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Albedo
03:13
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The softness
The silence
Pierced by the violence
The secrets
The slyness
The absence of guidance
The constant reminders
Of all that's behind us
The split lips and shiners
Resorting to blindness
Welcome down
The heartache will find us
Despite all the kindness
The clues that are priceless
No respite from tiredness
Advancing though sightless
The mystery is harnessed
We move on regardless
Right back to the whiteness
Welcome down
To this gutter
Feel this euphoria
Earth will embrace you
Enjoy this ablution
Welcome down
Tears flow like hydrants
On streets like asylums
The footfalls of tyrants
But love won’t abide them
The things that divide them
Will one day unite them
The things that divide them
Will one day unite them
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Heavens Guts
03:04
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Getting dirty to get clean
Little more than a machine
Yeah you’d like to shake my hand
But man you don't know where its been
This is no vocation
It's a purgative routine
Made for men with complications
And unstable personalities
Down in the Guts of Heaven
I’m worlds away
Now that my soul is weathered
I can't complain
All in a day
We go places you’ll never
Mending all our broken ways
This is not a breeze
Grown men down upon their knees
It's the lure of self-destruction
For a mind that’s ill at ease
They call it construction
But it’s more like a disease
For which there is no cure
Except perhaps correctional facilities
Down in the Guts of Heaven
I’m worlds away
Now that my soul is weathered
I can't complain
All in a day
We go places you’ll never
Mending all our broken ways
Tradesmen! Pick up your tools
You don’t need welfare and you don’t need school
It’s no place for the work shy
The world around is cruel
So forget about your good looks ‘cause posing is for fools
Well this will earn your living
It might not bring you jewels
But one day you can have a kingdom
In a home beneath your rule
Down in the Guts of Heaven
I’m worlds away
Now that my soul is severed
I can't be saved
All in a day
We go places you’ll never
Mending all our broken ways
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Hopeless Melody
02:59
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Burning bright
Still watching the river rise
With a casual misery
Biding time
Destroy yourself leisurely
To the hopeless melody
Knocking about with Le Cas Social in my town
Kicking around with the ones who know they’ll never get out
Staring at the photographs of the homes for sale
While the dogs fight down where the homeless crowd
Telling yourself there’s an easy way out
Hanging around with Le Cas Social feeling beat down
Sticking it out ‘cause it’s too late now to be anywhere else
Checking if the cash machine might heed your prayers
But the likelihood is that no one cares
How it feels to be
Burning bright
Still watching the river rise
With a casual misery
Biding time
Destroy yourself leisurely
To the hopeless melody
Bopping around with Le Cas Social cracking up now
Haunting the town ‘cause they feel so proud to be out of this realm
Well open your windows
See how the wind blows
Through your time
Burning bright
Still watching the river rise
With a casual misery
Biding time
Destroy yourself leisurely
To the hopeless melody
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In the town where you're living
On the streets where you're born
You can find a form of life
Thriving in the storm
A refined kind of species
Never right and never wrong
And they’ve made a special place to play
Where all can tag along
Sullied! On the streets of Plebeola
When there’s nothing happening for ya
Hit the streets of Plebeola
If your heart's a bag of bruises
If your hopes have turned to dust
Been betrayed by so many now there’s no one left to trust
There’s a place for this condition
You can get there on the bus
You don't have to look a certain way
But baseness is a must
Sullied!
On the streets of Plebeola
When there’s nothing happening for ya
Hit the streets of Plebeola
Sullied!
On the streets of Plebeola
And it never will outgrow ya
On the streets of Plebeola
PLE-BE-O-LA
PLE-BE-O-LA
Street lights so bright replace the darkness in my heart
Oh where did it all start?
When will it all stop?
If it wasn’t for the wasters
If it wasn't for the nuts
Or the after hours pavements painted with their guts
If it wasn’t for the posers
Or the hopelessly in love
If it wasn’t flowing though my veins I guess I’d give it up
Sullied!
