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by Frank Nicolas

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By Any Other Name 04:08
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A Rose By any other name Is just as sweet Coal By any other name Is just as black But we’ll not carry roses And we’ll not carry coal We’ll pick words from thorny bushes We’ll burn names to fight the cold War By any other name Is just as grim Rain By any other name Is just as wet We’ll not cry for war And we’ll not cry for rain We’ll let euphemisms kill us After we beat around the bush God By any other name Is just as…
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A Long Way Gone 04:18
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Where once jasmin grew Where once children played Our church was painted black And the children painted red So we fled westward bound Nine in a vessel for two At first they gave us hope Now we’re a number in a speech And we’re a long way from home But home is a long way gone We said lord, we trust in you Lord come to our aid Please guide us to places Where we can rest our weary bones We could pray all we want Ask all we want Say all we want It’s still a long way from home And hope is a long way gone Can you believe in a higher power One that loves us one and all When your house is in tatters And everything that matters Is Gone Lost Dead
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Across And A Cross 07:06
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A Rose There’s an old piece of wood here Once the heart of a tree It’s seen winters in norway Now it’s looking at me In every crack is a story A tale in every stain I hear the voice of the ages Whisper a weathered refrain I’ve been around the world twice I’ve seen centuries pass by I’ve been across the Blue ocean And here I lie They felled me one morning Spring of sixteen-o-four They hauled me off to the shoreline To Bragernes Drammen port And then on to the North Sea Past the Frisian Isles We rolled in through the Pampus To the old river Zaan Where the windmills drove sawblades Through every inch of my trunk Up, and down and up again Chunk by chunk Then they left me to dry out Until the ship-builders came They took my heart to the shipyards Put my scraps to the flame To be part of the ship’s bow When my body was bent They poured a cup of wine on me And away we went We sailed ‘round the good hope On a westerly breeze We brought pepper and nutmeg From the far, far east Robert Holmes made a bonfire Burning ten dozen ships Vows of vengeance and cries for war Were on everyone’s lips Tubes of bronze were upon me The smell of death in the air Sailors clutching my edges On a dying prayer With the cannonballs raining Down on splintering wood We sprung a leak and were towed away They stripped all that they could For a woodworker found me Carved a nice figurine But his wife quoted Calvin Saying I was obscene So he chiseled my legs out Gave me a thorny crown He did a half-hearted paint job And the church paid him down I’ve been around the world twice I’ve seen centuries of loss I’ve been across the blue ocean I’ve been nailed to a cross

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released October 23, 2016

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Frank Nicolas Amsterdam, Netherlands

With a versatile voice ranging from Buddy Holly to Johnny Cash and Cat Stevens and the style to match, Frank can be counted upon to hit the listener with upbeat love songs and powerful dirges. Solid guitar playing and catchy songwriting will leave you with a chorus stuck in your head for days. ... more

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