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Cormac Blake

Same old faces

Sings at funerals and weddings, often the same week

the numbers

bpm
108
key
G minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.91
valence
0.53
vocal at
8.5s
length
4:02
language
En

lyrics

Back by the pier at half past eight

Your coat still wet from the Galway rain

Same cracked mug on the table waits

Same joke falls flat, same old pain

You shook my hand like it was new

But your ring was gone and mine was too

The ash on the sill, the chipped blue tile

We both looked down and smiled a while

The room kept its breath in the glass

The clock on the wall wouldn’t pass

I saw us both in the smoke and steam

Still wearing the same old dream

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

By Shop Street lights and the bakery smell

We talked of the years that never tell

Your boots had mud from the lane outside

My hands stayed cold, my pride went dry

The fiddle leaned by the pub-room door

No one had moved from the night before

You laughed the way you always do

And that was the worst thing in you

The room kept its breath in the glass

The clock on the wall wouldn’t pass

I saw us both in the smoke and steam

Still wearing the same old dream

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

On the quay, where the gulls cut low

You said we’d know by the things we know

But the names stayed stuck in the same old place

And the years sat hard on your face

I wanted change in your coat, your hands

Some bent new line from different lands

Instead you stood there, plain and clear

Like nothing ended here

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces

Same old faces