Songs written by Dez Williams
Soft Rose
G C G Bm
Soft, soft rose your petals are fading
G C G Bm
Cold wind blows the love you are
saving
C D C D
Is covered with snow but always will
grow
Am Em
And when come the shadows as dark as the sea
Am Em D D7
I will stand by you as a mountain, as a tree
Soft, soft rose your petals are falling
Cold wind blows I hear you calling
Your blood runs cold your love grows old
But when you stand naked, no blossom, no bloom
I will stand by you as the sun as the moon
Sweet, sweet love your circle is turning
Below above now my heart is yearning
To give all my thanks live all my strength
Here in this winter that loneliness brings
I dream of your warmth of the summer, the spring
Sweet, sweet love when you’re beside of me
I know of your sweetness inside of me
Grows and grow flows and flows
Like a rippling river that runs to the sea
You reach out to touch me to set my heart free
Soft, soft rose the sky is clearer
Warm breeze blows springtime is nearer
Your love is alive and never will die
But when you stand naked no blossom no bloom
I will stand by you as the sun as the moon
Soft, soft
rose Sweet, sweet love
G C G C G
Soft, soft
rose Sweet, sweet
love
Midnight Cries
C Am
I’ve been thinking about the beat of time
F G
Can’t rhyme with yours or keep up with mine
Em Am
But where are you now darlin’? Where are you now?
F G
How can you hear my midnight cries?
F G C
Running and hiding from my eyes?
I’ve been walking from street to street
From night to night from beat to beat
But where are you now darlin’? Where are you now?
I’m dreaming dreams you’d never believe
Just on this air I try to breathe
Just on this air I try to breathe
I saw a building that was falling down
Crumbling walls on desert ground
But where are you now darlin’? Where are you now?
Can you help me build a house of stone?
When dust and dirt is all I own?
We’ve been talking about what’s been done
And sometimes thinking about what’s to come
But what’ll we do darlin’? What’ll we do?
When stripped and naked against the wall
All the bombs begin to fall
All the bombs begin to
fall
I’ve been thinking about you and
me
How strong are you? How strong are we?
But where are you now darlin’? Where are you now?
How can you hear my midnight cry?
We’re waiting for the sun to rise
Waiting for the sun to rise
Waiting for the sun to rise
On Love And Its Departure
A
Well it seems that you’ve departed love
Bm
I don’t understand the pain
E
Me I sit here missing you
D A
It’s true I’m still the same
I didn’t know that you would leave me love
So long before the end
And it’s cold out here in line behind
All these crazy men
Bm E A E
Crying Oh how we need your lovin’
Bm E A E
Oh how we need you love
You found me cold and warmed me love
I rested in your arms
You turned my weakness into strength
My storm you turned to calm
Then you faded out into the night
I was back where I began
And it’s cold out here in line behind
All these hungry men
Crying Oh how we need your lovin’
Oh how we need you love
Oh the winds of change that blew a storm
The rain that fell as snow
Froze the air as cold as ice
Above, about, below
I believed that when I lost you love
I’d find you once again
But it’s cold out here in line behind
All these lonely men
Crying Oh how we need your lovin’
Oh how we need you love
There’s so many here without you love
Many empty lonely hearts
Who cannot calm their restless souls
That dream all day and dark
Oh don’t become my enemy
When I need you as a friend
For it’s cold out here in line behind
All these crazy men
Crying Oh how we need your lovin’
Crying Oh how we need you love
Oh how we need you love
A Handshake Or A Kiss
Em Am
There’s a woman dressed like Moses
C B Em
Carrying her children through a dry hot desert sun
Em Am
There’s a tavern shuts and
closes
C B Em
And a man counts his shillings and staggers home drunk
G Dm F B
Do you think one day not far away if I pray for a
wish?
G Dm F B Em
Someday we’ll go our way with a Handshake or a Kiss
Repentance isn’t easy
Your face is so pale and you are so young
Dependence is deceiving
There’s a hammer on a nail and there’s a hand on a gun
Do you think one day not far away if I pray for a
wish?
Someday we’ll go our way with a Handshake or a Kiss
Now the hunters go out hunting,
With telescopic vision and kaleidoscopic eyes
And I wonder just what they’re wondering
Out there on a mission killing everything alive
Do you think one day not far away if I pray for a
wish?
