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Fifth Floor

by Room Noir

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1.
Fifth Floor 03:32
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
2.
London 05:48
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
3.
Days 04:00
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
4.
6 Years 04:47
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
5.
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
6.
Echo Trees 03:35
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
7.
Figments 04:21
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
8.
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
9.
Emily's Park 05:23
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
10.
Inside 04:19
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
11.
Power Cut 09:53
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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"A theatrical cabaret journey into the romantic slower moments of electro-acoustic music."

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released April 26, 2006

All tracks written and recorded by Room Noir - Hadley B & Geoff B

In loving memory: Dominic Francis McBreen
5th January 1978 - 4th October 2005

Photos, layout & design by Val Lyashov
Cover art painting by Luke Burnet

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