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Strange New Crowd
04:48
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I think I’m
Life-like
I’ve learned how
To appear better than a lie
Better than a lie
(It’s all me but I’m too tired to
Accept it all but I know I should do)
I won’t try
Or I’ll try not to try
In your careless words to appreciate design
It’s all me
The same scene
The same themes
I know it line by line
Silver linings hold me up
Unsteady against its creaking touch
Shattered face in the dreams I’ve had
Coalesce before the fade to black
I know that now
Dammit I know that now
Let me be wrong again
Please let me be wrong again
Always thought there would be someone
And I wouldn’t have to run and run
Through furnished heads of a strange new crowd
A feeling I could do without
And I feel I’m headed down
I can see it come now
‘cause I hung my hopes ‘round
Some extraordinary love
And I feel I’m headed down
I can see it come now
‘cause I hanged my hopes ‘round
Some extraordinary love
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Skyscrapers and Oceans
05:12
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Tell me if I’m wrong
But you seem oh so lost
It’s your smile that betrays you
Your eyes lag behind you
You tell me it’s all wrong
And there’s no peace in forgiveness
I have no questions to ask you
I have no answers to give you
Tell me that I’m wrong
I won’t pretend to know your secrets
Tell me as much as you want to
I won’t chase every avenue
You tell me nothing’s wrong
I’ll make no promise I believe it
If it’s love that could save you
wrapped in me I will keep you
Please push right through
All the platitudes
And my fumbling attempts to make them new
And steel yourself through the silence
I can’t bear it either
I have no words to set you free
And you want love
But can’t feel so much
What we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love
And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love
Don’t feel like it’s been long
Guess I can’t be a salve to your sadness
I hope you find where the sun glows
On the dew on your raincoat
Maybe you’ll hum along
Sing out a line every dozen
Tap out the twos and the fours through
the warm ceramic you cling to
Maybe you’ll be home
Among the skyscrapers and people
where your demons have curfews
A great centrifuge to distil you
Don’t think too hard
We’re all broken anyway
And you don’t need to explain
Or trace the path back that way
There’s nothing to learn
And nothing to be gained
And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we think we’ve found
It doesn’t sound like love
And you want love
But can’t feel so much
This thing we thought we’d found
It never felt like love
Maybe you’ll get gone
Pack up and leave for the oceans
At last put peace in your purview
The water comes up to meet you
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Hand in hand by the burning car I can feel the heat from the flames
Black smoke in the firelight, the autumn breeze comes in waves
What does it all matter, the wheels keeps turning anyway
I could use a break from myself, can someone else drive for a change
Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall
I can see a spark in your eyes when you explain the future away
I can smile and be glad but I can’t see so far ahead
I’ve been here before, guess I’ll still be here in the end
Carved into stone but dissolving nonetheless
Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall
And I’m not upset
Things can’t be perfect
Is there no secret to it?
I’ll take your word for it
And I’m not upset
Things can’t be perfect
Is there no secret to it?
‘cause I can’t keep this up
Oh you must know now
About all the things I’d keep if I could forget it all
I’m just momentary dust
Holding shape against the wall
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4. |
Velvet, Black, Ignite
05:21
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Here again
As I speak
My words bloom in the starlight beams
And right now
Frayed and taut
I can’t contain my creeks and falls
To the wind
I said
Lift me up and dissolve me in your breath
As the curtains, velvet, black, ignite
Tomorrow I’ll make sense of me tonight
I let my thoughts run too far
But I feel them down to my soul
Couldn’t fight it anymore
I resign myself to the blank stare in your eyes
I’ll falter at your kiss
An emptiness I could not miss
I’d take back all the words I said
I wish I’d kept it all to myself
So I guess
This must be hell
Reflections of me
And nothing else
Up all night
Thought I could think my way to sunshine
Be somewhat alright
Somehow, somewhere, sometime
Following parallel power lines to
The gold horizon that slips from view
I’ll do better, I’ll do my best
To sidestep a sadness so bottomless
I’ll falter at your kiss
the emptiness I could not miss
All the sweetest things I said
I wish I’d kept it all, for myself
All of this, it can’t be real
Guess things don’t ever stay the same
I’m so tired, not for the first time
I just wanna run from here
All the days of a fear I thought by now I could surely name
But I’m torn, as it floods, I’m feeling everything at once
Up all night
Maybe I could think my way to sunshine
Be somewhat alright
Somehow, somewhere, sometime
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Warahenege Manchester, UK
This is my little solo project
Thank you for listening you lovely person x
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