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Bonfire Night
03:38
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If this moment has arrived unexpectedly
If you did not expect to be this old
Don't take it personally
We used to measure first times with second hands
And draw up plans for love
A language we could understand
On Bonfire Night
You're still stood there with that look in your eye
Ready to burn
The autumn in your hair
We send smoke up to the stars while they seperate
while our bodies take the blame
when our bodies break
If this moment has arrived unexpectedly
(throw it on the fire)
and if all you carry round is anxiety
(throw it on the fire)
If you've brought a guy with you then simply
(throw him on the fire)
And if matter is frustrated E N E R G Y don't we just
Throw it on the fire?
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That first time we met
Out back by the bins
I felt the chaos under everything
That first time we met, I didn't know anyone
But you lit up the moment for me,
Then the moment was gone
Now, it's ten years on
And i'm stuck on the same song
Yeah, still fussy and yeah, still working on
'Things to do with your hands at parties'
Oh how time flies
Where does a moment go, when it dies?
I don't play any shows
I just stay in, and practice my arpeggios
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3. |
Chicken Wings
03:18
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You kiss the ketchup from my face
then look for a bus home
the morning's shy, it hesitates
Too early? It's too late...
You won't miss me
We were never young
And this tired tongue
Has stolen every honest word it's ever sung
You won't miss me
We were never young
let's make our own fun
Hiding here in the undergrowth
Until the birds come
As if the dawn depends on us
Just sharing something
After the dolphin, chicken wings
After that, nothing.
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4. |
Soren & Regine
01:39
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If I saw her in town
I would walk up, or I would walk away
When I have a choice, I do, or do not
and then regret it either way
I keep having the same dream
about Soren and Regine
I don't ask 'what does this mean?!'
It's there, in the spaces between
And of course I understand
to share a life can be so hard,
but, no, i won't live alone.
I will get a dog. I will call him Kierkegaard.
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5. |
Repeating
02:48
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waking working dreaming dying
reading succeeding failing trying
kissing craving missing sighing
drinking thinking feeling crying
dancing fighting shouting singing
building climbing shaking clinging
falling tearing breaking bleeding
calling swearing despairing needing
And being a normal human
And living a normal life
And nobody can prove otherwise
loving learning laughing believing
arriving hiding excusing leaving
diving swimming sinking drowning
knowing guessing doubting frowning
lifting breathing eating sleeping
touching taking giving keeping
rhyming timing exciting and boring
and talking saying lessing moring
writing recording repeating
repeating
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6. |
3am Phnom Penh
03:44
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3am, Phnom Penh
I wasn't ready for this news
Well, I'll walk down to the river
Looking for valium and booze
I know all the music they'll be playing
In London, Berlin and LA
And don't the stars look very different today?
4am, Phnom Penh
I have tried my best to live well
But through drunken dream, a dog is barking
As i turn back to the hotel
If there was someone here to talk to,
Would there be anything to say, except
'Don't the stars look very different today?'
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On time, for once
On time without distraction
I'm here with you
If time, my love
If time is just abstraction
Then what are you?
Are you emotional
Are you what they call 'original'?
Do you beat your heart or don't you?
Do you beat your heart?
Are you emotional
Are you what they call 'political'
Do you beat your heart or don't you?
Do you beat your heart?
On time, for once
And you have my whole attention
It's all I give to you
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8. |
Glue
02:43
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Sleep I reach for you, dark lovely and deep
But tonight there's something wrong
Dream I reach for you, through every shattered screen
Like a poet, looking for glue
Yeah, like some poet looking for glue
Dream I reach for you
Dream I reach for you
Sleep I reach for you
Like some poet looking for glue
Dream I reach for you
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9. |
Worker's Stadium
03:51
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There is a peaceful part of the car park
At the worker's stadium
I'll meet you there, unseen
Yeah, i'll meet you between
The anti aircraft guns
At the worker's stadium
Waiting for you to come
Whose dreams are these?
There is a peaceful part of the car park
Underneath the cherry tree
Where I fell to fitful sleep
The first time in a week
Dreaming that you'd wake me
No love without suffering
No peaceful heart without overwhelming
I just want to be near you
It's a sunny day here, in North Korea
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10. |
Mononoke
01:37
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If I miss this train my won't stop
One shallow breath is all I've got
Can I find in it a deeper time
While I am running for this cold Chingford line?
I could find work getting lost at sea
Commuters glad to see the back of me
I'll dive shipwrecks for emotion
Precious patterns of thinking, sinking into the ocean
Or i could go back to the olive trees
Computers glad to see the back of me
Let's sit around a drum and sing
'This is what happens, when we run out of nothing'
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