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vamonos
01:59
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2. |
No Thought Without Word
03:09
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in distant dawn
no light for me
i broke down the barriers looking for you in the sea
with open eyes
and open chest
a reeling view of the sky and the planes beneath
i saw you standing arms at your side
two dimensional intersecting lines
faded thoughts jeremiah sighs
closer to the darkening tide
and with the moon the tides beat slow
the canaries the canals
i saw you standing arms at your side
two dimensional intersecting lines
faded thoughts jeremiah sighs
closer to the darkening tide
in distant dawn
no light for me
i broke down the barriers looking for you in the sea
with open eyes
and open chest
a reeling view fo the sky and the planes beneath
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3. |
Black Sky
07:06
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in a current of love
room of heat
shining jade
at the door
speak the words
lord is mine
lord is pure
tween the pillars
of light
one will find
some to mine
streets of dawn
none to hear
none to find
none too near
lost fire blooms
striking match in the gloom
holy voice then thats all
in the dark in the hall
sold
to the sea
every last
at the door
and a hand
guiding thee
brings the name
to the keep
march to the sea
to the wash to the gleam
your march and your place
wrapped in sun streets his lace
caught by the fall
in the sky in the wall
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Over-Over
01:44
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after all that time you saw them standing, standing in line
know they're hard to watch and they wouldn't last a night
now all their vines made them liars like an open book
over and over they'll fall down, take a look
after all they only won from speaking so softly, so softly
you never told them grey hair is just the beginning sign
you'll know you've lost it when you love them for the wine
over and over you lose it just like an open book
know that we're still here if you want, both eyes
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open both your eyes
im there
im outside
i can see you bathing
i know
theyll talk
im in the centre of the universe
but if you knew me
id be there
if you knew me
id be
in your house
stripping paint from the walls
and if you knew the little pieces
maybe youd want to chain me
in our house
i sense a disturbance
i do, i do
if i knew you
would that make a difference to me
i notice
i call out your name, no one answers its all the same
i know
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Supersonic
04:00
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i travelled long and hard
crossed oceans, crossed the sea for you
i didn't want to notify
authorities i knew they'd come down
whatever it takes
migrating to my homeland
i pick them by their animals
not humans but the little ones
if only you knew
just all the things i'd do to break free
i travelled long and hard
crossed oceans, crossed america
i never stop too long
i just keep flying spitting blood
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7. |
needles
00:59
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8. |
When ur Safe n Sound
01:32
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had a scroll through a losing streak and then i saw you smile
when the past just dissipates now what does that make me
through the fog a distant light a home upon a hill
time and time a forward thrust a movement lacking sound
i never leave a sullen soul
you turn them so slow
i fear the fire light and thus a longing past
everything is mixed to morn a glint of sun off glass
so lately i dont feel so down
leave me i dont feel so down
say why
i feel alright
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death taught me everything i know
about the world and its pleasures
first the weeping cry
then the plan subsides
and the moon reveals me waiting
far fleeing to the other side
to bask in the sight of the morning
takes a knife to find
and a life to blind
but the pines are always watching
travelling travelling travelling travelling down
long gazes send me to my knees
im weak but beneath lies a hunger
no waking cry
just emptiness inside
then i knew it was gonna turn over
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Weekends
02:47
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tuesday june 18 she lost
her man and everything she was
entitled when he read his vows
a burning crept into the house
now alone with no one home
you can do whatever you want
with no one in the house at night
you can have your fun
in the sun
had by one
by the sea
you criticize too deep
fell asleep to the steady hum
of lovers crying miles away
her property's so large these days
you'd think it lonely living day
to-day
by the fire pit
fed her sorrow to the crows
gray outside and worse within
could use redecorations gone
astray
id pay
if i could see
why everybody chooses
to live so far away from me
its all my life
i choose it so i live with the consequences
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its all mine
shows to lift me off the floor
when i had a knife
i moved in silence from the door
fuck the people who disagree
they dont deserve anything
why'd i have to pay so hard
when i do things half for god
so why do they wait
what difference it matters aint clearer
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coffee cup
01:27
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within a dream-state
i followed the trains
til we reached circus tents
looming over our heads
and the man inside
take on another light
stay over a night
with a coffee cup
and the mountains passed
and crystals long
i held out my hands
to receive not
went over the lines
to a coffee shop
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13. |
Postwar
02:11
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found the sparrow in a field
convocation at its side
meditations on my palms
couldn't tell about the time
but the silence brings me hope
every time i find it weird
theres a sound that leads me home
to a house in a clear
they are waiting for me there
now i feel
that maybe ive been wrong
about you
after all these years
but the serpent wasn't misplaced
it was just in the wrong time
not your fault
and i fear its still the same
and i read it on the shore
how your heart its tasting warm
how your arms were always there
i just ignored them in the end
let us go down to the fair
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14. |
Beneath the Sound
03:14
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theres a reason i never told you how i feel
that your eyes cant take much pressure without fear of exploding, convalescent
distant fog oft hides my brain from the roots of repressive love
is not something to lie about so reduce your mind enter the flood
i notice everytime i see your name
i feel closer to escaping the lord
and the sound youve left just grows and grows an what you get is just
a roar
a constant sarcastic
i feel so alone
so let it be without asking
and nearer to the sun
i feel a close minded crushing of doubt in the earth but im not sure
theres something about your change that makes me melt away
but staying breathing doesnt make the absence any weaker
it just makes it more apparent in the space between our skin
and i
i feel so sarcastic
just rejoice in the sun
nearly triassic
and maybe i couldve been a mayor of the town before in a valley filled with close to sand
and i
sedentary jurassic
slice the bonds
ytrixin valladic
for the long haul
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64
00:39
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