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The Beat Goes On

by Sean Taylor

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1.
It's Always Love 04:25
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It’s always love The world keeps turning gets so hard for us to see What is the point of living if we cannot be free Stay true to yourself do the best you can For those in your heart always take a stand It’s always love We work hard every day just trying to get by All the dreams we had we put to one side We forget about what make us feel so alive When we find someone special it is a reason to survive It’s always love Ever cried and tried to find what you wanna be Ever died and lied and hide what you gonna see Ever slept and wept and kept what you wanna feel Ever choke and woke through the smoke to see what is real When you fall so hard it makes your heart skip a beat Beauty make you tremble love is so sweet Seem like everybody moving so fast But when you find soulmate make it last It’s always love
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Lament For The Dead 03:47
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Lament for the Dead New year arrives and bleeds with death Distant sirens and final breaths Love, loss and fear everywhere The silence of darkness chokes the air Lament for the dead The certainty of poverty takes you away Arrives in the evening or the break of day Knock on the door it couldn’t be for you It felt like a dream until it came true Lament for the dead The birds of spring so heavenly in their song How can beauty and sorrow both belong? We are blinded by the dying of the light The army of hearses fade into the night Lament for the dead Last words, desperate tears, and final goodbyes The more we remember the more we cry Love holds us tight just like a drug One last kiss one final hug Lament for the dead
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The Beat Goes On 04:53
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The beat goes on Lose yourself in music Feel every note that you hear Turn it up on the good days Rock out on the bad days Ain’t no need to fear When you play like you play When you sing like you sing It drives us wild Dirty up the bass and the drums will swing It drives us wild The beat goes on The band they sound so good They lift everybody’s mood Tune in when your heart’s broke Rave on when the love smokes Move through the gears When you play like you play When you sing like you sing It drives us wild Dirty up the bass and the drums will swing It drives us wild The beat goes on
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Better Days 04:33
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Better Times We bathe in those days, when love warmed our souls Sacred you held her, time is just a flame of gold All is told, her beauty inside Poetry and song casts a light Receive when we are called Inside the colours of the fall Lovers and artists stand tall In the hope of better times Salvation is found inside the cruelty of the world Hand in hand she looks so good, she’s my girl A diamond pearl, her beauty divine Every dream inside her eyes, sings to me Receive when we are called Inside the colours of the fall Lovers and artists stand tall In the hope of better times
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Nocturne 05:10
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Nowhere To Hide 04:51
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Nowhere To Hide It’s creeping through the walls It’s cutting through the halls Take your life away When the devil comes to call We got nowhere to hide Beg every religion On your final breath Nothing that is like it That cold taste of death We got nowhere to hide Colder than a money man Grabbing like a thief Can’t take no more All we know is grief We got nowhere to hide
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Be My Love In The Rain 04:41
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Let Kindness By Your Guide 04:55
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Let kindness be your guide Through trials and tribulations Highs and lows that we feel The journey is something to behold Loves lost, chances missed and all in between Life never does what it is told Let kindness by your guide Our expectations might arise by and by Cherish friends and loved ones the most Jealousy and bitterness shake them away Small things fill up our hearts with hope Let kindness by your guide He is better looking; she is prettier than you Who cares when love is all that we choose Bigger cars and bigger house I would rather be a down and out If I can sing my songs to you Let kindness by your guide Life can beautiful and free Swimming in the sea In the arms of the one that you love So unlock every door chase every dream Follow your heart and your soul will receive
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Back On The Road 02:33
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Back On The Road I pack my bags as the evening sun comes down Take the long road far away from this town I got that feeling right inside my heart and soul With the low down dirty blues, soul and rock n roll Take me back on the road Been missing so much I cannot deny I want to be with you until the day I die Come on dance, sing and give everything you got Gonna bop, till you drop, till the beat don’t stop Give everything you got Take me back on the road
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Stay With Me 02:33
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Stay with me Going out into the night Poets and poseurs take their flight You are the only star in my sky Stay with me tonight Like a lightening bolt Such a sweet revolt Carry the flame Stay with me tonight Butterflies spread their wings The wild of the night it sings Camden Town is neon gold Your grace is something to behold I hope and prey We bring in the day Carry the flame Stay with me tonight
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The Heart Of The Ocean 06:14
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Spirits of the dead Are buried in the ocean We feel their sacred warmth Laced inside the notion That all the goes Returns again someday In the heart of the ocean Love never dies It lights the highest star Over the darkest night The waves are lit With the moon’s loving eyes You are with me tonight In the heart of the ocean Gentle evening tides Twilight along the shore The coastline sparkles Our love is reborn The sound the waves The warmth of your soul In the heart of the ocean As days turn to years Time marches on I can still hear your voice I can still see your face The moon pulls the strings of the tide Just like your heart on to mine In the heart of the ocean Sea and sky are one In the heart of the ocean

about

The ‘Beat Goes On’ offers light to darkness. It covers the themes of love, beauty, hope and nature, and sets these in opposition to sadness, loss, fear, and hurt. ‘The Beat’ draws on blues, soul, folk, jazz, Americana, and Roots music.

The album was recorded in London and in Austin, Texas, with producer Mark Hallman. Sean’s voice, guitar and piano are front and centre, alongside Hallman’s exquisite multi-instrumental production. ‘The Beat Goes On’ is made from eleven songs, ten written entirely by Sean, plus an interpretation of a poem by the American laureate, Robert Frost.

‘It’s Always Love’ features Michael Buckley’s soprano saxophone, a clear nod to Celtic soul. Michael appeared on an earlier album with Sean, ‘Walk With Me’, and it’s great to have him back. ‘Lament for Dead’ complemented by Brian Standefer on cello, and ‘Nowhere To Hide’ (again with Michael Buckley) were both written at the height of the Covid pandemic. They’re a reaction and response.

‘Nocturne’ highlights Sean’s piano playing which became something of a beautiful obsession during lockdown.

The album’s title track and ‘Better times’ celebrate the importance of art, where ‘artists and lovers stand tall in the hope of better times’. ‘Let Kindness Be Your Guide’ is a song about friendship and the belief that goodness will always prevail. ‘Stay With Me’ is a song for the wild of the night where ‘poetry takes flight’.

‘Be My Love In The Rain’ was taken from a line in the Robert Frost poem ‘ A Line Storm Song’. Poetry has always been a huge influence on Sean’s work and this song combines Sean’s guitar virtuosity with delicate piano.

‘Back On The Road’ is a song celebrating the life of a troubadour. For twenty years Sean Taylor has toured the world, the road remains his home from home. The joy of returning to the stage for Sean took him on a 25-date tour of Europe in autumn 2020. He will be back on the road February-May 2022 to promote ‘The Beat Goes On’

The album closes with ‘The Heart Of The Ocean’ a love song to the sea. It took Sean fifteen years to write, starting out as a guitar song and now finally as an epic piano finale. ‘Sea and sky are one’.
Sean Taylor and Mark Hallman have created a wide-ranging album of different influences, sounds and production.

www.seantaylorsongs.com

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released January 9, 2022

All songs written by Sean Taylor except 'Be My Love In The Rain' written by Robert Frost

Produced by Mark Hallman

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Sean Taylor London, UK

''Superbly tailored songs'' (Four stars) Daily Mirror
''Articulate, compelling ... brilliant'' (Four stars) Mojo Magazine


Sean Taylor’s unique songwriting is a late night cocktail of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Jack Kerouac; With voice that is a cross between John Martyn and Van Morrison and a guitar style that sounds like an acoustic Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming with JJ Cale ... more

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