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Beauty No.3
03:28
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In her sleeping years, deeply slung within a hammock made of skin
She opened her caverns to the hunger of the lost and their kin
They fed on her vanity until soon they both became content
Men cut holes in her body but she was so confident
With your eyes and sorcery, come Beauty #3,
Can't you see the tragedy as your dream begins to leave
As a traveller began to gore upon her she looked deep into the
ground
Momentary floods of thought unstyled and mystified rained down
On to her pretty head and she began to feel afraid
When she woke she found that her beauty had decayed
And no-one goes close to her den, they wait for the moment when
She is dreaming of her men, in case she accuses them
She mourns the existence of time, while though she's empty all she
feels is tense
And so she passes her time dreaming for the strength of children
With your beauty you deceived, Come simple #3,
Can't you see the tragedy as you lose your only dream
I loved you for yourself, never needed anything else
Oh! Beauty #3
She could be anything you wanted her to be
Beautiful blank, Beauty #3
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Cotton Dress
03:56
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Sprawled out over the windfall of this the bloated browning month
Apple bruises on my thighs and the flush from your yawning smile
Fasten your teeth on my soul and we shall roll and flow for ever more
You in your cotton dress, you in your innocence
Life screams its fury from your eyes, all jaded and alive
My feet are in the water waiting for the tide to come
The whisper in the corner does its best to make me numb
My ear to your cage, your pulse in my hand
Eyeing up the child, fingering the dead,
Swallowing your flow, your teeth on my neck,
Coil me full of hate and bend me out of shape
Death is just down the hallway
When I fall I hear him ask
How many rooms have you entered?
How many rooms have you passed?
How much darker does it get?
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Apathy
03:33
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In the slowest of ways,
My head thick with blood,
I can just about strain to step down,
The morning has nearly come
But I don't want to be here where nothing clicks
So I just push my head under again
There are so many ways,
There are so many ways,
To dig your own grave
And take root where you feel you're safe
And waste away
I'm set deep in my ways
Apathy come smile on me now
Come smile on me
Just to shake me up sometimes I scream at nothing in particular
And I will make this body bleed
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Country Freaks
04:07
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I'm a country freak unlike yourself
I was born in a hole much deeper than this
Deep in the woods I hid myself
Deep in the woods I found a path
Entered into earth's domain
Nature's secrets there to claim
Found life as strange as my own frame
Dug a hole where I'll remain
Where the seasons kiss and cry upon
I will wait for your simple fears to have gone
Deep in my head my life goes on
Deep in my head a path will form
I am not what I seem, within my shape I can dream
And I can breathe
I'm a country freak
And I'll always be alone;
The poorest mix of blood and bone
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Worm Out
03:26
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Worm out little brother for I know you can
You got bubbles in your mouth
It gets so dark in here that I can't breathe
Your gums are all worn down
Your gums are all worn down
I slept to find dirty water in my mouth where I lay,
My dream hung cold against my skin
In my head I was bagged and I was dead
My hex had chased me down
Nailed my palms into the ground
Worm out
Found myself all naked and alone
I dug to touch my mother's bones
Set in waste, I bore a hole upon my face
My thumbs are all worn down
My thumbs are all worn down
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Jesus Spaceman
05:03
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Song For Autumn
03:54
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This a song from beneath the ground
I only echo October's sound,
Belly-kissed into some half-life,
Standing naked to be crucified
On tempered plains we speak in flames,
Questions ripping against the grain
Children scream at the already-framed
We are too restless to shoulder the blame
I don't mean to tie you down
I just don't know where it's coming from
This emptiness leads to craving
My autumn, no-one alive could touch her wisdom
Her glint was jewelled and fired in heaven's pool
My precious cousin, my twin, my second skin,
The only thing I ever fought to win
Don't suffocate what you want to protect
She'll rise for air and then you'll start her descent
Far from the garden you built to impress
She is the angel your friends will undress
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Hollowed
05:43
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Shifting
03:44
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I could jump these fields in my seven-league boots
Walk trails with shades and ghosts
Blaze tracks in my devil's shoes
Crawl invisibly across your roof.
I could just about fit into every hole
Where I wouldn't be seen
I could melt into the trees
And race their juices right out to their leaves
In a dream I was transformed,
Left my bones outside the door
I could be furred or feathered or shelled or fleeced
I could be any man or every beast,
Rolling with the breeze.
I could be a soothsayer, a spirit-raiser,
I could take to the air,
I could take to the sea,
Without lungs or limbs to hold me here
I'd be a keeper with every key.
Everyday I'm shifting further from myself
I feel the pull, I start to soar, my skin is shed
Lay me down and I'll spiral through my head
Everyday, I feel a little strange.
Smoked a hole in my lungs and I've started to bleed
Got boots and gloves made out of meat,
And I can feel the water
I can feel the water swill inside me.
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Sleepyhead
05:20
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Wake to the stomach weight and dead tongue of the night before,
Friend in friend, loveless and confused,
Emptying the scrotum into a blue, blue Sunday
Silence eats the head
Oh, I wish I could remain in our time,
Time, time ensnares the mind
Where are you, sleepyhead?
How your light shines on
Through which is born your only son
I am that one, or so they say
Sleepyhead, don’t ever wake
Poets and lunatics rise to break beneath a kiss
Chewing the bones of sleeping dreams,
Chasing ghosts with buzzing heads,
Heads shatter within our space
Time is a painful stretch into this
Where we're all crazed with thirst
Are you a vulture or a victim?
I do not exist at all
I am the spirit of this song
I breathe only when I'm sprung into this your only song
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La Luna
03:39
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Epitaph
04:27
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Meet me in the night by riverside,
Where I'll be juggling with my mind
Whether to choose, whether to lose,
Just me and my faithful friend
We'll act on 'til the end
We are learners until we drop
Keep me alive
Plug me in to the station, radio waves fill my room,
With my ear to the ground I can feel every sound and vibration
One place gleams within the seal of younger eyes
In the earth of Cairndow is where I shall lie
Take me to your garden, deep in your Eden,
Lay me in the hollow where I was born
My faithful friend, my only friend
I'll always want you until the end
One place gleams within the seal of younger eyes
In the earth of Cairndow is where I shall lie
Keep me alive
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