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It's Coming For Us
03:58
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Driving all night in a rusted heap
There’s a hole in the floor where escapes the heat
Fog’s so thick apparitions float through the cracks of the windscreen right at me
It’s coming for us
Over this hill lies our salvation
There’s a million shimmering lights to come
The mat of night admits the groaning glory God-like love I guess
It’s coming for us
Standing on the corner hear my heart beat loud
I saw a memory, I saw a memory.
Awake in the crook of the sunrise arm
Where the wooden face is a bitter psalm
Caught in the throws of the morning wolves
Back to the cabin up on the hill
It’s coming for us
Standing on the corner hear my heart beat loud
I saw a memory, I saw a memory.
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Open Up
03:44
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That was your life in the flash of an eye
A burst of colour and a slow decline
A carbon copy cut out of your dad
The winding highway, coiled snake
A speeding car, the great escape
A letter begging mother not to worry
A time and place is long forgotten
The doubt of shadow you have chosen
There’s a lost soul for every light on Broadway
Open up
Everything illuminates
The city below ululates
The streetlights explode around you
The night, the night it has one answer
To these questions you’ve been asking
You can’t go home again, not ever
Open up
Hey Gene you can’t if you want, you can never go back home.
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All the kids in the skinny blue jeans gang
Running ‘round the night looking like a ‘Gap’ ad
Keep your friends close, hold them to your chest
And you’ll find time moves slowly
Like a watched sunset
Played out just for your benefit
The city is gleaming
From here we can dance to the end of the night
Oh how this night folds itself around us
And now we’re done drinking ourselves jumpers
Rub your old skin off, put your new face on
For tonight we are one
One and the same
Made up of dust and chemicals
Like moths to the flame
We dance to the end of the night
There’s no troubles, there’s no tears tonight
On the dance floor we appear as if we’re on fire
Dance to the end of the night
A last dance to the end of the night
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4. |
Simple Life
04:06
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I’m black, I’m blue
We drove, the whole night through
This hotel, so quiet
We’re two hours, from county lines
I shot the guards, I grabbed the cash
The cops gave chase, we disappeared
I sleep, I watch
I dream of you, the sirens flash
In darkness, in light
The blood we spill, this silent night
In daytime, we hide
One day down
The simple life we search for can’t be found
I’m up, I’m out
They’ve found us here, I don’t know how
I shoot, I stop
They’re on our heels, I cannot run
My love, the blood
I run to you, they’ll shoot you too
I’ll hold your head, with heavy breath
I’ll close your eyes, I hold you tight
In darkness, in light
The blood we spill, this silent night
In daytime, we hide
One day down
The simple life we search for can’t be found
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Don't Breathe A Word
04:51
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I was a raven by the colour of my hair, he was a tempest again
We were a fracture, a shiver from the start
And from the beginning we began breaking apart
Don’t breathe a word, keep it like a secret, and no one will get hurt.
I was a red bear, by the colour of my hair
Instead of the oil and the water it was oil and fire
He was a darkness even in that flame
We were the ending again
Don’t breathe a word, keep it like a secret, and no one will get hurt.
There’s thunder in our hearts and heads
It’s drowning out the words we said
There’s lightning from our eyes and hands
It’s burning up the obvious
I was a white horse by the colour of my hair
I was a jailer, I was a shadow to him
He was a watchtower, the silence deafening
We were the broken, and the golden in the end
Don’t breathe a word, keep it like a secret, and no one will get hurt
There’s thunder in our hearts and heads
It’s drowning out the words we said
There’s lightning from our eyes and hands
It’s burning up the obvious
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6. |
Guard Your Cold Blood
04:04
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Dry your eyes on the tapestry
Shine your boots, join the revelry
Grab your coat, reign the melody
Curtains closed, does the clock keep ticking if you’re not looking
Ocean beach on the memory
Travel fast to the Bowery
Sur to city towards the misery
The sea drove me away and yelled ‘Go to your desire’
A broken record skips a beat
So guard your cold blood
Like a broken record, your heart skips a beat
So guard your cold blood
Sound awake on the hard wood floor
Crucifix on the ocean shore
Cast adrift, I am taken north
The city drove me away and yelled ‘Go groan, go groan’
A broken record skips a beat
So guard your cold blood
Like a broken record, your heart skips a beat
So guard your cold blood
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Tonight is a liar, it’s a rotten thief, it’s a rhythm, it’s a beat, it’s a sunset
Heard in the air of the midnight heat is the bell that grows so hoarse with tolling on and on
Down we go
Doubt is the life of the written word, there’s a hammer, there’s a flash, there’s a cadence
Caught ‘tween the teeth of the listless girl is the deafening sound of thunder rolling on and on
Down we go
You’re strangers sleeping in the same bed
You don’t know how you found yourselves here
Half awake the moon makes shapes
Of strangers sleeping in the bed
This house is a prison, it’s a wound up cell, it’s a vault, it’s a memory fish hook
Down by the harbour where you cast you mind to the lover that’s always running on and on
Down we go