Someday we’ll go our way with a Handshake or a Kiss
Someday we’ll go our way with a Handshake or a Kiss
Love Can Build
E B A A
I hope you don’t mind if I don’t make it this time
But things get harder than they seem
And you’ve been so kind I’ve been so blind
I couldn’t see through my silly dreams
And it’s so hard to rest in this loneliness
Wishing I was close to you
There’s no one to blame but
Oh what a shame now I’m just a ghost to you
A E D
Love can build a world so fair for you and I
A E D
And we shall evermore be glad
A E D
Love can build a world to share you and I
A E D
The closest friend I ever had
E B A E B A A x2
The closest friend I ever had
G D C C
I put out my hand and I tried to be a man
But I was just a boy inside
With my head in the sand I couldn’t understand
Why tears filled up our eyes
And where it gone the tune to our song
The simple truth of being born
I wish you were here I wish you were near
‘Cause I’ve been moving like a storm
C G F
Love
can build a world so fair for you and I
C G F
And we shall evermore be glad
C G F
Love can build a world to share you and I
C G F
The closest friend I ever had
G D C
The closest friend I ever had
Old Street
D F#m
There's a fountain gone dry in the corner of my eye
G D
It’s not my world I’m captive
D F#m
Though patient I am I will do all I can
G D
For those that know what is
happening
G A
It’s a long street this old street it’s worn and
warped
D Bm
Its stolen and broken a fight to be fought
G A D A
It’s for a tree and I’m just a sapling
My complexion is scarred - withered and marred
Can I lose it now that I’ve found it
For my utmost hope is to level this slope
Step from the corner I’m grounded
It’s a long street this old street it’s knotted and
gnarled
Profane and insane and wintry cold
This old street is still heading downward
My head full of fears and my eyes flowing tears
It’s a man-made disease I’ve contracted
Educated with lies it’s a giant surprise
To know or to find what a fact is
It’s a long street this old street it’s blistered and
burned
Blasted and battered and choked and churned
This old street never relaxes
My hair's growing long but it can’t do me wrong
Only death will stop it from growing
If it falls out or greys I can number my days
But its time and nature that’s knowing
It’s a long street this old street it’s fractured and
forced
It’s tangled and mangled into changing its course
But this old street will never stop flowing
There’s a battle been fought yet a thousand years
short
Another battle and peace will be breathing
It’s a tangible dream, imprisoned, unseen
Behind a wall so tall and unyielding
It’s a long street this old street it’s fooled
and feared
It’s governed and bludgeoned its smudged and it’s
smeared
This old street is too old to believe in
Its too long and too old to believe in
Just Me And You
G Em
I’ve got no work to keep me busy
C D
Got no place to waste my time
G Em
Seems it starts and then it’s finished
Am D
And its left somewhere behind
G Em
Got no money in my pocket
C D
Got no house to call my own
G Em
Seems I pick it up then drop it
Am D
Like a stone
C D
And they tell me not to worry
G Em
But I just can’t keep it straight
C D
And they tell me not to hurry
G Em
But I’m always running late
G C
Tonight the sky is starry
Am D
And we sit around its great
G Em C D
Just me and you
I’ve got this girl and she’s like heaven
When I’m laying in her arms
Takes me far away from livin’
To a dreamy sort of calm
And I tell her that I love her
And I tell her that I’m true
She says “baby there is no other”
Only you
And they tell me not to wonder
But I wonder just the same
And they try to put me under
Tell me how to play the game
But if the sky is loud with thunder
There’s no-one else to blame
Just me and you
I’ve got no news to tell my friend
He knows all the news I know
And he calls me now and then
Just to say a quick “hello”
But if when the cards are dealt him
And he holds a losing hand
I’ve got to try and help him
He’s a man
And they tell me who to follow
But there’s leaders everywhere
And some will bring you sorrow
And some will bring despair
But the sun will rise tomorrow
And shine fair and square
For me and you
Just me and you Just me and you
Just me and you Just me and you
Only As I am
Em Am
If I don’t come home
Em Am
If I leave you all alone
F G
Don’t think that I don’t care
F G
Don’t think I won’t be there
Sometimes I must go free
Where I can just be me
Stand naked in the rain
D
And not feel any shame
G D G
But I still love you
D B7 Em Am Em Am
I still love you just the same
Now you say you don’t believe me
Then you go and say you need me
But what could it be you need
Is it anything like me?
