1. |
Suture Nostalgia
01:49
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I am selling you a lie
a snakeoil salesman,
I ride into your town
stocked up with stolen supplies
dropping preset loops into his tracks
- but I stitch it together
where's the artistry in that?
- how I suture nostalgia
he's a talentless hack
- I am a collagist, a collector
he's a talentless hack
- that's my story and I'm sticking to it
a snakeoil salesman,
I ride into your town
stocked up with stolen supplies
I am selling you a lie
I am selling you a lie
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2. |
The Rain
01:03
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3. |
Érik
01:04
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Érik
they never understood you like I do
they never understood you at all
Érik
and you're only just gone
but I miss you like I never got to have you at all
Érik
they never understood you at all
but I loved you
they never understood you at all
Érik
and you're only just gone,
but I miss you like I never got to have you at all
but I loved you
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4. |
Synth Strings III
01:09
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how can I miss something that I never had?
I am retrofitting romance - did I ever even hold your hand?
and every song from a heart this insincere
will be draped in synth strings
because this is not the real thing
yeah pile on the synth strings
yeah pile on the synth strings
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5. |
Downcycling
01:34
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it's a human curse
making something worse
making something into something lesser
it's a human trait
taking something great
and then watching it degrade, hooray
I have been downcycling
contaminating everything
a perpetual worsening
it's a human curse
the material weakening
degrading and defunctioning
I have been downcycling
making something worse
I have been downcycling
contaminating everything
a perpetual worsening
it's a human curse
the material weakening
degrading and defunctioning
I have been downcycling
making something worse
I have been downcycling
contaminating everything
a perpetual worsening
it's a human curse
the material weakening
degrading and defunctioning
I have been downcycling
making something worse
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6. |
Seven Years In Regret
00:57
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my memory,
a pelican caught in the oil spill
my memory,
a house built on contaminated land
seven years,
remember and resent
seven years,
rueful I repent
my memory,
a forest gone up in flames
a pelican caught in the oil spill
a house built on contaminated land
seven years,
remember and resent
seven years,
rueful I repent
my memory,
a forest gone up in flames
a forest gone up in flames
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7. |
Live With It
01:08
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(I am not the way I wanted to be,
I am not the way I want to be)
as a child they filled your head
with ideas that you were meant for some kind of greatness
but now you're meant to pay your rent
they said you could achieve it all
they said you could be anything you wanted
they said you could achieve it all
I am not the way I want to be
oh but I will learn to live with it
I will learn to live with it
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8. |
Your Favourite NPC
01:28
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I wanna be your favourite NPC
I wanna be your favourite NPC
I know I'm just a bit part in your life
the way you're just a bit part too in mine
but I wanna be your favourite NPC
I know it's hard to think outside yourself
I know that you can't play as someone else
but I wanna be your favourite NPC
I wanna be your favourite NPC
I know I'm just a bit part in your life
I know I'm just a bit part in your life
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9. |
Hiss
01:46
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Once I focus on the hiss it's hard to tune it out
hard to hear anything else
when I am freaking out
when I
when I am freaking out
when I am freaking out
I am fine I'll tell myself
"I am fine" - but I'm freaking out
and the hiss is too damn loud
the hiss is so damn loud
I try to stop,
I try to fix,
I try to deal with this
but all I can hear is the hiss
stricken with fear of death
while listening to One Direction
correlation or causation?
cortisol and palpitations
I am fine I'll tell myself
I am fine I'll tell myself
"I am fine" - but I'm freaking out
and the hiss is too damn loud
the hiss is so damn loud
I try to stop,
I try to fix,
I try to deal with this
but all I can hear is the hiss
I try to stop,
I try to fix,
I try to deal with this
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10. |
Ambient-Folk Boyfriend
01:03
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all I want is an ambient-folk boyfriend
who'll sing me close mic'd sweet nothings
over fingerpicked guitars
and sad boy synth pad swells
all I want is an ambient-folk boyfriend
all I want is an ambient-folk boyfriend
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11. |
Flags
01:13
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sometimes it stretches out before you
as Camber Sands, low tide
an expanse so flat
you could walk a mile and not reach the water
I know a shift only takes a moment
suddenly you're running back
with a megaphone warning,
'the tide is changing,
you should swim between the flags
you should swim between the flags'
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12. |
Worst Hangover
01:19
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when random strangers ask you
if you're feeling alright?
