MASON - Starting as we mean to go on

1- DON'T YOU EVER CHANGE YOUR MIND (Mason/Harman)

Sweet laughing rain
Danced as you came
Now the seeds have started growing
Don't you ever change your mind
Now I know just where I’m going
Don't you ever change your mind

Footprints can fade
Soon as they're made
Winds can alter without reason
Don't you ever change your mind
Unpredictable are seasons
Don't you ever change your mind

Now that you are here don't leave me
All I want is you to need me too
Truth's the only game worth playing
Break the rules and it starts failing you

Now the seeds have started growing
Don't you ever change your mind
Now I know just where I’m going
Don't you ever change your mind

Don't you ever change your mind
Don't you ever change your mind

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian 'Tich' Amey: harmony vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar. John 'Beaky' Dymond: harmony vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian England: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin ‘Cuddles' Smith: drums.

2- TO 50 FROM 45 (Mason/Dymond)

Can't you see you're wasting precious time
In searching for the things you cannot find
It's no use getting hung up over what I’ve been before
Now is who we are, and we could take
If you move to 50 from 45

You ask me to explain so we sit down
I seem to talk myself into the ground
You say you can't believe that what we have is really there
Now is where we are, and we could make If you move to
50 from 45

Do you think by holding back
You just might stay alive
Why don't you face the truth
Love, that's what we're here for
So unlock the door

Can't you see you're wasting precious time
In searching for the things you will not find
It's no use getting hung
up over what I’ve been before
Now is who we are, and we could take
If you move to 50 from 45

If you move to 50 from your 45

John 'beaky' Dymond: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, lead acoustic & electric guitars. Peter Mason: vocal, acoustic guitar. David Rose: electric Rhodes piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.

3- IT WAS ME WHO LEFT HER (Mason)

Why does she haunt me like a ghost in the night
Bringing me the light before the clock rings
Why does she appear with the things she left behind
Clinging to my mind with her sad wings
It was me who left her, it was me who left her

Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah

Why does she make me feel so much without her
The want to be there back behind her door
Time has not healed like you're led to believe
I find that my need is on her shore
It was me who left her, it was me who left her

How can I smile when she's there all the while
Like a wind blowing hard at the sails
Rolling about in the storm
She's brought to me

Why does she haunt me like a ghost in the night
Bringing me the light before the clock rings
Why does she appear with the things she left behind
Clinging to my mind with her sad wings
It was me who left her, it was me who left her

Ian 'Tich' Amey: vocal, acoustic guitar. John 'Beaky' Dymond: vocal, acoustic guitar. Peter Mason: vocal, acoustic guitar. Bob Taylor: bass.

4- LOVE'S EVENING SONG (Mason)

Rest your head against me now
The day is ended and I’ve left my plough
The door is bolted and there's wood enough to burn
From within these walls, we've no need to turn
We've no need to turn

I love to watch your needle play
Seems that someone else feels that same way
Look at cilla lying stretched out on the mat
Life is not a worry, to a lazy cat
She's such a lazy cat

That dress that you've made my love
I like so much
The babe will be warm under your touch
Love's evening song

There's still life in these old jeans
The times you've mended them is umpteen
And out of all the badges that you have stitched on
This little donald duck, well he's my special one
Yes he's my special one
Love's evening song

Peter Mason: vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: acoustic guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: acoustic guitar.

5- YOU'VE GOTTA GET UP (Mason/Dymond)

In passing conversation once, you did say
You've found what is real
But now you're down at the inn each night
Drinking wine to hide what you feel

Can't stay that way, got to find
What goes on inside, your mixed mind

You've gotta get up, right, find yourself
And start all over again
You've gotta get up, right, find yourself
And start all over again

Do do do dee do do do do dee do
Do do do dee do do

You've spent a lot of time on something
You said was your need
But who's to say if you're right or wrong
If it's what you really believed

Can't stay that way, got to find
What goes on inside, your mixed mind

You've gotta get up, right. Find yourself
And start all over again
You've gotta get up, right, find yourself
And start all over again

Do do do dee do do do do dee do…

You gotta get up, right, find yourself
And start all over again…

Do do do dee do do do do dee doo…..

