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Winged Bird
04:07
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I can hardly say your name
It's a spell I have broken
Your plastic bags to pick up trash
You released to the wind's fingers
It's easy to let go when you've been let go
Close the door your home's a planet
The planet's not your home
Walk outside untethered you'll just fall into the sky
Plastic bags like winged birds
Flutter down to the river
I can hardly hear your words
It's all stick-shake and shiver
But I know we're going down somewhere we can't choose
Someone's kid out walking's gonna keep us in their room
To die beside an untouched bowl of milk and soggy bread
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2. |
Battlescarred
05:00
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Unknown, unrecognised
A hostage of dread
Past the point of no return
But it's suicide ahead
Tear yourself from the boundaries you enforce
There's nothing left to hide
And I could wish for nothing more
Battlescarred, we are battlescarred
One and the same, our stories retold
countless accounts, the struggles of old
Watching and learning as a way to conceal
Aching and burning
Why won't these wounds heal?
Battlescarred, we are battlescarred
I said leave us alone
We don't want your sympathy
A fractured surface, yearning release
I am not like you
Stay away from me
Battlescarred, we are battlescarred
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3. |
Days Behind
03:24
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Have you no letters from the priest?
I've popped all my bubblewrap
Burned my car and crashed my house
Intermittent faults that won't appear
They wait for you to turn your back
Then they'll reverse over me again
Have you no new promises to make?
Keeping all these broken ones
Forgot what they remind you of
I was in your ecstasy and you in mine
Took a while to reconcile
The days ahead, the days behind
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4. |
Deadass Sea
03:06
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On the chapel lawn forgetting whose side you're on
Back from that old road of mine, this time
How was your summer, how was my summer?
How was my nuclear winter by the deadass sea?
And if you'd seen what I had seen
Maybe you wouldn't ask
And if you'd been where I have been where I
Surely you wouldn't ask
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5. |
Rings Run Circles
03:46
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Locked out of a parody of life
You were always at my side on the outside, lost
Light spilled from the terrace houses onto the streets I renamed you
That we walked drunk through
All these rings run circles round your heart
How d'you let it end
When you never know why you let it start
Black circles running rings round you
Everything you've done an extension of what you can't undo
And the silence won't let you explain
But the questions to the answers remain
Reappraise the visions I once had
Make them ornaments instead on your mantlepiece
Hats off to the living and the dead
And the dead still living on waiting for release
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6. |
Trailer Tragedies
03:10
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Alleyway to the penthouse
Eliminate all who cross us
But I still dream of the bodies
You want my loyalty more than you should
You ask for honesty more than is good for you
We're trailer tragedies
Have we made good for nothing?
They sleep the sleep of dead believers
In afterlife skips and heaven's rivers
But we still stand and deliver
Shall we go down to the parliament?
Realign our rearmament
Or fuel the jet and just forget it
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7. |
Reticent
02:09
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Always the quiet ones
With their boxes of birds
What a way to go now
Look at you in your barrel of laughs and words
Reticent
Every inch the king
Undress the slave
Don't say a thing
Down in your channel
You can get no purchase on its sides
Fell into your travel
And you fell out of ours then out of mine
There's a force afoot now
It's been rumoured for a day or two
Get these knuckledraggers off me
If you want me to tell you if it's true
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8. |
Darkroom
04:26
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Here's a thought thought I'd share
Now we're still on speaking terms
Now that nothing's changed
What do I have to do to leave you?
From the darkroom tray
Those reborn make their way
To the peephole in the door
What do I have to do to leave you?
How does it feel to be finished?
How does it feel to be banished?
How does it feel to be free?
I wouldn't know
No, I wouldn't know
What do I have to do to leave you?
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9. |
When I Whisper
05:17
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Do you love me or is it just that I'm here
And you know I've no place else I can go?
I didn't ask for this, I guess you understand
But I guess you blame me even so
I remember back before I disappeared
When you could sometimes still meet my eye
When you go back to your room I let you be
In your silence tell myself you're just quiet
I believe that if I'm less of myself
Then I could mean more to someone else
time is empty until I fill it to the brim
I can only drink the drop that spills
I imagine meeting friends in the sun
and the shadow of myself being one
But my face is a hockey mask that no one sees
At the counter when I turn and run
In the silence of the space where I was
Maybe you'll remember when you loved me
I'll never try to stop you doing what you want
And what you want is not being around me
When I whisper to myself in my bed
I can find the words that I must believe
Keep them hidden as best I can these shallow days
Until I give myself back to sleep
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10. |
Tell You What I Could Do
02:13
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Tell you what I could do
I could really get to you
I could be the face you see
In the mirror eventually
Tell you what I could do
I could follow the tracks you made
Through the snow to your empty room
Where I'll find your bed still unmade
You make me drink with the living dead
They've got the intel on where you go inside my head
Tell you what I could do
I could swallow my pride instead
I could wait for a full moon
I could shoot myself in the head
You
Tell me what I could do
Please you
Tell me what I should do
Tell you what I could do
I could turn myself in right now
I could say I had the motive
But the means were beyond my power to
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11. |
Blind You
02:37
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You're losing your friends
you're making amends but you're making mistakes
Too little too late
And our story will end
Who will tell it again?
But you can only do what you know how
You don't have to prove a thing to me before you go now
You've taken your time
You've taken all mine, now you're giving it back
we're slow on attack
It's another defeat, it's another retreat
Everything's always behind you
Moving towards the light that will only blind you
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12. |
Robbed and Beaten
03:37
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Time will tell you
what you want to hear
Will you bend
Will you break for me?
We've been robbed and beaten
We lie shot and discarded
Fucked and thrown in a garden
on your watch
Time will heal
The full moon she breaks
Get the idea
Got the shakes
We've been robbed and beaten
We lie battered and broken
The best day you could imagine
Sealed with this kiss
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