Biography:
Will Varley (born in Brixton, London, on 7 March 1987) is a British folk singer and co-founder of the arts collective Smugglers Records.
Varley spent his teenage years in Kingston playing solo shows and singing in bands. His debut album was released on Smugglers Records in July 2011. He plays an explosive and subversive brand of British folk music.
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Other songs:
- Advert Soundtrack
- As For My Soul
- As The Crow Flies
- Dark Days Away
- From Halcyon
- I Got This Email
- Is Anyone Out There
- King For A King
- Newborn
- One Last Look At The View
- Outside Over There
- Seize The Night
- Send My Love To The System
- Seven Days
- Something Is Breaking
- Statues
- The Endlessness And The Space Between
- The Man Who Fell To Earth
- The Sound Of The Markets Crashing
- These Are The Days
- This House
- To Build A Wall
- Until The Grass Gets Greener
- We Dont Believe You
- We Want Our Planet Back
- Weddings And Wars
- When Youre Gone
- Where The Wild Wind Blows
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[Verse 1]
G
I've been looking through some pictures
That I found in my room
C
Time machines take you back
To the places you once knew
D
And I remember all the things
that I used to care about
C
And I realised that they faded
They don't matter to me now
[Verse 2]
G
They are moments in a lifetime which I never understand
C
Just a glance across the room
Cigarette burnin' on my hand
D
Just a second conversation on a sunday afternoon
C
Or a kiss on a bridge
After it's been raining in June
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got older
C
And maybe I can't see
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 3]
G
Well Playgrounds look like prisons the day after you leave school
C
And exes look like angels
The day before they fall
D
You get caught up with the rose
In the glasses on the wall
C
And you remember what they look like
And know what they will call
[Verse 4]
G
And there was still a way you smile
Some autumn monday morning
C
They will hate you
And they will rage you
And they will punish you without warning
D
And you search for signs of goodness
And you search for signs of life
C
Till you're standing on a stage
And you're blinded by the lights
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got scared
C
And gave in to the disease
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 5]
G
Where the morning's slowly coming
As the pictures gathered dust
C
As the light dances with chemicals
But there is no need to rush
D
We just sit here for a while
Till we're ready to go back
C
We stick our fingers up in times
Till the horizon is getting fat
[Verse 6]
G
But I will take something with me
Which I could never found
C
If I'd have carried on going forwards
In those directions we are bound
D
So I thank you little photograph
For giving me a sign
C
Now I think I'll have to burn you
Just in case you change your mind
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got older
C
And gave up all my dreams
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 7]
G
We're not leaving any doorways
We're not losing any speed
C
But if we die tomorrow
At least we got what we need
D
And you can carry on
No I'm not judging you at all
C
Takes us all different times
To recover from school
[Verse 8]
G
If you ever get your empire
I'm sure I'll shake your hand
C
But I think I'll be content
Drawing pictures in the sand
D
And as for all these photographs lying on the floor
C
Yes, I'll burn them in the morning
'Cause I don't need them anymore
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I will miss them
C
In Time we will see
D
But I think I just realise that I want to be free
[Chorus/Ending]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
C
Send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
G
I've been looking through some pictures
That I found in my room
C
Time machines take you back
To the places you once knew
D
And I remember all the things
that I used to care about
C
And I realised that they faded
They don't matter to me now
[Verse 2]
G
They are moments in a lifetime which I never understand
C
Just a glance across the room
Cigarette burnin' on my hand
D
Just a second conversation on a sunday afternoon
C
Or a kiss on a bridge
After it's been raining in June
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got older
C
And maybe I can't see
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 3]
G
Well Playgrounds look like prisons the day after you leave school
C
And exes look like angels
The day before they fall
D
You get caught up with the rose
In the glasses on the wall
C
And you remember what they look like
And know what they will call
[Verse 4]
G
And there was still a way you smile
Some autumn monday morning
C
They will hate you
And they will rage you
And they will punish you without warning
D
And you search for signs of goodness
And you search for signs of life
C
Till you're standing on a stage
And you're blinded by the lights
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got scared
C
And gave in to the disease
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 5]
G
Where the morning's slowly coming
As the pictures gathered dust
C
As the light dances with chemicals
But there is no need to rush
D
We just sit here for a while
Till we're ready to go back
C
We stick our fingers up in times
Till the horizon is getting fat
[Verse 6]
G
But I will take something with me
Which I could never found
C
If I'd have carried on going forwards
In those directions we are bound
D
So I thank you little photograph
For giving me a sign
C
Now I think I'll have to burn you
Just in case you change your mind
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I got older
C
And gave up all my dreams
D
Or maybe I just realised that I want to be free
[Chorus]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
[Verse 7]
G
We're not leaving any doorways
We're not losing any speed
C
But if we die tomorrow
At least we got what we need
D
And you can carry on
No I'm not judging you at all
C
Takes us all different times
To recover from school
[Verse 8]
G
If you ever get your empire
I'm sure I'll shake your hand
C
But I think I'll be content
Drawing pictures in the sand
D
And as for all these photographs lying on the floor
C
Yes, I'll burn them in the morning
'Cause I don't need them anymore
[Bridge]
Em
And maybe I will miss them
C
In Time we will see
D
But I think I just realise that I want to be free
[Chorus/Ending]
C
So send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
C
Send my love to the system
G
Send my love to the system
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