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Colour Film

by Matthew de Zoete

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1.
THE GOOD LIFE i've got my hands in the sink i'm washing dishes while the sun goes down and from the shower you sing about the night they drove old dixie down i'm gonna take you out tonight you're giving me the good life you're giving me the good life you're getting dressed in our room i hear the tickin tack of high heeled shoes the suns got nothing on you and there is nothing i would rather do than dance with you tonight you're giving me the good life you're giving me the good life there's always something to celebrate there's always nothing to hide you are the greatest of everything what a life i've got these dish pan hands you'll let them hold you til it's closing time you like that look on a man i'm gonna hold you til the morning shines i'm gonna take you home tonight you're giving me the good life you're giving me the good life
2.
Lost at Dawn 04:13
LOST AT DAWN i don't want to fear tomorrow i don't wanna wake up like a loaded gun full of sorrow from dreaming of the past those dreams they find me in the morning they push my back up against the wall with no warning fire at first light but i don't want to fear tomorrow the houses where i used to live the people and the love they used to give when i was young they've left me lost at dawn the pale light creeping through the curtain lifts the memories out from my eyes and leaves me hurting in the cold sunrise but i don't want to fear tomorrow the houses where i used to live the people and the love they used to give when i was young they've left me lost at dawn they've come and gone and i am lost at dawn when i was young i am lost at dawn i don't need to lose my yesterdays but i don't want to live my life stuck on the past there was no golden age
3.
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE i woke up dreaming of your face again the ocean blue in your eyes your mouth was calling out my name again to build a boat to sail to you anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible so many years have slid beneath the waves so much has drowned in the tide if i never wash up on your shore again i'll lay and dream of you tonight anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible i saw an osprey today so far inland from the coast so anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible anything is possible
4.
Criminal 03:50
CRIMINAL take a breath like a criminal and try to meet your eye i'm a dead man buying time you look at me like a winnower for truth among the lies you left your question dangling naked in the sky anyone can talk it's easy to do talk of love, but can you give me proof? come at me like a cannonball aimed right between the eys gasoline thrown on a fire and i feel like a silhouette caught stealing in the light you push me up against the wall and ask me what's inside anyone can talk it's easy to do anyone would say we're lost sometimes anyone would say we're lost sometimes take a pull on a cigarette and walk into the night i'd turn to salt if i looked back and i feel like a widower burying his wife who do you mourn when she's the one who's dressing you in black? anyone would say we're lost sometimes anyone would say we're lost sometimes anyone would say we're lost sometimes
5.
MEXICO THE FREE my love's gone to mexico deep beneath the sun she'll never see the likes of all this ice and snow she left at home she's down in some border town or beside the sea forgetting what she's lost and loving what she's found mexico the free mexico, mexico mexico always on my mind she'll dance in the old town square when the little bands play with someone in her arms and roses in her hair she'll be swept away to mexico, mexico mexico always on my mind mexico, mexico mexico always on my mind my love's gone to mexico deep beneath the sun she'll never see the likes of all this ice and snow all this ice and snow she won't come home
6.
GOING NOWHERE another town tonight a bar with neon lights all the locals sit there looking for a fight above the empty chairs the hockey game blares no one notices you're there stay home tonight you're going nowhere here and you're going nowhere fast stay home tonight you're going nowhere now and you're gonna get there fast when you look in the mirror you wish that you weren't here ten thousand miles from everything that you hold dear in a world of philistines you're david with a sling but you got nothing up your sleeve stay home tonight you're going nowhere here and you're going nowhere fast you should have stayed home tonight you're going nowhere now and you're gonna get there fast you'll get there fast
7.
Colour Film 03:46
COLOUR FILM i saw you on a super eight laughing in the midst of your family i saw you on a colour film from 1963 and i saw you and your sisters smile swinging with your cigarettes and your songs i saw you and your sisters smiling laughing and singing along i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now it's colour now to me i saw you on your brother's farm wearing rubber boots lend a hand with the sheep i saw you take your brother's arm and wipe your face on his sleeve here's a sunday at niagara falls just a picnic with the children out on the grass how is it that after all the present turns to the past? i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now it's colour now to me half of these people have all gone into the ground it's like a silent film the sound gets left behind i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now i thought your life was black and white but it's colour now it's colour now to me i saw you on a super eight living in the family history i saw you on a colour film and you you looked just like me
8.
NOTHING SPECIAL you'd better close your sleeping bag you'll let the draft back in another night for the record books just listen to that wind there's nothing more to do now you should sleep a little bit you could count a few more sheep i'll keep the fire lit but i ain't nothing special to get you through this night i ain't nothing special i ain't nothing special to get you through this night they always say it's calmest in the centre of the storm all around the air is cold but your blood is warm and you could dream a golden life hawaii in the sun you'd better wipe your lying eyes when the dream is gone 'cause i ain't nothing special to get you through this night i ain't nothing special i ain't nothing special to get you through this night and you could dream a golden life hawaii in the sun you'd better wipe your lying eyes when the dream is gone i ain't nothing special to get you through this night i ain't nothing special i ain't nothing special to get you through this night
9.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? i can show myself the door 'cause i'm leaving and if i don't come back for more you'll know you'll know you're the reason you're like a cloud in the sunshine we're all having a good time and you're threatening rain i don't know you anymore you're a stranger so who were you before you changed? you make me sorry i came here you're like a drunk at a wedding always willing and ready to start a fight on the floor and who do you think you are? who do you think you are? if i don't see you anymore now or later and you don't knock on my door or call you would do me a favour you're like a dog in a corner kicked around by your owner and now you're showing your teeth who do you think you are? who do you think you are?
10.
We're Dying 03:17
WE'RE DYING it's strange to feel this cold to the woman who's my wife but i guess that there's a first time for everything in life and we both know life ain't fair i dreamed that you've been sleeping with someone we both know i dreamed that i have left you sometime long ago i wake up and you're still there but i think we're dying we're dying we're dying and sometimes i dont' care i don't feel that spark when my fingers touch your sking sometimes it feels like work, sometimes it feels like sin there's no more magic in your hair and i think we're dying we're dying we're dying and sometimes i dont' care do you hear me? you sit and stare i'm looking at you but you're not there i watch you vanish in the air and we're dying what else should i say to you, what else should i do? where we go from here i leave that up to you but everything has been laid bare and i think we're dying we're dying we're dying and sometimes i dont' care
11.
HUNTER'S MOON i'll wait for you til this fire dies until the smoke invades the corners of my eyes i'm gonna hold my breath all night and listen to the owls as they cry the midnight chorus here in the forest deep in the shadows underneath the hunter's moon and they're singing for us deep in the forest i want to see you underneath the hunter's moon now all the stars come out to shine around the northern anchor in the sky and they're shining for us above the forest i want to see you underneath the hunter's moon deep in the shadows underneath the hunter's moon i'll wait for you til the moon goes down the hunter laid to rest six feet in the ground but now the night's before us here in the forest deep in the shadows underneath the hunter's moon i want to see you underneath the hunter's moon

