1. |
In My Dreams
03:57
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Keep it up
I might just doubt myself enough to stop
To try to swim the rivers to the top
When I’m still in the ocean caught in rips
And nothing sticks
On the fence
Balanced like the words and how they’re read
To seek the rope but only need the thread
The sky will all come falling like you said
Silly me
To think I could excite sufficiently
The keepers seem to have lost the only key
And the gate’s been frozen twenty years or so
But if they don’t say it how’re we supposed to know?
It’s just a guessing game, a fix without a fix
And a hole that only deepens with each miss
And a version of yourself that you can’t see
And if you could you’d probably curse it bitterly
But these are not the words you want to hear
And this ain’t how they sing and find your ear
And this ain’t how I look or what I did
The signs were always there since I was a kid
And I’m better off in silence so it seems
I can save myself and me for in my dreams
And be judged by the meaning of my means
And keep myself afloat in other scenes
Like the ones I see in my dreams
And they’re my dreams
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2. |
Tend to the Thorns
03:47
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Still the wheels are moving
Quick and steady as we go
I see you’re leaving
Right before we start to slow
Too young to know
Too crazed to care
I dreamed I found the answer
Right before we’d start to fall
But that’s the point
I only ever dreamed it all
Too deep for sense
Too steep to climb
And if I do it again
Don’t waste your time
Tend to the thorns
And give me a sign
Coz I love you so
Love, love, love you so
The other leaves don’t tremble
They sure as hell don’t fight and fall
So what’s the point
Of ever fighting them at all?
My silent self
My selfish ways
Because I want you for myself
No more signs and no mistake
The trouble is
You were never mine to take
Too lost to see
Too strong to hear
That if I do it again
Don’t waste your time
Tend to the thorns
And give me a sign
Coz I love you so
Love, love, love you so
Coz I love you so
Love, love, love you so
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3. |
Did You Wrong
03:58
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Long is the path
And tight are the winds
You followed me down
And the blame is all mine
So speak up or forever hush
Your sweet sunburnt cheeks will not blush
And the roses that you bought me from the garden
You might as well just crush
Coz baby I did you wrong
Baby I did you wrong
Such is the way
We choose as we will
But don’t just assume
That I’ll follow you still
Coz you’re turning this into despair
And my patience is screaming for air
But I should’ve been here and not there
Fixed in your stare
But baby I did you wrong
Baby I did you wrong
Loose is the thread
That ties me to you
To lose to it all
I don’t know what I’d do
No I don’t know what I’d do
Coz baby I did you wrong
Baby I did you wrong
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4. |
Pedestals
04:16
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Got a broken clock, a time wasting mind
Some would say I’m beginning to crack
Playing no regrets on twisted frets
With the sun on down on my crooked back
Need a way that don’t slide and a coin to decide
If I’m anxious or ready to go
Gonna need an axe and an iron hand and good luck
Out in the world you know
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
Thought I’d run for the money with lead in my shoes
Till desire was outdone by the drag
Went from choir in the streets wearing many defeats
To the sound of defiance let out of the bag
Tried to carve out my name in some poisonous oak
I choked when I saw what it read
Gonna need an ace and magnolia tears
Gunning for the skin to shed
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
So enthused I was moved to assume my position
Wrote my thesis before I could walk
With a scratch on my bat thinking that was that
I waited for my turn to talk
Need a guide less friendly than I could’ve known
Instead of leading my dreams to the cliffs
Gonna take what’s mine, try and fuel the fire
I can’t sit on the sidelines like this
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
So with the keys to the wagon and a full tank of pride
Sipping battery acid and gin
Smoking pre-rolled Virginias to cover the grass
Up in knots that I tied myself in
Need to rethink my reasons and stop getting lost
There’s no light but it’s not what it seems
Gonna tell a real good tale full to the brim
Of days obsessed by the dreams
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
Don’t build me up you can’t knock me down
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5. |
Sunny is the Style
04:38
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Lock me in, shut out the light
I need a breath to take a bite
With the voices sad
But always clear
And loud in song
I didn’t mean to find the key
I didn’t miss that part of me
And when I found you
Was when I landed
Head first, too fast
Coz my heart demanded
And sunny is the style today
But things could go another way
Maybe it’s the love you need to live
Or maybe it’s in what you give
And you give
