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4bit
04:11
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Your gaze is down, your face is red
There’s crystals forming in your eyes
The shadows swim in your pillow’s indent
Your blood’s all blue again.
The lines dance on your favourite bedspread
You always like to straighten them out
I guess you got that from your dad.
I feigned love to fall in it
I called a spade a spade and now I’m all ashamed
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
And on and on we go
Who’s down in the garden tonight
Every drink’s on you but not the joke
You take stock of all the laughing
And every flower bows as you walk by.
You painted pickets in a cul-de-sac
And looked out on the street that stretched out forever
And day followed night and on it went
And you wished your friends all the best.
I feigned love to fall in it
I called a spade a spade and now I’m all ashamed
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
And on and on we go
Tracing eyes with your eyes as you watch the news
Tragedy is everywhere
Okay for some and better for you, I s’pose.
And you can slide like the grease on a gun
Always clicking with your mouth
And your lips can kiss and they like to
Gotta find a sweet girl.
High and low I don’t know them
Bridges over water I don’t trouble myself
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
And on and on we go
Rounding corners just to round back again
Your mind really loves to drive
But you’re talking green and the lights are red
Eyeballs scour the sidewalk.
And your week is an ocean, the -end: an island
And you’ve been swimming all damn day
Yeh we all bottom out when we have to feed
And you’ve worked up quite an appetite
I feigned love to fall in it
I called a spade a spade and now I’m all ashamed
And I was raised to make the best of all I have
Now what’s my best good for?
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
Ooh, for a four bit love
And on and on we go
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2. |
Another Day
03:38
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Honest with myself yeh I’m all fessed up
Now I’m tripping to the country to see my lot
Picking up the pieces, I’m all messed up
Can’t save it for another day.
Feeling kinda lazy I just woke up
Sipping on my juice yeh there’s just enough
Articulating feelings that’s kinda rough
I’ll save it for another day.
How many wrongs to right?
I’m doing all I can to stay upright
Lay down just don’t lay down
Find a little pep, you can take another step
Lay down just don’t lay down
Let this be a little song for you.
Howling like the wind through a city block
I’m fixing all my fixes to get me fixed up
Smiling like a doll on a dusty shelf
Let’s save it for another day.
All this instant news feels so old to me
These threads of conversation unstitching me
I see chatter isn’t helpful if it’s from your teeth
Save me from another day
How many songs to write?
I’m doing all I can to stay upright
Lay down just don’t lay down
Find a little pep you can take another step
Lay down just don’t lay down
Let this be a little song for you.
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3. |
Freedom Fighter
04:30
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Falling on my knees, throw my head back as I land among the pages
I’m a blank for those who read me, I’m a song for all the ages
Unrequited love’s my favourite, gets me dancing on the stages
But only ever thinking of you.
You breathe into my lungs, I hold it in then breathe out colour breathe out fire
Heaven lives, or so I’m told, it lives for those who cross the mire
But I am only ever too late, and silence is the perfect sound
Whenever you ask I’ll say:
Even if I have it now, doesn’t mean I’ll have it always
Patience is a funny noun, it’ll keep you waiting all day.
Help me we’re all sinking, all afraid I’ve got to thinking all the time
It keeps blowing me off course, but there’s a storm in every mind
Sending trembles down my fingers, sending shivers down my spine
I’m only ever thinking of you.
Yeh even if I worry now, you will tell me never too late
My smile is a funny frown, you said I got it ‘round the wrong way.
Forget all the feelings, none of it belongs to me
I’m going to figure this out, figure this out
Torn between your dealings and the glances you keep stealing
Let me figure this out, figure this out
I sunk into the sea of your love drinking it down deep
There is no figuring out
Falling on my knees, throw my head back as I land among the pages
I’m a blank for those who read me, I’m a song for all the ages
But I am only every too late, and silence is the perfect sound.
Even if I have it now, doesn’t mean I’ll have it always
Patience is a funny noun, it’ll keep you waiting all day
Yeh even if I worry now, you will tell me never too late
My smile is a funny frown, you said I got it ‘round the wrong way.
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4. |
Run
03:04
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It was a year to the day that you took her breath away
Left you cold, left you shaking, left me humble, unrelating
You were feathered to the weather but the cold crept in no matter
Now it wears you like a chain around its long and stony neck
And in that locket, I forgot it, like a tissue in my pocket
You were burning, you were beating, you were smiling up at me
‘Cos you gave me your kingdom and I gave you no receipt
You in all your wisdom, me in my infinite defeat.
