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Hello Sleep
04:30
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Oh little darling go
oh little darling row
on down the stream
that day will pale
like smoke gone stale
But first through murky green and
bitter faces time and time again you've seen
in shrines you built, so bittersweet and
to indigo and two walls meet again
You stir and you yearn and you churn
and oh my god
Restless stirring
Stomach churning
and the showreel keeps unwinding
what was I thinking
all my words blurring
I should stop drinking
but it's my only way to keep up
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Don't wish it away, you don't have to
don't wish it away
oh my, time flies
and i remember how I rolled my eyes
soon as you're born, start to yawn
I remember how timeless the skies seemed
I can't eat, can't sleep
a little scrape could run so deep
now I'm scared, so unprepared
wish i hadn't wished it all away
Don't wish it away, you don't have to
don't wish it away
alone, a decade grown
a fog forgot
be what you're not
picked up, dropped off
in the big gold glare of a cornfield
mile wide, can't hide
wind dancing round your scaredy-crow grin
everybody told you it would be this way
you didn't listen you were on your way
with a jumpstart, kick it out
with a jumpstart, kick it out
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Matchstick Legs
07:07
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Oh my god say it ain't so
matchstick legs got nowhere to go
shuffling through the afterglow
matchstick legs got nowhere to go
Oh my god say it ain't so
matchstick legs got nowhere to go
shuffling through the afterglow
but china cheeks won't let you grow
so you move them and you break them
and you start again
on the pyre again
and you shake them cause you ain't them
and you ache but
you ignite again
and I won't tear you apart
and I won't tear you apart
When your paper seams become unglued
and the animal splinters out of you
and you curse the walls for their untruths
well you're lying to yourself
it's for you to choose
and you'll be alright
you'll be just fine
When the pressure clouds like cellophane
and you're tapped like a balloon into a place
where you pour yourself into a haze
put one foot forth and then again
and you'll be alright
you'll be just fine
another flower on a washed out window pane
another moment to be added to a picture frame
another scale sewn on to your patchwork back
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People Watching
04:08
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There's a man's face across the road
half cut by the straight edge white border of his window
been sat there for ages, then again so have I
two sedentary strangers in the glow of countless nights
Avert my attention to the window in between
Cheshire smile of a pumpkin
been sat there since Halloween
the blinds are down, the inside can't be seen
but the face full of maggots, a slice of the times that have been
faces I see daily, names I'll never know
and to think that we'll all pack it all up
pick it all up and then go
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Get to Rest
05:10
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Propped up by a hazy brain
you feel the way you did again
and now it's all washed away
all washed away
I must confess it went that way
like I was acting on a stage
born out of clay and mud and rage
with a backdrop overlaid
disparity, a slight delay
Feeling severed from your age and writing letters to a page
until it's all gone away
it's gone away
has it gone away
Things you do to get to rest are
only ever gonna test you
but you know it now
but you know it now
so you know it now
Next thing I'm lying in that space again
oh, if I'd have seen me then
I don't know where he likes to put it
and at the time I think just screw it
cause I was acting on a stage
born out of clay and mud and rage
with a backdrop overlaid
disparity, a slight delay
Feeling severed from your age and writing letters to a page
until it's all gone away
it's gone away
has it gone away
Things you do to get to rest are
only ever gonna test you
but you know it now
but you know it now
so you know it now
I just pretend and pretend
that I found rest
lay my head on pillow's chest
that I found it, found it and would die for it
I'm a lawyer, baker, collector
I'm a boy and I never would hurt her
anemoia, twirling in a round skirt
I'm a boy and I never would hurt her
(and I just pretend and pretend)
that I'm anything, anything but something
I'm the rough tide, crouching on a hillside
(and I just pretend and pretend)
that I'm anything
Feeling severed from your age and writing letters to a page
until it's all gone away
it's gone away
has it gone away
Things you do to get to rest are
only ever gonna test you
but you know it now
but you know it now
so you know it now
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Asimo
05:05
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Still Ones
04:54
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Stillness comes and goes
it wanes and grows
a wind might blow
and see you falling to your knees
and so it goes
a winter rose shines through the snow
but what of those
where do the still ones go
do they diverge and they submerge and let it go
trying to turn it around
trying to make sense of the ground
lady walked by and I didn't wanna be her
limp eyes in grey, a concrete queen
like a piece of her crumbled and veered out of sight
and lost the compass that could guide her left and right
she looked clever yet clobbered down
flower found its way back into the ground
wants to be evergreen, she strains
Is that the way it is
the paint don't drip
your landscape sticks
and so it goes
a winter rose shines through the snow
but what of those
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Until When
04:51
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Will I get old in a world stuck the same
full of speakers blaring rage and hate and fingers pointing blame
where joy's reduced to being luxury, all fun and game
and the ego seems to echo all over again
who will save me
we cry, we spin
someone take my turn cause I don't know where to begin
and we watch and we wait
cause there's not much we can do to save
and your daughters stand in shadow
and it's leaking
and they paddle like before
and again
until when
Nobody told you what the world owed you but it wasn't to feel scared
bombarded by alarm bells, they got everyone ensnared and unprepared
try to let go, throw it all away
down the drain
but you're starting to feel tense and nervous getting on a train
and your daughters stand in shadow
and it's leaking
and they paddle like before
and again
until when
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Lighthouse in a silk night waving out into the sky
and you shudder and you cry
lighthouse in a silk night waving out into the sky
and you act like you're in flight
So you lie low and you sit tight
ditch the curved line and then stop to burn your pride
never wanted to be shy and it aches to try
to dance with no one by your side
Garish grin, the wind sticks to your skin
and all your thoughts cascading down to clot and latch onto one thing
two hours to go til you resign and slide back in
or take a twenty minute shower in which the razor cuts your shin
a pallid light and to you the soap smells sickeningly nice
petroleum and artificial spice
there to wallow, you slump against the tiles and hope the ceiling doesn't follow
So you lie low and you sit tight
ditch the curved line and then stop to burn your pride
never wanted to be shy and it aches to try
to dance with no one by your side
Always out of sight
cause the grey kept coming by
never wanted to be so shy
but it will make your world to dance with no one by your side
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10. |
Goodbye Room
06:08
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Am I going to make it
am I going to break yet
oh mama, who am I who are we
oh mama, who am I who are we
I'm alive and I'm fraying with regret
say why haven't I rattled this out yet
oh mama, who am I who are we
oh mama, who am I who are we
Take a little time to humour me
there's a preconception misdirecting you or maybe me
but let's throw them in the sea
throw them in the sea
Nobody told you what the world owed you
but it wasn't to
Nobody told you what the world owed you
but it wasn't to
(bow to commotion, let emotion get the best of you)
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Phoenix Mundy Bristol, UK
Songwriter/producer/bedroom tinkerer
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(fka Patchwork Guilt)
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