Next Time I See You

Title: Next Time I See You

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (4:12)
Undrugged  (3:56)

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(For Duncan Richardson 1976-1990)

Never met anyone so free
All the things that you gave to me
Never found a heart so true
The love that burned inside of you

Though they’ll never understand
I wish they could be as free

Chorus
The next time I see you I will hold you
The next time I see you we will dance
Because of you I will follow
And if I am given half a chance, I will love

Come and touch me and soothe my pain
Push me gently through the rain
For this is just a glimpse of things
The hope and promise that the morning brings

Though I’ll never understand
I wish that I could be as free

Repeat Chorus

And every day, we’re holding onto things that will not last
So every day, I’ll think of you and the next time that I see you

And oh what joy there must be now
When my tears stop I’ll wonder, I’ll wonder how

Repeat Chorus

Precious

Title: Precious

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (3:48)
Undrugged  (4:49)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (3:44)

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They’ll try to take you and steal your heart
They’ll try to make you something you aren’t
You can be swept like sand on a beach, not out of reach
Don’t let them drag you down, hold on

Know that you’re precious
Know that you’re precious
Know that you’re precious
So precious

And in another land there’s a voiceless cry
Cos all humanity sailed on by
They’ve been betrayed a thousand times
Still the children stand with no helping hand
Just a knowledge in their hearts that it shouldn’t be

Know that they’re precious
Know that they’re precious
Know that they’re precious
So precious

And in our mother land is the fountain dry?
Empty smiles that speak and long for days gone by
I feel the night is closing in, if you feel it too
Let me wrap my arms safe close around you

Know that you’re precious
Know that you’re precious
Know that you’re precious
So precious

Please Sir

Title: Please Sir

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / P. Brooks

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (4:37)
Undrugged  (5:44)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (4:36)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 1)  (4:36)
Faith, Folk and Anarchy  (4:23)
Faith, Folk and Anarchy Live  (4:55)
The Bridgerow Sessions  (6:37)
Martyn Joseph Live (DVD)
Official Bootleg Series – Vol 1 – Live Cuts 92-08  (3:50)
Evolved  (3:49)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2)  (4:09)
Across Germany 2019   (4:36)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2) (DVD)

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She was always a very pretty lady
He had always caught her eye
They were married in a mining valley
And swore they’d be together until the day that they died

Twenty years later with the coal all gone
And golden lamp in his hand
He stands at the bar with a pint in his hand and his friends
They all agree together that they don’t understand

Meanwhile little David takes his books off to school
And learns of the times gone past
And when it comes to questions he puts up his hand
There’s something that he just wants to ask

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know it doesn’t seem fair
‘Cos last night as I walked through the door
I thought I saw my father crying sat in his chair

She stood there with her arms around him and she said
She promised him a better day
But after twenty years of working underground
It’s not just your job that they take away

Sometimes he’d walk to the edge of his world
And stare at the valley below
He thought about leaving maybe running away
But knew there was nowhere to go

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know I just can’t see
Please sir when you make these decisions
Do you have a vision of what happens to me

Life goes on in a mining valley
But the young men leave for a better wage
And every day he coughs and he splutters
He knows love is the reason he stays
He knows love is the reason he stays

Meanwhile little David takes his books off to school
And learns of the times gone past
And when it comes to questions he puts up his and
There’s something that he just wants to ask

Please sir can you give me an answer
Please sir you know it doesn’t seem fair
‘Cos last night as I walked through the door
I thought I saw my daddy crying sat in his chair

Please sir can you give me and answer
Please sir you know I just can’t see
Please sir when you make these decisions
Do you have a vision of what happens to me
Do you know what happens to the likes of me?
Please take a look, take a look now
Take a look and see

Dolphins Make Me Cry

Title: Dolphins Make Me Cry

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1988

Available On: 
Treasure The Questions  (4:09)
An Aching And A Longing  (6:32)
Being There  (4:45)
Undrugged  (5:14)
Best of the Backsides  (6:04)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (4:15)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 1)  (4:54)
Martyn Joseph Live (DVD)
Official Bootleg Series – Vol 1 – Live Cuts 92-08  (4:57)
Across Germany 2019   (5:21)
Live at St David’s Hall Cardiff 7/2/23   (4:48)

