1. |
Wavy Lines
01:51
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Mate, it’s fine
You can borrow mine if you forget your own
We don’t choose
Just play the blues in monotones
Smiles skirt
Around our hurts and our alones
Sad to say
I made your day with happy moans
Hearts and minds
Run in wavy lines
And I know my rights
But it hurts some nights
When she comes
I play the drums with black cat bones
Slowly, quick
Please make me sick and take me home
At its height
I fought the fight with sticks and stones
More than this
You matter, Miss Amanda Jones
Hearts and minds
Run in lazy lines
And I know you’re right
Still it hurts some nights
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2. |
Only An Angel
01:57
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Not an angel
But only a devil sometimes…
Not a monster
But only an angel sometimes…
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3. |
Love Is Like
01:20
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Your love is like
Two heads a-cracking
Or two knives a-hacking
And the dead men feel…
Your love is like
Two bricks a-stacking
And two fists a-whacking
And the blind men taste…
Your love is like
Two lives a-lacking
And two drones attacking
And the bad men take…
Your love is like
Two heels a-clacking
And two kids a-jacking
And the new men know your love
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4. |
Sandcastles
01:02
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The milk’s gone off me
The blood’s got on me
Spreading all the disease around
The lies got by me
The plague got in me
Knocking all the sandcastles down
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5. |
Festival On Me
01:27
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I got festival on me
Waltzing round like you would be
Place I live is beyond me
Skinning bark off the blood tree
I got festival on me
Swanning round like you would be
How you live is beyond me
It’s not right, but it could be
I got festival on me
Roaming round like a zombie
Where I was is beyond me
Stockton near Rugby
I got festival on me
Try on straight jackets gently
But I kick like a donkey
I got festival on me
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6. |
Outta The Blue
01:36
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I knew
Outta the blue
That with your multicoloured eyes
You noted useful alibis
It’s true
Outta the blue
You feel it inconsistently
But that’s not how it used to be
With you
Outta the blue
This was always our own way
You might say I’m raggle-taggle
Too
Outta the blue
Someone called, I don’t know who
German jewellery jingle-jangles
You
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7. |
Maybe It Was Your Mother
02:28
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Maybe it was your mother crying
Maybe it was your mother crying
Maybe it was your mother crying
Made you come back home
Maybe it was your sister crying
Maybe it was your sister crying
Maybe it was your sister crying
Made you leave home
Maybe it was your father crying
Maybe it was your father crying
Maybe it was your father crying
Made you feel at home
Maybe it was your brother crying
Maybe it was your brother crying
Maybe it was your brother crying
Made you alone
Maybe it was your baby crying
Maybe it was your baby crying
Maybe it was your baby crying
Made you make it home
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The process of lying
The process of crying…
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9. |
Hollywood Serene
03:01
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In your country retreat
You were something like serene
Watching your reflection
In a shiny magazine
Hollywood serene
Hollywood serene
In a fit of independence
It wasn’t where you’d been
In the birthday disco
It was nothing like serene
Tasted pretty popstars
In the preteen smoke machine
Hollywood serene
Hollywood serene
Make your way through Saturday
It wasn’t what you’d seen
In the nightshift stockroom
It was nowhere near serene
Ready for retirement
At the grand old age nineteen
Hollywood serene
Hollywood serene
Heavy load down Radford Road
It isn’t what I mean
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10. |
Now It's Only Noise
01:41
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Take a word like love
And you don’t believe in bleeding
I’m an only one
And I don’t believe in leaving
Play each other songs
Of the other girls and boys
And when once we woulda cried
Well, right now it’s only noise
And…
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11. |
Judy, Jackie-Wise
02:09
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Look down for mirrors
Look down for eyes
Look down in general
Judy, Jackie-wise
Look down for pretty girls
Look down for guys
Look down, my new friend said
Judy, Jackie-wise
Look down for cameras
Look down for spies
Look down full stop
Judy, Jackie-wise
Look down for hellos
Look down for his
Look down for sad farewells
Judy, Jackie-wise
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12. |
Certified Maybe
01:24
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Music likes being
Y’know
Starring in secret
Y’know
Amplified whispers
Y’know
Rascals ride limos
Y’know
Scrutinised Europe
Y’know
Stamping on rat traps
Y’know
Smothered in damage
Y’know
Certified maybe
Y’know
Jesus got demons
Y’know
Heavy brain traffic
Y’know
Action in missing
Y’know
Perfect makes practice
Y’know
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13. |
If You Wanna Stay
01:35
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If you wanna stay…
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14. |
Nearly You
01:58
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Go back inside
And I nearly do…
Come back to town
Like you always do…
Go back to school
I’m not stopping you…
Come back to bed
I was nearly you…
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Everywhere and nowhere baby
Everything’s getting crazy
Been losing my patience lately
Patience with myself
Everywhere and nowhere baby
Everything’s gotten crazy
Been losing my confidence lately
Confidence in myself
Everywhere and nowhere baby
Everything’s going crazy
Cracks in my lintel lately
Can’t hold up myself
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16. |
You Know Where I Live
01:20
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No good sticking
Low down chicken
Unhalfbricking
You know where I live
Knocked out loaded
Heart’s exploded
Miss morse coded
You know where I live
Came so quickly
Stuck so strictly
Felt so prickly
You know where I live
From the first day
To the worst day
Happy birthday
You know where I live
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Purveyor of sad English pop songs.
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