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January
04:56
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The aggression of the roads
The mettle of my endeavour
I’ve seen seasons change before
And this one’s cold
Jets of water vapour
The overwhelming pain of indifference
People think the machine
Is gonna be breaking down
The talent that makes me proud
The colours of her dictation
Dear sister,
Don’t let them ever tear you apart
The waste of hurting and hurt
This obsession with this lesson
Come on, tell me,
What sort of day have you had?
The feeling in my chest
As I’m burning out of breath
Is nothing like
The suffering I’ve seen
The melancholy of the roads
And the mettle of our endeavour
Oh my fucking Jesus!
Someone exploded in the night
The romance of the roads
The way the hill looms over the city
I’m feeling tired and drained
But ready to journey on
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Big Blue Emptiness
02:41
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It’s that same old big blue emptiness again
But this time there’s stars and that means you’ve got friends
And that big half moon lights up your way home
And you know that you’re alive and a little less alone
And that blue globe of night expands cold into daylight
And you feel like a fool even though everything is all right
You’re living through music ‘cause that eases the time
And don’t you forget about whisky and wine
And that photograph helped in its own little way
To make a clear memory of that measly little day
You wish things today were as vivid as then
Or that you could just care or that things just made sense
‘Cause more and more it looks like you’re gonna fuck up
Or at best die lonely having drunk from life’s cup
But if what happens, happens then it’s no surprise
‘Cause you’re nothing and something in nobody’s and somebody’s eyes
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Frame [EP Version]
04:37
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I could jump off and stop a while in this country
Full of sticky fingers
And some sort of genuine awareness of the seasons
Where there’s a cool room on a hot day
And you’re lying on your back with the pulsing in your abdomen
And there’s questions and answers
And all these natural things
And loving in the evening
I could live there
Or I could not
I could jump off and stop a while in that other country
Where women deserve they what they get
And that’s all they get, so just shhh...
Where presentation’s revered and love is presentation
And performance and wanting and cynical in an instant
And there’s crashing and thunder
And all these temporary things
And it’s bitter in the evening
I could live there
Or go away
You know what you’ve been told
You know what you’ve been sold
You know what you’ve been told
You know what you’ve been sold
Remember it can sometimes be scary
I know I’ll end up in the world I frame with my own mind
But on the eve of this occasion
I don’t know what it is that I’m supposed to say
There’s such a thing as putting too much pressure on ourselves
Amongst illness and tiredness and the idea of a home
But you say my eyes light up
And I know that I miss you
When I’m away...
You know what you’ve been told
You know what you’ve been sold
You know what you’ve been told
You know what you’ve been sold
Sometimes it can be so scary
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Skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny girl
You’ve got a vulgar control but not enough soul
Tell us what you’re fighting this war for
Can you really live your life
Dreaming about what’s underneath the floor?
Dying, dying, dying, dying man
Would you give us all your mind before you disappear?
Regret, passion, fear and nothingness
Is that all that separates you
From now and what happens next?
Two chord, two chord, two chord, two chord song
Tell me about autumn trees and how they do their best
Decade of shyness and hurt and misery
Down the tears roll
You mean so much to me
Decade of calm and pure and dignity
So down these tears roll
You mean so much to me
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[instrumental]
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LensFlare Scotland, UK
LensFlare is singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Peter Wilkinson with fretted inputs from long-time collaborator Malcolm Levitt.
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