John ‘Beaky' Dymond: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Peter Mason: vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: pedal steel guitar. Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.

6- WHEN FREEDOM COMES (Mason)

Your father doesn't want me through his door
He thinks the outside world you might explore
In thinkin' of your age, he's locked you in a cage
Now when freedom comes you won't know
where you are

No man wants his daughter running wild
But he must face when you're no more a child
And try to understand what goes on in your mind
'cos when freedom comes you won't know
where you are

You're still growing and he's just slowing the process down
I know your interest is all he has at heart
But it's not helpin'

In thinkin' of your age, he's locked you in a cage
But when freedom comes you won't know
where you are
In thinkin' of your age, he's locked you in a cage
'cos when freedom comes you won't know where
When freedom comes you won't know where
When freedom comes you won't know where you are

John ‘Beaky' Dymond: lead vocal, acoustic guitar, accordian. Peter Mason: lead vocal (bridge), acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, pedal steel guitar David Rose: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.

7- LORDY (Mason)

I'm lookin for a place to belong
Can I rest my head awhile
I ache with thought and explanations
I'll pay you with a smile
I've been turned out and turned inside
From a once loved peace of mind
And the change is so confusing
It's hard to leave behind

I've money in my pocket and a roof overhead
For my soup I don't have to queue
I can walk down any side of the street
And get served if I want to
It's got nothing to do with material things
That makes my head hang low
It's this feeling of uncertainty I can't outgrow

Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy, it's so peaceful here with you
Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy it's so peaceful here with you

Take me to the banks of the river nile
And for a minute put back the time
Wash me clean of a heavy load
And let me feel the sunrise
I'm not the son of a half-baked woman
Though sometimes I wish I was
Then maybe I'd understand just what real
Hardship has

Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy, it's so peaceful here with you
Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy, it's so peaceful here with you

Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy, lordy it's so peaceful here with you
Lordy, can I sit in your home
With a candle lit throne and view
Lordy, it's so peaceful here with you

Lordy... (choir outro fade)

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar, Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, lead acoustic guitar, mandola. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: vocal, acoustic guitar. David Rose: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums, Mox Gowland: harmonica.

8- IT'S ALL GONE WRONG (Mason)

Dry your eyes and let that well known sparkle
live again
So we've met a storm along the way
Come inside and close the door
Don't stand in your own rain
Don't think about it, it will be ok

It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
But we'll put it right again

Light the fire it's been cold
We need each others warmth
We'll read some poems
And I will sing to you
Talk about the future
Stitch together what's been torn
There's so many things we've yet to do

It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
But we'll put it right again

All roads sometimes need mending
Is ours exception to the rule?
We went quite far on that stool
It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
It's all gone wrong, it's all gone wrong
But we'll put it right again

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: acoustic guitar, lap steel. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: acoustic guitar. Ian England: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums, Judie Tzuke: harmony vocal.

9- MY COUNTRY HOME (Mason)

The chapel bells they peal
A sunday song for me
The spire leans a bit
Above the valley
Avon ducks display
Hoping bread you'll pay
Sylvie puts the coffee on
Peace is here
The city blues are gone

My country home
My country home
Give me space where the air is free
Such sweet music is near to me
Like my country home

Six days a week, H. J.
Attends his info stall
To help the tourists get
To where they want to call
Meanwhile at the bull
John has pints to pull
Nigel mends the vandalled phone
Robin shapes the metal to a cone

My country home…

To live my life whole long
In the city would break me
Let posers sit in their limousines
Give me my Ford and my patched blue jeans
And freedom

Sweet road Victoria
Has been three years with me
When I hit that 30 A
You know I’m happy
Blue bird Anna's smile
Goes with her homemade pies
Sylvie puts the coffee on
Peace is here
The city blues are gone

My country home….

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, acoustic guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: vocal, banjo. David Rose: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums, John Weider: fiddle.

10- J'ANN, HERE IS A SONG (Mason)

J'ann, here is a song I'm feeling now for you
A gentle cloud, a smiling moon

J'ann, here is a song
That you are flowing through
A picture painted in my room, in my room

Drifting upon your smile
I rest beside a sea
And let the wind brush over me

J'ann, here is a song, it wasn't very hard
I close my eyes, from then it starts
Then it starts

Peter Mason: lead vocal. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: vocal. Ian England: piano.

