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Ice Cream Man's Back
02:42
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(Hey everybody, guess who’s back? It’s the Ice Cream Man)
Are you ready for the sequel?
All you true believers
They say the second book’s never as good as the first
But hey, it worked for Jesus
I bought a pair of shoes from a drug-dealer
I don’t know what he laced them with
But I’ve been tripping all day, floating away
I got the munchies for a double dip
The ice cream man’s back
The ice cream man’s back
With your cool cones and sweet licks
The ice cream man’s back
While I was out the back on smoko
Some punks stole my ice cream van
Those little sons of bitches
I’ll give them twenty stitches
And teach them not to mess with the ice cream man
I ain’t no soft serve baby, I’m your banana twirl
A hokey pokey man needs a raspberry ripple girl
You can savour the flavour, or save me for later
Cause you know I’m gonna rock your Neapolitan world
The ice cream man’s back
The ice cream man’s back
With your cool cones and your sweet licks
The ice cream man’s back, yeah!
The ice cream man’s back
The ice cream man’s back
Cream is the new black
Yeah the ice cream man’s back
The ice cream man’s back
The ice cream man’s back
Pistachio, butterscotch, and choc mint chip
The ice cream man’s back, yeah!
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I’m gonna dive down in my heart
To see what you left behind
Drowning in that river
I don’t know what I’ll find
Thought I was made to love you
Instead I learnt to be alone
Go chase them big dreams baby
The ones that broke up our happy home
I’m wading through muddy water
Wading through muddy water
I’m wading through muddy water
To higher ground
You know I kept some secrets
Dreams built on my own
Gifts meant to be shared
Will keep me moving on
The sun rose without you
Like it was always going to
I’m swimming through the river
To a life without you
I’m wading through muddy water
Wading through muddy water
I’m wading through muddy water
To higher ground
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Just For You
02:54
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Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
Aw baby since we met my life has changed
Aw baby I wouldn’t trade it for a thing
Yeah, you thrill my soul, well you set my heart of fire
Woohoo, you’re everything to me come on take me higher
Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
Your love is just for me, your love is just for me
My love is just for you, my love is just for you
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Only Guiding Light
05:21
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Every day can’t be sunny
And the stars don’t shine every night
When it’s cold, grey, and rainy
Your love is my only guiding light
Sometimes when hope is fading
Some days when my world just don’t seem right
When the clouds are dark and stormy
Your love is my only guiding light
I keep coming on home to you babe, coming on home
Cause you’re shining, shining, shining, shine down for me
Ups and downs we have had many
Sometimes you’ve got to fight for what you believe is right
I’ll back you up any time you need me
Cause my love will be your guiding light, yeah
I keep coming on home to you babe, coming on home
Cause you’re shining, shining, shining, shine down for me
I keep coming on home to you babe, coming on home
Cause you’re shining, shining, shining, shine down for me
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Lonely Long
03:59
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You don’t have to be lonely
When you’re all alone
Just call me and you won’t be lonely long
You don’t have to be lonely
Just pick up your phone
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
I know you’re workin’, I know you’re busy
I know you’ve always got a lot to do
I know you’re hurtin’, I know you’re dizzy
From everything that life has put you through
Yeah, but you don’t have to be lonely
When you’re all alone
Just call me and you won’t be lonely long
You don’t have to be lonely
Just pick up your phone
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
I know you’re workin’, I know you’re busy
I know you’ve always got a lot to do
I know you’re hurtin’, I know you’re dizzy
From everything that life has put you through
Yeah but you don’t have to be lonely
When you’re all alone
Just call me and you won’t be lonely long
You don’t have to be lonely
Just pick up your phone
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Won’t be lonely (won’t be lonely)
Call me and you won’t be lonely long
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Why It Hurts
03:02
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Sometimes I feel like a mouse on a wheel
Just spinning all day long
I keep a waiting for things to change
So we can learn how to get along
So we can sing the same song
You tell our friends that I let you down
When I was only trying to build you up
I was juggling everything I could
But to you it was never enough
But to you it was never enough
I still love you and that’s why it hurts
It hurts when you put me down
I still love you and that’s why it hurts
And we just keep going round
We just keep going round
Would you forgive me if I got on my knees,
And begged you baby please don’t go?
Are you seeing things differently?
Or are you seeing Mr so and so?
Is there something that I need to know?
