Will Cookson - Alone in the Dark @WillCooksonmusic

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Sheet music available free here: www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Piano tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=NGCuKHW_LpU&feature=youtu.be

If you would like the use the song in your short film etc, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

Backing vocal: Ailsa Tully - soundcloud.com/ailsa-the-cello

As featured on promos for The Flash Season 3 and Peaky Blinders Season 4!!

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LYRICS:

Come lay me down
Come heal me now
Come take this crown
Don't need it anymore

What's going on
There's something wrong
Been lost so long
But it happened all before

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Can't fight the dawn
Can't ride the storm
Can't carry on
Without you anymore

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

All photos (c) Creative Commons

updated 7 years ago

Will Cookson - Alone in the Dark

Will Cookson 2017-05-11 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
Instagram - instagram.com/willcookson1
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

Sheet music available free here: www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Piano tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=NGCuKHW_LpU&feature=youtu.be

If you would like the use the song in your short film etc, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

Backing vocal: Ailsa Tully - soundcloud.com/ailsa-the-cello

As featured on promos for The Flash Season 3 and Peaky Blinders Season 4!!

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LYRICS:

Come lay me down
Come heal me now
Come take this crown
Don't need it anymore

What's going on
There's something wrong
Been lost so long
But it happened all before

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Can't fight the dawn
Can't ride the storm
Can't carry on
Without you anymore

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

All photos (c) Creative Commons

Will Cookson - February Sky (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2023-04-09 | Live version of February Sky, full song available now on Spotify:

open.spotify.com/track/3wIt0YsaVAwBosgNjoqHCq?si=968c396f8bf64064

Filmed by Kie Cummings:
Insta: @the_task_at_hand
www.thetaskathand.co.uk

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Will elsewhere on the internet:

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Instagram - instagram.com/willcookson1
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

Walking empty fields in the moonlight
Carrying the years in my mind
Hid within the trees all the ghosts I couldn’t see
And the old ways so hard to find

But held within the arms of the hillside
There’s a comfort in the moon so bright
And all the other lives gone before me
Watching from the stars tonight

Hidden in the breath of the winter
Whispers of the stream flowing by
In the stillness of the night and the ice in the light
Echoes of the barn owl’s cry

So many different moons gone before me
And so many more to come after I die
But for now I’ll watch the stars shine so brightly
In the depths of the February sky

The old church asleep across the valley
The graveyard souls all abed
Lost within their dreams and our shared memories
That live on inside my head

And when it’s time for me to go and join them
I’ll find me a soft place to lie
And I’ll wander with the ghosts in the moonlight
Underneath the February sky

Will Cookson - The Light Between

Will Cookson 2022-09-09 | 'The Light Between' by Will Cookson.

Spotify - open.spotify.com/track/5inPJ9ucFL20uiBl8MQGB6?si=e9020d57ce1e4393

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Will elsewhere on the internet:

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Filmed on a Bolex 16mm camera in Herefordshire, UK.

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LYRICS:

I'll keep you with me now that you're gone
And we'll warm our weary souls in the sun
And I'll be with you when your day is done

And I'll keep you with me always
And I'll be with you always

Will Cookson - Bus Stop in the Rain #short

Will Cookson 2022-05-28 | Preview of my new song 'Bus Stop in the Rain', coming to Spotify etc 10th June! #piano #acoustic

Will Cookson - From the Morning (Nick Drake cover) #short

Will Cookson 2022-05-18 | One of my favourite Nick Drake songs #acousticcover #guitar #fingerpicking #nickdrake

Will Cookson - A Field Far Away

Will Cookson 2022-01-21 | 'A Field Far Away' by Will Cookson, from the new album available on all major platforms.

Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/4pBLZQEans1Ia3CrrZprMa?si=lVgmPT4tTGegEec40LF2XQ

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Will elsewhere on the internet:

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Instagram - instagram.com/willcookson1
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

There’s a Field Far Away
So the old folk say
Where the sun never sets and all
the birds fly free

There’s a house on a hill
Where the flowers grow still
Wander there with me oh my love
and stay awhile

Couldn’t hold all the love I have
for you in one heart
Couldn’t find a way to trace this dream
back to the start

But there’s an ending I know
When it’s time to let go
And return all the light we borrowed
back to the stars

I’ll try to hold all the love I have
for you in this heart
Oh god don’t forget this dream
when you tear it apart

There’s a Field Far Away
So the old folk say
Wander there with me oh my love
and stay awhile

Will Cookson - Devils Waltz

Will Cookson 2021-11-19 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
Instagram - instagram.com/willcookson1
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/like-flying_3595

