1. |
Held
01:02
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It's always there
Watching
Waiting
Elusive
Like a feeling you've forgotten
Like a half remembered thought out of a movie or a dream
Like a subtitle
Held in quiet parenthesis
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2. |
Try (A Little Honesty)
04:14
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All my thoughts are gone
Here but now they’re one
Raking over
No composure
Taken ‘for they’re done
And I know just what he’s going to say
Try a little
Time spent ruminate
Thoughts prevaricate
Drinking lonesome
In the dead sun
Melting in the shade
And I know just what he’s going to say
Try a little honesty
And it’s time to pay the piper
He’s been waiting at the gate
Don’t you know that nothing lasts forever
Forever’s on its way
Wake on a broken shore
Feel the wind at my back
Breaking with you
Time to start anew
Getting back on track
And I know just what he’s going to say
Try a little honesty
And I know just what he’s going to say
Try a little
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When the night gets so difficult you just wanna sit there in silence
When you come out of your torpor but it's there stronger than ever
Despite all the hurt and the suffering, it's the little moments that get you
Tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
When the night gets so jaded you just wanna sit there and mumble
Passing the time with generous fills of the tumbler
Aw when reality hits you but you don't have the resources to make it
Why don't you drop one more tablet and kick that can down the road
When the song playing on the radio ain't the story you want to hear
Best find some nook that suits you and sink in ever further
Ah when the truth catches up you'll be too dead for it anyway
Might as well just tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
So I was walking through the garden when some gentleman said to me
'Here, take this pill, it'll stop your pain, you ain't gonna think you ain't gonna feel'
So I dropped got doped, and went on home, stuck on an episode of friends
You know the one where Chandler plays foosball, Ross and Rachel make amends
Oh one of these days babe you're gonna have to pay attention to something
Can't just keep getting drunk all day, high all night then kicking that can down the road, aw
Listen, babe, it's time to wake up, hooo
It's time to wake up
When you realise life is so beautiful but you just can't connect
For that one transcendent moment, have to wade through a river of shit
Instead of moving on with your life, why don't you stick on another episode of that same old show?
Why not just tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
I said now...
Tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
Tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
Tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
Tune out, tap out, fade out, stronger than ever
When the night gets so difficult you just wanna sit there in silence...
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4. |
And (It Kept On Raining)
03:41
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Dreams fall apart, then they whisper in the wings
It's a celebrated lesson, but do you know what it brings?
Voices in the darkness and a light shines out
It calls between two worlds
And it just keeps raining
A civilised person wouldn't think of such things
But he stares out anyway and so the little child sings
A sad sweet song that yearns for better days
But it seems he dreams in vain
Cause it just keeps raining
Mona's got her purpose she always knows what to say
Until one day she crumbles, then she's not ok
She perches on the ledge but decides to give it one more try
Then slips and falls to her grave
Cause outside it was raining
Always through time
It had never occurred to me
To ask for a line
Always made it feel hard to breathe
Lives fall apart and then they scatter to the wind
It's a devastating lesson but you know what it brings
Voices in the darkness and a light shines out
It calls between two worlds
And it just keeps raining
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5. |
In Quiet
01:03
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It never moves
Swimming
Floating
Flying
Like a motion you've remembered
Like an empty movie parlour, coming down right at the seams
Like a subtitle
Held in quiet parenthesis
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6. |
So Unfaithful, So Untrue
03:18
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So Unfaithful, So Untrue
Killing time
Out on the sidewalk
I am in my prime
Don’t heed the white chalk
I’m just passing through
I sink like quicksand
I’m playing dumb
Don’t hear the demands
And these are words I’ll say to you
I am so unfaithful, so untrue
Sifting through, the day to day
When a tall dark stranger walks my way
In the clink
With the other actors
But they don’t consider
All of the factors
It’s just ‘choose a side’
Beware you come from
No time for nuance
It’s all just for fun
These are words I’ll say to you
I am so unfaithful, so untrue
Commit to cause, and come what may
Perhaps your doubts will slide away
Walk along
The bridge of faces
Where two white vans
Enter these spaces
We’re pilloried down
Crushed like roaches
I’m on the floor
When he approaches
These are words I’ll say to you
I am so unfaithful, so untrue
Commit to cause, and come what may
Don’t care if I get blown away
These are words I’ll say to you
Be so unfaithful, so untrue
Might seem to you like a zero sum game
But if you were faithless like me, you might never have came
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I said, don't go
Don't you want a piece of me?
Your smile, just right, though it's filled with flame and vanity
Run down, fresh out, with a point of view that's hard to please
Rotate softly, the part of you that wants amenities
Also, not quite, at the end of lands
You'll find, good time, with the mean machine
How south, get dry, when your head is on your shoulders
Hear a blue fish wailing
"There is nowhere else to run'
Ah ah, this cruise is quite frightening
Ah ah, am I here all on my own
Ah ah, I'm tempted to ignore it
Ah ah, but would that be wrong?
Ok, move on, there is nothing here to see
Left them wanting, and now she's giving the fourth degree
I tried, so hard, to talk to them but now there's nothing left to say
Ok, it's your game, you're gonna deal with it anyway
Also, not quite, and i changed my plans
Fell down, looked round, there were all these freaks around me
Tried hard, got barred, got thrown off the rails
Heard a blue fish wailing
'Is it me or you that's lost their mind?'
Ah ah, this cruise is quite frightening
Ah ah, am I here all on my own?
Ah ah, I'm tempted to ignore it
Ah ah, but tell me would that be wrong?
Oh my, I looked round, and there was nobody else
Went up, looked down, and now I'm sitting here talking to myself
I felt so hungry, but there was nothing for me to eat
Time for me to go back, but this time I must be brief
Also, not quite, and we made the grade
Met her outside, with all the men she'd bought and paid for
Went slow, aimed low, and preceded to paint the far wall
Heard a blue fish wailing
'now the boys in town have no need to be nervous'
Ah ah, this cruise is quite frightening
Ah ah, am I here all on my own?
Ah ah, I'm tempted to defy it
Ah ah, but tell me would that be wrong?
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8. |
Parenthesis
02:16
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It's always there
Watching
Waiting
Elusive
Like a feeling you've forgotten
Like a half remembered thought out of a movie or a dream
Like a subtitle
Held in quiet parenthesis
It never moves
Swimming
Floating
Flying
Like a motion you've remembered
Like an empty movie parlour, coming down right at the seams
Like a subtitle
Held in quiet parenthesis
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Tomer Krail London, UK
Neofolk artist with a rembrandt complex. Currently self isolating in the fortress of solitude.
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