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Gladiator
03:06
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Take my hand, take the wheel
It's been 24 years too long I feel
I'm watching movies, reading books
Still can't figure out what wrong turn I took
But I know I ain't no gladiator
But you know, you know what's in my heart
What I do, it makes no difference anyway
What I do, it makes no difference anyway
I'm trading friendlies for new faces
I am hanging with the smash hits
Still growing up, growing up
Even though I stopped growing in grade 6
I'm liking girls, liking money
And these drugs they make me feel funny
I can quote my favourite line
I can calculate the distance in time
I can feel it slipping I can,
I can feel it slipping I can...
I ain't no gladiator
But you know whats in my heart
It makes no difference anyway
It makes no difference anyway
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Leaving Home
03:59
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Stay awake, each life’s like a blink of the eye
Breathe in, I feel the weight as the words they tumble down
Brace yourself, your life's about to change, how you don't even know
But change is hard to deal with when all I feel is how I miss you now
As you sit there, crying on the phone
It's funny how a goodbye is the only way to really say I love you
And love that's shared is love that's spared from every inch of soil between us now
Places, a time, when I don't know how
Oh the simplicity, to piece together all I've been shown
But I don't know how it feels to have every piece of me crying to go home
Oh, the fear when I wake, and the pleasure of falling asleep next to you
And the weight of the crime, when we know that we do not know what to do.
As you sit there, crying on the phone.
As you sit there, wishing yourself home
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Mix Tape
03:33
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Come into my life and jump into my bed
There'll be holding hands, there'll be faces red
You know it ain't fair, I've been working all week
Gotta rest these eyes, gotta get some sleep
You're into music and you're OK too
I just don't know what I'm meant to do about it
It's not fair why i'm left with you
And your holding hands, and your thank-yous
Tell me about your life and tell me about your band
Tell me about your band friends that you see around
I hear it ain't all chance, no it ain't potluck
I'm listening, yeah, but I just don't give a fuck
Won't say much 'cos the truth will hurt
But you can keep your mix tape and the T-shirt
Really gotta rest, gotta get some sleep
But you keep leaning in, you keep whispering
But I, I ain't even here
I'm just bored, I don't know what to do with my love
Meeting on the street and meeting in the bar
Drinks all day, more drinks at the bar
Excuse me please while I duck out back
Need a break from you, you cool with that
When I get back you're still sitting there
Playing with your phone and playing with your hair
It's really tough, I've been working all week
Gotta get home soon, gotta get some sleep
But I, I ain't even here
I'm just bored I don't know what to do with my love
Oh but I, I ain't even calling
I'm just bored, I don't know what to do with my time
Come into my life and climb into my bed
There'll be holding hands, there'll be faces red
I really only offered cos my place was close
I see you're drunk and me, almost
Won't say much cos the truth will hurt
But you can keep your mix tape and the t-shirt
Really gotta rest, gotta get some sleep
But you keep leaning in, you keep whispering
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Purple
03:33
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You did not get home until 3
Your clothes stained with paint I can see purple, purple
Leave them on your bedroom floor
Wait for a knock at the door. Excuse me, mister
Consumer, you clearly don't fit
Defacer, you freely admit, don't you.
Purple terror of the night sky
Friend of unsuspecting eyes. Aren't you.
Whose stain the clothes they don't fit, the clothes they don't the clothes they don't fit.
Whose stain the clothes they don't fit, the streets you will hit just don't write your name on it
(Repeat)
Six months in the big house, you're clear.
Told them what they wanted to hear, no sir
Mr, can you spare me some food,
A plate, a slice, a forkful will do.
Whose stain the clothes they don't fit, the clothes they don't the clothes they don't fit.
Whose stain the clothes they don't fit, the streets you will hit just don't write your name on it
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Child in a Tree
03:38
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Come down from there
You've been playing too long
Down here my child
It is here you belong
When will you find
When will you find
That with every step you heighten
So it does frighten me
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Bad Friends
03:57
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I sit and stare at my shoes
I sit and stare at the wall
I watch the planes fly north overhead
I will say nothing at all
I'll sing the song of silence
I'll sing no song at all
And in this time of waking
and effortlessly breaking
Bad friends are looking for something new
Bad friends aren't looking for you
Oh will you open up your door
Let this stranger sleep upon your floor
Until we all fall down like water
Oh the chaos and the order
I am the ring in your ear
I am the dust on the windowsill and
My friends are out getting drunk somewhere without me
And in this Kingdom of nothing
I am the king of everything
Bad friends keep looking for something new
Bad friends aren't looking for you
Oh will you open up your door
Let this stranger sleep upon your floor
Until we all fall down like water
Oh the chaos and the order
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Got It, Lost It
04:23
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Think you caught it, think you got it
Think you lost what you had, will never get back to you.
Why this hurt inside my head?
Nothing can keep you throw it back instead
Why this pain inside my heart?
Nowhere to run lets take it back to the start
It's in my heart, it's in my head
It's in the shape of a false feeling
It's in my heart, it's in my head
Why this stain upon my thoughts?
I feel it hunting me in my dreams
It's in my heart, it's in my head
It's in the shape of a false feeling
It's in my heart, it's in my head
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Falling Away
04:06
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They say it's good for the heart
They say it's good for the mind
They say the people we love, we leave behind
They say it's torture and pain
They say it's freedom again
Do we know it now?
They say it's people you know
They say it's fractions and wholes
They say it's pushing a stone up a hill to let it roll
They say it's pleasure and pain
They say it's freedom again,
Do we know now?
It's the light of the morning
The fall of the rain
A season that's dawning
A consciousness forming
An ocean of disappointment
Then falling, baby we're falling, falling away
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Of Desire
04:26
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Crossing town I take the train
I draw my eyes along the pavement
I would think you're like the river
Running fast then overflowing
You've been sleeping there for hours
It's the early afternoon
Pull your sheets between your thighs
Drop my eyes, that I don’t falter
And you listen when she's speaking
‘Cause you know how these lovers
Have a way with words
We are lovers in your kitchen
We are lovers in your hallway
Place a feather in your cauldron
I'll leave the book on your doorstep
And it's hardest when you're leaving
‘Cause you always turn around
And she never does
I'll drop by some other day now
I will seek you out in silence
Another book, another mystery
Some accounts of love and violence
And you listen when she's speaking
‘Cause you know how, you know how these lovers
Have a way with words
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Rolling By
02:37
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Rolling by I can't see why
It's all about to change now
The winter rain has come again and I spend all day inside my warm sheets
Thinking of you
But someday I must face the cold
I'm just not ready now
'Cause I feel like I'm growing old too soon
I don't know what I've done
And my greatest fear
That someday from now
I'll have to walk alone
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Big Scary Melbourne, Australia
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