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LYRICS:

Hid in the dark, just like a bad dream,
The ghosts in the hall don’t make a sound
Oh daddy dear, are you proud of me?
I got myself lost to never be found

Oh let me go from this dream fever
The devil’s at the door, he’s humming his tune and
Heaven’s gone away, it’s too late for turning back now
So meet me in the light of the moon

Find me a hole and bury me deep down
Give me a gun and something to shoot
I lived like a liar, a fake and a phoney
And come judgement day I’m coming for you

Oh let me go from this dream fever
The devil’s at the door, he’s humming his tune and
Heaven’s gone away, it’s too late for turning back now
So kiss me under a blood red moon

Oh let me go from this burning fever
The devil’s at the door, he’s screaming his tune and
Heaven’s gone away, it’s too late for turning back now
So meet me under a blood red moon
Yeah meet me under a blood red moon

Will Cookson - Soon

Will Cookson 2021-11-12 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/like-flying_3595

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LYRICS:

I’m done with all the dark days
And kicking through this cold waste
The fever’s gone but what remains

And heaven knows it’s high time
I swept away these old crimes
Been fighting but the light never stays

Soon
Soon

Well oh my god I need you now
The knives are sharp and the chips are down
I’m running out of soul to save

And all the ghosts I see at night
Beckon me into the light
To see me dead and buried in my grave

Soon
Soon
Soon

And when the darkest hour is near
I’ll conjure you to soothe my fear
Forever in your arms I’ll stay

Will Cookson - Find You

Will Cookson 2021-11-01 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
Instagram - instagram.com/willcookson1
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/like-flying_3595

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LYRICS:

Heal this heart, reopen this mind,
You’re a light that’s so hard to find
Paint these dreams to soothe a weary soul
Find the lost boy and carry him back home

And hold me in your arms dear
When the wolves and wild dogs bay
And I’ll find you in my daydreams
When you’re miles and miles away

So Break these chains, tear away these walls,
Build a spaceship, and I’ll catch you when you fall,
Hold this flame all through the darkest day
Don’t look back babe when you’ve thrown it all away

And I’ll hold you in my arms dear
When the wolves and wild dogs bay
And I’ll find you in the moonlight
When you’re miles and miles away

And I’ll find you in the stars above
When you’re miles and miles away

Will Cookson - Funeral Dream

Will Cookson 2021-08-13 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

I had a dream about you last night
I was at your funeral
Can’t imagine you not alive
You’re so full of light still
But it felt so real I felt the pain of you dying
And it felt so real that I woke up crying

And all our friends were gathered round
Talking about the good times
Don’t recall much else about it now
It was like some other lifetime
With all the pain I felt of you dying
Were the only thing real the tears I was crying

Where do we go when this dream falls apart
What do we do with a broken heart
And where do we go when the light fades away
I guess we’re all gonna find out one day

Where do we go when it all falls apart
What do we do with these broken hearts
And where do we go when the light fades away
I guess we’re all gonna find out one day

I had a dream about you last night
I was at your funeral
Can’t imagine you not alive
You’re so full of light still

Will Cookson - When I See Your Light (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2021-07-18 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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Guitar tuning: CGCECE, capo 4

LYRICS:

Moonbeams and whispers of you through the blind
Come still the unquiet voice in my mind
I don’t need any sad songs tonight
I’m sailing in the dark to your star so bright

Where this wave takes us seems God only knows
But I’ll ride it with you as far as it goes
And I don’t need any fireworks tonight
I’ll transcend the dark when I see your light

Could you hold me and be so kind
To chase the demons from my mind, there was
Something lost in there I couldn’t find
I dropped the helm and I was sailing blind
But it’s all alright
When I see your light

Moonbeams and whispers of you through the blind
Come still the unquiet voice in my mind
I don’t need any sad songs tonight
I’m sailing in the dark to your star so bright

Will Cookson - Already Flown

Will Cookson 2021-04-28 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Backing vocal: Amy May Ellis (facebook.com/amymayellisAME)

Footage filmed on a Bolex H16 in Herefordshire, January 2021.

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LYRICS:

Dreamcatcher hanging from the bottom of the bed
Keeping all our darkest fears safe within your web

Oh love how you’ve grown
And time how you’ve flown

Prints in the moonlit snow on the windowsill
Little bird where have you gone now all the night lies still

Oh soon you’ll be grown
And already flown

Time and tide we’re just passing by
Just like all the songbirds in the sky
But the darkest sea’s got no place to hide
From all the light shining in your eyes

It’s who you are

And when I’m sleepless in the night
I’ll sit and watch the stars that shine so bright
And I’ll dream of you and your not-quite smile
But love now you’re here won’t you stay awhile

And we’ll face the unknown
Before its already flown

Will Cookson - Lost on the Way

Will Cookson 2021-04-06 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

Swimming in circles and
dreaming in riddles
The signs so hard to read

The garden of eden was
promising everything
Or so I once believed

Do you remember when we fell asleep by the sea?
Do you remember the way back from this dream?

