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When I first lay dreaming
There was nothing at all
could've stopped me from dreaming
or put me back in a world
where loves doomed to fall
When I first lay dreaming
When I first lay dreaming about you
When I first lay dreaming
There was nothing on TV
but a hollow silence, comical violence,
little house on the periphery
When I first lay dreaming
When I first lay dreaming about you
When I first lay dreaming
the waters ran in blue, silver and gold
The days seemed endless
The sun fired up the loins
of the young and the old
I remember when your touch was soft and true
Could you ever lose your touch for telling me what to do?
When I first lay dreaming
there were shadows in the air
A riot and a roaring,
crying and imploring
but I couldn't hear a single word
I just didn't care
When I first lay dreaming
When I first lay dreaming about you
Now you're standing on the corner
like an unfair comment
and the wind that whistles you
up and takes you off
O baby in wild blue blazes
we shattered Rodriguez
and wore out laces
I'll freeze my assets off
Drink a toast to you in hell
Don't wanna know nothing
unless you tell it
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2. |
Ill Wind
03:10
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Can you remember when you were young?
Now that tomorrow has turned out to be just an illusion
reaching on and on
Can you remember when you were small?
And the future was a sentence in a subway
that you couldn't read at all
Memories
I'll never forget when I
knew that we'd blew it and you were an ill wind
smiling, drunk against the sky
I don't remember you at all
You're just a badly drawn blueprint
You're a nothing, going wrong
Memories
Maybe these are the days
of lunatics and heartbreak
dividing our time between the lottery and backache
From rise to decline
its a five minute walk
and death is a full stop at the end of a line
Memories
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Gargantuan
04:08
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You feel it coming
from several miles away
It hits you right between the eyes
You wake in the morning
with someone in your head
Your hands shake as you're rubbing your eyes
And you see your face in the mirror
Unrecognisable
as the sun that burns and sears
engulfs all, shines tall
Gargantuan
Well I've had troubles
maybe once or twice
as sure as stars on the canopy
But oh my darling
where are you tonight?
I'm guilty in the third degree
And I see my face in the mirror
caught in the middle
of a love that turns ever clearer
engulfs all, shines tall
Gargantuan
And the whole world trembles
when my love stomps
And the asphalt shatters
when my love stomps
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4. |
Season In Hell
04:19
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Well its one of those nights when the world turns slowly
on a spit of a flame
It burns you up and make you wish you could be
someone with a name
The wind blows like a strip search
and the streets are like a scar
and in the puddles shine the reflection of all the stars
And I'll build a bonfire out of these
dead leaves and tooth decay
Something tells me Winter's on its way
I can't pay to feed my tapeworm
I can't pay my dental bills
I can't pay for acupuncture
I can't pay to cure my ills
But I always had a dreamy dream
of a working class moustache
And I'll put my name to the wheel
with a coke and a smile
and a dot and a dash
They say that work is for the thankless
and thanks are for the giving
The cosmos is mine and it owes me a living
When you've got a part-time contract
and it feels like a full-time squeeze
then you haven't got the symptoms
you've got the whole disease
And you look toward a crowd that gathers
and steals at crumbs and begs
A mass of ragged claws and restless legs
It's been a season in hell
Well the moon shone cold and dead and gleaming
at the feet of a crooked man
As he kicked it through the shade of an empty park
To move these stars to pity
or move a man to shame
is like fumbling for an answer in the dark
And he wears a sad expression like
a wig made of question marks
His thunderous silence echoes down the hall
It's been a season in hell
Well its one of those nights when the world turns slowly
on a spit of a flame
It burns you up and make you wish you could be
someone with a name
The wind blows like a strip search
and the streets are like a scar
and in the puddles shine the reflection of all the stars
And I'll build a bonfire out of these
dead leaves and tooth decay
Something tells me Winter's on its way
And I wonder where you are tonight
my love, my dear, my sweet
How do we dance with only two left feet
It's been a season in hell
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5. |
Catalonian Love Song
04:17
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Will you take my hand
down the back streets?
