사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

Music is power
let it flow through your mind
yeah just like a flower
yeah in a deep sunshine

사용자 삽입 이미지

are you invited
to the party of life
now you've decided
do you live till you die

these are wild, wild, wild,days we live in
yeah I know
sometimes we all wanna give in
these are strange strange vain days we live in
yeah i know sometimes we all wanna give in

don't give up,
oh no, alright
let the melody flow
all night, all night,

cuz music is power
it's easing your soul
rocking like a cradle
it wont let you go
if the melody's timeless
it won't let you down
feel the air moving
submit to the sound

in these wild wild wild days you live in
yeah i know sometimes we all wanna give in
these are stange strange vain days we live in
but i know sometimes we all wanna give in

don't give up
oh no, alright
let the melody flow
all night all night

if the ride we go through
the endless crime
backdays good fortune
all things you'll find

cuz music is the mantra
unwinding your head
music is the question
to things unsaid

in these wild wild wild days you live in
yeah i know sometimes we all wanna give in
these are stange strange vain days we live in
but i know sometimes we all wanna give in

don't give up
oh no, alright
let the melody flow
all night all night

99년에 해체되었다가 올해 재결성한 The Verve 의 리드싱어.
성격 괴팍하기로 유명한 OasisNoel Gallagher  Coldplay Chris Martin 과 절친하다.
앨범은 플래티넘을 기록하며 영국차트 2위.
"Music Is Power" 곡은 20위 기록.


"Music Is Power" M/V

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

Fools, they think I do not know the road I'm taking
If you meet me on the way, hesitating
That is just because I know which way I will choose

The corridors of discontent that I've been travelling
On the lonely search for truth, the world's so frightening
Nothing's going right today cos nothing ever does

사용자 삽입 이미지

Oooo, I don't wanna know your secrets
Oooo, they lie heavy on my head
Oooo, let's break the night with colour
Time for me to move ahead

Monday morning coming down like understanding
Momma thinks you are the clown, you're lookin so frightning
Nothing's going right today cos nothing ever does

Oooo, I don't wanna know your secrets
Oooo, they lie heavy on my head
Time for me to break my cover
Time for me to move ahead

(give it up, here we go again
Gonna give it up, here we go again)

Oooo, I don't wanna know your secrets
Oooo, they lie heavy on my head
Oooo, let's break the night with colour
Time for us to move ahead

Oooo, I don't wanna know your secrets
Oooo, they lie heavy on my head
Time, let's break the night with colour
Time for me to move ahead

영국차트 3위곡.


"Break The Night With Colour" M/V
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

Institutions, you run through them
Oh from the age of five
And no one loves you,
Cares if you lived or you died

사용자 삽입 이미지

Here we go again
In your room your idle pleasures
the sinking sands fell through the net
no one to catch them

Here we go again
In your room your idle pleasures
the sinking sands
perhaps I could make it better

I've got the keys the world yea
Oh mixed up world
I've got the keys the world yea
Oh suicidal world
Whatcha gonna do when we get them?
(When we get them) ?

Confrontations, you expect them
Oh from someone you never loved
And there's no point in fighting,
The truth is they'll never return

Here we go again
In your room your idle pleasures
the sinking sands, you fell through the net
no one to catch you

Here we go again
In your room your idle pleasures
the sinking sands
perhaps I could make it better

I've got the keys the world yea
Oh mixed up world
I've got the keys the world yea
Whatcha gonna do when we get them?

I've got the keys the world yea
Oh suicidal world
Whatcha gonna do when we get them?

(...takes my logic, cos of what will be will be,
take ya down, let me begin, it's like a slow
train moving out of your head...)

"Keys To The World" Live at T In The Park 2006
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

Come now baby
Stay in bed, don't think that it's lazy
Get ourselves another god
Don't let them tell us there isn't one (isn't one)
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Stay, sweet honey
Life's so fast, ya know it ain't funny
Get ourselves another god
Don't let them tell us there isn't one (isn't one)

Like we are just skin
Can you behold
Know beauty within
Know beauty inside your body
You don't love any body

Why do lovers
Choose others
We circle, entwine one-another
In that mask that we wear with each other
Oh my god how I looked in that mirror
I looked in a hollow picture
It was something I could frame

That's right, sweet-heart
Life's tough now, life can be hard
Don't blame me for these pressures in life
Don't blame me for this sacrifice (sacrifice)

Ok, sweet-heart
Take your time, I know lovers they part
Time slows when you're in love
And time moves so fast when it's gettin' on (gettin' on)

Cos we are just skin
Can you behold
I know beauty within
Know beauty inside my body
I don't love any body

Why do lovers
Choose others
To mirror their pain, yeah
Slow down stranger
You know that you're in danger
These demons I've got they are major, yeah
Ready for you to lay it onnnnnnnnn



"Words Just Get In The Way" M/V
 
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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World
(2006)

First that I ever saw you,
Knew nothing would ever be the same.
Sweet love in the process,
There were things that I needed to explain.

