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Half Breaths
04:35
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Taking half breaths
Afraid of going under again
Taking half steps
Afraid of going forwards
But always slipping backwards again
Taking half breaths
Afraid of going under again
Taking half steps
Afraid of going forwards
But always slipping backwards again
Underrated joints that nobody requested
This is record #10, is anybody impressed yet?
Prophets and meth-heads
Heretics on their deathbeds
Suddenly repent
Think about what they next said
But death is the only thing that really connects
If you think about life with a snippet of depth
And you'll never be alone cos everybody you met
Tripping balls for dessert
And nobody rejected
Taking half breaths
Afraid of going under again
Taking half steps
Afraid of going forwards
But always slipping backwards again
Too far down one path 'til you find some relief
Then you thought the antidote was all that you need
Burned your own ass cos of what you overdid
But scale it back, man
You don't have to quit
When you're making a change
Stop making it worse
Not an etch-a-sketch end of the world and rebirth
Good enough is not the enemy of perfection
But the wind's always blowing in the other direction
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Taking half breaths
Afraid of going under again
Taking half steps
Afraid of going forwards
But always slipping backwards again
Taking half breaths
Afraid of going under again
Taking half steps
Afraid of going forwards
But always slipping backwards again
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
Now you're seeing
Your wish was not
What you thought it would be
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Standing by the gate in the crowd
No doubt there's some things I didn't do
But I wanted to
The toxic fumes, the bubblegum
The cracks in the sun
Oh why can I not be friends with everyone?
This cannot be retraced
Way back to '98
The tremolo decays
And you're wasting
Time is not a straight line
Redefine
The sound caught in my throat
The chances come and then go
The sound caught in my throat
I don't know
You're moving away
I'm stuck on a riser
Searching for meaning or bravery
And finding neither
The sound caught in my throat
I don't know
My memory is in splinters
And since I lost the photograph
I don't remember the winters
And the cold blast
But the dirty floors and the sweat
Were so real
As the grass under my feet
Up on Jackson's Field
And that day in the Vines
Way back in '99
The phaser sounds so fine
And you're tasting
Time is not a straight line
I was blind
The sound caught in my throat
The chances come and then go
The sound caught in my throat
I don't know
You're moving away
I'm stuck on a riser
Searching for meaning or bravery
And finding neither
The sound caught in my throat
I don't know
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3. |
Transient Point
04:19
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Focused on your transient point
Rivers that share the same water
New strangers were left behind
In the once familiar bricks and the mortar
For all the mornings that happened without me
Some days I'll rise with the sun
Calloused fingers, ephemeral symphony
Impatiently waiting for the evening to come
Looking to windward
This life is just a frayed end
Spirit escaping
Trying to work out what it meant
Those basements and cables remain
But the dream is already gone
Still trying to grip on to something
Get back to somewhere you thought you belonged
For all the mornings that happened without me
Some days I'll rise with the sun
My calloused fingers ephemeral symphony
Impatiently waiting for the evening to come
Looking to windward
This life is just a frayed end
Spirit escaping
Trying to work out what it meant
Looking to windward
This life is just a frayed end
Spirit escaping
Trying to work out what it meant
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4. |
Megatron Reflux
04:02
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Drifting in the void
Abandoned by the ones
The ones who used to follow
A cumbersome machine
I lack the energy
To drag it any further
What I did
I did for us
Did I grip too tightly?
Now I'm back
And I've changed
Do you recognise me now?
Taking all the blame
For everyone's mistakes
The cracks get slowly deeper
Salvage the remains
Of a crippled system
And end is a beginning
What I did
I did for us
Did I grip too tightly?
Now I'm back
And I've changed
Do you recognise me now?
What I did
I did for us
Are we caught in crisis?
Now I'm back
And I've changed
Do you recognise me now?
Do you recognise me now?
Do you recognise me now?
Do you recognise me now?
Do you recognise me now?
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Your crumpled paper
Auto Trader
You're not defined by what you wear
The high street baker
Melody Maker
Who said life was ever fair?
You're getting nowhere
You're getting nowhere
You're getting nowhere
You're getting nowhere
The air is cold
You're in control
The conversation's getting deeper
So press rewind
Perceiving time
Dilation oozing from the speakers
It was naive of me to expect
We wouldn't change so much
So when you get the postcard
Think of the things that we gave
Was it ever enough?
Can you ever slow down?
Can you ever just stop?
Can you ever slow down?
Can you ever just stop?
Now I'm satisfied
I've become complacent
Will there ever be time
For the things we forgot?
Can you ever slow down?
Can you ever just stop?
Can you ever slow down?
