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Amphetamine
03:24
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First the clever eyes of holding and distant sons
Who’d like the chance to walk right by
Without a second thought of how or where or why
There’s a secret over there, you can’t know it yet
At least until we know that the apple’s set
It’s like amphetamine, the dream within the dream within the lie
that's when you said to me
Don’t drop the bomb before it’s time
Calling on your silent majority
Watching the pie dust in the sky
Don’t you think it’s time for one more try?
There's a promise over there, you can't own it yet
at least until we know that the price it met
It’s like amphetamine, the dream within the dream within the lie
that's when you said to me
Don’t drop the bomb before it’s time
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Group Therapy
02:54
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"Another dull day", says the morning light at the window
and everyone is as tired as the suits they're dragging in
they're taking their seats, the pretty little ducks in the head row
to try to agree about the boat they're drowning in
to see the stone look in their eyes would be a cry
that's the kind of holy-hearted it takes to get by
Hideaway eyes, here comes the featured storming delegate
"I find the room is far too elegant", his thundering mouth is bound to please
the holiday eyes are gathering around
with the same old grace and stare again
the dull-faced septuagenarian
jealous the years are slowing him down
Back on the ward the captain's staring out of the window
vacant and bored with the tried and true thoughts he's in
to feel his disease and memories of starting a big show
he's trying to please, while he's waiting for his part to end
to see the stone look in his eyes would be a cry
that's the kind of holy-hearted it takes to get by
Hideaway eyes, here comes the featured storming delegate
"but the rule is far too delicate", his thundering mouth is bound to please
the holiday eyes are gathering around
with the same old grace and stare again
the dull-faced septuagenarian
jealous the years are slowing him down
"now we'll thrash them!", he shouts
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One Star Saint
02:10
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Crushed between, only in a dream
Oh when the thought caressed me
You touched my eye, caught me by surprise
But then like a ball you dropped me
You are the one star saint
Always coming around
With secrets that you found
You could stop the day
With the lovely way
We can tear apart
Before it even starts
Pillow winds, everything depends
On how misunderstood your smile is
Hopes that fly and shift against the sky
Remind me of the time before this
You are the one star saint
Always coming around
With secrets that you found
You could stop the day
With the lovely way
We can tear apart
Before it even starts
Finding ways of slowly keeping pace
The clouds give depth to the sky
Brings a tear then familiar fear
Absence makes your heart too shy
You are the one star saint
Always coming around
With secrets that you found
You could stop the day
With the lovely way
We can tear apart
Before it even starts
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Penelope Tree
02:13
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Swing girl
Looks just like Penelope Tree
Flared skirt
The kind you find on Carnaby Street
Sweet bird
Buys the new insensible thing
See her
Finding all the prettiest rings
Crushed red velvet at Chelsea
Their Northern eyes will stare
Leaves alone by Lambretta
And says she wasn't there
Swing girl
Fashions in the style of Quant
See her
Dancing to amphetamine dawn
Rushes to 12 at King's Road
Their Southern eyes will stare
New address for the paper dress
and kicks the concierge
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Pollenaise
02:08
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On the waves
And closer
A beautiful dream to stay
An angel sighs
From over
To bring a summer shade
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The Popular Girl
02:16
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this picture paints a thousand words apparently you've never heard that most of all the world loves you
and all the girls they wish they were but why are you so popular? it must be something that you do
birds of a feather flock together, so say them all, and there is room forever up against their wall
oh you are a mystery the kind of girl plays hide-and-seek with feelings and securities,
you dance where angels fear to tread, you shock the world and go to bed, the ends justify the means, never judge a book by its cover, at least till it's over, and then you discover you're right anyway...
"enjoy every moment" they say with a laugh but suppress the smile
the coy opponents of everything you are, your art, your style
idle hands the devil rules, and fashions into jealous tools that seek to undermine your mind,
but no one believes that you'll fall, because you're just above it all, and out of sight is out of mine,
birds of a feather flock together, so say them all, but there is room forever up against their wall
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Birnam's Holiday
02:28
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Cold rush to the head it's going down
Ain't no coming around this is feeling
I've been dying to know, I've been trying to know
Think I start to see red it's slowing down
Shooting straight for the ground and hit the ceiling
I decided to go
Birnam's holiday in artificial shade
A weekend lost and gone again
Eyes shift, furtive glance, solitary dance
From dusk to dawn to dusk again
Straight rush to the head it's going down
Ain't no coming around this is feeling
I've been dying to know, I've been trying to know
think i start to see red it's slowing down
Shooting straight for the ground and hit the ceiling
I decided to go
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The Art Of Misdirection
02:41
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It's always the same a stranger sits down at the game
Quick always to blame a danger nobody can name
He begins with luck and warm reception
And ends abrupt with cool deception
It's always the same a stranger sits down at the game
Here's the art of misdirection
The slightest sleight escapes detection
And everybody's recollection stirred, and then it gets turned
Go down with the ship all the tight smiles and loose lips
And cracking the whip, knuckles white as they lose grip
Deceives and lies like a sailor's morning
Well-red skies and without warning
Go down with the ship, all the tight smiles and loose lips
Fake a fall for sympathetic vote
An apology on a parenthetic note
Now you see it now you don't
Believe
The lie within belief
Charms everyone
One hand to inspect and the other is stacking the deck
And if you should check, there's just enough there for your neck
A line of soft and easy invention
Draws and quarters your attention
One hand to inspect and the other one's stacking the deck
Here's the art of misdirection
A flashing smile completes the lesson
And getting up in full possession
Leaves
A dazzling leave
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Secret Smile
02:20
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It comes in waves you recognize the sound it makes
When you feel its falling down
With the scented summer rain
A soft parade of light
That bends the flight of a casual line
Try to spend the right kind of valuable time
There’s a place the city dreams of ocean side
And moonlit miles
There’s a face so pretty lonely seeks to hide
A secret smile and
I can see you brave against the sparkle of life
Why cut ties that bind a philosophical knife
Luck defends the promise that you try to break
And makes it strong
A trip against the fortune that you try to make
And makes it wrong
A fine cruise feels and falls and oh what a surprise
Its time to seal the wall on what the lottery buys
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Portland
05:24
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and my surprise and delight was clear when you called today
you could picture my amazement and frame it from 400 miles away
and the rain on your face, a trace of some forgotten tear
and the skies are grey, they'll stay until you find me here
there’s a kind of feeling you know so well between your smile and tears
you find the weight of detail and you tell it before it disappears
and if the weather would change for you there’ll be another choice to make
you’re writing empty pages, a book about the promise I will break to see you
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Blush
04:21
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Wanted to say before you leave
don’t wear your heart out on your sleeve
keep it safe and hide it on the inside
They say the rain is colder there
skies are grey this time of year
clouds that never rush from the first blush
Leave your secrets safe with me
keep them with the memory
lock them up to find, for the next time
landing with the city lights
diamond shards against the night
everything you’re shown on the way home
And what did your time bring?
Everything
And what did your time mean?
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