you know you went too hard last night
... I got the worst hangover
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13. |
BAE
01:11
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he works equality and diversity
for BAE Systems
how progressive!
to fly the rainbow flag
whilst peddling munitions
- and I get it,
we're all in the employ of evil to some extent
but I kept my hands clean of blood
and still managed to pay the rent
but I kept my hands clean of blood
and still managed to pay the rent
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14. |
Dishonest Author
01:35
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listener, I hope you realise
that "telling stories is telling lies"
and these are but excerpts from my life
compiled and editorialised
does this make it all falsification?
a fiction of my own creation
how I curate an exhibition
through selection and omission
trying to impose some order
on the chaos we all live in
but I am a dishonest author;
apologies to B.S. Johnson...
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15. |
West Hill
01:02
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the streetlights look like stars from here
like I climbed above the atmosphere
like I'm bigger than the nothing that I am
like the town below is cradled in my hand
like there's beauty in the world again
like there's beauty in the world again
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16. |
Conversation
01:18
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it's a conversation that I don't wanna have
I heard it all before
oh won't you take the hint?
when I turn my back
I don't wanna hear from you any more
I heard it all before
I don't wanna hear from you any more
I heard it all before
I don't wanna hear from you any more
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17. |
Nasty Soave
01:18
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the cheapest bottle of wine I could find in the tesco express -
that's how we do when we know that we only want to get in a mess
I'll bring the nasty soave
boy
you bring the nasty nasty
boy
I'll bring the nasty soave
boy
that's how we do when we know that we only want to get in a mess
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18. |
B.D.S.R.S.
00:57
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I wanna write a rock song for you,
a big dumb stupid rock song
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19. |
A Lie A Lullaby
01:17
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a lie I tell myself when I am wide awake at 4am
"one day you'll beat this crippling fear, the pain inside your chest"
- a lullaby to sing yourself to sleep,
you know inside your anxious heart
this is the way you'll always be
- a lullaby to sing yourself to sleep,
you know inside your anxious heart
this is the way you'll always be
a lie I tell myself when I am wide awake at 4am
- a lullaby to sing yourself to sleep,
sing yourself to sleep
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20. |
Holding
01:05
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two boys in the gallery holding hands
I saw two boys in the gallery holding hands
I hope this world it doesn't get it's claws in you
I hope this world it never wears you down
I hope this world it doesn't beat the shit out of you
I hope this world it doesn't beat you down
I am holding out hope for you
I am holding out hope
I saw two boys in the gallery
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21. |
Kiss Of Death
01:15
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stopped writing songs for my friends
it was like a kiss of death
I watched them drift away
or move away
how I wrecked my vocal cords
for people I don't talk to any more
I watched them drift away
or move away
stopped writing songs for my friends
(how I wrecked my vocal cords)
stopped writing songs for my friends
(how I wrecked my vocal cords)
I watched them drift away
or move away
(people I don't talk to)
I watched them
I watched them drift away
or move away
(people I don't talk to any more)
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22. |
Magpie
01:30
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I build my nest out of the accomplishments of others
I take and I take
won't you look at what I make?
something shiny caught my eye,
something glistening,
now it's mine
I am a thief
I am a fraud
I am a magpie
I take and I take
won't you look at what I make?
I take and I take
I take and I take
won't you look at what I make?
magpie
I am a thief
I am a fraud
I am a magpie
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23. |
The Choir
01:06
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the choir never stops its song
it'll echo and repeat inside your head
forever and ever
and the voices telling you you're wrong
it's an earworm
it's a brainworm
it's a parasite
it goes like
it goes like this
it goes like
it goes like this
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24. |
Singer/Songwriter
02:45
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rust on your acoustic guitar -
boy you forget what you are...
still just a three chord wonder,
cursed to be a singer/songwriter
someone got a DAW and an APC
thought they'd go electronic,
do some ambient,
be pop,
but it's the same old shit that I was making before
just with a couple extra synth arps on top
x3
(still just a three chord wonder,
still just a three chord wonder,
rust on your acoustic guitar -
boy you forget what you are...
still just a three chord wonder,
cursed to be a singer/songwriter)
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25. |
First Guitar
01:06
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first guitar
played the crappiest songs
with the clumsiest hands
and I sung closeted words
about some genderless crush
and now the strings are rust
and now the strings are rust
and now the strings are rust
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