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1x1
01:55
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One by one, two again
Dangling loose again
And slipping away
The lips and eyes we memorized
One by one, taste it
Careful now not to waste it
Perfectly lonely
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2. |
Agios
03:49
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It’s a tall kind of love
Built on top of a boulder
With the heavy horizon coming down on our shoulders
Touch the ground where we stand
Tell the chorus to answer
Oooh let go
You see me as a seesaw
Tipping the extremes
Sometimes suspended, swayed by a chance wind
A fickle girl, a changing tongue
Sometimes I miss all at once
Full body, desperately
Everyone I have ever loved
Splayed out like a starfish
Immobile, this love
Is a cold clay
I’m not saying it’s the truth
It goes something like that
Well a man’s pain flattens the way
When it hollers down the mountain
With the grace of a giant
And I know that you’re scared of the growing silence
Oooh, seams coming undone
I saw you clinging to some
Doing so low that I saw double
In the blinding sun
Who saw? Who knows?
It’s true I might find solace in an empty room
But at least my eyes are open
I’ll stare straight into its belly
Baby you’re talking in circles and the curves make me dizzy
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3. |
Ines
03:24
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Ines, I’m watching you with dread
I feel it in my knees and I am underwater Ines
Dreamless- I’m watching you and I cannot move
Blue and green red
A fire dread
Dreamless- ha!
I wanna be, anonymously
Like the coins in your pocket like the holes in your stocking Ines
Was it a fire or was it just a dance
I don’t know Ines
Blur in the mirror, your breath on the back of my neck
I don’t know Ines
Was it a fever or was it just a bust
I don’t anything anymore
Ines Ines
I’m watching you with dread
Ines Ines
I am underwater
Like the coins in your pocket like the holes in your stocking Ines
Was it a fire or was it just a dance
I don’t know Ines
Blur in the mirror, your breath on the back of my neck
I don’t know Ines
Was it a fever or was it just a crush
I don’t anything Ines anymore
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4. |
Difficult People
03:52
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You tricked me with your flickering eyes
I didn’t realize those are your everyday eyes
Come closer, let me see how they change
Warm and sleepy goes haunted blue
Maybe you can’t help it
And it was a clear view cut like granite ledges and charcoal sketches
In bold and daring, sweeping motions
Carelessly landed and I’m all mixed up
Maybe we can stop it
I want something to hold onto
I want control
They’re still flickering
I want to intervene
Persuade them toward me
But it’s not my nature and my pride won’t have it
This kind of lovesick
All kinds of lovesick
But you can’t help it (haunted eyes)
All kinds of lovesick
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5. |
Methuen
03:14
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And if I saw you there in your thick skin, your blind heaviness bared, honey
Would you be angry would you be angry at me
If I said I’ll always be between
Would you be angry I think
You’re fretful with your hands
Fumbling looking for a place to land
I got nothing but stones and I breathe into them, honest stones
And the ways- I might never go back like that was it that
And you breathe- I might never go back like that but I did for you
I might never go back but I’m looking for cracks
So tell me that I’m wise tell me I’m wise
Give me a brave smile
And I’ll leave and I’ll try
But I’ll keep it contained so you can give it a name
Something beautiful
Something beautiful
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6. |
Fire Escape
04:24
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Take me down to the place on the fire escape
Longing eyes summer drive burn slow
4am lie awake with the tin rain sounds
Take me there take me there takemethere
Cool, bleary bleary eyes
Two, your hands reply it cuts right
Through, I know waves crash love slow
It’s that accidental grace, don’t kill it with words I am a queen
Sun playing coyly on our skin
It’s a dangerous feeling
It’s a sinking in feeling like
Oceans I know bleed fast love slow
It’s the way that we know it’s the way that we know
I’m shaking from this potion I’m down
Sweet on salt like a spring runoff
It’s the way that we know it’s the way that we know it’s the waythatweknow
To live by the sea is to be closer with death
(it’s a giving not a taking it’s a giving not a taking)
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7. |
My Feel
03:10
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Lets get some light on us
Quickly the day is dying
