BRYAN Mc FADDEN - lyrics

ABOUT

With the release of his debut solo single, 'Real To Me' and album fast approaching, Brian McFadden is in a relaxed and open mood. One fifth of one of the biggest boy bands in the world, now a solo artist in his own right, at the age of just 24, Brian has all the hard won wisdom of a music veteran, but with none of the cynicism. Having sold 30 million records and picked up twelve UK number 1's with Westlife, Brian’s passion for making music is undiminished and invigorating.

Engaging and frank, Brian describes his new album as largely autobiographical, “every song" he admits is “a true story”. Half the album was written in collaboration with Guy Chambers and the other half with Paul Barry and producer Mark Taylor. The album is a genuine tour de force, a record stuffed with anthemic rock hits, perfectly showcasing the genuine rock and roll swagger of Brian’s voice. The album is produced by Guy Chambers, Richard Flack and Mark Taylor.

"Going in I had some ideas about what I wanted it all to sound like but basically we started from scratch and just saw how things went. Lyrically I had loads of ideas and concepts and those guys were great at just bringing things out of me.”

Production started on the album in May 2004, “It’s been quick but then some of the best tracks on the album were written really quickly. Paul and I formed a strong writing relationship right away and I wrote, 'Real To Me' with Guy on our very first meeting. We just clicked right away.”

Brian approached the album entirely focused on the music. When Brian talks about the album he speaks with all the fresh and infectious energy of someone making their very first record. For Brian the primary aim was to make the best record possible and find a sound that truly reflects his style, all other factors were secondary. “I just really want to be an artist on my own terms making music that I am really proud of”, says Brian. “Of course I want people to like it and listen to it and hopefully they will. Westlife fans have grown up with us and I think there is space in the new sound for everyone”.

This tough new sound is influenced by a whole range of different bands and groups including the band he manages in Ireland: Franklin. "I really like Maroon 5 and Snow Patrol at the moment”, says Brian, "I have always been into guitar stuff, from Bryan Adams to Nirvana".

Brian is currently in rehearsal with his band and is looking forward to taking the album out on the road later this year.

"That’s the difference with the album. I can’t wait to tour with it, it’s got a live feel and you can really perform it".

The first single, 'Real To Me', is an impassioned and eloquent guitar anthem about re-evaluating priorities and finding an individual voice and place of your own. Brian is keen to point out that although the song is clearly about his amicable split from Westlife, it is the only song on the album that directly references this time in his life. Lyrically and in terms of subject matter, the inspirations for the rest of the songs on the album are extraordinarily varied and ambitious. ‘Irish Son’ is about growing up Ireland and the Catholic Church; ‘Walking Into Walls’ deals with domestic violence while, 'He's No Hero', explores the effect of alcoholism. The dramatic track, ‘Demons’, is about insomnia and nightmares. The song, ‘Woman’, Brian laughingly says, is about, "How no matter how much you try you can never win with women". A real journey then, full of colour, drama and insight, delivered straight from the heart.

As a solo artist, Brian has truly found his voice, producing lyrically mature and incisive music with energy and passion. Willing to take risks and experiment with his new sound, Brian is also proud of his past, well aware that he was part of something special with Westlife.

"I am blessed to be where I am, and am just really excited to be able to make music I love".

ALMOST HERE

Brian:
Did I hear you right?
Cause I thought you said
Let's think it over
You have been my life
And I never planned
Growing old without you

Shadows bleeding through the light
Where the love once shined so bright
Came without a reason
Don't let go on us tonight
Love's not always black and white
Haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's not enough
And when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'cause you're only almost here

Brian:
I would change the world
If I had a chance
Oh won't you let me
Treat me like a child
Throw your arms around me
Oh please protect me

Brian & Delta:
Bruised and battered by your words
Dazed and shattered, now it hurts
Brian:
Oh, haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
And I know that's not enough
And when I'm with you
I'm close to tears
'cause you're only almost here

Brian & Delta:
Bruised and battered by your words
Dazed and shattered, now it hurts
Brian:
Haven't I always loved you?