On the streets of Plebeola
When there’s nothing happening for ya
Hit the streets of Plebeola
PLE-BE-O-LA
PLE-BE-O-LA
PLE-BE-O-LA
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Karma Pollution
03:13
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Warm tears
Cool wine
Open bottle number five
What’s the use in good advice
If it obviates your pride?
A few more years down the line
Cynical and justified
It’s either that or loose your mind
In a field of splinters
Karma pollution
Is all you have acquired
The tainted air you’ve been breathing
Karma pollution
Is all you leave behind
The poison streams that you’ve been drifting
Crowded conscience
Unrefined
Open wounds and trivial crimes
Casting all your friends aside
Didn’t make for paradise
I was laughing in my mind
For all the good turns you’ve declined
Apologies a waste of time
When you don’t need forgiveness
Karma pollution is all you have acquired
The tainted air you’ve been breathing
Karma pollution is all you leave behind
Another landscape turned to cinders
Be careful what you leave behind
‘Cause time is cruel and fate is blind
The world reflects what lies inside
Regardless of your good intentions
Karma pollution
Karma pollution
Karma pollution
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6. |
Big Void
04:09
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A big void
Is growing within
A big void
Is growing within
A love imprinted
A mood that sticks
The kind of fracture you can never fix
You knew for certain
She would have been
The Medusa in your labyrinth
A big void
Is growing within
A big void
Is growing within
Something numinous
Someone that fits
Indissoluble without the tricks
‘Cause when the lonely bug
Makes it’s digs
The weightlessness is impossible to shift
A big void
Is growing within
Heading for that weightless realm
A big void
Is growing within
Doctor do you have some kind of probe
You could stick into my heart and read the colour of my soul?
‘Cause if you only knew
My secret inner hue
You might diagnose a case of chronic black and blue
A big void
Is growing within
A big void
Is growing within
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Stars & Phantoms
02:49
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Fix my eyes on a satellite
Nothing down here seems to be aligned
There’s a song playing in my mind
And she’s the chord I can never seem to find
Your heart
It seems
Dumb and deafened
Guided along between stars and phantoms
Everyone sheds a certain light
Some distort their beauty with a lie
You’d be crazy not to
Take a chance when it’s pointing to the truth
Your heart
It seems
Dumb and deafened
Guided along between stars and phantoms
Don’t be surprised
If the river runs dry
Falling through space
We are all immortal
Your heart
It seems
Dumb and deafened
Guided along between stars and phantoms
Your heart
It seems
Dumb and deafened
Guided along between stars and phantoms
Your heart
It seems
Dumb and deafened
Guided along between stars and phantoms
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Oimo Sa
00:58
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Jinsei wa
Oimo sa
Atenai
Mono sa
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Saturns Sign
03:36
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Say love hurts
But this way
It’s more than just a heartache
See purple
In her face
The colour makes it plain
Saturn’s sign is at it again
Commitments
A new strain
Now there’s one more on your plate
You find out
The hard way
What drives a man to break
Saturn’s sign is at it again
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Sweet sweet black and blue
Itchy fists
Bulging veins
The whiskey has its own way
Then night falls
For some days
The darkness makes it plain
Saturn’s sign is at it again
The comedown
The trip fades
The home becomes a cage
The new town center’s grey
Will turn a peaceful mind to rage
Saturn’s sign is at it again
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that
Sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Sweet sweet black and blue
It means the world to him to be the guy that you depend on
And when the stars align your bound to see Saturn rise
Over your home
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that
Sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Sweet sweet black and blue
Come on over
It’s long overdue
For some of that
Sweet sweet black and blue yeah
Sweet sweet black and blue
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10. |
Primitive Flaws
03:29
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Daddy was an anachrone
Spent his whole life axe to the grindstone
Heavy with a bitter load
And that's where I get my ill manner from
Primitive flaws in my nurture
Primitive flaws in my nurture
Daddy was a time bomb
Set to trip when shit got difficult
Steady as a domino
When it all came crashing down what a show
Primitive flaws in my nurture
Primitive flaws in my nurture
All our heroes are made of flesh and bone
Normal people
A fraction less Neanderthal
Daddy wasn't one to probe
Spent his whole life locked into fight mode
Many of the same mould
Engineered for a life of heavy blows
All our heroes are made of flesh and bone
What a sight to see them rise above this common form
Primitive flaws in my nurture
Primitive flaws in my nurture
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Dotty
04:21
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Can’t you find something you like in me?