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Yeah You didn't play with my feelings,
Like the others with their games.
You said its time to do some bleeding,
Time to cry the past away.

Chorus

Cry til the morning,
Cry til the morning,
We just cried til the morning,
Yeah I cried like never before

The first place I never quite asked her,
Those pictures faded on the wall.
Those family memebers,
Sometimes they just gotta call.

Sweet love in the process,
Solid chewed and left combined.
Have you got an address,
Somepleace new that we can Find.

Chorus

Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry like never before.

Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
C'mon,
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry, Cry til the morning, morning.
Cry, Cry til the morning,
Cry like never before

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

It's been a long time since I've been around here
I'm driving so fast, the trees disappear around me
Everything I know, or have known before
Is here in my mind, I think you know the score

사용자 삽입 이미지

The world keeps turning, everybody's learning
Keep ahead of the race it's the human despair
On my blocks everynight trying to figure out whats wrong & right
Oh, just as psychadelic thing, I'll bring you love, anything
But the tears will flow, just the like the blood on the streets yeah

It's been too long since we sat down here & talked
It's been too long, you know we seperated
It's been so long I wish that I could build a bridge
It's been so long, how can I see through it?

The world keeps turning, everybody's learning
Keep ahead of the race, I've money to spend
And time to lend on my friends
Everything right in my life again
Oh babe, don't you take it away & give me days that were black & gray
And all the corners of my mind turned, entwined into another guy
Oh hit, a hypocrit, yeah that's it. I turned my words, they twirl & combine
They mix in your head, and make you think that I'm singing right to you
It's ok, if you want, I'll give you the time, the money to run
You could be the president, if you get that far then give me some help

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Keys To The World (2006)

I aint got time for your politics
Or your masqueraded machavellian tricks
Goodbye, you know i aint got time

Dont deny it its abuse of the cross
Lets get some of god squad in the dock where they belong
Ah wheres ya song ?

Its a- I know that your wrong you gotta learn the way you do
Take my advice dont let em treat you like a fool
Hey babe, Im gonna look you in the eye
Thats when we started singing
사용자 삽입 이미지

Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing

Tonight i need survival through your everyday
Who the fuck are you when you take that mask away ?
Friend i dont know, ahh where do we go ?

I do not know whats real on the screen
Hollywoods directing world war 3
Whats going on?, ahh pass me the gun

Its a- I know that your wrong you gotta learn the way you do
Take my advice dont let em treat you like a fool
Hey babe, Im gonna look you in the eye
Thats when we started singing

Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
(X2)

Cos its a- I know that your wrong you gotta learn the way you do
Take my advice dont let em treat you like a fool
Hey babe, Im gonna look you in the eye
Thats when we started singing

Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing
Why not, why not nothing

Its a- I know that your wrong you gotta learn the way you do
Take my advice dont let em treat you like a fool
Hey babe, Im gonna look you in the eye
Thats when we started singing

Why not nothing
Why not nothing
Why not nothing
Why not nothing


"Why Not Nothing?" M/V
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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Human Conditions (2002)

We are on a rock, spinning silently
But I'm safe when you're here with me
These questions I'm asking, they've been haunting me
I need some security, can't you see?
Her love was like a fountain rushing and pouring down
The darkness is putting out the light in me
She's a well to be dug, she's a university
A cosmic library - wait and see
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We are on a rock, spinning silently
Won't you get close to me
We are on a rock, spinning in infinity
Won't you get close to me

Is it my genes that have made me?
Is it the things I took, is it the things I said
Does karma rule?
Well if there's a God well can you hear me now?
I am crying out, hoping you know
And in my baby's arms I need no faith
I need no words to define myself
And when I'm holding you, light rushing through
I wanna make it now, safe and straight

We are on a rock, spinning silently
Baby get a hold of me
We are on a rock, spinning in infinity
Baby consoling me

Oh I don't know when the fear's going to end
I don't know if my prayers are received - the ones I send
(We are on a rock, spinning silently)
I can't live in pain and fear
(We are on a rock, spinning in infinity)
Oh I see so much joy and it makes me scared
(We are on a rock, spinning silently)
Oh I don't know if my prayers are received, until the end
(We are on a rock, spinning in infinity)
Oh I guess it ain't offet for you to pray for peace
Oh baby I don't know where I'm going
All I know is that I need you as a friend

앨범은 판매율 Gold를 기록하며 영국차트 3위.
"Science Of Silence" 곡은 영국차트 14위 기록.

