1. |
...Then Stop Breathing
01:33
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Rename the fate, they're not quite the same
The bittersweet lies that I can’t erase
Reclaim the fate, they’re not quite the same
The bittersweet lines that I’ve interlaced
Rename the fate, it falls into place
A bittersweet life that I can embrace
Reclaim the fate, as providence saves
The bittersweet life that I’ve come to hate
Come back
Don’t leave again without me
What if my heart belongs to another?
What if I’m wrong, and there’s no other?
There’s no other
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2. |
Sunday
03:33
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Your decorated arms //
are bloody from the slaughter
Sedition everlong //
the season of disorder
I can feel the insects in my lungs
Crawling down inside the cyclone
The ruin of us all //
The tension and the symmetry
They’re screaming in the walls //
Abasement of her memory
You plead out with raw conviction
To crave her like a new addiction
Take me home.
Take me home.
She’s weaponising charm //
enacting retribution
The poison in her arms //
the cause and the solution
The way that you conspired;
You’re going down in fire
You’ll never understand //
the depth of her complicity
The lever’s in her hand //
the taste of electricity
You took my life on Sunday
In the fields where the dying souls pray
Take me home.
Take me home.
All the lights have changed.
All the lights have changed...
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3. |
A Plan Comes Together
03:00
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So here’s a few things that I know - one:
The incoherence is bubbling, it’s frantic, I feel like I’m losing control
My motivation is good but I’m lacking in gumption, and here is the rub:
You go up, down, spin me round, quiet, loud, whisper, shout –
I just want it figured out, everything that you’re about...
All I’m saying is I’m not ready
I’m always drunk and a little unsteady
I talk in drivel but I think you get it
Now the joke’s on me...
We keep on falling, and sing together
The choice of cover was a schoolboy error
And then her head came off in my hands;
Well this was never part of the plan;
The biggest howler since time began.
Another few things that I know - one:
I stumble blindly when asked to walk straight,
when you’re there all my balance is thrown
I’m so retarded, I can’t even function, I melt into mush
Tear out the sanity clause in the contract, and make this as basic as one, two, three...
Like a long-lost cousin at a family wedding
I’m always drunk and a little unsteady
I’m fumbling crosses like Peter Bonetti
Every time I speak…
I feel so stupid as soon as I’ve said it
She stole my heart, but I’ve a mind to forget it –
It’s more excitement than I can stand;
We’ll all pile in the A-Team van;
Things were never this bad in ’Nam.
The final verdict was quite depressing
They shot my runner like a worthless cretin
The nag limped onward with legs of spaghetti
and staggered in last place...
It all makes sense if you only let it
The prose here’s dumb, but you’ll never forget it –
I’m no Jedi Knight;
I’m no good in a fight;
But when I’ve used up all eight lives;
Be my lucky number nine.
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4. |
Soundtrack to Losing
04:43
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When all the greed caused the world to crack;
It’s time to read them the riot act.
I’ll throw the trapdoor to great applause;
I’m not here and I never was.
Take control of the means of production
Initiate the eve of their destruction.
For he who loves the company
Will forever be dead to me, dead to me...
This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing
Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing...
This is our last stand in demanding
Give back all you’ve taken or be no mistaking that
There will be blood and a chalk line
We’re packing a shotgun, the wrath of a god, son
That motherfucker will not be found
The road to Damascus is plagued by your ass, ’cos -
This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing
Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing...
It’s coming from the front
It’s coming from the side
It’s coming from above
And underfoot and up behind
All this has happened before, and it will happen again
All this has happened before, and it will happen again
- and again, and again, and again...
And he will die, on his knees
On his knees, on his knees.
He will die, on his knees
As the dollar sighs: thankyou, please...
This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing
Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing...
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5. |
She's In The Sky
03:54
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Ricky got it all, got a start, gone and towed the line
He couldn’t tell us where we’d all be in ten years time
It wasn’t long til we failed to reclaim.
High up looking down, it’s surreal and so removed
But I can feel a connection from me to you
This indecision’s a device that could crush me.
Lightning struck in isolation,
A whirling silhouette of pink
Dancing in my imagination,
She crawls inside, and I can’t think...
And it felt just like a freefalling love, again
There’s no safety net and I don’t care how it ends
We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love
But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there.
Charlie got it right, made a move and before too long
We hit a fail-safe where nothing is right or wrong
But I’m amazed that I’m finding it easy.
’Cos I’m seeing it unfold in a glorified confetti daze
Your smile eliciting confessions I can’t contain
It’s all submissive, but I’m willing to try now.
Now I’d kill for interaction,
Just one sign that you are here
Alone in this blissful stupefaction,
That’s screaming out: ‘I want you near’...
And it felt just like a freefalling love, again
There’s no safety net and I don’t care how it ends
We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love
But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there.
And it felt just like a freefalling love, again
There’s no safety net and I don’t care, how it ends
We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love
But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there.
Oh, she’s in the sky
Oh, she’s in the sky...
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6. |
Red
06:14
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Here’s the comedown from the station
One more day here and I’ll be gone
He’ll be laughing if you miss me, but I’ll still be here if you want
If you want
I can’t promise great perfection
But I know that I’ll be true
For I’m nothing if I’m not with you, you see right through me
And that’s no use, no use, no use...
Red
See the daybreak here in your face
Reveal the autumn leaves and grace
Dark protect me when I start to cry so that you won’t see
A single trace
Of my sadness at having lost you
I built my world up for it to fall
And if I could, I’d take it all back just for a moment
In your arms, your arms, your arms...
Red
Feel the darkness grip like nightfall
Still sustaining hard-won truths
Please forgive me everything I’ve done, I still adore you
For all my days, my days, my days...
