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Houses of the Sun
05:16
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HOUSES OF THE SUN
The prince of ice sleeps streamed with bells
Through the departing village
Butterfat goose girls
All birds and beasts
Carry him through covers after dark
To their houses of the sun
Black priests in green chapels
Paint stained and silent
Poisoning the apple
In a children's poem
Congregate like chambers in a gun
In their houses of the sun
Trying to crawl into the light
There's no rain it's over
The dying slip into the night
There's no pain it's over
Through the middle passage
Drugged, white and frozen
Underneath the flashes
Seas are overflowing
Seraphim wave the water on
From their houses of the sun
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Cold Waves
02:55
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COLD WAVES
Sometimes when I sleep
I feel like my mother's dream
Frozen in a stream
Flowing out to sea
Cold waves
Cold waves and ice
Long way
Long way from light
Imitated green
Stripes across the floor
I see it through a screen
Before I learn to crawl
Cold waves
Cold waves and ice
Long way
Long way from light
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3. |
The Boat
03:39
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THE BOAT
Idle sky
The distant lights are stretching out across the bay
I don't remember how we came this way?
We made it back, we made it back
but we're on a boat
There's no direction, there's no direction
Hail, it's letting in water and hail
The sun in my eyes
Inside the boat they fear the coming of the day
They're throwing coins into an open grate
They're pulling down, they're pulling down,
all the tapestries
The men have spoken, the men have spoken
Hail, it's letting in water and hail
We made it back, we made it back
but we're on a boat
There's no direction, there's no direction
Hail, it's letting in water and hail
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SWITCHING OFF THE PERFUME GARDEN
A mistake was made last night
Switching off the perfume garden
All the pink, all the pink lights
Are vanishing
All the kids with their fake hearts
Lying down by the gloomy river
Where the lightening is frozen
In a horse's eye
Well the mistakes, they were all mine
I left the leaves in the frozen harbour
Well the mistakes, they were all mine
And it never ends
Darling, I fear
That we're living in King Lear
And the roots are dying
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Drake
03:58
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DRAKE
Think about this and listen
Think about what is and isn't
They want to see you fall in
They want to see you fall in
Lying in a bed of roses
Lying in a bed of roses
They want to send you flowers
They want to send you flowers
They want to drag you under
I want to pull you up again
They want to have all the power
They want to see you suffer
They want to see your suffering
They want to see your suffering
Ghost in abandoned light shot
Ghost in abandoned light shot
I'm at the head of the table
I'm at the head of the table
I want to drag you under
They want to pull you up again
They want to have all the power
They want to send you flowers
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Horseback
04:28
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HORSEBACK
Horseback into the dark of the pen
I'm living in a doll's house again
I've dreamt about that jump a hundred times
What doesn't break your fall will break your mind
I have no memory of you
All nuts and tired
After what we went through
I have no memory of you
Horseback into the dark of the bed
Someone's turning a car up ahead
I'll ride until the rhythm makes me sore
And I can't feel the reins anymore
I have this picture of you
Jump in the weir
That is what you should do
I have this picture of you
Riding
Riding
Keep
Riding
I have this picture of you
Riding through a band of trees
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OUTWARD TRAVEL MUST NOT BE IN THE PAST
Somewhere in your eyes
I can feel myself moving
I'm coming back in disguise
I'm coming back wasted
Slow trains that move like they're fast
Outward travel must not be in the past
Waking up like a fool
My right hand is bleeding
I see a crack in the door
It's just a crack - but that's not nothing
Filling with water and skin
Forgive me my daughter
I cannot go in
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White Bear
04:11
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WHITE BEAR
I drift for many hours
A monarch of the air
I'll cross the street from this one
I know she's scared
I see myself in sunset
I dance off ‘cross the lake
I'm trying to make it through your eyes
Into the grey
I know what you are
White bear
I fell asleep inside a trench coat
And I woke up full of meat
This whole town's full of mouths
That no-one feeds
I don't want you here
White bear
Now I see
You are taller than lampshade
She is standing in the palisade
I drift for many hours
A monarch of the air
I'll cross the street from this one
There's no-one there
I know what you are
White bear
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Simon's Beach
03:44
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SIMON'S BEACH
They want to take my mouth away and
leave me wide open
Rain falling on my back
All the fish in the water
Have body dysmorphia
I have a feeling that it's getting dark on the rivers
Simon, to pass the time,
is skimming stones on the ocean
Ships singing through the fog
This is the end of the journey
Like Christ in his thirties
I have a feeling that it's getting darker everyday
Diving beneath my rocks
to find the pearl in the oyster
Fishermen wading out
Dragging their nets through the water
Singing songs for the orcas
I have a feeling that it's getting darker everyday
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Tide
04:55
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TIDE
Maybe when the tide comes in
Maybe when the tide comes in
The babies will learn to swim
Sinking through a hole again
Sinking through a hole again
Somewhere the light won't bend
Maybe when the tide comes in
Maybe when the tide comes in
In arms
In babies arms, in babies arms, in babies arms
In babies
Black paper slides
Maybe when the tide comes in
Maybe when the tide comes in
The babies will learn to swim
Sinking through a hole again
Singing through a hole again
In arms
In babies arms, in babies arms, in babies arms
In babies
Black paper slides
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The Blood Choir England, UK
"The Blood Choir is a unique amalgam of elements: arena rock, Norwegian style ambience, noise-pop, metal, and emotive singer- songwriter ..." The band, consisting of Robin Maddicott and Joe Mountain, are originally from Bristol, England, but are now based between the UK and Denmark. ... more
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