I’m hard to break
As soft as a cloud beneath I’m
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
Coarse beyond the fruits of your company
A past that all my winning trophies can’t redeem
I can’t fight my way up
To the place you look down
Running rings
Count the bruises that you’ll never see I’m
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
Lost and menacing
Pretty boy you know you broke so many rules
All alone and your face is black and blue
But if only she could know you
The way you’d like her to
Your broken features wouldn’t feel so crude
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
And it already feels like something
Already feels like something
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
And it already feels like something
Well tell me aint that something?
Yeah that's something
Yeah that's something
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
Occupy myself in a waking dream
I can’t escape
Embroiled in the tapestry I’m
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
Dotty for you
Going dotty for you
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
See ya
See ya
See ya from afar
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12. |
Miss Mayhem
03:06
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Pretty Miss Mayhem captivates the pavement
With a slant upon reality where fantasy seems credible
Never on your wavelength
Wonders where the day went
She’d like to see me often but her timings incompatible
Disordered field of flower
Confusing everything
To see the world through her perspective would be frightening
Another whiskey sour
A karaoke binge
Oh what a girl to be desired
Miss Mayhem
Pretty Miss Mayhem poses at the station
No smudge of mediocrity
Her image is formidable
Tells me I’m amazing
But I think she is mistaken
‘Cause I have to take authority to make the real world livable
Disordered field of flowers
Confusing everything
To see the world through her perspective would be frightening
Beneath the Tokyo Tower
Over the Vauxhall Bridge
Oh what a girl to be desired
Miss Mayhem
Miss Mayhem
Miss Mayhem
Pretty Miss Mayhem everything is breaking
You say it’s only money
But we’ve only gone and spent it all
Tells you its ok when the world is looking caved in
Her face maintains composure
But a riot runs beneath it all
Miss mayhem
Miss Mayhem
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Worlds End
03:03
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Each river meets another
Bodies growing old together
Pick a time,
show your face
Loyal to a place,
that only suits you when you're losing
Burn, burn, until you learn
A hazard with a reputation
Play the part to mark your days
Crawl into a space,
that only suits you when you're losing
Born to escape,
the clutches of your fate
She’s still waiting for someone to lead the way,
out of her world, (dancing on the …)
the dead end world (burning wheel)
Trouble you make
The walls you break
Can never reshape you're constellation
Some new face
The same old flaws
Games you play have all been played before
Inviting the storm
Inviting the storm,
to oblivion
Inviting the storm
Go-go till your gone
Born to escape,
the clutches of your fate
She’s still waiting for someone to lead the way,
out of her world, (dancing on the …)
the dead end world (burning wheel)
out of her world, (dancing on the …)
the dead end world (burning wheel)
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Warps Of Life
03:09
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Big smudge baby
The careless hands you put your life in charge
Some discovery
The value of autonomy
Big doubts lately
That's the gift you get for looking past
Foolish vanity
The mirror sits uncomfortably
The warps of life
Challenging your mind
Urging you to let it go
Big jokes baby
Can’t take you serious if you don't laugh
It’s a comedy
Playing out subconsciously
Pipe dreams maybe
That's the term they’ll use to pick apart
Your persistency
But nothing makes much sense to me
The warps of life
Blurring all the lines
Urging you to let it go
Jinsei wa
Oimo sa
Atenai
mono sa
The warps of life
The warps of life
The warps of life
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