"Science Of Silence" M/V
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Human Conditions
(2002)

When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost
I don't know who I can trust
Paranoia, the destroyer, comes knocking on my door
You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights
But it slowly will subside
And when it does, I take a step, I take a breath
And wonder what I'll find

사용자 삽입 이미지

Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love

(The human condition)
(The human condition)

Too much blood, too much hate, turn off the set
There's got to be something more
When Mohammed, Allah, Buddah, Jesus Christ
Are knocking down my door
I'm agnostic getting God, but man
She takes a female form
There's no time, no space, no law
We're out here on our own

Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love

[Check the meaning]
[The human condition]
[Check the feeling]
[The human condition]

Guess it's life, doing it's thing
Making you cry, making you think
Yeah life, dealing it's hand
Making you cry and you don't understand
Life, doing it's thing
Making you cry now, making you think of
Pain, doing it's thing
Making you cry yeah, making you sing

Don't say it, don't say it's too late
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late, it's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late

The human condition, the big decisions
The human condition, the big decisions

I'm like a fish with legs, I fell from the tree
I made a rocket (check the meaning), I made a wheel
I made a rocket (check the feeling), I swam the ocean (check the meaning)
I saw the moon (say a prayer), I seen the universe (and beyond)
I see you (check the feeling), I see me (check the meaning)
That's my reality
And while the city sleeps we go walking

It's a beautiful world
And when the city sleeps we go walking
We find a hole in the sky and then we start talking
And then we say "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Buy us some time, buy us some time"
Hear what I'm saying
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?

It's gonna be alright

영국 싱글차트 11위 기록.

"Check The Meaning" M/V


"Check The Meaning" Live
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Human Conditions (2002)

Lord, I've been trying
Trying to keep myself from crying
And it gets hard, there's no use denying
There's been some nights when I did a little lying

사용자 삽입 이미지

Sure feels like I've been here before
Yes it sure feels like I've been here before

Captain tell me where I've been,
Are there waves left there for me?
Is there something left to see?
Is there something left to be?
Oh I know that I'm holding on but I've got time to grow
Alright, alright, alright
Said it's alright, now

Days that I've been spending
And all these blues - they're never ending
And it gets hard, and life will go on again
Gonna shake off these blues, I'm leaving them now

Sure feels like I've been here before
Yes it sure feels like I've been here before

Captain tell me where I've been,
Are there waves left there for me?
Can you see the warning sign
Flashing there in my mind?
My mind is free and I'm talking up to you - I say
"Alright, alright, alright"

(I've been trying)
It feels good, it feels good, it feels good, it feels good, it feels good
(To keep my soul from crying)
My love is alright now,
(I've been trying)
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it feels right
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it feels right

 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Human Conditions (2002)

Baby come on, come on down
And love please don't make a sound
Let nature strike a chord
'Cos nature is the Lord that I depend

사용자 삽입 이미지

When you learn to cut it loose
All the things that've been drowning you
Let 'em slide from your hands
The foolish demands from the people round you

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with prayer
I know it all so very well

Until I get there then
I'll be looking for the sense
You can meet me where I am
And here I stand, and here I stay

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with pills
I know it all so very well

Stuck in this life where nothing changes
I'm born of man, I'm born of ages

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with prayer
I know it all so very well

I know you can buy it in bottles and
I know you may find it with pills
I know it all so very well

Until I get there then
Until I get there then
Until I get there then
Until I get there then

영국차트 26위 곡.

"Buy It In Bottles" M/V
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

I get my beat with you
When we see things through
And I think about you all the time

사용자 삽입 이미지

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know

I need to hear the truth
From the soul of you
Chase the moments we can share

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know

They got time
They got life
Take and take your time

I got to hear the sound of the morning song
It's the right place with your head
I'm blowing smoke and I'll feel so damn fine
I know you care

Who the winners in the game were playing
I don't even think they know
Who the losers and how much their paying
I don't even think they know

'Alone With Everybody' 앨범은 플래티넘을 달성하며 영국차트 1위기록.