Lover's are watching the breeze roll by
I'm not too fearful
of anything at all
but I'll never let you out of my sight
Catalonian Love Song
It's not a question
of why didn't we?
There aren't any questions for you or for me
The rain is relentless
It runs down the street
and we run to cover our heads where no-one can see
You've been a long time coming
Yes, you have
Will you take my hand
down the back streets?
Lover's are watching the leaves drip dry
Catalonian Love Song
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6. |
Sunlight In The Ashes
04:49
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He's back again
familiar friend
to paint our fingers
and stain our hands
Tarred and feathered
all weekend
Tarred and feathered
all weekend
Sunlight in the ashes
The window's wide
Can't hear a thing
Except the hiss
and hollow ring
Tarred and feathered
all your life
Tarred and feathered
all your life
Sunlight in the ashes
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7. |
Birds On The Skylight
03:26
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There are birds on the skylight
and chains round my heart
They pick at the bones of this affair
that was picked at from the start
A woman tore through my horizon
and took my love apart
There are birds on the skylight
and chains round my heart
There are birds on the skylight
and an aching in my gut
My steps ring lonely through the streets
with the stray cats and the mutts
I hear our song playing in my ears
stuck in an endless rut
There are birds on the skylight
and an aching in my gut
Outside the city clock strikes noon
and then strikes noon again
The sun is shining on the heads of the righteous
while the rest of us pray for rain
You get tired of pulling punchlines
and dishing out the blame
There are birds on the skylight
Birds on the skylight again
I'm going west, don't wanna be found
I wanna be lost instead
I'll write a prayer of absolutes
and nail it above our bed
Then burn this building to the ground
for all that we left unsaid
I got birds on the skylight
and bad thoughts in my head
bad thoughts in my heart
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Twitch
04:16
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If I write you a letter
I'll leave the words out
They might be hard to swallow
as they're easy to spit out
Come July I'll pack up all my troubles
in a bullet-proof brown paper bag made for fools
I'm looking forward to a twitch free summer
Aren't you?
I'd say it's over-rated
shooting by yourself
As uncomplicated
as everything else
Come July I'll pack up all my troubles
in a bullet-proof brown paper bag made for fools
I'm looking forward to a twitch free summer
Aren't you?
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9. |
This Jealous Heart
04:24
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This room is freezing, like our love
Lets not talk about the sun
Lets just go back to the start?
You said you didn't mean no harm
with a very savage yawn
but its so hard to ignore this jealous heart
Tears were falling in the kitchen
Hit the floor without a sound
as a veil of snow lined the park
I never wanted you to leave me
I never wanted you around
and its so hard to ignore this jealous heart
I don't know if I recognise you
I don't recognise myself
We make a lot of noise that goes nowhere
If I've seemed distant
at least I've been consistent
in pretending not to care
So if you see her in December
tell her all that I've forgot
Impart what you can impart
But won't you thank her for the roses
that only felt like poisoned darts
Its oh so hard to ignore this jealous heart
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The day's won't ever forget
the last time we spoke
I remember your smiling face
The smell
of the perfume you wore
lingers long in my heart tonight
Oh I'll never learn to say goodbye
I hear your voice
in the strangeness of dreams
Seems to sweep in a sad burlesque
The next time we meet
in another part of town
Time won't keep my love away from you no more
Oh I'll never learn to say goodbye
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11. |
Plutonium
03:02
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Now that I'm light years from your side
You are the one that makes me want to hide, my love
Buried in the fields, where the grass forever grows
You have the touch that makes this ocean flow
and burn like ammonia
I'm dreaming of plutonium
Now that I'm light years from your kiss
The world I know is nothing but a lie
ringing in my ears with every urge
I want the words that could make a city cry
like an astronaut
no son of a gun
I'm dreaming of plutonium
An astronaut's a lonely son of a gun
I'm dreaming of plutonium
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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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