Based On A True Dream - Double Album -

Part 1 released February 2007

Part 2 coming in December 2008
© Steve Kopandy 2007-2008
Released December 2008

Recorded in Newcastle, Melbourne, Sydney and London
Produced by Steve Kopandy, David Carr, Jordan Brown and Jeremy Black

Based On   1. Paris in the Winter 2. Falls to You 3. 1997teen 4. Falling Stars are Breaking up 5. Corona & Lime 6. The Wire 7. Fever 8. It All Broke Down 9. Lost Your mind

A True Dream   1. Breaking Boundaries 2. Rock'n'roll, Soho and the Coffee 3. Falling Stars 4. Amsterdam 5. Castle 6. Two Knees 7. Miss Delicate 8. RSVP 9. First Kiss

Words Count - Album by Hide and Spy (Steve Kopandy and James Hariman) - Coming in December 2008
© Steve Kopandy and Andrew Morse 2007-2008

Recorded in Sydney

Produced by James Hariman

Scripted - EP - Released December 2004
© Steve Kopandy 2004

Recorded in London and Melbourne

Produced by David Carr

1. Carry On 2. Tidal Wave 3. An Hour and a Heart 4. My Sisters Wedding Song

Silver Things - EP - Released October 2002

© Steve Kopandy 2002
Released October 2002

Recorded in Newcastle

Produced by Dean Glass and Steve Kopandy

1. Take this Town 2. Some Candles 3. Silver Things 4. She’s so Stark 5. Driving 6. Tuesday

Lyrics

Paris In The Winter

Lying in empty parks with wind as cold as ice

Watching the lamppost lines of trees against the sky

Writing a fairytale against the sky of grey

Now I’m back in Paris

I don’t know what to say

Cause it’s hard to know which way to go

Without you

Drifting away, we put the river to shame

Going nowhere up the cold Champs-Elysees

And the city framed your face

And it takes me back to that place

Where I was not alone in Paris

This world is just a maze

I’ll trade up all my summers

For Paris in the winter

Falls To You

Time slows down

Tell me where now

Are you hiding from me? Flying slowly?

Winding up as it bears down

Is our number at the end this round?

Corner me with your sweet dreams

Now I’m shouldering uncontrollable things

Take me out, give me peace now

Cause I’m still a slave to how you make me feel

And the hand with which you hold me

Is the hand which breaks my heart

It falls to you

Look up there in the thin air

Can you see us drifting? Disappearing?

I can’t rest ‘till I make sense

Of my hopes and dreams in middle distance

And I’ll crawl up to your ankles

1997teen

Empty dance floor

Mirrorball

All the girls were pretty but all the boys were shy

Cause we were falling in love at first sight

Everything was scary because it felt so right

Seventeen was right honey seventeen

I remember how you’d say love was the thing to be in

Do you remember when I took your hand and smiled?

Looked into your eyes

We couldn’t dance to dance our lives

It didn’t matter cause the music didn’t lie

We had the time of our lives

And we were dancing in the sky

Seventeen was right

Honey seventeen

And the way you looked at me

1997teen

Tonight the stars are our mirrorball

Seventeen for life

Honey seventeen

Falling Stars are Breaking Up

She wants to go

Looking alone for something

And I don’t know

What she’s gonna find

Now she’s all alone

When engines drone

And take her for the sky

We don’t see eye to eye

Overthrow all of the plans we’re making

Cross fade into another life

And there’s nothing sweet

About this so called ‘bittersweet’ goodbye

We don’t see eye to eye

Falling stars don’t mean that much

When you’re a world away they look so beautiful

Still they’re breaking up like us

And they’re alone without a friend to keep ‘em warm

She believes the ocean’s just a fine line

Feeding me to follow her with the tide

But a path that’s drawn in sand won’t last

And I am left behind

We don’t see eye to eye

But I’m gonna wait a beat for her

When she’s on satellite delay

And I’m gonna be the beach for her

When she comes home to me I pray

Corona and Lime

Radio station promotion croissant

In my hot little hand from the coffee I bought

Last night was awesome and now I’m awake

To a world I was looking for and I cannot wait

I must have slept under the Brandenberg Gate

And why is that man with a gun yelling at me?