Funny how everyday
feels like any other day
Until the day it’s all change

What of the bells that rung
and all the hymns we sung?
What of the souls we saved?

Do you remember when we hid inside the oak tree?
Oh love got lost on the way back from this dream

And now that the summer’s gone
and all the faces long
Faded into the dark

Somewhere those sunny days
and all the games we played
Linger in my heart

Oh with all the times we fell asleep by the sea
Oh love got lost on the way

Will Cookson - Hold the Light

Will Cookson 2020-09-11 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

In dreams he calls for me
Through the dark mist across the sea

Time and tide remain
Come lead me homewards to find your flame

Empty night, bedroom cold
Lonely darkness you could hold
Stolen kiss, forgotten dream
Lived a life through a broken screen
But in your heart, in your mind
Still had something left to find

So hold the light
Hold the light

Miles away from home
You lay buried beneath the snow

Sand still running through
And all our castles have crumbled too

Empty night, bedroom cold
Lonely darkness you could hold
Stolen kiss, forgotten dream
Lived a life through a broken screen
But in your heart, in your mind
Still had something left to find

So hold the light
Hold the light

Will Cookson - Stars & Snowflakes (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2019-12-23 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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If you would like to use this song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/cosy-christmas_3085

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LYRICS:

Christmas eve, the lights are glowing
In the hallway and in my dreams
And somewhere in my heart it’s snowing
In the place that still believes

Silent night the stars are shining
And ice is forming in the dark
As we stay warm beneath the covers
Winter wonder in our hearts

Frozen whisper I still hear you
Singing sweetly of our love
Tender songs will keep me near you
Underneath the moon above

And softly in the night we’ll wander
Through the clouds of fallen snow
Hand in hand we’ll make our own way
There’s just a few more hours to go

Gently in our dreams I’ll hold you
As we lie with the stars above
And all the times I should have told you
Happy Christmas oh my love

Will Cookson - Big Dark World (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2019-10-31 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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Sheet music - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/sail-into-the-night_3193

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LYRICS:

There’s a ghost living underneath the stairs says he’s
Sad and lonesome, no one seems to care
Anymore about the noises he makes in the night
They’re too busy watching horror films to get a fright

There’s an island somewhere in the sea we could
Go and live there, and build a house of trees
Ride a dolphin in the ocean into the setting sun
But the water’s filled with great whites and loaded guns

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your eyes out girls...

There’s a forest somewhere in the hills with a
Muddy river and hunters out to kill
And a wolf in a red coat with a grin
He’s got granny in the basement - don’t let him in!

There’s a mountain somewhere far away with an
Angry yeti, he needs a holiday
All the tourists on the summit don’t see him anymore
They’re too busy taking selfies to hear him roar

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your eyes out girls...

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your knives sharp girls...

Alone in the Dark - PIANO TUTORIAL

Will Cookson 2019-08-17 | Here's an attempt at a piano tutorial for my song 'Alone in the Dark' following a few requests - I hope it's helpful! If you read sheet music, then you can download it free from here (both original version and the C version in this tutorial): http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Please post any queries etc in the comments and I will try and answer them. Good luck!

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If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

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LYRICS:

Come lay me down
Come heal me now
Come take this crown
Don't need it anymore

What's going on
There's something wrong
Been lost so long
But it happened all before

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Can't fight the dawn
Can't ride the storm
Can't carry on
Without you anymore

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Will Cookson - Still Life

Will Cookson 2019-08-06 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

Sheet music available here (free download) - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Filmed in Bristol & Herefordshire.

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Will elsewhere on the internet:

Spotify - https://smarturl.it/WillCooksonSpotify

More info & contact - willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/ghosts-of-the-morning-sun_2630

Featuring Beth Porter (backing vocals) & the String Beans quartet: facebook.com/bethporterandtheavailables

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LYRICS:

Oil and resin like blood on the floor
Flowers and feathers strung up on the wall
Another white canvas stretched to the frame
Did the fear of failure haunt you the same?

Toronto to London your paints in your arm
Came out with a medal and your scars from the war
Would you switch it for all the success of your peers?
Oh where are you now got lost to the years

Oooooo…

Sun on the river, another red dawn
Was the mist around Hammersmith Bridge getting worn?
When the colours were fading under the stars
Were you still trying to paint that ache in your heart?