Can you ever just stop?
Now I'm satisfied
I've become complacent
Will there ever be time
For the things we forgot?
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6. |
I'm Not In A Movie
03:33
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You came into my life
Like a tragic painting
A work the critics thought
Was maybe missing something
And so it went on
The guys that you blew
The girls that you’ve seen
All is connected in the rollup ring
Hanging onto every word
Holly green
There’s no good way
To leave this town,
So hold up—you’re not in the movies, now
You’re not hepburn
And I’m no stray
More of a television play
The girls you went down on
To town on MDMA
Holly please tell me all about your day
When i’m grown i want to be holly green
[spoken]
And then one day
She just left
Without a word
And I asked after her at the Beer Engine
Where she worked lunchtimes
She’d left two weeks pay behind the bar
There’s no good way
To leave this town
Seems like I’m not in the movies now
I’m not hepburn
And you’re no stray soul
Trapped in television roles
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7. |
Peng 5
01:18
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Eating that chip fat
Flour in the shower pan, What's up?
Never gonna clean that, Jelly roll
Try another switch hit, Let it go
Stick it to my face lol
Missile hit the base OH NO! What you got?
Now I'm driven to distraction, A hemisphere
Trouser on a wire, On the downside
I never said
Thinking too much over this
I never said why
Thinking too much over this
I never said why
Thinking too much over this
I never said why
Thinking too much over this
Vacant little faces
Tripping on the paucity of sense
She's a peng 5, I took another swig now
It's lunchtime, when are you arriving?
I vibrate faster than that
Cut loose, it's everybody's birthday
You don't say what you're really listening to
In the tube, but you know what the words mean
Thinking too much over this
You know what the words mean
Thinking too much over this
You know what the words mean
Thinking too much over this
You know what the words mean
Thinking too much over this
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8. |
I Only Imagined It
04:57
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Show me what you see
How can you trust your senses
When the chemist takes a fee
The lights were bright
The music loud
You ran towards me through the crowd
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
Ever learning from
Teenage mistakes
Oh to go back
And live that life again
The things that didn't go my way
Made me who I am
And the good times made me misbehave
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
Sometimes it feels like a dream
Maybe I only imagined it
I fashioned it
From a long forgotten scene
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In the darkness I can hear you
Telling secrets
You can't keep when you're asleep
And if you need release
The rumbling builds
To a cacophony of
Trumpets and broken engines
Hey!
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got something cooking
Under the sheets
I got you (I got you)
You got me
Hey!
You've got yours
I got mine
We empty the room
And blame the other guy
If you wanna drop
Anywhere anytime
The soundtrack of our lives
Is trumpets and broken engines
Hey!
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got something cooking
Under the sheets
I got you (I got you)
You got me
Hey!
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got you (I got you)
You got me
I got something cooking
Under the sheets
I got you (I got you)
You got me
Hey!
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10. |
Baggio
04:02
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A time of death
That keeps repeating
School is over
I'm still sleeping
Can't be heard
Above the drum rolls
Ships are passing
Letters crumble
Don't forget how you felt
Lapse back into your same old ways
The urgency of sitting still
Should you take that pill
Nobody wants her to go
Leave a mess
A life to clean
What we mean
Got no choice
But to improvise
It's a fix
The track skips
Not everything I miss
It makes no sense
For us to fall
Hit the floor
What was yours
No little expense
Cut the knot
The frayed end
Blowing in the storm
But you gotta make it neat somehow
If not for you
Then for her
Stand on something concrete
Don't forget how you felt
Lapse back into your same old ways
The urgency of sitting still
Should you take that pill
Nobody wants her to go
Leave a mess
A life to clean
What we mean
Got no choice
But to improvise
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11. |
Sky Gradients
05:06
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Talk to me
Tell me what you want me to believe
Hard to see
The image we deny
We are passing through
To a world lost and confused
We stare at the walls
And decide what we can do
And decide what we can do
And decide what we can do
Take down the posters off the wall
Take back our lives once and for all
Take down the posters off the wall
Take back our lives once and for all
Don't wait for tomorrow
(Never say never)
Don't wait for tomorrow
(Never say never)
Talk to me
Tell me what you want me to believe
Hard to see
The image we deny
We are passing through
To a world lost and confused
We stare at the walls
And decide what we can do
Take down the posters off the wall
(Never say never)
Take back our lives once and for all
(Never say never)
Take down the posters off the wall
(Never say never)
Take back our lives once and for all
(Never say never)
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Balance Lost London, UK
Catchy guitar and synth pop with drum machines and samples. Currently residing in Kyoto, Japan.
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