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Don’t know what the world is gonna do
Or if we can get off this road that we’re on
There’s hate in my brother’s eye and as the time goes by
I get harder

They say we learn by our mistakes then we carry on
Sometimes I’m not sure sometimes I’m not sure
There’s no brakes on this car as it rolls down the hill
My muscles are straining, my foot’s through the floor

Perhaps that’s why, perhaps that’s why
I see the dolphin and it makes me cry
As I look in your eye as I look in your eye
As the time goes by, it makes me cry

Don’t want to go to school anymore today
Coz history keeps on and on repeating herself
She can’t forgive she just licks all of her wounds
And sore is the day and sore is the night

Perhaps that’s why, perhaps that’s why
I see the dolphin and it makes me cry
As I look in your eye as I look in your eye
As the time goes by, it makes me cry

When I was a boy when I was growing up
I remember life was so simple then, life was so sweet
And now that I’m older I am wise as a fool
I keep breaking those golden, golden rules

Perhaps that’s why, perhaps that’s why
I see the dolphin and it makes me cry
As I look in your eye as I look in your eye
As the time goes by, it makes me cry

Did you ever touch the loneliness of a broken man
Did you ever see a starving child die
Do we really do these things to one another
Do you see why….. dolphins make me cry

Reminded Of Heaven

Title: Reminded Of Heaven

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1989

Available On: 
An Aching And A Longing  (4:33)
Being There  (3:23)

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Before I saw you I heard your heart beat
In the river of my soul
Planted there by another
I watched you grow
Winds blew my thoughts down
Lonely empty streets
I observe that their strength has gone
Since you came along
Pursuing things that I dream of
Empty loaded guns
Raping life of love and love of heaven

For a moment, in the twinkle of an eye
Well I found what I’d looked for
Though it’s gone I look back and I cry
I’m reminded of heaven, I’m reminded of heaven

Sometimes it gets so lonely
Love is a distant theme
Hope becomes a stranger
And I am left to scheme
I bend my head low
To kiss your face
And somehow the pain subsides
And peace remains
Thought the night isn’t over
There’s one thing I know
You bring back the love of, love of heaven

For a moment in the twinkle of an eye
Well I found what I’d looked for
Though it’s gone I’d look back and I cry
I’m reminded of heaven, I’m reminded of heaven

Have I Gone Too Far?

Title: Have I Gone Too Far?

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (2:30)
Undrugged  (3:09)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 1)  (2:46)
Official Bootleg Series – Vol 1 – Live Cuts 92-08  (2:47)

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When all I see is black, and I can’t look back
When I talk of above, but I don’t have love
Is this dream a curse, or something worse
If I need a loan just to get back home

Have I gone too far, have I gone too far
Have I gone too far, have I gone too far

When my eyes are deep with lack of sleep
And I am in a cage with all of my rage
When I run a mile to touch the lame
But when I do I don’t know my name

It’s a subtle breeze that blows you out to sea
And it’s not so easy to come home
But I hear a voice so constantly
Singing songs of love unknown

When all I see is black, and I can’t look back
When you I can’t see, but I can hear me
If it’s really true, this loving you
That won’t let me see what’s been coming to me

Have I gone too far, have I gone too far
Have I gone too far, have I gone too far
Did I miss the train, will it come again
Have I gone too far, have I gone too far

Swansea

Title: Swansea

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Stewart and Carol Henderson

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (4:34)
Undrugged  (5:03)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 2)  (4:45)
The Great American Novel (EP)  (4:05)
The Bridgerow Sessions  (6:43)

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Well I’m thinking of wet streets
And pubs that glow gold
But a gun and a night sight
Is all that I hold
Don’t you take any bets
On me getting old

And I’m dreaming of Swansea tonight
Yes and I’m dreaming of Swansea tonight

In Whitehall there’s an MOD
Man altering facts
Whilst we crouch and study
The events of anthrax
Don’t forget the Sierra
Is due its road tax