To lift you up and out what am I sacrificing
Touch my I’m losing my feel
We protect this pain
Hold it close and cultivate
I’m no longer certain which is yours or my own
Which is yours or my own
Touch my I’m losing my feel
Touch me I’m
I heard you call my name
Ooh and you said it again
Wandering in the churchyard
No shoes on darling did I let you starve
Slow it down my darling
Caught in some current winding
Slow it down
Caught in some current winding
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8. |
All That I Wanted
02:47
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You got the language on your side
You got all the words in the world
You got the vision you got the meaning I want to believe in
But that was a cold dream
I prefer the chatter of birds
Illegible and whole
Illegible and whole
All that I wanted was to dance with you
I don’t wanna commit the violence of it (tell me what is right)
The violence (you like to)
Of putting it in a song
You like to give everything a name you like to give everything its place
(the violence)
But you get carried away
All that i wanted was to dance with you
People think they know but you’re just a mosquito
Draining me out draining me
draining me dry
I’m gonna fucking burst
I’m gonna fucking burst if I hear another word
All that I wanted was to dance with you
All that I wanted was to really move
All that I wanted was to dance with you
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9. |
Go To Sleep
03:10
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Lift me up like I knew you would
I cannot get enough I am far too full
Lift me up lift me higher still
If you stay awake you begin to change
I cannot go to sleep I cannot go to sleep
I am spinning thread
If you stay awake you begin to change
Go to sleep I’m not hiding it anymore
Go to sleep I’ve had enough
So baby don’t dry out you know the drill
It will come back to you
Baby don’t dry out be very still
In time in time in time you’ll learn
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10. |
Satie Song
03:57
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I went to the ocean again with the intent of rinsing my heart out
Mouth open, cold air across my teeth like a Satie melody and it calms me down
I made a shrine for us of driftwood and cherry pits
For the waves to spit and draw into their chaos I know that I let you down
Just like my mother dark eyes lit the lavender hills
Always looking for fire
Always the trace of a stranger
Well I can’t erase the strange pale face by the lake
Still as glass, you spoke and the lake cracked it was deafening
And i can’t shake the ringing from my ears
I still can’t shake this ringing from my ears
Just like my mother I climbed to the top of the hill
We were just looking for fire
In the faces of strangers
But this is where I come from
The grays and the blues
The sly wicked child
And the lavender hills
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11. |
Sinking Like
03:02
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Walking around a thousand cities I’m sinking in faces and chasing colors
Breathing breathing color me blue
I am I and I cannot go further boy
I cannot go further and I know it thru and thru
(why you say I’m having to choose)
Sinking in the scenes and I can’t go further than these blues
Serpentine blues
(than these blues)
Sinking in the days between
lips moving, mouthing, counting
Ooooh walking in the city
And I cannot go further in yea I cannot go further yea
Into the cold into the throes heaven can’t go
I am alone heavy to hold or to let go heavy let go
Into the cold overexposed over let go
Can we let we go can we let go can we let go
Who you said who do you know boy I’m sorry
The tin rain falling in sheets collect me collect me collect me
I’m going going going yea gone going fishing
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12. |
Steady Song
04:24
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Steady I’m lying in the grass pushing those thoughts back
If it’s torn, bring it to the stream and let it run thru the cold
Just say so
I was gone
Telling all my friends this is the way this is the way that I am
Only the highs and the lows for me
And it overflowed
It took me down took me down
Overflowed
But right now I’m steady like high gold plains untamed
Steady in breath, tell high tell it with chest
Cmon love love you said so
Say it say it say it say
Well maybe I know, time’s on wheel
I woke I feel the constant change
You were on my mind, I want to feel the sink in your hands
If we go too fast, I won’t relax you cut my cheek
You were on my mind it’s like
Cold stones in my hands
Right now steady like high gold plains untamed
Steady in breath tell high tell it with chest
Cmon cmon it’s that love you said so
Say it say it say
Say it love
Say it
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