Ooooo…

Will Cookson - Lonely Bird (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2019-07-02 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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If you would like the use the song in your short film etc, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

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LYRICS:

Lonely bird sing me a song
from your empty nest in the snow
Back to the hills from my windowsill
you fly through the wind and the cold

That winter’s cloud has left me now
and the springtime dreams of hope
And when I’ve got you in my life
I’m never gonna let you go

Through winter long you carry on
and leave your little tracks in the snow
And in the cold you’re a hand to hold
and a light when the ice storm blows

And when autumn’s leaves are on the breeze
and yet another season’s flown
I’ll keep your song inside my heart
and then I’ll really know that I’m home

Will Cookson - By Candlelight (Live Acoustic)

Will Cookson 2019-06-24 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/sail-into-the-night_3193

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LYRICS:

Through the darkness we walk
hand in hand beneath the
icy night and a blanket of stars
Paper lanterns flickering like
fireflies in a field from afar

Young and tender the night
like a long lost dream I
see your eyes in the light of the moon
Full of future and life oh my
loves and you’ll fly so soon

Ooooooo by candlelight
we sang songs amid the snow
Ooooooo oh my love one day
I have to let you go

And as the years hurry by
and we get lost amid the
ceaseless noise I’ll look up to the stars
And I’ll remember a night still and
timeless in a field in your arms

Ooooooo by candlelight
we’ll sing songs amid the snow
Ooooooo oh my love
before i have to let you go

Will Cookson - Sail Into The Night

Will Cookson 2019-05-30 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/sail-into-the-night_3193

Video by Adrian Bliss: http://youtube.com/adrianbliss

Featuring Amy May Ellis (http://amymayellis.com) & the Orcop scratch choir

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LYRICS:

Well I know it’s a pain
when the stars let you down
and you’ve lost your way
But just hold on to hope sweet hope
she’s hid in the clouds
she’ll be back one day

And now it’s looking much brighter,
And tomorrow’s not yesterday,
so let’s run in the rainstorm love
and chase all our fears away
Oh you could throw off your old coat
And jump into the deep blue sea
And ride the waves in the darkness
And sail into the night with me

When the fever sets in
and you’re wondering how
you can ever win
And you’re lost in the sea again
alone with the sharks
let go your fin

Cos it’s looking much brighter,
And tomorrow’s not yesterday,
so let’s run in the rainstorm
and chase all our fears away
Oh you could throw off your old coat
And jump into the deep blue sea
And swim right over the darkness
And sail into the night with me

Cos it’s looking much brighter,
And tomorrow’s not yesterday,
so let’s run in the lightning love
and chase all our fears away
Oh you could throw off your old coat
And jump into the deep blue sea
And swim right out of the darkness
And sail into the night with me

Oh you could let go your old scars
And jump into the swirling sea
And shout out loud at the darkness
And sail into the night with me
And sail into the night with me

Will Cookson - By Candlelight

Will Cookson 2019-05-23 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/sail-into-the-night_3193

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LYRICS:

Through the darkness we walk
hand in hand beneath the
icy night and a blanket of stars
Paper lanterns flickering like
fireflies in a field from afar

Young and tender the night
like a long lost dream I
see your eyes in the light of the moon
Full of future and life oh my
loves and you’ll fly so soon

Ooooooo by candlelight
we sang songs amid the snow
Ooooooo oh my love one day
I have to let you go

And as the years hurry by
and we get lost amid the
ceaseless noise I’ll look up to the stars
And I’ll remember a night still and
timeless in a field in your arms

Ooooooo by candlelight
we’ll sing songs amid the snow
Ooooooo oh my love
before i have to let you go

Will Cookson - Sunlight & Ashes

Will Cookson 2019-05-20 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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LYRICS:

One day my love they'll carry us home
On stretchers of pine and there'll be no more pain
And all of these troubles will melt like the snow
In the sun and our music will be all that remains

You and I darling were just leaves on the sea
Carried by currents to a far away shore
But the forces of fate will return you to me
And we'll be as one in the moonlight once more

As sunlight and ashes I'll meet you again
Free from all the shackles of distance and time
And we'll be together forever my love
In the depths of the earth and the last stars to shine

Will Cookson - Big Dark World

Will Cookson 2019-05-17 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Sheet music - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

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LYRICS:

There’s a ghost living underneath the stairs says he’s
Sad and lonesome, no one seems to care
Anymore about the noises he makes in the night
They’re too busy watching horror films to get a fright

There’s an island somewhere in the sea we could
Go and live there, and build a house of trees
Ride a dolphin in the ocean into the setting sun
But the water’s filled with great whites and loaded guns

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your eyes out girls...

