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Become The One You Love

by Artmagic

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    A gorgeous CD package designed by artist and illustrator Peter James Field. This is a deluxe digipack printed on high-quality paper stock with a 20 page booklet including full lyrics, illustrations and portraits.

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1.
The Choice 03:29
Indecision is the killer of ambition And it shines like the edge of a knife All plans, no commitment No risk, just resistance Never change, never wrong, never right The tempered moment on and on Before the joy, before the pain Repeat forever, never change Between the handhold and the shake Revelation Hammer down your life And white is all you'll see Every choice is a life set aside But untie the white And vivid colour beams Never know 'til you're wrong if you're right The fearless moment everlong Forget the joy, ignore the pain You never choose you never gain Between the handhold and the shake Revelation Don't wanna know Don't wanna know Don't wanna know So you don't I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know Let it go, let it go Let it go Gave up on the life I'd built up Unprepared and fearful But I know that I did what was right I'd seen all I knew I could be Bullishly I walked away But I knew In the end That the choice That I made Would be right
2.
Look away now It's too late now 'cos they caught your eye You got that reeling Quicksilver feeling But you don't know why So deep, so wide No time to hide Don't try to swim Just dive right in And feel the flow From head to toe The joy and the wonder The fear's going under Don't try, don't try to fight it You've got to get behind it Go down in the river Down in the river Make the love you want to make Don't try, don't try to fight it Go on, got to go and get it Down in the river Down in the river Crash motion The rush to the ocean Teases you into the tide "You're not alone", it roars with emotion, "Come and join the ride" And feel the flow From head to toe The joy and the wonder The fear's going under Don't try, don't try to fight it You've got to get behind it Go down in the river Down in the river Make the love you want to make Don't try, don't try to fight it Go on, got to go and get it Down in the river Down in the river Don't fear who you'll be Swim, swim, swim for me Just break free Swim, swim , swim, swim for me And don't ask why Just take a running jump and dive Keep believing You'll be breathing See the river rush and shine It feels so right I know you'll have to fight But it's better Down in the river Learn to love your love You will survive Let it come alive! So don't try, don't try to fight it You've got to get behind it Go down in the river Down in the river Make the love you want to make Don't try, don't try to fight it Go on, got to go and get it Down in the river Down in the river In the river, down in the river In the river, down in the river In the river, down in the river In the river, down in the river
3.
Flash bright, trapped light Holding you so tight I envied its caress Short sleeve style and Regulation smile Caught up in my camera's kiss You are frozen there for me With your gentle Celtic beauty I knew All I wanted was you And 'cos I never said And 'cos you'd never see You are forever in negative to me You will always be there Posing patiently and I could pretend You could just be a friend But there's cruelty in those memories now Making me believe that I could still make it right But I will never go back So you are frozen there for me As the gentle Celtic beauty I knew All I wanted was you And 'cos I never said And 'cos you'd never see You are forever in negative to me Better if I never remember Better if I never remember So much you never could have known Love could never bring us together Love could never bring us together Your image fading in the sun So smile for me Smile for me Always frozen Never free Just a photograph of someone I knew Just a moment of you 'cos when I looked in your eyes I knew how it would be You are forever in negative
4.
Submerged 04:43
Summer's so uncertain now No guarantee of sun The fear of rain has left a stain On everyone But was it always so? This constant search for clouds As if a flood of holy blood Would serve us right somehow The weight of water So desperate to fall down We'll be Submerged, submerged Unheard, unheard Momentary shelter Liberty restrained Fear and hate precipitate To shower down again Wade through the water Or hide until you drown And you'll be Submerged, submerged Unheard, unheard Submerged, deserved Unsung, all gone Your freedom Unheeded Your saviour in masquerade So you're never gonna get No you're never gonna get No you're never gonna get away Submerged, submerged Unheard, unheard All gone, all gone Gave up too much for too long Too long, too long
5.
You 03:31
You Are the one that I long to be I become what I want to see The image of you wrapped around me So I disappear 'til there's only: You In the space where I used to be You can do what you will with me 'cos you got me just where you want me Hold me down so you can surround me I see you I need you I just wanna learn how to be you I see you I need you More than I can bear To be like you You Can't you take me and make me more Of a man than I was before? I need you to hold me, to mould me To strip me, to clothe and to cover me So it's you that I'll always see Looking back, looking back at me I just want to be what I can't be Only you, only you Without me I see you I need you I just wanna learn how to be like you I see you I need you More than I can bear To be you So come and show me Come on, show me Not even love can save me now 'cos I need you I need you More than I can bear To be like you I take your name I wear your skin But I can't change From the outside in There's not enough Of you in me Reflected A mirror is all I'll be I see you I need you I just wanna learn how to be like you I see you I need you More than I can bear To be you So come and show me Come on, show me Not even love can save me now 'cos I need you I need you More than I can bear To be like you
6.
A Homecoming 04:02
