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Rapunzel
03:24
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Come to my window
Let me let down my hair
My home is a prison
A vision of disrepair
Between these four walls
So crooked and thin
I’ve paced and I’ve braced myself
Look at the state I’m in
Well first I had friends
And then I had enemies
And I see them and hear them
As if they were here with me
And I believe you have
Something to share with me
Let’s dress ourselves up
And let ourselves down
Let’s let everyone watch
As the wheels come off
Conquer my captors
Get me out of my tower
Help me break history’s
Weakening grip on me
We’ll abscond
And the world will be ours
Once I’m free of this weight
I’ve longed to be free
And I’ve waited too long
Look at the state of me
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2. |
Ever Forward
03:59
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Dark September
I woke up this morning to summer’s surrender
A suffering street and a sky full of water
An emptying beach and a desolate pier
My whole body aches as I stand at the counter
And pour myself into the ears of a stranger -
Why do I feel it so keenly this year?
And how will I ever forget the beholder
Whispering wickedly over my shoulder?
I grew a skin that could never be shed
But she is the black at the back of the mirror
I think of her words and I hear them and shiver -
Why is her conscience a voice in my head?
All heavy bones and prickling skin
I’ll try to laugh the winter in
But feel my humour faltering
Dark September
Pages of changes are rung every Sunday
New lows expected in Malin and Lundy
The lulling, mysterious language of ships
And here in a town with so little redeeming
I’m weary and worn but I can’t sleep for dreaming
I dread the imperious sound of the pips
Dark September
He’s driving too fast and I fear a disaster
He raises the pedal and I breathe at last
A sigh of relief as the needle falls
The roads are a dangerous place in this weather
One slip of the foot and it’s over forever
We’ve learned that already, the worst way of all
I’ve numbered the days on a page in my diary
I tear it away, pull a new year towards me
Tokens of time I can hold in my hand
Faraway parties and trials and tension
I’m longing to leave, I need an adventure
The ocean recedes; I’m trapped in the sand
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3. |
The Broken Song
02:48
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Yesterday remains dogged in my veins
I’m sleepless in the brightest room in town
I’m still hyperactive, easily distracted
The hands are stuck, the sand is slowing down
Can't tell how hard I hit the glass
Can't tell how long has passed
Can't see the marks
I can’t think my thoughts
Until I hear them
I don’t have the patience, I’ve got no concentration
I struggle to control my wandering mind
Every thought erratic lost amid the static
Amnesia paves the way and trails behind
Can't tell how hard I hit the glass
Can't tell how long has passed
Can't see the marks
I can’t think my thoughts
Until I hear them
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4. |
Shadow Blister
03:44
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Time will bring everything
And then harvest everything from us
The hour is upon us
My heart lashed to the deck
I’ll let it sink into bliss with the wreck
Then you’ll take my secrets one by one
Disassemble each ‘til all are gone
And how I’ll thrill at how it’s done
No ball will fall
In a muddle of ice and ginger
I will snap my fingers
My heart will spit and scratch
As I abandon it to its happiest match
Then we’ll see each other as we should
Every shadow shared and understood
While we still have time, let us do good
Coiled tight, moved by light
To delay is to beckon danger
Why fight nature
My heart bound to the track
I’ll leave it rapt under thunderous black
Then we’ll count our hours in the sun
And accept their gifts ‘til there are none
And how we’ll thrill at how it’s done
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5. |
Negligence
02:55
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Leave yourself in my care if you choose
I won’t be held responsible
For all the damage that I do
So don’t complain
When I kick your heart over the coals
And give it back to you riddled with holes
Put yourself at my mercy if you must
But don’t hold me responsible
When I leave you to rot and rust
Don’t be surprised
When I turn fire into soot
And trample your hope underfoot
Maybe I was in finite supply
But I have salted the mine –
Get in line, get in line, get in line
You believe that you’re safe and you’re strong
That I’ve dismantled the bomb –
But you’re wrong
There is danger all around
I may choose to run you aground
Or I may choose to let you drown
You have been warned –
When I decide enough is enough
I will ride roughshod over your love
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Fifty-Five North
03:52
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Pull on your winter skates
It won’t be long before
We freeze and disintegrate
Columbine, Harlequin
Anxious ‘til the thaw,
My pantomime heroine
This town was my design
And it will be my undoing
This town was the making of me
It’s going to be my ruin
Bending, cloud-muffled trees
Their roots claw from the ground,
Beg me to tend to their injuries
