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1. |
Let's Swim
05:09
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Baby let's swim
In the oceans in our stomachs
That's where love seeps in
And the heartbeats are numbered
Towering black whales
Swim beside us
Let the love soak in
And illuminate your ocean
Baby let's swim
For the time's too late for telling
Towering black waves
They carry us
Now it's raining
Not a speck of light is showing
There's no earthly way of knowing
Where they carry us
So we walk
Through the forests
Of our childhood
Let's burn our hair
I'm never going back
Back there...
Do you want to be out of the background for a change?
Do you want to be part of a powerful exchange?
Everybody's crying out for change?
Everybody's running away
Do you want to be out of the background for a change?
Do you want stop distracting yourself?
Do you want to stop being someone else?
Baby let's swim
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2. |
The End of History
04:58
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Don't go diving off
The diving board
You might hurt yourself
You might look stupid
And don't go outside
To protect
You might look foolish
You might break your bones
This is the end of history
But what's that, is that doubt?
What's that new sound coming out?
Who gave you the rights?
Who gave you the wrongs?
How can we not see what's going on?
Do you hear the birds tweeting?
Can you hear their ancient song?
What the hell have we done?
Let the tears roll down your cheeks
Let them tears roll down for weeks
We all have the need to grieve
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3. |
Giving In
03:36
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I'll keep on singing
Through the thick and thin
I'll keep on hoping
As you're giving in
We'll keep on singing
Through the thick and thin
I'll keep on hoping
As you're giving in
I'll keep on singing
Through the thick and thin
I'll keep on hoping
As you're giving in
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4. |
Sailors
04:59
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Do sailors dream of dry land?
Do sailors dream of dry land?
Villagers of islands,
Parents dream of sandy beaches
And children for their iPads.
Everyone is dreaming, no one understands.
The Queen dreams in her tower,
The King’s tucked up in bed.
Staff prepare the flowers
Because he’s nearly dead.
She thinks she keeps us happy,
She thinks she keeps us fed.
Whilst another tower’s burning
The planet keeps on turning,
Empty frames at empty tables
Feeding off of cables
Watch the tower burning
But who watches the watchman?
A boy becomes a man
We all must understand
The lines across our hands
And the rhythm of the band.
I’m complex tonight
I’m Peter Pan in Never Never Land
I’m flying off with Wendy’s hand.
Lock the window when we leave
And throw away the key.
We’ll make our lives in make believe.
The sound we hear is in the East
And the light it bears it casts a shadow
A war is nearly here
You can smell it in the air.
Don’t forget tomorrow
And the hope it brings
Don’t forget whose fingers pointed out the facts
Don’t forget the signatures of every living soul
The sun it also rises, it rises in the East
Destruction also brings relief.
(A man reveals himself,
What else?)
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5. |
Reborn
03:14
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A dragonfly
Landed on my notes
And the Milky Way came to take a look
Have you got your passport?
And packed a good book?
It’s time to fly away
Take back the time they took
At the gates of Heaven
Their counting my grey hairs
Like grains of sand, the promises I made
All blew away, they flew away
It’s time to say goodbye
Time to say goodbye
Time to say goodbye
Will the same birds
Change their tune
In a different land?
With an endless sky?
Where emotions aren’t polluted by
The things we wrap around inside, I want to be
Reborn
Reborn
Reborn, let’s all be reborn
Reborn
Reborn
Reborn, I want to be reborn
Reborn
Reborn
Reborn, let’s all be reborn
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6. |
Malvena's Theme
04:02
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She self-identifies as a corporate bitch
How do you think she got rich?
She's got a flat in Hackney Wick
How did we get into this sitch?
We're fighting back now, we're buying sushi
And the iPhone 10 has many uses
What are we to make of the news?
Tell me who will win and who will lose?
The people downstairs think you're liars
Don't look down on them
From your new London towers
I'm just as guilty as you
I took from them
Knowing that they'd lose
She said, 'I've nothing more to say'
I said, 'If you feel innocent it's OK'
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7. |
Asparagus
05:08
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She's like asparagus
Al dente and tender
But don't try to bend her
Or she'll break
She's broken crockery
Thin as potpourri
Least that's the way it seems to me
Through my fingers
Like the wind upon the lake
Every wave shall break
And every man will make mistakes
She can tell the time
Yeah that girl of mine
She knows how it ends
And how it begins again
We're falling down from the trees
We're growing up from underneath
She's calling out my name
We're not playing a game
She's like asparagus
The one I long to kiss
The one I long to cook
Where no one else can look
And when I cannot hide
She's the one in whom I confide
When I'm faltering
When I'm faltering
(She wears a blindfold
Or so I'm told
With a sword and scales
She chops our vegetables
She calls me princess
I call her priest
On psychology
and asparagus we feast)
I buy her cardboard jewelry
And she puts me to sleep
We D.I.Y. ourselves
We do just what we please
We do just what we please
But sometimes she wraps herself in cotton wool
Would rather play the fool than be king
It's a man's world
She's swollen from her father's sting
Oh no!