"I Get My Beat" Live at the Stockholm Arena, Sweden, the 22/11/2000
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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

Into the brave new world
I hope I see you on the other side
Of this changing world

Baby when my ship pulls in
I try to believe in anyone
Look at the state I'm in.

사용자 삽입 이미지

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
x 3
I hope I see you on the other side
x 2

Brother don't try to find
Don't try to believe in anyone
For I would change your mind

Baby when my ship pulls in
I try to believe in anyone
Look at the state I'm in, I'm fine

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
x 6
I hope I see you on the other side x6

But for now
I'm just sitting at the table
Hearing songs
Wishing I was able, stable
Brave new world
x 3
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
x 6
I hope I see you on the other side x6

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

Sometimes I feel like I can't move on
Nothing in life is turning me on
But I still see clearly, when I see you smiling

You know nothing seems to fit
I couldn't see my way through the shit
When every single second of my waking day

사용자 삽입 이미지

Was thinking of you
Thinking of you
You never know

That I am alive
I am alive
I wanna grow

There are so many things I can do
Just like falling in love with you

Take my hand now, understand me
You can come here too

C'mon people, we're making it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah

C'mon people, we're making it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah

But today I worked it out
I got something I can shout about
Someone who believes in all the things I'm thinking

But where have you gone
Where have you gone
I'll never know

And I am alive
I am alive
I wanna grow

There are so many things I can do
Just like falling in love with you

Take my hand now, understand me
You can come here too

영국차트 21위 기록.

"C'mon People (We're Making It Now)" M/V
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

You ain't ever seen
The way to find your dreams
Forget what's within within
Cos who you've been you've been

사용자 삽입 이미지

If all we lose is the skin
I'm putting you under within
We're gonna make this life together

The symptoms are too deep
I got you on my mind in my sleep

you on my mind in my sleep

Do you know how hard I'll try
To lose this foolish pride
Can you take me as I am
Can you understand me
Unchain me now

If all we lose is the skin
I'm putting you under within
We're gonna make this life together

The symptoms are too deep
I got you on my mind in my sleep

you on my mind in my sleep

I got you on my mind in my sleep
Heavenly body

영국 싱글차트 5위 기록.

"You on My Mind in My Sleep" Acoustic Live 2001
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

Are you tuning in x4

And I wanted to go
Half my life
And I feel kind of strange
Like I never lived that life

사용자 삽입 이미지

And I'm trying hard
To control my heart
And I always want to know
And I always want to go

Chorus
New York are you tuning in
New York big city of dreams
New York oh what a city
New York Are you tuning in x4

There's now time to unpack yet
Let's get straight out on the street
And feel no inhibitions
This city was built for me

And my head is full of questions
When did I feel this good
In the arms of my lover
Burning through the night of New York

And its funny how time fly's
In the city that never sleeps
It's getting after hours
And I'm feeling the heat

I'M almost dead and buried
The day nearly done
But I want to keep on going
I'm going to kiss the sun in New York

And I'm feeling kind of selfish
'Cause I'm just flying home
I've been busy on your island
Just having my own fun

It's an English tradition
Find some money make some time
Get busy on your island
And slowly lose our minds in New York

"New York" Live at Birmingham 03/12/06
 

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사용자 삽입 이미지
Richard Paul Ashcroft (1971년생)

Alone With Everybody (2000)

I spend the night
Yeah looking for my insides in a hotel room
Waiting for you
Were gonna make it tonight
Yeah something in the air tells me the time is right so we better get on

사용자 삽입 이미지

Chorus
Dj,play a song for the Lovers tonight
Please, play a song for the lovers tonight

Don't wanna wait
Lord ive been waiting all my life but Im too late again
I know but I was scared
Cant you see
Im moving like a train into some foreign land I aint
Got a ticket for this ride but I will

Oh, play a song for the Lover tonight
Dj, play a song for the Lover tonight
Dj, play a song for the Lovers tonight
Please play a song for the Lovers tonight

Cant stop looking back no no
One more for the lovers
Oh brother wont you lend a hand Im alone in a room
And Im waiting for love
I dont know when this dreams gonna stop
But im telling you man I dont want to get off x2

END:
In my midnight hour.. In my midnight hour...
You tick me up, you tick me up

영국차트 3위 기록.

"A Song for the Lovers" M/V
 

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