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Fifth Floor
03:32
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Always bumping into strangers in streets
Who can't get very excited
Birds eye view from the fifth floor window
Of not very much to see
But Christ at least the door's locked
Mail box is just as lonely as I am
28 years spent waiting for someone to write me
The neighbours don't like sudden movements
Don't care much for loud noises either
I always felt uprooted from life
But I'm destined for a quiet plot of land
Never knowing where I went wrong
It's so unfair - so very unfair
I'll always be here
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2. |
London
05:48
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half a world away
talking to the lightening storm
comparing our feathered friends
will we ever meet again?
we were thinking of you
antiseptic day-dreams
i'll meet you again tonight
but london was such a fright
the metro queues reduced in size
see commuters how they dropped like flies
sister, what has become of you?
sister, what has become of you?
sister sister sister sister, will we ever meet again?
half a world away
talking to a lightening storm
comparing our feathered friends
will we ever meet again?
will we ever meet again?
we were thinking / antiseptic day dream
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3. |
Days
04:00
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running to keep up but the sun is setting
on your dreams and your life
walking at night to forget you
but the sun is rising and life carries on
living your life but you're dead inside
time just carries on we're just getting old
like jumping a ship just to drown alone
we just drift away we're just letting go
like clinging to a wreck we drift away
we're letting go we just drown alone
days maybe years it will take to face our fears
and each night will last a lifetime it may seem
carved into history
unanswered mystery
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4. |
6 Years
04:47
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we're a million million miles from home
searching for a distant star
immersed in this void we roam
in a tin can playing guitar
"good luck lads" the governor said
they saw us off and wished us well
"all systems go but mind your head"
years in space but what the hell
playing guitar across the milky way
three course meals from a sachet
thinking of the families we left behind
wondering about the worlds we hope to find
we left a world that was falling through space
five billion people clinging to its skin
we saw them off and wished them well
good luck gentlemen
playing guitar across the milky way
three course meals from a sachet
thinking of the families we left behind
wondering about the worlds we'll find
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5. |
The Double Cognac
04:40
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I faced the darkness in denial with a cigarette and a smile I didn't drop by for a cosy chat I came along to argue this case armed with a can of mace and a 1920's bowler hat we played a drawn out game of chess in the lounge of the lost and found a million souls were up for grabs but of course you won the game full score in style again so I'm out the door with my coma smile we'll meet at the table for three for one last game one of the same but with the company to match we'll start from scratch and lose ourselves within your new found world reflected in tired eyes like mirrors gone the afterlife was such a drag burnt out people in a paper bag at an empty table set for three the attorney sighed and snapped the briefcase shut lamenting his poor luck for we came across as so tongue-tied for the sake of a single pall mall we dislodged the fridge from the wall tripping over ourselves for a single drag but of course you smoked it to the hilt my friend granny roaming with her tray in hand noel edmonds on a 12" british flag we'll meet at the table for three for one last game one of the same but with the company to match we'll start from scratch and lose ourselves within your new found world reflected in tired eyes like mirrors gone
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6. |
Echo Trees
03:35
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polishing my faith with a dirty cloth leaving notes behind scrawled on tabletops scattering favourite quotes upon the placemat and sharing weak jokes with the waiter's cat the colder days are almost upon us and the canal is going to freeze and the breeze will sweep us away echo trees all covered in snow and the trees all covered in snow
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7. |
Figments
04:21
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we'll make you a fool tonight and somewhat aloof since I left you we'll keep you tied up tonight and somewhat estranged from your last life we know you don't exist at all you're just a stray that we made up never show your face at all but we know you're okay now always checking under your bed tonight you never take a look outside and I'm reading the words that your wrote me you never existed at all we think you exist now but only for now till we forget because we don't care at all we're somewhat removed from your faking you're not even real at all you're just a figment of my mind you're not even real at all
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softly my dear she wakes up today lights up a smoke and opens the door and walks down the street waves to the man who wants her today he loves her that way she'll flash him a smile that's all that he'll get as she carries on to the superette and water on mars the headlines say the pope is dead on anzac day kiss and tell it's all very well celebrity fools flaunting the page she hates her life in this day and age as she walks down the street and faces these crimes wake up my dear she whispers to me it's time to get up and go out the door and walk down the street tell me what do you see the man who wants our bodies today lets flash him a smile that's all that he'll get as we carry on to the superette with water on mars the headlines say the pope is alive on anzac day kiss and tell that's all very well celebrity fools flaunting the page we love our lives in this day and age oh we love our lives in this day and age this day and age it's all that we'll get we love ourselves at the superette
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9. |
Emily's Park
05:23
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your love was like a poison breath your cyanide sigh and I'm loving your cold silences over a cup of tea i'll simply add sugar and stir your feelings well while we're sunning ourselves upon the roof of hell they hoped it would be hot enough for us down there there's no pleasure in guilt only desperate measures and you swallowed your own poison laced with nokia phones and selma blair selma blair your wine is here what have you done lying in the company of rats and teasing ghosts come home for this game is done please come home for this game is done neither here nor there
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10. |
Inside
04:19
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loneliness is like frostbite
except it eats a person away from the inside
waking alone without you next to me
is more than I can bear
i'm trapped in a corner with no way out
another day without you by my side
can't understand why you threw it all away
do we live to love or do we just love? why?
can't understand why you threw it all away
do we live to love or do we just live?
can't understand why
can't understand why you left me all alone
no one
nowhere
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11. |
Power Cut
09:53
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the lights are off my dear
the phone is out
the bottle's drained my dear
there's no need to shout
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