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Ballad for a lost Friend
04:40
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Lyrics: BALLAD FOR A LOST FRIEND
I broke my journey
To be with a friend
He’d lost the will to follow
Breathing out with breathing in
With one eye on the optic
Wrapping bacon round the veal
So his bladder did the thinking
And time took everything that it could steal
CHORUS
My face is honest
What you see is what I feel
Whatever I was thinking
I was obliged to reveal
If looking right through me
Is all it takes to get you through the day
I could gladly be transparent
Or better still just go away
The last time that I saw him
A matter of a few short weeks
He went screamng through his twenties
And wound up sodden on a beach
I read the letters that you wrote me
A second time, what could they teach
My naive eyes, to my surprise
All their meanings had been breached
CHORUS
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2. |
Oxblood shoes
06:11
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Lyrics: OXBLOOD SHOES
Love me
Love my ox blood shoes
Love the words that I use
Love my cynical tone
The fact that I never phone
Love me
Love my psorytic skin
My unbelievable shins
The way I burst into tears
Frequency grows with the years
CHORUS
Just like my ox blood shoes
My sole is cracked
And my tong is loose
Will you throw us away
Or will you dry me out
On that rainy day
Love me
For trying too hard to please
For what nobody sees
For my perpetual rage
Why must things always change
Love me
The bad directions I take
The fact that I cant recall
A date you write on the wall
Or even anyone’s name
Dear god its always the same
CHORUS
Instrumental
Love me
love my runcible face
My lack of measurable grace
To see you need to be told
Your heart and soul are both gold
CHORUS
Repeat
VERSE
Love me
Because I love you true
Because I love you so hard
My love could flatten the Dales
I could love for Wales
Could draw oil out of shales
VERSE
Love me
Because without it I’d cease
To believe in myself
Or in anyone else
My ox blood shoes
Would remain on the shelf
Beside my will to exist
Doubt my hands could make fists
Doubt my breath would persist
CHORUS
Repeat
VERSE
Love me
Love the dog we don't have
The bike I sold for a song
Our kids who all turned out strong
Our coffee table’s a log
The way it works when we snog
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3. |
All the animals
06:37
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Lyrics: ALL THE ANIMALS
Take a look at all the animals
Living in my zoo
They’re a part of my irascible
Psyche too
One day there’s a cane rat
Ocelot and pookie too
They may never be seen again
Till I see them in you
CHORUS
Take care of my fate
Whatever you do
Whatever I am
Depends on you
We set off on an incredible
Journey through
Time space and an infallible
Road to you
If things could be different
Then where’s the clue
I could move the whole of Switzerland
To get to you
CHORUS
Repeat
As middle eight.
CHORUS
Repeat
Take a look at all these animals
Living in my zoo
Some sit in muddy water holes
Some are just swinging through
If the box full of memories
Could be pulled in two
Would the part thats attached to me
Resemble you?
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Blue flame
03:23
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Lyrics: BLUE FLAME
There’s a blue flame
Burning daily in my heart
And I can't tell whether Im failing
The slightest perturbation
Will blow it all apart
You’ll see my whole life
Tied to the railings
Band of brothers and
Band of gold
Ban the bomb and
Bambinos
Is there still such a thing as children's clothes
Sacred cows
And the life I chose?
I’ll hold the taxi
While you lock up all our dreams
Where is that fruitless stand
We’ve been making
There’s an ice cold finger
Picking at my seams
What is left
Is ours for the taking
Bottled water and
Battle scars
Women love babies
And men love cars
I never did feel
Relaxed in bars
Even open sewers
Can reflect the stars
If all I am is a zillion
Vibrating little strings
And all the mass and force
That they carry
If there’s a god
There wont be much room left for him
Until he shows that he cares
For my family
Bread of heaven
And toast and cheese
Excuse my reticence
I’ll save my knees
Who will benefit
Who gets rich?
Which omnipotent
Would stone the bitch?