In these times of desperation
We don’t need a separation
If we only talk of blame
Nothings gonna change
But I still love you
I still love you just the same
I can be a patient man
I can help with any plan
But I must be myself
I can’t be someone else
And as the circles turn
As we live and learn
When I hear you call my name
I’ll tell you once again
I still love you
I still love you just the same
If you want to hold my hand
Take me as I am
Only as I am only as I am
Only as I am only as I am
Dreamingtime Desert
Am E Am E Am E
Mm mm Mm mm
Am E Am E
In the land of Australia there’s golden sun beaches
Dm E Am E
And people walk by ya with golden sun features
On the plains and the mountains in the Dreamingtime
Desert
There’s love for the country and don’t you forget it
To the end of the highway to the edge of the city
A sunny blue skyway the picture is pretty Mm
mm Mm mm
In the land of Australia there’s hope and there’s
plenty
And people walk by ya smiling and friendly
Thru the wandering valleys thru the dry dusty summers
There’s love for the country and you cannot
wonder
To the end of the highway to the edge of the city
A sunny blue skyway the picture is pretty Mm
mm Mm mm
In the land of Australia there’s music and laughter
And people walk by ya living happy ever after
By the opal blue waters in the green forest breezes
There’s love for the country and you can believe it
To the end of the highway to the edge of the city
A sunny blue skyway the picture is pretty
To the end of the highway to the edge of the city
T can go my way and the picture is pretty Mm
mm Mm mm
No Time No Age
Dm C x4 F Am Dm C x2
Dm C
When you came home I heard you crying
Dm C
I was all alone upon my knees
Dm C
You asked me why with all the lying
Dm C
How can we try to believe?
Without a word I called you nearer
My little bird caught in a cage
And through this night this starlit mirror
No sound no sight of time or age
F Am Dm C
No time no age
Peace lay dead beneath engines roaring
It sleeps like lead through a hastened day
I close my eyes and dream of morning
The sun will rise and shine the way
To a brand new day
On a city street or in a silent valley
What we seek we just might find
But if we meet in a dead end alley
Let’s stop and speak and clear our minds
There is no time you go on counting
There is no age but your worried look
You try and climb a timeless mountain
And turn a page in an ageless book
This ageless book
A Song For A Stranger
Em G D
I was born and raised a country boy on a windy,
western
Em
plain
Em G D Em
And every day I did enjoy because nothing stayed the
same
G C G
Up until my age reached eighteen years I was told who
to
D
respect
Em G D
My mother washed my hands for me my father scrubbed my
Em
neck
One day a stranger came to town with a promise in his
hands
He took a stone up off the ground and crushed it into
sand
His words were as loud as thunder but as calming as
the sun
He said, “Go and love your neighbour for that’s what
must be done"
“Go and love your neighbour for that’s what must be
done”
I walked out on a crowded street there was panic,
there was fear
And there beneath my blistered feet the road was wet
with tears
An old man in the gutter cried out “Don’t you look at
me”
And a young man on a highway cried out “Let us all be
free”
In the lands across wide blue sea there’s sadness more
than mine
Their sorry spirit reaches me and hangs upon my
mind
If I owned the greatest country or owned the whole
world wide
I’d just sit down by a river in this quiet countryside
I’d just sit down by a river in this quiet countryside
Am I walking on a border with a foot on either
side?
Am I thirsty for some water on a long a weary
ride?
If they hire me to labour if they call me up to
arms
He said, “Go and love your neighbour for that’s what
must be done”
“Go and love your neighbour for that’s what must be
done”
Come to Peace
Em
If our weapons turn to ploughshares
If our armies go to work
A
To build everyone a house where
They have a home on earth
Em
Love your neighbour and your enemy
And let them know your name
A
Give freely and be friendly
C B7 Em
And would they then be the same
A Em
Come to peace all the world
A Em
Come and teach the boys and girls
A Em
That our peace is a precious pearl
C B7 Em
We cannot reach in a warring world
Judge you not only judge yourself
You have no command
To take the life from someone else
Is blood on all our hands
As you cling to what is worldly
As flesh goes after flesh
Know they are unworthy
In this one worthy quest
Come to peace all the world
Come and teach the boys and girls
That our peace is a precious pearl
We cannot reach in a warring world
As your kingdoms stand divided
As your house begins to fall
Is this what you’ve decided
Is good for one and all
Suffer all the little children
Unprotected in their shell
If we count them in their millions
Will we buy or will we sell?
Come to peace all the world
Come and teach the boys and girls
That our peace is a precious pearl
We cannot reach in a warring world
Come to peace all the world
Come and teach the boys and girls
That our peace is a precious pearl
We cannot reach in a warring world
Come to peace my warring world
