1. |
Silver Spoons
03:43
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when your love grew on me i was young
hear the wind in the trees how beautiful
oh i knew a girl
who was as lovely as the trees
when we were little we were so kind
i was happy almost all the time
oh i knew a girl
who was as lovely as the trees
when we sat in class i borrowed pens
from the teacher's desk without asking
oh i knew a girl
who was as lovely as the trees
little hands wrapping around pink moons
blanket promises, silver spoons
oh i knew a girl
who was as lovely as the trees
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2. |
Jacket Button Kiss
03:03
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i love bed and sleeping in
i can waste away my morning
i hated your prescription pills
i was scared that they would change you
why you're feeling so bad
sleeping on your sofa
called you but no answer
failing all your classes
taking off shoes with
out untying laces
you just got your braces
but they make your face big
why you're feeling so bad
sleeping on your sofa
you just called your dad but
he won't want to answer
you should watch your manners
you think you've got cancer
redecorate your room and
soon you'll feel better
we're alive and that's all that matters
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3. |
Medan
02:00
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sweet dreams, medan
the cats are sad
and you live in a motel
with the boiler broken
sweet dreams, medan
she loved a man, who
broke half her heart
and i lost the other
now i live in wisconsin
hope i don't get eaten
my friend is a gorilla
and i miss my nan
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4. |
Woollen Birds
02:28
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well i showed up to a party in wool and that was ok
i wore double denim to school on my graduation day
i made my first friend in flannel
the quiet kid, oh daniel-
and our lives are like marbles, we muddle and we stand
i hunker down beneath these dry washed synthetic sheets
i wonder what will happen to me
i make a cocoon
and leave a hole so i can still see
and our thoughts dry like leather
in an elizabethan vending machine
i close my eyes and i think of the good news
you're feeling sick and that means you'll be home soon
i dry off my tears
i crack several beers
and our words spill like wine
in the anlage of time
we think a whole lot more back to when we were kids
but time is a wound that we stich and it heals things
so pick up your boots
you left them in my room
these trees in the garden are growing to the sun
and friend, i am sorry but i miss when
we didn't talk and at school i had real friends
but then i look to god
and i know how wrong i was
i wish these days could last forever, you and i sat in the sun
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5. |
Year Seven
02:22
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of the republic crew
there's just one who knew you
when we were kids
it was fine to feel things
but we weren't deep
and we weren't sad
and i was still friends with you, sam
we were fine
and life was good
and i don't remember the things i should
but we weren't deep
and we weren't sad
and i was still friends with you, sam
do you remember
when we grew up?
cause i can't think of one moment right now
we were young
and we were fine
and that made us happy for most of the time
but we weren't deep
and we weren't sad
and i wish that i was still friends with you, sam
it's such that i was born on
your seventh year and i'm
paranoid that you'll disappear
and i'm not a boy
i'm a saboteur
will you stitch my wounds
or lend me your glue
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6. |
Gorilla Jim
02:09
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gorilla jim
you're my best friend
don't leave me i'm
afraid of the dark
don't leave me i'm
afraid of the dark
the jungle cuts
a life through the dark
you swing under
modest ovetures
the beauty of
tomorrow's truths
don't leave me i'm
not afraid of-
it's a bit of a break
from the office life
it's the very best way
to spend my life
do you climb or swim
will you ride a bike?
will you come to tesco with me?
i am starting to be happy again
it's all because of my best friends
and i have made a promise to
make biscuits when you're sad and i
will write you poems for bad goodbyes
i'll come to visit you my-
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7. |
Rebekah
02:45
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when we were younger
we were prettier and easier to love
i don't mind that
we don't care for writing history and stuff
we just joke
we just solemnly pretend that we don't care
wanna live
wanna die, it's like we hate the way things are
you'll be a teacher
and i'll be just getting jealous all the time
we should go
we should go
we should go and
maybe go
because life is tender
you are sweet, and i have trodden on your feet
that cramping skin
morning dim, the superstitious alcoholic
i love you
all of you
your dying mind and waning body
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8. |
Cake Song
02:08
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in the pink
born and raised in hardin
stale chapters of a
torn-up king james bible
don't you hit me like that
several answers to redact
dumb apostles we act
like they knew their stories
way back when
we used to meet the top people
forgotten images of a-
time that wasn't even real
don't you hide from me like that
several answers too exact
to pinpoint where they cross the sand
we've got lead on both our hands
resurrection of the
empathetic idiot
definition of a
cake that's already been eaten
don't you pout at me like that
mornings come, you don't go out
failed existential drought
a well-trained social acrobat
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9. |
Camelot
02:52
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because you love and forgive
i am not that anymore
give holidays to the cavalcades
who sweep the factory floors
the ticketing machine is broken
at the station doors
the masonry at piccadilly
is not there anymore
so be
and be-
long shall live the queen
over me
so be
let it be-
long live kennedy
over me
so be
and be-
the years we forgot
long live camelot
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10. |
To Bethlehem
02:09
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married
been up to the knees in pink
steadied
but not by the things you drink
if the butterflies could make me walk
i would cross a thousand wires
to bethlehem
if the universe could make things right
i would try a thousand times
to walk with them
lately i've been searching
for a place to call my own
i made the graphic markings
at the bottom of the stone
i am here
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11. |
Gorilla Jim Returns
01:28
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you think you're gorilla jim
but i love you
i don't wanna live like i'm running
say you're not my brother
in all but the flesh
i don't wanna be like you
but i love you
this land it burns beneath my feet
belongs to you, belongs to me
the mother of the earth denies
there's more than people to hide from
but you and i both know
it's alright to be scared of the dark
tell me when my jim gets home
i bet he's grown
you don't wanna be my bride, there's
more than meets the eye, so
fall in love with me
it's better to be that way
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