1. |
The Sampler
03:10
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Through broke thread and pinpricks, I’ll finish my sampler
Deep in the dim nights with oil flickering low
All for a sampler so detailed and perfect that
When… my birthday comes people will want to step in
And I’ll be the belle of the ball
Bask in the envy of all
A princess in blue I’ll be called
In moonlight I’ll dance on the lawn
I’ll prove them all wrong when I walk on my birthday
I… don’t need pity when I’ve got God right by my side
This is for him and he’s guiding the thread through
‘Cause God knows I’m losing the strength to do this alone
But I’ll be the belle of the ball
Bask in the envy of all
A princess in blue I’ll be called
In moonlight I’ll dance on the lawn
Hung in an auction house, come see my sampler
Made in a bad dream two hundred and twelve years ago
Don’t look too closely it’s not quite complete yet
It’s nearly my birthday so it... will be finished quite soon
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2. |
It Was Glorious
03:03
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They were the best days of our lives
It will always be our time
We were young and the story had hardly begun
We drank through the whole first night, remember?
How we talked into the dawn watched the rising of the sun
No sleep at all and it was glorious
On the summer’s hottest day, we sat scorching in the rays
By the stage and it was glorious
Hung over and dried out we laid low until the sun came down
That night we literally laughed till we cried
We knew we’d be alright, remember?
How we talked into the dawn watched the rising of the sun
No sleep at all and it was glorious
On the summer’s hottest day, we sat scorching in the rays
By the stage and it was glorious
The world was far away we were broke and in a daze
We had a place and it was glorious
On the summer’s hottest day, we lay blissed out in the shade
More than great it was glorious
They were the best days of our lives
It will always be our time
We were young and the story had hardly begun
We drank through the whole first night, remember?
How we talked into the dawn watched the rising of the sun
No sleep at all and it was glorious
On the summer’s hottest day, we sat scorching in the rays
By the stage and it was glorious
The world was far away we were broke and in a daze
We had a place and it was glorious
On the summer’s hottest day, we lay blissed out in the shade
More than great it was glorious
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3. |
Festival Of Fire
03:05
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A glint in your eyes fires flares through the night
Drawing paths to your side and the future is primed
A procession of beats like black holes in the heat
And all I can see is you falling for me
Forever tonight eternity died
In a circle of light, a fragment of time
Into the flames I've found you again
Where soul mates conspire in the festival of fire
Give me your hand pretend if you can
Don't say your name, as if this was a game
Wave after wave of beauty and fear
We fall as we fall and the moment is near
Forever tonight eternity died
In a circle of light, a fragment of time
Into the flames I've found you again
Where soul mates conspire in the festival of fire
Superposed we divide in a nebula of time
Particles collide in a festival of light
A palpable force of fate lights the walls
We fall as we fall and fate takes its course
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4. |
I Got The Answer
02:51
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I’ve got a feeling we’re going somewhere
The evenings are light and there’s hope in the air
The summer and sense of adventure’s begun
Time to down tools and just follow the sun
I got the answer I got the answer you got the answer
I got the answer I got the answer we got the answer
We’ve got the breeze and the long country roads
Into the sunset we’ll plan as we go
There’s hope in the morning and mornings beyond
We’ve nothing to lose cause one day we’ll be gone
I got the answer I got the answer you got the answer
I got the answer I got the answer we got the answer
Say after me is there love in the air?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah there is love in the air
Say after me is this what life is for?
Yeah yeah yeah yeah this is what life is for
I got the answer I got the answer you got the answer
I got the answer I got the answer we got the answer
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5. |
Your Hateful Armchair
03:31
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It’s time I was spreading my four wings
It’s a small world and a small mind I’ve been in
Far beyond the mess you’ve made
I’ve almost disappeared
As the gold sun passed over the cornfields
My heart jumped like a frisson of fear feels
I’ve over thought tonight so much
It feels like déjà vu
Walking through this prison door
That trapped my soul and stole my thoughts
Watch my feet just walk on through
I’m doing this. I’m leaving you
My hand lamp was dimmer than the moonlight
I turned back and saw you for the last time
Sedated in your hateful armchair
Dreaming of yourself
Walking through this prison door
That trapped my soul and stole my thoughts
Watch my feet just walk on through
I’m doing this. I’m leaving you
It’s time I was spreading my four wings
It’s a small world and a small mind I’ve been in
Far beyond the mess you’ve made
I’ve almost disappeared
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6. |
Cathedrals Of The Mind
04:05
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Part I: HUMANITY
Dyspraxic intellectuals, fanaticals in manacles
Radicals with parables, wastrels and respectables
Tyranists and terrorists, optimists and pessimists
Liars self-deniers, messiahs and pariahs
Seven billion voices in… a random cacophony of Id
Part II: IDEAS
Aristotelian taxonomy, Euclidean geometry
Darwinian biology to multiverse cosmology
Witches and psychiatrists, hypocrites with crucifixes
Paranoid conspiracists conspiring with their enemies
Two million theories and… many reliably false
Cathedrals of the mind mankind
Designed to hide the fear inside
What clever and what tragic apes are we?
