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No News Is Good News

by MAILMAN

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Dream About Love 05:12
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DREAM ABOUT LOVE ----------------------------- I have a dream about love It helps me to sleep at night If I had to be without love I don’t think I’d be alright I have a dream about love It sang me to sleep tonight I can’t get enough of our love It helps me to feel alright I used to dream without love It kept me awake at night I can’t get enough of our love I hope that we’ll be alright I used to dream without love It shook me awake tonight If I had to be without love I don’t think I’d be alright I can’t get enough of our love (x4) I have a dream about love It sang me to sleep tonight I can’t get enough of our love I know that we’ll be alright I no longer dream about love without love (x2) I can’t get enough of our love (x2) I have a dream about love © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Line In The Sand 05:43
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LINE IN THE SAND -------------------------- Love and light - two strangers in hindsight With no remorse, there’s no reason to stay the course   Somewhere in the act of waking you wound up in a world of fear For every little step you’re taking there’s one that leads you right back here Never could a heart so broken ever really sink/sync with mine I never will forget the moment when we crossed that line Whoever would’ve thought our love would be so frail? Whoever would’ve thought you’d set it up to fail? How typical of me - how wonderfully naïve and true   So it goes - you’re breathing in shadows Unless/until you choose the cycle continues   Standing up to all your reasons - the only way to go from here Or I never will escape your demons, I never will escape your fear You already forgave yourself for pretending that the shame was mine I never will forget the moment when you crossed that line   Whoever would’ve thought our bird would never fly? Whoever would’ve thought you wanted it to die? How typical of me - how wonderfully naïve and true   I’m sorry for the things you went through - but they never ever were my fault I realise you never meant to surrender to the things you thought I already forgave myself for that which never was my crime I never will forget the moment when I crossed that line   Whoever would’ve thought our love would end that way? Whoever would’ve thought there’d be a price to pay? How innocent of me - how tragically naïve of you   Whoever would’ve thought our love would be so frail? Whoever would’ve thought you’d set it up to fail? How typical of me - how wonderfully naïve and true Whoever would’ve thought our bird would never fly? Whoever would’ve thought you wanted it to die? How typical of me - how wonderfully naïve and true   How typical of me - how wonderfully naïve and true © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Wide Awake 04:33
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WIDE AWAKE ------------------- Close your eyes and listen to your healing heart Take my hand and let the fun and games start Walk with me, don’t take me for a ride - I’ve nothing to hide Follow me into a world of shattered dreams But understand it’s nothing as it seems Read the signs, their written on the wind - shall we begin? There’s never been a better time than now to come alive Get wide awake now Lay with me and listen as the flowers grow Take my hand and feel the way the wind blows Work with me, I’ll welcome you inside - there’s no need to hide Talk to me now, show me who you are Solitaire, it only gets us so far Open up now, tell me what you see - it feels right to me There’s never been a better time than now to open wide Get wide awake now There’s never been a better time than now to step outside Get wide awake now There’s never been a better time than now to come alive Get wide awake now (x3) Close your eyes and listen to the water flow Take my hand, I know which way to go Come back to life, it’s better than before - one things for sure… There’s never been a better time than now to open wide Get wide awake now There’s never been a better time than now to step outside Get wide awake now There’s never been a better time than now to come alive Get wide awake now (x3) © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Lunacy Inc. 05:22
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LUNACY INC. ------------------- It’s a life less rational So we put everything on show They don’t see us at all Yet they eye us as if they know   Honestly - why would you strive to be The enemy of a peaceful clan? Endlessly making them out to be Incendiary - like the flames you fan… Seriously - everyone else just sees Insanity getting out of hand Honestly, it don’t do anything for you now   A herd mentality Shows you the way so you go along To absurd realities Known to be cold, inhumane and wrong   Honestly - why would you seek to be The enemy of a peaceful man? Endlessly making him out to be Some anomaly with an evil plan… Seriously - everyone here can see Your insanity getting out of hand Honestly, it don’t do anything for you now   Your mindless clinging on Shows that we still have a way to go ‘Keep calm and carry on’ No - someone has to stem the flow   Honestly - why would you want to be Security in a locked up town? Endlessly making a deity of conformity You’re the wrong way round… Seriously - it’s easy enough to see How this lunacy brings the whole world down Honestly, it don’t do anything for us now   It don’t do anything for us now (x3)   And it don’t do anything for you now © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Half Hearted Highway 05:38
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HALF HEARTED HIGHWAY ------------------------------------- The highway lies open as inertia sets in With the dreamer still stalling the journey begins The work becomes worthless - momentum is lost The road is endured at too high a cost For now while the music flows through him He knows how it feels to be alive So he climbs on his pedestal and waits for that limo to arrive But no-one will ever deliver that ride While his time on this spiritual divide Comes off half hearted in real life The journey is ending as the packing begins The baggage he's handling is wearing me thin When the aims become selfish the magic is lost His power to release came at too high a cost But don't let him tell you he’s suffering He don't know the meaning of the word The trials he invents for himself are the dumbest ever heard And no-one will ever believe that it's right For the fruits of his spiritual delight To wind up discarded or held tight And no-one will ever remain on his side While his self-centred cynical insides Leave him half hearted in real life So I must tear my heart in two and lay this burden down… For now when the music eludes him He longs for the love that he burned Then slouches and sulks while he waits for the hunger to return But no-one could ever continue that ride When their time on this spiritual divide Comes off half hearted in real life And no-one will ever believe that it's right For the fruits of their spiritual delight To wind up discarded or held tight And no-one will ever remain by your side If your rose-scented lyrical asides Leave you half hearted in real life You can't be half hearted in this life © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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The Ones That Got Away 04:15