Delta:
But when I need you
You're almost here
Brian:
Well I never knew how far behind I'd left you
Delta:
And when I hold you
You're almost here
Brian:
Well I'm sorry that I took our love for granted

Brian & Delta:
And now I'm with you
I'm close to tears
Brian:
Cause I know I'm almost here

Brian & Delta:
Only almost here

BE TRUE TO YOUR WOMAN

I was talking last night
To a friend who was thinking he might
Risk it all for a moment of lust
and adventure, so I told him

You can live everyday like your last
Pay the price and the moment will past
It's too late and there's no second chance
If it's over, you got nothing

Well I've been there
The grass was just fine on this side
Because I've been there
There's no getting back on that ride
There's no replacing the love you got
You don't have to lose to see what you've lost
Well just be true to your woman

No good living the lie
When it's over the secret won't die
She'll move on to another guy
She won't love you, like your wife

And I've been there
I don't recommend the pain
Because I've been there
Trust me as your friend
There's nothing to gain
There's no replacing the love you got
You don't have to lose to see what you've lost
Oh, just be true to your woman

Many years, working hard, everyone,
Gets tempted by something
They never knew, never had
The fantasy overtakes, over-rides, everything
And you'll get lost in a hollow world

All those years they are worth the lot
You only realise when they've gone
Then just be true
There's no replacing the love you got
You don't have to lose to see what you've lost
Just be true to your woman

DEMONS

Have you ever been lost in a different world?
Where everything you once knew is gone
And you, find yourself powerless
With everything that exists
You’re numb

Pre1
Will I ever break free?

C1
I search my world but I can’t find you
You’re standing there but I can’t touch you
Try to talk but the words are just not there
I can feel a sense of danger
You stare at me like I’m a stranger
Paralyzed and you don’t seem to care
The demons in my dreams

V2
If you become a nobody
Blind, to your family
Who would you be?
And life has gone into reverse
Re-living every hurt along the way
Pre2
Everything that you fear
Is calling you and drawing near

C2
I search my world but I can’t find you
You’re standing there but I can’t touch you
I try to talk but the words are just not there
I can feel a sense of danger
You stare at me like I’m a stranger
Paralyzed and you don’t seem to care
The demons in my dreams

M8
Wake me up and let’s go
I’m about to explode

C3
I search my world but I can’t find you
You’re standing there but I can’t touch you
I try to talk but the words are just not there
I can feel a sense of danger
You stare at me like I’m a stranger
Paralyzed and you don’t seem to care
The demons in my dreams

HE`S NO HERO

It’s another 6 am as he stubbles in again
And my mother cries don’t wake the children
Through the tears I can hear him say
Didn’t have much luck today
But he really knows he just threw it away
He finds the answers at the bottom of a bottle
And his life is always fully on the throttle
And he’s slowly turning out just like his father
And he knows

That he’s no hero
But he’s doing what he can
Trying to make me a better man
And he’s no hero
But he made me what I am
Stopped me from becoming another you

Daddy couldn’t save himself
No one ever cared to help
And he looked at me
as what he could have been
Now I know what I’ve got to be
Everything to make him proud of me
With my second chance that he never had
Cause his dreams are at the bottom of his bottle
And he’s never gonna be who he oughta
And he’s just a living image of his father
And he knows

That he’s no hero
But he’s doing what he can
Trying to make me a better man
But he’s no hero
But he made me what I am
Stopped me from becoming another you

The dead-end road on which I’m runnin’
It’s like he already knew
He lived the pain that would be comin’
And I’m proud to say that he is my father
And it’s ok

That he’s no hero
But he’s doing what he can
Trying to make me a better man
But he’s no hero
But he made me what I am
Stopped me from becoming
Stopped me from becoming
Stopped me from becoming

Another you
Another you
Another you

IRISH SON

I was born in the heart of Dublin
To a holy book full of rules
Made get on our knees every
Sunday with the other fools

We were warped by the Christian Brothers
In the cell blocks at our schools
Get a handprint on your skin
From a glove of jewels

Go hit me now
That I'm twice your size
We brushed off the accusations
And bowed before your lies

This is the city that raised me
With the religion they gave me
Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
But it was leaving that saved me
I've seen so much that has changed me
So just break with your past
Feed your own mind
'Cause this Irish son has moved with the times

Wedding's deaths,and baptizing children
That's my debt paid to the church
I don't need that kind of salvation
When I get hurt

Don't fill my head with sermons
And force me to believe

This is the city that raised me
With the religion they gave me
Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
But it was leaving that saved me
I've seen so much that has changed me
So just break with your past
Feed your own mind
'Cause this Irish son has moved with the times

Our father who art in heaven
Come down here and make your presence known
We can't do it on our own
The lunatics let run the asylum
How can we find peace inside your home
When you can't trust your own

This is the city that raised me
With the religion they gave me
Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
But it was leaving that saved me
I've seen so much that has changed me
So just break with your past
Feed your own mind
Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times
Yes this Irish son has moved with the times

LOSE LOSE SITUATION

When we fall out
I like to go driving in my car
listen to something ironic
and end up in a bar
get an earful of DILARANG KERAS
from a stranger whos got a broken heart
weighing out what would be more painful
staying with your man
or going back to her

Doesn't everybody feel this way sometimes
its a lose lose situation
for a shitty little crime
you can never win with women its pointless
tryin to try
its a lose lose situation
till the day you die.

everybody knows the score
she'll be crying to the mother in law
then i'll be sleeping out with the dog
must give inter-flora a call, a call, a call, a call.

