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Arbor Bird
03:27
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Why do you fear
all the things you fear?
You're just a bird
circling round a sphere
It must be strange to feel you're at an end
And you're invisible to your dearest friend
I write to you now
as the dawn breaks upon the bough
I hope that you're good
and have all the peace you should
I can't make sense of all your wordless hurt
but I hope the black dog's silenced in the dirt
What will I do
when life catches up with you?
You're the crumbling wall
around which the ivy grew
It grows on still and hides my world from view
What will I do?
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2. |
White Sun
03:20
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White
White sun leans upon
Upon the reservoir
Splits the skin
Remembering
a future
An operating theatre
for the lynchpin
Revealing the secret shape of things
The ocean calls to beggars and kings
I could be anything
Anything you want
as the sunrise fills the morning
With the scent of rain on drying earth
I could be anything
Anything you want
Waves
Haunt the shoreline
in the distance
as music plays
Time
Time pours slowly
as a couple dance
under northern winds
and the cruellest sky above
through the modern ruins of their love
I could be anything
Anything you want
as the sunrise fills the morning
With the scent of rain on drying earth
I could be anything
Anything you want
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Death keeps me awake at night
when I want to sleep to the morning light
Death is my jailor, my kryptonite
It keeps me from a dream
My neighbours snore through painted walls
They echo silence round the hall
I just want to sleep to the morning light
but death keeps me awake at night
The world just plays out on your mind
as the first rays seep in through the blinds
You never knew that dreaming was so tough
Politico's that lie and hurt
will drag us down to the swollen dirt
Don't want it to come but it can't come soon enough
I can't forget the time we spent
Days we wasted and what they meant
To feel a look from knowing eyes
What happens to that look when you die?
Tomorrow it just starts again
A restless day without an end
that turns to black from dirty white
Death keeps me awake at night
I just want to sleep to the morning light
but death keeps me awake at night
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You used to say nothing's ever lost
You used to say every thing lives on
But now I know you didn't mean a word
and all our dreams lie dying at the bottom of the sea
at the bottom of the sea
And now you're looking for space to grow
and a world to walk alone
I couldn't give you all the things you longed for
and all your dreams lie dying at the bottom of the sea
I got a feeling that I can't shake off
That you're my only one
Do you think about me every waking minute
or am I dreaming, lying at the bottom of the sea?
She said my sad hearts shifting gear
Its been a difficult year
Now you're the boy with the cauliflower ear
The boy with the cauliflower ear
She said my sad hearts shifting gear
Its been a difficult year
Now you're the boy with the cauliflower ear
The boy with the cauliflower ear
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5. |
Bloodletting
03:56
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I had a fever dream last night
I walked for miles to chase a light
I fought with strangers in the street
in a language I don't recognise
And we were better off before
And we were better off before
Before we turned in for the night
and blew the candle out on paradise
And i'm bloodletting again
Bloodletting
All over again
And it feels so good
Bloodletting
And it feels so good
To let blood in
And in this house of my undoing
The paint is cracked and needs renewing
I want these pictures taken down
They don't reflect the man that i've become
Just hold me in your gentle gaze
Release me from my foolish ways
I won't ever feel alive
Until we settle under a dazzling sun
And i'm bloodletting again
Bloodletting
All over again
And it feels so good
Bloodletting
And it feels so good
To let blood in
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I've heard that the stars are out tonight
and they glitter like diamonds in clay
They say its a beautiful evening
An end to a beautiful day
But I know the stars are dead inside
and the light they emit isn't real
The stars may as well disappear
There used to be constellations
like pictures drawn in the light
But they were erased in a heartbeat
when you walked off into the night
Let them fall from the sky like broken fireflies
I won't shed a single tear when they're gone
because the stars may as well disappear
Because the stars may as well disappear
and never return
Let the night swallow me completely
I never wanna see them again
Because the stars may as well disappear
Disappear
Disappear
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Well the race was on
I could see the finish line
in the vanishing distance
But I slipped back into fifth
I couldn't stand the pace
and apologised for my existence
Then I made a raft of my bad ideas
and set sail for oblivion
I want no part in this jamboree
I want no part in this jamboree
I'm an unmade bed
propped up in the corner
of an empty bedsit
I guess a punch
on the nose over lunch is better
than a kick in the groin over breakfast
I arrest the time
for crimes of an infinite nature
an infinite nature
Now I spend my days
blundering in and out
of this black brochure
I'm a permanent feature
Will you still hold me when i'm a compromised man?
Will you still hold me
I want no part in this jamboree
I want no part in this jamboree
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8. |
Lonely Is The Heart
05:54
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These roads unwind themselves
beneath my feet
The moon's a dirty blonde
and the nights complete
Lets take a walk outside
to the godless night
In the chilly autumn air
we'll await the light
Its gone, gone
Lonely is the heart that prays
Its gone
Lonely is the heart that prays
Holding hands on the avenue
with the sun in our eyes
Empty chairs on empty streets
amongst the horseflies
We took a walk outside
to the great beware
where the cherry blossoms hang
in the frozen air
Its gone, gone
Lonely is the heart that prays
Its gone
From the stations of the cross
to the beat of your sacred heart
There's an empty lie in those words
That tear us apart
Its gone, gone
Lonely is the heart that prays
Its gone
Lonely is the heart that prays
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9. |
I'm A Field In Winter
05:04
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Well the devil looked on
He didn't know what to do
as the heavens fell down
When the ceiling came through
And he said to himself
Thats another fine mess
but i'll ride out the storm
like a field in winter
And the ocean will call
as the ocean will do
It calls in the blood
It calls through and through
And the river runs wide
through a crack in the dirt
It bends to its will
like a field in winter
Set sail my love
With the wind in your hair
if you leave me tomorrow
And there's nobody there
I'll raise up my hands
and i'll dance to your tune
though i'm already dead
like a field in winter
I'll dream of your sighs
I'll walk in the fire
With my back to the moon
like a field in winter
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Our Krypton Son Londonderry, UK
Dream pop. Melodramatic popular song. Debut album produced by Sam Williams (Supergrass, The Go Team) and released on
Smalltown America Records.
Second album FLEAS & DIAMONDS was shortlisted for NI Music Prize Album of the Year 2017.
Produced by Ryan Vail, latest album MODERN RUINS shortlisted for NI Music Prize Album of the Year 2020.
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