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A bend in a ripple in time
tonight the goose drank wine
such a mess of a pond beneath the stratosphere
spinning which ways from the drain
it's alarming your voice
from behind the canopy
clearly I've gone insane
I'm a fractured globe
kind of like a dew drop
splintering the undertow
tawny is my lung
I like silver in my drink
I commend the Eagle
for him it's not a thing
at first it was my wrestling that lashed me out in spurts
now it's just a timid voice so often goes unheard
tell me I'm a complete soul
oh no you said 'ass hole'
chip away with one hand
whilst scooping with the other
traditionally I'm found, rearranging sand
bathing in oceans of light
it's a heavy thing, the weight of existing
but I can't be sure if we're not pulling on each other
if the news forgets then sweet, bless
your family are there to remind you that you suffer
it's a cosmic thing, kind of like a web
held up on tenderhooks suspended from our heads
like a washing line
but the clothes are emblematic
and the sweet smell goes unnoticed
for the wind between the threads
tell me I'm a complete soul
oh no you said 'ass hole'
chip away with one hand
whilst scooping with the other
traditionally I'm found, rearranging sand
bathing in oceans of light
it's a heavy thing, the weight of existing
but I can't be sure if we're not pulling on each other
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2. |
Mr. Moore
03:53
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It's funny that my doctor's called Mr. Pain
he saved my dad's life
go Mr. Pain
we found out Jeffrey died of an aneurysm, high cholesterol and a heart attack
at least it wasn't covid, somehow that seems worse
either way you end up in a Herse
what a man was Mr. Moore
what a man was Jeffrey Moore
lived his life
and lived some more
left and left them wanting more
what a man was Jeffrey Moore
live my life for living's sake
if I could only keep at bay
the will it has to slip away
the Garden look's pretty fine today
left and right
black and white
you think we'd find a better way to die
few people live like every living thing is You
but we're learning, this is the change
a rebellion we shall privately undertake
anybody else noticed an upshot in the amount of love lately?
what a man was Mr. Moore
what a man was Jeffrey Moore
lived his life
and lived some more
left and left them wanting more
what a man was Mr. Moore
what a man was Mr. Moore
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3. |
An Uneasy Paradise
02:55
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Ephemeral and sublime
today walked nine miles down the canal
and the Bath sky line
spoke with Dr. Paige
she can't put my parent's mind at ease
not today anyway
it actually seems I'm a little strange
my mood shouldn't constantly change
lithium will see me right
over an uneasy paradise
tremulous and terror dreams
the infinite and generally agreed upon version of insane
the book shelf is bulging, there's an expert on that
but you're my Son we walk in it
the water that is drunk in all things
lithium will set me right
over an uneasy paradise
I pander to you I should hurry and decide
life is worth more than putting such little precedence on time
I'd been singing in the care homes
what difference is an extra year of not seeing anyone you love?
lithium will decide
over an uneasy paradise
lithium will set me right
over an uneasy paradise
yeh, I'm sure
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4. |
A Picture of a Shrug
04:26
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It was a shrug
a picture of a shrug
the land wakes up
its boots divided
'obelisk?' do I ask
where the tooth hits the pan
and the comments in the sinners hands
and I simmer in my underpants
where has this seer seen it all up to?
I am not awful but in the face of you
I am depraved and ignited
asleep when I'm sighted
relief to the blighted
comes chief for the knighted
what pattern subsumes
it's all and everything happens
there's no knowing You
without the balance
I'm torn and I'm true
but time is undoable
and no one
is bigger than the truth
I'm beside my self
it's insane how it all pans out
I don't think anything
would surprise me now
I've seen the worst we're giving each other
I've seen the best we're giving each other
when they owned the truth
no one's getting away from this
when I prioritise my preference over yours
I'm a thief when I expect you to be for me
I'm not a collaboration
nor welcome in heaven
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
I'm beside myself
it's insane how it all pans out
I don't think anything
would surprise me now
I've seen the worst
we're giving each other
I've seen the best
we're giving each other
when they owned the truth
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
free will is a line
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5. |
Negative Attraction
02:41
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It's hard not to write about it
all this negative attraction
though I don't wanna pile it on your overflowing bowl
it's been rolling round my mind
every word you've thrown before you
didn't they say you can pick it up with a word
and throw it down with a line
now I'm not accusing
the heaven that is in my neighbour's soul
but have you heard your manifesto recently?
it's like all the songbird's gone
so many words unkind
you put them on your table
so many curses and signs
did you lose it in the label?
they say God put it down with a word
but I picked it up on the radio
a young god lost in the haybale
there's a barn fire out there don't you know?
now I'm not accusing
the heaven that is in my neighbour's soul
but have you heard your manifesto
and where did the songbird go?
