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Last Man Standing
02:52
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Waiting for a dream to be reality
Hanging on a hope that one day I will be
My younger model's grown up idol
Fake it til you make it's what we used to say
Don't give up the ghost, chase it til you croak
The show's not over til we say so
Cos I don't wanna be the last man standing
And I don't wanna hear at least you tried
No I don't wanna be the last man standing
Will the last man standing please turn out the lights
Burning out my brain, trying to play a game
I forgot the rules of way back in the day
Some might say I'm past my sell by
Waiting for a dream to be reality
Hanging on a hope that one day I will be
My younger model's grown up idol
Cos I'm still in love with making this drug
That gets us so high
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I had time on my hands, I had cash in my bank
I had love in my heart, and I was happy at last
I had a hunger for life, and a taste for success
Tidyed up all my thoughts, squared them up on a shelf
Oh but you never know what you got til it's gone
And sure enough I gave it back
I would have been safer betting red or black but
Bet it all bet it all bet it all on you
Bet it all bet it all bet it all on you
Red or black even green but it came back blue
Cos i, bet it all bet it all bet it all on you
You took all I could give, and stole away in the night
Try to tell me I'm wrong, but baby I still know I was right
Now starting from scratch I'll be true, to the things I should never let go
Like feeling the music and playing the blues, you gave me but you'll never know
Cos once in a while, the road forks away,
And lord don't I know it's a fact
I would have been safer betting red or black but
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Hold Tight My Heart
03:24
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She dances round the edge of every corner of my heart
Although it gives me pleasure she's anonymous in part
I'll pick the moment when it's right to sing the song that I've been writing
With everything that's going wrong I feel like she could fix
My fears and trepidations with a soft and gentle kiss
I'm waiting for the time to say I want you in the weirdest way
Hold tight my heart, hold tight my heart
Hold tight my heart, hold tight my heart
In my imagination I'm the one that's on her mind
But this infatuation's probably bound to be declined
I'm waiting for the perfect time to say the words that I've been writing
Cos I've searched for you, the whole world around
I know I've been lost, with you I feel found
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What Did I Do Right?
03:52
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Someday when i'm old I'll look back on my world and
wonder what did i do right
cos one day i woke up and all that i dreamed of
was standing right before my eyes
So never feel like you're a loser
Cos you dont know what's in your future
I don't know what i did right
the Future's never looked so bright
Tomorrow's a mystery the past is just history
today's a gift they call the present
if i had my time again i wouldn't change a thing i got
nothin to regret
If you can dream it you can be it
Just keep on reaching til you feel it
I don't know what i did right
the Future's never looked so bright
I don't know what i did right
on My final day the last words I'll say as i die
is What did i do right
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Save Yourself
03:42
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Today's the day I change the way I look for love
I've played the game enough to say that I've messed up
I can't pretend to see the end of this tunnel
The light is years away so let me have some fun
So save yourself I swear, cos I'm still in repair
Save yourself from love, I'll always be messed up
Tonight's the night I win the fight with this bottle
I'll take the reigns and race away at full throttle
Cos in the end I can't defend the things I've done
The blame is on the pain of wasting all I've loved
And I won't get to be an angel
With this old hell hound on my trail
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I Fit You
03:48
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As gravity fits the ground Hugging it the world around
Like an eagle fits the breeze Soaring high above the trees
Like a desert fits the sand Oh and your hand fits my hand
Just like starlight fits the moon Aw you best believe it's true
Yeh I fit you
Like water fits the sea And like green fits leaves
As the waves fit on the shore Oh I couldn't fit you more
Like the sun fits in the sky Oh and darkness fits the night
Girl even if they tried No-one else could fit you like
Yeh I fit you
You're the only piece of me That I couldn't do without
Yeh I never wanna lose you Yeh you're what I'm all about
So come on darlin Let's turn the lights down low
I got something to tell you Yeh there's something you should know
Like the summer fits the heat And December fits the snow
As autumn fits the leaves And the wind begins to blow
Then they fall and fit the street Yeh my puzzle's now complete
Yeh you fit me
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Bad Date
04:05