Cathedrals of the mind we’ve made
Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains
The folly of such brave and tragic apes
Part III: BUILDINGS
From the Great Wall of China to the particle colliders
With conduits of power lines we ringed the earth and lit the sky
Legacies of donors such as Gaudi’s Barcelona
Leaving actual cathedrals impossible and meaningful
Two billion structures all… Covering the planet with steel
Cathedrals of the mind mankind
Designed to hide the fear inside
What clever and what tragic apes are we?
Cathedrals of the mind we’ve made
Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains
The folly of such brave and tragic apes
Part IV: ACHIEVEMENTS
Beatles. Wall-E. Michael Scott. Stewart Lee
And James Dean drinking tea in the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Apple. The moonwalk. Music, and New York
Quorn. And Love. And Flight. And Books
One trillion achievements and some of them actually good
Cathedrals of the mind mankind
Designed to hide the fear inside
What clever and what tragic apes are we?
Cathedrals of the mind we’ve made
Wrought from thoughts in jumbled brains
The folly of such brave and tragic apes
Cathedrals of the mind set free
With bipolar grandiosity
What clever and what tragic apes are we?
Cathedrals of the mind them all
Milestones of our rise and fall
What high achieving deadly apes are we?
This universe will blink and die
At the catastrophic end of time
With no one left to venerate our graves
A spinning pea in empty space
No legacy no human race
And all we ever did, was done in vain
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7. |
Love Is Blue
03:08
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Doux, doux, l'amour est doux
Douce est ma vie, ma vie dans tes bras
Doux, doux, l'amour est doux
Douce est ma vie, ma vie près de toi
Gris, gris, l'amour est gris
Pleure mon cœur lorsque tu t'en vas
Gris, gris, le ciel est gris
Tombe la pluie quand tu n'es plus là
Comme l'eau, comme l'eau qui court
Moi, mon cœur court après ton amour
Blue, blue, our love is blue
Cradle my heart, my loving heart
Blue, blue, our love is blue
Blue like the sky which plays in your eyes
Comme l'eau, comme l'eau qui court
Moi, mon cœur court après ton amour
Fou, fou, l'amour est fou
Fou comme toi et fou comme moi
Bleu, bleu, l'amour est bleu
L'amour est bleu quand je suis à toi
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Fall on me and I’ll catch you, cos I’ve
Invested everything in you
I want to die by your side, I want to die by your side
I want to die by your side
Tides will untie us
Storms will divide us
But it’s just weather outside us
Cause we are the earth and the trees
We are the earth and the trees
We are the rocks underneath
Our conversations entwined us, till we
Copied each other inside us, now
No force can ever divide us
I want to die by your side, I want to die by your side
I want to die by your side
Saw the gold in the treetops, then we’re
Coalescing like raindrops
Falling down on the rooftops, with
Saturated feelings of a, soft explosion in a
Soul warming river of sun
Fall on me and I’ll catch you, cos I’ve
Entrusted everything in you
I want to die by your side, I want to die by your side
I want to die by your...
I want to die by your side
I want to die by your side
Your moonface glows in your iPhone
I know you so well you’re my home
Our roots are crossing over
Green shoots like starting over
Your moonface glows like the moon
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9. |
Heart Strings
03:09
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The mountains were burnt and the sky had turned red
I called out your name in the dark
I wound up your music box, memories played
I know that you’re gone, but I’ve got your song here in my heart strings
You’re queen of the stars here in my heart, here in my heart strings
I keep seeing things that remind me of you
I didn’t do all I could do
But you wouldn’t condone such a negative thought, I
Love you
Know you loved me
I know that you’re gone, but I’ve got your song here in my heart strings
You’re queen of the stars here in my heart, here in my heart strings
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10. |
The Long Way Home
03:26
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Soon we'll be dead and gone
Life's brief even when it's long
We've been going wrong
In our gilded cage
When life's great adventure waits, oh
Let's take the long way home
Cause life's not worth living without love
Let's take the long way home
Stop for a minute to catch up
We'll lose hope if we let it
You easily forget it
Life when we're looking back
Will be gauged by good times we had, not the chains we dragged
Carpe diem we
Should go
Make some memories, oh
Let's take the long way home
Cause life's not worth living without love
Let's take the long way home
Stop for a minute to catch up
We'll lose hope if we let it
You easily forget it
Let's take the long way home
Cause life's not worth living without love
Let's take the long way home
Stop for a minute to catch up
Let's take the long way home
And bask in the last rays of sun
Let's take the long way home
Just like the summers long gone. We'll lose hope...
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