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A Simple Plan

by Robin Tymm

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1.
Helping Hand 03:49
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I’ll tell you something you should know The parts don’t add up to the whole Right here, right now Is all there is to understand And I’m holding out a helping hand Her eyes were shining like the sun I spoke of what we’d left undone I’ll take the skies You can keep the seas and lands Just keep holding out a helping hand CHORUS I’m going home This island life is not for me I’m cut and dried Without a hint of mystery At night I dream of being carried out to sea That my heart fails is no surprise I ran my race this was my prize Your careless words Are causing more harm than was planned Just keep holding out a helping hand CHORUS I’m going home This island life is not for me I’m cut and dried Without a hint of mystery At night I dream of being carried out to sea © 1995 Robin Tymm
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Going Nowhere Fast 04:13
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Going nowhere fast Not one for turning back I'll make this trip in record time Oh, you know that it's just like me Hell-bent on misery I'm all fast-forward and no rewind This self-destructive urge A poisoned spell A fearful curse Who knows how long these things may last Going nowhere fast Going nowhere fast The point of no return has passed I had my chance a long, long time ago I'm a lost and a hopeless case It's a crying shame, it's a fucking waste So tell me something I don't already know And just how long is not quite clear It's days and weeks And months and years The ending's set in stone and the die is cast Going nowhere fast Going nowhere fast Not one for turning back I'll make this trip in record time Oh, you know that it's just like me Hell-bent on misery I'm all fast-forward and no rewind The city stretches out below This window ledge on the fifteenth floor As I step out the crowd lets out a gasp Going nowhere fast Going nowhere fast © 2001 Robin Tymm
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Something 05:35
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I’m coming to see you, I’ll say that I miss you And all of those things I never said It’s not for the first time that this conversation’s Been going around and around in my head You’re at the end of the road And now you’re thinking of jumping I’m here to talk you down though I don’t know what to say Guess I’ll think of something I’m coming to see you, did you think I’d leave you? High on a wire and out in the cold What type of journey has this destination? What in the world has left you so low? You’re at the end of the road They say you’re thinking of jumping I’m here to talk you down though I don’t know what to say Guess I’ll think of something CHORUS Something to help you through tonight Something to think of when you’re blue Something to hold when you get lonely And you don’t know what to do I’m coming to see you, I’ll say that I miss you And all of those things I never said It’s not for the first time that this conversation’s Been going around and around in my head You’re at the end of the rope And now you’re thinking of jumping I’m here to talk you down though I don’t know what to say Hope I’ll think of something CHORUS Something to help you through tonight Something to think of when you’re blue Something to hold when you get lonely And you don’t know what to do © 2003 Robin Tymm
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See You Again 03:23
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All you left me were those ten days in June By so fast, they were gone too soon Now you're leaving though you only just arrived When you're gone I don't know how I’m gonna get by CHORUS I cannot believe that I won't see you again No, I cannot believe that I won't see you again Tomorrow came, the world did not end The sun came up then went right back down again I guess the same thing's gonna happen every day Can’t help thinking things were meant to be this way CHORUS I cannot believe that I won't see you again No, I cannot believe that I won't see you again BRIDGE I don't know if I could've loved you 'Cause you were gone before I had a chance to really make up my mind But you know that I would've tried All you left me were those ten days in June By so fast, they were gone too soon Now you're leaving though you only just arrived When you're gone I don't know how I will survive CHORUS I cannot believe that I won't see you again No, I cannot believe that I won't see you again BRIDGE I don't know if I could've loved you 'Cause you were gone before I had a chance to really make up my mind But you know that I would've tried © 2003 Robin Tymm
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Baby In The Park 01:55
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You know I like walking and talking With my baby in the park She makes it feel like the sun’s shining down on me Even in the dark I wanna hold her hand and tell her that I love her And we’ll never be apart Oh you know I like walking and talking With my baby in the park BRIDGE Well she swore she’d love me ‘Til the end of time And I swore I’d love her too And she promised to be faithful Stay only mine And I said, “If I’m gonna give my heart I’m gonna give it all to you” Well we had some crazy dreams Walking with my baby through the night We knew of all the wrongs in the world But our love was strong enough to make them right And if some things don’t work out like I planned I sure as hell ain’t gonna be asking why Oh I’ll say we had some crazy dreams Walking with my baby through the night © 1987 Robin Tymm
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Want You Back 04:32
