1. |
First Love
03:36
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Ten thousand miles away
we go to make the play
we've carved out for our century
of you, of me
The flowers growing fast beyond our
call hour
The fall was looking grim
and on account of him
I left the scene to wander back
down the old track
here then, again
The time you screamed and I came running
Funny
Times we kissed in hallways such as this
It’s alright now you say,
“We'll find another day”
I improvise the words around
what we have found
I want to say that I am sorry
but we
left so amicably, so goodbye
my first
goodbye
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2. |
Sell Your Life
05:48
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Sell your life, I'll be nice my dear
Let me help and I'll allay your fear
If we try we can end it right
I don't mind staying up all night
Let me show you one that I prepared before
We'll start off on the couch and finish on the floor
You came round I was in the fridge, then you left
you said it was a smidge too soon
Next day I got so high it hurt
and I took it out on the kids at work
It hurts me not to say I haven't lost a thing
but I'll swap with you right now,
a good plan for a fling
And I'll be king, you be the fool
I'll be the pig, you be the mule
Carry the joke, I'll make it solemn
And where we meet is where we've got them
Falling down another day
and I thought I might have heard you say
you loved me
So I haul the load again
and I set stumbling down the road again
You can't change anybody
That’s okay with me
As long as when we're broke, we're rich for being free
And I'll be me
You be me too
We'll throw away the rest of you
And if it’s talk, we'll pay attention
Because in the end
that’s all we're getting...
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3. |
Forty Children
03:45
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You fell across your guns like forty children on a sleigh ride
The money in your pockets wouldn't buy you little sin
You did your best to make it with the masters of the poor-house
But in the end it was the lend that came to do you in
Your children cannot smile for hunger, now there's nothing left
Of betrothal sweet and sweaty and a meagre sum bequest
The fence is pale and slender as the hopes with which you dressed
The grass is greener where there isn't mud
And it might have felt like forty rivers forded for this life
But really you became the banks of every steaming shore
Never touched the water did your children or your wife
Never touched the water did your thirsty vision sore
A colosseum built of pith on which we stand so proud
The men that lead us still are men like any in the crowd
The men that lead us still to death to still birth without warning
The women we should love that you should love are still in mourning
"Call back later" Joan of Arc cries wailing in the night
"You men have left me fallen for my pride in black and white
You haggard beasts of little principle have lost the fight
To false egalitarian concoctions of the right"
These would be times to make a stand or even take in hand
The words of those forgotten, slammed by leaders and their claims
Instead we'll opt for times to tar and feather thoughts of guilty undertakings
More the merrier! Consider your brief spot of fame
The down and out are out and down, they cannot wear the spit
Of so many who would claim the crown for running at the shit
The fools were dancing all the time to let these athletes know
That every time they left the ground their ignorance would show
Now you'll sing some praise, and now they'll scratch your back
And forgotten will be ways of lengthening the slack
Take me high above this, watch it all descending
Its nothing that we have not seen for years as something pending
And now the field hacks and mauls at populations crawling
Upon crushed knees designed to fall for frail consumer callings
Bring all your fights together and call them just one war
Do what you will man - we've seen it all before
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4. |
Show Your Hand
06:19
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I don't want to die in a foreign place
or disappear without a trace,
so onward we will fly
because I don't like what I see in this country
For a minute just hold your tongue and wait
The fire will come to its abate
The world thinks you are like precious stones
but I don't see it somehow
I woke up, found I'd dreamt the human race
It was just as I'd seen something I thought I could cling to
Wait for my soul to take, you masters of
what cannot be born of love
and pray that he's that kind
because your souls will betray you when you die
And in the morning I will sing your praises
Until you show your cards we'll sing your praises...
