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There’s photos on the wall
Without them I wouldn’t remember you at all
Daddy says I loved your hair
The way it smelled like summer
He tells me you’re a star
I guess that means you’re far away
But sometimes he still calls your name
Before I learned to talk
We used to lay together by the fire
A trace of woodsmoke on my clothes
Still keeps me in your arms
Daddy had a ring
He dropped it in the ocean
He cried and didn’t speak for days
I’ve never been so lonely
I gave him one of mine
Shiny tiny plastic thing
He smiled as if he’d come back home
But he put it in a pocket
Of a coat he never wore
And just the other day
He took it to the thrift store
Because tomorrow we’ll be moving to our new town
By the sea
And I haven’t been there yet
But I hope we’ll be
Swimming
‘Cos soon it will be summer
And my hair is getting longer
And he never lets me cut it
But I’m going to when I’m older
And there’ll be photos on the wall
Of you and me when I was small
And I’ll show them to my new friends
To remember it all
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2. |
RUNAWAY
04:14
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I was nowhere to be found
I was nowhere to be found
But I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be
A runaway soul
No I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be a runaway soul
So I crawled out
Of my hiding place
And I hung there in the empty space
Everything was gone
I was on my own
Left it all too late
To be getting home
But the moon was bright and strong
Could I take the whole night long?
Or was it over now?
Had I missed it all out?
I was nowhere to be found
No I was nowhere to be found
But I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be a runaway soul
No I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be a runaway soul
So I figured I could only try
As I gazed up at the open sky
But everything was gone
I was on my own
Had I left it far too late
To be getting home
Everything was gone
I was on my own
Left it all too late
To be getting home
Everything was gone
I was on my own
Left it all too late
To be getting home
Everything was gone
I was on my own
Left it all too late
To be getting home
Everything was gone
I was on my own
Left it all too late
To be getting home
But I knew my own way
I knew my own way
Just as long as I stayed
I’d be okay
And I was nowhere to be found
No I was nowhere to be found
But I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be
a runaway soul
No I was not lost and I didn’t really want to be a runaway soul
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3. |
CHANGE
02:19
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From the ground to the ceiling
Is the change in how I’m feeling
And I hope I don’t forget how good it is
Just to be here now again
I was down by the water
With the stones to take me under
And as sure as all the bones beneath my skin
I could see me sinking in
There were clouds there was thunder
But I could not look up to wonder
And already I was under water
Trying to forget me how to swim
Yeah there were branches I could’ve reached for
But I was so sure I didn’t want more
So was it fate or was it twisted
That I was dragged out resurrected
And though the whole of me was disconnected
Stubborn kings were made to rise again
Then I could feel and I existed
Though all the parts of me resisted
And I depended on the crutch of everyone
Who’d ever told me I could be
And so I stepped at first a stranger
Back out toward the light of danger
There were eyes to hide from there were hands to hold
As I unfolded from the mould
I won’t admit that I was broken
Just that my truth had been unspoken
And looking back I saw that what I’d feared before
Was fading down into the dark
From the dawn to the evening
Part of me gone the rest is healing
And I hope I don’t forget how good it is
Just to be here now again
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4. |
THESE DOUBTS
03:37
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You’re turning out
You’re turning out
To be
More
Than I ever wanted
You’re turning out
You’re turning out
To be
More
Than I ever wanted
You’re turning out
You’re turning out
To be
More
Than I ever wanted
You’re turning out
You’re turning out
To be
More
Than I ever wanted
And there’s no more reason for these doubts
These doubts
But I turn it round
Oh I turn it round
To be
Flawed
I’m still being haunted
But don’t turn away
Don’t turn away
From me
Please
I see that you’re daunted
And there’s no more reason for these doubts
These doubts
So we’re turning round
We’re turning round
To be
Here
We’re turning round
We’re turning round
To be
Here
And there’s no more reason for these doubts
They merely existed
No there’s no more reason for these doubts
They merely existed
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5. |
MALEVOLENCE
01:48
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6. |
UP
02:22
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We were looking up
And the stars were rising
The night was younger
And the air was clean
It was perfect love
And our hearts were bleeding
Never thought we’d hunger
And it was all a dream
We would’ve taken all the pills
To feel like we were sleeping still
