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Plastic Bag Goldfish
03:46
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Walking round’ corners
the streets getting bigger
surreal doused surprise
as the street lights get dimmer
oh welcome you new word
I’ve heard much about you
I’m glad to have met you
but I can’t get out of you
people parading their wares to the landscape
dream riches ascending
like buildings that sky-scrape
oh please Mr I’m not prepared for your notion
a plastic bag goldfish I am in the ocean you swim
models on taxis
and cameras and flashes
the men strike a pose
as she beats her eyelashes
my compass the empire
I left undiscovered
the magnets distracted
no time for another one
oh where is my north star
I long for my manger
once straw to a stable
but now I’m a stranger
the looks on their faces shows I am misplaced
but it’s just my reflection
of what I’ve been showing them
out to the highway where man stops for no one
my memory replaced of the land that come from
the buildings that sky-scrape
the landscape familiar
hello to the door
farewell to that other word
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2. |
Warning Shot
04:05
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I know it’s hard to see
that we are sometimes wrong
the warning shot’s gone off
so if I let you down
no I won’t go with you
but I’ll see you on your way
it’s time to set the arms down
you can’t force change
I got a thing about winning everything
you just look up and shake your head
and let me get on with it
oh my days of discontent
to satisfy my will
and it’s ever-changing role
that you could never play
we both know each other well
won’t raise our hands
each stubborn as
it’s easier to lie
than it is to ignore
maybe just try them all
and see who surrenders
there’s a battle up ahead
and we could just retreat
but we won’t move our feet
till the other goes first
you go
I’ll stay
we’ll carry on that way
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3. |
The Calling
05:38
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It came out as a warning
as a sound you could almost hear
but I could hear you calling
I could tell you were almost there
and I can feel it
though you never were my twin
and I’ll stop breathing
give you life as the air gets thin
and if all the doors were closed
I’d be the hole that you could crawl through
outside the wolves are calling for your blood
I will protect you
go on
you must go on
we came out of the water
and slowly we turn to sand
right now we’re walking
somewhere above dry land
can we make it
in hope as a boy
as a man in doubt
stop falling
it’s deep but we can make it out
you and me
we can be
we can bleed
we can heal
we can wash it away
but you must go on
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4. |
Cold War
04:15
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may I wear your coat
as the chill sets in
numb as the sun burns through me
speak those words again
oh what of all the things you’ve done
what did you win once you had won
bridges once were built
often to decay
I won’t hold up much longer
crush and waste away
oh did you spit in to the stream
dust in the well is all I see
sharpen up your claws
my ears are the prey
leave any scraps behind
in case I pass this way
fair-weather friend the wind has changed
so many flakes fall down the drain
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5. |
Fear of Phantoms
03:55
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you only wanted a free world
no one would want us to take over
you want to gown a familiar
how immaterial of us
shifting back into the night
sure we can’t endure in the light
hiding but we’re still in sight
take freedom away from our rights
you have a fear of the phantoms
declare a war on your notion
you break us out of the prison
but still the bars are between us
don’t worry walking beside me
masking the eyes of your children
this is the grandest unveiling
you bring the cross and pitchfork
stones are in the mode again
queue out to the west gathering
sin now a material thing
penance in the showing of skin
cage of gold, cage of lead
still a cage, my friend
cage of gold, cage of lead
still a cage, my friend
your face it hides an ulterior
my mask it hides apprehension
confuse the cloak and the dagger
and fear I thwart for ascension
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6. |
Same Each Time
03:36
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that’s about enough for me
I want to go home
I’ve seen all that I have to see
and I want to go home
why am I always spotted by the light
illuminating all my faults for you
but what do I know
I am just a shoulder
whatever I proclaim is like air to the dead
so this is where it ends
the same place each time
what more do you want from me
because I’m all out
I traded for the company
and now I’m all out
it’s too easy to pretend it all a game
when your reflection beats you every time
So what do I know
I am just a shoulder
whatever I proclaim is like air to the dead
and how to I proceed this vertical dilemma
when you have tied your rope
and hung it on me
every day’s a climb
we’re searching for that something
that they always tell us
we need to survive
still I don’t see a change
just same each time
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7. |
Pebbles & Stones
03:27
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If you ever shut up for a minute
you would know what’s up with me
when I sit silently
don’t say a word
don’t look at me
If I ever shut up for a second
I would’ve heard
what you’ve been saying for years
guess stubborn works for me
choose your pain over my fears
you say a word
and so I threw a pebble
and you threw a stone and so on
go on this way
till we’re both washed away
in the rubble
of your right I’m wrong
I’m right your wrong
hey can I borrow your time
I’ve got something on my mind
that I have to say
you see your way is my way
or you can take the highway
and all of the byways
and gods law
but what for
it doesn’t work
it doesn’t work for me
doesn’t seem much better to me
your word is yours
and you like what you see
but it doesn’t seem much better to me
we’ll draw the straws
if your long I’ll take yours
it’s the easiest way to decide
wrong can be right
if it’s in the good light
so stand up and bask in my pride
oh how it shines
if we ever shut up for minute
we could hold hands
walk
talk
be like before
your life was simple then
it’s much better being ignored
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8. |
Seven Hours
04:06
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seven hours all I own
I spend it every night before
my debts through blood-shot eyes
never paying it off
get there at the same time
no matter when I’m leaving
time rush to destinations
I don’t wanna be
countdown
it’s the countdown
get back before you feel it
the world is in your way
on a ball and a chain
you're thinking
just stop thinking
that’s how you know about it
listening to what they say
always did every harm
embrace deprivation
delude and just don’t see it
get out and just pretend
that you’ve had enough
here come the bells again
ringing me to realise that
seven hours all I own
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9. |
Where Are the Roses
03:55
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be this for me
someone else
someone I trust in my room
lay on the floor
memories weigh you down
heroes gone home
saviour stranger
playing dress-up in the armoury
what I’m trying on never suited me
if I time it right
you might never even notice
take a trip and tumble to the ground
always hurt the ones you love
forever asking
where are the roses
worship your ground
lift me up
learn from my fears
my A+
took to the wheels
learned the language well
recite silence
raise your fists
ignorance is not the remedy
but administered to me daily
now the side-effect is the normality I’m under
take a trip inside the looking-glass
if the role reversed would you still be asking
where are the roses
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10. |
I Claim You
04:16
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I claim you
my flags laid down
from here to the horizon
here to the horizon
I build my house out of matchsticks tonight
keep one spare for the striking
under the foundations.
where giants roamed
now only bones of those who came before decorate their ground
so how will I know to keep you safe
by building walls so you can’t see outside
and I can’t fear what comes.
you will erode
you will erode now
so it will come
It will come down
let it erode
let it erode now
I claim you
my flags laid down
there’s nothing left for sharing
nothing left to share
so I’ll take my spade and dig under the ground
for something to discover
something to keep me here
for I could go
and stake my claim on someone else’s land,
as history’s foretold
but what have we learned
I see but desolate that no one now can occupy
let it live to let it truly die
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