Video hit Tanita Tikaram

Tanita Tikaram - Dust On My Shoes

Tanita Tikaram, multi-million selling British singer songwriter, who shot to fame with her award winning album 'Ancient Heart' in 1988, will release her new and first album in eight years on Friday, August 31st via earMUSIC (edel).

Says Tikaram on the single: "I've always wanted to write a song like 'Dust On My Shoes', which is a simple freedom song.
The word 'freedom' becomes more and more important to all of us - in every choice, every political & moral decision and the attempt to live in a free way I find very moving. Hopefully, on the album you hear it in the playing, too!!".

"Dust On My Shoes" is already available as a digital single and is a warm soul record, enhanced by the evocative scenery of New York City, where the video was shot in May.

A good buzz is building at radio for the "return" of lovely Tanita, and the artist is preparing to hit stages again in the course of the album campaign: "I cant wait to get out there and start playing the new songs to everyone!".

The album "Can't Go Back" will feature 10 brand new songs. The special edition of the album will come in a digi pack and carry a bonus disc, with Tikaram performing 8 Tanita-classics acoustically.

The 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 Ive seen

working so hard when the day is breaking

working so hard while the city sleeps

my bodys 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

dont 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