1. |
Effigy
03:18
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Now I, now I know
I held your hand as we walked the edge
I said goodbye to the skin that you shed
I felt your nerves rushing through my head
I saw your scars before they bled
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
I fell down as I watched your grace
I kissed your lips before I knew what to say
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
I tumbled down into that dark place
I reached out and you sealed my fate
I tumbled down into that dark place
Infatuation my mistake
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
Now I, now I know
I fell in love with your effigy
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2. |
Wagons
03:28
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Scratching through my pockets
The same old jacket I wear
The trail I left in trinkets
Just to show you I care
Coming through the front door
The same time every day
I got nothing to show for
Scrapping those empty plates
Round and round
So we will go
Circle the wagons around the truth
Don't say what we both know
Don't say
Don't say
Don't say
Pour yourself a glass of wine
In bitterness you might drown
This ship is taking on water
I am the captain and the clown
Digital lives they fool you
Opium by the pound
Honey, we used to have something
Til we sourced ourselves to the crowd
Round and round
So we will go
Circle the wagons around the truth
Don't say what we both know
Don't say
Don't say
Don't say
Round and round
So we will go
Circle the wagons around the truth
Don't say what we both know
Round and round
So we will go
Circle the wagons around the truth
Don't say what we both know
Don't say
Don't say
Don't say
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3. |
Hold On To Love
04:34
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Here lies the dirt
Plastic flowers heal the hurt
It wasn't long
But I can't forget just what I learnt
About the good things I had
Slipping in the aftermath
It wasn't long
Far too short
To say all my goodbyes
So help me if you can
I used to think twice now I understand
How the ones you love
Can disappear before you know
Until we meet again
I look at pictures and pretend
That somethings not amiss
In the sky the stars will never shift
From their gaze over you
We promised but we failed to do
To push back that tide
That was sweeping up all over you
So help me if you can
I used to think twice now I understand
How the ones you love
Can disappear before you know
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
So help me if you can
I used to think twice now I understand
How the ones you love
Can disappear before you know
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
You got to hold on to love
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4. |
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I got her ring
In my back pocket
She got my things
Put them on the seat
You better just drive away
What am I but excuses I like to use?
What are you but temptation and half the truth?
So come on now love
I see morning
Up on the rise
Pale blue light
The colour of you eyes
You be gone
She said without a word
So high's the fall
From those gilded walls
You better just drive away
What am I but excuses I like to use?
What are you but temptation and half the truth?
So come on now love
I see morning
Up on the rise
Pale blue light
The colour of your eyes
You better just drive away
What am I but excuses I like to use?
What are you but temptation and half the truth?
So come on now love
I see morning
Up on the rise
Pale blue light
The colour of your eyes
The colour of your eyes
The colour of your eyes
The colour of your eyes
The colour of your eyes
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5. |
Jealous Of Heart
05:03
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If it was up to me
I wouldn't let you be in company
Red wine in hand
Undress you while you spoil the chance
Slick back hair
The touch of middle aged despair
Can't you hear
Baby moans tied up to her love
Oh sweet love
Right from the start
A matter of trust
Will tear us apart
Jealous of heart
I wait for you
To come and save me from these blues
Dressed to kill
I see the blood dripping from you lips
Love is fair
The devil in the detail of what you share
Can't get enough
Baby moans in the bliss of another touch
Oh sweet love
Right from the start
A matter of trust
Will tear us apart
Jealous of heart
Now I don't sing
Sing these songs of spite to only you
That would let you in
To run among the shadows of my sins
I'll try once more
To clean my spills up off the floor
I'm on my knees
These stains ain't the mark of me
Oh sweet love
Right from the start
A matter of trust
Will tear us apart
Jealous of heart
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6. |
Washed Up
04:49
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I'm all washed up
Down today
I feel like everything
Is too hard to change
Give me room
To make those mistakes
There's nothing here
But the pills I gotta take
But then I woke up
And I realised something
If you lie next to me
Then you, will help me breath
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
I know love comes again
I need to wipe those tears
Wipe them all away
Save them all
For some other day
Give me room
Honey to make those mistakes
There's nothing here
But the pills I gotta take
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
I know love comes again
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
When I see your face
Sunshine falls through the rain
Sunshine, Sunshine
I'm all washed up
Down today
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7. |
TDK
04:20
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Working all through the night
Something ain’t quite right
Come home again
And the grass is green
You pay some guy to keep it neat
Rather watch pay TV
Got five in the tank and nowhere to go
Loose ends they just don’t pay
A 929 with suspension that just gives it all away
Infatuated by the girl who just won’t know your name
Got all my favourite songs teed up to play
Call up your friends
they know your the losing end
Catching a free ride
And every step you made
Just a search in vain
In that second hand store
Got five in the tank and nowhere to go
Loose ends they just don’t pay
A 929 with suspension that just gives it all away
Infatuated by the girl who just won’t know your name
Got all my favourite songs teed up to play
Got five in the tank and nowhere to go
Loose ends they just don’t pay
A 929 with suspension that just gives it all away
Infatuated by the girl who just won’t know your name
Got all my favourite songs teed up to play
On TDK
On TDK
On TDK
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8. |
Caroline
03:07
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Shimmering horizon
We’re one and the same
Holding on to the edge
While the world slips away
Take me to the morning
Let me feel you wake
In your eyes the light of love
Baby break my chains
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
Take what you need
Baby I got enough
I want to lie and bask in your glow
But I know you gotta go
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
Caroline
Of the waves
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9. |
Horses
04:29
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They’re adding up all the reasons why today
The fool in a scene you knew how it would play
Accumulate the interest in your returns
Safe in your tower the world below you burns
What did you fight for
To just stand by and let them take it all
Will we one day see
Horses on the horizon
Coming back to feed
Vultures in their hunger
They’re selling your Truth on the make with your lies
Those same old friends wink it’s just for the headlines
Now you planted the seed watch it grow in us every day
Sucking up nutrients leaving only hate
What did you fight for
To forget every thing we’ve done before
Will we one day see
Horses on the horizon
Coming back to feed
Vultures in their hunger
Looking for the meat
Will we one day see
Horses on the horizon
Coming back to feed
Vultures in their hunger
What did you fight for
To lie in fear before the dawn
Will we one day see
Horses on the horizon
Coming back to feed
Vultures in their hunger
Looking for the meat
Will we one day see
Horses on the horizon
Coming back to feed
Vultures in their hunger
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10. |
Rise
05:35
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Head hurting with my love
I drink you in, I can't get enough
Wrap me up in your arms
Cover me so I won't come to harm
I wonder baby if you hear
The ticking clock counting down our time
One day we will look back
And see the first kiss of our demise
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
There's an empty bottle
for every heart you left lying by the side of the bed
And it didn't really matter much
Until yours was the heart I just had to mend
I wonder baby if you hear
The ticking clock counting down our time
One day we will look back
And see the first kiss of our demise
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
I wonder baby if you hear
The ticking clock counting down our time
One day we will look back
And see the first kiss of our demise
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
Rise into the morning light
Don't let her fade away
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