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Oh, blinded now I see that I
Could not hold you
My orange tree left in the darkened
Room for three of us to share.

Oh maybe you were free before my
Blackened wind covered you
I took the sing from your song

Mama, cold hearted child, tell me how you feel
Just a blade in the grass, spoke unto the wheel
Mama, cold hearted child, tell me where it's all gone
The luster of your bones, those arms that held you strong

I been worryin' that my time is a little unclear
I been worryin' that I'm losing the one's I hold dear
I been worryin' that we all live our lives in the confines of fear

Seven bottles, seven bottles
And I'm weary
Yeah seven bottles, seven bottles
And I'm tired
And a long way from home
Seven bottles, seven bottles
And I'm lonely here out on the roads

As a child it was not there
Not scared of the blood
The creak and the thud inside your chest

Clearly calm I'm keeping terrorised
The ageless thaw of winter
Alone but by your side

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your light?
Am I forced beside you?
Am I in your heart?

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your heart?
Am I forced beside you?

Over these hills and valleys that I've seen is a young boy, I found shelter in the solitude, I found safety in the sea. And all these country lanes would twist and turn, young eyes would find, flicker in the darkness, then burn. Those were days so empty castles of concern when loved ones told me, that from disaster, we can always learn. In those hazy hours my mother would sit me down, said dont depend on tomorrow, cos tomorrow can sometimes let you down. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for a war? Are you ready for changes, change as the fall? Are you ready for this? are you ready for it all? Are you ready for changes, change as the fall? No car and airplane rides, oh i saw the world here with a brand new set of eyes. I met the devil at the crossroads, she was dressed in red. And her eyes were more beautiful than the stars. She laid my body down to rest under the bracken. And the moonlight covered the moors. And i swear there was music behind every door. We all fall down sometimes. We all feel the wings of tragedy. We all seek angels, angels in the hardest hours. We all feel the wings of tragedy rush against us.

"Black Flies"

Black flies on the windowsill
That we are
That we are
That we are to know
Winter stole summer's thrill
And the river's cracked and cold

Black flies on the windowsill
That we are
That we are
That we are to know
Winter stole summer's thrill
And the river's cracked and cold

See the sky is no man's land

Oh go, far from this small town bar we know
Yeah go, frolic in the lights that brought you here
So very long

And hold, hold your lips so tightly
That the shadows may go
Cause I know, I know, I know I know
You can never be alone

With brown eyes shining, short lane on a way to go,
And the sun tries you’re feeling home, I guess you’re broke
And we’re all sick of it, and breath tide up in someone’s hold,
And I screamed at you, Burgh Island, and see through your toes.

And if ever to leave, I’ll say before I go
That you’re the best moment I have ever known.

I threw a wish in the well
Don't ask me, I'll never tell
I looked to you as I fell
And now you're in my way
I trade my soul for a wish
Pennies and dimes for a kiss I wasn't looking for this
But now you're in my way
Your stare was holdin'

Shadows on the water,
From a memory that turns inside,
From the last time i saw you happier,
Than i've seen you in a long time.

And all these faces, Oh how they adore you
With every blessing, every strength of a storm.
And it seems to me it all worked out so different

Depth over distance every time, my dear
And this tree of ours may grow tall in the woods
But it's the roots that will bind us here
To the ground

Depth over distance was all I asked of you
And I may foolish to fall as I do
Still there's strength in the blindness you fear

All I am is the bones you made for me
So garishly clean
White as the horses that carry me away
And all my demons, you said, come and go with the days
A mind's will to play
I grow old in my ways.
Just like you do.

She's got a little house in town
I sometimes go around, there
To see her
And she let me deep inside
I sing her love songs
But she’ll turn them blind
Like she ain't the sentimental type
I keep my heart in my pocket and I hold

The end of the affair
The weight of the world
The kindness gone to bed
The way of your laughter
Alive in the halls
Did he hear, did he hear
The fumbled words you said

Oh, blinded, now I see
That I could not hold you
My orange tree,
Left in the darkened room for three of us to share.