And I’m dreaming of Swansea tonight
Yes and I’m dreaming of Swansea tonight

Yes and I’m dreaming of Swansea
Does the cistern still leak
And we’ve slept in these same
Bloody suits for a week
We’re fluent and tutored
In military speak
But it seems like the sky’s
Been on fire a week
And I want to cry out
In Swansea tonight

And the tabloid boys’ own war
Of three Shredded Wheat
Doesn’t write of our scared lads
When describing our feats
And I’d love to be with you
Just ironing the sheets

And hold you in Swansea tonight
Dreaming of Glasgow tonight
Dreaming of Streatham tonight
Dreaming of Bolton tonight
I’ll be dreaming of Swansea tonight

I See You

Title: I See You

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1992

Available On: Being There  (6:18)

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I see the day that it started and when it will end
I see the laughter and pain in between
The sigh of the aged and the smile of a child
That which is hidden and seen
The cruelty and terror that’s coming from hands
That serve no one’s mouths but their own
And a thirsting for power that cannot be quenched
Once the dark seed has been sown

I see you, nothing escapes my attention
I see you, nothing escapes my attention

I see the blackness of rivers that were once crystal clear
I see the axe at the foot of the tree
Gifts wrapped in love have been thrown to the dogs
The rage in the storm of the sea

I see you, nothing escapes my attention
I see you
I see you, you that cry out deep in the night
I see you, nothing escapes my attention

I see the playgrounds with drugs
Children’s clothes in the mud
Starvation
Segregation
What about salvation

I see you, nothing escapes my attention
I see you, nothing escapes my attention

I Will Be Waiting

Title: I Will Be Waiting

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (3:44)
Undrugged  (3:57)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (3:46)

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I would not give up on anyone except maybe me
I still hold on to a dream for you
I would like to see you turn around and find a deeper love
It must be rough now with all the bitterness washing over you
If pride is a crime then we’re all doing time
But a glimpse of home can sometimes bring us through

I will be waiting, waiting for you
I will be waiting all my days

Can’t believe you can be happy with the way things stand
I hate to see you now in that cold, cold land
Through the shadows that hide my feelings I will always remain
Hoping dreaming and just believing that you’re on your way

I will be waiting, waiting for you
I will be waiting all my days

And I still see the smile that was in your eyes
And I never will say goodbye

I will be waiting, waiting for you
I will be waiting all my days

Working Mother

Title: Working Mother

Music and Lyrics: Martyn Joseph / Stewart and Carol Henderson

First Release: 1992

Available On: 
Being There  (4:00)
Undrugged  (4:18)
Thunder and Rainbows – The Best We Could Find 1988-2000  (4:02)
Don’t Talk About Love – Live ’92 – ’02 (Volume 1)  (4:02)
Because We Can…  (3:50)
Martyn Joseph Live (DVD)
Evolved  (4:05)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2)  (4:09)
Live at the Brook – 07.11.10 (Official Bootleg, Vol. 2) (DVD)
Across Germany 2019   (5:03)

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I catch the early shoppers’ train
Leaves Leeds at half past eight
With women who are Harrods bound
from headscarfed Harrogate
I change my clothes at Kings Cross
From bland to vivid bait
I’m a working mother earning jam for tea

In a hotel called the Harlequin
With carpets that are bald
I offer several services
At least that’s what they’re called
But there’s no real variation on a fifteen minute maul
I’m a working mother hoping to get home

Working mother under cover
Another violent kiss
Working mother pop-up lover
Am I worth more than this?
Tell me now

My husband drove his HGV
Down through France and Spain
He’d always add three extra days
So he could go and see Elaine
They’re now in Alicante
Where it doesn’t even rain
I’m a working mother going home for tea

Working mother under cover
Another violent kiss
Working mother pop-up lover
Am I worth more than this?
Tell me know

Alice is a princess
She loves puppies, dolls and pink
Wayne’s three years older
And he wants his own ice skating rink
One day they’ll know
By which time I could be dead from the drink
They’re my babies and they need an earning mother

Working mother under cover
Another violent kiss
Working mother pop-up lover
Am I worth more than this?
Tell me now