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29
04:06
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29
29 years have gone
You’re back where you belong
What did he say, all the rest is toys?
What did you say when you hurt yourself?
Bit me
You won’t know in a while, you won’t know
In time
29 reasons why I should ask for you
But I put down the phone
And I don’t know why I do
Do you?
Bit me
You won’t know in a while you won’t know in time
29 years have gone
You’re back where you belong
What did he say?
All the rest is toys
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Tell Me
02:57
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Tell Me
Tell me what you want and it’s yours
Open any one of these doors
Looks like we won the apocalypse
And the jury’s still out cos they’re dead
Throw out all the dresses you’ve sewn
Feed them to the peasants below
They till the green fields of purgatory
Fearing gods that we’ve murdered or own
What’s that cloud over your eyes?
What’s this spear piercing my side
We’re on the edge of a precipice
And it should be the view of our lives
Tell me what to do and I’ll try
Close that door that’s banging outside
I’ve got the keys to the armoury
But I can’t free your time-shackled mind
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Phantom Fingers
04:08
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Phantom Fingers
When you look back on a decade and what it means
And the second chance you traded for a bag of beans
Who’d have thought that the old man had so little to steal?
Just the rings on the phantom fingers you still feel
If you’d come here yesterday
I’d have traded you the world
For nothing at all
And still felt I was winning
Here’s someone I know from a bar of soap
Kept his hands so clean they were scarcely there
Seems one day they got to their master’s throat
Tore it out like the tab on a can of beer
Celluloid lies to me every night
And the cutting room floor’s no judge of wrong and right
If it sounds implausible then it’s probably real
Like the touch of the phantom fingers you still feel
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Black Waterfall
05:13
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Black Waterfall
Black waterfall looking out through
Can I lay low now with you?
At Girly’s Hole watched the children leaping in
Gets dark so early now, gets light much later
Black Sabbath songs when you’re lonely
Really make sense now to me
At your high school – quite a strange place to cut free
Always thought your family would have really liked me
Black smoke and fire, Devonshire tea
Scenic train ride with me
Your rainswept eyes set in your translucent skin
Pointed out the waterfall and asked me where it begins
It begins with you
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Tomorrow's Queen
09:30
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Tomorrow’s Queen
She never grew up to be a daytripper
Never came home to fit the slipper
But fled with a man to this bedsitter
Part Little Jack Horner, part Jack the Ripper
And when he leaves Ricki Lake soon takes over
Then there’s a dogfight over Dover
And a dad never knew that he had a daughter
He was in a Spitfire underwater
She’d like to get a place out in the country
But A Clockwork Orange has made her jumpy
And Lord of the Flies starring Miss Piggy
Is coming to a theatre in your city
Once thought that she read a red letter
Written in red on a double decker
It said ‘come along with us when you’re better’
But she never grew up to be a go-getter
Having seen all there was to see
She turned from the window to the screen
To a world of thrones and robes and prophecies
Of tomorrow’s queen
In the corner of her eye
Is a drop of the sea that might have been
But this world will so wear out before she’ll be
Tomorrow’s queen
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6. |
The Night Has Come
02:32
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The Night Has Come
The gentle touch of autumn breeze
Sending down all the leaves
To the earth around me
They’re hanging greyhounds in Madrid
Because the season’s over
And over land to the sea
The night has come
Jesus said collect my mail
And keep me posted please
If you want me I’ll be found
Trying to burrow in the ground
At your feet
Don’t forget you’ve had a day
As it sets in the west
Did your best
The night has come
Peter said to Macbeth:
Guess I’m available
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Traitor Song
02:30
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Traitor Song
I’m feeling ill today
I’m falling over myself
To grab a few things here
And get away down south
Now that I top the list of your imaginary foes
What’s it like there now?
What’s your awful pleasure?
Who’s sucking up there still?
Who’s helping you kill off your love?