And if I spoke German I’d probably be scared

He thinks that I’m drunken and English and homeless

And he leaves me alone cause he knows I don’t care

Yeah he goes cause he knows I don’t care

Now I remember last night

Corona and Lime

Where did that Mexican girl that I fell for

Go when she left me alone on the dance floor?

Probably back to her hotel room floor

28 storeys come hell or high walls

I’d have been happy to sleep on her floor

Remember last night

Corona and Lime

Another Corona and Lime

I was kissed by a Mexican girl for the first time last night

Now I’m waking up underground so I must be dead

Cause the underground stations are not open yet

No the U-bahn hasn’t started up yet

The Wire

Dying to sleep

But my eyes aren’t closing

I’m on the wire

Going round in these circles

I grind to beginning

I’m still on the wire

If the night is a love song

What will I be singing

When one day I wake and you’re gone?

But the night’s not falling

It just sinks like a stone

Love be my song

Let your love be my song - I’ll sing it

The moon’s like a pill

It just twists and distracts you

I’m still on the wire

The sky’s like a pillow I can’t get my head into

And I’m wondering why

I can hold myself captive

In the walls of my mind

When you’re not at the window

Looking into my eyes

Girl you touch me like lightening

You start me like fire

I need you tonight

I need you tonight

Love be my song

Let your love be my song - I’ll sing it

Love be my song

Cause I’m losing my mind

And you’re in it

Fever

Baby

You’ve seen quite a bit

For lately

Nothing seems to fit

Yeah baby

You’re so quiet when you’re making

All the dumb things sing yeah

Fever ooh yeah

The fever runs in my head

It burns baby burns

Its love baby love

Save me

Cool my frightened brow

I’m crazy

For you and all your words

Yeah baby

You’re all twists and burns for changing

Buildings blue and skies to red

Fever ooh yeah

Is this love ooh yeah

Is this love

My love

All Broke Down

So confused that the words I use

They won’t stick together

A bit like lovers

And my angel’s at the other end

But I can’t get through to her

I fade away

From the end of the meaningless

Conversation that we had today

Now I’ve got nothing more to lose

If there was I’d find a way

And it all broke down

It all broke down today

And all the sunlight in the world couldn’t break through me

And all that you and I have left

Is me to blame

I have become

What my dreams would not condone

So they turn their back on me

Now I’m lying here alone

Holding on to nothing but the way I breathe

So confused that the things I didn’t say

Might have helped us out today

Now I’ve got nothing more to lose

Look around love, be on your way

Lost Your Mind

The curtains are calling

The posters are down

The end of the evening

Is coming around

She’s out on the concourse

I’m out of my mind

She cuts to the dreaming

The crowd goes quiet

She said

Don’t forget this moment

We’re holding together

It’s suddenly real

She dances in time

I try keep her still

She’s lost in the moment

And perfectly quiet

I’m thinking of reasons

She’s thinking of rhymes

She said don’t forget this moment

She said don’t forget what we had

And I know I won’t forget it

I won’t leave the truth behind

Cause I know it must be better

To have loved than lost your mind

Is everything over

When night fades to day?

