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About a Dog
04:28
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It rained the other Tuesday
outside the tunnel walkway
You said "I have to see you,
come meet me on the hill"
You pulled across the table
(and don't think I'm ungrateful)
A girl in your position
could shred the opposition
And I talked some shit
And you called me on it
And I want to be the only
The friend that you are phoning
I long to walk away from
this lonely occupation
I want to be the hero
the timer nearing zero
I want to take this boredom
and nail it to the ceiling
And I speak some shit
And you call me on it
and then some...
It rained the other Tuesday
I was lying in the hallway
You said "I have to see you,
I'll meet you on the hill"
You held the glass away from
this lonely occupation
A girl in your position
has better things to live on
And I spoke some shit
And you called me on it
But I meant what I said
And you meant what you did
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Surfacing
03:35
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A walk around a river, a moment in the aisle
A table full of strangers, the fastest ever mile
A cafe on the seafront, a half-shark in the rain
A car stopped in a gateway, and a car stopped there again
Like surfacing
Like surfacing
It's all forgiven
It's like surfacing
A fire after the rainstorm, a box of broken stuff
The ants who climb the wall there, a cluttered kind of love
The last one in the shopfront, a ladder painted black
The starlight on the carpet, and all the words I lack
Like surfacing
Like surfacing
It's all forgiven
It's like surfacing
And you've seen me with the lights on and you've heard it all before you could write it with the lights off you could scrawl it on the floor and it's less the way it happened and it's not the way it was but I bought it from somebody and I sold it at a loss and it's not that I don't want to cos I always always do but the nights are getting longer and I'm breaking things in two for the
feeling.
stars.
out.
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3. |
Another Us
02:10
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Leave the sound on
Leave the lights on
Keep yourself awake
Lock the cupboards
Break them inwards
Stop for heaven's sake
It's so obvious
There's another us
Leave your coat on
Tear the curtain
Meet in person now
Hide the contents
Keep them content
Keep them asking how
It's so obvious
There's another us
Somewhere more than here
Somewhere nowhere near
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4. |
Behind The Screen
04:26
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Hands Up
You're just stalling now
Stop trying to change your lines
Back up
It's a big one tonight
Spent stuck on patterned tiles
Left up
to you we would just
spend every night indoors
It's tired
This small town ennui
You wore out mine, I wore out yours
And all I'll ever be
Is all I was before
Hands up
All avoidable
If we just stayed here inside
Back up
the one club again
Back in the same tired lines
And ll I'll ever be
Is all I was before
And all these disco lights?
Just a plastic floor
Hands up
if you've seen this one before
I can't get of off the stairs
Back up
The third floor is quiet
Like anyone even cares
And ll I'll ever be
Is all I was before
And all these disco lights?
Just a plastic floor
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5. |
Snowdrifts
04:12
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Here the tree fell
Here the dogs decide
Sideways snow fall
Drifting on one side
I'm calling it in
The state that we're in
The state of this thing
Is calling us in
Here the dogs run
Here the fields unwind
Sideways tree fall
Something on my mind
I'm calling it in
The state that we're in
The state of this thing
Is calling us in
Here the hand hold
Here the skin and sighs
Here the swing pulled
colour from your eyes
I'm calling it in
The state that we're in
The state of this thing
Is calling us in
And this isn't true
There's nothing to do
I heard the call too
I'm glad it was you
I'm glad it was you
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6. |
Hymn
04:24
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Dock the lights on Main Street
Bring the cat inside
Wrap the windows tightly
Velvet trap of night
Light the trees from this way
See the branches dry
Halogen the pavement
Wash your tired eyes
Pull the broken gateway
Straight across the line
Throw to flow the back way
Washed up on the sides
Motorway horizon
Down the aircraft glide
Meteors and flightpaths
Thank you and goodnight
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Rob Britton London, UK
Just can't stop making albums, it seems! I am also in Luxembourg, Menaces, Laverne and Keith Top of the Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band, so go and look at their pages. They're good!
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