The Pool Sessions

by RHODES

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1.	Friends Like These (The Pool Sessions) 03:45	lyrics	buy track
Carmen and I climbed out of my window Oh the look in her eye, as we ran through the meadow Where old jacky would wait with full box of white dreams How we ran on the lines, we were caught in the high beams With friends like these I can do as ever I please I can be what ever I want to be With friends like these The twisting of tongues on our own little island A wolf and her young and the screaming of sirens As we ran through the fields You primised we’d never get old Oh children can you feel, the night is taking hold With friends like these I can do as ever I please I can be what ever I want to be With friends like these Can you feel it Can you feel it Taking hold Come on Come on With friends like these I can do as ever I please I can be what ever I want to be With friends like these With friends like these We can do what ever we pleaser We can be what ever we want to be With friends like these
2.	Even When It Hurts (The Pool Sessions) 03:16	lyrics	buy track
I know you’re sleeping in a different room I don’t feel like I’ve been talking to you Wanna kiss you in the morning When the sunlight shatters over you Life is so complicated When every body’s watching you And I've been self medicating Trying to find a way to talk to you How we ever gonna make this work? How we ever gonna keep this song alive? If we don’t fight If we don’t cry And if we don’t try Even when it hurts, I want you Nothing seems to work, I need you Days and nights are blurred I wanna be right by your side Even when it hurts Even when it hurts Even when it hurts I wanna be right by your side I wish I never saw you cry But I never want to filter life I wanna hold you in the morning I’d do anything to dry those eyes We don’t want to be suffocated By the pressures of a modern life As everything around us changes There will always be you and I How we ever gonna make this work? How we ever gonna keep our song alive? If we don’t fight If we don’t cry And if we don’t try Cos even when it hurts, I want you Nothing seems to work, I need you Days and nights are blurred I wanna be right by your side Even when it hurts Even when it hurts Even when it hurts I wanna be right by your side I’ve been going crazy I’ve been going out of my mind Giving it all of my time Tryin to live all of this life All I wanna do is Press your skin against mine I wanna be right by your side And I want you, right by mine Are we ever break this curse? Are we ever gonna keep our souls alive? If we don’t fight If we don’t cry And if we don’t try Cos even when it hurts, I want you And nothing seems to work, I need you Days and nights are blurred I want you right by my side Even when it hurts Even when it hurts Even when it hurts I want you right by my side Even when it hurts I want you right by my side
3.	No Words (The Pool Sessions) 03:38	lyrics	buy track
I tried to call you Because I had a vivid dream About the way that all of our love Disappeared You know that moment between wake And between sleep When it all still feels so real But then you see You see the light come crashing through The curtains where we used to sleep On all the empty space you leave To show me what this could have been No words No words No words Could ever bring you back to me I dream of a place that we still meet In the corner of some bar on a quiet street There's a stranger with flowers for someone sweet, that I Saw and I though of you and me And the crowded sound doesn’t bother me As the bells rings out you hold onto me But the birds sing loud And its waking me As I reach for you I see the light come crashing through The curtains where we used to sleep On all the empty space you leave To show me what this could have been No words No words No words Could ever bring you back to me No words No words No words Could ever bring you back to me If I was honest I would say that I don’t want it this way If I could only see your face No words No words No words Could ever bring you back to me You’re so hurt You’re so hurt You’re so hurt From all the words I could not keep
4.	Drink to This (The Pool Sessions) 03:38	lyrics	buy track
No I never used to dream this much I was blinded by the fear of god I was looking down but never up Then you hit me like a rush of blood I knew I was fucked but not that much I was trying to run from who I was But theres something in the love you got Now that I'm waking up to this I wanna see the things I missed I wanna taste your every kiss Let's drink to this I wanna lay beneath the trees And let all my tears dry on your sleeve And now that we’re talking honestly Let's drink to this So put your bags down on the floor Hit the light and close the door To have you here is all I want I always knew I had it wrong I’d close my eyes and I would run But I had to fall just to belong Now I'm living for another song Now that I'm waking up to this I wanna see the things I missed I wanna taste your every kiss Let's drink to this I wanna lay beneath the trees And let all my tears dry on your sleeve Now that we’re talking honestly Let's drink to this You’re all I ever wanted Yeah its all I ever wanted Now that I'm waking up to this I wanna see the things I missed I wanna taste your every kiss Let's drink to this I wanna lay beneath the trees And let all my tears dry on your sleeve Now that we’re talking honestly Let's drink to this

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The sincere emotions in these stripped versions of 4 tracks from his album ‘Friends Like These, live at The Pool, are accompanied by RHODES' powerful vocals and sophisticated, iconic songwriting.
RHODES flips the old saying of "With friends like these, who needs enemies" into a positive thing, celebrating friendship, hope and realization.

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released May 12, 2023

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RHODES Hitchin, UK

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Jun 19

Mühle Hunziken

Rubigen, Switzerland
Jun 20

Papiersaal

Zürich, Switzerland

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