1. |
The Hive
03:35
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How does it feel
To be the one who leaves?
Tell me what it’s like outside
In a machine
Where no-one dares to dream
I could be the one to try
I didn’t know
How far they’d go
To bring you down
(And they’d do the same to me)
Mother me as you used to
In the dark before the dawn
Standing by for the good of the hive
From the day you were born
So weigh up your words
It matters how they’re seen
More than what they really mean
I couldn’t see
What you could be
Or would become
(And you do the same to me)
Now I can’t evade the choice already made
Tonight I break out from the hive
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2. |
Head For a Hometown
03:57
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Tiny men in cardboard boxes
Hiding out to avoid the taxes
(Said it was only temporary)
You never got around
(But now it’s all about the money)
You got no head for a hometown
(Said it was wholly necessary)
Looking back at what you found
(But now it’s all about the money)
You got no head for a hometown
(Said it was only temporary)
Take a stick and strike it down
(But now it’s all about the money)
You got no head for a hometown
(Said it was wholly necessary)
Beat the snake into the ground
(But now it’s all about the money)
You got no head for a hometown
Burn the bridges of temptation
Failure of your own creation
Sell me your story
Tell me your lies
Feed me your fiction
And leave me to die in pieces
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3. |
Age of Anomaly
02:56
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I never thought I would be back
Some years later on a different path
To rest before my second act
In the age of anomaly
I’m the feeling without a name
A certain sense that you can’t explain
Old reflections still look the same
In the age of anomaly
A photograph in a picture book
Last one I ever took
Never gave it another look
In the age of anomaly
In empty lanes
On different planes
We’re nearing the end
An earful of cotton wool
Drive safely
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4. |
Pretender
03:31
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Look inside my mouth
Tell me what you see
A thousand pieces of you
A thousand more of me
The man with the beard
He cries as he hears the news
He'd suffered enough
In a time when he’d nothing to lose
Sitting round waiting to be found
Now and again I pretend
To be somebody else
Work it out and learn how
To be scared of myself
When I go, let me know
If you happen to find
Someone better to be
Take your place in time
An unfamiliar age
Thrust into the light
As you step onto the stage
Pull at the skin
The illusion of infinite youth
An impotent wish
To evade unconditional truth
And try the impossible journey
Of crossing the room
It’s all the same
It won’t matter what name you assume
Settled in, ready to begin
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5. |
When I Was You
03:26
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Will you stay or walk away?
I can feel the cracks in you
A different way for another day
Time begins to tear in two
(When I was you)
It didn’t mean that much to me
(When I was you)
A subtle kind of symmetry
(When I was you)
I couldn’t see so clearly
(When I was you)
Electric light divides
Bad companion chokes on his tie
He is the heart and I am the eye
Master carver takes his time
The hand that cuts a hole in mine
Learned thinker speak your mind
Tunnel down into the stone
Lose the good fight by design
So go to ground and stand alone
Cos I’m not here, went out alive
Friendly faces follow me
Waiting for you to arrive
The moment came to be
When I was you
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6. |
Why Are We Dancing?
03:50
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Love
Just enough to fill a cup
Not enough to fuck it up
Lest I see your face again
So please
Take a piece, it’s what you do
And let me take a piece of you
Burn the skin beneath the spoon
In tea candle light
Why are we dancing?
Give in to the night
Hold off the morning
Push the words into my mouth
Cast me in then catch me out
Who’s to say what it’s about?
Write your answers in the sand
Kept my promise to rehearse
Although each and every verse
Only seems to make it worse
And I begin to understand
Let’s seek out the light
Our time is coming
To leap out of line
I have been counting
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7. |
All Time Is Now
02:36
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Break as you broke before
A momentary fault in function
Leave status at the door
The mediator of destruction
I could see myself on the horizon
Reaching out into the blue
Cast away and left on this island
Everything you need is born in you
For all time is now
Cut out community
The necessary act of ritual
New opportunities
To overlook the individual
All time is now
Know that somehow
We all must vow to keep love true
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8. |
The Rust
03:42
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I don’t believe you have the answers
You've never known what I've been after
You catch the rain
I caught my mother on the phone
Should have left the dust alone
To settle down
The time you took
On tales designed to get you off the hook
It slips my mind
To leave behind a clue for you to find
The dusky dawn of strange illusion
I can't compete with my delusion
I lost my faith in generosity to all
I threw myself against the wall to let it out
A careful look
With details that you borrowed from a book
A lesson learned
The rust is only waiting to return
I can't believe you got your answers
I've always known what you've been after
I caught the rain
You called your mother on the phone
Could have left the dust alone
To settle down
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9. |
Night Bus
02:20
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I am not the man
You thought I could be
Back where we began
Now listen to me
Soon I will be gone
You must carry
On the night bus home
I close my eyes
Sitting on my own
It's no surprise
I know you will see
Now that you are me
On the night bus
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10. |
Old Hands
03:26
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(Lo and behold)
When the morning came
(The highs and the lows)
I felt myself again
In darkness I had seen the eye
Looking back at me
(Let me know where)
I will tempt you in
(Wait for me there)
Once the day begins
The long-forgotten reason why
We never had a choice
Left behind, there’s something on my mind
I just can’t seem to lose it
No matter how I try
Turning over memories of mine
I can’t deny
Hoping I grow old before my time
(I was the one)
You were glad to see
(Now that I’m gone)
A distant memory
Sometimes you don’t feel alone
When you’re on your own
(Trust in old hands)
I hide behind the door
(They understand)
As I've done before
Closer than I'll ever be
Watching through the cracks
Finally, I settle down
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