine, approaching six o’clock
An incandescent moment, and a soul that’s taking stock
It’s time to call my Father, he’ll be sleeping in a chair
He’d kiss me if he knew me but his mind resides elsewhere
I have anger, I have sadness,
I have joy that won’t let go

The bottom line is love, my Father
The bottom line is love
The bottom line is love, sweet Father
The bottom line is love
You taught me that

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

In Your Arms

Title: In Your Arms

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (4:32)

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I’m tired of the question
The weary debate
Stood there a thousand days
Now I’m just gonna wait

In your arms

In the mouth of the whale
Dark and alone
But he’ll spit me out now soon, won’t be long
I’m coming home

To your arms

Lightning burning through my veins
Ragged, faithful, summer rain

And I’m not a dancer
In the canyon’s glow
But I feel it deeper
Than you’ll ever know

And I know you’re broken
I know you’re stuck
But I see you golden
I hold you up

In these arms

Lightning burning through my veins
Ragged, faithful, summer rain

So here is a new song
I hope for more
If not you will find me
Where I was before

In your arms

For we are all glass
Ready to break
Then shine like the stars
Forever awake

In your arms

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

Under Every Smile

Title: Under Every Smile

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Martin Wroe

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (4:04)

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Here comes the day, 
The good and the bad
The light in our darkness, 
The joy in our sad

How we carry hidden stories
How we’re all holding loss
How we’re all a bit broken
How we’re all a bit lost

And under every smile
Behind every tear
To summon up the courage
Facing down the fear

Here comes the night
The cover of sleep,
The unconscious, the in between
And our dreams underneath

So here’s a note from the margin
And a dare to believe
‘Bout looking out for each other
‘Bout give and receive

Cos we’re all a bit broken
And we’re all a bit lost
And we’re doing our best here
With all that we’ve got

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

Trying To Grow

Title: Trying To Grow

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (4:46)

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I am not effortless, I am not cool
Not a day goes by when I don’t feel like a fool
Somedays I’m my own man, somedays I’m yours
Somewhere in the middle, you can feel like a fraud
Lend me your ear, come bend down low
It’s just me down here, trying to grow

I’m weary but I’ll lift you and shine like the moon
Been waiting so long, it better come soon
I get stuck like a rabbit, rigid with fear
But there’s moments in those headlights when the path is so clear
Walking with purpose but not sure where to go
Eyes to the horizon, trying to grow

Am I close to the start or nearer an end
Will you run to say hi as I come round the bend
And all that’s been weathered and promises true
Comes down with a lifetime of searching for you
I’m filled with goodbyes, bags ready to go
And in the meantime I’m reading, trying to grow
Lend me your ear, come bend down low
It’s just me down here trying to grow

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

We Are Made Of Stars

Title: We Are Made Of Stars

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (4:29)

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We are made of dreams, we are made of water
In a universe of silence, hear the science of my heart,
You’ve got me orbiting in around you babe, I’m a pilgrim in the dark
I can see the light shining in your eyes

I can feel the sun grinning in the morning haze
We are made of stars

Someday we’ll be gone, dispersed across the ether
Like supermarket trolleys, stacked one against the other
We’re subtle and intangible, particles rising on a storm
We’re the northern lights dancing babe, staying up to greet the dawn

In a thousand billion years, the stars will grow cold
The lights will all go out, I guess that’s logical
So fragile is the path babe, that leads to who we are
You and I girl, inexplicable, love and nebula

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

Down To The Well

Title: Down To The Well

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (3:45)

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I’m going down to the well tonight
I’m going down to the well tonight
I’m going down to the well tonight
And I’m gonna drink till I get my fill

Take my brothers and sisters down to the well tonight
Take my brothers and sisters down to the well tonight
Take my brothers and sisters down to the well tonight
And we’re gonna drink till we get our fill

Sweet mercy and light down at the well tonight
Sweet mercy and light down at the well tonight
Sweet mercy and light down at the well tonight
We’re gonna drink there till we get our fill

I’m going down to the well tonight
I’m going down to the well tonight
I’m going down to the well tonight
And I’m gonna drink till I get my fill

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

House

Title: House

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Simon Mayo

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960   (2:40)

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The fullest house for the smallest reason
Episode ten and the end of the season
Every space taken and every word spoken
Walls that crack but nothing is broken 

The fullest house has seen it before 
Absorbed the sound and grooves on the floor
Each mark is a soul each dent has a tale
Every room has a life and its hooked on a nail

This fullest house has busted seams
Standing room only, soaked into its beams
The rooms are rammed and the space overflowing 
But a catch in your breath and it knows that you’re going

This fullest house will quieten soon
The silences stretching from every room 
Each absence a journey the stillness a plan
The calm left behind by a travelling clan.  

A positive silence a negative noise
The season for living the girls and boys
Arrivals that came departures that went
The motion is carried this house is content

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Lyric kindly supplied by Pipe Records Ltd

Wichita Lineman

Title: Wichita Lineman

Music and Lyrics: Jimmy Webb

First Release: 2021

Available On: 1960 

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I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road
Searchin’ in the sun for another overload

I hear you singing in the wire
I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation
But it don’t look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south
Won’t ever stand the strain

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line

And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman
Is still on the line