I gave you all my love and my time
My money and my honey too
I gave you everything I had to give
But it was never enough, enough for you
It was never enough for you
I still love you and that’s why it hurts
It hurts when you put me down
I still love you and that’s why it hurts
And we just keep going round
We just keep going round
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The Friends We Make
04:22
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It’s the people, not the place
It’s the guitar, not the case
It’s the book, not the cover
It’s the joy, that we discover
It’s not the gift, it’s the thought
It’s what you build, not what you bought
It’s what we give, not what we take
It’s the friends we make
When you’re rolling through this big old world
Rushin’ down life’s highway
Take your time, share the wine with the folks you find along the way
Coz it’s the friends we make
It’s what we offer, not what we gain
It’s the sunshine, after the rain
It’s the lessons, that we learn
It’s how we listen, when it’s not our turn
It’s not the right words you say
It’s learning from your mistakes
It’s the journey, not the destination
So get on board, before the train leaves the station
When you’re rolling through this big old world
Rushin’ down life’s highway
Take your time, share the wine with the folks you find along the way
Yeah, it’s the friends we make
It’s not who’s wrong, or who is right
It’s holding your loved one on a cold dark night
It’s peace, love, giving all you can
Being there for each other all the way till the end
When you’re rolling through this big old world
Rushin’ down life’s highway
Take your time, share the wine with the folks you find along the way
Yeah, it’s the friends we make
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8. |
Good Love Goes Bad
03:55
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Birds ain’t singing
Bees ain’t buzzing
Bells ain’t ringing
Where there ain’t no loving
You left me lonely and you didn’t say why
I could just hang my head and cry
When good love goes bad
Sun don’t shine
When a soul’s forsaken
Willows weep and moan
When two hearts are breaking
You left me standing in the hallway crying
I could just lay right down and die
When good love goes bad
When good love goes bad
Yeah, when good love goes bad
Ooooohhhhhhhhh
When good love goes bad
Ooooohhhhhhhhh
When good love goes bad
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Dead Man’s World
04:08
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While you were pointing your finger at me
You had three fingers pointing back at you
What other lies have you told? ha
That you convinced everybody were true
I gave you the benefit of the doubt
Until you threw it right on back in my face
I wish somebody could restore
My faith in the human race
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
You’ve been playing everybody for a fool
You’ve been singing your sad, sad song
What other stories have you sold us, ha
While you were stringing everybody along?
I feel so foolish and naive
Should have trusted my instincts in the first place
I wish somebody would restore
My faith in the whole human race
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
While you were pointing your finger at me
You had three fingers pointing back at you
What other lies have you told? ha
That you convinced everybody were true
I gave you the benefit of the doubt
Until you threw it right on back in my face
I wish somebody could restore
My faith in the human race
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
Feels like we’re living in a dead man’s world
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10. |
Missing You
03:40
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My days are lonely and they’re all the same
I don’t know how I let you slip away
I’m missing you, I’m missing you
I walk the floor, feeling sad and blue
I’m missing you
I lie awake and hold my pillow tight
Listen to the mockingbird calling all night
I’m missing you, I’m missing you
I sing the song, I used to sing to you
I’m missing you
Nothing’s the same without you by my side
Nobody knows how many tears I’ve cried
I don’t know what I’m gonna do
I’m just missing you
I never thought we would end this way
I try to sleep but my heart just breaks
I’m missing you, I’m missing you
I’d give anything for another chance with you
I’m missing you
My days are lonely and they’re all the same
I don’t know how I let you slip away
I’m missing you, I’m missing you
I walk the floor, feeling sad and blue
I’m missing you
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11. |
Way Too Long
03:32
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Broken windows and slamming doors
Bitchin’ in the kitchen and her mess on the floor
Fussing and her nagging driving me insane
Till I say go ahead honey, have it all your way
I’ve been lonely for way too long
Waiting for my love to want a happy home
I’ve been singing this same old song
Waiting for my love to try and get along
Time keeps marching and racing by
I’d keep on hoping one day she’ll try
I can’t eat, I can’t get no sleep
Can’t even rest, I can’t get no relief
I’ve been lonely for way too long
Waiting for my love to want a happy home
I’ve been singing this same old song
Waiting for my love to try and get along
I’ve been lonely for way too long
Waiting for my love to want a happy home
I’ve been singing this same old song
Waiting for my love to try and get along
I’ve been lonely for way too long
With all these other women trying to turn me on
Even when I tell her that she’s right, I’m wrong
It just leaves me feeling like we’re too far gone
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Rise Up Singing
03:17
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When you wanna fall
Love won’t let ya
When you stumble
It’ll rise and catch ya
When you lose your way
Love won’t let ya
When you’ve got nowhere to go
It’ll come and take ya
Give you strength to carry on
Gonna rise up singing
Gonna rise up singing
Gonna rise up singing
When you can’t see
Love won’t let you
It’ll light up the way
Guide and lead you
When you want to look back
Love won’t let ya
And it won’t let you worry
About what might get ya
Give you strength to carry on
Gonna rise up singing, gonna rise up singing yeah,
Give you strength to carry on, to carry on, woah
Gonna rise up singing, rise up singing, rise up singing, gonna rise… up singing…
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For more than a decade, blues-rocker 8 Ball Aitken has toured the world - performing his swampy, slide guitar-driven songs at more than 200 gigs each year. His live shows have rocked music festivals across the US, Australia, Europe, Canada, and Asia.
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