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Alone Again
03:16
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Alone again
The smoke above the old refinery
The bluest sea
You look towards the drifting sky above.
The town it ends
Turn our bikes and back before the dark
A shifting breeze
I realize I never said I'd like to stay
We're floating away.
And when it rains
Laughing under shelters afternoon
My favourite song
You play it for the candles in the dark.
The windowpane
The night itself communicating things
Morning comes
You think you'll stay behind again it's just to say
We're floating away.
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Breathing
03:37
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I dropped my bike on the side of the road
No inspiration, headed without a sound
Down to the sea where I lay my head
Gone for the summer, they left me behind for dead.
It comes a motion from where I cant see
His voice could soothe, his hands could free
I found the morning when he went away
The sun was setting , my hair was turning grey
Suddenly the windows shattered at once...
And I'm breathing, breathing
Breathing I see your face
I'm breathing in your vision
Breathing but I wait for you
I'm breathing in the morning
I'm breathing.
I had a vision on the side of the road
No information, headed without a sound
Down to the city where I move my head
Until the summer, I wade in the crowds of dead.
There comes my vision with his opening hands
He holds me tightly, and stays for the morning
Ignore the grey sitting by the door
It's only us, now breathe out again once more
I had a vision on the side of the road...
And I'm breathing, breathing
Breathing I see your face
I'm breathing in your vision
Breathing but I wait for you
I'm breathing in the morning.
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Bluegreen
04:07
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We stayed up 'til the sun
Peeked over the horizon
The smoke from the chimneys
In the half light haze
Warm summer wind, nothing compares
In the moment beside me the softest sound.
Powerlines divide the sky
And the sun was a candle
Gravel road into the dark
I was thinking of speaking
Trembling thought, shaking breath
Then we reach the clearing.
And it came over everything
A wave, I will leave it up to you
It will change over everything
With the wave, everything.
Powerlines divide the sky
And the sun was a candle
Trembling thought, shaking breath
In the half light haze
We stayed up 'til the sun
In the moment beside me the softest sound.
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I was close
But that's not enough to move on
The keys in my mind were withdrawn
But in the end I chose the one.
She was tracked
Five hundred ways and that's that
No one to hate but myself
But in the end I chose the one.
And you won't be the same
After the years in the shade
Lost in the haze I grew tame
And in the end I cut your name.
Don't come close.
Lock and key
Wax dripping through the paneling
Under the light of the flame
He whispers your name...
I won't be the same
After the words I say
I've lost it all in the maze
And in the end it was your name.
Watched you live
Travelled the plains to your tracks
But there was nothing left
And in the end I chose the one.
Don't come close
Oh just come close...
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Night Hour
03:00
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In the night hour
The fading of the streetlight comes with emotion
I never thought I'd be here with you
The meadows sing out.
In the night hour
The hum of the city sounds like the ocean
My girl, the light coming down
The song out of your mouth.
And I can't help falling in love with you.
Night hour
A shadow, a passing cloud by the moon
This is how I will remember you in the night hour.
And I can't help falling in love with you.
In the night hour
The fading of the streetlight comes with emotion
I never thought you'd be waiting
For me, in the dark.
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Blue Night Train
04:33
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I scrawled off
Away from the sun
To see the blue night on its way
Out of the dusk.
By corridors
They can't see our figurines
Keeps closing in on me
With the wash of the trains going out.
Closing.
It's nothing but a thought
The blue night train.
Your face in the glow
Of the streetlight fair
By the old steel bridge
The kiss that erases all.
The mark of our love
In your fading hair
How the rain from above
Rattles the roofs in the midsummer dream.
It’s nothing but a thought
The blue night train.
Closing.
It's nothing but a thought
The blue night train.
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The seeds of ennui
They grow through me
Sewn into the bed
Lurking in the red.
I could live in these words
Renounce and reverb
Bite your tongue off
Silver throw up.
Just like the sun
I'm in the ground
My tungsten's fried
I'll stay inside.
The seasons of youth
Subjective truths
Doctored photographs
Romantic past.
When I'm lithified
Between the lines
Writing on the walls
Become my faults.
Just like the sun
I'm in the ground
My tungsten's fried
I'll stay inside.
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