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THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY --------------------------------------- He walks in through the door, wonders what he came here for It’s not exactly clear He has no part to play, even so he’s bound to stay There’s no-one else around He walks up to the bar, wonders how he got so far From where it all began When he was young and able - in love and almost stable For now he’s all alone And someone, somewhere will recall when he could’ve had it all The one that got away remembers to this day: “It would be nice and easy if we had our time again We might just get there in the end” It would be so easy it is just possible He would make the same mistakes again She loved him from afar - who knows what her reasons are For keeping it that way She’s always hiding something - worried about revealing something That someone else could use She is the independent prosecution and defendant For everything she’s done And now this baby girl that grew up in her mothers world Has wound up all alone And someone, somewhere far away - she misses every day She doubted him before but she is not so sure now: “It would be nice and easy if we had our time again We might just get there in the end” It would be so easy it is just possible She would make the same mistakes again There are some things in life too valuable for us to hold And so we push them all away And now it’s much too late to tell you how I’m lost without the tenderness And love and trust and warmth I once had found in you… "It would be nice and easy if we had our time again We might just get there in the end" It would be so easy it is just possible I would make the same mistakes again © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Severance 04:28
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SEVERANCE ------------------ If you want to walk away, go But if you want to make me pay, grow up For never will I thank you for the love you never gave to me And never will I trust you if you go with make-believe Each time it invites you If you want to speak the truth, call in But if you need to see the proof, go within ‘It’s better to forgive them for the love they never gave’, you say But your soul is in the doorway singing: ‘I just want to stay destroyed and in turmoil’ Tell me something I don’t already know I know you want to believe It takes you somewhere you don’t want to go You just don’t want to say goodbye I tell you nothing you don’t already know They tell you what to believe It gets you nowhere, going with the flow I just don’t want to see you cry - why? If you want to walk my way, come ‘Cos I would love to bring this day some hope For it’s better to have loved than let the tyrants and disease take hold They had you running down the stairway singing: ‘I don’t want to be involved.’ When you were… You don’t get nowhere going with the flow You just get washed out to sea You wind up frozen, lost and all alone I just don’t want to feel you die… Tell me something I don’t already know I know you’re made to believe They take you somewhere you don’t want to go You just don’t want to say goodbye I tell you nothing you don’t already know They tell you what to believe It gets you nowhere going with the flow I just don’t want to see you cry - why? © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Truthkiller 05:36
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TRUTHKILLER --------------------- Virtue - I remember you Gone for now - well, what you gonna do? Falsehood - in everything that’s good Devouring us like termites in the wood Hold on - we’re holding on to nothing but air… Singing: “I don’t wanna go outside - all the other kids would laugh at me I don’t wanna cross that line - everything I need is here for me I don’t wanna free my mind - I just wanna live this fantasy” You’re falling by the wayside Have you ever heard of the truth? A simple enough concept for all of us but not for you Why have you never murdered the fundamentals you’re so sure of? Have you never heard of the truth? Then you say: “Leave me - leave me where I be I don’t have the strength - don’t wanna see It scares me - to think that we’re not free Devouring life like urchins in the sea Help me - hold me as I choke on the lies… ‘Cos I don’t wanna look inside - all the other kids would strangle me I don’t wanna break my stride - everything I do is right for me I don’t wanna open wide - I just wanna live this fantasy” You’re falling by the wayside “Why d’you wanna free my mind? All the special kids depend on me Falling by the wayside…” Have you ever heard of the truth? A simple enough concept for all of us but not for you Why have you never murdered the fundamentals you’re so sure of? Have you never heard of the truth? How have you never heard of the truth? Why have you never heard of the truth? How have you never murdered…? © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Traders 07:40
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TRADERS -------------- He’s so far out of reach Some things in nature only nurture can teach When lies to self are told Self satisfying stories often are sold So - are we just traders And nothing more than that? Or - are we just creatures And simple ones at that? All I know is if you preach it By rights you should believe it as well Buy what you sell She’s so far out of line She needs some help with justifying her crimes Still stumbling in the dark Of a market driven after hours theme park So - are we just traders And nothing more than that? Or - are we just creatures And simple ones at that? All I know is if you preach it By rights you should believe it as well Buy what you sell The rot’s in your head The rot’s in your heart The clocks in your head Will not even start (x3) The rot’s in your heart (x3) There are many different states of arrested development That many face on the road to enlightenment Some people struggle with their own humility And pull out all the stops to avoid reality Rationalising and revising, justifying anything that obscures the lying And hijacks the revelations in their tracks - anything to relax Other people think that to deal with humanity They need to prey upon the vulnerability Of others and control them steadily Easy enough if they escape too readily Wedded bliss - the two states reminisce Of all the times they conspired to avoid reactions … and the consequences of their actions Some people manage to evade these states They learn to deal and relate And to not just be all out for what they can get So… how are we just traders And nothing more than that? How are we just creatures And simple ones at that? All I know is if you feed it You can bet your life you need it as well Buy what you sell (x4) © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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Mad Season 04:52
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MAD SEASON -------------------- Who can this be? Hating all that’s free It looks a lot like me It’s not your way Something ‘bout today Is leading me astray And I don’t want anyone, anywhere To ever see me torn in two But I don’t see anything, anywhere That I could ever hold on to I have always thought of myself as a decent person I have always prided myself on a sense of reason I don’t know how you live with yourself When it stands to reason our mad season’s here after all My once true friend left me once again It’s useless to pretend And I don’t want anyone, anywhere To ever see me fall to pieces, Suddenly there’s someone else instead of me And everyone must do what he says And I have always thought of myself as a decent person I have always prided myself on a sense of reason I don’t know how you live with yourself When it stands to reason our mad season’s here After all… No-one is responsible anymore The world has gone insane You are all insane You are all insane I’m just crazy More so lately… Against all reason, my mad season’s here after all Against all reason, my mad season’s here after all © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records
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To The Last 06:24
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TO THE LAST ------------------- Peaceful people Hopeful to the last Hoping, waiting For these dark times to pass Hold me now I’m down, I’m down Hold my head up and smile Your smile Truth is, the truth is Nowhere to be found No news is good news It only brings us down Hold me now I’m down, I’m down Hold my head up and smile Your smile These fools and liars Whose souls expired Are now scared for their own hides Instilled to build their world Of no hope and no love and no justice Just maybe we’ll see them fall Once and for all Hold me now I’m down, I’m down Hold my head up and smile Your smile (x2) © 2014 Mailman / SJE Records