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6. |
Nothing the King
04:32
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Fish don't frolic they flounder
there was where I found her
on the bed in March in my flat
we met in the middle
two lines between a pimple
arrested by the light we let inside each other
nothing
subsumes me
nothing
consumes me
nothing
rules over me
nothing
nothing
nothing the king
carnivorism is climate abuse
that is where I find the noose
hanging up above my dream
urban legends
taxidermy
even now my heart in jeopardy
rings with its' own tourniquet
that is where I found her
some flat in Bath
reading on hillsides
going for a walk in the Sun
when the World's in quarantine
I told you Queen
nothing
rules over me
nothing
consumes my dreams
nothing
from nothing bleeds
nothing
King nothing to me
what haunts you
probably haunts me too
what haunts you
probably haunts me too
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7. |
Navigation Signs
04:18
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Under which we shall burn no light brighter than the Sun
so as not to wrongly fool a form we've any strength above it
nor the moon at night, light a candle or pyre
that should supersede her flow so the darkest night remains dark
and the clock of the Earth remains so
Suspended thus below like a child's mobile
in the cradling hands of swaddle and cot
like a proving ground for monkey mind
wherein the light from outside casts
a render of the slowly revolving swans
and in this plane that serves a shadow
is a render of child in swaddling cot
yet above is all children, all life and all God
cast a shadow below a child's mobile
henceforth below, under which I shall burn no light
and low, does my shepherd gauge the way
with navigation signs
like the river into which I now dive
where the light is molten and envelops me thus
and the sky above folds seamless to the water
and my horizon is the line where they collide
and on that surface flat is life spinning
pirouette on pirouette in the wake of my surf
and to exist upon that leaf unaware of the spin
whilst the World around seems static
to its own toroidal flow
henceforth below, under which I shall burn no light
and low, does my shepherd gauge the way
with navigation signs
like a golden thread of impervious perfection
that fills me of dimension from which mine is just a cast
and no question is not asked that the sanguine periphery
occasionally dares catch
when its judgement slides and the abolition will
as the Greek definition of apocalypse
that is 'renewal or a rebirth'
without which this new herein could not exist as a palpable river
which as a voice manifests
only if to tell you that the difference
between here and heaven
henceforth below, under which I shall burn no light
and low, does my shepherd gauge the way
with navigation signs
only ever was
your acting as if we were not already there
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8. |
Half Wine
04:32
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Half wine
ghost before a mirror
this is the heart of man
this is the heart of man
I keep my tongue and jaw fluid
I want for nothing, I am sound
I feel the difference when I am reaching
I wont reach, no more
this World was made for waiting
when was the last time you were here?
half wine
ghost before a mirror
this is the heart of man
this is the heart of man
no one wants anything
no one wants anything
no one wants anything
this is the heart of man
this is the heart of man
half wine
ghost before a mirror
half wine
ghost before a mirror
even a whisper seems too loud
this is the moment before that
I found envy distracting
it would not let me leave
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Work from the principal assumption
that the external World is
your inner World made manifest
and ask yourself
'where within you is the Amazon burning?'
no Little Finger
chaos is a mirror
to persist as a conscious star
at a moment curious
you are the centre of
and everything you've heard was
said for you
where does everyone you love converge?
from where all time emerge?
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
we've said everything
we've stood behind all sides
there's no words anymore
all colours make white
time will realise me
you do realise don't you?
the fear is the love
your mania is everyone's
where does everyone you love converge?
from where all time emerge?