But the nights were washed away
And the time has been
We’re lying fast awake
Our bodies all out shaken
We’ve bled and how we’ve fed
And it was all a dream
It was such a dream
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7. |
WRONG
04:29
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There’s no right, there’s no wrong
There’s only the way it was going to be
But these days seem so long
It’s too many hours since you lay here with me
And I would stay in your arms
If I could find a way
But it can’t be real if it can’t be broken
Will you find the door if I leave it open
Oh we’ve lost, we’ve lost, we’ve lost
All the time we could’ve been
And we’ll never know
How far we could go
It’s so hard to deny
You were ever mine
But you’re here
In my mind
I guess that’s the way it was going to be
There’s no way
To rewind
And unravel these layers of longing in me
Oh you would be
In my arms
If I could have my way
Was it ever real or am I mistaken
Will you close the door as if nothing’s taken
Oh I’m lost, I’m lost, I’m lost
Is there nothing left to find
You take all my hope
When you leave me behind
But I don’t care anymore
Cos I know you were mine
And you say you did wrong
Well I wish you would share all your errors with me
I’d be all your mistakes
If there was a way I would get you to see
You don’t need to be right
Please Just stay here
Tonight
oooh
But I’ve fallen down into my emptiness
And I
I’ve lost the final traces of our kiss
Oh You’re still in my mind
But I’ll find a way
To leave you behind
Just not today
Not today
There’s no wrong
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8. |
WORDS
04:01
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I broke my mind
So they took my words away
I broke my mind
So they took my words away
Away
Away
Away
Away
And I hurt myself
Cos I wanted to be gone
And I hurt my lover
With the way I carried on
Yeah I hurt myself
Cos I wanted to be gone
And I hurt my lover
With the way I carried on
But I’m sorry now
I’m so sorry now
Oh I’m sorry now
I’m so sorry now
And I should be glad
I got my chance
To be ok
To be ok
But I don’t want to
Be this way
No I don’t want to
Be this way
Cos I lost my words
Yeah they took my words away
When I broke my mind
They took my words away
And I don’t want to be this way
No I don’t want to be this way
No
No way
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FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES
04:09
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This is for my friends in low places
I’m sorry I’ve been hiding from you
Sometimes I just can’t take more faces
I think you’ve all been feeling it too
Some of us are gone with no traces
They’ve been taken into the blue
But I promise I’ll be back soon
None of us are searching for happiness
We won’t chase a ghost that doesn’t exist
But we try to reach out to each other
Just to keep from the jaws of the beast
‘Cos it’s feeding on me
And it’s feeding on us
And it’s ripping us out
Til we’re close to the dust
Yeah it’s feeding on me
And it’s feeding on us
And it’s ripping us out
Til we’re close to the dust
But we’re not lost yet
No we’re not lost yet
But we all know the beast gets hungry
And we see ghosts through the eyes of envy
And I’m missing all my friends in low places
But sometimes loneliness comforts me
I’m guilty, got too much of what you’re wanting
As if loneliness was a luxury
I’ve been wishing I was gone with no traces
Evaporated into the blue
But I think I might come back soon
Will we ever want to search for some happiness
Are we haunted by a ghost that doesn’t exist
Why do we try to look out for another
Reason to let ourselves drift
Some of us search for a lover
But the beast pulls in close for a kiss
And it’s feeding on me
And it’s feeding on us
And it’s ripping us out
Til we’re close to the dust
Yeah it’s feeding on me
And it’s feeding on us
And it’s ripping us out
Til we’re close to the dust
But we’re not lost yet
No we’re not lost yet
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10. |
OTHERLY
04:33
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You never seem to be afraid
Almost as if
You have some underlying faith
That somehow
Everything will be ok
How did you get to be this way
Was there a voice
To give you
Reason to be absolutely certain
In the things you say?
Is there a piece of wetted clay
That can be shaped
Into a
Body that becomes itself
So wholly and so readily?
Where are the answers gone?
You finished the corrections
But there’s something wrong
You’re floating fast away
You’re tethered to a boat
That’s got no mooring place
And in the midst of this
There is a hint of
Some strange fiction
That could be keeping out
The weight of all affliction
And so you drift away
Still tethered to a boat
That’s got no mooring place
If only you could find
Some simple stretch of land
To cast yourself
Into a shadowed wood
But all you knew
To be the truth
Was not for good
And all the words
Have long been flown
Perhaps you never
understood
And yet the vision of such perfect bliss
As only in such perfect faith exists
Persists enough to keep your lonely self betrayed
Your only hope
Will lift you as you lay
Upon the earth in which you will decay
Believing somehow everything will be ok
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