Tonight is on fire, it’s a burnt out shell, you’re a flame, you’re a charge, you’re electric
Caught ‘tween the teeth of the desperate boy is the avalanche always rolling on and on and on
Down we go
You’re strangers sleeping in the same bed
You don’t know how you found yourselves here
Half awake the moon makes shapes
Of strangers sleeping in the bed
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We sailed out
past the harbour heads while the moon still slept
Long grey cloud
you must follow it till the morning wakes
Oil black night
the sea, the silent void where the giants roam
We dive down
to the endless floor I can hear them call
To swim through the mouth of the whale
We hold hands
descending down to shadow sound
Fear rise up
hear the panic seize, down you pull me
We breathe the ocean
in the hollow deep the fears seem worldly
Then we see her
I will follow you through the jaws so true
To swim through the mouth of whale
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9. |
Here Stands The Broken
04:43
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Father says lead your horse to water
Father says try to make her drink
Through the lives of sons and daughters
With a war that’s always on the brink
Early light of the autumn
All the hands to the harvesting
All the branches here turn to bones
And the night wind howls on the heath
With the song of sticks and stones and creaks
The trees are skeletons
They wheeze and hiss and bend at night
A night whistles on a leafless branch
A moon strobes through a wooden land
And I search for my father’s hand
In the half-light we begin to sing along
With the song of sticks and stones and creaks
The trees are skeletons
They wheeze and hiss and bend
They dance in the wind
The live limb hymn
They sing, ‘here stands the broken’.
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We are nowhere, we're off course, we're miles off
We are carried by the sad seagulls through the streets to sea of the roaring coast.
We are searching for a home, we don't know what we want.
As you stand there in a crowded room, you've never looked so lost or alone.
This darkness is just distance dimmed.
We toss and turn in waking nights, we long and loathe the simple life.
We're vagabonds with open arms, we're the broken bones of sticks and stones.
We are calling, we are live, we are running out of time.
We'll set alight the half-light, with the ghosted limbs I've seen it all...
This darkness is just distance dimmed.
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Shudder - demo
04:34
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It's so cold in the heart of the summer
And your skin is opaque like the water, that we swim in just to feel.
Feel the pull of the road 'neath our feet.
Light the night with luminous streets.
You and me babe, it's all we need
You make me shudder
Follow you down to the shores of the harbour.
Wrap you up in the scarf that was stolen.
Watch you coruscate over me.
Come across, oh how the ghost of you hangs so brightly, through your eyes I see it project.
Now I'm not scared
You make me shudder
I had a dream you were sinking
To the bottom of the sea
The leviathan
You make me shudder
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My sweet darling
I can't believe this
All this drama in winter, and sleight-of-hand
We can't get passed this
As you light up the city
With half-finished cigarette chain smoke.
All the dispossessed dream of you, hey that's what you live for
Don't give me drama, give me love
And we'll fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight this is broken
Our words are no through roads, but no words can go through unspoken
Let this white page beseech me, let it drag me down
To the place where I met ya, your eyes hit the ceiling and everyone, everywhere disappeared into thin air
Oh give me love
Don't give me drama, give me love
And you me tonight that Manhatten would sink in the sea
As the secrets we keep become postcards in our memories
I knew, I knew, I knew...
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You've been drinking all night to disappear
But your body stays right there in your skin
Crawling snakes and glaring eyes they'll begin
This room fills with disdain, now you taste it
You've been driving all night to disappear
But ol' Gerdy does not like the rain
So you'll exist somewhere in between here
and silent movies in the silver screen
Failing frequencies
Words fall on deaf ears
All these faces aggravate you
So much time looking in review mirrors
I've seen hopes on sinking boats
and sunlight shards in subway cars
I've seen blood red I've seen blue
but you my love will bring me through
Lost on highways, down dirt tracks
I'll keep waiting till you find your way back
Failing frequencies
Words fall on deaf ears
All these faces aggravate you
So much time looking in review mirrors
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A Million Pieces - demo
03:09
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Well we're walking in circles and talking in straight lines tonight.
And we're jumping off piers to the hum-drum of your life
And I'll swear to you, I'll swear to you this night is ours
And you'll implore me, you will explode on fire
And I'll tell you tonight that your heart will be fed to the lions
And you know if it breaks it will rive into shards
And you said
A million pieces, we've lost so much trying to put back together
I've seen pieces fall from your eyes, they'll be lost forever
A million pieces, we've lost so much time
I said stop
To this night, it was taking us out
So it stopped and we wondered around frozen towns
He's a cannonball
You're a china doll
We've been here before
in revolving doors.
And you said
A million pieces, we've lost so much trying to put back together
I've seen pieces fall from your eyes, they'll be lost forever
A million pieces, it takes so much time
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