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1. |
F.A.
04:36
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I’m melting away
As you rush through your morning
Forget our sweet nothings
Alone in your kitchen
Denying me
Is your daily ritual
Coffee and crumbs
And a coating of lipstick
I was right there in your arms
From birth into love without binds
The chemicals fire into life
To wake at all
Is to wake in fright
Ooh
Eight in the morning
Your buzzer demands
Wrenching you from me
As man squashes ants
Leaving me here with your imaginations
The eternal tension
Is all ‘round me bubbling
I wait
Suspended in time in your brain
F. A.
Fuck all to do while you wake
Baby, baby
I’m not a dream
I am a realer
Reality
Baby, baby
I’m not a dream
I am a realer
Reality
I was right there in your arms
From birth into love without binds
The chemicals fire into life
To wake at all
Is to wake in fright
Ooh
I wait
Suspended in time in your brain
F. A.
Sweet fuck all to do while you wake
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2. |
Firefly
04:40
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Put it in a letter
Roll it in a tally ho
Leave it in the kitchen sink
You are not the only one
Though it never feels that way
Humming to that song you hear
I think that I can hear it too
Instruct myself
And I’m on, and I’m on...
Caught up in a motion
Swimming through a swirling now
You put it in a bottle
An ocean on a dusty shelf
If you survive
Then we’re on, then we’re on, and I’m wrong, then we’re on...
And I’m feeling all tied up
All I want is a cut
But you're bleeding, now I see
That enough is enough
And I’m on, and I’m on...
Call out to the sages
You’re putting out the feelers now
It’s 11:11
And silence strikes the dreadful hour
The heavens see that
I’m on but I’m faded, I’m on but I’m faded...
And I’m feeling all tied up
All I want is a cut
But you're bleeding, now I see
That enough is enough
And I’m on, and I’m on...
Like a firefly to the moon
Like a firefly to the moon
Like a firefly to the moon
Like a firefly to the moon
Like a firefly to the moon
Like a firefly to the moon
It’s a strange reunion
When two and two equal one
Held up by a matador
No prize for the winning
But maybe I will take a run
Followed by a stinging
Then I hear the crowd roar
Standing at the door
And I’m on, and I’m on, and I’m on
And I’m feeling all tied up
All I want is a cut
But you're bleeding, now I see
That enough is enough
And I’m feeling all tied up
All I want is a cut
And I’m on, and I’m on, and we’re on...
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3. |
Asking Right
03:56
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It’s okay
It’s okay
And you know you can’t stop it
And you caught yourself in the way
And you’re falling now
And it’s all around
With a hand you keep checking
That you’re breathing on the way back down
And you’re falling now
Birds don’t make a sound
They just sing their silence
It’s your anthem
As you fall to the ground
Save your fight for another tune
This doesn’t sit well on you
And if your heart’s still strumming then
Sing me something new
It’s a state
It’s a state
The window’s all foggy
Catching headlights every breath that you take
Save your fight for another tune
This doesn’t sit well on you
And if your heart’s still strumming then
Sing me something new
Never gonna see an answer
You’re never gonna see an answer
Never gonna see an answer
If you're not asking right
Asking right
Save your fight for another tune
This doesn’t sit well on you
And if your heart’s still strumming then
Sing me something new
Never gonna see an answer
You’re never gonna see an answer
You’re never gonna see an answer
You’re never gonna see an answer
(Losing hope)
(Heavy heart)
You’re never gonna see an answer
(Hope the answer)
(Comes to light)
You’re never gonna see an answer
(You’ll never)
(Know if you’re not asking right)
(Asking right)
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4. |
All To Pieces
03:40
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You built another tower in the sky
It’s built so tall it sways
You don’t know why
You fill it with your people and their things
But it can never seem to get you high
You dig another hole into the ground
Bury yourself as you burrow down
People patter on the streets above
But nothing ever seems to turn your frown
But you’d break it all to pieces for love
And nobody would believe what you’ve done
You’re filling all your forms every day
‘Cos everything it lands some other way
And everybody’s trying to get some
You don’t know where to look or where to run
But you’d break it all to pieces for fun
And nobody would believe what you’ve done
You’re drifting like a boat now through the sands
Semi-circles forming up above
Your peace and goodwill carried by a dove
But no one's ever seen where it lands
And you’re breaking now that push has come to shove
‘Cos all of it has never been enough
So you’re breaking it to pieces for love
Nobody can believe what you’ve done
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5. |
Lonely Age
03:18
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Money is the key to the world
But you ain’t got any locks
No doors to open and enjoy your wealth
Friday night to feel alive
Move so fast the holes are plugged
With any luck you’ll sleep the weekend off
Little things tick in your mind
Looking forward to reward
Your phone, your hair, your lunch and what to watch
You can’t find it in your heart
Maybe check the classifieds
Just something to ignite your arse’s fire
With all that’s good
With all that’s here
It’s also not in reach