Yes I'm a traveller
And I carry this for you
I hope the noise you’re in
Lets you hear it
If we don't do the things
We really ought to do
They will remain undone
In our children
Six remotes in the living room
You really should try to cross it soon
Of course it matters
How you make him feel
He’ll take the charity
But hates the deal
There’s a blue flame
Burning daily in my heart
And I cant tell whether Im failing.
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I'm holding my breath
04:36
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I’M HOLDING MY BREATH
I’m holding my breath
Till I know you’re alright
And I’m staying awake
All through the night
Till I see a shooting star
Towing trailers full of love
And everything you’ll ever need
Including time to be yourself
Including time to be someone else
Chorus
I know my destiny
Is closely woven in with yours
There’s nothing left of me when you’re gone
I’m concentrating hard
And I’m going into work
‘cause I know beyond a doubt
I must finish this thing off
Im expecting only hail
But you bring me sunshine in spades
You bring me sunshine when it rains
Chorus
I hope you have a world
Of fifty years ago
With its wilderness intact
As a place where you could go
May your days last as long
As they did when you were small
As they did when you were young
Chorus
We’ll watch the moon loose weight
We’ll watch it put it on again
You’ll see the passing of the years
When you look into my face
And we’ll break the link with time
By running fast around the bed
Yes we’ll break the link with time
Or was that something that I said?
I guess its something that I said
Chorus (alt)
My only legacy
Is in the memories that you hold
You’ll find the rest of me
Will soon be…
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Wish upon a chicken bone
04:37
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WISH UPON A CHICKEN BONE
She kissed me square on the teeth
While I was smiling and to my relief
Things happened In spite of me
Love grows like a coral reef
Hold on for long enough
And every thought that ever there was
Will cross your mind In a fork lift truck
Just looking for Baggage to pick up
CHORUS
Superstition
Suspicion
Contrition
Sanctimony
My ambition
A quick incision
And remove them all
From the dictionary
The whole truth takes a running jump
And perception morphs Into nothing but
A self fuelling dichotomy
Wraps itself round your cable TV
Can she just shrug it off
Or will it all just become too much
Love, faith, hope and trust
On a die And you can throw it twice
CHORUS
Repeat
You might wish on a chicken bone
Knock on wood hope you’ll find her home
Will and want your mobile phone
To come alive and show her face
Meanwhile back at old Methuselah’s
You drop your paunch and all pretence
Can you be as happy now as then
Decaying functions waiting round the bend
CHORUS
Repeat
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7. |
The fairway
03:17
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Lyrics: FORGOTTEN BY THE FAIRWAY
Your DNA is twisted
You never had any sisters
You were rushed into existence
And spent years finding shapes
You might fit in
An unnatural education
Delivered like abrasions
One reinforcement rule
The more you need it, you’ll
Find the more you have to wait
And if the river’s so wide
You cant see the other side
It might as well be an ocean
And all the sailors say
If you pay off today
You’ll be forgotten by the fairway
And every person you befriended
Have all eventually surrendered
When your nihilism rendered
Them devoid of any energy or hope
And if free will is an illusion
Lets all relax and go on boozing
And if the little voice
Is all that counts for choice
There must be a (vacuous) silence
In your head
CHORUS
Repeat
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Because I say so
03:42
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Lyrics: BECAUSE I SAY SO
So she’ll say
Wipe your mouth
North, east and south
‘Cause I say so
Yes I say so
Make a list
And what you call this?
Didn't I say so?
Yes I say so
Why’d you always
See the faults and the worst in everyone
Just for once
Wont you show some faith
What didn’t you pack
I’m not turning back
‘Cause I say so
Yes I say so
Of course I do
And I know you do too
‘Cause I say so
Yes I say so
I can feel the warmth
Of a dozen different suns
Every time I look at you
Grab your coat
Take life by the throat
‘Cause I say so
Look its unalloyed
A single crystal and doped with joy
My love’s faithful
I freakin’ say so
We might have
Just a little bit longer
To joke
And mess around
There’s no turning back
So take up the slack
And kiss this cake hole
‘Cause I say so
Yes I say so
And you say so
Go on an say so…
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