11- 48 NOW TO EACH DAY (Peter Mason/Barry D. Mason)

16, 000 miles from home
And a language I can't speak
Missing how you turned me on
And my will to stay is weak
I'll be glad when this trip's over
And can collect my pay

And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day
And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day

The inside of hotel rooms
Is all I ever see
And some guy on the radio
Not gettin' through to me
Time just passes through my head
Not having much to say

And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day
And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day

48, to each day, 48, to each day

Jesus we've been working hard
But things are really slow
You know we're trying
To find what's wrong
But no one seems to know
I'll be glad when this trip's over
And can collect my pay

And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day
And the hours, they just seem to be
48 now to each day

48, to each day, 48, to each day

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: harmony vocal, electric guitar, lap steel guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: harmony vocal, acoustic guitar. David Rose: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.

12- IT'S ALRIGHT (Mason)

You know I like it here with you
Don't think I really have to tell you
It shows in my face, when I like a place
But should the time come you don't want me

Alright, don't be 'fraid to say
I can don my coat and hat
And soon be on my way
It's alright, all you have to say
Is that our love don't mean a lot
And I’ll be on my way

You know the kind of world I want
I'd like to think you want it with me
But if it's not for you
Don't try to see it through
I'd rather have the truth
That hurts me

Alright, don't be 'fraid to say
I can don my coat and hat
And soon be on my way
It's alright, all you have to say
Is that our love don't mean a lot
And I’ll be on my way

But you know just how much I love you
And I’ll always want to stay
But i'd rather leave than ever live a lie
Though it would really hurt
It would really hurt, to say goodbye
You know I like it here with you…..

Alright, don't be 'fraid to say
I can don my coat and hat
And soon be on my way
It's alright, all you have to say
Is that our love don't mean a lot
And I’ll be on my way

It's alright, don't be 'fraid to say…
... And soon be on my way
It's alright, all you have to say…
...and I’ll be on my way

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian England: piano, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.

13- FADING (Amey/Dymond/Barry D. Mason)

It's hopeless I regret
I feel the time has come
To count my loss and save of me
What's left, there must be some
It hurts me to admit
The love I started with
Is slowly fading, fading

I tried to keep alive
Something that wasn't there
Just one side was giving while
The other half was bare
Now I can only sit, as evening draws
And watch the fire fading, fading

I can see my life, I can see my life is fading
I can see my life, can see my life is fading
I can see my life is fading
And I don't know what to do

I tried to keep alive
Something that wasn't there
Just one side was giving while
The other half was bare
It hurts me to admit
The love I started with
Is slowly fading

See my life, see my life is fading
I can see my life, see my life is fading
I can see my life is fading
And I don't know what to do

I can see my life, see my life is fading

Chas O'Brien: lead vocal, drums. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: harmony vocal, electric guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: harmony vocal, acoustic guitar. Peter Mason: harmony vocal, acoustic guitar. Bob Taylor: bass

14- RISE WITH THE MORNING (Mason)

So ask yourself, as I ask myself
Where's it leading to and do you belong
Can you face abuse that goes with the truth
The foot that fits the shoe and right your wrong
You've fallen so far far down but you can get up

Rise with the morning
Rise with the morning
Start now, start now, start now

I've seen some sides that have made me wise
For the going through and I have learned
Your children, you must teach them
So they'll teach you in return
You've fallen so far down but you can get up

Rise with the morning
Rise with the morning
Start now, start now, start now

After all it's you, you live with
And a mirror hangs on every wall
And what's more, it don't lie
It's your life for you to do with
You were not born to be someone's dream
Of what they wish they'd been

So ask yourself
As I ask myself
Where's it leading to
And do you belong
Can you face abuse
That goes with the truth
The foot that fits the truth
And right your wrong
You've fallen so far far down
But you can get up

Rise with the morning
Rise with the morning
Start now, start now, start now

Peter Mason: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Ian ‘Tich' Amey: vocal, electric guitar. John ‘Beaky' Dymond: vocal, acoustic guitar. David Rose: hammond organ, Bob Taylor: bass, Martin 'Cuddles' Smith: drums.