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13 Minutes [strings edit]

from 13 Minutes by Jeff Hayman

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Music and lyrics were written at the same time but on 2 different sides of Australia. Paul Irvine came home to our sharehouse and showed me a new tune he wrote and I started singing some lyrics I'd written on the fridge in permanent marker. And so the song was born.

Recorded a couple of years later at Bleeding' Ear Studio with the help of Walter Moroz on keyboard to give it the string sound.

lyrics

She rang him again, just to be perfect
"We have to talk", she said... Not the words…
Heard none the least. Is compatibility really a word or a meaning?
Tell me my faults, tell me my faults…

I want my thirteen minutes back, Whoo-oow
I want my thirteen minutes back, Yeah-yeah
I want my thirteen minutes back, Whoo-oow
I want my thirteen minutes back.
Thirteen minutes back…

Whoo-oow…
(She's) Like a diamond, I can barely afford carbon.
"Your gems where not for me" he replied.
Question from his heart, 12 inches away.
I can't travel that far.
That's when boy meets girl, boy loves girl,
Girl pulls wool over boy's eyes, into darkness.
Bleed into me, bleed into me…

I want my thirteen minutes back, Whoo-oow
I want my thirteen minutes back, Yeah-yeah
I want my thirteen minutes back, Whoo-oow
I want my thirteen minutes back.
Thirteen minutes back… Thirteen minutes back… x4

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from 13 Minutes, released December 5, 2005
Lyrics by Jeff Hayman
Music by Paul Irvine

Recorded at Bleedin' Ear Studio, (Mandurah, Western Australia) by Dave Feenstra and Jeff Hayman.

Edited and mixed by Jeff Hayman

Synth strings by Walter Moroz

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Jeff Hayman Groningen, The Netherlands

Dark brooding lyrics with a pop/rock twist. No topic is off limits for this West Australian songwriter. Now based in The Netherlands, you can find Jeff playing clubs, pubs, living rooms, festivals and everything in between.

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