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Track: Dust on My Shoes
Artist: Tanita Tikaram
Album: Can't Go Back

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Tanita Tikaram (born 12 August 1969) is a British singer-songwriter, known for her exotic, low voice. Her brother is [a2801246]. Tikaram, of Malaysian and Indo-Fijian ancenstry, was born in Münster, Germany, but since her early teens has lived in the UK. Her debut album "Ancient Heart" was released when she was just 19. The album was a huge hit all over Europe, while the first two singles "Good Tradition" and "Twist In My Sobriety" reached Top 10. The follow-up album "The Sweet Keeper" used the recipe of the debut and was quite successful, but yielded no big hits. Tikaram stepped up as a co-producer on her third album "Everybody's Angel" and produced the fourth, "Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness", solely by herself. While both were solid works, they sold gradually less. Yet, on "Loneliness", Tikaram came on her own as artist. Tikaram started to spend more time abroad, finding collaborators in the USA, Italy and France. "Lovers in the City" (1995) is perhaps her most introspective work so far. On "The Cappuccino Songs" from 1998 Tikaram released some of her most accessible pop tracks so far. After spending several years under the radar, Tikaram returned in 2005 with the jazzy, low-key "Sentimental" album. Since then Tikaram found home with the German Ear Music label and has released two albums, the Americana and Motown influenced "Can't Go Back" (2012) and "Closer To The People" (2016). Her newest album 'LIAR' (Love Isn't A Right) will be released in October 2025.

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Release: Tanita Tikaram - Dust On My Shoes
Year: 2012
Genres: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop
Styles: Pop Rock, Soul

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LYRICS

Put your arms around me, sometimes it feels so cold
'cause it telling me things I already know
every street preacher wants to waste my time
as if I needed lessons in how to live my life
Put your arms around, my heart is shaking
nobody knows the trouble I´ve seen
working so hard when the day is breaking
working so hard while the city sleeps
my body´s so tired and I'm tired of thinking
digging for gold in a land of dreams

I want a chance of the life I'm missing
I wanna know what it means to be free
and I just want to know
what it is to let go
Taking long time to find the right faces
looking for a soul of every small town
traveling light, take in all the right places
don´t wanna stay and be the last around
I gotta call home to the ones that love me
the ones who love me know I'm passing through
I'm on up to the land above me
dust in my hair and dust on my shoes

And I just want to know, what it is to let go
and I just gotta see, how it feels to be free
to be free

Working so hard to come together
working so hard just to live and breathe
trying so hard to make it better
if I trust in you, will you trust in me
they don't know what makes you happy
we can't see the joy you feel
storm clouds up in the skies above me
I don't have faith but I do believe

I just want to know, what it is to let go
and I just gotta see, how it feels
to be free, to be free
to be free, to be free
to be free, to be free, to be free
What it is to let go
how it feels to be free
what it is to let go
how it feels to be free, to be free


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