1. |
Be
04:37
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Choices fall in drops of future
I don’t know what brought me here
People swallow paper gladly
Nothing seems too real to fear
So I just wait inside this day
Show me all the walls I have
I don’t know what makes them stand
Friendship pulled across a cable
Nothing fits inside my hand
So I just wait inside this day
I just wait inside this day
Can I be a total colour?
Am I happy in this spectrum?
Do you see the same red?
Love me with a voice of silver
I will look into your heavens
If your eyes cloud your head
And we’ll lie; we won’t sleep
Just tonight, we’ll just be
Finally I see a star that’s
Brighter than these poles electric
And I know there is more
Dig a hole and let us bury
Memories of hope more sturdy
So we can walk this floor
And we’ll give all we dare
Our whole lives are out there, somewhere
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2. |
Only Sing
03:20
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Seven hours in the sun
Watching all the world rotate
And I didn’t know where to look
Except in your eyes
And there were no answers to any of my questions
But it didn’t matter
Never mind if you don’t
Point yourself forwards or backwards
And who cares what they say?
This moment’s still ours
And there is no source to this brilliant reflection
But the light still flashes
Tear me off this rotting bridge
I’ve never known if I can swim
I saw the dirty riverbed and
Now I only want to fly
Held me up on a string
Knowing that the wind could take me
Whenever it did please
But it had gone home
And I know you’ve trained me to only truly trust you
Perhaps that is best
Can you see me?
Snatch me from this crumbling belief
I cannot feel but only sing
I saw you touch that broken peace
I think I’ll never die
Seven hours in the sun
Watching all the world rotate
And we didn’t know where to look
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3. |
Leaving
03:18
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Thick red line above my head
I’m leaving this behind
Yours is just a one-note song
I’ll drive it from my mind
I won’t sweat just to forget
The riches I can’t buy
Give me air ’cause I can’t bear
How low you want to fly
All your promises of certainty
You can keep them; the truth’s for me
Fields of love and sunlit trees
I’d never seen before
Even when gold was my friend
I knew I needed more
You can’t buy me with your words
Not with your castle walls
Through the night I’ll chase the light
The gilded circle calls
All your promises of certainty
You can keep them; the truth’s for me
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4. |
Other
04:06
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Lover, this is just what I am, lover
Lover, seven fingers on my hand, lover
Lover, you can’t tell me I am young, lover
Lover, this is just what I am: other
Biting up to taste what fate is placing in my world
Something tells me I should keep from thinking of you, girl
But I can’t leave this maze
Brother, I wish your soul were made of skin, brother
Brother, I wish your sky would let me in, brother
Brother, you’re the keeper of my blood, brother
Brother, I wish your soul would give me cover
Biting up to taste what fate is placing in my world
Something tells me everything is telling me to turn
But I can’t leave this maze
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Do all roads just lead back
To where I am stood, so landlocked?
And I see half of this sphere
But that cannot be: I'm just here
And I never feel any distance between us
We're only stops on a line
In this topographical life in an open maze
And I won't go; it's all that I know
And I can't see; ’cause change is not free
And I won't go; oh, let me be slow
I can't leave
My eyes yearn for a sweep
That's broader than time in its sleep
But as I climb the last stair
The vertigo hits; I only see air
So raindrops and helicopters are the horizon
Fill me with colour
You are all promises of an extended dream
And I won't go; it's all that I know
And I can't see; ’cause change is not free
And I won't go; oh, let me be slow
I can't leave
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6. |
Old Ears
04:15
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Don’t tell me I am free
Those old ears can’t hear me
I hope that one day your red vision fades
And you can see life in more than two shades
But oh, until then, what dangers we ride
You throw our hope to the incoming tide
Grey hearts say, “Come what may;
I won’t live outside of today”
I know that time says I must take your place
And draw all your lines of age on my face
But oh, until then, I’ll fight teeth and nails
The last stone I throw may yet tip the scales
I hope that one day your red vision fades
And you can see life in more than two shades
But oh, until then, what dangers we ride
You throw our hope to the incoming tide
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7. |
Real Life
03:37
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There must be something that is getting in the way
Of my ever-growing self
This life is squeezing me and forcing me to pay
For each hour of indecision
For each breath I claim for health
Hand me a sugar cube and a roaring flame
And I’ll soak before the screen
If you have ever tasted emptiness
Then you will share this banquet with me
You’ll know exactly what I mean
This can’t be the real life
Can I be born now?
Take me off your list, please
Get me out somehow!
They told me I should save up for a set of tyres
So I started pumping in the air
But I’m still not sure
I walked kilometres in my socks to find
That the bank had been closed down
I like the smell of smoke and the empty streets
But I don’t know if I can stay here
Better find myself a new town
This can’t be the real life
Can I be born now?
Take me off your list, please
Get me out somehow!
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8. |
Slow-Forward
05:15
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I always used to say “My glass is full”
It was the only way to keep out “you”
But now I only speak with stones and sun
I’ve never felt so free as when I was no-one
And I let it drop
And I give it up
Slow-forward to the past, where thoughts were pure
No need to hold on fast to all your mind procured
Now I let every drop run over me
I’ve never felt so real as when I was free
And I take it back
And I make it mine
The letters have been coloured
I’ll never sleep again
And this is what I dream of
For us
The green under my soles: a path I know
I’m blissful, always lost, nowhere to go
This world I’ve built to scale, each corner home
I breathe now, it’s all I do
The numbers have been scattered
I’ll never sleep again
And this is what I hope for
For us
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Sam Brightbart London, UK
I never write the same song twice. I'm happy just to roll the dice.
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