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Ivor Novello Awards Committee member and former BASCA executive Kim Appleby on 'No News Is Good News':

"It's a great body of work. The stand out tracks for me were "Dream About Love", "Wide Awake" (very Foo Fighters), "The Ones That Got Away", "Severance" (love the production), "Truthkiller" (lyrically, melodically, love the chord changes too... great track), "Traders"... But the song that I absolutely love is "To The Last" It's a beautiful song! I can't take it off!"

For more info visit: www.mailmanstan.co.uk

Released 07/07/14 on SJE Records: sjerecords.com

All tracks written, performed, mixed and produced by Jamie 'Stan' Stanley.

Mastered by Ed Woods at edwoodsmastering.com

Artwork by Jamie 'Stan' Stanley (except Mailman pencil sketch by Simon Francis)

Photo's by Craig Fulbrook & Cheryl Zimmerman.

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released July 7, 2014

"A massive thank you to my family and friends for believing in me, without whom this album would not have been possible, particularly Mum, Ron, Sally, Terry and Brian for your constant love and support. Far too many people to thank to mention you all but particular thanks to Matt, Rich, Laura, Vlad, Fred, Hobbes, Andy Hyldon, Henk, Dave Toye, Emma Golding, Colin, Dave Ashworth, Emma Gates, Lee Traquair, Mark Bhalla, Graham, Sam & MC, Sab at SJE Records and anyone else who has inspired me and helped me find my way musically over the years - even you dreadful, dreadful haters! ;) Finally, an extra special thank you to my beloved Tina and the girls for making my life complete. Love you all! xxx" - Stan

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Limited edition CD of the 3rd Mailman album S3ASON (season three) available now. Featuring all twelve 2019 singles plus alternate versions and three brand new tracks for 2020 and beyond.

The 2018 double concept album 'Yang Yin' is now also on Bandcamp.

You can also stream and buy the first full album 'No News Is Good News' plus the EP's 'Long Walk Home' and 'The Karma Sessions: Vol. 1 & 2'. ... more

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