You destroyed this scene
You’re pinning it on me
But you just stabbed your own doll
You destroyed this scene
You’re pinning it on me
Right through your soul
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Following from Our Conversation
I was not ever really there
I was not altogether truthful
I was a victim of for what no one could ever prepare
Oh how inaudible you are
I’m clinging to this fucking speaker
Like it’s some new Rosetta Stone
Like I care
It once was so clear
Now what’s superfluous has gone
But what’s essential tagged along
And what is left has nearly gone back there
It once was so clear
And if I’ve ever been remiss
And if you miss the one you’ve chosen
Well baby please remember this:
The best part of me is frozen in you
Oh how invisible you were
Right when I had the chance to see you
And how indelible your face now appears
In all my dark corners
You were not ever really mine
Not in the way that people mean that
Not in a way that any woman would share
Now that’s so clear
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9. |
Born Again
03:31
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I want out of the covenant
I can't keep up my end of it
I'm heading back to my element
And this indelible monument
Can outlive me for all I care
I don't want you to talk me round
Your fury isn't the only sound
That is able to deafen me
But your whisper is everything
Let's cut our losses down from the tree
I'm getting out of the firmament
I want our inferno to be born again
I don't want to see the morning
I don't want to fear the dawn
I don't want to find i sleepwalk
I don't want to feel much more
I don't want to hear your silence
I don't want to see you blind
I don't want to touch your coldness
I don't want to know your mind
I just want an end to all this
I just want to damn myself
I want to believe your falsehood
I just want to drink your health
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10. |
The Life That Is To come
03:15
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The Life that is to Come
Now the wood has come
Come against my door
And I want more life fucker
I don’t know why I want this
Maybe what I want is the life that’s passed
The life that is to come:
An amoeba fighting for its day in the sun
I’ve known loyalty
From those that owe me life
I say that counts for nothing
Or something more than I can reverse
You were the last, the last and first
Oh baby tell me:
How’d it ever come undone like this?
I have dreams of you
And they’re all coming true
One by one these apparitions gain substance
As your transparency fades
Into the life, the life that is to come
And I won’t see it but some day you’ll reign
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11. |
It's Not Enough
04:41
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It’s Not Enough
Now you’ve got all that you want
It’s like you’ve shut down
Turn the tables on yourself
Could it be it’s not enough?
Your balancing act
Up on your parapet is beautiful
You washed the black mark from my name
Now I’m your domain
You say for me
There’s grander halls and higher pedestals
That I’d break my neck to see
Then would that be enough?
He sits alone
The only boy in class to get an erection in school
But that was ten years ago
And the laughter in this room’s got nothing to do with him
He’s got a feeling it’s not enough
But he’ll never find the truth that he’s been suppressing
Nobody sees him anymore
And sure as hell nobody ever sees him undressing
She stands alone
The girl who you thought was too good for you to talk to
She works selling magazines to old men
And tries not think where they go to
She’s got a feeling it’s not enough
But she’ll never find the part that she’s missing
Nobody wants to know anything about her
But if there’s someone that she’s kissing
We live alone
In perfect circles concentric
And worry about getting progressively more eccentric
We’ve got a feeling it’s not enough
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Black Waterfall
Black waterfall looking out through
Can I lay low now with you?
At Girly’s Hole watched the children leaping in
Gets dark so early now, gets light much later
Black Sabbath songs when you’re lonely
Really make sense now to me
At your high school – quite a strange place to cut free
Always thought your family would have really liked me
Black smoke and fire, Devonshire tea
Scenic train ride with me
Your rainswept eyes set in your translucent skin
Pointed out the waterfall and asked me where it begins
It begins with you
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13. |
The Ghost of the Castle
08:04
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The Ghost of the Castle
Who’s that out in the marsh?
With twenty mortal gashes?
He’s a friend of mine
I’d like him back sometime
Hear them call me dead butcher
Doesn’t that seem a little harsh?
I’m just the ghost of the castle
Whose body’s that?
And what you doing with it?
You’re like a girl playing with a doll to me
Give me back the head that I’m missing
Wouldn’t have thought that was much to ask
For the ghost of the castle
But you don’t see me haunting you
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14. |
Heather
02:52
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Heather
Heather on the hills where I walk with you no more
This rusty crown it appears I traded you for
And the very stones themselves now dust in my hand
There’s nowhere left to run, nowhere to make a stand
So I ask myself now what remains that true?
It was good once
I was good once
With you
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