1. |
Sharpish
04:06
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There's a place I don't want to go
There's a world I don't want to know
Now I'm still like a deer in the headlights
There's a fear and it's turned to lead in my veins
Now we fight all of the time
Because you rage all the time
And I need to know: where is the crime?
There's a sickening slap as your passion hits the floor
Your twisted ideology is twisting round for more
You're shouting, you're screaming, and no one even knows why
You're spinning like a satellite high in space
But you're visible right there on my screen
Blowing smoke up your own ass is pretty obscene
You're looking pretty sharp in your suit and tie
Out here it's the night and you're pulling down the blinds
Over kindness and reason like a zipper on a body bag
And my neighbour watches with a vacant smile
You remind him what he does not own
He remembers a time when you called a spade a spade
And blacks lived in ghettos and women were afraid
And a man could make bank with a steady 9 to 5
And the papers hadn't started to spread their lies
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2. |
The Future
04:07
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Help me, I believe in a future
That I don't want to see, but I know is going to be
And it seems I believe in a world
That I don't understand, but I'm stuck here anyway
Dreaming of a time I will stand and fight
But every night...
It's all in my head i can't do it
Show me what you do
To believe that tomorrow
Will belong to something good
Help me, I believe in a dagger
Hanging over our heads by the threads of our deceit
And I tell you that every time I argue it's like fighting a religion
I'm slamming every fact into a wall of superstition
And every day it feels the world's moved under me
And it's not helping me to see...
It's all in my head I can't do it
Show me what you do
To believe that tomorrow
Will belong to something good
Every calling has been called away
Every sense of belonging has turned to grey
So we drift through lives lived day to day
Hand to mouth and feet of clay
I don't know how we believe anymore
Like we can't open our eyes
And sometimes burning feels like summer
It's all in my head I can't do it
Show me what you do
To believe that tomorrow
Will belong to something good
In my head I can't do it
Show me what you do
To believe that tomorrow
Will belong to something good
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3. |
Different Class
04:11
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We met in a darkened hall
Your eyes, that's all I saw
Your face, I know that we've met somewhere before
You dance like an angel
Your smile is so bright
Your words are like nectar
And I could drink all night
And when we met before the distance was some
Impossible gap so I could not get to you
But now we dance like leopards spitting in the grass
Your eyes are fire, you're a different class
Now I bleed and you moan
I did not have the wherewithal
To watch my sides as I closed my eyes
And let you let me slither inside
And when we met before the distance was some
Impossible gap so I could not get to you
Now we dance like leopards spitting in the grass
Your eyes are fire, you're a different class
Now that night time falls
You've made your kill
Waiting hours for my blood to spill
My lungs are fire
My heart is ice
You are me, and I'm your vice
And when we met before the distance was some
Impossible gap so I could not get to you
Have we broken open some locked door?
A shield that's separating less from more?
Now we dance like leopards spitting in the grass
Your eyes are fire, you're a different class
You're a different class
You're a different class
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4. |
Like I Never Found You
04:28
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Listen now, if you need a friend
I'll stay right 'til the end
But if the feeling has gone
If your love is wrong
Don't ask me to go away
I got this feeling inside
Went away for a time
I'm happier when I'm with you
I see your smile light the room
Like the sun hasn't gone
But tomorrow when dawn happens
Nothing has changed
Do we endlessly dream or take charge of this scene?
Can I get around you?
Then the feeling might go, we'll move on with this show
Like I never found you
Like I never found you
Listen now, I know it's not easy
To love someone who understands you
There's nowhere to hide, there's no one to fight
Except for the parts of yourself you dislike
What could be harder than knowing yourself?
What could be harder than facing your fears
Reflected in the face of the one that you love
We're victims of our own understanding
Do we endlessly scream or take charge of this dream?
Can I get around you?
Then the feeling might go, we'll move on with this show
Like I never found you
Like I never found you
Tearing apart when we face anything
Harder to trust that we'll make it through
Easy as lust to retreat, but it hurts me
Do we endlessly scream or take charge of this dream?
Can I get around you?
Then the feeling might go, we'll move on with this show
Like I never found you
Like I never found you
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5. |
Pact
05:03
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I know that there's a way out of here
When life deceives, desperation can reveal
We lock the door but never throw away the key
I buried mine deep in the heart of me
Tell me that there's a place for me in this world
Can I believe that there's a life I can start from here?