There’s a forest somewhere in the hills with a
Bloody river and hunters out to kill
And a wolf in a red coat with a grin
He’s got granny in the basement - don’t let him in!

There’s a mountain somewhere far away with an
Angry yeti, he needs a holiday
All the tourists on the summit don’t see him anymore
They’re too busy taking selfies to hear him roar

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your eyes out girls...

Oooo it’s a big dark world...
Oooo keep your knives sharp girls...

Will Cookson - Brightest Star

Will Cookson 2019-05-16 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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LYRICS:

Seabird whither will you fly
When the autumn winds blow cold in November
The dream of home lingers in the sky
In a song once sung you seem to remember

High tide surrender to the moon
And all the fallen stars that shine under the ocean
Green eyes glinting like the dew
Over the distant fields in wait to be woken

Pole star shining in the night
Steady in the dark show us the way home
Fruit tree aglow in the moonlight
Catch all the dreams of her in your arms and don’t ever let go

Free bird so high above the clouds
One day you'll return with hope from the seas afar
With new songs, oh sing them to me now
Give us the strength to climb this road up to the brightest star

Will Cookson - About Love

Will Cookson 2018-11-15 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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If you would like the use the song in your short film etc, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

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LYRICS:

I walked the empty beach
drew your name in the sand
I watched the tide roll in and wash it away
I was just broken-hearted
couldn't say how it all started
And after all these years still don't
know a thing about love

I wandered empty fields
saw your name in the sky
I watched the clouds roll in and blow away
I was just lonesome-hearted
couldn't say how it all started
And after all these years still don't
know a thing about love

We walked the empty pier
threw stones into the sea
We watched the ripples meet and fade away
We were just hopeful-hearted
couldn't say how it all started
And after all these years still don't
know a thing about love

Will Cookson - Stickfigure Dreams

Will Cookson 2018-02-24 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Sheet music available here (free download) - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Filmed in the Herefordshire hills (A nice bit of synchronicity... I set up my camera to film the early morning mist and recorded just enough footage to cover this song. When I got back home and added the music, I saw that lo and behold those 2 birds flew into shot right on cue with the lyrics one minute in!).

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Will elsewhere on the internet:

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More info & contact - willcookson.com

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/ghosts-of-the-morning-sun_2630

Featuring Beth Porter on cello (& backing vocals): facebook.com/bethporterandtheavailables

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LYRICS:

Had a dream last night
that we were birds and we could fly
above the bright white clouds
in your felt-tip sky

And the fields far below
were gold and green as the sun sank low
behind the zigzag mountains
that you drew in the snow

And we sat on the lollipop trees
kissed the summer breeze
blowing from the oceans far away
painted on the sand
the universe held in your hands
for the first time

If the colours in your pen
could draw the world anew and then
we could live there as stickpeople
and feel whole again

We’d run into the streams
swim through our dreams
and we’d sail upon the oceans far away
build houses on the sand
made of matchsticks in our hands
for the first time

And I’ll meet you in my dreams
your watercolour scenes
and we’ll fly above the houses
far away

Will Cookson - Ariadnes Waltz

Will Cookson 2017-09-27 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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LYRICS:

Time take me back through carousel dreams and zoetrope scenes
She stood in the rain beside the ghost train
Lost in the steam so I couldn’t quite see her

Love let me go from candyfloss eyes and bumper car rides
Under flickering lights and teenage delight
As big-dipper cries drift over the pier
Her arms drew me near

And through the fading light we wandered the empty roads
As I rolled out a thread so we could find our way home

Hope fly away from harbour light skies and Wurlitzer sighs
As the marching band slows and the gas lamps glow
The old couples glide away from their years

Fear release my soul as the acrobats swing from highwire rings
We’ll fall through the night our fortunes bright
As the fat lady sings and the thinning crowd cheers
We’ll laugh through our tears

And into the swirling mists we’ll waltz the endless road
As I let go the thread so we can find our way home

Will Cookson - Something In My Head

Will Cookson 2017-07-27 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Animation by Gemma Green Hope: www.gemmagreenhope.com

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LYRICS:

It’s 5am and in an hour I’m gonna leave you babe
And the sparrows are singing from the garden shed
Seems nothing’s understood in this life but that the time it ticks on
And you don’t get it back, just got to get outta bed

Ooooo, oooooo, there’s something in my head or my heart
Think someone hid it there from the very start

Shadows on the sea I got a record in my brain that was broken long ago
It’s been skipping my whole life and now the needle’s come free
But the writing’s on the wall and I’ve got a devil in my soul that I need to excise
I’m becoming the man I never wanted to be

Ooooo, oooooo, and nothing’s gonna change but who we are
No nothing’s gonna change, just the sun and the stars

Will Cookson - Hazel

Will Cookson 2017-06-20 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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Sheet music available here (free download): http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

If you would like the use the song in your short film etc, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/about-love_2759

This song was written about the lady who lived in my house in Bristol before I did. Woodland footage filmed in Gloucestershire.