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
it's the future
we've not done this before
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10. |
I'm not a Monster
03:30
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If I was gonna find a way to kill all the bugs
I'd cut routes through the countryside
put a light on the front
and race a battering ram
through the dead of night
if I was a monster that's what I'd do
but I'm not a monster
I'm just like you
if I was gonna design a factory for disease
it would look like half a million pigs squeezed into squalor
they'd have shit up to their knees
and no oxygen to breathe
and then I would sell their skin and muscle for meat
if I were a monster that's what I'd do
but I'm not a monster
I'm just like you
if I was gonna give me depression
well I'd say 'look at this screen and never leave'
I'd tell me not to move
and never to express how I feel
and if I felt it welling up
I'd stuff it down
if I was a monster that's what I'd do
but I'm not a monster
I'm just like you
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11. |
A Shiny Turd
05:05
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Later I should email everyone on SubmitHub with last night's live stream link
I could sift my mind for nature
what do you think?
I could write about nature
what do you think?
but I went outside this morning
did ten pull-ups from a branch
then returned to my studio
and had last night's Indian on a slice of eggplant
I wouldn't have said 'eggplant'
but it rhymed
what do you think?
what do you think?
what do you think?
I said Folk Boy was gonna die
I don't know what that means
but if it's any kind of sign
I keep seeing the same numbers again and again and again and again and again
33 and 44
live my life by 222
111
let the One be Love
I'm a sign of the times, move aside
Summer unwinds me
I frost up in the Winter
climbing down like an estuary
lead me to the Sea
I remember when it dawned on me
'these are not songs, they're my feelings'
and the only thing worth listening to
is the truth
I don't wanna write songs anymore
I just wanna sing
I'm tired of scheming
and marketing
I'm not here to know you know
the self I want you to
I'm here to know the truth
Simmer down
love starts now
it's all absurd
a shiny turd
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12. |
Uh
06:33
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Funny how doubt comes when I don't believe
leave or stay I can't decide
keep on changing things
only to not shut out the light
if I can never reach a peace
then what has the best of me
is it something I believe?
or something inherent in all things?
the chaos that allows there be light at all
well if I stand tall, a little proud
not so much as to get the best of me
not so sure of himself
when the phone calls
making an effort to hold your eye
if I have to shut the door to sing
and the morning rides my spine like a crone
but I'm hanging from the ceilings anyway
didn't I give my life away?
I just want to feel the time
and be sure I'm feeling mine
there's rhythm in the hand
and my eyes get in the way
simmer down
love starts now
there is nothing about you not to love
there is nothing about you not to love
funny how doubt comes when I don't believe
leave or stay I can't decide
keep on changing things
only to not shut out the light
if I can never reach a peace
then what has the best of me?
is it something I believe?
or something inherent in all things?
the chaos that allows there be light at all
well if I stand tall, a little proud
not so much as to get the best of me
not so sure of himself when the phone calls
making an effort to hold your eye
questioning every line
if I have to shut the door to sing
and the morning rides my spine like a crone
but I'm hanging from the ceilings anyway
and didn't I give my life away?
I just want to feel the time
and be sure I'm feeling mine
there's rhythm in the hand
my eye gets in the way
simmer down
love starts now
there is nothing about you not to love
there is nothing about you not to love
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13. |
An Honour
06:40
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If I persist through this indecision I will
find I've been chosen again
for all the times I have questioned you
knew nothing of the far side then
when the present sets the precedent
there are no bets against
the courage you've found again
to hold my lens
in the lens that you'd turned against
it's always just a look
sometimes, sometimes a breeze mistook
for a longer love
I didn't turn from
I'm a god damn maniac
there's a multitude of me in every step
no wonder you can't keep track
I'm moltenous and eternally turning back
mostly words with no space behind
baby, it's an honour to bathe in your time
it's an honour to feed on your time
feeding on mine
I'm reeling in the line
six legs beneath me
and a wing that's caught in your page
I'm not going anywhere
baby, let's face it
I can't get away
my courage is weak outside of you
the wind eternally blows in my face
the mountain I'm tasked to climb
just seems to eternally raise
and the cairn I've fashioned out of lifeless things
just dances in the shape of you
it's an honour to feed on your time
if I persist through this indecision I will
find I've been chosen again
to all the times I had questioned
I knew nothing of the far side then
when the present sets the precedent
and the bets no longer against
the courage you found again
to hold my lens in the lens that you'd turned
I will not question you anymore
it's an honour to feed on your time
eat me with your time
mix me with your lime
let me drip through the states of you
that hold whatever regime you hold
a tally and a gift to be born
every blessing with which you're adorned
I'm a god damn maniac
there's a multitude of me in every step
no wonder you can't keep track
I'm moltenous and eternally turning back
mostly words with no space behind
it's an honour to bathe in your time
it's an honour to feed on your time
feeding on mine
I'm reeling in the line
six legs beneath me and a wing that's caught in your page
I'm not going anywhere
baby, let's face it I can't get away
my courage is weak outside of you
the wind eternally blows in my face
the mountain I'm tasked to climb
just seems to eternally raise
and the cairn I've made from lifeless things
just dances in the shape of you
with indescribable grace
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When the shared mind knows
it knows there's no going back
and the satiated taste
is a short lived state
to fade to only lack
who comes so serenely spun?
