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calling grey
03:24
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There's aliens in my head
Just through the membrane of this reality
And they always know my name
They always look the same
Sitting around the campfire
Beneath a different Milky Way
Three of them laughing now
At everything I say
No matter what I say
Calling grey
I was wondering, do you see them too
Maybe they're watching over everything we do
My God, I hope it's true
I fell into the west
I felt it would be best
To peel off all my skin
Let them reel me in
Then it occurred to me
I might be a thief
Stealing time and space
From those who might believe
All we need to do is leave
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godforsaken
04:47
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I see patterns in the sun
I see everyone
I see everything that’s ever been done
In the name of God and the Holy Ones
I saw the death of rock and roll
I saw the place they hid your soul
I saw the birth of something old and recognised the signs
In a dumbed down TV show
I don’t want you to think
There’s no need for you to say
All the things that must be said before the moment moves away
(Now it comes to it I’m not sure that I care)
I see cities in the snow
People frozen to the bone
But hey, what do they know?
They’re never gonna go there alone
I don’t want you to think
There’s no need for you to pray
Just because we’re living here in this godforsaken day and age
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love is missing
03:58
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I might start my life
Screaming in agony
I might end the same way
Everything that goes between
Comes between us, let us pray
For something better, help us through our longest days
God can't help us
Without love
Love is missing
In our world
Love is missing
From this world
The ocean never dries
The tide keeps going out
My sun still shines
Your moon still pulls
Me down to the fields
Where nothing seems real
Anymore
Just a dream
About the shore
I thought I knew you gravity
Bones grind through my shoes, the years
A machine of endless gears
You sent a poet
Into a bloody war
Armed with pen and paper
Against the guns and bullets
You must have known it could not end well
You can't help me
Without love
Love is missing
From your world
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4. |
1967
04:30
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It’s half past midnight, everything is cooling down,
Cooling down, cooling down
Something happened in London town in 1967
They broke into heaven
Michael and Sidney stepped out of the pages of their lives
And couldn’t get back in
Ask yourself why they never tried
Why they never tried
Why they never tried
Snow is lying, small dog makes his way over the lane
Once again
Ask yourself
Why they never tried
To bring him back in time
Back in time
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5. |
honeydrowned
04:51
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I was sleeping like a honeydrowned dog
She was leaving through the morning fog
Put myself into her little red shoes
I was just another fool for her to lose
Higher higher higher
Liar liar liar
Higher higher higher
You’re a liar
She was smoking weed to fight the fire
My hippy darling playing piano for the choir
Imagine it was me inside her head
Dreaming all those dreams and wishing I was dead
Liar liar liar
Getting higher higher higher
Liar liar liar
You get higher
You’re a liar
I was building, cut my finger to the bone
Just then my uncle calls, his dealer’s on the phone
The Africans are coming, the bags are gone,
The money’s down the drain, the whole thing’s going wrong
Liar liar liar
Higher higher higher
Liar liar liar
You get higher
But you’re still a liar
Yeah, higher higher higher
Liar liar liar
Higher higher higher
You’re a liar
You’re still a liar liar liar
Higher higher higher
You’re a liar liar liar
You’re a liar
You’re still a liar
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the family
04:03
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We gotta watch Frank talk
Watching time flowing on the clock in his kitchen
Ten years from now he will be dead, the will be read
And Frank will be gone
What will linger on?
We can buy little pieces of him
From the family
From the family
I’m watching Harvey sing, watch everything that Alex can bring
I’m watching Zal go crazy, with a love that still amazes me
Rodney is dying, but he still can still raise a laughing glass
Life is good
Life is good
I’m gonna build my house
Yea, I’m gonna build it somewhere in the south
Right by the desert shore
Once was an ocean here but not any more
I’m walking on my own
My shoes down to the bone
The glass is blue, crimson and green
The best I’ve ever seen
The best I’ve seen
It’s the best damned glass I’ve ever seen
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Last week I think I saved the world
But I never got the girl
No I never get the girl
When I was young I knew this pretty thing
For a while she made me smile
Yeah, she made me smile
But the city is in flames
And I'm the one to blame
I should be fighting for the love of everyone
But you turned and looked at me
And I swear that I could see
The turning of the tide in your eyes
And now she's gone
My baby's gone
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8. |
still be gone
03:10
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I can tell there’s no way of knowing
If my mind is going
And the world is flowing away
You can see it’s no way to be
Don’t hold on to me
I think I’m going astray
And if the answer lies in eternity
It’s no damned use to you and me
If something awaits in the great beyond
I’ll still be gone gone gone
Gone gone gone
Gone
All we had was a life of joy
With a baby boy and a baby girl
They were the world
Yes there was pain
Again and again
But the human condition always goes away in the end
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a goodbye song
04:42
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There’s something missing in my blood
I’m tuning you out, tuning you out my love
I’m sending this to all our friends
Hoping it makes amends for all I put us through
Gotta shade my eyes
Out there in the real world you can take your time
Finding those you need much more than me
Be sure to tell them I said hello
You know it’s nowhere that I need to be
And nothing I would rather do
But my body hurts and my head drowns in sweetness
The helicopter hits the ground
And of all the times I coulda died
The universe determines in its infinite wisdom
That I take my boy with me
No wonder I shade my eyes
This is a goodbye song
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10. |
the mountain
04:48
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In days gone by they used to cry about the devil in the mountain
Time went by and we came by
And we climbed right up the mountain
Do you know what we found there
Hidden away from everyone?
I crossed the sea, just little old me
On a fountain made of fire
They said to me, you’re way up high
But the mountain still was higher
There is no air to breathe on Titan or Mars
On Venus there is no love
Just cold and empty unforgiving stars
We’re all climbing the mountain
In future days they will erase all traces of the mountain
They’ll stand and stare, the great nowhere
And the devil will still be counting
Do you know what he’ll find there underneath it all?
Do you know what he’ll find there
Behind the broken unforgiving walls?
We’re all climbing the mountain
We’re all climbing the mountain
We’re all climbing the mountain
We’re all climbing the mountain
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Peri Urban UK
Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more
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