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Eastern Thought
03:11
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Little Lies
02:13
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Little lies of a true false nature you can bend
Bitter tries too soon I bet you're going to spend
All your time moving around your town
They say goodbye when you come around
If you're never lost then you'll never be found
All your day you spend your money on a debt
A winner's trade that's only hanging by a thread
They tell me that you've lost your nerve
You never had it from what I’ve heard
Quiet desperation from the second word go
There's a cost to the lost-cause order you defend
And the boss of a holy-roller I intend
To put them back all the things you took
A crooked smile with a sideways look
I can read your cover like an open book
Like the voice of a lost child crying in the woods
There's a choice and a conversation that you could
Save an image that is black and blue
But all you tried was trite and true
There's a final bell and it rings for you
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One Star Saint
02:04
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Crushed between, only in a dream
Oh when the thought caressed me
Touched my eye, caught me by surprise
But then like a bomb 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
You wink and 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
You wink and tear apart
Before it even starts
Finding ways of slowly keeping pace
The clouds give depth to the sky
Brings a tear and 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
You wink and tear apart
Before it even starts
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Penelope Tree
01:26
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Swing girl
Looks just like Penelope Tree
Flared skirt
The kind you find on Carnaby Street
Sweet bird
Buys the latest sensible thing
See her
(Sparkle on the tip of her wing)
Finding all the prettiest rings
Crushed red velvet at Chelsea
her Northern eyes will stare
Leaves alone by Lambretta
says she wasn't there
Swing girl
Fashions in the style of Quant
See her
Dancing to amphetamine dawn
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Portland
04:08
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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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6. |
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 culling the wreck 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 combing the wreck 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
02:23
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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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Silver
01:55
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The Sunsetbathers
01:47
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Night falls down on the day again
Onto veil a dying sun
Lights come out on the bay again
Just before the day is done
To roll back and fold back the waves
Time, tide, and I slow slip away
A wide eyed dream’s quiet ending
As the stars blink out the name
A soft moonbeam’s hazy bending
Across the half light came
To roll back and fold back the waves
The blue, the view, and you slow slip away
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10. |
Early Grave
03:21
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11. |
Dark Summer
05:24
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