Lyrics
SOMEWHERE IN SOHO
16 MILES WIDE
Soho sent you there somehow
The taste of San Miguel and cigarettes in my mouth
The street lights chased us as we stayed out
The bars close early in this town
Then a man sat down and asked how long we'd been around
We smiled and lied and said two years
A big black taxi drove us to the end of the west
And I breathed out as you breathed in
Cos i'm somewhere in Soho I felt London burning down
Somewhere in Soho we razed that city to the ground
Go to San Sebastian, the flames will follow in our wake
Like they did back in London, when you stepped off that train
When we woke up the streets of London were aflame
Notting Hill was burning through the rain
The flight in the morning takes me a thousand miles away
All I wanna do is fly with you to Spain
Cos i'm somewhere in Soho I felt London burning down
Somewhere in Soho we razed that city to the ground
Go to San Sebastian the flames will follow in our wake
Like they did back in London, oh when you stepped off that train
Cos i'm somewhere in Soho I felt London burning down
I'm somewhere in Soho we razed that city to the ground
Go to San Sebastian, the flames will follow in our wake
Like they did back in London
Ohh when you stepped off that train
Like they did back in London
Ohh when you stepped off that train
Like they did back in London
Oh when you stepped off that train
Copyright Matt Boylan-Smith 2022
Throw another dollar on the bar
Bar man is only there to hurt you
Fallin’ down the stairway in the dark
The mornings have never been there to serve you
Coffee to wine, cigarettes in time
Your mind is still your greatest virtue
You lost sight, it’s not over
I spoke to the sky then to you wife at the alter
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Broken hours and whiskey sours in the park
Do your best to make love desert you
The misery of love lost plays its part
Fighting back is now your greatest virtue
Pantomimes of better times, let pain express your art
Sometimes it’s just enough to get through
You lost sight, it’s not over
I spoke to the sky then to you wife at the alter
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
You lost sight, it’s not over
I spoke to the sky then to you wife at the alter
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
You lost sight, it’s not over
I spoke to the sky then to you wife at the alter
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Sixteen miles wide and ten feet high
It’s not your fault
Copyright Matt Boylan-Smith 2021
WE DREAM OF RIVER SONGS
I’m holding council now, with the demons in my heart
Might take a little while, might tear our world apart
Sky is broken on the moon the ocean it will drown us soon
River calls us from the dark, brown eyes are a work of art
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
Give me a while, a little time to find
The bitter memories tattooed all inside my mind
Hold them for the world to see, know my inner enemy
Your clothes upon my line, remind me of when you were mine
Mine, oh mine, Oh mine
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
Con’t Cry tonight, darlin’
Don’t Cry tonight
Meet me at the outer wall, wait for us before we fall
Into the same mistakes the errors that we used to make
I’m coming home my dear, laid open my biggest fears
I’m coming home to you, I’m coming home to you!
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
We dream, We dream, Of river songs
Copyright Matt Boylan-Smith 2020
WE CAN BE TOGETHER
We were young, playing in trees
Laughing and dreaming at how rich we would be
I wonder why now, I never see you
I wonder where now, where we would be
If we were still laughing and playing in trees,
Would we be dreaming bout how rich we would be
Or would we be richer because we would see
Each each other
Each Other
Now we're much older I can now see
These years have been wasted we’ve all been asleep
Let’s all move on so that we can be
Swingin from branches
I can remember playing in sand
Laughing and digging you’d my hand
Oh for the safety the waves could not catch me
No
We can be together
We Can be together
Smaller than houses but larger than me
You were the one to say chase your dreams
I wonder if now you’re finally free
Swinging from branches
I can recall the way, the way that you’d fight
Fight for us children we’d cry into the night
The calming hand,
The spectre of the damned,
My mother
We Can Be Together
We Can Be Together
We Can Be Together
We Can Be Together
Copyright Matt Boylan-Smith 2017