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She speaks to the night
04:18
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She speaks to the night
Watch the girl walking alone
She’s never been home
Not for days, anyway.
Barefoot she speaks to the night
And she gets it right,
In the twilight it answers her.
She says, “Won’t you come in?
It’s not a sin, to see without looking.”
She stands, drinking it in,
her grin wasted on a sky full of stars.
She was the talk of the town
She’d walk around, looking over her shoulder.
And she never let anyone in,
Dark eyes and lies
kept us at a distance.
But sometimes, she still speaks to the night
The stillness around her
becomes her companion.
She says, “Won’t you come in?
It’s not a sin, to see without looking.”
She stands, drinking it in,
her grin wasted on a sky full of stars.
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2. |
Mouths are moths
04:15
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Mouths are moths
I can’t see the endless irony
Spiky hearts are littered on the floor
Hey
Hey
Walk on eggshells to keep your soul intact
Just add water to make the feelings real
Hey
Hey
Forgive the ghost of me that one no one ever sees
Your life was full of the ghosts of loves unknown
Hey
Hey
Turn the light off
Put your shoes and socks beside the bed
Be the big spoon
In my sleep I’ll feel you there
Take your clothes off
The best thing to hold is each other
Fingers twisting, mouths are moths,
Leave the dust of your wings on my face
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3. |
Fly me to another place
05:35
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Fly me to another place
Oh whoa
Fly me to another place
Over the hills and oceans
Ah
Oh whoa
Clouds swift by in a blaze
Leave everything behind
Don’t pay no mind
Heard tell of a millionaire
He has an island to spare
You tell him your dreams
And he,
He lets you go there
Sweet little millionaire
Alone in his luxury
So hop the private jet with me
(Jet with me)
Leap out with your magic parachute
And get wet
Oh whoa
Fly me to another place
Over the hills and oceans
Ah
Oh whoa
Clouds swift by in a blaze
Leave everything behind
Don’t pay no mind
The lonely millionaire
Waits for you
On soft white sands
He’s been waiting such a long time
To feel it between his toes
For you, he’ll shed his clothes
And when you get there
(Get there)
All your problems will go
Cut off from the world
Nothing to do
but write songs and words
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4. |
Eleanor
03:47
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Eleanor
No more excuses
No time for goodbyes
One day you’ll write to me
From somewhere far and wide
That look when you walked out the door
I didn’t expect it
To be the last.
You’d been promised so much more
Making a clean break
From your past
And it seems those years
Have been spent in vain
And it seemed so clear
The way ahead.
But it’s all too late
To be sure,
If you'll come back to me now
Eleanor
Why did you not stay?
I gave you all I had
You threw it all away
Eleanor
Eleanor
I thought we had something special
Something that was pure
Eleanor
Eleanor
I gave you all that you asked for
but it wasn’t enough
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5. |
Stars wait for us
04:58
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Stars wait for us
There’s a place
Out in space
Where you're mine
We’re naked
All the time
Slow moving limbs
Are floating free
We're not really there
You've closed your eyes
To reality
But here out in space
We’ll replace
Our preconceived notions
With dreams
The stars wait for us
Dark matter just
Another form of music
To
Take us away
Specks in the cosmos
We’ll dance so secretly
Ah
Molecules and neurons
Neutrons and particles
We’ll ride the shooting stars
That pass us by
We’ll
Leave it here
All the pain
And when we wake
We’ll pick it up again
Here, out in space
We’ll replace
Our preconceived notions
With dreams
The stars
Wait for us
Dark matter just
Another form of music
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6. |
Rope made of hair
03:58
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Rope made of hair
Build me a bridge
Make me a rope of hair
Here’s a house in a tree
God, how I want to live here
And all your dreams have come to this
There is nothing I would miss
Hoe me a field
Reap me a pack of lies
Scythe me a harvest of surprise
Button tokens to pay your fare
Don’t you know, I’ll always be there?
Jumpy footage of your youth
Skipping stones, gap in tooth
Feather pathways line the way
Soft as down to ease your way
La, la, la…
Tie me a noose made of dandelions
Bake me a loaf full of butterflies
Take my eyes, replace them with stones
Fill my mouth with dust to stop my moans
Jumpy footage of your youth
Skipping stones, gap in tooth
Feather pathways line the way
Soft as down to ease your way
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7. |
Where dreamers go to die
02:41
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Where dreamers go to die
Stay tonight, cos cold winds gonna blow
Tuck your hair behind your ear
Your ways make me despair
So, why fight when this is set in stone?
Don’t you know that neither of us will ever be alone?
When you learn the contours of a particular face
It's like a map that leads you to a state of grace
Say goodbye to everything that you have ever known
Our two bodies and a song is all we need.
I know you so well
My breath is not my own
Mingled all the time
Tangled up within your sighs
Open wide, take me inside
Be the bridge, to the place
Where dreamers go to die
When you learn the contours of a particular face
It's like a map that leads you to a state of grace
Say goodbye to everything that you have ever known
Our two bodies and a song is all we need
Won’t you stay?
Stay
Stay
Won't you stay?