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Hazel

I can see your outline in the sun
with a book of poems and your slippers on
in the sitting room

I can hear you whisper in the dark
sitting up in the night with your head in your arms
in the empty hall

And in the dawn when the sparrows sing
from the cherry tree that you had put in
I’ll watch the sun lie across the lawn
like the many times that you did before

I’ll never know which books you read
or your darkest fear as you lay in bed
but I’ll share your room

In the kitchen where you cut your arm
left your blood on the floor where the kids were born
so the life goes on

And in the evening when the moon is bright
and the stars are hiding in the city lights
I’ll watch the fire flicker on the wall
where you once hung pictures when you were small

Oh Hazel how could I forget
I live in your house but we’ve never met
oh where have you gone

But I’ll keep your dreams and put them with mine
and I’ll keep them safe until I die
then I’ll pass them on

Will Cookson - Alone in the Dark (live acoustic)

Will Cookson 2017-06-13 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Sheet music available free here: www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

Piano tutorial: youtube.com/watch?v=NGCuKHW_LpU&feature=youtu.be

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LYRICS:

Come lay me down
Come heal me now
Come take this crown
Don't need it anymore

What's going on
There's something wrong
Been lost so long
But it happened all before

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Can't fight the dawn
Can't ride the storm
Can't carry on
Without you anymore

I'll wait up until you're home dear
I'll shine a light in the dark
Don't leave me alone here
Amongst the stars

Will Cookson - Im All at Sea

Will Cookson 2017-06-02 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Sheet music available to download free from my website - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

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LYRICS:

Lost in the fog in the haar on the harbour
Caught by the tide in a boat with no anchor
I’m sailing away to an island that can’t be found

I’m watching the stars asleep in the ocean
Chained to the helm with a rudder that’s broken
I’m all at sea with a boy that I once knew who’s drowned

Into the night for the last time I’m leaving
On horses of white that foam as the ghosts sing
Down in the deep with the wrecks still waiting to be found

Images (C) Creative Commons

Will Cookson - As the Devil Pleases (live BBC Introducing session)

Will Cookson 2017-02-15 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
More info & contact - https://www.willcookson.com

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LYRICS:

There’s something burning in your chest
Hand on the knife when there’s nothing left
For you to aim for but your heart

And through the dark I’ll search for you
And in the twilight watch the moon
Still shining on, still shining on

Broken ice on an empty sea
The haunted souls wait there for me
In the darkness of my dreams

Frozen sky and scattered hope
You tie your arms around the rope
And hoist the sail to pull you on

Ooooo pitseleh where have you gone?
Ooooo where did you leave your haystack charm?

Hidden cracks in your head
Tightrope walk across the web
And do your best to carry on

And though I’ll never know you now
I’m gonna love you anyhow
And I’ll find my peace within your song

Ooooo pitseleh where have you gone?
Ooooo where did you leave your haystack charm?

Will Cookson - Still Life (live @ Evesham Arts Centre)

Will Cookson 2017-02-11 | A live performance of 'Still Life' for BBC Introducing H&W at the Evesham Arts Centre, with Naomi Hinds (vocals & synth) and Zosia Jagodzinska (cello).

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LYRICS:

Oil and resin like blood on the floor
Flowers and feathers strung up on the wall
Another white canvas stretched to the frame
Did the fear of failure haunt you the same?

Toronto to London your paints in your arm
Came out with a medal and your scars from the war
Would you switch it for all the success of your peers?
Oh where are you now got lost to the years

Oooooo…

Sun on the river, another red dawn
Was the mist around Hammersmith Bridge getting worn?
When the colours were fading under the stars
Were you still trying to paint that ache in your heart?

Ooooo…

Will Cookson - White Horses (live)

Will Cookson 2017-01-16 | Some footage from a mini festival in Dorset last summer, 2016.