This season could do with a lick of paint
Now rattle round and round
And take me home, little orange train
This town was my design
And it will be my undoing
This town was the making of me
It’s going to be my ruin
Here’s a wheel that never span
Here’s a man who never loved
Here’s a dove that never folds
Here’s a cold I’ll never feel
This town was my design
And it will be my undoing
This town was the making of me
It’s going to be my ruin
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7. |
Through Hoops
05:21
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Oh my knuckle-hearted twin
I didn’t know where to begin
When disappointment settled in
As quickly as we met
I gave a mile, you took an inch
But not before and never since
Has anyone had me convinced
There’d be no regrets
You used to sing, you used to dance
I used to squint at burning arcs
Your cigarette drew in the dark:
Together and alone
And in your room under the stairs
All heaving shelves and empty chairs
Your contradictions everywhere
I thought you’d brought me home
I don’t know why I take such pains
To keep you gently entertained
When disillusion takes the reigns
Or when she’s all at sea
A later hour, a shorter night
I take a guilty taxi ride
We watch the sun rise on our lies
You’re sleeping when I leave
Because the first time that we woke
You sealed tight as morning broke
Lit up in shadow, froze in smoke
Together and alone
And I was quieted by your ghost
All creaking lips and stale clothes
But then you stopped and pulled me close
As you walked me home
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Half-French Kiss
01:46
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I had a clumsy and impatient tongue. Now I have two:
One is mine and one belongs to you
My darling, when I crossed my little heart
I crossed my fingers too
Another name I held upon my lips was there so long
None will fit there now that one is gone
And your own name is bitter, it is barbed
It never did belong
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Inshore, a meteor; he leaves her to learn
She sits at his table and waits for him to return
The moon rings; the harbour sings in quays and in bars
The chords of the freight trains, the beat of the spars
Nav lights, boat bites, sea lions and gulls
Hissing like sherbet, the water against the hull
Rust red overhead, the bridge waves them through
Between the white sail and the scattering blue
Tired, anchored, alone in the bay
He wakes her to tell her the fog has all blown away
One dress lighter she walks from the yacht
Retracing her steps and breaking the knot
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10. |
Mox Nox
04:29
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The light decays
Maybe my soul has had its day
And there’s a long dark night to face
I’ll watch the skies on each horizon
I will not pray
Or pretend angels guide my way
Or that they watch me with dismay
Every time I go astray
All hours wound; the last one kills
By night, the sun stays still - I turn away
The light decays
Maybe my heart will waste away
You know what they say –
‘If you don’t use it, you will lose it’
I go for days
Without a beat of joy or pain
Just a feeble pulse remains
Dragged around its old terrain
It’s loud and clear, invite and threat
‘Come quietly, let me have my way’
The light decays
Maybe I heard my spirit break
By design or by mistake
If I can’t fix her, I won’t miss her
And some would say
I never used her anyway
She was neither strong nor brave
And never kept the dark at bay
All hours wound; the last one kills
And just when all seems still, life flows away
Maybe my mind’s seen better days
After all the tricks it’s played
It’s what I’m made of I’m afraid of
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11. |
Goodbye
03:56
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Give me back that Monday dawn
And we will leave the picnic on the lawn
And turn our backs on laughing gas and wine
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
A scribble and a photograph
I struggle just to balance soft and sharp
Assembling their features in my mind
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
It’s more than I can bear
The trouble is I don’t know how to share
And for a time I had it to myself
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
And if I find it’s something I’ve outgrown
I’ll wander to the subway on my own
And say I’ll stay in touch, and wish you well
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
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12. |
Come Home With Me
02:43
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This is the sound of my house falling down
Come home with me
Come home with me
I’m not known for wishing wisely
Come home with me
Come home with me
Waste the time my wishing buys me
I don’t have much to offer in my flat
I can’t tell the cobwebs from the cracks
The kitchen’s full of rotting fruit
Up we crawl and then it’s all downhill to ill repute
The lights come up
The music stops
Morning marches straight toward us
So let’s pretend
This song won’t end
Join me for a final chorus
There’s nothing there for me at home
All the bulbs are bare or they are blown
We deserve all that we get:
Our sanity and solvency replaced with drugs and debt
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