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From Mia
04:02
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To make that move
Over the distant hill
Away from avoidance
Away from the sun shining through our room
It sighs.
This is your last look
Don't turn don't turn around
This was your garden
But don't turn don't turn away...
From Mia.
And now I look at her
The sun at a different angle now
I try to release the pain
I still read it every night.
- from Mia
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2. |
Days In
04:01
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I
had a dream
that we held each other
and it frightened me.
Blue
and red
Seen out the window
We can't let them know.
Voices
in the hallway
Nothing matters anymore
Nothing's difficult.
The feeling
of finally having you
in my memories
It's almost too much.
And distance makes it come easier
Distance makes it come easy.
I
had a dream
we fucked in your room
Before the sun came.
You move
Move away
from the dirty streets
and the carpet stains.
I wake up
and it's silent
Is it difficult
to change.
And I
had a dream
had a dream
of you.
And distance makes it come easier
Distance makes it come easy
And distance makes it come easier
Distance makes it come easy.
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3. |
Secrets
03:29
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I was born on a blanket of snow
Between the little pines I learn to grow
This day is the first day of my life
One you were meant to hold
For the rest of the December month
When the secrets in the air survive.
Heaven is walking the halls
Snow falling faintly in the nighttime
Up in the air is a feeling
Of home...
Doesn't last too long.
There's the blood you hid in your room
Stained in the corner turning blue
This day I'll finally escape
Before you I'm on my knees
For the rest of the December month
When the secrets in the air survive.
Michael is locking the doors
Snow falling faintly in the night
Up in the air is a feeling
Of home...
Doesn't last too long.
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4. |
Warm Sun
03:03
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And when I saw your message
I was alone in the room
I was alone.
Another reminder
Of your voice
On my shoulder.
And I've noticed
How we never say your name
At the table.
Warm warm sun
To erase the fear
The fear of dying.
Warm warm sun
To erase my memories
My memories of you.
And when I look into your
Little picture
I feel young again.
I thought I was finished
But your love
I'm clinging to.
I heard something in the house
Your voice
I'm walking.
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5. |
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I can't even look at you
After what you said to me
I don't know how to feel
Was there ever anything.
Fast forward stumbling home
Crumbling in the dark
It was open.
Wait come back I got it
I just had to think it over
There's nothing left but stars
No one here but me
Half dead I can barely see out of the room
Beating drums.
I can't even look at you
Even after everything
I've lost it long ago
I loved you.
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6. |
Quiet Space
04:32
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This is what I remember
The constant washing waves
Tracing down the old footpaths
Finally at peace.
Sketches in the distance
A gentle mist around
Breathing in the horizon
Until I float away.
Away.
This is what I remember
Asleep with ones I love
Waking to the warm sunrise
And heading down to shore.
Shying over the surface
We never look below
Until the sudden stirring
That came during the night
Away.
This is what I am holding
The shaking in the trees
And then unspeakable terror
As death came rushing in.
We fled in cover of darkness
And almost got away
But out along the river
They found us.
This is where I will go to
When it's my time to sleep.
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7. |
Copper
03:01
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I was held in a field
Away from the sound of the city
And it's obviously the answer
Not just that I was meant to be alone.
I was held in a field
With everything that grows
And it's obviously the answer
The answer that they lack
Just as the old saying goes
I am at home.
When I return to my town
The weight of it all gets too much to bear
Till I look out the window
And see the green way down below.
I return to the field
In every waking dream
And it's obviously the answer
The answer that I missed
Just as the old saying goes
I am at home.
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8. |
Fire Calls
04:30
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Oh what a failure, I tried again
Left in the open, we hope for difference
Five in the morning, the singing's here
Morning of where I wait for it again.
Every single time I start to fall
I can fall while knowing you'll be there to pick me up.
Nobody's speaking, the car was dark
Breeze of the night, I can feel it now
Said to awaken the oldest souls
I will remember the morning I fold.
Every single time I start to fall
I can fall while knowing you'll be there to pick me up
Every single time I start to fall
I can fall while knowing you'll be there -
Oh the fire calls
I need it
Across the valley floor
Oh the fire calls
I need it
Across the valley floor.
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Fevering
02:37
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He died in the morning, aware of it
And mother found him in his bed.
Her scream filled the houses
Her scream
No one feels.
Doesn't matter in the end
After all
After all
After all.
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10. |
Anthropocene 2
04:05
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I land next to your perch
By the frozen banks
Ancient shadows of the earth
Cross the evening.
The empty valley floor
Ice and wind
The howling night...
Tracks left in the snow
We leave before the storm
And rest in the caves
Until the morning.
Feathers scattered 'round
A distant call
The passage underground
Where it's warming.
Water cutting stone
An impossible voice
From within the dark
Touch the morning.
Hours on the earth
The whispering rock
And empty wind and time.
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