I was told 'til I believed it I could be anything I could conceive
And just as I relied on that, you took that promise back from me
When i was born the world revealed itself to me
And as I grew the paths of possibility
Began to fade until at last, by life's decree
One road remained snaking through society
Tell me that there's a place for me in this world
Can I believe that there's a life I can start from here?
I was told as I got older I would forget my childish dreams
But they burn bright still, deep in the heart of me
Every day it's like I'm sinking into concrete
Every step that I can take just shapes the pieces
If they ever fit together I'll be complete
And I never want to get there, when I'm home it'll be over
Tell me that there's a place for me in this world
Can I believe that there's a life I can start from here?
Or are we sifting through the wreckage of a life we'll never lead
The dreams that you gave to me were never turned to memories
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6. |
Back of My Eyes
03:56
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I had a beautiful dream last night
Woke up in the cool morning light
There were trees in the garden swaying
Rustling leaves melting into traffic sounds
And lately when I look in the mirror
I think I can see much more of myself
More lines, more scars, more patches of life
They reveal who I am
Maybe I saw you, there in the back of my eye
Maybe I know it's you, you must be older now
When I was you I was a child and I
Saw the world so bright and proud
Now my life restarted, somehow
So you must be older now
I had a beautiful dream last night
Saw it all fall apart, guess I was right
But it was no big consolation
We wake up and we slide backwards every day
But are we looking at it the wrong way?
We always look back fondly on yesterday
Progress is a regression from the world
We learned to understand
Maybe I saw you, there in the back of my eye
Maybe I know it's you, you must be older now
When I was you I was a child and I
Saw the world so bright and proud
Now my life restarted, somehow
So you must be older now
And maybe through all these years
There's a child inside of me
One in me and one in you and forged of everything you do
Hammered in humility
Shamed into society
Older than the man you see and hiding in a world of tears
Every spark of dignity
Fades away 'til you can't see
The darkness in humanity
Numbed to what you clearly see
Maybe I saw you, there in the back of my eye
Maybe I know it's you, you must be older now
When I was you I was a child and I
Saw the world so bright and proud
Now my life restarted, somehow
So you must be older now
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7. |
Drown With Me, Angel
03:47
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When I think of you in the city
Walking with eyes so pretty
I can barely restrain myself
And I think you ought to know
That all those other souls
They don't understand you like me
Drown with me, Angel
You make my head so proud
Descend with me, Angel
You cannot turn this around
Dancing with friends in the city
Talking a talk so pithy
I barely remember it now
And if I am just swept aside
I will honestly cry
But I know it's not my fault
It's not my turn
It's not my world
Drown with me, Angel
You make my head so proud
Descend with me, Angel
You cannot turn this around
And I'm not invited into your house this time
And I, I'm not invited into your life so I wish it away
Drown with me, drown with me
Drown with me, I won't let go
Drown with me, Angel
You make my head so proud
Descend with me, Angel
You cannot turn this around
And I'm not invited into your house this time
And I, I'm not invited into your life so I wish it away
When I think of you in the city
Walking with eyes so pretty
I can barely restrain myself
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8. |
Hours are Slipping Away
04:26
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I have fallen to darkness
I have fallen today
I used to be so open
It's not my way
I was always someone you could count on
To know my own heart
But my friends have become strangers
I left them back at the start
We'll never get back this night
So while the hours are drifting away
We touch and we stray
We push back the veil of the night
And while the hours are slipping away
Just drifting away
I'm home
Now and then there's a place I can strain if I see
It belongs to you and me
Now it's so far above my head
It burns my sight to see
And now it's dark when I close my eyes
I don't think that I belong
Now I'm running from
Running from the cold
Into you
And we'll never get back this night
So while the hours are drifting away
We live them again
I push back the veil of the night
And while the hours are slipping away
Just drifting away
I'm home
I have fallen to darkness
I have fallen today
If I give my soft surrender
I'll betray the feelings that I came from
The visions that I owed
The dreams that I possess have turned to stone
And we'll never get back this night
So while the hours are drifting away
We might live them again
And strip back the veil of the night
And while the hours are ticking away
As time runs away
I'm home
Running ahead I have even begun
To forget why I'm running away from the sun
There are shadows, shadows of things I decline
I'm running backwards, I'm running blind
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The singer and soldier are one and the same
They both seem to play at quite different games
One seems so frightened of being exposed
The other is frightened of being alone
And I can't comprehend these fissures that we try to mend
I can't extract myself
It's fear that binds me now
And I'll try to be more than I'm able
And maybe one day I will see
If the life that I tried to prepare for
Is a life you can bring back to me
(Help me out, I'm your only friend
I'll be out when you need my help)
And away from the callings of every day
There's strength in forgiveness
Though my hands might break
Hammering blindly on every door
This scene feels so vital but I am ignored
And I try, you know I try
But you're never there
And you never were
So I'd call when I need you but it never reached you
And I'll try to be more than I'm able
And maybe one day I will see
If the life that I tried to prepare for
Is a life you can bring back to me
A life that's calling
(Help me out, I'm your only friend
I'll be out when you need my help)
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10. |
Beauty in this Gloom
04:01
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And where's your toleration?
