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Soft Toy
02:32
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soaking in shallow puddles of wine / someone's laughter bangin' up on my blinds / it must be the peak just the other side of this trough / go softly softly, I've been a little too well loved / are these the last few days I have to save myself? / the last few days to live with no-one else? / restart work again tomorrow / get a dull night tonight out on dvd / don't full moons illume the blunders, false pregnancies and house numbers / tomorrow's gonna be all piranhas and progeny / go softly softly, I've been a little too well loved / the stuffing's been squeezed out of me / my little brain's picked undone / can you little hands push something of it back into my heart? / are these the last few days I had to save myself? / the last few days to stay out of my pet's mouth? / one life picking up, the other leaving off / this is what happens when you've had the corners half knocked off / the shame is having arms that just can't be lifted up
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a blue sky is better than a brown / it has to be the former if I'm gonna stay in this town / I moved away from the city / from the pall of fluorescent light / now I've got the sun flickering in imitation and the noise keeping me up at night / the black coal is better than the brown / they say it has to be the former / if it's gonna come out of the ground / I don't need the buzz of the city / but I need my electric light / they've got compulsory acquisition / they've got dust in cattle's eyes / they, who love the buzz of the city / love the flood of electric light / say it's rough down at the ministry / cuz they don't know who to tuck in at night / they can't say which way the knifes will be faced / and whose field they'll be standing on when the lease runs out past it's last day / I don't need the buzz of the city / but I need my electric light / they say it's keeping them up at night
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Angles
03:25
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can you keep that hand on my shoulder? / maybe pinch a little higher? / I never had this problem with you / we never had this happen / but now they know / don't ask me how / they just do / my drink tastes suspicious / suspiciously like a tear / the crews are starting to turn / beginning to tighten up in me / I'm just trying to find an angle that won't dig in too deep / and just when I'd settled down to behave / I even made a conscious decision / you've never had this problem, have you? / you've never had this happen / don't ask me how I know / it's beginning to tighten up in me / I'm going to straddle the angle and not let it get to me / cuz in pub light panorama binge thinkers get guesses for nothing / and those left to the stair / to the angle / will find the best way of falling / this drink tastes suspicious / suspiciously like a tear / the screws are starting to turn / they're beginning to tighten up in me / you've never had this happen so can you just sit here on the stair with me / and let me find the angle
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Know This One
02:54
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I know this one / I know it well / you, hiding from the kids in the bookshelves / hard for a scene to believe it / yeah I heard this one too / how many times were you at hymn page, god throbbing in your mouth? / hard for a man to believe it / and just when I thought I'd heard every word / you can tell me again / how did it end? / where did this begin? / second or third time had it down / in that north-facing furnace / I was on, no I was coming off, the oxygen / leading, being lead / tell me what's the difference? / you can tell me again / how does it end? / where did this begin? / does this go anywhere / I don't care / I'm not bored / I'm not yawning / no, I'm not tired / I know this one / I can feel it being breathed into a different set of lungs / what's the matter? / I thought you couldn't bear to hear another word / but you get the meaning and the message / got no claim for any damage / you couldn't bear to hear another word / now you can't bear her being distracted / so let me tell you again / tell you how this ends / now you care / you're not bored / you're not yawning / what you gain on the swing you lose see-sawing / and all because you're thinking you know this one
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Success
04:53
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I kiss her cheek / her eyes stay fixed and far away / I kiss again / for the game's sake, I kiss again / and again and again, but still nothing / no, her lashes move hair / her lashed move a hair / and I could swear, I could swear success / I can't get used to this success / the pack-soft quilt / and the crisp cool sheet / I can hear rain falling / but the hem is heavy in it's wave / the street-lit lace / and she comes, her she comes silent and brave / I can't get used to this success
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Please Don't Deconstruct
03:36
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a spasm of sprung hair / I can see an amiable grey in the teeth / her hand comes down, rests gently on me / I detect something of a need / she says don't call my squares pretty / or say the same of my circles of duty / yes, it's a lovely space / if four white walls they make a lovely space / looks like we've already run out of things to say / meaning must be created if good books are to be believed / emptiness must be filled / even in spoiled rats like me / you were just a chicken bone in a science coat when I had fair hair / now we both live alone and you want to meet up for what god only knows / and what your friends can only suspect / meaning must be created if good books are to be believed / emptiness must be filled even in spoiled rats with growing bones under grey suit coats / ink in the hair / meaning wasn't created, just given back then / now it all seems to hang by a hair / and the memory of a herring bone in a painter's coat / clipboard and pen / your friend was living alone I bet, and I see she's dying the death of a thousand cigarettes