Wasted time just wasting time
To miss the train in reckless crime
With the world outside you
It can’t live without you
A flood so deep it dares to keep
A waking world while you’re asleep
So sing your sad songs
If that’s what’s ailing
I’m on your shoulders
And the ship is sailing
Sunny is the style today
But things could go another way
Maybe it’s the love you need to live
Or maybe it’s in what you give
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It’s kind of like a winter wave
But much colder
I need the heart strings to behave
Carry weight on my shoulder
I took you by the warm hand
And let you lead always
I only need to think of this
When we’re huddled in the darker days
I left home as a crazed young man
With too much confidence to burn
I ran to find the right slide
And couldn’t wait to have my turn
Before I knew it I was rooted
Into the now familiar ways
And I only need to think of this
When we’re huddled in the darker days
Lights go out across the old town
The moon a bitten fingernail
You know you’ll never be a wanderer
Without the will to raise the sail
We shared a red and ate the moonlight
And danced away the latest craze
And I only need to think of this
When we’re huddled in the darker days
The many faces of a good truth
That keeps you waiting at the door
Love’s a goddess from the old world
And one we’ll never know for sure
I wrote you letters in my own hand
So young and naïve in my ways
And I only need to think of this
When we’re huddled in the darker days
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I awoke in the haze of another cold spring
And the earth in a mascara smile
And I came for the loot and I wanted it all
She said you’re gonna be waiting a while
And we covered the dirt in the leaves that we found
And Jeanie was still on a leash
But the needle hit vinyl, the feelings were final
I’m a proud disturber of the peace
And the ones that you hurt are the ones that you love
And the ones that you love hurt you more
And the dust on the tape hissing heartbreaks and full kissing
I only felt nothing before
And the words would come later, much brighter, much quicker
There’s always some room to increase
And I smashed pans and boxes no matter the cost
As a proud disturber of the peace
I ask the only questions
I make my own luck
I couldn’t stop to answer
I was too busy looking up
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8. |
Cold Ontario
04:58
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Well the work dried up in late November
So they say, so they say
Under frozen skies of sunken splendour
So they say, so they say
And the Earth’s own skin a wicked bleach
So they say, so they say
Made forever seem so out of reach
So they say, so they say
He the victim, he the scars
Room and board beneath the stars
Where did he go?
Cold Ontario
Cold Ontario
And the days remembered are the days best be forgotten
Like when father told him of the stars beyond his reach
He the victim, he the scars
Room and board beneath the stars
Where did he go?
Cold Ontario
Cold Ontario
He couldn’t get the spark for the fire to catch
So they say, so they say
Threw the wood too far then refused to fetch
So they say, so they say
He walked a crooked mile with a crooked smile
So they say, so they say
He the victim, he the scars
Room and board beneath the stars
Where did he go?
Cold Ontario
Cold Ontario
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9. |
Mind Keeps Changing
03:41
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Spent so much time resisting luck
Well hey man, guess what?
I said I’d never give it up
Well guess what, my man
The mind keeps changing
The mind keeps changing
I promised once I’d hold you close
And you know that I will
But only if it suits us both
And my wish is it will
But the mind keeps changing
The mind keeps changing
Tell me straight now if you will
Did you shoot to kill
Or was that merely fortune’s grace?
Right time, wrong place
The mind keeps changing
The mind keeps changing
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10. |
Manawatu
05:05
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Hand in my pocket
Mind on the run
If someone could stop it
Then stop it someone
Silent as midnight in Manawatu
A shape in the headlights
The naviest blue
Lined up and restless
Moving at speed
No time for confessors
No patience, no need
The stars in their millions
In Manawatu
Never so nervous
With nothing to do
Get me to the other side
And call me by a different name
Know me by a different way
It’s not escape if you don’t hide
There’s no hiding in Manawatu
There’s no hiding in Manawatu
Maybe you’ll see me
And maybe you won’t
Unsure of anything
I do and then don’t
We never went through with
Stealing the signs
Wrapped as we’re frozen
In wishes and time
Get me to the other side
And call me by a different name
Know me by a different way
It’s not escape if you don’t hide
There’s no hiding in Manawatu
There’s no hiding in Manawatu
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William The Conqueror UK
William The Conqueror are:
Ruarri Joseph (vocals, guitar)
Naomi Holmes (bass, vocals)
Harry Harding (...drums, vocals)
Indie rock from Cornwall. So they say.
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