Oh, maybe you were free,
Before my blackened wing covered you,
I took the sing from your song

Christmas flared amongst the somewhere cold deep evergreen
Built a world without your love and I built it in me
Christmas flared amongst the somewhere cold deep evergreen
Built a world without your love, now I'm all out at sea

Take me back to the catacombs, I am tempted by her love
Bluest eyes against my own skin, I have never been so caught up
Looking around I see memories, what it was, oh, what it was

Oh you
Screamed Hallelujah darling,
startled all the sleeping Starlins on the wire.
As we walked up the footpath through the fields,
how the rain did reveal your heart.
And the rope swing from the balance held the weight,
shadows fall and a cold wind blows.
And you said oh maybe we're just lost souls here,

My father he told me what goes around,
Comes, comes around again
The faces you see on the way up
Are those on the way back down, my friend
But you've been climbing shoulders around you
Trying to reach the big blue sky
And all above you is just the blackness, darling
And everything below you dies

How would you know?
When everything around you's changing like the weather,
A big black storm.
And where'd you turn to?
Or hide a ghost, a shadow at the most, would you let me know?
Cause I don't want to,
To trouble your mind with the childish design of how it all should go.
But I love you so,

Way up there / they think they've found
A world for us / to settle down
And I know? now / we failed somehow

Pick my feet / up from the ground
The hills 'ave roamed / into the clouds
And careless faces / lie in the alleyways
Where I've longed / for you

[Verse 1]
Oh hey, I wasn't listening
I was watching Syria
Blinded by the sunshine strip
You, you were in the kitchen
Oh your mariner's mouth the wounded with the wounder's whip

[Bridge 1]

Oh, hey,
I wasn't listening
I was watching Syria blinded by the sunshine strip
You, you were in the kitchen
Oh, your mariner’s mouth the wounded with the wounder's whip

And that's how summer passed oh,
The great divide and range of green green grass

Oh my ghost came by
Said who do you love the most
Who you wanna call before you die

Oh my ghost came by here
Said who do you love the most
Who you gonna sing to 'fore you're gone

Always a riddle in the world she said
Always a riddle inside my head
Always a thing of wonder
The way we come to be

Oh it's a big old place for me
Yeah it's a big old world indeed
Everyone is killing me and everything conspires

I spent my time watchin' the spaces that have grown between us.
And I cut my mind on second best or the scars that come with the greeness.
And I gave my eyes to the boredom, still the seabed wouldn't let me in,
and I tried my best to embrace the darkness in which I swim.
Oh the darkness in which I swim.

I'm walkin' back down this mountain
with the strength of a turnin' tide

I spent my time, watching
The spaces that have grown between us.
And I cut my mind on second best,
Oh the scars that come with the greenness.
And I gave my eyes to the boredom,
Still the seabed wouldn't let me in.
And I try my best to embrace the darkness
In which I swim.

Oh, how i wish i could drag you down here,
Pull these feet far from the ground
Because this, this city ain't no friend of mine
Ain't no friend.

All i can do
When the tracks stop at the final destination
Is just push on through,

If the devil came, I beg your pardom,
For I have not seen him.
Seems the cause of pain, causes silence.
Won't you let me in?
'cause every man I've seen to fight,
He fights himself alone.
And every burden every strike,
Is a lesson to behold.

Wonderin' why,
Oh wondering why,
You came here tonight.
Wonderin' why,
Oh wondering why,
Braved the rain,
Just to see my eyes.

Oh hot sand on toes cold sand in sleeping bags.
I come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shorn be down on bone and backs
so far from home where the ocean stood down dust and pine cone tracks

We slept like dogs down by the fire side
I walked to the fall where all around us the boom of summer time is

Go your way,
I'll take the long way 'round,
I'll find my own way down,
As I should.

And hold your gaze
There's coke in the Midas touch
A joke in the way that we rust,

Go your way,
I'll take the long way 'round,
I'll find my own way down,
As I should.

