1. |
Dad Bakes a Cake
04:16
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It’s a disgrace
I really think you’d be amazed
To find that really, we’re just the same
More or less and give or take
More or less and give or take
I tell you time doesn’t pass
No, it obliterates all in its path
But I think you’d be proud of us
Yeah, I just know you’d be so proud of us
And the hole that you left is getting overgrown with time
But you’re always in my heart
You’re always on my mind
Dad bakes a cake
And I’m folding linen as Bob Dylan plays
But your car is still in the driveway
And it gets a little easier everyday
It’s a mercy when your memories fade
But it’s such a bitter pill to take
And the hole that you left is getting overgrown with time
But you’re always in my heart
You’re always on my mind
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2. |
Bright Bloody Blue
03:52
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Their lights made my teeth ache
The carved the face off the silent street-scape
And I swear it doesn’t matter where you drop a pin
There’s been misery in everything
There are snakes lying down in the grass
And they don’t care who your parents are
But dad said life’s a string of traps and you must try to stay free
But every one is better hid than the last
And you say it’s gonna be ok
And I say it’s gonna be ok
But when that morning tore its way bright bloody blue through my dreams
I couldn’t see much hope for anything
And there’s a bloke hanging out in the bar
Blessed with all the charm of a new-formed scar
And though it’s sad and I feel bad and I try to engage
I think I’d rather just get shot into space
They say it’s not as safe as it seems
And you can’t live your life in a dream
But if serotonin’s all that keeps us from the swirling abyss
Then don’t you think something is very amiss?
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3. |
Coax Me Out
03:00
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Coax me out of my hiding place
I wanna be solid for you, babe
So solid for you, babe
Coax me out, lay the bait
You’ll find me helpless, staring, prostrate
I am panting
I’m dragging something home to you
I will flatten all that’s in my way
I will cross streams and mountains just to get to you
And there’ll be saplings torn off at the base
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4. |
Mine and Mine Alone
04:23
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I put you away
Somewhere deep in me
Where shadows and strange things grow
Its somewhere that I don’t go
But I know there’ll come a day
When I’ll clear all that stuff away
And I know that all that space
Will be mine and mine alone
Well I’ve heard someone say
“if it’s true love you will know”
And I’ve heard my mother say
“if it’s a goer then it will go”
And when you clear all that stuff away
And you look at all that space
Stretching far away
Stretching far away
You’ll know
That it’s yours and yours alone
It’ll be mine and mine alone
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You are glowing passages
You are wide and opening
You’re a buried palace
A stained-glass eternity
You’re a quiet sea bed
Above waves are rumbling
You’re a sundrenched valley
Where water’s still trickling
You’re a clear lens
A full and bursting spectrum
And you’ll lance the heavens
Out where no one else has been
You are wreathed in phosphenes
You are turning from me
I am holding nothing
Darkened, drifting slowly
But I won’t go back
Something’s left me
Though we held so tightly
It has been lost to the deep
Our feelings won’t stay
They bend and oscillate
But there’s hope in my heart
That our day will come
It’ll be right this time
Fingers pinching me
Staring through the heat
Bright and shifting slowly
Your gaze is on me
You are rising from the sea
No one held me
Like it held me
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6. |
Continental Shelf
08:31
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Bursting inside of me
Like poison flowers
It knocked the air right out of me
Three quarters of an hour
A stranger now, to me
Both you and my self
We’re drifting slowly
Off the continental shelf
Its already over
An echo in a cave
Ever deeper
Buried in the waves
This broke every hope we’d had
You’re falling from my hands
And I’m still astounded by the pain
When I know I won’t be seeing you again
And I know I won’t be seeing you again
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7. |
Swine
02:26
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Why try
When all you get is dead inside
Wasted time
Photographs and sorry sighs
I hate this guy
At least we tried, at least we tried
No sky
Bozo got bored that’s for sure
Porn and drink
Assorted other broken things
Pour it in
Say you don’t regret a thing
At least we tried
I hate this guy, I hate this guy
Plain lies
Painted on eyes, no disguise
Me again
Still hopeful that we can be friends
Make amends
Best intentions, selfish ends
Love yourself
All the rest can go to hell
Tell yourself
You’re not a heartless waste of cells
Damn your eyes!
I hate this guy, I hate this guy
Next time
Cast not your pearls before swine
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8. |
Claustrophobe
05:09
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You’re a lethal dose
Atomise the mongrel who would oppose
You, lunar dynamo
You, leaky boat
Disparaged and remote
Your hands grasp air
For a moment free from sorrow and despair
It illuminates a moment where you don’t care
And the afterglow
It ain’t enough to see by as you know
As you know
Your mind moves slow
But there’s a thought that moves in shadow beyond the glow
But what are you looking for down there?
Is it to know? Or to eviscerate a memory beyond repair?
You are depths unknown
You are beauty and bravado
With hurt below
Moon-crater-bright destruction
Claustrophobe
So crowded and alone
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9. |
Forever Is over at Last
05:32
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I’m standing on the shore
I’m swerving on a coastal road
Staring out beyond the lights of boats
All night long you never rest
Swinging light above your head
You remind me where I am again
There. There. There, there.
Seven seconds
That’s how long I hold my breath
Freezing cold and staring west
Seven seconds
That’s how long a dream lasts
And I know that that don’t seem like much but its forever when you’re waiting in the dark
There. There. There, there.
Like being thirsty with nothing to drink
Like waiting for the sun to blink
Well, forever is shorter than you’d think
At last you reach me through the dark
And you hold the moon aloft like a brand
And I can’t remember where I am
But glowing above my bed there’s a hand
There. There. There, there.
You bring me back to my home
You are here I’m not alone
Yes, you are here I’m not alone
Seven seconds
That’s how long your glow was cast
But forever is over at last
Yes, forever is over at last
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