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Blowtorch
04:02
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Why does my memory feel like its been frozen?
Everyday on the buss all I see is pigeons
Staring right staring right back and how do they make you feel?
Like running away
Im sat down so nervous upon your sofa
Telling you the story of my life
Im watching one drop follow another drop down your window
Tell me about the pain she says
Its like a blowtorch burning a hole in my heart
Can you help me try to calm the dancing flames
Like a dead weight dragging around my heels
Can you help me break it off so I can feel alive again again and again
Im broken so where do I go to get mended?
Cause the drink is just a sticking plaster for now
I want to feel the mornings come rushing right through me
Like one hundred waterfalls around my head
She said your lost love deep down inside a dark, dark wood
And only you can find your way out of here my friend
But when you do you'll feel alive again, again, again, again again and again
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2. |
Avalanche
04:54
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Id give it up, id give it all
To lie with you across this English grass
This avalanche that we started
With our beating hearts is gathering pace
Send a flare make a noise
Tell the little people below to become aware
for the day has come to pull the routes
Put on our boots and we will run from here
Id give it up Id give it all
To run with you into this coldest sea
And every drop that fills the sea
Is not enough to make an impact on me
Aching bones, subtle touch
Breaking, aching feet on golden shingles
Trembling, fumbling
Under the cover lovers set yourselves free
Oh your love
Is building like an avalanche
So save the lost and lonely dances for someone else
Oh your love is building like an avalanche
So save the lost and lonely dances for someone else but me
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3. |
Postcard from Japan
04:13
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Blue suited policeman stands alone in a Japanese town
He craves a cigarette as I suck back on mine and write these words down
A local man approaches him and asks for a light and what he'sdoing there
And I gaze on from my cafe window wondering whats going on here?
Love ill write you a postcard from Japan
I'll make sure that I write down all I can
Tell you I miss you
And i'll be coming home soon
Long distance phone calls never seem the same as biro does on card
Picture the picture with a tear in your eye of a Japanese lake in a park
A local boy asks me to post it for me if I give him all my change
So I agree and watch him post it and I hope it reached you sound and safe
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4. |
Black Shapes
03:56
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Oh Megaphone
Blasting out across the skies
Oh lays me down
In this protest
In this protest
Oh helping hands
Oh the blue veins
Oh the blue veins
Captured in time
Lets develop
Lets develop
Black shapes and blood stains
and Blackshapes and bloodstains
And Blood
Cuts so deep
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5. |
Changes
03:08
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As the rain comes splashing at your face
Think of all the people sleeping on the ground
And as it sinks through soil and rock and bone
We stand out side our homes and we complain
As the matador stands red rag in hand
Face to face with fear but we dont hear for screams
From the millions of his shouting fans
Waving all their flags in hand
Oblivious to sin
And as night comes rolling up
To greet us like a new born cub
Greets its mother when she comes home
And the lines we scribble down
As life moves through this little town
And only just a few will see the changes
Maybe only me and you will see the change
As the church bells ring for wedding days
Just think of all the other faces doing just the same
And as the rings go sliding on to fingers
Thoughts are lingering
Have we made a mistake?
And all the Romeos and the Juliets
That played the schooldays game of love are standing all alone
And we look back and now we understand
How it takes so long to find a hand that we can hold
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6. |
Marigolds
03:22
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Lying in the marigolds
Been playing with the bees
Love theres easy pickings
From these sweet blackberries
All the sunburned children
Lye rusting in the sun
Dreams of their new England
Have only just begun
Mother rub my chest with honey
Put your money where your mouth is
And make me feel better tonight
Darling help me put the fire out thats burning deep inside my heart
Darling help me pieve together all the pieces of this puzzle we called
Love Love Love Love
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7. |
30 Second Dream
02:51
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She said "lets get married in our plimsoles
And those old grey coats
I dont really care what we wear
As long as were both there
And we can play Erasure on the stereo
And the Salvation Army brass band can march us in
And march us out again
And we can go rolling
In the graveyards
And running in the roses
We can take pictures
Of eachother
Standing next to Monuments
We can share coffee and cigarettes
In courtyards in London town
And we can kiss
Oh what a 30 second dream
All I want is to hold you by the waist
Whisper my adress in you ear
And maybe you will come home with me
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8. |
Breaking Point
03:43
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Been chasing the days like a dog
My eyes feel skinny and lost
So hook me up to the drug there all on
Cause I don’t feel too sharp
Been robbing the nights of my sleep
Head feels hungry for a different brain cause this one’s beat
Do I resemble a ghost?
Cause I feel just the same
You think the greatest weight is on you now
You feel a little lonely on the way back down
You think the greatest weight is on you now
Suddenly breaking point is just around the bend
Suddenly breaking point is just around the bend
Been dancing this dance for too long
My shoes feel different than they did
Think I’ll take them off and walk barefoot instead
As long as this grass isn’t sharp
Been chasing the days like a hurricane
My eyes feel skinny and lost again
So hook me up to the drug that there all on
I wanna feel the same
Been chasing the days like an astronaut
My eyes still skinny as I follow tiny stars
Don’t think I need the drug that there all on
Think I’m fine right here
Think I’ll stay right here
Think I’ll lie down here
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9. |
The Summerhouse
04:39
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Red Eyes
You just cannot bring yourself
To put yourself to bed
For fear that all the ropes that hold the
Junk inside your head will snap and all the if we dids and what we could have beens
Will spill like blood from cuts and wounds that never heal
Red eyes
You just cannot bring yourself
To push the tears aside
Instead they fall like millions of
Crystal breaking pieces from broken chandeliers
That hang inside your empty mind
As the light begins to fade a shade of violet
Say you’ll take me by hand down to the summerhouse
Where we’ll gaze at the gentle chaos of swallows
Watch the evening sky melt like a candle
Until that warm blooded sun closes its eyes
Red eyes
You just cannot bring yourself
To turn your back on this concrete cold but tender kiss that left you
Scarred like all the wall tops covered in the broken glass yes life cuts you when you stop
So well all search for that place with nothing sharp or hard
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10. |
Remember the 80s?
04:25
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You said youd never change
I never did, I nevcer did
If the wind blows you stay the same
I always will I always will
Remember the 80s the kids in the hall
The lights on the road, the lights on the road
Remember when Thursdays was top of the pops days
And youd like the light nights
And id like the bright lights of Spanish city
Where we said we would always grow old
Wed keep ourselves happy in baseball caps
And our flat tops and tracksuit tops all from the same shop
And soda stream dreams were things that would never grow old
Now were jumping through decades
With the lights on
Were not kids anymore...
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Simpleswan Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Simpleswan are a husband and wife duo from Newcastle upon Tyne in the north east of England. They formed in 2008 and create acoustic based, melodic folk-pop tunes with lots of harmonies and poetic lyrics
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