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Tightrope Walkers
03:49
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When the rain is set, cover
And when you lose your grip, focus
We are tightrope walkers
Posing is posture
When you don’t expect summer
The leaves will fall quicker
But I’ll post and I’ll pout
And you can prove you were listening
In the crests of grey water
I’m a buoy with no anchor
Draw a line in the sea
I’m going diving for emeralds
A light in the room
A heart in your home
A port in a storm
A light in the gloom
Tell yourself it’s only cold ones and zeroes
Forget about the feeling, you know when you know
Devices like a hive you hate but you’re drawn to
Show me how to break the rocks like you used to
Tell yourself it’s only cold ones and zeroes
Forget about the feeling, you know when you know
Someone should have told you that’s not a blue screen
I want to see your face in flesh, not in 2D
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Esperanza
03:42
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We always know what you’ve been eating
We want to know what’s been eating you
You’re a wing and you’re beating
So how come all you see
Is your down losing colour?
You know they know your face
Your chest's out like you own the place
But I know you know your place
Please, just a conversation
You've disappeared again
Please, I can hit the marks
But I can't just jump through the screen
We were the longest of long summers
Where everything ventured was everything gained
Why won't you thaw like I taught you?
You smiled as you slept, but talk to me
We always know what you've been watching
We want to know who's been watching you
You're a win when I'm beaten
Like in injury time
All you feel is your face draining colour
When you woke this morning
Did you really want to rise?
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3. |
Scared of Everyone
03:03
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That flash won’t let this ghost go home
Let the elegant memories age alone
Your hovering heck won’t wait for long
If the sheets won’t fold, just fold them wrong
Give yourself a break
You’re doing ok
Take your own advice
And go your own way
Here’s our new island
I’m scared of everyone
But mostly of myself
Here’s our new island
We can’t sleep either side
We’re slipping through the cracks
Breathe in a lungful
We need you snarling now
We’re aiming at ourselves
Don’t be so background
We need to see your face
If only in the shade
Your fabric sweeps your dancing feet
Identifying ink with speech
You’ll bury this hurt in future tomes
It’s one brick in a room you’re boarding up
Ask again
You say it's an emergency
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Lake Trasimene
03:49
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I said there would always be motion
But there's been a change of plan
I've brought all the elephants with me
Because I want to cross the alps
I'm upfield in the wet weather
Because I want the touchdown pass
But lifting sky with your eyeballs
Won’t put this back on track
We're like bones, a little flesh left but bereft of muscle tone
And no more space to grow
Broad strokes reign but the details are devils we brought home
Who wouldn’t leave us alone
On your own you'll see that you're fearless and your eyes will glow
You’ll swim without the stones
We control the ebb and flow
Be the only echo that you know
Be the only sound
I said I would quell the inaction
I’m just not that quick with words
On that day we came alive
And I thought that we’d be fine
I denied us the northern lights
Because I had to force your hand
Now there’s only forwards
But I just see dust and sand
We're just out of practice
There's been a change of plan
Don't hurry
We're building the road we're running on
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Padlocks
03:42
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You're packing yourself again
Tiny padlocks click to seal you in again
Can you teach me the way to glide
And send different shivers down your spine
And then pretend that we're losing ourselves again
Net blown billowing to hold us in
Like fruit that's only waiting to lose its skin again
Carousels spin from green to greying
We're not amongst it now, so slow down
The archive walls are your own vault now
Your blankets hold me like a stork mouth
You're shaking your face again
I’ll climb your typhoon shoulders
Braced against the wind
Until I plummet through air again
Grasping strands and straws in icy beds
With threads worn out
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