It isn't complicated
I cannot change, evidently
It's not some lonely terror
it's not some inner vision
It's just something I simply see
That I need to change the way you feel
I could shake you
Make you shed a little fear
Shed a little fear for me
And I believe that I feel
Bone-tired but real
I know it's hard
But if every word you say is true
Then maybe I'm no good for you
Every time you tell a lie
You tell me that it's otherwise
I feel that life is falling on me
I was infatuated
I saw you hesitating
You didn't know how life could be
High up on your lonely mountain
Head in the clouds, you can't see nothing
Guess you're waiting for the sky to clear
Am I such a fool to find beauty in this gloom?
Now you wish it all away
Does it give me pride to slap you down
And hold you to the floor?
You might believe it
You might believe it
And I believe that I feel
Bone-tired but real
I know it's hard
But if every word you say is true
Then maybe I'm no good for you
Every time you tell a lie
You tell me that it's otherwise
I feel that life is falling on me
if every word you say is true
Then maybe I'm no good for you
Building castles in the sky
To throw their shadows far and wide
I feel that life is falling on me
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11. |
So Vivid Red
04:33
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I know I should go
I just don't know where any more
This morning light so bright and strange
Shines on me no more
So you will find me waiting here
In an empty room
With a hollow heart
And forgotten mind
Oh I need to find the door!
How I would follow, follow anyone
If I believed in anyone
But recently I've lost all hope
These days are like my oldest friends
After a point you learn to stop pretending
Live like the rose you held out for me
So vivid red, the centre of the scene
There's so much more we could say
But it's all stuck deep in my head
It's like a war in the back of my brain
And I just can't take any more
And even if I dare to look back
I can still see the tracks
That lead from where I stood in the heart of you
I knew I'd never change
And the soul destroys a day at a time
It's a brutal punchline
A crime embraced like a friend
But I can't take it any more
These days are like my oldest friends
After a point we learn to stop pretending
Live like the rose you held out for me
So vivid red, the centre of the scene
It ties your hands and haunts you still
That they were never on your side
Grinds you down, fades you out
Until your confidence breaks down
These days are like my oldest friends
After a point we learn to stop pretending
Live like the rose you held out for me
So vivid red inside of me
These days are like my oldest friends
After a point we learn to stop pretending
Live like the rose you held out for me
So vivid red, the centre of the scene
It ties your hands and haunts you still
That they were never on your side
Grinds you down and fades you out
They were never on your side
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12. |
There's a Place You Go
04:20
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April 1st my life has turned so wrong today
I wish we'd begin again
Lying in the waiting room as sunlight filters through the truth
Was not my plan
And oh, baby I'll hold you in my thoughts for a while
Confide in you at times
And let you in little moments of my life
And if I could fix the pieces of your nascent mind
Wired up by god, but in his wisdom set aside
And if life gets harder day by day
Hope supports me and time betrays
Now a year is in the way
It's a false recovery
Healing slower than you know
Oh, little phantom let me go
And now days are scattered by a wind so wild
Every memory aches, I think I'm looking for your crown
Your smile is an anchor on my life
And some great betrayal claimed me
It's so hard to turn around
So we all build our needs piece by piece
Life gets harder 'til we find release
I don't speak of quitting
I don't mean the end
I just mean finding a way to mend
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Horizoneer Birmingham, UK
UK-based singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist.
Former guitarist of Captain Horizon.
Likes poppy proggy indie rocky things.
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