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A City Speaks
04:18
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With pages turned away
Curtains billowing against dripping skies
Should we shut ourselves and the windows we both left open now?
Had I the time to say that
I don't say anything any more
Being careful, but nothing is harmless
Worth is found
Is there a chipped glass somewhere?
Chiming its sonder ring
Into meandering night of gentle ebbing
As scent over quiet
Screaming an ocean's weight in sorrow
And milk and honey borrowed
Whistling by bridges
Under arches of ancient fortitude
And their well-worn lashes of water's relentless siege
Built strong above a wave of calamity
Expressionless
For no words can speak it
Or express it solemnly
Simply stand and accept
It will be
It will be
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Parade
05:32
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Well I didn't know I was missing you
Just sitting around
Years on my heels
Rolled back, eighteen
And I'd never seen what you did to me
When you came round
Pouring out of a glass
All nervous through the cracks
But I knew then
I'd missed you for years
Before I'd ever even seen you
And there you came
A tropical storm to a candlelit boy
A thousand ships and a horse at Troy
I wanted more than I could ever let by
So can I ask you
Is this burden in your chest too?
Is this burden in your chest too?
If I knew then how close I was to losing you
I never asked if I knew
Am I losing you?
Am I losing me?
Just slip away
You're my parade
You're my parade
Early mornings seal my fate
Creeping air and sun-kissed skin
With curtains rolling in
But I'm not there
So can I ask you
Is this burden in your chest too?
Can I ask you
Is this burden in your chest too?
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Ceremony
06:17
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Make out you're running late
You've got no strings
I'm feeling smaller than ever
It doesn't trouble your mind
I'm so sorry all the time
It feels like your mother's eyes calling you back to hold her
I have a hole in the middle where everything falls through
But tell my friends not to worry
We're our own way
Lonely and reckless in our ceremony
All this release makes me harder to find
Kicks in the teeth until somebody cries
All this release makes me harder to find
Kicks in the teeth until somebody cries
It feels like your mother's eyes calling you back to hold her
I have a hole in the middle where everything falls through
But tell my friends not to worry
We're our own way
Lonely and reckless in our ceremony
All this release makes me harder to find
Kicks in the teeth until somebody cries
All this release makes me harder to find
Kicks in the teeth until somebody cries
Trapped in the belly of some dying great machine
Stalking around like your ghost on a string
Send your abstractionist postcard sympathies
I'm holding the edges just to be in touch with something
I'm feeling smaller and smaller and smaller
I'm feeling smaller and smaller and smaller
It doesn't trouble your mind
I'm so sorry all the time
How did that halcyon old song go?
I don't even care, just walk out alone
You said I'm overwhelmed
Just make me laugh
Then make me cry
I need to stop thinking for a little while
Just let it kick in
Just let it kick in
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Ornaments
05:42
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I was thinking I'm the tar pit
The broken house where we collect
Do you find it easier to live inside yourself
Without mirrors to reflect?
You're at a table all alone
And I know, I know, I know
There are things you say that you don't mean
But can you please just treat me like I'm here
I shouldn't be scared to speak
But you know you won't let anything go
Would you listen to yourself
Just listen to yourself
Someone please tell me how to do this
I'll stop trying to stop you throwing ornaments at me
Can't you see I'm so scared to speak
I only talk when you're asleep
But you won't look over your blockades to see
Someone else struggling is not your enemy
But I'm trying to remind you
With every single cell of me I'm going to make you see this
If I could be enough for you to treat me as your equal
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6. |
Let Down
05:25
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Transport
Motorways and tramlines
Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
Disappointed people
Clinging onto bottles
And when it comes it's so so disappointing
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Shell smashed, juices flowing
Wings twitch legs are going
Don't get sentimental
It always ends up drivel
One day I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
Hysterical and useless
Hysterical and
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
Let down and hanging
Let down
Let down
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing, floating
Bouncing back and
One day I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and useless
(You know where you are)
Hysterical and
(You know where you are)
Let down and hanging around
Crushed like a bug in the ground
Let down and hanging around
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Morning
03:47
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It's like you weren't afraid of anything
Never had any fear of me
But I've been crushing down a storm in a bottle for years
Reach out
Every morning it's still always you that I'm thinking about
As I reach out
You're so far from my pull
But like a sweeping wave through our city
It's still always you
It's still always you
I can't hold a heavy love, but she's a saint
Well I could never give enough, she used to say
I can't feel a thing
It's nothing
I can't feel a thing
Well it's nothing
I can't feel a thing
Reach out
Every morning it's still always you that I'm thinking about
As I reach out
You're so far from my pull
But like a sweeping wave through our city
It's still always you
It's still always you
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Lyon
05:52
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I could have loved you there
I could have said
I could have said, upon a church stair
I could have asked you then
But I was not there, I had to know
I had to know
I want to see it all now
I couldn’t have left
I couldn’t have left you
I had to know
I had to know
I had to know
I could have loved you there
I could have said
I could have said, upon a church stair
I could have asked you then
But I was not there, I had to know
I had to know
I want to see it all now
I couldn’t have left
I couldn’t have left you
I had to know
I had to know
I had to know
I could have said, I could have stayed
Are you alone, or are you loved?
I couldn’t have left
I couldn’t have left you
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Apartment
04:22
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The things never said
To open up outright
I never knew how hard it'd be to talk to someone else
When the timing never seems right
And the timing never seems right
I'll wake up in our old bed
In that tiny room
"Please, you have to stop this now, I know you're only playing dead.
We can do anything you want,
Anything at all"
But I'm still sleeping
Desperately happy
I'm still sleeping
And we're desperately happy
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Elpis
04:08
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The party is over, cry if you want to
Retreat to our home where the silence becomes you
And all that is left litters tree-lined avenues
The mess is outside but all over our windows
We can see through ourselves in the gaps in the curtains
I'll write down the words to accept all our unknowns
On the walls where you paint epitaphs looking over secret gardens and trees
The brigades of our sonder
If I fixed you, would you hate me?
If I fixed you, would you hate me?
Needles in tremolo
Trembling featherless elbows
If I fixed you, would you hate me?
But I keep a hope of you coming back home
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I hope that you like it in your little motel
And I hope that the suite sleeps and suits you well
Well, I can see it as time and a sight through smell, and
That's why it's nice to be by yourself
'Cause that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, darlin'
We treat mishaps like sinking ships, and
I know that I don't want to be out to drift
Well, I can see it in your eyes, like I taste your lips, and
They both tell me that we're better than this
'Cause that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, darlin'
We trade tit for tat, like that for this
And I don't think that there was an insult that was missed
I can see it in your eyes, like I taste your kiss, and
I'm very sorry
'Cause that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, darlin'
Remainders of a shooting star
Landed directly on our broke-down little car
Before that we had made a wish
That we would be missed
If one or the other just did not exist
'Cause that's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, aren't I?
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for
That's what I'm waiting for, darlin'
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