do I once again
though my eyes were undone
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
turn a light on
or will I be alone?
so barren you'll love the memory
to radiate where I've come from
a soul can abandon the form
working it out
we do not have the means to turn round
time has come
to remind everyone
of your heart
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
who comes so serenely spun?
do I once again
though my eyes were undone
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
turn a light on
or will I be alone?
so barren you'll love the memory
to radiate where I've come from
a soul can abandon the form
working it out
we do not have the means to turn round
time has come
to remind everyone
of your heart
who comes so serenely spun?
do I once again
though my eyes were undone
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
find peace and weep like a child under your skin
who comes so serenely spun?
do I once again
though my eyes undone
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15. |
I Didn't See You There
03:00
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I embody certain aspects of our Lord the Jesus Christ
just unless they're too demanding
I wont pay too high a price
I've got beers in the fridge
and I am fairly stoned
but that don't mean I'm not the Son of God
I have seen the light unending
cast in sunlight for your eyes
in the very shape of you
come on fall in to the vortex lets forget
time feels so heavy did you forget?
that's what every premonition
tells itself when it arrives
'oh, I didn't see you there'
I've chased myself onto the stage
the light is burning now
count your rosaries at speed
if I could only take it slower
please baby, please
when it's good I want to catch it
I saw you with that plastic
you can be so damn demanding
come on fall in to the vortex lets reflect
time feels so heavy did you forget?
that's what every premonition
tells itself when it arrives
'oh, I didn't see you there'
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16. |
Galadriel's Outrage
04:09
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The devil always asks for something
when he looks you in the eye
I'm a little shy around you
but if I know that you might know that
the blade came down
they kept the silence to themselves
at this point we're not singing
they're rooting through themselves
it's time that they're fighting us for
how much for a word from the wise?
overcome
and not overcome by
overcome
and not overcome by
they say God is the word
but I've heard the devil speak in tongues
when everything is said and done
it's static for everyone
it's time that they're fighting us for
how much for a word from the wise?
overcome
and not overcome by
overcome
and not overcome by
overcome
and not overcome by
overcome
and not overcome by
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17. |
Blood Sports
04:13
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Soft as soufflé
rich as pine
count the days until your mine
Summer fades and Autumn riles
count the ways in which I'm fine
and I dreamt you again
the rhythm falling through my head
it's primal
it's primitive
revolver without question
we stare at him
'til he stares back
soldiers made of sand
bent on pushing back the ocean
though often times I beg for it
I want it on my terms
and I dreamt you again
the rhythm falling through my head
it's just the slow coarse of blood beneath the dome
rationalising distances to keep my love from everyone
though half the time I beg for it I vow to never learn
love has been deprived for so long
and I dreamt you again
the rhythm dancing through my head
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18. |
The Change
02:56
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When the morning comes
and yesterday felt so real
before the day reminds me
who I am and how I feel
I'm the space around a man
the wind moving through
an empty vessel getting hung up on you
and I've been so many people
so assured in every life
taking all these stances
raising arms for every side
living in the reason
that I find to survive
but as my wisdom grows
it's revealed
the only thing that stays
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
sometimes it feels like a prayer just to cry
sometimes it feels like a lie just to stay
I wanted the still behind what fades
moving aside these temporary heavens
and my fear to lose
what could not remain
closed my eyes
to a temporary heaven
listen baby, in a World where nothing stays
it's something for now before nothing from then
or nothing from here on out
and I'd rather be moving these ripples around
that cutting myself
but as my wisdom grows
it's revealed
the only thing time wont take
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
is the change
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