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Mr. Rain's Song
03:39
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Mr. Rain's Song
Hidden well from Mr. Winter
hiding under Mr. Grey
I can feel a current running
growing strength with every day
Mr. Spring is feeling restless
playing chess with Mr. Ice
Mr. Storm will send me high with
Mr. Thunder's wild device
Running faster, running closer
drawing nearer and nearer
Waters falling, rivers flowing
growing clearer and clearer
People squeezing into bus stops
seeking shelter, how in vain!
Even those with their umbrellas
can't escape from Mr. Rain!
Running faster, running closer
drawing nearer and nearer
Waters falling, rivers flowing
growing clearer and clearer
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2. |
Sweet Boy
05:01
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He's standing on a doorstep
and he's innocent and beautiful
My heart is full of envy
and my thoughts are inexcusable
For him the doors are open,
beyond lies a hidden universe
I've closed so many doors, but
he is still unspoiled by time's great curse
How can a man so young seem
like he's seen things I will never know,
when he has no tales to tell,
no wounds to heal, no scars to show?
His eyes are wise and sad, they
do not hide their curiosity.
I kneel before him, and I beg
he'd teach me his philosophy.
Hey, sweet boy,
can I walk with you for a mile?
Hey, sweet boy,
let me see through your eyes for a while?
There's an unspoiled perfection in his presence
Strange enlightenment in his essence
Be gentle, world, when you take him
Be gentle, life, when you break him
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3. |
A Cinderfella Fantasy
03:48
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My fairy tale is at the gate and I’m on track - packed,
Better not delay, I’ve been late before
The path is clear, the past unfurls
The moon reveals my ‘happy ever laughter’
Not a shadow of a doubt about how high I’ll climb – I fly!
Rainbows stole the clouds from my eyes
It’s plain to see, It’s more than words
The change in me will have no mornings-after
Forget about security
Leave behind those wait-and-see’s
Don’t you know that nameless to famous
Was meant for me
Forget about reality
How I hate ‘patiently’
Maybe I’m clueless but if the shoe fits
Then ‘One day, yes ’Some day’ is here
Never had a backup plan, can’t understand
Why I’d learn to land when I can soar
What’s on TV? Celebrities
I’m free to dream my Cinder-fella Fantasy
Forget about security
Leave behind those wait-and-see’s
Don’t you know that nameless to famous
Was meant for me
Forget about reality
How I hate ‘patiently’
Maybe I’m clueless but if the shoe fits
Then ‘One day, yes ’ Some day’ is here
Once upon a life I watched the sky
‘Someday’ was wonderful
Now I wonder why
One day - Once upon a lie.....
Forget about security
Leave behind those wait-and-see’s
Don’t you know that shameless, insane, yes
Was what I’d be
Forget about reality
How I hate ‘patiently’
Maybe I’m clueless but if the shoe fits
Then ‘One day, yes ’ Some day’ is here
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4. |
Alter Ego
03:23
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Step by step
breath by breath
I get closer to a mirror
to realize
and recognize
is so hard after an error
my image twisted
I tried to resist it to the end
but it’s true now
I’m your alter ego
here and now
don’t know how
I’ll be released from your witch trick
but/then one day
come he may
who treats me well and stops the magic
my image twisted
I tried to resist it to the end
but it’s true now
I’m your alter ego
your love persisted
I couldn’t escape it or defend
and it’s true now
I’m your alter ego
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5. |
Play Pretend
04:13
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It's like being someone else,
living as another
we all do it daily and
we accuse each other
for pretending
and for sending
misconceptions
We grow so attached to these
roles that we have taken
Yet if we should see our masks
it would leave us shaken
In our make-up
we can't shake up
misconceptions
With our well picked garderobe,
costumes we call fashion,
we can judge each other's shows
but we can not ration
our conceptions,
preconceptions,
misconceptions
Would you play pretend with me?
Would you play make believe?
Don't say these are children's games
we all play them anyway
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6. |
Unsung Lullabies
05:17
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Night - shining right outside
So wide and so alive
Silencing these songs that are mine
Unsung lullabies
Night - loud and wild and bright
Please, ease me from your light
Let me sing these songs that are mine
Unsung lullabies
Full of fumes and rain and neon
There are hidden streets to be on
Those endless rows of light
That remap the world in the night
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7. |
House of Choices
04:04
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There was a dream last night
among friends and strangers
all alike in the darkness
in the carny of dangers
I walked through a house
with rooms unlike others
I walked among lovers,
my sisters and brothers
And there in the darkness
were visions and voices
that showed me in whispers
this was the house of choices
I have wondered so often
when my dreams are burning,
why I still walk these hallways,
why I still keep returning...
...to these scents and these friends
and these visions and voices,
to these dreams and these screams
to the house that's called ”Choices"
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8. |
Night Fears
04:29
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I can hear you breathing near
your arm so warm around me
And still I feel the cold, the fear:
loneliness has found me.
Again I shiver in the calm
when restless dreams come swarm me
I've placed my being on your palm
so how come you can't warm me?
And you sleep like a child, like an angel
How can you do it
aren't you afraid
that I might be different
when you awake
That I might be older,
that I might be gone,
that we could be colder
in warmth of the sun?
I'm half awake and half asleep
convictions passing by me
although I know I'm yours to keep
my feelings still defy me.
But you sleep like a child, like an angel
How can you do it
aren't you afraid
that I might be different
when you awake
That I might be older,
that I might be gone,
that we could be colder
in warmth of the sun?
And you sleep like a child, like an angel
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Strange how forms and shapes
have led me in their maze
In this common world
I live a deadly craze
All these signs and sighs
stand quiet all around
No picture in these lines
my only guide is sound
See my joys and woes
compressed to words and songs
I feel expressionless
without my rights and wrongs
Show me the face of a friend
or even a stranger would do
Sing me some red and some green
whisper me shades of blue
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10. |
Moments That Were Not
03:54
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Moments That Were Not
Whether your days have been many
or whether they've just been a few
they have been nothing but moments,
moments that lie within you
You dived as deep as you dared to
brought in the pearls you could bring
You weaved all those pearls into stories
Rosaries tied without string
Once there was something between them
among those lines that you wrote
but some of those words have gone silent
they were too quiet to note
Now nothing is holding together
those notes that have lessened to few
There is no past without present
no memories live without you
Where did you leave the voids,
the gaps that you forgot,
the spaces between memories,
the moments that were not?
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Lær meg å kjenne dine veie
og gå dem trøstig skritt for skritt
Jeg vet at hva jeg fikk i eie,
er borget godt gods, og alt er ditt.
Men vil din sterke hånd meg lede,
jeg aldri feil på målet ser,
og for hvert håp som dør her nede,
får jeg et håp i himlen mer
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Ville Laaksonen Helsinki, Finland
Ville Laaksonen is a Finnish composer and musician. He started playing the piano when he was 5 years and started soon
composing his first own pieces.
After meddling with different projects such as working with Finnish metal band Nightwish, writing songs for Finnish pop stars like Antti Tuisku and releasing a solo album as Boy With Strings he's returned back to his roots to compose piano pieces.
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