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Her Reserve
02:26
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how can she giggle on such tinder-like legs? / I can fan my arms around her, if she wants it / she says I've got her cherub lip / she's getting drinkers in here stiff / and I don't pretend not to see all messages / or see how brightly they burn / how brightly they burn / when did you flitter in over these glittering lids? / thought you had the room all on one arm, did you? / no fancy dress and no done harm / now you want to take the tips from my fingers / now you want to pull the pins from my hinges / but I'm glad to see some joy in the surgery / yeah, you're looking sharp even with no instruments / just take a look in your hands / you've got a fist full of opinions / see how brightly she burns / brightly she burns / she must be on the last fumes of her reserve
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Gravity
03:05
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I can deal with gravity and what it metres out / the ache in my ankles / the grazes that have scarred the skin on my arms / it's just the law of motion and the pain in part that has to come with gravity / oh I can deal with gravity / but not the disgust in my heart / at some sour sixteen that shouts from a screen / that's my formative years that she's dragging around / through the plywood and iron halls / you can hear the rush coming from an outside storm / in a path of least resistance the dollars fall / and don't they fall with gravity! / yes, I can deal with gravity but not the contempt for it all / now I often disappoint young vanities / when the stock keeps selling out / they're straight from saturday morning music tv / and I'm glad they go without / good god, my maturity / now some sour seventeen thinks she's causing a scene / they've got got her sugar covering all those stupid magazines / if it wasn't disgust in my heart, I'd have to deal with a cavity
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Second Opinion
04:28
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let's get something straight / I may have been hungry but my ambitions were never naked / oh, let's get something straight / the only ammunition I had fell off the back of a medical condition / and the bullets are lodged somewhere in your decking / well I'm sorry about it / but don;t worry about it cuz it won't sink you or your precious town / no, I agree she's handsome / but then again, you did know your way around / no, living doesn't know how to become you, idol / no living it doesn't know how to become you / and if presumption can only disappoint / this time it won't let me down / I just couldn't find your entry point / you talk about your angels like the gods merely hire them out / well just consider this country / held starless on your left / and godless by your right / well it's sky rage only shades of a nobel white? / and if presumption can only disappoint / this time I won't let us down / I just couldn't find a talking point / the ingrate spews platinum and doesn't know how history's helping him no / living, it doesn't know how to become you idol / no, living doesn't know how to become you / it's no wonder you were scared while you were here / there's no sun more yellow, beautiful, dangerous or hollow
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Sister Friend
02:45
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sister friend, look up there / that's a red bulb they're screwing in / I'll meet you here / how about we get these necks unhinged? / sister friend, don't think I haven't shared the doubt you're in / if you can see the puzzle in question / now you can answer it / sister friend, I wish I had more compassion and more sense / before kid sleepovers gave way to hangovers / before life, before you ambition hit / but I guess there's no use in contemplating / even wasting time on the might-have-beens / such disparate slumbers / and under similar clouds and coloured covers / make sure when we walk out of here / you pop any of my fanciful ideas / sister friend / you look like you've been stabbed with a pin / if you could see my question as well as I see the compliment / so put those eyes back in your head / I know you can handle it / I know you're equipped / I know you can handle all of it
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lambasted at every point / every bastard will at some point decide to stop the struggle / is it a comfort or is it defeat? / when you're smiling for a change? / that you've found yourself a seat? / is it a comfort or is it defeat? / is it a comfort being tied to that ship? / cursing your crew, sliding into the drink / wearing the outcome all that time right there on your hip / so is it a comfort or is it defeat? / when you're smiling for a change? / that you found your place to think? stop doing the world a favour / you're doing my head in / is it a comfort or is it defeat? / when you're smiling for a change? / yeah, you've found your space to breathe / stop doing the world a favour / stop doing it / cuz you're not doing us any favours
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Tea
06:18
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it's comforting / the tea, how it's running down me / I know just what to say to you / for the most part / I know just what to say / I've got an empty bowl / but i see something left in you / you'd think I'd know how to finish most things, even know if you've had too much of one thing / they're hours to kill / they're ours to kill / so let me drag you in / yeah, let's go drown / let's go drown / give me childhood on my tongue / the small sharp odours of the undone / let's go drown and then struggle out as humans / then we will know just what to say when we're done / it's comforting, but it's a just a shell of the concrete stuff other people lead / it's running me down / it's running me down
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