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Think of Nick Drake cheering up a bit and living long enough to work with Beck. Produced by Les Cooper, this album features an inspired rhythm section, lush keyboards, and sparkling pedal steel. Goes well with a dark room, good headphones, and a bottle of single malt.

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released May 8, 2012

Produced by Les Cooper.
Recorded and mixed by Adam King.
Mastered by Doug Sax.

All songs written by Matthew de Zoete, except 'Anything is Possible' and 'Criminal' written by Matthew de Zoete and Les Cooper.

Les Cooper - guitars, lap steel, harmonies
Stew Crookes - pedal steel on 5 and 10
Matthew de Zoete - vox, guitars
Julie Fader - harmonies on 2, 3, 7, and 11
Robbie Grunwald - keys, harmonies on 8
Adam King - organ on 7
Mark McIntyre - bass
Joel Stouffer - drums and percussion

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Matthew de Zoete Hamilton, Ontario

Imagine Nick Drake cheering up a bit and living long enough to work with Beck. That's the vision conjured by Matthew de Zoete on his latest album Colour Film - strong melodies and honest lyrics inhabiting a modern home. Produced by Les Cooper, the disc's inspired rhythm section, lush keyboards, and sparkling pedal steel call for a dark room, good headphones, and a glass of single malt. ... more

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