And hold your gaze
There's coke in the Midas touch
A joke in the way that we rust,

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had
The summer shone beat down on bony backs
So far from home where the ocean stood
Down dust and pine cone tracks

We slept like dogs down by the fire side

Old Pine

Hot sand on toes, cold sand in sleeping bags,
I've come to know that memories
Were the best things you ever had.
The summer shone beat down on bony backs,
So far from home, where the ocean stood,
Down dust and pine cone tracks.

"Promise"

And meet me there, bundles of flowers,
We wait through the hours of cold
Winter shall howl at the walls,
Tearing down doors of time.

Shelter as we go...

There is safety in the firelines,
There is black eyes all around,
I'm sleepless in the nighttime
The thorn in me shall never resign,
And the white dress is already sold,
At this hopeless hour that we've seen,
We lost the light of the morning star,
And we wonder where's the way,

Hold it in, the river in your mouth is pouring out
Water takes the shape of all that it surrounds
Yeah I know, I've been trying too hard
To keep in time with all of the hours in your day

Hold it in, they wouldn't let you out among the crowd
Not like that, these streets will tear you down
How it is, under my skin

Seen fortune in my lifetime
gave it all to the man instead
still tomorrow comes
I'm still standing on my own two feet
got a woman at home
she treats me well

Anger

Oh my mind!
I walk down Mayflower Road again
The wailing sun
Echoes from the park seem so absurd

The bus takes hours
I knew it would
But I can't shake the sting

Oh you watch me steady, you
Watch me with such a quiet sincerity
And you hold me heavy, you
Hold me like I was born to be held
And the light comes in here, yeah
Morning my dear, and the restlessness of arms
And we lie here longing now
Words were ours that we'll never be harmed

Mama, cold hearted child, tell me how you feel
Just a blade in the grass, spoke unto the wheel
Mama, cold hearted child, tell me where it's all gone
All the luster of your bones, those arms that held you strong

I've been worryin' that my time is a little unclear
I've been worryin' that I'm losing the ones I hold dear
I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

Lie here till your world stops spinning round
Lie near me till the birds start singing out
Come, show what it is to be warm:
Be my shelter and i'll be your storm.

Come, lie down till the four winds cease to blow
Lie here full of rivers that you know.
And i'll make your bones shake, the sweat we take from hearts still battered and worn.

Falling from high places, falling through lost spaces,
Now that we're lonely, now that there's nowhere to go.
Watching from both sides, these clock towers burning up,
I lost my time here, i lost my patience with it all.

We lost faith, in the arms of love.

Where you been hiding lately, where you been hiding from the news?

I saw red and yellow flowers outside
The brightest sunrise than i seen in a long time.

And through it all,
I stood and stumbled, waded through my thoughts and heart
Yeah through it all,
I fooled and fumbled, lost to the poet's frown.
I fought the wolves of patience just to let it lie down.

Wrapped up in dissonance
I'm sorry that I just walked away

Lost in the insignificance of mine
I had no words to say

Now I am better
I implore you to say It isn't right

"To Be Alone"

To be alone...
I don’t need no body, Oh I, I don’t need no body,
Oh I don’t need no body to be alone, to be alone.

And in the darkness a shallow poison it has grown,
I bite my tongue there’s a fever I will not let it show.

lie in your charms
Though it harms the best of me
And I lie on to my friends to them
No wonder why I wait for thee

And I hope like a child
Widow of the sea
I hold these arms around you

Maybe I could’ve change your mind

maybe you could’ve thought about someone else

rather than yourself, anybody but yourself

and I know you felt lonely

Maybe I could have changed your mind,
Maybe you would have thought about someone else,
Rather than yourself,
Anybody but yourself.

And I know you felt lonely,
I know people try to get you down,
And all around those laughing faces,

She's got a little house in town
I sometimes go around there to see her
And she let me deep inside
I sing her love songs, but she’ll turn them blind
Like she ain't the sentimental type
I keep my heart in my pocket and I hold
I hold it tight