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I'll Die A Little
02:48
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I feel like I died three years ago
it's so hard to offer hope
when you feel like you're alone
If everything's a feeling I could offer mine
but why?
when I can't face the sight
I know I could fall in love again
see the world with fresh eyes
but sooner or later I'd start again
seeing to the other side
Even devotion knows
it's hard to play the chords
give any thief an apple he'll just get worse
have you ever known love without the fall?
the floor on your knees at a strangers door
Baby, deer roam
swans fly
herons nest
I'll die a little
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Held up the wine
in the bottle
with a shoe
on the blanket on the lawn
flirted it out
thinking about
celebrating
gonna havoc with you
honing in on heaven
had to veer away
words are failing
for a fallible cage
wish to
wish to wish things could stay
that's the best you can do
in this slippery state
that's the price you pay
when you play the game
to love is to love a love
that will get away
time betrays
gives nothing it wont take
to love is to love a love
that will get away
another stanza
another stab at
you're a foreign land
I'm a panzer tank
time is dripping
let's condensate
I want to know you
when the surprises are few
you're gonna be there
balanced on the slope
I'm your rescue
you're my rock and rope
that's the price you pay
when you play the game
to love is to love a love
that will get away
time betrays
gives nothing it wont take
to love is to love a love
that will get away
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3. |
Heron's Nest
04:28
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I just want to take you in the ocean
naked and lay with our backs in the sea
see you balance in the shallows
smiling like a child
effervescent like the vapour found a mouth-piece for the wild
and rest you in the water like a stone
frigid and light like your soul
when I sing you into me like a breath
and move with the tide
as we push into the deep
you tell me
Angel hair threaded in rivers of light
columns of heaven raining on time
wilted from the dry spell
exhausted from the climb
mouth dry my words are like sand
and you're the water in my hand
Who am I to opine that the rivers of time
have thwarted me with heckles
when they cover me clean?
at the start I'd have given everything
just to be where I am as I sing
What fabric did you barter?
I mean what bargain were you offered?
I mean how did you come to me?
what silk of a gown?
what chalk of a crown?
what body in the morning from the pavement depletes?
what dream?
Fragile fawn and innocent rose
darting kisses on each other's cheeks
is this slumber rest?
my heron's nest
a peck and a peck for the weak
it can all be so beautifully bleak
it can all be so beautifully bleak
it can all be so beautifully bleak
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4. |
Prove It's You
04:32
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Time's a thief
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
but it was me that couldn't escape gravity
love depletes
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
or spins
recedes
but I'll keep drifting to your shore
that's how your voice reminds me
it's all about the energy
and not so much about the way it flows
that comes as some relief
cos' lately I've stopped questioning
I've found the pen again
and I only want to write my name
I'm feeling young again
a leaf upon a dancing breeze
was it a change in direction?
a dog bark in Japan?
a miscreant correction of the orbits around Saturn?
if I've nothing left that I am here to prove
I only want to prove it's you
Yesterday
I forgot about my body
weightless
shifting
bringing all the angels out of hiding
I mistook a halo for the sunlight in your eye
and I was waiting for your love
that comes as some relief
cos' lately I've stopped questioning
I've found the pen again
and I only want to write my name
I'm feeling young again
a leaf upon a dancing breeze
was it a change in direction?
a dog bark in Japan?
a miscreant correction of the orbits around Saturn?
if I've nothing left that I am here to prove
I only want to prove it's you
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5. |
Rise Up Waking Dreamers
05:46
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Everyone who sought power was stripped of their badge
even this song prevents me from the act
and the people all voted with the pull of their heart
to find those devoted to the pull of their art
and with the subtle grace of falling snow
their music covered the land
like a covert assassin climbing the ranks
on the day he is made the kings hand
Rise up rise up waking dreamers
creators of time
your canvas is existence
and your colours are life
And the thrones of man grew dusty and cold
if ever a metaphor for the old World there was
in long forgotten corridors occasionally sounds a sigh
how funny to think those foolish beasts
for freedom would lay down and die
Rise up rise up waking dreamers
creators of time
your canvas is existence
and your colours are life
Rise up waking dreamers
rise up waking dreamers
And the choir sang and the sails fell
in communion heaven rejoiced
to know from now our saviours are
those with the purest voice
and the choir sang from every ledge
a melody pure and sweet
for the quiet song of falling snow
finally fell at their feet
Rise up rise up waking dreamers
creators of time
your canvas is existence
and your colours are life
Rise up waking dreamers
rise up waking dreamers
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6. |
Love Is War
03:09
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Carefully curated 'do I give a shit?' vibe
please don't message me I'm addicted to ruining my life
I'd question your mentality if you sympathise
the iridescent messenger out to overthrow 'love is blind'
I'm in a zip lock
you tripped down the steps
we made hot dogs
had a lot of sex
Cachaça on the counter while accounting our collateral in copulation undignified
you're in a cold spring in a hot spell
butt naked with the kid up there looking down
I'm sorry it's not more
that we've dismantled all the tropes of love
I'm on the ropes, still swinging
but it was you who said it 'for love is war'
you hauled the Avalon
down the landspine
you tore my heart out
but screwed it back in time
like a bone spur in a cockle shell
we laugh about the barcode horse
sing Newsome and forget ourselves
you wore my cap right
I took your words to heart
you wrapped around my neck
like a black star
you keep reaching me when I fall down
I didn't come when you called and I never will forgive myself
I'm sorry it's not more
that we've dismantled all the tropes of love
I'm on the ropes, still swinging
but it was you who said it 'for, love is war'
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7. |
I Had A Boat
03:36
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I had a boat
battered and twisted and worn out
we were moored up between Keynsham and Frome
why didn't you work, damn it
I laid my hair down
I lay my hair down
and the words pour out
I lay my hair down
and the words fall out
I had a boat
battered and twisted and worn
I have a song
set up in me like fire in wine
rallied and long
bought by yours
symmetry in the way we do
dance love, it's over your body
I'm already on your bed
what if your skin and mine would die
for all your want?