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She got up and she left me without a word She’s heading off when there’s a change in the weather Flying south to a warmer land Falling asleep holding another man’s hand And girl I can’t forgive you for that but I want you back, yeah Optimism is misery, it always gets me down Look on the black side, that way things can only get better And maybe if I’d thought about it long enough I’d find a reason to believe you hadn’t wasted all my love There’s not too many chances of that but I want you back CHORUS I want you back baby, can I forget, maybe I’m overboard and you’re the only one to save me The telephone is calling, I get so lonely darling And I don’t know what I gonna do, what I’m gonna do Well I wish that I could close my eyes and gently float downstream And when I wake up in the morning I’ve forgotten everything And what was broken can begin to mend And though it might take twenty years I’ll learn to be myself again, be myself again But for now there’s no avoiding the fact that I want you back, yeah CHORUS I want you back baby, can I forget, maybe I’m overboard and you’re the only one ‘round here to save me The telephone is calling, I get so lonely darling And I don’t know what I’m gonna do What I’m gonna do, what I’m gonna do © 1990 Robin Tymm
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Taken For A Ride 04:36
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I was hitching for a lift ‘long a lonely country road Wasn’t having too much luck, Lord I was hungry, I was cold From over the horizon came a reason to believe There might be a God in heaven, might be watching over me I said, "How far are you going?", as I looked into her eyes She said, "Son, you're just a passenger I’m taking for a ride" I was sleeping in my hotel room; they're knocking down my door Someone screaming something 'bout me breaking local law It must have crossed my mind but it was useless to resist Shone their torches in my eyes and slapped their handcuffs on my wrists At the car he pushed my head down and he made me get inside Wanted answers to some questions so they took me for a ride CHORUS I’ve been taken for a ride And I took the long way home Guess I’m on the road less travelled 'Cause I like to walk alone And I lie awake and wonder 'Bout that feeling deep inside Chances are I've just been taken for a ride I had myself a pretty girlfriend that I just adored Used to buy her lots of presents that I could not afford My best friend called to say she's cheating, I'm glad my best friend phoned He said she'd leave me when she'd taken everything I owned Then it hit me like a left hook, right then I realised Don’t you put you trust in anything, you'll just get taken for a ride CHORUS I’ve been taken for a ride And I took the long way home Guess I’m on the road less travelled 'Cause I like to walk alone And I lie awake and wonder 'Bout that feeling deep inside Chances are I've just been taken for a ride Chances are I've just been taken for a ride © 1988/12th November 2011 Robin Tymm
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You & Me 04:14
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You and me, plain to see Can’t deny, meant to be Don’t start a fight, don’t disagree You and me Played in time, kept the beat Sang along in harmony It’s the same old song, a brand new key You and me, you and me BRIDGE Love’s a mighty big word Don’t let’s get carried away, carried away Perhaps you might have misheard Sometimes the meaning gets blurred And I forget what to say You and me, who are we To fight against this destiny? The pieces fit so perfectly You and me, you and me BRIDGE Love’s a mighty big word Don’t let’s get carried away, carried away Perhaps you might have misheard Sometimes the meaning gets blurred And I forgot what I was trying to say You and me, plain to see Can’t deny, meant to be Don’t start a fight, don’t disagree You and me, you and me © 2001 Robin Tymm
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Up The Wall 03:59
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I wish you’d just say what you mean You play with words but you’re just playing with me Your calculations make me scream You push that button and I’m self-destructing and it drives me… CHORUS Up the wall Gonna sit on the ceiling, stare at the floor I’m going up the wall Now with gravity gone got no reason to fall You keep me locked up in my room Sometimes the outside world looks so exciting Incarceration came too soon I can’t help thinking ‘bout the might-have-beens and it drives me... CHORUS Up the wall Gonna sit on the ceiling, stare at the floor I’m going up the wall Now with gravity gone got no reason to fall I can’t forgive and I can’t forget All these thoughts running through my head I’ve a notion I once knew which way to turn Well, I heard it in a song, I read it in a book I can’t escape this feeling like I’m falling out of love And it drives me, yeah, it drives me CHORUS Up the wall Gonna sit on the ceiling, stare at the floor I’m going up the wall Now with gravity gone got no reason to fall, no reason at all © 1997 Robin Tymm
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A Simple Plan 05:15
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Was a simple plan Wrote it out on the palm of my hand Gonna take what I got Gonna make what I can Was a beautiful, blue sky Lay on my bed Let the world pass me by And I’m used to darker days But they never crossed my mind CHORUS Do you feel like your better days have passed And you’re running out of time? You’ll never make a moment last There’s a flaw in the design On some exotic foreign shore I’ve got a beer and my guitar Would it be wrong to hope for more? It’s been so long since I knew love Is this a pain I must endure? CHORUS Do you feel like your better days have passed And you’re running out of time? You’ll never make a moment last There’s a flaw in the design CHORUS Do you feel like your better days have passed And you’re running out of time You’ll never make a moment last There’s a flaw There’s a flaw in the design © 2001 Robin Tymm

about

This is the first one.
I'd had songs for ages....and I'd sent off a CD to a friend of my brother's who was a producer...he said a lot of nice things but also questioned why I didn't try to do something with it....so I thought I'd have a go at recording an album, strangely choosing none of the songs on the CD I'd sent off.
When you don't know what you're doing, or how long it should take to do stuff, it's pretty liberating...this was recorded in about 10 days over Xmas 2003, and mixed in about 30 minutes in the New Year.
Yes, there a whole load of things I hate about it, but that's balanced by the energy and naivety that I fail to get these days.
The whole thing has been mastered in 2014...not re-mastered because it was never really mastered in the first place...and not re-mixed at all, so the vocals are still a bit too low.

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released June 30, 2004

all instruments - robin tymm

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