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Seems like every match is a step down a path that, just goes on and on
Swipe til you see someone you wanna meet til, they soon prove you wrong
It's true but it's sad as you desperately grab, the black plastic glass
They hide from the screen their personality, and lead with their ass
So you had a bad date, it's only love
So you had a bad date, one of millions
So you had a bad date, you'll find someone
And she's gonna be one, in a million
I'm looking for love in the wrong kinda places, pretending it's fun
I'm searching for someone to break my defences, but you're not the one
If the theory is true then you'll know it in two minutes, and our time is up
It's a shame to waste a minute of the chase so, goodnight and good luck
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When Autumn Comes
03:52
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I never wanted to be found, when love was just hanging round
I wanted something I could hide, and seek it out when I had time
I put too much space inbetween, the only ones who cared for me
But now and then I feel alone, when friends call it a night and head for home
But that's the bed I made, and it's the road I paved
With all the love I sacrificed
And it's the risk I take, with every passing day
And every year that's flying by
When Autumn comes, I feel the chill within my
Lonely bones, now that the sun has gone I
Wait and hope, someday the clouds will part and
She'll come home, when autumn comes
I know I made a few mistakes, when trust approached I turned away
If I could change a single thing, I'd face the fear that I let win
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Can't Shed a Tear
03:23
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I hear your voice in a cold and empty room
To have you back would never be too soon
Take away the pain that you left when you went away
I need you here forever and a day
I love for the day when I see you again
I'll hear your voice and I'll feel no more pain
I know it's true, I'm not with you
But I'd rather dream about before we were through
I wish you were here cos I want you near
I'm feeling so sad but I can't shed a tear
I think of the times when we both were so young
So many years we were together now you're gone
We lived our lives and we loved each other so much
Now I'm all alone and I'm longing for your touch
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Something to Love
03:42
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Dotted lines, blurry lights. Driving miles, been a while
Been gettin cagey, feelin so lazy. Burning my lonely light
Everybody needs something to love
Everybody needs inspiration
I don't wanna leave behind this world
Cos we'll stay young if we find something to love
Filling my hollow time, Penning lines streaming live
Still keeping in touch, missing friends so much
A year of life paralysed
Cos life's too short to not find something to love
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Ghost
03:00
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Spent a long time livin, like the sun would never rise
Cheated fate repeatedly, and i finally paid the price
She got on a plane and said I'll be back in a while
6 months later I guess she built herself a new life
Never heard a better word than the time i learned your name
Never lived a better life than when I saw you every day
Times I wonder what went wrong, was it something that I said
Some years later I still can't get you out my head
I'm hung up on you, still hung up on you
Spent the last year lonely, trying to reasess the pain
Grabbed onto a good love, then I let it go again
Because I just can't settle for a nearly or a close
I can't subject her to living in, the shadow of your ghost
She'll never be you, she'll never be you
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Safe To Say
03:45
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Remember the night, I said that cheesy line, wrote my number on a flyer,
The very next day, you called me to say, let's grab a drink at that place,
And even now I don't know how, you liked me enough
To look into my eyes and say, that like has turned to love
Even though life is fine, I'm still missing your hand in mine
You're in every song I write it's safe to say I miss you crazy
Not saying I can't move on, I'm doing just fine alone
But every so often it's safe to say I miss you crazy
Seems so long ago, we were inseparable, now we don't even talk
If we saw each other now, would you even smile, or turn and run a mile
To throw it all away like this, just seems like such a waste
We were best of friends not long ago and strangers today
Even though life is fine, I'm still missing your hand in mine
You're in every song I write it's safe to say I miss you crazy
Not saying I can't move on, I'm doing just fine alone
But every so often it's safe to say I miss you crazy
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Gary Johnstone Glasgow, UK
Guitarist, songwriterist and singist from Dumfriesshire in Scotland, UK
Normally seen
playing around Scotland in covers band Three Card Trick. Started putting out my own music and touring round Europe and the States under my own name in 2015. Thanks for checking out my tunes.
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