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LYRICS:

Through water she runs, runs by the sea,
Just like the old willow said she would in her dreams

As onto the sand bare-footed she strides
Leaving her footprints in a trail for the tide

Cold river run from the snow
Into the lines of white horses as they carry you home

Dream-giver, give me a sign
That I’m not just a spare and I’m not just wasting your time

In darkness she swims, swims through the night
Collecting the stars where they fell down from the sky

And into the deep she’ll sink with her soul
And she’ll hide in the blackness at the bottom of it all

Dark angel fly into the dawn
And carry our dreams into the sun to stay warm

Stormbringer let sleeping dogs lie
And shine like the sun into another dark sky

Dark angel fly into the night
Carry our prayers into the waning moonlight

Dreambringer we’ll never know why
You shine like the stars over another dark sky

Will Cookson - Lonely Bird

Will Cookson 2017-01-02 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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LYRICS:

Lonely bird sing me a song
from your empty nest in the snow
Back to the hills from my windowsill
you fly through the wind and the cold

That winter’s cloud has left me now
and the springtime dreams of hope
And when I’ve got you in my life
I’m never gonna let you go

Through winter long you carry on
and leave your little tracks in the snow
And in the cold you’re a hand to hold
and a light when the ice storm blows

And when autumn’s leaves are on the breeze
and yet another season’s flown
I’ll keep your song inside my heart
and then I’ll really know that I’m home

Will Cookson - Shooting Stars

Will Cookson 2016-12-23 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com

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LYRICS:

Shooting stars in the dark night sky
Blazing trails behind the moon
Like Roman Candles burning brightly then dying all too soon

I hear your voice in the winter breeze
Through the dark before the dawn
I see your eyes in the morning frost before it’s gone

Hold on through the darkness
There’s still a light shining over you
We’ll meet again on the far side of the moon

I hear your song in the evening mist
And through the har upon the sea
And from the chains of the endless deep we’ll be free

Hold on through the darkness
There’s still a light shining over you
We’ll meet again on the far side of the moon

I’ll meet you on the far side of the moon

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Photo credits (Creative Commons):
David Russo; ESA / Hubble; ForestWander

Will Cookson - Grandmothers Ghost

Will Cookson 2016-11-17 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/ghosts-of-the-morning-sun_2630

Featuring Beth Porter on cello & vocals: facebook.com/bethporterandtheavailables

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LYRICS:

Timbuktu, she smiled and said I’m off and I won’t be back anytime soon
And she made a boat of pillows on the duvet sea as she set sail across the room

Oh mum, she said, don’t worry about me I know it’s a scary world, but I’ll be ok
Oh daddy don’t you lose no sleep, I’ll still be your little girl when I’m old and grey

Now she sits alone on a sofa in the sun and wonders where on earth it all did go
That little girl had made her oh so many plans but they weren’t to be, still life goes on

And oh daughter, she says, don’t forget about me, I know that my day is done but I’ve still got time
And oh son won’t you go out and seek a better life than I could find

Grandmother’s ghost in the hall, she haunts my dreams, oh I miss you
Grandmother’s ghost oh she came into your room last night and kissed you

Will Cookson - In the Light of the Stars

Will Cookson 2016-10-28 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
TikTok - tiktok.com/@willcooksonmusic
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Sheet music available here (free download) - http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

If you would like the use the song in your film/video, it's available here (cheap rates for non-profit etc): audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/ghosts-of-the-morning-sun_2630

Featuring Beth Porter on cello (& backing vocals): facebook.com/bethporterandtheavailables

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LYRICS:

Well now we’ve hit a wall
And made the world seem so small
Let’s ease our troubled minds
Leave all the bad dreams behind

We’ve been growing old
Too young too young
And it’s getting cold
In the sun in the sun

And in green fields we’ll lie
The summer breezes our song
And the night will see us home
And by the dawn we’ll be gone

We’ve been growing old
Too soon too soon
I couldn’t keep a hold
A hold of you

And I want to die
With my head in your arms
And with your daydreams lie
In the light of the stars

Will Cookson - Into that Darkness

Will Cookson 2016-10-21 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Sheet music available free here: http://www.willcookson.com/sheetmusic

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LYRICS:

Been staring at the void too long
my blue skies have turned black
and the creepers that you cut down
from my walls have all grown back

Tomorrow runs ahead just like
an old way through the wood
been trodden many times before
but it’s no clearer understood

Where on earth it’s taking us
and how we’re meant to choose
when it forks around the bend
and either way we lose

In my head I played the part
of the lover who was stung
an innocent abandoned
in the dark when he was young

But when I see more clearly
through the lies of my little play
I was just as much the wolf
out hunting for its prey

Oh love I know I’ve let you down
and all the promises I made
and with all that anger
I’ll go to my grave

I’ve travelled far off countries
I’ve seen many far out things
but I’ve never left this man-shaped cage
or shaken off this skin

Got a picture of the little boy
as he reached towards the sun
but now more sand’s gone through the glass
than there’s still left to run

And when the lamp is burning low
and the stitches slip their seams
into that darkness
we’ll go with our dreams

Will Cookson - Death with Dignity (Sufjan Stevens cover)

Will Cookson 2016-10-19 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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Thank you Sufjan for all the wonderful music...

