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Augustine
04:28
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lord make me pure keep me chaste
lead me through another door
wash my face i’m a wave
thrashing on your endless shores
please ignore all the waste
i’ve been trying to make space
for you once more
mum grant me some benediction
i can’t fix this shit alone
i need action and forgiveness
or i’m never coming home
you were wrong there’s an ocean
and it stretches far beyond
all you've known
lord help me score one more victory
and then i’ll quit for sure
i can take your holy embrace
if my grace it will restore
just before i must ask you
one last favour with regret
please not yet
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Things Remain the Same
04:05
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my senses must be failing me
cus i’m sure i told you no more
and i’ve been waiting for relief
drinking away the best part of the day encouraging decay
we heard children play in receding shade
they sang about little fishes and how they all swim away
well i prayed and i asked if you would like to stay?
but that’s not exactly everything that i had wished to say
things were just so hard to explain to you in those days
well it might be in a haze but i remember every phrase you swore
you’d take to your grave what you saw now don’t be afraid
because you dove down deep and swam it with ease
while i sat along the bank and choked on the waterlillies
and i said to you my god i’ve just got to get your name
but things were just too hard to explain away those days
the priest in the picture in hindered prose he wrote
of dimming the lights to grapple with the poets
he said "the learned ones lead and the wisest ones leave
and we all gather round the teachers like these”
well i’m not gonna breathe a word i'm gonna keep that up my sleeve
in case we meet again then we’ll see just who is redeemed
and oh what a relief to think of all the grief that’s on your way
when things are just too hard and they remain the same every day
yes things are still so hard they remain the same every day
it all remain the same
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Separate Beds
06:38
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t’s 3 in the morning and i am awaiting your call
i promised to meet you and bring you back into my arms
i saw you were spiralling crying and walking alone
i wanted so badly to hold you and carry you home
you told me “don’t touch me” and i felt so useless and small
and that night in our bed was the first time that we both slept
facing the walls
it wasn’t long after then that i first gave you alarm
drunken and cowardly you’re sure i meant myself harm
i can’t recall snapping at you but it’s all such a blur
i sat in the kitchen and sobbed and i wished you were her
and when i came to in the morning and noticed your pain
i cursed this addiction and i swore that i’d never put you
through that shit again
well that was the start of it might as well've parted right then
cus after that moment i knew how things were gonna end
i was entitled and fighting to stay relevant
but i knew you’d seen me as i see myself in my head
i loved you most when i thought you needed to be saved
but i am no saviour and you've never needed that
not from me anyway
now when you tell me about all the people you love
i still feel a trace of rejection but scarcely enough
i know that you love me and that i’ve a space in your heart
it’s just that you’re leaving me now and i’m falling apart
and i hope now you’re gone you don't think there were things left unsaid
and as i watch the sunset tonight i picture you waking up reaching for me
across separate beds
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Iridian Dreams
05:01
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sometimes i am fine and my mind is released
from the daily repeats of my latest defeat
some days i am fake and my skin feels so heavy and wrong
but in dreams i’m celestial restlessly shedding this form
and i glide over waters like iris of old
and my iridian slumbers begin to unfold
and i light up the skies as i fly overhead
and i pluck golden locks from your hair in that hospital bed
sometimes i am fine you are mine and we’re each
unencumbered by the numberless nights out of reach
and i hold you so tight for i’m frightened you'll tire of me
because try as i might i can’t sleep without your company
but tonight i retire and my eyes close with ease
in my iridian dreams i’m the ward of the seas
and your gold hair still glistened as i listened to you breathe
but all of your warmth ebbed at once blotted out on the breeze
sometimes i am fine and i’ve beat this disease
and briefly i cease to seek out extra grief
and over time i’ll resign myself to this technique
but for now the respite is enough and i’m quietly released
and when i return to that yearned-for sleep
my iridian fancy grants me relief
saffron-winged anaesthetist helping you leave
for i cannot save you but i can help you find peace
sometimes i am fine but most of the time i can’t sleep
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5. |
Dance w/ Me
02:26
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i'm not that good at being what you need
and you've never learnt what being present means
but i require so much less than you perceive
cus i just want you to dance once more with me
i know i put my foot in it with ease
but you’re not exactly the easiest to please
and i don’t give a goddamn where it leads
cus i just want you to dance once more with me
and i know we agreed that i’d leave it alone but baby please
can't you see i’m in love with the way you move your feet when you’re with me
and sure maybe you’re not the torvill to my dean
but the judge says that if we don’t dance then we forfeit our fee
so no i’ve no idea how to lead
and yes the case is quite compelling for us to leave
but i don't believe you’d let them take home our trophy
so won’t you please dance just once more with me
oh yes ignore all the eggshells on the floor
cus i just want you to dance with me once more
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