1. |
Wilderness Words
04:22
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Can I casually dismiss
Allow an error to persist
And leave aside a need to be
Conscious of the past
Can I restrain
A fall from grace
A sense of shame
Is all that I have left
The severed lines
Left undefined
I have been blind to possibilities
Can I casually dismiss
An innate instinct to resist?
And just allow myself to be
Lost to where I've been
Can I restrain?
A fall from grace?
A sense of shame
Is all that I have left
A bitter end
For a fallen friend
Can I be blind to all that I have seen
And the words seem sincere
But the fiction is clear
A purity
Is lost to me
That I will never know again
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2. |
The Sky I Saw
04:07
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High on a shelf
Covered with little black flies
Hidden from everyone’s eyes
But my own
There was a hope
There was a little black box
Empty, forgotten and locked
But my own
Kissed him goodbye
Under a little black cloud
Hiding my heart from my brow
Grey upon grey
Floor after floor after floor
Vanishing May
That was the sky that I saw
Sixty-six miles
Clutching my little black dog
Trains, Pennsylvania fog
Struck it through
Folded my coat
Wrote in my little black book
Pictured his face, and I shook
Struck it through
High on a shelf
Wearing my little black dress
Told myself never, unless...
Grey upon grey
Floor after floor after floor
Vanishing May
That was the sky that I saw
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3. |
Play Along
04:08
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Centre stage, you looked down into my eyes and smiled
I came of age; you took advantage of a simple child
Who is the impostor in this photograph
Summer in his face, and winter in your laugh
A covenant in the gallery and in the stalls
We understand all the secrets of the concert halls
We have heard the voices that the world adores
Cracking in the car-parks and the corridors
And in every way that mattered, you were mine, from twelve ’til seventeen
Long ago and oh so far away
I began each day with praise to you, on vinyl, on paper, and on screen
Neon letters burned and left you grey
In our minds, when we catalogue our enemies
We learn our lines and imagine our obituaries
Relishing the sorrow that would test our friends
We forget success can be the best revenge
And in every way that mattered, you were mine, from twelve ’til seventeen
Long ago and oh so far away
When you start to see me everywhere, on air, and on paper, and on screen
You’ll remember what you did today
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4. |
Devil World
03:01
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Turn away from the life that you know
From the people you had to let go
I have felt a darkening
People say the Devil has got to me
The Devil has got to me
You hideaway from it all
And steel yourself for the fall
But at the end of everything
The Devil World will rise again
I'm awake to the evil in man
There's so much that you don't understand
How can you play along
When you know the innocent won't be saved
The innocent won't be saved
Lose your way, lose your will
Every day, further still
I have have felt a change inside
The Devil World on the rise
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5. |
Paper Tiger
03:35
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A figure in silhouette
A passionless look that leaves you cold
The smoke from a cigarette
Repeating mistakes you made before
I'm lost in imaginings
In love with a world that never was
I hold to the principle
Afraid of the person I've become
I know the things I have to change
I can't give myself away
To imaginary things
I saw these signals once before
And I know this sense of shame
A paper tiger in the rain
So long to the salad days
A winter awaiting for me now
I gave up on the principles
Abandoned the world that never was
So what for me now?
A figure of fear and dulled regret
I paint out the passionate
A picture I'm trying to forget
I know the things I have to change
I can't give myself away
To imaginary things
I saw these signals once before
And I know this sense of shame
A paper tiger in the rain
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6. |
Rose
03:36
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Mountain, prairie, prairie, ocean
How she loved to dance and sail
Mountain, prairie, prairie, ocean
How she curtseyed, how she fell
How she snuck out
How she struck out
Ten, nine, eight… ten, nine, eight, seven
They took a knife to every edge
Carving hollows shaped like thoughts
Sculpting wordless question marks
She stopped counting
Stopped reciting
A dynasty of birds who grumbled
Bitterly into their wings
Killed the only one among them
Who ever dared to sing
One whose colours were distinct
Whose colours were so delicately inked
A fire-feathered prize
A bird of paradise
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7. |
Chirology
05:12
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I let my fingertips tread
Along your life, your heart and head
Explore the world that exists
Between your knuckles and your wrist
And even though I’m losing count
If I could fit into your palm
I know that you could never do me harm
No need even to kiss
We just reduce ourselves to this -
Moving parts and machines -
To learn what intimacy means
The pressure comes, the pressure goes
We’ve talked and talked and talked so long
I know you’re tired but I know you’re strong
Let your hands say everything
Let them show me how to be controlled
I’ll lock your secrets in
Hold them as securely as I hold your hand
Accidentally attack
And then gently bring me back
Grasp your senses and pull
Until this empty room is full
As you conduct this surgery
With every movement magnified
You’ll even hear my heartbeat from outside
Let your hands say everything
Let them show me how to be controlled
I’ll lock your secrets in
Hold them as securely as I hold your hand
Let me hold your secrets like I hold your hand
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8. |
I Heard a Voice
02:10
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I heard a voice
I knew it well
And it foretold
A veil of tears
I saw the shore
Recede from view
A thousand miles
before me now
I heard a song
A funeral choir
And then I knew
It was the end
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9. |
The Bay
05:02
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Meet me by the shore
And we will talk of how we used to be
Hide yourself no more
And we will slowly drift out to sea
And all the world looks ordinary
There's nothing there to see
The waves will roll into the shore
But the waves will not move me
Secrets washed ashore
And others carried out to sea
Hide yourself no more
And I will softly sing you to sleep
You say this world is lost and loveless (lonely)
With nothing left to see
This world will try to break your heart
But the world will not break me
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10. |
Give In to Winter
02:55
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I know you held on
Faithfully
Down by the hillside
Wait for me
Faltering by the shore
I had bigger plans for us
Give into winter
Finally
Give in to Winter
Sing to me
Faltering by the shore
I was snowblind
Lost again
Meet me by the shore
And we will run away
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The Color Waves Buffalo, New York
Meet me by the shore and we will run away. Self-titled album releases Oct 9th.
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