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The Rain Dance
03:56
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Be still if you can, sing softly boy.
It suits you more than this coked up bore
Oh the games we play while we innocently peel our layers away
and the sun comes out
and we're left in the desert all blistered and sore
Don't promise me more
Shouldn't promise me more
You took my body to bed
But it's always the heart that gets fucked instead
Raise your glass to me
While I sit in reluctant sobriety
Oh the games we play
While we negligently peel our layers away
and the sun comes out
and we're left in the desert all blistered and sore
Don't promise me more
Shouldn't promise me more
Make it rain
be still if you can, sing softly
The wound is still warm
and the whole in my fanfic still easily torn
Sing sweet to me
The way that you did when the nights agreed
Oh the games we play
While we permanently strip our layers away
Make it rain
Make it rain.
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2. |
We are Rocks
03:23
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Hey there
Whats with sad face?
You've been acting strange for days
Can I help in any way?
Hey you
What's with the subtext
You've been all complex and vague
Is there anything I can change
We're but cells you and I
We are fallen from the sky
We are rocks we are stars we are carbon
We are sums we are fact
We are dreams that interact
We are rocks we are stars we are carbon
So don't breathe any more meaning into the thoughts that come
We're making up stories and stories will end when they're done
Until the next one
And don't feel
Cos feeling is only what makes the thoughts seem real
Reality differs and changes with time and it's gone
It's the same for everyone
We're but cells you and I
We are fallen from the sky
We are rocks we are stars we are carbon
We are sums we are facts
We are dreams that interact
We are rocks we are stars we are carbon.
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3. |
All in the Eyes
04:49
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Sun it came slow like a ship in the night
Hovering only to offer it's light for a while
Only a while
Waking up lonely she stretched out her arms
Only to find what she already knew to be gone
Long gone
The neighbourhood started their day
Nightmares shifted and ran out the way
As the mundane stepped forward, ticking off lists
Short, sharp, numb pain dragged her on by the wrists
Passing politely her fair weathered friends
Ever so slightly she thinks she might be one of them
Then again
Tapping her toes to the clock on the wall
Everything aches
How did she end up so small
In spite it all
It's all in the eyes
It's all in the eyes
And it takes a thousand tiny lies
All in the eyes
Checks her reflection, it can't be her own
Looking more closely reminds her of someone she knows, or used to know.
No one to argue she talked to herself
Only to find that it hinders her more than it helps
It doesn't help
It's all in the eyes
It's all in the eyes
And it takes a thousand tiny lies
All in the eyes
It's all in the eyes
It's all in the eyes
And it takes a thousand tiny lies
All in the eyes
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4. |
Superhero
04:39
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He's no superhero but he knows he can fly
Neon has broken his crayon coloured sky
It's over,
hanging over you
It's been hanging over me
I wasn't his mistake
Clever conversation
Is getting him nowhere
It's a strange preoccupation
He'd love to really care
It's over
hanging over you
It's been hanging over me
It wasn't his mistake
It wasn't his to make
And now he's hiding in his head
too tired to go to bed
Now he's fast awake alone
He'd have tried if he had known,
Somehow.
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5. |
Lay me down
02:52
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Don't bury me in winter in an ice cold ground
I have no love of stone
Don't drop me in the water to sail away,
I'll be lost so far from home
Dont' forget to tell me sometimes, though I'm not there
That everyone's ok
And please remember that I may be gone
I'm never far away
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down where the flowers grow free
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me somewhere I know you will be
Don't lay me in the embers my bones won't burn
Always was a stubborn soul
And don't think about the things you know that I regret
Nothing good will come of those
And don't listen to the people who loved me just once
many did but only some true
And please know that I still haven't found the one
The one as true as you
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me down where the flowers grow free
Lay me down
Lay me down
Lay me somewhere I know you will be
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6. |
Mirtazapine
04:02
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Paint a picture of the clearest view
Of a river, racing over you
Then it's like I'm running out of air
So tender, untangled and strange
So together til the tidal wave
Then it's like I'm running out of air
The pixels
Keep a handle on this
Untangle
hold tight, no grip
Then the night comes
But sleep does not
The mind is heavy
And will not stop
Paint a picture impulsive and new
So together
I remember you
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7. |
The Way we were Made
03:42
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There's the view from my window and the one in my head
Where I'm sipping red wine and I'm dipping french bread and where
everyone British says this time of year
Is the best time of year for lovers my dear
and I hardly know myself but I know you much less
and the beating and beating goes on in my chest
and it only keeps going as the thought of you going
is keeping me needing to keep you instead.