Will Cookson - As the Devil Pleases

Will Cookson 2016-10-04 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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LYRICS:

There’s something burning in your chest
Hand on the knife when there’s nothing left
For you to aim for but your heart

And through the dark I’ll search for you
And in the twilight watch the moon
Still shining on, still shining on

Broken ice on an empty sea
The haunted souls wait there for me
In the darkness of my dreams

Frozen sky and scattered hope
You tie your arms around the rope
And hoist the sail to pull you on

Ooooo pitseleh where have you gone?
Ooooo where did you leave your haystack charm?

Hidden cracks in your head
Tightrope walk across the web
And do your best to carry on

And though I’ll never know you now
I’m gonna love you anyhow
And I’ll find my peace within your song

Ooooo pitseleh where have you gone?
Ooooo where did you leave your haystack charm?

Will Cookson - Worthing Beach

Will Cookson 2016-09-22 | Spotify - open.spotify.com/artist/3hKEZipcWbP3DZvjStr2tC?si=ap47qZLBSc6G62O1A3RiSQ
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With thanks to my parents, Robert & Anna, and to my brother Ed

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LYRICS:

I hear the seagulls crying in my dreams
Over ice cream cones dropped in the sand
And all the castles that we made for the tide to wash away
Have gone the same way as the boy now he’s a man

Down by the sea all those clouded memories
Of caramacs and penny arcades on the pier
And ocean liners in the mist and a longing that persists
Like an echo in my mind over the years

And I’m trapped in a dream like a ghost beside the sea
Forever wandering the surf in search of home
And then I’m back at the start where we played murder in the dark
And built a treehouse in the garden in the snow

Oh rocking horse in the spare room in the dark
That little girl that used to love you now has gone
Over hills you would glide and through haunted forests fly
As you outran the past but now your future’s done

And on Worthing Beach there’s a tide that’s out of reach
It whispers still of dreams forgotten long ago
Oh let the sirens sing of ferris wheels and all the things
We used to love as kids but then had to let go

And on that wheel we will spin back to where it all begins
And the sandcastles return into the sea
And the names that we drew into the sand will be lost too
Within the oceans of our minds just like a dream

Will Cookson - Olduvai

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LYRICS:

Stuck in England on a rainy November day
Take me back home to the land where the Baobabs grow
And the animals play

I’ve been dreaming of a sky always blue not grey
And there’ll be singing over the sand and we’ll forget all our worries
If only for a day

And we’ll go swimming in the streams and we’ll dig in the clay
And we’ll go walking by the lake in the footprints of our fathers
Where their dreams still lay

Lala salama to all the spirits in the paintings in the caves
And we’ll lie sleeping in the valley where our bones will be buried
To be dug up one day

Will Cookson (ft. Beth Porter) - Treehouse Moon

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Available to licence for film/TV etc from here:

http://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/album/treehouse-moon_2440

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LYRICS:

Come join me up in my treehouse, got a space here just for you
Oh let’s catch fireflies in jam jars and hang them under the moon

I’ll hold you if you’re feeling scared of all the creatures that hide in the dark
All the monsters underneath the stairs couldn’t scare off the love in my heart

And all through the night I’ll watch the light shine in your eyes from the stars
And hope that one day, oh we can say all of this magic was ours

Oh let’s stay here all summer and sleep with our firefly lamps
We can make a blanket out of leaves to keep us warm through the cold and the damp

And all through the night I’ll hold you tight and we’ll count the stars in the sky
And know that one day, oh we will say this was the time of our lives

Autumn Rain

Will Cookson 2015-05-10 | A brief 'song without words' written on piano and set to footage that I shot in Bristol over Autumn 2014. The piece aims to capture the fleeting atmosphere of a passing shower and our communal reaction to it. And we're never short of rain here in Bristol.

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Will Cookson - Prelude

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LYRICS

the moon was hiding in the trees
the stars were drowning in the sea
and all our memories were dreams
and all our tragedies just scenes performed a thousand times before.

of all the paths that led to now
so many angles would show us how
this geometry has shaped our minds
where all the numbers will combine to prove that I’m the same as you

so many paths have led to now