1. |
Ears To The Ground
06:01
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take a look at yourself now
i can’t abide you anymore
wait for this signal to fade
before turning your minds around
as we syphon the blanks through the door
and why do this to yourself
when the reverse of your name spells out what you’ve been tried for
as we walk with our backs to the floor
watching me standing whilst watching me fall
wait and wait...
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2. |
From Five
05:20
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just ask the question
count down from five
distance means everything
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3. |
Sense Of Smell
03:36
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it's highly unconventional (my being here)
shatter fall and fade
the smell of winter makes it real
midnight wanderings with cigarettes
wondering why
i bother to burn closed
these exit wounds
a change of heart
a change of home
i’m standing by your side
forever
shatter fall and fade
the smell of winter makes it real
midnight wanderings with cigarettes
wondering why
a silence filled with violins
a sense unreplaceable
a broken string
a forgotten verse
and always that smell
an affinity with infinity
and always that smell
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4. |
Blood Runs Blue
04:23
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5. |
Play Softer
05:08
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play softer
"you can stay on the outside for one minute more"
thus ended, these parks surrended upon request
the gravity defiers and petrol fires
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6. |
Throwing Salt
04:35
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i knew that i’d told you this time you have won
and once, when time stood still
we left him broken on the floor
in spite of it all
this new deference sets in
and i sing out
and once
when time stood still
we left him broken on the floor
in spite of it all
and i’ll wait for one more day
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7. |
Cloud Cover
04:14
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december
spent in the back room
i take my cues from you
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8. |
Turner's Dance
05:37
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why don't you scream your own words
and come back to the purest of mindsets
take all the time that it needs
(and your own lies)
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9. |
Harmonics
03:39
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10. |
A Fork In The Road
03:20
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crane town skyline
dwarfs this city’s streets for the better
what of our lives can we learn from these pictures?
a shoebox filled with wastes of time
will our tempers hold this down so we can look each other in the eye and say that everything has safely passed and the damages are only slight and that it’s sad but everybody has their reasons?
so bury us with all the things we can’t replace
but you forget: what memory reflects makes an enemy of death
dissolve the plans before we can shout and we can swear about it all
a hopeless depends on definitions of success
crane town skyline
dwarfs this city’s streets for the better
what of our lives can we learn?
i see it now
the common purpose of tracing lines ends up in circles
so bury us with all the things we can’t replace
but you forget: what memory reflects makes an enemy of death
dissolve the plans before we can shout and we can swear about it all
a hopeless depends on definitions of success
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11. |
Lampshades For Neo-Tokyo
03:56
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if we have created a useless expectation
this clock has stopped our plans again
the traffic of our movements made from circling ourselves
days of waking dreams and insight into silence
our tendencies, the final fate to be arranged into... something.
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12. |
Glued
04:56
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13. |
Spares
03:29
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these walls have ears
and people, they can’t keep secrets from you
a reserved seat for vacant stares to fill with hopeful errors
it’s okay / fuck this / calm down
memory is the best of liars
brittle bones and restless settled dust prevents us
from shrugging off what changes as we
lose sight of what we fought for
it’s okay / fuck this / calm down
memory is the best of liars
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14. |
35 Summers
06:44
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a place for thought
where thought can only separate us from the empty pages
torn out in a fit of rage by those who celebrate
the greys of afternoon-less days
when blame can only settle on the shoulders of winter
and it’s sad when your days begin at the end
no wondrous thought to unfold and criticise...
to educate us further in our lives
escaping time to realise that life should never be a lesson in waiting
i turn my back and face the wall
i turn my back and walk away
i am shining commerce
a wounded soldier
napoleon found drowned in shallow sympathy
a path once paved with promise and the mirrored shards of memory left broken to cut our feet open
i turn my back and face the wall
i turn my back and walk away
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15. |
Noddy
03:02
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i blinked and lost the last three hours
tape rewound
stairs found
these locks won’t let me sleep
they’re terrified of me
the anchors of our slow progressions through each day
this stretch of time we spent wrongly avoiding all the tested tries of those fools that once were us standing here and sweating out all of last night’s scenes.
as tap drip moments splash echo seconds
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16. |
Global Nod
05:42
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a slip becomes an accident
and sways us further from ourselves
to change the way we each perceive the mess from mistakes that we have made
if this is an empty promise then we’re twice pardoned and destined to walk away again
how dramatically we change the way want to see the best in everything
yet fail to mean what we meant to when we started
our intentions were all for the best
into the face of progress we stand like statues, expressions all worn away the same
and this to remind us of the best mistake that we have made
so light a fire and pass this courage among friends
importance becomes an ember in the air
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17. |
Siderali
02:07
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