And we'll never speak of the things that remain
things that hover between us again
and I wish I was braver and really less old
and much more sexy and brazen and bold
but I guess all the quiet and gentleness made us
lay there together the way we were made
and I wish that is where we had stayed.
I thought all I ever needed was in you.
I can't believe I let you go
Can't believe you won't return
Can't believe I let this slip away
Will I ever learn?
There's the view from my window and the one in my head
The view of the sea and the lure of your bed and I
wish you were here or were wishing the same
but if this is all and everything and never again
then please cal me delicious and say my whole name again.
I thought all I ever needed was in you.
I can't believe I let you go
Can't believe you won't return
Can't believe I let this slip away
Will I ever learn?
Will I ever learn?
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8. |
Reverence
04:03
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In light and shade
We have found ourselves
Better made when we reach for help
A silent thought may bind us
To better days the worst behind us
And I can't save us all
The weak will take a fall
And I can't make this load any lighter
Unless you guide me home
Unless you guide me home
In severance we were well without
In reverence where the storms will out
A silent thread may blind us
Our sorry tales left behind us
And I can't save us all
And neither can I pretend to
The seas will rise and fall
And you will guide me home
And I can't tell the world
That I will be better with you
But all of this I swear
If you will guide me there
If you won't guide me home
Who will guide me home?
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9. |
Steal a Kiss
03:26
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Steal a kiss my darling it's the last one you will see
It's kisses made a liar of you and they made a fool of me
Keep your sorry darling ain't a thing left here to feel
The walls have all but crumbled and it's in ruins that I kneel.
Save your truths my darling I will need them when you're gone.
This doll was barely broken long enough to hear your song
Keep yourself together it's the least that you can do
and everything I thought I knew will go with you.
Cos all I ever wanted was flowers
All I ever got from you was stones
Save your answers darling they only make me question more
For everything to come and everything that went before
Save your strength my darling you will need it to be free
You made me love you so much there was nothing left for me
Cos all I ever wanted was flowers
All I ever got from you was stones
Cos all I ever wanted was feathers
All I ever got from you was stones
Cos all I ever wanted was flowers
All I ever got from you was stones
Cos all I ever wanted was feathers
All I ever got from you was stones
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Jane: You're wasting my time man, it's early and you're good and drunk
Peter: Oh, Don't be naive we're all twisted and down on our luck
Jane: I'm making the bed up around you, you're sleeping alone
Both: Sleep alone most of these nights since your body went cold
Don't feel like doing more, I'll sleep more sweetly on the floor
Peter: All I can hear when you're screaming is rattles and moans
Jane: All I know is you just don't hear me, I'm shattered you're stoned
Peter: And when it goes quiet you sulk in your room
Jane: Quietly hiding and hopelessly loving you
Both: Don't feel I can do more
Im here, ain't that enough
You're making my face ache, all your tallied up mistakes no it can't go on, surely
It's making me age, I've already gone grey and it can't go on
It's hard to forgive when I don't even know what it is I forgive
It's emotional habit, I can't step around it
It's no way we should live.
Peter: You're beautiful when you are sleeping, it catches my breath
Creases and such gentle breathing, so hard to detect
Both: I know I should tell you aloud, I'm happy you're mine
But they are not words I can muster you must realise
Jane: I don't think that you even notice when I am not home
That all of my thoughts are about you when I am alone
Both: I know I should tell you aloud, I'm happy you're mine
But we seem to function this way and have most of our lives
Don't feel we need to say more
I know what this silence is for.
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Sarah Birch Swansea, UK
Sarah Birch is a singer-songwriter living in Swansea. A former member of Lost Tuesday Society and current member of Dark and Twisties, More music coming soon.
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