And you whispered it goes on, it goes on, it goes on, it goes on.
And that year to the day when some new life came your way
Put some breath into your lungs, put a skip into your step
And that news of a child, it left you free, left you wild
And you called me just to tell me that you missed me la da da
But you were waiting for a promise, ‘til our kitchen stood among us
There you told me and we kissed and I cried.
It goes on, it goes on, it goes on, it goes on.
There is a hand that unlocks us and another one that knocks us
Both are whispering their secrets that we’re not willing to hear
‘Cos we all catch the same disease, it kills us all eventually
But no one sees it, no one hears it, it’s like pointing at the breeze
So take me in all my fervour, we can’t complicate this further
Let life give life and all your love, bring me to my knees.
‘Cos it goes on, it goes on, it goes on, it goes on.
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5. |
Fold
03:13
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Everyone’s afraid ‘til they’re high on the weekend
Everyone’s a slave to the fire of the sun
I’ve been looking back hoping to go forward
I’ve been clinging on to the said-and-done.
And patience is a mire I get caught in the feelings
My virtues are alright but I don’t really need them
I’ve been looking back hoping to go forward
Filling all the gaps with a gentle sway.
The signals are alight for a hunger to need them
The treasures are all mine if I know how to feed them
I’ve been hanging out with the walls and the ceiling
I’ve been holding up here on my own.
Silence when my fingers stall
Violence when my patience falls
And I’m feeling all my feelings if that’s the way you’re dealing then I fold.
Everyone’s afraid ‘til they’re high on the weekend
Everyone’s a slave to the fire of the sun
I’ve been looking back hoping to go forward
I’ve been clinging on to the said and done
And magic is a lie that they tell on the TV
But curses are alive in my head and my bones
Taking cover hoping they don’t see me
Taking cover hoping they don’t know.
Prison is alright if you never leave it
Prison is alright if that’s all you know
I’ve been hanging out with the walls and the ceiling
I’ve been holding up here on my own.
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Orion
05:33
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I feel it in my brain
I feel it in my lungs
I feel it in my fingers they play
They play ‘til they’re done.
You can pick up the fight
You can set it alight
You can use all your might
All of it is alright.
I feel it my kitchen
I feel it in my car
I feel on my way to work
Everywhere that you are.
You can shout at the night
To your feeling’s delight
You can break all the pieces
All of it is alright
You can feel it inside
That everyone is a light
And every star here tonight
Every star is Orion’s.
I feel it in my garden
I feel it in my toes all spread
I feel in my legs they climb
They climb with no end.
You can roll in the shame
You can get in a funk
You can piss in the flames
All of it is alright
You can feel it inside
That everyone is a light
And every star here tonight
Every star is Orion’s.
I’m moving through, I’m moving strange
All these feelings that I can’t explain
I’m filling up, I’m tearing down
I feel the changes they are all around
I’m moving through, I’m moving strange
You can pick up the book
You can pour out your heart
Every breath that you took
All of it is alright
You can feel it inside
That everyone is a light
And every star here tonight
Every star is Orion’s.
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7. |
Patience
03:41
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8. |
Twice a Fool
04:43
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We stay up late watching late-night movies
I stay up late ‘cos I like it when you hold me, hold me.
Let’s take a drive through the desert now honey
I like the heat and the cold and the in-between, in-between.
Let’s take a drive through the desert just to figure this out
These spinning wheels got me spinning got me all strung out.
I love the breeze how it plays with your hair
And I can learn to love you in your despair, your despair.
Let’s take a drive through the desert just to figure this out
These spinning wheels got me spinning got me all strung out.
So let’s break it down, let’s break it down
I’m at once afraid and twice a fool for you.
It’s when you leave and the tears come running
I know it’s silly but it can’t be helped, helped.
It’s like my whole life lead me to you
Now I’m wondering what the fuck I’m gonna to do, gonna do.
Let’s take a drive through the desert just to figure this out
These spinning wheels got me spinning got me all strung out.
So let’s break it down, let’s break it down
I’m at once afraid and twice, yeh at once afraid and twice
I’m at once afraid and twice a fool for you.
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9. |
Elizabeth
03:36
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Elizabeth, you have all the hallmarks of a queen
Elizabeth, I never used to call you that anyway
Your words so softly spoke and a hundred hearts broke so easily
Elizabeth, your silence keeps you no farther away.
The two of us, we’re to each other like sleep to a dream
And you are so, you are so good at both of those things
Our life was the garden and you took your pardon eventually
‘Elizabeth’ the flowers and the trees like to sing.
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