1. |
Adah
03:47
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Evil all its sin is still alive
Evil all its sin is still alive
Manene menenam, amen
Sugar don't, no drag us
Drawn onward
Ah he rose, ye eyesore ha!
Evil all its sin is still alive
Evil all its sin is still alive
Manene menenam, amen
Sugar don't, no drag us
Drawn onward, drawn onward
Ah he rose, ye eyesore ha!
Evil all its sin is still alive
Manene menenam, amen
Sugar don't, no drag us Drawn onward
Sugar don't, sugar don't, no drag us Drawn onward
Ah he rose, ye eyesore ha!
Eye level eye level eye level
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2. |
No Hero
03:43
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Heavy like the Ponderosa
We get the gifts we're all supposed to Distant as a northern star
Wood and whisky, time and tar
The road will fall beneath you
And the journey will defeat you
A sky which knows nothing
Of the weight of your coffin
Bruised and bloodied just like the Lord The dragon track and catgut chord Sleeping in a movie set, oh
You grit your teeth and place your bet On a sky which knows nothing
Of the weight of your coffin
A God who comes knocking
Burnt hair and forgotten
The purpose of burning
A tide for the turning
And the smoke and the glass
Of the dismembered past
No hero
No hero, just a shell
No hero just a shell
Human Hell
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3. |
Afraid
03:48
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All these people around me
Better push them all away
I won't reach them
They don't know me
I don't want to anyway
I love you and it's hard for me to say
I wonder maybe we could get away
Out from under, under, under
I'm feeling unsteady
Your eyes are a dream
Where the fields are so friendly
The concrete feels mean
I love you and I'm sick of everything
I love you, you're the only one listening
To the thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder
We are not afraid
To be ugly, so ugly
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4. |
Comfort
04:39
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Broken heart, a broken promise
Is it so hard just to be honest
I know they can't help it
But Jesus you felt it
A mistake who learned to feel
Sometimes it's all too real
Propagation or a friend
We are all the same in the end
You don't have to fly into the sun
You can find comfort just like anyone
It grows like vines inside your head
You say the words your father said
Out of nowhere here's your life
Brutal lows and dizzy heights
In this abject century
You are not your memories
You don't have to fly into the sun
You can find comfort just like anyone
You don't have to fly into the sun
Take a little comfort from the little you've done
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5. |
Silent
04:58
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When we brought you home in the car
I had no inkling of just how far
The plates of our continents would crack
There can be no turning back
There can be no turning back
In some dumb maternal cell
I saw home, you see Hell
Always silent now
And I didn't understand how
The times that I thought would last
Are a shattered dream of a past
I saw home and you saw Hell
And the ties that I destroyed
Like all those ugly violent boys
I was hurting, but I was Hell
And the ties that I destroyed
Like those ugly violent boys
I was hurting, but I was Hell
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Underwater
04:48
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I was a mess when you met me
A kiss on the head, they're coming to get me
I should have done less, less intensely
A punch in the chest, a childhood memory
A man who can breathe underwater x 4
New pathways
Like the hurt in your maze
New pathways
Like the burn of a ghost cathode ray
New pathways
Like the churn of the sea in your wake
New pathways
Like the hurt, like the hurt in your maze
It was a time when you met me
A sedative smile, pathetic and edgy
And the clocks were striking thirteen
Valium, ibuprofen, codeine
And now we can breathe underwater x 4
New pathways
Blank and burned on fake highways
New pathways
Ring a rosie round your grave
New pathways
Burst the blackness, morning breaks
New pathways
Oh that lovely sugary taste
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7. |
7
03:06
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They were different times and I was brutal then
Westward the glittering signs and you were beautiful then
Our rearview, rosy, romantic
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
Away, you rolling river
Shenandoah, just to be near you
Far away, you rolling river
Goodbye impossible thing, your memory stings
With the beat of your wings the aerospace sings
And everything, and everything
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
Away, you rolling river
Shenandoah, just to be near you
Far away, you rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you
Away, you rolling river
Shenandoah, just to be near you
Far away, you rolling river
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Eyelashes of Melva
A fifth of a bottle just to tell her
'Cause when you're on the stage, you really look your age
Cigarette, alka-seltzer
Career to the back of the place
He claws at your dress, your face
'Cause no matter who you are, you'll never be a star
They can't easily replace
Unsympathetic
So I've got this dead girl
Neck broken, centre of my world
And when you're all away
I listen to her say
"What a cage for such a bird"
Unsympathetic
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9. |
You Say You're Lonely
04:55
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You are a
A case of
The vapours
Abandonment
Love, love not
Wait and it
Just won't come
Turbulence
You say you're lonely, now you understand
Now you've been dealt the hand
Well how could, how could you
Oh honey
You think you've felt it but you've never been
Such a might-have-been
Oh you know yourself
And no one else
You feel frayed
Torn silk soft
An emergency
Person
Bristle like
Startled fox
Always war
Internally
You say you're lonely, now you understand
Now you've been dealt the hand
Well how could, how could you
Oh honey
You think you feel it but you've never been
Such a might-have-been
Oh you know yourself
You think you feel it but you've never hurt like you wished that you were Someone, anyone else
You think you feel it I don't know how you'd bear it
How could anyone bear it
You're gonna have to bear it yourself
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10. |
Consolation Prize
04:29
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Do you feel like everything's happened now
It's all so distant somehow
But near to you
Can you feel it, your past life piling up
'Til you've overfilled your cup
It's all so difficult now
But you know it was difficult then
The consolation prize
A truth to bulldoze all your lies
And the meaning of our lives
Oh, is it as good as advertised
Is it the lustre of immortality
Or a fear that forces us
To displace our identities
Or is it just a warm and tactile pull
That derails all our narratives
Unhooking the wool
And the people who wronged you at school
The consolation prize
A truth to bulldoze all your lies
And the meaning of our lives
Oh, is it as good as advertised?
Someone to inherit your fears
Someone to dry all your tears
Someone to love you for a thousand years
Someone might love you for a thousand years
The consolation prize
A truth to bulldoze all your lies
And the meaning of our lives
Oh, is it as good as advertised?
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Desperate Journalist London, UK
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