and lower mine to damn
throw your hand to the bone
I'm leaving on the wave I came in on
I had a boat but it's gone
I had a boat but it's gone
I had a boat but it's long gone
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When there was a small bug on my phonescreen I felt like God
I was typing to you and it was dancing for its life
somewhere be reasons that I daren't define
that an ego trip could pass for time
if this is what you really need
then you do need it forever?
or maybe you're caught in a trap
cos' it's yours already?
mirror on the horizon that glares in my eye the Sun
you're frosting up my iris with your gum
and caught it in the pages of a book I once kept
where I told you that I loved you
and I let myself weep for days
and I wrote it into myself like a crazed man
or a lion in a cage
cos' I grew up on fields much like this one
and I know it's in you
but I've seen you lately
you're wrapped up in your human suit
and I've tasted what I came to taste so why do I ask for more?
cos' I wrote you in my skin at such a terrible time
there was hours to go and I was counting the ones I had liked
restlessly
I was full of passion
I was full of Christ
I was full of whatever I defined
and I defined recklessly
endless sleep
I don't mind
I will wear you like an honour in my badge of sins
I caught you when I was headed back against the wind
I will wear you with honour
I will wear you like a skin
I will cut you in my neck
I will bury you within
endlessly
there is movement in your ocean
there is dancing on your floor
there is innocence in my intent
and I will blur
endless sleep
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9. |
The Blankets of Ether
03:28
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All in all
I'm a fraud
a spill
or a bloodclot
a dancing echo on a cloth
a tremble in your mother's love
the night made matter
and if I do
molten mannered
mildly musical
if there's a song under my wing
you bet your bottom dollar
I would give my last one just to sing to you
there's a tempest in your hissing summer lawn
and a butterfly wing wiped New Orleans from the map
but my confidence lays in the blankets of ether
not 'for your sins'
like 'for my sins I can't put it down'
not 'believe in me'
but 'believe as I do and you'll be crowned'
not 'son of god'
like a ghost had laid an egg
like 'son of god'
like 'we're cut from the same damn thread'
not 'for your sins'
like 'for my sins I can't put it down'
not 'believe in me'
but 'believe as I do and you'll be crowned'
not 'son of god'
like a ghost had laid an egg
like 'son of god'
like 'we're cut from the same damn thread'
in the blankets of ether
I knew I had you in me tonight
now your out
and I'm swimming in you
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10. |
The Tourist
07:18
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The tourist doesn't know he's on holiday
but he knows, it doesn't feel like home
he's sure, he remembers yesterday
he wears it when he flies
it lays next to him at night
in the circus, the mirrors distort your face
you smile, if you're prone to crying
in diminishing astonishment
as you grow increasingly incontinent
with your feet upon the continents
and your heart in the clouds
it's fine, I think you've done this forever
every time, I think you've done this forever
get up
get out
go outside
we're all waiting on your smile
we're all waiting on your smile
get up
get out
go outside
we're all waiting on your smile
we're all waiting on your smile
I swear
been doing this forever
been doing this forever
been doing this forever
get up
get out
go outside
we're all waiting on your smile
we're all waiting on your smile
get up
get up
get outside
we're all waiting for your smile
I'll know it when I see it baby
the clues are getting closer to the bone
if it's one way or the other
we ride in on love
cos' fear, fear oh fear, might try to hold you down
like every other run around
but I swear
you've been doing this forever
been doing this forever
been doing this forever
been doing this forever
I swear (I swear) I swear
been doing this forever (been doing this forever)
been doing this forever (been doing this forever)
been doing this forever (been doing this forever)
thank you for the chance to try again
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Youth dressed all of your senses
and the water ran warm
that you felt with all of your senses
I saw you in your final form
exotic princess
in the kingdom of Sun
dressed with a menace
like when you were young
beneath the world tree
everyone
dancing
swimming
to retain
something of
when you return
to lift up
and when you return
tell them what you've learned
retain
return
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Love is communion, union and bond
Bound to life and Mother's love
Life is woven, communion and dawn
Between thought and skin
Form it is molten
Machine of time
Time it is golden
Speed of light
Time is frozen
Crystalline expression of every moment you've spent
A jumping in point
A diving in board
The moment is now
Staring out
God is alive
Seeing himself
Love is communion, union and bond
Suffering ancient archaic lie
Ripples are reaching
Propelling God
Ripples are reaching
Out in to time
But time it is learning
To minimise pain
Pain is a crater
Waiting for love
Love and obsession
Addiction and greed
Love magnifies
The absence of these
Compassion and calm
Are replacing doubt
Love has been nurtured
And freedom abounds
Nurture prevails
We're all learning now
Moments of singular
Unbroken time
From now to the moment you opened your eyes
Any second from here
I'm somebody else
God is alive and seeing himself
But God is the constant
God is alive
Harmony threading
All around time
Beauty abundant
Hate it is gone
Courage is rampant
Fear it is gone
Constant has opened her mouth to sing
Gathering songs on celestial drum
Archaic forces take to the stand
Eternity reaches from your reaching hand
God is alive
Seeing himself
Any second from here I'm somebody else
God is alive
Seeing himself
Any second from here I'm somebody else
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