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Minuet
03:19
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Standing on shells
Watching the yellowing clouds over London
Columns of hell
Rise as the church and museum collapse
Before the debris and the fallout can land
I'll walk into the sea holding on to your hand
Let the world burn as long as you kiss me goodbye
Pestilence reigns
Two dozen strains and no vaccine can save us
Wretched remains
Clawing and gnawing on organs and limbs
Blood in my eyes, I'd stagger south
If it meant I might die with your heart in my mouth
I'd go out smiling as long as you kissed me goodbye
Sun grows, Yellowstone blows
Little strangelets or one massive asteroid
Poles flip, atmosphere stripped
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
Tiny machines
Swarm and transform us all back into atoms
Pick the earth clean
Clone themselves over and over again
But I'll welcome our turn to be turned into goo
I've always yearned to dissolve into you
Nothing else matters as long as you kiss me goodbye
All of my pride, all of my shame
All my achievements, my failures, my name
It can all go to hell just as long as you kiss me goodbye
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2. |
Rain Song
02:42
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When the grey that floods my mind
Escapes into the blue outside
And daylight falls out of the sky
It’s hard to keep my hope alive
I look to the stars
But all I can see
Are raindrops falling on my window pane
I look to the stars
But all I can see is rain
I tell myself I have to try
To hold my heavy head up high
I have to stand, I have to fight
But it gets harder every night
To look to the stars
When all I can see
Are raindrops falling on my window pane
I look to the stars
But all I can see is rain
People tell me that clouds in May
Mean summer’s on its way
But all I can see as the seasons change
Is rain
As daylight falls out of the sky
And darkness fills my room tonight
Without a silver line in sight
It’s hard to look you in the eye
I look to the stars
But all I can see
Are raindrops falling on my window pane
I look to the stars
But all I can see is rain
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3. |
The Earliest Blue
02:34
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Motionless in the dark
Can’t tell the threads apart
Blackbird and starling, watch over me
Sing ‘til I’m unasleep
Hearing a milk float pass
Heavy with shivering glass
Blackbird and starling, watch over me
Sing ‘til I’m unasleep
The youngest light
The earliest blue
Carry my bones so weighty
Lead leaden limbs to safety
After the dead of night
Colours come back to life
Blackbird and starling, watch over me
Sing ‘til I’m unasleep
Blackbird and starling, watch over me
Sing ‘til I’m unasleep
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4. |
Play Along
04:22
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Centre stage, you looked down into my eyes and smiled
I came of age; you took advantage of a simple child
Who is the impostor in this photograph
Summer in his face, and winter in your laugh
A covenant in the gallery and in the stalls
We understand all the secrets of the concert halls
We have heard the voices that the world adores
Cracking in the car-parks and the corridors
And in every way that mattered
You were mine from twelve ’til seventeen
Long ago and oh so far away
I began each day with praise to you
On vinyl, on paper, and on screen
Neon letters burned and left you grey
In our minds, when we catalogue our enemies
We learn our lines and imagine our obituaries
Relishing the sorrow that would test our friends
We forget success can be the best revenge
And in every way that mattered
You were mine from twelve ’til seventeen
Long ago and oh so far away
When you start to see me everywhere
On air, and on paper, and on screen
You’ll remember what you did today
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