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8. |
Expanding Acronyms
03:09
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God come save me
Devil destroy
Human don't push me
Back to the void
God come save me
Devil destroy
Human don't push me
Back to the void
Wake up from colours and move through the greyscale to work
You're a slave to this concrete bliss
I keep on dropping my life and all these things
Cause I have to keep expanding
Pop yourself down now into the mud
We're waking up into love
This jailor's got my heart under lock and key
Cause I'm expanding everything
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9. |
It's Too Late
02:57
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We sold our souls
We were the
Only ones who could see beauty
Three years since I held your hips
I forget that beauty exists
It's too late
To return to those days
We betray
Our ideals
Don't push me back down
I'm living freely now
Caffeine
And cigarettes
I'm living with no regrets
I'm harder now
I passed the test!
It's harder now to be any less
Oh it's too late
We betray
Our ideals
It's too late
So give up the ghost
It's too late
I loved you the most
It's too late
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10. |
Thunder
02:32
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Is it cause we're right?
Or is it cause they're wrong?
The rain won't hold for too long, no.
Can you hear the sound of...?
Have we spent our lives
Chasing our tail?
We can't go on for ever, no.
No we can't go on for...
Is it cause we're right?
Or is it cause they're wrong?
The rain won't hold for too long, no.
Can you hear the sound of thunder?
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11. |
Childhood Cassette
04:33
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Netflix
And box sets
And teabags
And the homeless
In the end
We'll forget
It's like almonds
In my cereal
It's like worshipping
The material
In the end
I can't pretend
We are criminals
In our own heads
We are grandfathers
In our own beds
We just sit around
And talk
And we tick
And we tock
Click begin, type your password
That's how we make love
Sliding down kaleidoscopes
Is now defunct
Cut your hair
And buy new clothes!
Spend your money!
Watch the news
And fall asleep
And dream...
And in your dreams
Your tears are like a child's
Your childhood fears
Will play like a cassette
Now it's the morning
And you look at me
I look at emails
Look at pixels
Look at anything
Just to still my heart
In this city
That rewards
Just the worst
Things
It creeps us out
And into coins
It turns us in
So you want beauty
But you want WiFi
Connectivity
You want sunshine
In the end
What's the value of something?
So weave your cotton thread
Turn on an engine
Bask in starlight
Breathe in oxygen
Spray your farmyard
With pesticide
Build a spaceship
And step inside
You want the universe
Can you feel the Earth
Spin?
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12. |
Planet B
02:22
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13. |
Mono Lake
06:54
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You can see it in his eyes
The world is second best
The fire came down the mountain
On to some place else
Eastern Sierra
Down the Mono Lake
The fire came down the mountain
And Old Tom's eyes see that it's too late
You can see it in his eyes
The skies above him changes
Growing old in California
Where the desert meets the rain
Eastern Sierra
Down the Mono Lake
We try to blame it on the weatherman
But Old Tom's eyes see that it's too late
Even the old timers
Make spelling mistakes
And there's no mistaking
What's at stake
The spell that we're under
Wants us to look away
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14. |
Pillar to Post
10:26
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We're running out of time
The age-old lie
Tell that to my dead ancestors
Tell that to the redstarts
Tell that to the mushroom
We are headed for death
All the more reasons to live
We may be done
All the more reasons to love
All the reasons
Oh we're so full of anxiousness
But the rain keeps pouring down
And the storms keep swirling round
Oh I'm so full of ideas
I've been full for years
I've been foolish
What are we waiting for?
There's no knocking at the door
And anyway, the West can't last
Like us all, we must make the past the past
O Grandmother!
Who's sitting by the fire
Conspiring our finest hour
Climate change won't change life and death
It just changes all the rest
We must gather courage
Move the jumpers
That act goalposts
It isn't anybody's fault
It is everybody's fate
The fact that we are too late
There's poison in my wine
And there's poison inside
It is pointless picking sides
We don't know how we'll die
But it's worth thinking it through...
What a travesty!
To let the Earth bleed
But it still hurts
And it still hurts
All my life
I was full of peace
But I didn't notice
So all my life
I'm pillar to post
Trying to be God
But I became a ghost
We are all one God
We are all one child
I am all the apple I eat
We are soon to be dead
Oh the meaning of life is in an ice cream
It's a builder smoking
It's the ants building their nest
it's a civil servant
It's a journalist on an overnight
It's a nightingale, it is the night
It's making love in the afternoon
It is dealing with bad news
It's dismantling the fence
It is not making sense
If you want the truth
Make a joke :)
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Jon Wiltshire Bristol, UK
“Gifted pioneer of a new folk-tech sound charting the overlap between global catastrophe and the emotional landscape of the interior” - Tom of England (L.I.E.S.)
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