A rented room with a view of a mirror A stranger's pictures hung in leatherette A local man in a town unfamiliar Coming home to run away again Light up your fear, burn down your life This time there's nowhere left to hide Drink down your tears, breathe in your sighs You never tried, I don't know why Immersed your soul in a rough amber ocean Drowned your dignity to prove your pride But there's no shelter from the endless erosion That fills while it drains you dry Light up your fear, burn down your life This time there's nowhere left to hide Drank down your tears, breathed in your sighs You never tried, I don't know why Now bound and tied and paralysed You were frozen in the headlights of your life So many secrets left behind You were never any good at saying good bye Marooned yourself here to make sure no-one could save you Now you're all alone Marking the days 'til the end Tell me, is this what you wanted? Is this what you wanted? Light up your fear, burn down your life This time there's nowhere left to hide (Can't hide anymore) Drank down your tears, breathed in your sighs You never tried, I don't know why This time, this time You can't get out of this alive Too late for you to make it right You should have tried, I don't know why
7.
It's here It's here It's here You hold my hand Somehow you understand And brush aside All of my transgressions where our needs divide There are no secrets so there's no lies Yet I'm forgiven You take my sins and you give me heaven Precious your love to me It's here, heaven is here Why won't it do for me? It's here, heaven is here Don't let them pull me All the way down Below, below, When I know It's here Heaven is here I am defined By desires I can't confine To you and I But I've come to recognise This is the truth Of who I am My faithful heart in my faithless hands Yet I'm forgiven You take my sins and you give me heaven Precious your love to me It's here, heaven is here Why won't it do for me? It's here, heaven is here Don't let them pull me All the way down Below, below, When I know It's here It's here You love me completely You throw your arms around me I am not, I am not, Never will be worthy But somehow you redeem me Even with my hands unclean You come close enough just to touch me So near Heaven is here So say that you love me Heaven is here, heaven is here No way you can save me Heaven is here, heaven is here 'cos I know I gotta go All the way down Below, below To find out It's here Heaven is here
8.
Half-Life 04:14
You talk in circles in a sleepless daze Back and forward, never change Overfamiliar with the words you say Tarnished silver, worn with age I don't want to stay It's so close I won't back away Can't say goodbye Does love have a half-life? Like the headlights fading as they speed away Does love have a half-life? Like the daylight fading into lunar grey Up against my fate Will the moment come if I just wait? (Can't what you say just make it right?) Running out of days But hope is hopelessly immune to pain Your sense of certainty has been erased Doubt unbidden takes its place Is this the future that you thought you'd make? Love transfigured into hate I don't want to stay To see my chance just get away So say goodbye 'cos love has a half-life Like the headlights fading as they speed away Yes, love has a half-life Like the daylight fading into lunar grey It gives, it takes away
9.
Blue On Blue 04:26
In a reverie I saw you and me Electronically entwined Your skin like mercury Ran over me With a shivery delight So key this fantasy Right into me Colour you and me with light We're going: So blue on blue We're moving With one motion i dive right through You, you Blue You look at me Now I can see An infinity of you Shine bright or shadow me Blurring over me In an ecstasy of blue You So blue on blue We're moving With one motion i dive right through You, you It goes: So blue on blue It's all about you That fire halo It's all around you Ooh, ooh You hold me steady as we Fade right through One another And in the heady glow of Love so blue We are one from two I am one with you Just keep moving With one motion And dive right through You Into the blue, blue, blue it goes So blue on blue Give me your chromakey dream My fire halo It's all around you I'm gonna dream right into you I'm gonna dream right into you I'm gonna dream right into you I'm gonna dream right into you Yeah
10.
The Spark 04:13
Deep in you Was a spark too bright A blood red light And it needed you As a fuel To flicker and ignite Now your spark's a cinder In a tinderbox heart With no way to put it out So you try your best to keep it contained 'cos there's nobody else Can quell the flame Can't be dulled Can't be tamed Burning slow Until it burns you, burns you away What it takes No god could replace Unknown, unnamed Until it burns you all away The old town You knew me straight away With one word The decades fell away But I couldn't look at you 'cos I was out of your life The day you made to dive Out of the gloom But they got to you in time To pay the price of staying alive You had to give that spark your life I wish you could have run away, run away I wish you could have run away, run away To find some way to leave the pain behind To get you out from under I wish you could have run away, run away I know you should have run away, run away To find some peace of mind or succour But you never found a way to make it out Never dulled Never tamed Burning slow And now it's burnt you, burnt you away What it took No love could replace Unknown, unnamed And now it's burnt you, burnt you So I'll try to remember How you were in better days Before you were pushed aside by the flame 'cos that day you came towards me Empty eyes and edges frayed I knew it would hold you Until it burned you all away
11.
Nervously we'll wait 'til countdown comes And rising to their feet The people that we love Will witness as we try To raise a satellite To orbit round our hearts To guide with love our lives So bind us tight enough To keep us side by side Our love will carry us And it feels like the gift of flight And we'll rise like Apollo Fire on high Defy the endless night Together Burning brighter Up and outwards Stars in flight Ever weightless through our lives In heart and mind As one combined One small step For you and I to prove This giant leap for love Could never be subdued For love will still prevail Where science can't divine I'll wear your ring forever Full of love and full of pride We waited long enough For time to prove us right At last our love's enough We'll take to the sky The gift of flight And we'll rise like Apollo Fire on high Defy the endless night I vow to stay beside you Hard or easy Sun or snow Wine or water Straw or gold With hearts and minds We unite Love is weightless...love is weightless...fly free... Love is weightless...love is weightless...fly free... Love is weightless...love is weightless...fly free... Love is weightless...love is weightless...fly free... Love is weightless...love is weightless...fly free...

