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| 4:21 | 
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What you at my gentle spoken friend
I lack a frame to put you in When you're an ocean and a rock away I feel you in the pocket of my overcoat My fingers wrap around your words And take the shape of games we play I feed your words through my buttonholes I pin them to my fingerless gloves They're green and prone to fraying Thoughts of you warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm on the phone Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me I am far away from where you lay awake The day while you fall to sleep An ocean and a rock away I keep you in the pockets of my dresses And the bristles of my brushes Spin you into my curls today I spoon you into my coffee cup Spin you through a delicate wash I wear you all day I wear you all day Thoughts of you warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm on the phone Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me Thoughts of you they warm my bones I'm on the way, I'm nearly home Let's get lost, me and you An ocean and a rock is nothing to me |
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| 2. |
| 4:21 |
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I have lost you to sleep again
Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram I read the time in shadows on your wall The shards of light through the slats on your window I ease myself from under your languid arm I fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm And I disarm it for you, you rarely heed it anyway I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream School bell ring, messing up the play A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand Saying "Gone down the shops for a walk I'll bring back some sandwiches" And then I kiss your face, the black and the blue I tie it into my laces, I don't want the wander blocking up the view I stumble out into the afternoon I'm still salty from drink and the late night pool And I'll be gone an hour at most, you will be more diagonal And I've a head on me in the post, I know, a castle swallowed in the swell |
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| 3:23 | 
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| 4. |
| 3:16 |
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Surface slowly at your own speed
Waiting for some sky We're all laughing, we're all faking Just to see you smile She waits her turn She waits her time And all her love It sings, it shines Have your coffee, splishy splashy Frozen up the stairs Hollow but so normal when she Needs a piece of care She waits her turn She waits her time And all her love It sings, it shines She's breaking, and she's bending And she's breaking, and she's falling She's closing, and she's breaking She's spending, she's fall |
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| 5. |
| 4:57 |
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I don't know what you smoke
Or what countries you've been to If you speak any other languages other than your own I'd like to meet you I don't know if you drive If you love the ground beneath you I don't know if you write letters or you panic on the phone I'd like to call you All the same, if you want to I am game I don't know if you can swim If the sea has any draw for you If you're better in the morning or when the sun goes down I'd like to call you I don't know if you can dance If the thought ever occurred to you If you eat what you've been given or you push it 'round your plate I'd like to cook for you All the same, I would want to I am game If you walk my way I could keep my head We could creep away In the dark Or maybe not We could shoot it down anyway I don't know if you read novels or the magazines If you love the hand that feeds you I assume that your heart's been bruised I'd like to know you You don't know if I can draw at all Or what records I am into If I sleep like a spoon or rarely at all Or maybe you would do Or maybe you would do If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way Through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all If you walk my way I will keep my head We will feel our way through the dark Though I don't know you I think that I would do I don't fall easy at all |
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| 6. |
| 4:11 |
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For you, we steal a house of smoke and brick
And I keep it all For you, bedecked with bicycles to pick I keep it all For you, it wouldn't do wandering all adrift So I keep it all For you, there's fire in the belly of our ship I keep it all Call if the light's on, come in and lay low Just so that you know, go on and Fall down and hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all For you, we fill our sails with tales and fables I keep it all For you, to bear you through stormy seas unstable I keep it all For you, you're welcome to all that's on my table I keep it all And you, I count you till I fall asleep I keep it all Call if the light's on, come in and lay low Just so that you know, go on and Fall down and hold your ground A harbour that grows And how could you know That I keep it all What you say we come up with the sun the morning bell to Come and be my friend until the end I'll be your friend as well |
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| 7. |
| 4:07 |
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Green are your eyes
In the morning, when you rise Don't be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love can be broken Though no words are spoken Don't be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Love, don't cry I'll never try Don't be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will not know Green are your eyes In the morning, when you rise Don't be afraid to lie By me, my love Your father will be told someday About our wedding day |
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| 8. |
| 3:25 |
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Sit down and fire away
I know it's tricky when you're feeling low When you feel like your flavour has gone the way Of a pre-shelled pistachio I know you're weighed down And fed up with your heavy boots Laced with melancholy notions all your own I do ? like sugar ? tend toward the brittle and sticky when spun And I know my demeanour can go the way Of a photo left out in the sun And I try to keep myself in lilies and flax seeds Oh what a folly, fooling just yourself Sit down and smoke away I wouldn't knock it till you're in them shoes I watch as our subtlety blows away As a blush it gives way to a bruise But seemly we'd freely make the trade off A day rot to take the weight off And swap the boots for red shoes |
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| 9. |
| 4:08 |
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Waking up today, it was cold out
There's something I should say, but I can't get my head around The bends in your brain, and your elaborate pain Makes me tired As an old balloon, I hold my breath Like a penance paid too soon, and with too much eagerness To know what is true When air is changed by you Makes it hard I don't know where it comes from Where to go When the rains come When the rain put me back In the bottle Where the sea meets the sun Where the bones and their rattle They don't mean anything to no one I, I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Till love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull Put me back in the bottle Where the sea meets the sun Where the bones and their rattle They don't mean anything to no one And I had a swing When my salt was my own I'd my teeth bared for battle Till love lost made me dull It made me dull It made me dull |
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| 4:07 |
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He went to sea for the day
He wanted to know what to say When he's asked what he'd done In the past to someone That he loves endlessly Now she's gone, so is he I went to war every morning I lost my way but now I'm following What you said in my arms What I read in the charms That I love durably Now it's dead and gone and I am free I went to sleep for the daytime I shut my eyes to the sunshine Turned my head away from the noise Bruise and drip decay of childish toys That I loved arguably All our labouring gone to seed Went out to play for the evening We wanted to hold onto the feeling On the stretch in the sun And our breathlessness as we run To the beach endlessly As the sun creeps up on the sea |
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