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Suspected Arson
06:11
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Match/Motive
04:34
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Fall is fading in the city again
and I’m a decade past where I wanna be
Acerbic thought as an accelerant
and words as bombs for levity
Take me back into the city again
and I can show you I ruled this town
Build these tales into a small legend
and I’ll show you where they shot him down
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
Little matchsticks take the monuments down
and every day they’re making more
Smile at windows that you’ve been inside
where you know you felt the fire before
Circle ‘round it cos it’s fading fast
and the feeling’s never quite the same
There’s a picture in the back of my mind
but I can’t even remember the name
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
A small hole in my fishing net and every day it grows some more
And my haul is slipping back to the sea and to everyone else on shore
Winter’s harder in this city, but then
everything is harder these days
I have some friends who I’m sure wish me well
but resign themselves as set in their ways
Something’s building now deep inside me
and I’m a moth going to the flame
I got the match and the motive now
but I can’t even remember the name
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
Stop making the rules up as you go
Start listening closer and you’ll know
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Argentina Mountains
05:50
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I’m stood a million miles from somewhere
Near where your pulses pushed the waves back to the sea
I know some more will try to get there
But I just can’t tell them where I don’t think you’ll be
And I smiled slightly when I saw that
They had posted all your secrets there for free
‘Cos I’d like to think that I could sit back
As if one day they won’t be coming round for me
And twenty years on, I’m still humming the song
That stole some smiles and scorched some memory
And when you think it’s gone, you hear them counting along
As you number every wave sent back from sea
I’m still having the dream …
I’m sat a thousand miles from somewhere
Scrolling past the past that keeps some truth from me
I don’t know if you know how to get there
Or if it’s just another point to disagree
I must admit I might have pulled back
To make some sense of the through line that I see
But if Argentina mountains were all pressed flat
I’d still find reasons I could doubt what I believe
And twenty years on, I know the words to the song
At least I tell myself that’s just how it should be
Maybe we’re gone, but who’s to say that I’m wrong?
You don’t know who pushed the waves into the sea.
I’m still having the dream …
Who am I to say that you’re not going away?
We’ve all seen things that we shouldn’t have seen
Who am I to ask if I could ever get past –
It never ends with me turning to leave.
I’m still having the dream …
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The pictures sell the lie
It never seemed to be
I gave her all my love
She walked away from me
I asked her ten times, “What could it be like?
Could you come back and see?”
She found a reason and the kind of man that
I don’t know how to be
Didn’t I protect? Didn’t I provide?
Wasn’t I there on every second Sunday?
Doesn’t it seem like love is getting too
Love is getting too hard to take up?
And then in your own time
You just might learn to see
The kind of man I was
And how this came to be
It’s getting warmer now – what will this be like?
Shall we wait and see?
I got a reason I did this and then that:
I don’t know how to be
Maybe you’ll forgive. Maybe you’ll forget.
I still check the clock on every second Sunday
Doesn’t it seem like love is getting too
Love is getting too hard to take up?
What gets you praying to the lord?
(It doesn’t matter now.)
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Idle in the Ether
03:30
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Dream I can steer you back home tonight
There's so much to tell you and all the days keep passing by
I wish I could tell you, man
but I don't know where I've been
Idle in the ether
Waiting for life to begin
Don't let me fall too far tonight
Tell me why you know I shouldn't be afraid to die
I wish I could tell you, man
but I don't know where I've been
Idle in the ether
Waiting for life to begin
Don't let me talk too much tonight
Just let me hear you til your fading back into the light
I wish I could tell you, man
but I don't know where I've been
Idle in the ether
Waiting for life to begin
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The Devil Came To Me
05:21
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Have you walked the fields? I only ask
‘Cos I was out there last night and thought I saw you walk past
I’ll hear your name sometimes – more than I would let on
I still walk the fields and I will after I’m gone
The devil came to me at quarter to midnight
Said to pack my things and then to book my flight
“All the love in the world is going up in flames”
So what do you say?
I saw the words on the ticker, did you see them too?
I had no soul to lose, but I always had you
Sometimes it’s just a handshake that brings you some more
You’d be surprised what it can take to rattle a core
The devil came to me and said that I shouldn’t fear
And that Jesus would say so, but Jesus ain’t here
“All the love in the world is going up in flames”
We weren’t using it anyway
I walked into the fire, you were not there
I thought I’d bring you back from I don’t know where
“All the love in the world is going up in flames”
I got the message, OK?
All the love in the world is going up in flames.
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To Beginnings of Ends
04:30
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Until rivers have broken your will to swim
And 'til everything’s spoken and lights go dim
This is just my token concession speech
I don’t know how you ever got so far from reach
Come and step inside – dance with me
Come and sit beside me – fall in love with me
And we can go back – right to beginnings of ends
We can do it again
Someone told you I’m joking – I’m sure of that
If I could stop their cloak-and-dagger idle chat
Nothing would be broken from there to here
I don’t know why you ever shed so many tears
Come and step inside – dance with me
Come and sit beside me – fall in love with me
And we can go back – right to beginnings of ends
We can do it again
Some days, all I want is to fall asleep.
Someday you'll feel like me.
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Circuit
03:18
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I feel the noose
It's a little less loose
They said it's on the news
that now they're coming for
You and I
are a complex design
We bide our time
and now they're coming for
You don't even try
to sell the lie
Stay by my side
We keep 'em coming for more.
I can't stand the wait
For traffic on the eights
It's more than I can take
that now they're coming for
Me and you
the sum of currents too
You knew it's true
and now they're coming for
You don't even try
to sell the lie
Stay by my side
We keep 'em coming for
You don't even try
to sell the lie
Stay by my side
We keep 'em coming for more.
I'm a passive force
an active source
There's more to this than that, of course
and now they're coming for
You don't even try
to sell the lie
Stay by my side
We keep 'em coming for more.
We keep 'em coming for more.
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Comedown
06:41
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I’m not looking to be the fool you once knew
The one you gently put to bed who in his head said, “I love you”
In this mirror ball light tonight, I’ll wise up
I fall apart when you smile at me, but that’s all
And love can’t save you from a fool like he
But these broken dreams are falling asleep
When every instinct in your bones
says “Come down.”
I want you.
I’ve watched them drown in your evening gown, but I’m breathing
They come around but they all spin out and I’m leaving
Time slips slowly but you know me, and our time’s up
I fall apart when you smile at me, but that’s all
And love can’t save you from a fool like he
But these broken dreams are falling asleep
When every instinct in your bones
says “Come down.”
I want you.
I don’t need you to say anything
I’ve already imagined everything
I know there’s more than just one thing
So come down.
I want you.
Cos love can’t save you from a fool like he
And these broken dreams are falling asleep
When every instinct in your bones
says “Come down.”
I love you.
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And when he dreamed that he saw you
It was every breath that he couldn’t take
And when he knew that it was you
Then he wished he might never awake
And shards of broken glass came shattering through the scene
Open your eyes and you’ll never see what I mean
And then he dreamed that he heard you
As the sound of everything starts to fade
And a song that we all once knew
Was the only thing the orchestra played
And all the broken notes just fell into harmony
I could try to recreate it, but you’ll never hear what I mean
And then he dreamed that he touched you
And the mountains didn’t seem so tall
Beneath your skin, the light within you
Burned so bright that he saw it all
And the bits of broken hope got washed back into the sea
I could try to explain it, but you’ll never see what I mean
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