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5. |
The Country With A Smile
04:55
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On channel 19 there's an idiot savant
And 35 has got all the girls you'll ever want
The end of it all's staring you inside your face
You could be the last hope for the last of the human race
You could lose your mind in here, your money too
Make sure you bring a friend to share the load
And if you manage to survive the rules of this secret room
You could weave it on a loom and hit the road
Welcome to the country with a smile
More's the answer
More's a question of denial
Four days left and we've got nothing left to choose
We just have to make it home again
I can see it getting rough from here but hold on tight
The solution wont be know until its known
Welcome to the country with a smile
More's the answer
More's a question of denial
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6. |
Winter Holiday
04:52
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I found myself on holiday with fortune by mistake
and fortune was you and I was me and so we'd make
each other for a time upon the gently frozen lake
of what do become memories so easy now to shake
you lay there in the sunshine letting sunshine do its work
and for the rest of the day we let ourselves go beserk
until the corners of the room grew dark and so we slept
and woke to make a perfume of the people we had kept
from dreams that youth delivered to the doorways of our rest
and when we woke again a new day came and we were blessed
with energy and hunger for each other's bodies clean
though finally we had to eat some food between our dreams
and broken was the spell we had so accidentally cast
so back to town to knowing that this thing will never last
but that was nothing to our eyes so blinded by the fact
of being young and having no idea just how to act
and though I look back now as I sit cold upon this beach
it’s just by chance you came into my mind so out of reach
and I guess that's testament to all the simple lives we've led
and how a lifetime can disguise as one day in a bed
and maybe as I thought about this somewhere you though too
about that holiday where I was I and you were you
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7. |
Ned's Dream
06:55
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I walked out further
One night from home
Than I had ever walked alone
The dark it met me
And so we went
To find our fortunes, our futures bent
Joined by a shipman
He sailed the sea
He found his vessel was too lonely
White whales behind him
His freedom spent
He'd lost his youth so improvident
But what's this doubt
America
What rotten core is this?
And soon we happened upon a girl
Her face it showed us the ancient world
She joined our party
Faced true to night
And struck on forward to help our flight
For what could we do but run on
Backs to oblivion
Four of us flying against the wind
Old brothers come near to do us in
When by a fifth one we were so joined
Who in relation was but a boy
His eyes all wonder at blackest night
The way became lit by his foresight
Not quite a child, but not a man
This one ahead now light up the land
For back behind
America
And all the war she knew
Fly faster fly
America
Is on our tail
She comes to murder you
A vision reached us - it was the dawn
On night the curtains would soon be drawn
But before losing our darkest friend
We met a woman near to her end
She whispered quietly
To slow our pace
"Don't rush like this so from place to place"
But chased by the spirits
Of old decline
We hardly had time to say goodbye
So goodbye now
America
Goodbye to all that world
That you destroyed
Sweet innocent
Your crimson flag unfurled
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8. |
Lost & Found
07:46
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They say that you came in from the cold
just as the world was sold
And trying to walk the streets you'd known
you found that the last of life was gone
And now that we've finally lost this frame
there'll be no chance to start again
But calm we can be as we lie down
for knowing the end was all around
So turn your back on things you might have said before
No one's here to hear your call
Millions of moments left to dust
And all of them in trust
To a life we might think of just as one
Witnessed by one abiding sun
"Wait! by the door that I built for you
I'll be gone just a week or two,
perhaps a few
If we could be silent for one day
it might help with the things we say
I'm sorry hey"
And now that the burning leaves do fall
you come home to be alone
And when those leaves have blown away
it might be we'll start another day
So fell your fear - let it crash around your ears
And hark back to those times we loved
Just for a moment, please give me back
those times we loved
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9. |
Race
06:03
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In the beginning you'll break all your old rules
the further you walk from stuff of fools
The devil gets started in small things out the back
And though you've already started
you're only steps from the track
Because it’s the same old race
with all of the same old faces
Thank god for that
No need to make all your choices
The markers will try to drop you like a cold stone
The fallen will watch you from behind
Ten silver hurdles to dog you
The sky will grow old
But you will grow taller with each step
until you're too big for the world
Because its the same old race
with all of the same old faces
Thank god for that
The choices were always so easy for you
You knew what to do
And you always came through
So thank god for you
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