We’re falling to sunrise

It gets in the way

Another true story

Fades into a dream

So love is the beauty

Of things unseen

And I don’t wanna forget you

I still wanna miss you

I still wanna cry

Cause I know it must better

To have loved than lost your mind

Breaking Boundaries

So alone in here with you

We cry

So much secrecy we hold from outside

I’m breaking boundaries with you

All night

Dangerously in love

We might as well be safe in each other’s arms

I’m breaking boundaries with you

Stay calm

And we will govern love the way we’re meant to

And we will consummate our constitution

In this room we are in hiding

And we want to be left alone

Rock'n'roll, Soho and the Coffee

I get away early

Make my way through buses and trains

But they don’t listen to me

Those city boys with briefcase for brains

So I pick up my guitar

Come on you city boys running the world

We’re living the rock’n’roll life

Now I’m walking at street level

Watching the 8 O’clock show

With a takeaway coffee

Even though I’ve got nowhere to go

And the city boys look busy

They’re always doing overtime

While the Borderline is empty

But we sure as hell packed it out last night

It’s the rock’n’roll life

Come on you city boys

You song and dance girls

We’re living the rock’n’roll life

And we know what it means to be right

Music is my therapy

My guitar takes notes

And I paint myself a picture of words

For a song that I wrote

This one’s about rock’n’roll, soho and the coffee

Stars can have their bucks you know

Cause it’s not about the money

I can teach the world to sing

Cause I believe the rock’n’roll dream’s alive

Falling Stars

Falling stars breaking up

She wants to go she wants a change

She used to have a thing for life

She wants it back again

Now she’s all alone when engines drone and take her for the sky

She’s on the rise

Still we don’t see eye to eye

When she returns I’ll know she’s mine

But she’s become a star up there and she’s taking her time

Still there’s nothing sweet about this so called ‘bittersweet’ goodbye

Are we farther away than we thought?

Are we stars?

Are we starting to fall?

She says to me the ocean’s just a fine line

In between looking into her eyes

Now I’m staring out to sea

But I can’t see what she means tonight

But I’m gonna wait a beat for her when she’s on satellite delay

And I’m gonna be the beach for her when she comes home to me I pray

Amsterdam

It’s 45 minutes to Amsterdam

Back to the place where it all began

Trapped in my trench coat

In snow and rain

I’m never falling in love again

So here I am soaking on your doorstep

And cracks are appearing around my footsteps

I warn you I’m leaving before the ice starts melting

I’m never falling in love again

Standing on the edge

I’m down to my heart’s last breath

I can’t fall in love with you again

Amsterdam

Standing at your door

I’m begging for words to break my fall

I can’t fall in love with you at all

Amsterdam

These melting intentions like flakes of snow

These beautiful visions and down they float

This forest of cobblestone streets

Tell me where does it end?

I’m never falling in love again

Should have I tried to wait for the right moment?

Should have I tried? I know

Standing at your door

I can’t breathe in this cold war

I can’t fall in love with you anymore

Amsterdam

Castle 

Fears have found a way in me

They hide in wait to steal my destiny

Here we go

Step down on my knees

Tears you know

Drown the words in me

Free

Free is all I want

Free from your emotions

Entangled in my heart

You

You’ve done something to me

And you let everybody see

Strange how brutal love can be

Deranged that I can hardly breathe

Free

Free is all I want

Freedom from the danger

Of falling through your arms

You

Hold you by my side

Can’t hold you for any longer girl

It’s written in your eyes

I don’t know you

I don’t see you

And I’m alone in this town

Where my heart was with you

And I will go through the night

Lost in these clouds

I can’t feel you

And I can’t see through the dark

That has fallen around

All the things we went through

How I held you

And you’re still haunting this town

But now I don’t know the way out

Do you know how to break through these clouds?

I need away out

Truth

Truth is all I know

Truth can be in my room

But I live on my own

See

See me from afar

See me ghost riding

I know where you are

Two Knees

Sitting at home with the light on alone

I woke up at 4

The lights were all left on

The window’s open and it’s bringing in a storm

The TV’s raging

I must be on my own

I don’t feel like moving

I don’t feel like moving on

Baby can’t you see I’ve only got two knees

And I can’t live confined to all these memories

I put a coat on, shut the window, stop the rain

I leave a single light on just in case you’re coming back again

I’m waiting up cause I’ve got nothing left to do

I wonder how many more hours until I see you

I pace the hallways and the pages of my head

I’m feeling like I’m bottled up inside this corner of my bed

Every morning starts and ends with heavy nights

I can’t feel you, I can’t feel myself and I don’t feel right

On the balcony in my drowning symphony

I’m all alone

I’m all the way down

On the balcony I’ve left a light on can’t you see?

Now every night wins the fight for my attention

And the eleventh hour was long ago but I’m not sleeping

We need more space and time

I know that’s what you’re thinking

But baby space and time

Aren’t supposed to be the same dimension