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Become The One You Love is the début album from Suede guitarist Richard Oakes and singer/producer Sean McGhee. Now includes two bonus tracks, "Up" and "The Weir".

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released July 2, 2012

Written, arranged & performed by Richard Oakes & Sean McGhee.

Produced and recorded by Sean McGhee at Canonical.

“A Homecoming” & “The Gift Of Flight” co-produced, recorded and mixed by George Shilling at Bank Cottage for CEC Management.

Drums on “Down In The River”, “Forever In Negative”, “You” & “The Spark” performed and recorded by Mike Sorrentino,

Drums on “A Homecoming” & “The Gift Of Flight” performed by Mathis Richet.

Bass on “A Homecoming” & “The Gift Of Flight” performed by Ben Ellis.

Piano on “A Homecoming” & “The Gift Of Flight” performed by Gordana Jovkovic.

“Forever In Negative” mixed by Andy Bradfield for 365 Artists.

“Down In The River”, “You”, “Heaven Is Here” & “The Spark” mixed by Mark “Tufty” Evans at Wispington Studios.

“The Choice”, “Submerged”, “Half-Life” & “Blue On Blue” mixed by Sean McGhee at Canonical.

Mastered by Andy “Hippy” Baldwin at Metropolis.

Published by Copyright Control.

Management by Charlie Charlton at Interceptor - charlie@interceptor.co.uk

Illustration and design by Peter James Field - www.peterjamesfield.co.uk

Artmagicmusic logo by David Darlington - www.whatnoise.co.uk

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Artmagic is Suede guitarist Richard Oakes and singer/producer Sean McGhee .

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