Doesn't everybody feel this way sometimes
its a lose lose situation
for a shitty little crime
you can never win with women its pointless
tryin to try
its a lose lose situation
till the day you die.

ooooh la la la
ooooh la la la
ooooh la la la
ooooh la la la
ooooh la la la
ooooh la la la

Then we make up
i'll be walking on egg shells for a day
and i'll clean the house in the hope that
i might get a lay
i think back to that drunken stranger
and something that he said
"ya made ya bed so lie in it"
she'll be quiet when your dead.

Doesn't everybody feel this way sometimes
its a lose lose situation
for a shitty little crime
you can never win with women its pointless
tryin to try
its a lose lose situation
till the day you die.

its a lose lose situation
till the day you die.

REAL TO ME

Showbiz dinners and the free champagne,
Men in suits who think they know it all,
No-one knows me but they know my name
That's not real to me,
Hotel lobby to the aeroplane,
Another country but they start to look the same
Watch the world behind a window pane
That's not real to me,

When I see my babies run,
When all the madness has been and gone,
I'll raise my family and live in peace
Now that's what's real to me
Real to me

Dying flowers in a dressing room
A dangerous time to let your head make up it's own mind
Got me thinking that the spirits flown
That's not real to me,

When I see my babies run,
When all the madness has been and gone,
I'll raise my family and live in peace
Now that's what's real to me

Picnics in the garden
And the children they can play
The first day of the summer
And I laze here all the day
And we'll then invite the family round
And drink some English tea
Then I raise up my finger
And watch football on TV

Yeah..ohh..

Now that's what's real to me

When I see my babies run,
When all the madness has been and gone,
I'll raise my family and live in peace
Now that's what's real to me
That's what's real to me
Real to me

Wake up you might be dreaming
Wake up you might be dreaming, now

SORRY LOVE DADdY

It seems like only yesterday
I held you in my arms and said
You will never need to fear the dark
But unforeseen misery has come between your Mummy and me
We can love you more now we’re apart

Daddy, he’s got to go away
Cos there’s just no other way to live this through
Someday you’ll learn to understand
This wasn’t what I planned for me and you
Sorry, love Daddy

Everyday is filled with pain
But never feel that you’re to blame
Sometimes life breaks in mysterious ways
I can make it up to you
Believe me I am trying to
No matter what you’ll always be my babies

Daddy, he’s got to go away
Cos there’s just no other way to live this through
Someday you’ll learn to understand
This wasn’t what I planned for me and you
Sorry, love Daddy

Oohhhhhh

Daddy, he’s got to go away
Cos there’s just no other way to live this through
Someday you’ll learn to understand
This wasn’t what I planned for me and you
Sorry, love Daddy

I’m sorry, love daddy

WALKING DESASTER

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The summer got cold
And the wheels came of my mobile home and then
My face it got old
And the ride of my life broke down ten minutes from home
God don't love me anymore
But once again I’ve drawn the short straw
I can't take it, anymore

The world is spinning round
And I fell off and never hit the ground
It turned me upside down
My heart fell out, now i'm

A walking disaster
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A walking disaster
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Reversal of roles
And the shoe is on the other foot for just then
No rhythm and soul
And I lost my mojo a no-go nasty surprise

God don't love me anymore
But once again I’ve drawn the short straw
I can't take it anymore

The world is spinning around
And I fell off and never hit the ground
It turned me upside down
My heart fell out, now I'm

A walking disaster
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A walking disaster
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A walking disaster

(Leave me alone, leave me alone, leave me alone,.....)

A walking Disaster

(Leave me alone, leave me alone, just leave me alone, leave me alone, oh leave me alone,....)

I can't take it anymore
The world is spinning around
And I fell off and never hit the ground
It turned me upside down
My heart fell out, now I'm

A walking disaster
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A walking Disaster
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A walking Disaster

The world is spinning round
And I fell off and never hit the ground
It turned me upside down
My heart fell out, now I'm

A walking disaster
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(Oooh oooh ooooh oooh oooh ooooh ooooh)
A walking disaster
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A walking disaster!