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Donalogue
12:10
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I saw you first on a Sunday evening
About the altar as I was kneeling
Upon Christ's passion as I was reading
But my eye was on you and my sore heart bleeding
Oh Donalogue, can't you feel me near you
Why don't you tremble the way that I do
I'll be your lantern to show you truth plainly
And if you are set on I'll defend you bravely
For wild as crow is this heart within me
Black as your shadow is this grief that blinds me
Stained as a boot-print upon the polished hallway
And it is you who has stained it, forever and always
Oh, oh, oh
You took what's before and what's behind me
You took east and west when you admired me
Sun, moon and stars from me you've taken
And the god above, unless I'm much mistaken
I saw you first on a Sunday evening
About the altar as I was kneeling
Upon Christ's passion as I was reading
But my eye was on you and my sore heart bleeding
Bleeding
Sun, moon and stars
Brother, lover, you're mine 'til the stars fall
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Embers
03:25
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Embers glow, tindered and they’ll grow
Smoulders the fuel and lovers in bloom
Burn and burn, as we radiate
Kindle that heat, rekindle the downbeat
Catches snapped edge, and matches to what’s said
Burn and burn, as we radiate
Burn and burn, changing our state
Well-placed branches, who-cares advances
Funeral pyre, cinders to desire
Burn and burn, as we radiate
Burn and burn, changing our state
I’ll burn for you if you’ll burn for me
We’ll radiate, combust naturally
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Factory (Endings mix)
04:09
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the nurse can't find a vein to draw the blood
but my wife can every time
and in the factory, silently
they're sleeping in two lines
the money doesn't flow down here it's just a trickle
from a murder scene it splits it leaves
she has voices in her head waiting in the balance
she sees stars a sky of stars in her mind
all the girls look good in the summer
in the kitchen she hits the boy
i'm leaving i say and she says stay, stay
i'm leaving i say and she says stay
i had a dream of my father
a meeting in a snow photograph
this machine is tied to me it's my reflection now
but the tiny thread is slipping through my hands
i tried to pray but i did not know who to pray to
the dead are singing like there's a crack in the land
I'm walking in a dreamworld, I'm walking in a dreamworld
I'm on fire
drug dance excess
warm loud breast
club beat ringing girl
lovely joy
bellissima
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Succubus (Endings mix)
03:56
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Wandering rocks from where sirens call us
But I never left those waves
‘cause the waves made Venus
And in the stale moonlight
You seem so right dear succubus
And in the neon strip
Wings seem clipped and your lips a must
Streetlight covers head to toe
But we’ve nowhere to go
In this post-watershed haze
Heavy breathing and eyes glazed
Illuminated in the hotel lobby
Starlit strumpet and lovers’ delight
Hot as the witch’s hammer
So familiar the familiar
Candle flicker toe to head
The smell of lust with a hint of dread
Yellow bird and the sweetest tone
Through every nerve to the bone
Wandering rocks from where sirens call us
But I never left those waves
‘cause the waves made Venus
To lie upon, to lie beneath, to lie a lie
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Funeral
09:52
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I will write this down
Before I forget
‘Cause I did you wrong
Yeah I made a mess
You kept a pretty ship
Though the waves were cruel
Now your sails are ripped
The wheel is lost
And all the stars confused
You made a happy home
For my ghosts and me
Now watch the ashes blow
Across the cemetery
See I made you love me
One more time
But the end was waiting
Somewhere in the dark
Further down the line
I could kiss you now
Start the game again
You said I was a child
Well can a child be blamed
Just want to hold your hands
Just want to cloud your mind
See I’m no clown or king
I’m what I am
I’m a man
It’s so lonely in here
Come closer
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Cartographer
06:46
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On this ground a giant
skull was found, and when they
dug round and tried to lift it
it left their fingers blistered
From the ground echoed an
ancient sound such that the
surrounding people gathered
looked up and floated skywards
All the ground glowed as the
roots unwound and where the
bone touched the trembling soil
leaves grew and flowers coiled
One by one the buildings
came undone and when the
fresh shoots and earth had risen
the giant skull lay hidden
On this ground a giant
skull was found and all the
people rose up and so the
earth sighed and started over
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Psych-jam torch songs from Oxford, UK //
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