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8. |
Better together
02:53
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Better together
Heavier air swamps me
Tidal pool sadness brings me low
Waves of doubt crash on me
Confidence washed out
Of me
Of me
And it’s all gone so wrong
Tonight
If you take me down
Take me down
If you take me down
Take me down
If you take me down
Take me down
If you take me down
Take me down
Wait a while for my brain to catch up
Doing my laces
Tying up
Loose ends
Ends
Grey around the edges
Nothing as clear as it once was
Static buzz
Static fuzz
And it’s all gone so wrong
Tonight
Tonight
If you take me down
Take me down
We'll feel better together
better together
If you take me down
Take me down
We'll feel better together
better together
If you take me down
Take me down
We'll feel better together
better together
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9. |
Dance in the air
03:07
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Dance in the air
Broken telescope
Can’t see the woods
for trees
Bird’s-eye view of love
Learn to say ‘please’
Please
And I will dance in the air
In the air
And I will be true to you
Do you care?
Broken telephone
Caterpillars in cocoons
Pick at the scab
Learn to let it be
Let it bleed
I heard you calling out
In your sleep
Wanna be there
Even in your dreams
In your dreams
And I will dance in the air
In the air
And I will be true to you
Do you care?
And I will dance in the air
In the air
And I will be true to you
Do you care?
If you hold on too long
To the things that make you strong
You forget that when you’re weak
It’s the strongest you'll ever be
And I will dance in the air
In the air
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10. |
Night sweats
03:52
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Night sweats
I’ve seen your likeness in the portrait gallery
Sad look left your soul out on a hook
You’ve bled, you bleed, you’re tired.
I tried left the pins inside
the ones you stuck in my heart
Blood cold left a trail through the trees
A deer run down before you were born
Can’t see you walk along the way
Chrysanthemums line the pathway home
Should have let you kiss me
Should not have run away
I should have stayed
I should have stayed
I’m cold, there’s nothing warm to hold
I begged and pleaded a-hah
Left behind you learn to rewind
Don’t let it burn a hole
Can’t see you walk along the way
Chrysanthemums line the pathway home
Should have let you kiss me
Should not have run away
I should have stayed
I should have stayed
No more talk today
Can’t see you walk
No more talk today
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11. |
Goodbye smile
03:59
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Goodbye Smile
When you showed me your goodbye smile
You broke something inside
I can’t recall what you said
The words blur into one
I can't eat, I can't feel anything
I’ve just become numb.
Yesterday, I was so happy
And now I’ve got nothing left.
We’ll hold each other
And be safe
We’ll be happy again.
Once more
Once more
I just want to wake up from the dream
Worst I’ve ever had
Tell me it’s a joke and I'll smile
Someday, we’ll laugh about this
We’ll hold each other
And be safe
We’ll be happy again.
You’ll look at me
And see the one you love
We’ll be together once more.
Once more
Once more
Once more
Walk away and close the door.
Don’t say another word.
In my mind, I'll dream of a way
We could be together again.
Imaginings
All I’ve got now,
It's all you've left me with
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12. |
Adelaide
02:43
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Adelaide
Adelaide, won’t you stay with me tonight?
Adelaide, you know we’ll be alright
Adelaide, you have always been the one
Adelaide, tell me you know where I’m coming from?
I know you don’t want to see me cry
So don’t make me say goodbye
Adelaide, I don’t want to be your friend
But, Adelaide, I will love you to the end
Oh don’t be a stranger now
Just love me in ways only you know how
Adelaide don’t hold a gun to my head
Adelaide just take me to bed
The birds and bees bite and scratch to survive
It’s the best part of being alive
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13. |
Running down
03:44
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Running down
Running down
To the ocean
Running down
To the sea
You were shaken off
And left for drowned
Played for the fool
It’s all done now
We all want some permanence
Still searching for that something else
Take that leap
And lay it on the line
Gotta open up, let in the light
These moments are significant
They’ll pass you by in a heartbeat
Been around the bend and back again
And now I think I’m doing fine
Living by the mantra that all things end
In time
Running down
To the ocean
Running down
To the sea
So here we are
On down that road
Nowhere to hide
So much to show
We all want things to make sense
To understand is not to know
So, take the vow
And share my soul
With a new life
That we’ve watched grow
Wouldn’t change a single thing
I never want to let you go
Been around the bend and back again
But now I think I’m doing fine
Living by the mantra that all things end
In time
Running down
To the ocean
Running down
To the sea
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14. |
Wind's shadow
04:18
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Wind’s shadow
I tracked my way across ice fields
Horizon hard to see
And even then, I saw the sun
Was blinded by its brightness
I followed you 'cross desert sands,
Saw footsteps where there were none
But though I took a few wrong turns
I know I’ll catch up soon
And all the time my skin turned blue
And all the time I burned
I did it all for love of you
I did it all for you
Then came the ocean rough and wild
We almost died of scurvy
My compass broke, crew mutinied
But my ship survived the storm
And all the time salt dried my mouth
And all the stars that lied
I found my way across the sea
I made my way back home
My journey goes on endlessly
I see you in my dreams
I'll follow shadows to my grave
The wind it speaks your name
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind
The wind it speaks your name
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