You’re tethered to a chair
Feel so cut out
A lost and little lonely age
Our lost and little lonely age
A lost and little lonely day
Money is the key to the world
But you ain’t got any locks
No doors to open and enjoy your wealth
Friday night to feel alive
Move so fast the holes are plugged
With any luck you’ll sleep the weekend off
With all that’s good
With all that’s here
It’s also not in reach
You’re tethered to a chair
Feel so cut out
A lost and little lonely age
Our lost and little lonely age
A lost and little lonely day
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6. |
In My View
02:50
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Let’s unpack your veracity
Tasting your violence
Combing your silence
Chase it out the window
Let’s retail your capacities
Hold them to the light
And see if they take flight
Detail it in my notebook
You’re finished now
You’re done for good
Must be hard for you
Living in my view
Let’s re-brand your voracity
Wetten your dryness
Sweeten your sour
Striving for a highness
Who are you fooling now
Who are you fooling now
Heavy your slightness
Darken your brightness
Striving for a highness
You’re finished now
You’re done for good
Must be hard for you
Living in my view
Let’s unpack your veracity
Tasting your violence
Combing your silence
Chase it out the window
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7. |
Goodbye Earle Street
03:09
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Meet you at the hotel
I’ll come by at your bell
We go for a walk
Pointing out the big stars
Pretty in the spring park
Nothing like back home
I’m living on a fault line, a fault line
Waiting to explode
You handed me a new time
A scene I never inquired
Now I’m after more
Oh
Keeping on the front line
Going in to break hearts
By now you’re a pro
I was such a small cheese
Didn’t have to say please
How easy I believed
Left standing with my dick in my hand
I’m let down
Now I’m just alone
Oh
Meet you at the hotel
I’ll come by at your bell
We go for a walk
Pointing out the big stars
Pretty in the spring park
Nothing like back home
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8. |
Devotion
04:09
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This ain’t out of a four letter feeling
This is out of devotion
This ain’t out of a four letter reeling
This is out of emotion
Hold me to my letter spacing
Fingers tapping heart keeps racing
Blushing at the thought of you
Wondering what your body looks like
Skipping on our lovely rope
You hold your end, I hold mine
Hoping that our line does tangle
Grace for impact, precious mangle
Dripping with a sweet aroma
Dazing with a heady touch
Bring me in, bring me closer
Give me ‘til I have too much
Trace your fingers on my face
And spell out words, I have to guess them
Playing like children play, but not playing like children play
This ain’t out of a four letter feeling
This is out of devotion
This ain’t out of a four letter reeling
This is out of emotion
Pacing ‘cos I’ve had enough now
Wound me in ways I don’t know how
Pushing buttons ‘til they’re red
Falling out of the bed
Signal like a traffic light
Smoulder like a campfire
Acid eating at my insides
Brain producing sightless insights
Bound up by our tired line
Once so light, once so fine
You held your end, I held mine
You held your end, I held mine
This ain’t out of a four letter feeling
This is out of devotion
This ain’t out of a four letter reeling
This is out of emotion
Bridging an entire ocean
Pushing stilts into the mud
I was the strength, you were the motion
Continually we broke each other
Kept together by our thread
Running through our hearts and head
In and out of our bed
It’s so mad, it’s so crazy
But in the background something grew
Rising like a gentle cloud, who knew
Misting over jagged edges
Making sunsets all pink
Vapour or maybe pollution
Giving all a rosy hue
You held me and I held you
You held me and I held you
This ain’t out of a four letter reeling
This is out of emotion
This ain’t out of a four letter feeling
This is out of devotion
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9. |
Real Love
04:28
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I don’t know where or when
I’m here
But you’ve outgrown the home
Love, love’s a doing word
Oh no
No wonder you feel done
Moving ever slow
Down here, the distance isn’t clear
Let’s put it to a vote
My dear, I want you to stay
This is, this is real love
This is just like real love
This is, this is real love
This could feel like real love
Just the edges show
We’re known: formally a pair
From an empty stare
It’s grown, it’s grown, it’s grown
This is, this is real love
This is just like real love
This is, this is real love
This could feel like real love
This is, this is real love
This is just like real love
This is, this is real love
This could feel like real love
And my fingers, well they know it
And our faces, well they show it
Has time taught us nothing
Would you stake your life on it
This is, this is real love
This is just like real love
This is, this is real love
This could feel like real love
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10. |
You Won't Always
02:13
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You won’t always be there
You won’t always be there
But I will want that
But I will want that
You won’t always feel sad
You won’t always feel small
But I’ll protect you
Any time you feel
That
You won’t always make time
To carve out, oh my star
You may run back to ask questions
About love
And how
About you
Felt then
About if
Given
About all
Ever
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