1. |
Advocate
04:38
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Advocate
The definition is vague
It really could apply to anyone
When conditions change
Tiny deviations get explained away
Here they come again…
A different kind of connection, balance need and desire
Always on but only present half the time
Here they come again..
And we let them in
We just let them in
Sign off my limitations, tell me all that I am
Words spoken by the child will just echo the man,
Here they come again
Your weakness or my strength, it’s just the same
We let them in again (here they come)
But if you think we’ll step outside
Yesterday’s unwritten laws are on the rise
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2. |
Amateur
08:00
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Amateur
I just needed you to know
I gave much more than I intended
Been digging me a hole
With every step the more I fall.
I wanted to clear my mind, reinvent my view
And lost my half-life with you.
Well, not even close to half - alternately in between
Next to rapture and a walking death.
Nothing turns out the way you plan
Nothing is perfect in your world
Crash to the ground & pick up where you land
Nothing to win, no-one to tell
I wandered inside your mind, thought I knew it so well
Start of a dozen sleepless nights.
I’ve covered this ground before today but rarely so near
Walk with the gods, right now I’m flying .
Nothing is ever left to chance
Movements are mapped and planned to show
One way or the other
You know I’d rather…
…Any harsh reaction to none at all
Any fear of rejection is never as great as losing all control (I know, I know).
“Tonight’s the night,” some old git said
And he may be right
But in another sense
And in a different light
From a different time
You’ll find you’ve got to rise before you decline.
Your means of destruction are so polite
A flick of the wrist and in the blink of an eye
Your silence says more than I wanted to know
I can read it in your smile.
When you wanted anything from me
It didn’t matter I had nowhere else to be
No great effort just to sacrifice my time
Every minute, every moment was so sublime.
Every morning, every waking afternoon
Second guessing every feeling is all I do
Every instinct that has ever paid my way,
Won’t protect me or help me hide from the truth.
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3. |
Was Once
05:24
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Was Once
Ahead or behind
The deafening silence
Until you hear that voice
There’s comfort in being alone
The first or the last
Every possible future
You can never tell
When it’s gone or yet to arrive
We may never see a sign
Primitive sounds will disappear into the ether
Across all space and time
Someone has to be the first through the filter
Defeating ourselves
Keeping our feet anchored
Burning every chance
Before we get off the floor
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4. |
Antarctica
05:35
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5. |
Icon
05:56
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Icon
Sideways glimpses from a distance
Admired from afar
Traffic soothing constant heartbeat
The only light from stars
The sunset burned our eyes
But if you waited it would turn sublime
Hemmed in by the waves of fields
Catch the salt-air breeze
Suspended in our solitude
By lines of guard-rail trees
It glittered like a prize
The centre of our universe at night
For legendary nights on end
The gates we opened wide
Strangers, lovers, friends descended
To try on others’ lives
Performing all the time
Crowds are easier than eye-to-eye
Ghosts are all that remain now
Dreams like columns fell
Where once an icon stood so tall
Now it’s broken like a spell
They left as they’d arrived
Unaware that night a city died
Shimmering pools and pulsing lights
The ocean below, consumed by the night
The parties we held
Rivers of wine
Pleasure and sin and primal cries
Promises made
Arms open wide
Deals would be done just as the money went dry
Stole what they could, escaped with their lives
Never to tell…
Palace on fire
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6. |
Loner
05:39
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Loner
I wish I could write
Tell you all of my faults
And if I could write
You’d know all of my thoughts
No page would waste a word so unkind
Restraining the intent of every line
And when I fall
I wish I could rise
You make it look so easy all the time
You’d think that by now
I’d have built my disguise
Clever words can sound so contrived
Every background noise
Eyes that look straight through
Empty chairs and missing all the cues
I should have played along for a while
I never came along for the ride
You make it look so easy all the time
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7. |
Fedor [pt 1]
05:36
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Fedor Pt 1
All I know
You’ve given me
Try to grow
But limiting
Memories are not my own
Experience is bought and sold
The poetry you gifted me
Is it even mine to speak?
Tethered safely to the ground
The weight of dead men holds me down
Close my eyes so I can see
Dreaming that you’ll notice me
Distance time and memory
Paint-by-numbers poetry
Creator watches over me
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8. |
Fedor [pt 2]
04:36
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9. |
Solastalgia
03:51
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Solastalgia
If you only know just where to look
Amongst the bones and over barren dirt
Hope springs
Fortunes reversed
Life emerges under broken earth
Charred remains a temporary curse
Stolen things
Will be returned
Fumbling for words
Watching for miracles that never come
Self-preservation like every other day
Diverting attention
Turn advice away
It’s happened before
Electrical storms roll in across the bay
Morning darkness dust lost in a haze
It’s happening more
Finding your voice
And making it heard
Although this is hardly the time
Holding your nerve
Even when you’re told
There’s nothing to see here
There’s nothing to see here
There’s nothing to see here when you cover your eyes
Divine intervention won’t bring rain from the sky
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10. |
Can't See the Stars
05:25
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Can’t See the Stars
Had a good idea
My head is full of noise
I can always wait
For a better day
All I ever needed
Time to start again
Stop to catch my breath
Lost in middle distance
Change comes too late
All I ever needed
Is all I’ve ever known
Push them all away
Quite content to stay
On my own
It won’t change my mind
I’ve spent too much time
On my own
Here in one moment
Space and time collide
Take a second offer
Might be we all have
All I have believed in
Now I can’t see the stars
Push them all away
Quite content to stay
On my own
It won’t change my mind
I’ve spent too much time
On my own
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