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Riptide
03:30
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You are like a raging riptide
Turned around and on the wrong side
My silent fight under the surface
Has given me a sense of purpose
It can't be me
That takes you home
It can't be me
That makes you whole
Once the recklessness of your regard
Makes an anchor of your sweetheart
Drag her beneath the waves to blackness
Taste the tears and grieve the sweetness
It can't be me
That takes you home
It can't be me
That makes you whole
Close your eyes
Hold your breath
Let it go
Let it rest
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Book Of Life
02:59
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Oh, the history i missed
Has taken such a shape
Hidden from my memory
The milestones of my fate
Book of life
Of dreams beyond the pale
How was i
Given a soul to sell
I’m directing, course-correcting
Burning up the wires
I want everything to stop
But this world is on fire
Book of life
Of ritual and rite
Bye and bye
Bones cold as blue ice
Could i die just a little
Could i do with a little rain
I just can’t feign
A fine indifference
Salty acidic pain
A horse pill
If i will
Book of life
Of dreams beyond the pale
How was i
Given a soul to sell
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Pretty
03:25
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Chloe says she doesn't care
Goes out of her way to never say your name
All recollection's unclear
No one's to blame in her version of this game
Flashes of light in the sky
Torrential darkness and stinging rain
Finds you feeling the lows and the highs
Shut it down
Drag the night from your suitcase
Don't you know you're so pretty
Pretty messed up
Pretty strange, yeah
Save it for a special occasion
Like a bus stop or train station
I never knew
I’m like you
We're so similar
You've already said happy birthday
On the saddest of occasions
A storm is alight in her eyes
No one remembers
No, nothing can breach
Her memories of water and sand
Lightning strikes
Stealing light from her new town
It’s rain rain raining all over
Because you bring stormy weather
It was you all the time
Seasons change, we'll be fine
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Heart Of October
03:51
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t’s the dead end of fall
The heart of october
It’s almost halloween
I’m back at your house
I’m watching the driveway
Like it’s a movie screen
They say it gets better with time
As if you were a bottle of wine
I remember your car
Burgundy vinyl
Outsiders looking in
We dressed our wounds
Ate ashes for breakfast
Ghosts in unfurnished homes
Near or far
A swirl of stars so bright
Their light goes on
Way beyond their time to shine
So save us from the dark
Near or far
As years go by your light shines on and on
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Hollow
03:07
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I live in a hollow
In the midnight hour
You may follow me here
Take care, adventure seeker
Maps will turn to dust
Many bones lie here still
I could tell you but i don't know
Time is trapped here, it moves so slow
I'm awake now and i will grow
Until i go back to sleep
Under the weeping willow
I lay cloaked in dreams
Beside my silent hill
I could tell you but i don't know
Time is trapped here, it moves so slow
I'm awake now and i will grow
Until i go back to sleep
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Night Garden
03:35
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Faded and soft
Evening has found me
Lost in my thoughts
Cedar and moss
He’s here
Ah
Hoping to find
You in the night garden
Howl at the moon
I’ll see you soon, darling
Ah
The grass is damp on my bare feet as i race down the path
You’ve brought the wine like you promised
There’s no going back
I can only hope this time
I’m dreaming, not sleeping
I can only close my eyes
For something in between
Under the stars
Owls are hunting
I’m much too small
I must keep hiding
Ah
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Spires
04:35
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Spires ahead
Five days on the calendar
When will it begin
Night falls when you close your eyes
If you start over then today
You’re new in a different way
Maybe this is real
Is this how you’re supposed to feel
Voices in your head
Stranger than the dreams you know
When the clock strikes, it’s time to wake
Morning or midnight
When the clock strikes, it’s time to wake
You’ll find a way
Faults are aligned to the stars of our time
Written in light on a darkening sky
Shading to blue of a perilous hue
I’m trying to connect all the lines
All around the garden wall
Shades gather and dissolve
Star jasmine in the air
They’re awake and waiting here
Faults are aligned to the stars of our time
Written in light on a darkening sky
Shading to blue of a perilous hue
I’m trying to connect all the lines
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Transistor
02:22
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Time is unwell
I couldn't tell
White's gone to grey
Turned to lucite
Upwards of now
Laughing at clouds
Flying around like a lost kite
Transistor radio agrees
Summer happens once
And when it's over you will see
Who's left out in the sun
So many ways, so many names
I never thought to go backwards
Pull on the thread
Unmake the bed
Go find doll heads in the backyard
Transistor radio agrees
Summer happens once
And when it's over you will see
Who's left out in the sun
Orange crush by the swimming pool
Shoulders burning a sweet red
Terrified of an awkward glance
Eyes kept forward to my book
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Winter Hide
02:48
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An echo told me to betray
The ghosts of all my yesterdays
And dimly now i comprehend
The vast wreckage of all my ends
I can't afford to hesitate
My heart still beats, it's not too late
Smash the window, eat the crow
Just survive, it's all i know
My winter hide is fawn and grey
The muzzle of a hound at bay
The dogs have caught my scent, i run
A fox into the morning sun
I can't afford to hesitate
At full stop, i'll meet my fate
The stars are fixed and i'm too slow
Just survive, it's all i know
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Losing Ground
02:35
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I should go, don’t forget
We can’t lose each other yet
There’s no such thing as a clean break after all
Take it slow, i don’t mind
We were friends before
I lie here awake and
Read the writing on the wall
Find myself alone on losing ground
Flyers with my face in every town
Houses full of shadows in every door
I can't make sense of this anymore
It's so strange, time goes by
Without you i wonder why
Did i made the right decisions for us both
Late at night or
Light of day
This old fiction's here to stay...
Black or white
Is only found in shades of grey
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Shadow
02:27
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I was once beloved
But was taken by a dream
Champagne on ice
Wood burning bright
Black velvet sky tore at my heart
I'm floating backwards
Pulled from the light
Lulled by a song into the night
I was once beloved
But was taken by a dream
From my icy domain
I see it all so clear
You called my name in vain
But i'll never appear
I'm a shadow
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Storm Of The Season
03:37
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When summer's a memory
You come to mind
You walk through these empty rooms
Cast out of time
Morning has broken
Blinding and white
Not quite a beginning
With no end in sight
Whenever i see you i begin to fade
Caught in the blue light of your gaze
I'm choking on words that i can't ever say
Wishing that i could make you stay
The storm of the season
Is closing in
The banshee is screaming
Through curtains of rain
I've got tomorrow under my skin
I'm down for the count
It's happening over again
When all i can do is less than nothing, dear
I don't even know why i'm here
I’m chasing the voice i love with all my will
Running though time is standing still
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Magic
02:42
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It's the rain in your hair
It's the shine in your stare
It's the shade i'm conjuring to warn you
It's the cards that you read
It's the magic you bleed
Like the visions that surround the sounds that blind you
All these things that catch my eye
Terrible the rings that i
Am navigating
Though the circle’s infinite
There’s an end somewhere inside
This vast illusion
It's the crimson inside
It's the heart that you hide
It's the ghosts of lovers lost and waiting
In the black of the night
When the moon's shining bright
Who will be walking here beside me?
All these things that catch my eye
Terrible the rings that i
Am navigating
Though the circle’s infinite
There’s an end somewhere inside
This vast illusion
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Arts & Leisure, featuring former members of Baby Grand, The English Singles and Plastic Shoelaces, combine elements of ’60s pop, ’70s power pop, and ’80s new wave, all of which help to craft the group’s buzzy, super charged indie pop. Their new album ‘This Vast Illusion’ was produced by Allen Clapp (The Orange Peels). ... more
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