1. |
Free from Form
02:55
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Stop the world
I want to get off
Onto a ledge
That's high enough
Around the edge
Above the stuff
Stop staring down
Start looking up
Say nothing matters
Like nothing is
Today nothing matters
Like nothing did
I'm not my brain
And I'm not cursed
We be the same
Better or worse
It's just a game
No-one comes first
You are the universe
Say nothing matters
Like nothing is
Today nothing matters
Like nothing did
It's just a game
No-one comes first
You are the universe
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2. |
Use by Date
04:10
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Past best before
My use by date
Even when I'm early
I'm still late
Did I do something wrong
Did I make a mistake ?
Here where I belong is where I'll wait
With each moment
Now is new
May I belong with you
Past best before
My use by date
To make here on time
I really tried not to be late
If you can't take it
Accept it and wait
Don't blame me
Maybe it was fate
And with each moment
Now is new
May I belong to be true
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3. |
Shadow of Myself
03:26
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In a way I'm a washed up dog
I'm a shadow of myself
Seem to sway
And it's the way I walk
To the beat of an unfound god
And I feel for that something
And I try to pray everyday
I will await for nothing
Like nothing was ever real anyway
Mind has no reason
Brains are my brawl
Wear my belief in being
Being one with all
And I feel for that something
And I try to pray everyday
I will wait for nothing
Like nothing was ever real anyway
Nothing was ever real anyway
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4. |
Dull Refined
03:08
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So low is my heart
On a high we can see
I'll let you know
Where I stand
Get a load of me
Get a load of me
And I've given you the key
Gave you my only key
Have you given up
On me ?
I'll be rich
If I don't succeed today
Cos in my heart
I'll bode alright
I'd take you home
If I could find a way
Out of here
Out of this place
So dull refined
And I've given you the key
Gave you my only key
Have you given up
On me ?
In this place
So dull refined
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5. |
Everyday
04:11
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I saw you at the corner
Of this circus show
Sometimes freaky show
I thought I'd let you know
I knew we weren't on our own
When you wouldn't condone
Everything I saw
Hope that I'll see you someday
Though the world couldn't wait
As I'm well far gone
Hope that we'll see through the times
Though I know I could mime
All that we'd ever be
The music still plays on
But not all the same song
And the show plays everyday
The bands never arrive
Just like they never leave
Still the show plays everyday
I know it won't be too soon
Till they play another tune
When we leave
We'll be gasping for some more
Lost in the Everglades
Can you help me find the old parade
Before I lose my will ?
Hope that I'll see you someday
Though the world couldn't wait
As I'm well far gone
Hope that we'll see through the times
Though I know I could mime
All that we'd ever be
The music still plays on
But not all the same song
And the show plays everyday
The bands never arrive
Just like they never leave
Still the show plays everyday
Everyday
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6. |
Vacantly Occupied
04:27
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Am I invisible?
You can't see me
I'm a window of transparency
No way of knowing
And if you could what would you do?
Everything you've done you were meant to
I can't keep acting
Like everything is fine
If you've got yours
I'm missing mine
To vacantly occupy my mind
I was forced to find
What's hiding behind it
Am I inaudible?
You can't hear me
I can feel vibrations frequently
Well nobody died
But you danced with suicide
Oh not tonight; you are alive
I'm missing mine
To vacantly occupy my mind
I was forced to find
What's hiding behind it
Lights are on inside
Where no-one can reside
I was forced to find
What's hiding behind it
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7. |
Burn My World
04:44
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Death in the ocean
Shit in the stream
Empty devotion
What does it mean ?
Trash-pile haven
Given to sky
Fire it up with your life
Fire it up in the night
You burn my world alive
Foetal child
Some kind of genocide
What is my mankind like ?
They've lit it up with their life
They burnt our world alive
Plastic porous
No glacier gland
How sorry I am
I've fucked up all your land
I burnt your world alive
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8. |
Potholes
03:13
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Mindless optimism
Frightening scepticism
From me to you
Kindest of no regards
Time to hop back upon
The carriage that crashes upon
Potholes
No wonder I fall off sometimes
Sometimes I call my bluff
Find myself hiding stuff
Man this is just too much
Too much compared to what ?
You'll never drink yourself sober
Can you recall who you were ?
Am I losing touch
Of all I got ?
My monkey man slows me up
Making what's easy tough
Man this is just too much
Too much compared to what ?
You'll never drink yourself sober
Can you recall who you were ?
I think I'm out of time
Messing up all my lines
Somebody hide the wine
Or maybe not
Am I losing touch
Or am I just waking up ?
What once was too much
Is now not enough
Mend my broken crutch
Man I'm feeling rough
Life is just too much
Too much compared to what ?
Am I losing touch
Or am I just waking up ?
What once was too much
Is now not enough
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9. |
Emptiness Alive
03:50
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I'm the tree that grows upon the hill
I'm the bee that passed you by
I'm the bug upon the windowsill
Quick to kill but cannot try
We are emptiness alive
We are emptiness inside
One life
I'm the thing blossoming in Spring
A starling in the sky
A silent pulse that beats on everything
'Cos nothing really ever dies
We are emptiness alive
We are emptiness inside
One life
Are you the music or the instrument ?
A silence in your mind
We are emptiness alive
We are emptiness inside
One life
Are you the music or the instrument ?
A silence in your mind
We are emptiness alive
We are emptiness inside
One life
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10. |
Bodhi & Me
03:25
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Bodhi & me
Together we'll be
Ultimately trying to be
So happy, happy
To be so happy, happy
500 years
In the BC.
Wipe away tears
Under fig trees sapping, not frightening
No fighting, so enlightening
Trees are so green
Branches have been
Spaces between
Getting on with growing, you're showing
We are knowingly glowing
Bodhi & me
Together so free
Ultimately we can be so happy
Be so happy
Be so happy
To be so happy
Be so happy
To be so happy
To be so happy
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11. |
Forever's Not That Long
02:31
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There's not enough time for me
To take this all in
For you I'd do it again
If I could I would begin
All the pain in the world
You said holds beauty within
Sometimes it really hurts
I heard you sing something
I heard a chime
I heard you made something
To stand the test of time
And last forever
Forever
Forever's not that long
This house is so quiet
It's eerie now you've gone
I thought I would flourish in favour
And finish my work and my song
All these commitments I can't do
I'm conditioned now to you
I heard you sing something
I heard a chime
I heard you made something
To stand the test of time
And last forever
Forever
Forever's not that long
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Kippysmuse Belfast, UK
'Just brilliant; what a fantastic songwriter'
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