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Shrapnel
04:08
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Tiptoe the pavement
We're coiled and impatient to implode
Quieting our black hole souls
The hairs on our arms
Catch the air with a crackle and a spark
When the shop fronts stare at dying stars
And our ashes lose the taste of fire
And we finally know what we were
As we see what we are
I'll inhale all the dust from your veins
I'll gorge on shrapnel
And we'll blast inwards from charred fingertips
Towards our beating
Once beating hearts
Tiptoe the tower
We're what-if manifests tonight
We're the darkness it takes to see the light
We sprint and we scramble we're ash on the air as it rises
We're freckling clouds on the horizon
We look almost intact on the horizon
You can say it's not real from the horizon
You can say till it catches you hiding
Till the day it needs you and it finds you
Till it wakes you and it wants you
Until
You've inhaled all the dust from their veins
And gorged on shrapnel
And we've caved inwards from charred fingertips
Towards our beating
If I can't mend all the cracks in the glass
They'll rip right through us
If I don't swallow the fire as it spills
I will burn
I will burn too
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Fruit
03:53
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I’m a crooked, wizened
Pile of old dreams
That shift all around
Shooting down my nerves from
An old mind
To the muscles in an old hand
And I’ve seen countless lives
I’ve never lived
Little smooth knuckles
Forming so many perfect fists
I’m not asking
I’m not wanting
But sometimes I hear a laugh
When it’s quiet
And it’s dark
When I feel more love
Than I can comprehend
And I have to talk aloud
Even when no one’s around
Slap the back of my own hand
List all the reasons that I can’t
I’m not asking
I’m not wanting
I’m not asking
I’m not wanting
But sometimes I hear a laugh
There’s no garden
There’s no orchard
Fruit is trampled
Fruit is foraged
I’m not asking,
I’m not wanting
but sometimes I hear a laugh
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Loophole In Your Life
03:03
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All the things that I have loved
Are sitting inside these bricks
And I don’t know how I swung this
But I have a record of events
A list of all the details
A recipe for how to fix
For how to make a little life
Or two
So I am writing a reminder
Many thousands of reminders
Tattooed all across my body
That say
Don’t take this for granted
It’s not like anybody planned this
Unseen quirk of fate
The loophole in your
Loophole in your
Little life
All the things that I have loved
Are holding me together
Are patching scars I felt were
forever
And is it fair
How I fell into this?
That someone as broke as me could be happy
Without trying
But I don’t take this for granted
I don’t think anyone could plan this
Unseen quirk of fate
The loophole in our
Loophole in our
Contracts
I thought my hand was dealt a while back
And I’d accepted all the terms
What I deserved
What I’d been told was the most to hope for
But I won’t take this for granted
It’s not like anybody planned this
Unseen quirk of fate
The loophole in your
Loophole in my
Loophole in our
Little life
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My Wandering Mind
03:48
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No I’ve not been sleeping
But I can’t see how that counts
Who dictates what’s right?
And on what grounds,
If we’re all headed down?
While I can’t be sure
I can I can I can
Convince myself
Beat my heart
When I’m too tired
Open my eyes
And stop the sleep
Breathe my lungs
But burn the pyre
If you know for sure
I’m gone for good
Cause if all my life
And all these bones
Amount to nothing
Morning’s mine and night’s
When thoughts ooze out and can’t be caught
And in the dark my wandering mind
Loses sight
Can’t make it home
And we agree there’s no such thing as a soul
Beat my heart
When I’m too tired
Open my eyes
And stop the sleep
Breathe my lungs
But burn the pyre
If you know for sure
I’m gone for good
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5. |
Where I'm From
03:01
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Most folk are frightened of silence
Where I'm from
Their latest collection of words
Blethered and blurted
Like a bingo caller
Looking out to a dark sea of faces for a match
Most folk are frightened of talking
Where I'm from
I reckon they'd say just about anything
To avoid a conversation
It's amazing how much you can say
Without speaking at all
But I love silence
And I hate chatting
I'd like to talk
But no-one says anything to me
Where I'm from
Some folk are frightened of losing where they're from Where I'm from
They'd cut off their children to spite them
And all of their choices
Their affected voices
Successes and failures and big cars and houses
Some folk are frightened of changing
Where I'm from
Of sobering up long enough to regret
The decisions that were made for them
And the plans that were laid
Shut up, drink up and stay
But I don't get it
So I don't quite fit
I've tried to run
But there's no place for me
Except where I'm from
Except where I'm from
I'll accept where I'm from
Where I've been
Where I'm going
The place that will hold my shape
When I am done
Hold my shape when I am done
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6. |
Viscous Fear
04:20
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A blast of tonic radiation
My skin dripping pools
Of hot adrenaline
Everything was gleaming like the sun
Oh, the sun
Oh, the sun
A little pill, a little scar
My guts in the sink and my hair on the floor
The poison in my veins hot as the sun
Oh, the sun
Oh, the sun
A nursery rhyme for the other side
A microcosm of my life
Coats a hundred glass slides
I cried eyelashes with my tears
My viscous fear
An eyelash tear
My viscous fear
A tarmac stain
Spelling numbers
How many years will the body linger?
I can't tell who won this in the end
In
The
End
A nursery rhyme for the other side
A microcosm of my life
Coats a hundred glass slides
I cried eyelashes with my tears
My viscous fear
An eyelash tear's
My viscous fear
I was promised tallying the clouds
Soothed with talk of finite light ebbing into nothing
I was promised
I was promised
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Louise Connell Glasgow, UK
“A diverse, deep-vein double album which vaults her into contention as one of the most insightful and pertinent songsmiths, anywhere, to have emerged in recent years.”
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