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100mph (in 2nd Gear)
03:04
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A long, long time ago (but not so long ago though…)
Days went slow but the weeks flew fast, flying past and calling us – hurry up!
Some people push and shove, other ones aren’t tough enough
Chewing things over and over inside
Then down that shute they slide – by the wayside
It’s like driving 100 MPH in second gear
Jumped through one too many hoops to prove you shoot not in cold blood but fear
This place is so austere, but I feel safe in here
Feels like a little prison in my mind
No blinds to draw down when the dark decides
It’s like driving 100 MPH in second gear
Jumped through one too many hoops to prove you shoot not in cold blood but fear
Rain’s coming down thick and fast
Pressed up against the glass
The cold precision of the wipers
Do nothing to make our journey brighter
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Snuck A Peak
03:59
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Unraveling shadows, the touch of tumbling silk
Falling forbidden now
It feels…..and it feels..
You’ll open you’re into nothing now
You’ll open up your arms and no-one’ll come
No-one’ll come runnin to you
Tip-toed and arched over
A crescent shaped ache
Breaking open and over
Again…and again
You’ll open you’re into nothing now
You’ll open up your arms and no-one’ll come
No-one’ll come runnin to you
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Tough Love
02:39
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Treat me kind in the morning
Treat me kind in the evening
Bone china cup and saucer
Quivers round the bones of my fingers
Tough Love
Hey you - yeah in your youth
You were a white dove, I wore a boxing glove
With brown hair and fair skin
So beautiful, and keeping it all in
Tough Love
Don’t be confused or short fused
Cos there are many things little girl you did not choose
A montage, C’est moi, c’est moi!
Que-est ce je ne pas – La femme dans le old blue car…
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Fist Of A Flower
02:29
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Lowering your eyes, rewinding the sunrise
Looking for something, searching for nothing
Grows darker by the hour,
Closing up like the fist of a flower
Hour by hour by hour
Closing up like a flower
Looking at the moon, that you’re looking at too
Staring at the same thing with a galaxy in-between
Grows darker by the hour,
Closing up like the fist of a flower
Hour by hour by hour
Closing up like a flower
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Honey where have you been? You’re two shades short of green…
I’ve been drinking Cuba-Libras in the street
Well we’ve been here before, picking pennies off the floor
I’ve been calling – you don’t answer the phone anymore
I’ll break every bone in you
Babe I’ve been dying to
Ever since 1952
In a bar by the sea in the middle of a dream
S’when your drunken treasure eyes sunk into mine
Those omega 3 lips, approaching like enemy ships
The coup de grace, Non! Por favor! Permisson Senoir!
I’m barefoot, broken and bruised
Well I’m through with following you
Been waiting for you to
Ever since 1952
I’ve waited a long time for them to let me out of here
And if those bullets come rattling
Out your mouth I’ll grit my teeth and grin and bear it
Cos I know you’re like me – sinking desperately
Arms flailing, were they waving at me?
I’m barefoot, broken and blue
Well I’m thru with following you
Been aching for you to – Ever since 1952
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Gimme a rope cos I’m falling
Long or short, thick or thin
So many years I been calling
Trying to stop the evenings drawing in
You keep it rolling, rolling…
Gimme a rope cos I’m sinking
A singular rose in a stream
This undercurrent I am caught in
Trying steer my soul into the sea
No-one’s coming to save you
And no-one’ll come to save me
Everyone’s running around lately
Trying to chase the devil out to sea
You keep it rolling, rolling
You got me in a Death Roll!
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Goody Hoo
03:15
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Goody Hoo, the night’s upon you, moonlight lays lazy across your face in a silvery glaze. Your eyes are quick but stationary; feathers are thick with oils and excess – stretching through blue simmering shivers, cool iridescent quivers.
Who are you to raise a question? Tight tree bark claws grip onto anything that dares to blink, your dissidence will see no jury, so eloquent your fury never shows - flows to the blue simmering shivers, cool iridescent quivers.
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8. |
No Water
03:27
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Got blood on my feet
Mudskippers at my heels
No man or machine
Has ever seen anything this real
No water
No water here
No shelter from the sun
No hello gonna come from anyone
Oh been remembering the feel of your skin on mine
Been remembering anything to reach the end of this line
No water, No water here
Oh!
If you were the one then I know I would see you
Crouching in the bushes with the sleep still in your eyes
If you were the one then I’d never believe you were standing in a tree-trunk with those Animal Eyes
This treacherous route
Confuses and convolutes
Like a feverish memory
Oh Lord! I really thought you came to me
No water, No water here
Oh!
If you were the one then I know I would see you
Crouching in the bushes with the sleep still in your eyes
If you were the one then I’d never believe you were standing in a tree-trunk with those Animal Eyes
Oh no.
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Dig Me A River
02:51
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Lord knows they tried to dig me a river
And they tried to etch out a stream
But the veins of my arm runs deeper than those preachers could ever dream
And they tried to build me a mountain
With the earth they dug up and cast aside
And they tried to put a flag upon my head – it’s funny they even tried
God knows they tried to dig me a river
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Only one way to the top, but once you fall down you’ll never stop
There’s a hole in the sky and a gap in the ground, 2 warning signs – eyes that follow you around
Don’t call me, it only makes it worse
Don’t call me a liar and a curse
Don’t know if it’s day or night, don’t care whether it’s wrong or right
Cos there ain’t no light gonna shine in here, ain’t no sun gonna feed my fear
Don’t call me, it only makes it worse
Don’t call me a liar and a curse
Don’t call me – ah ah ah
Don’t call me…
Lone voice in the library speaks to nobody else but me
5’O Clock people retreat
The silence screams a deafening defeat
Don’t call me, it only makes it worse
Don’t call me a liar and a curse
Don’t call me – ah ah ah
Don’t call me – ah ah ah
Don’t call me – uh-ow-ouch
Don’t call me.
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11. |
Something Shifted
03:19
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Something shifted it’s true – truer than the deep blue
Like a shoe by the shore, hung your coat at the door
I could tell by the stars, venus, mercury and mars
There were warnings of vast stormy clouds racing past
Something Inside had died.
I could see in the sky, a small shape passing by unidentified – our worst enemies hide
I could tell by the stars, they knew right where you are
Like a slow motion blast she was left for the past
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12. |
So Do I
04:11
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Every night under the rolling sky, I silhouette against the skyline
But tonight is the night satellites are swallowed by the candlelight
And with every inch that burns
With every drop of hot wax that turns hard – So do I
I drew a line, then I rubbed it out, for every time I heard the city shout
I’d hold out, then I pout and I doubt I’d ever put the candle out
And as all the towns black out
As all of the drowners pass out from their share – So do I
Oh I keep runnin’ to you (like lovers do)
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