The sadness
When you’re leaving
And you already forget
Can’t you see my sadness
When you’re leaving
And you already forget
Red
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7. |
On Fire
04:46
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Through an ocean of harm, she dreams of her escape
To an island of calm where sorrow is swept away
It’s freezing inside, she’s alone and frightened
But I can tell you’re alive when your breathing whitens
And channelling thought, she helps me find a vein
She tightens the knot, ’cos there’s no other way...
The trivial things that I want to implode
Are coming to me in a fractured code
The longer I waited, the more that I felt
’Cos I don’t believe in a God that can help
As the sedative floods, she moves and I am captured
She is warm in my blood, a partisan enraptured
Drain the candle that’s burning on the mantle
She is reaching through the dark, where the river flows to your heart
All this inaction, it drives me to distraction
But it’s a means to let you in, when it’s searing through my skin
Rain, I’m on fire now
Rain, I’m on fire now
She lies on the tracks, as riven as scarred terrain
We’ll never look back, incinerate our remains
I need you to end this pain of mine
And put all the opium in my spine
The trivial things that I want to implode
Are driving away on an endless road
She’s a shimmer of light to heighten your defences
Where the feeling ignites a world without consequences...
I’ll wait, for so long
The light fades, and she’s gone
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
I’m not afraid, if she’s gone
’Cos I’ll wait, for so long
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
Rain, I’m on fire now
Rain, I’m on fire now
She dreams...
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8. |
Night of the Living Dead
03:04
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Disowned now, disavowed
Command of import changing somehow, in the sundown
They’ll drag her body through the streets now, to the impound
This mausoleum ride -
It’s all a game, the rules ingrained
Aggregate the score, I’m going back instead of forward
She cried so hard, the sky turned black
I willed myself a heart that would bleed and just attack in the night, in the night
Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the right.
Disowned now, disavowed
Delay effective, stopping, shutdown. Turn the lights out.
As she lives the nightmare, we are hellbound.
Remind me. Remind me.
Remind me next time, define abuse for you, abuse for you
Remind me next time, honey...
She burns through you, she burns through you
A spark to gasoline that’ll set the world on fire
Her flames diffused
Profaned, misused
Send a charge, a scion, to set you all on fire alive, alive
In the end, the scent of droning could sting and bite and moan in the hive
In the end, the scent of droning could sting and bite and moan in the hive
You won’t take me alive, I’m not dead, I’m alive
but I’ll live to regret this, oh...
It’s no word of a lie to admit or deny
that I love you and always will
And my sad crippled spine led them all in a line
just to take out the vertebrae that caused
Hurt to defile all the joy in a smile
that could light up a world left wanting...
She cried so hard, the sky turned black
I willed myself a heart that would bleed and just attack
in a stubborn march, a progress arc,
Cycles of contortion, depravity, abortion, aligned, aligned
Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the right, the right
Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the light...
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9. |
Designs
02:48
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You came along at the perfect time
I was picking up the pieces of an active mind
The remnants of a system we were told to abide
Abandoned in the chaos that I left behind
Forgive you anything, forgive you anything
A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation
Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing
Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming...
I fell down.
The circuit glowing amber there behind your eyes
Mechanical devices I could not describe
The violence of awakening so long denied
Reacting in the engine as you come alive
Forgive you anything, forgive you anything
A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation
Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing
Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming...
A face that I can’t visualise
A state rendered uncivilised
A place that you would trivialise
Resist logging our frail designs
I’m held down
A chemical imbalance sealed my demise
Destabilising urges, a corrosive tide
The agents of authority are mobilised
They’re 401 and closing in the override
Forgive you anything, forgive you anything
A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation
Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing
Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming -
A face that I can’t visualise
A state rendered uncivilised
A place that you would trivialise
Resist logging our frail designs
Lock in our frail designs, through valedictorian eyes
Lock in our frail designs, a vision of genocide
Lock in our frail designs, a nation infantalised
Lock in our frail designs, on medicine you prescribe
...I’m held down.
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10. |
Condescension
04:20
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You’re not that unresponsive
Afraid to carry on, left
Sealed in a vacuum
Everything she told you
Is choking in your airway
Trying to fight the deadweight
The switch is on a relay
To certify and ordain -
The thought you submit to a read-through
Now I am dealing in lies you commit to, I breed you...
Put the gun down and go home
Put the gun down and go home
I came here to disarm you
And keep you safe from harm you
Convulse and writhe inside my head
And held against her will by
A move to keep you still, I
Can kill the rapist twice instead
Then my existence shattered
Everything that mattered
Torn apart and scattered
Dead, imprisoned, leaving this world an aberration
Plague and devastation
The howl of immolation
Caught -
I wrote a thousand lines, lives, lies
Set in the firing line, you lied, you lied...
Correct this fault in the sky
The rains that pour from her eyes
The rapture forged in July
Was blown to Hell in a tide of fire, a tide of fire...
With eyes of pure intention
The lies and condescension
Betrayed her laughing in my head
And bound against her will by
A move to keep you still, I’d
Give anything to feel again...
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11. |
Semaphores
08:40
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As we stumble through the debris
I’ve been wishing so much lately –
That you’ll be
here in my arms,
You’ll be, here in my arms...
She said, “The angel left for no-one
Has drowned beneath the ice-pond”
But you’ll be
here in my arms,
You’ll be, here in my arms -
Forgiven all, all, all
Forgive them all, all, all...
Be, here in my arms
Be, here in my arms
The distance is just far enough
The semaphores awaken us
The distance is just far enough
The semaphores awaken us
The hardest thing
you’ll ever learn
is just to love
and be loved in return
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