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Sad Machine
04:10
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Sad Machine
Hey little sad machine. Staring back at me with one eye closed.
Feeling disconnected. A little puzzled thing.
You little sad machine. Don’t call him blinkered he’s focused.
Feeling just like a puppet left holding its own strings
It’s like he’s standing on an escalator just behind his life.
Just too late, too late, too late to change the mistakes
When you dissect a rainbow all you’re left with is rain.
Can’t put it back together and if you could it wouldn’t be the same
He’s living life from a distance. His cards so close to his chest
He’s only using 10 percent of his brain – He can’t remember where he left the rest.
It’s like he’s standing on an escalator just behind his life.
Just too late, too late, too late to change the mistakes
It’s like he stepped into an elevator just before the fire
Too late too late too late to make an escape
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The Last Dance is Over
03:14
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The Last Dance is Over
They’ve got history; she wants to keep it in the past
They had chemistry but apparently, some things don’t last
She calls him a dreamer and she’s not the only one
He sits alone in the darkness ‘til the clarity of dawn
And it’s over
There was poetry in the letters that he wrote her
And the way she kissed his forehead, eyes, his lips and his throat
Moving together, seamless and slow
But the shapes of these memories are now fractured and they know.
Once we had the world at our fingertips, love within our grasp
But the world weighs hard on our shoulders and it comes to pass:
The last dance is over.
It’s over.
So please don’t lecture me, about how it’s supposed to be
Because it’s over.
And please don’t lie to me, about how great things could be
Because it’s over.
Please don’t lecture me, or think you can lie to me, cos it’s over
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The View From an English Breakfast
She came into his life like some kind of a revelation
An angel in a stained white apron
Like a heart attack from out of the blue
He fumbles nervously and upsets the ketchup, and he claws at his t-shirt
Wishing he could wash away his pin-up tattoo.
She stands by the til her delicate arms folded, holding the universe together,
then she offers him a hint of a smile
Sometimes time just stops like it’s waiting for us to get off
And the view from an English Breakfast
Can be the prettiest view in the world
And today is the living proof
He fumbles for his glasses, he can’t think what to do or say,
Lips of rubber and fingers of clay. A living breathing mistake.
Oh Oh Oh And catching her eye
Oh Oh Oh is like grasping for light
Oh Oh Oh Something that he’s never had the training to do
Sometimes time just stops like it’s waiting for us to get off
And the view from an English Breakfast
Can be the prettiest view in the world
And today is the living proof
And ten years later on some Tuesday night
She says “remember when we met you looked so frightened”
But the view from an English Breakfast
Can be the prettiest view in the world
And today is the living proof
Today is the living proof…
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I Think That She Knows
03:31
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I Think That She Knows
Staring at you sleeping from the door
Last night is burned into my memory
Spiking on the Richter scale of lust,
Well Maybe I should get back home
A quizzical look, from over a book
My head is an earthquake, my confidence shook
I think that she knows, but how could she know
Unless somebody told her who could have told her
One day soon I’m sure I’m going to trip
Going to fall apart let the whole thing slip
Counting minutes as I lie awake
But there’s nothing I can do
Feel the last breath of summer on my neck.
Well So much for my intuition
Here I am again outside your door
Why do I do this to myself?
A quizzical look, from over a book
My head is an earthquake, my confidence shook
I think that she knows, but how could she know
Unless somebody told her who could have told her
One day soon I’m sure I’m going to trip
Going to fall apart let the whole thing slip
Counting minutes as I lie awake
But there’s nothing I can do
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I'm The Fool
03:15
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I'm the Fool
So here’s the great detective,
Sifting through his life
Searching for the clues of what went wrong
Everyone’s suspected
But every little circumstantial clue
Leads him back to how he treated you
I’m just lost here in the dark
Running blindly
Going round and round in circles
Cos I’m the fool
Yeah I’m the fool
I’m the fool who let you go
My friends all tell me that nothing good comes easy
And nothing easy ever lasts.
Seems that I didn’t try hard enough
Blessed with 20 / 20 hindsight
It’s not hard to work out you were right
Now I’m a close friend to loneliness
We all make mistakes I guess
But I’ll always regret
I’m just lost here in the dark
Running blindly
Going round and round in circles
Cos I’m the fool
Yeah I’m the fool
I’m the fool that you let go
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The Finest Excuses
03:42
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The Finest Excuses
Over and over we go
Like some waterfall that flows
Shining molten gold, in the first cool rays of morning
Leaving the city behind
Sleepless wide-eyed
Don’t ask when we’ll arrive
Cos we don’t even know ourselves; how can we know?
When they tell us to come home, we’ll only use the finest excuses
In a world that’s bigger than lifetimes, we’ll close our eyes and push in a pin
And get on a plane and don’t look back
We’ve all shovelled cultural snow, but that’s all that they know
If we leave them alone, one day they may come around
Put all our shiny toys down, disconnected slash unbound
Close our eyes to their dogma, return all the lies we’ve been sold, so many lies
When they tell us to comply, we’ll only give the finest excuses
It’s a world that’s bigger than lifetimes, so close your eyes and push in a pin
And get on a plane and don’t look back
Oh, never look back
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We Don't Know Anything
03:27
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We Don’t Know Anything
It all went wrong tonight, didn’t know where to go, I’d called all the friends I know
I don’t have my own place so things can get crazy
And I didn’t want to be around you
Yeah, we talked but I didn’t really want to talk too much
Cos everything always hurts when you lay yourself bare
Couldn’t even look you in the eyes. It’s all gone so wrong tonight
I don’t know who I am
How can you ever know?
God it’s so hard to show, how you’re feeling to someone that you love
Back when we got together – you always talked so tough, you’d say it’s not enough just to get by
And if I just tried, I could prove them all wrong
You always seemed so sure. But you don’t know anything, you don’t know anything, we don’t know anything
I don’t know who I am
Changes from day to day
God it’s so hard to say, how you’re feeling to someone that you love
Watching the sun come up. Everything comes around. Watch me prove them wrong
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Silence Echoes
04:19
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Silence Echoes
A warm breeze leads me by the hand
Guides me slowly through the trees
And no one’s ever going to find me here. Where I’m safe. Where I’m safe
Silence echoes round the room
Pulls me back to earth
The emptiness just hurts
Hurts me to my bones. Holds me like a curse
My head becomes a bowling ball, fingers in my eyes and nose
Tossed down the hall at all the truths I’ve ever known
One by one by one they hit the ground leaving nothing standing.
Silence echoes round the room
No one notices but me
And nothing will ever be the same again in this place. In this place.
My head becomes a bowling ball, fingers in my eyes and nose
Tossed down the hall at all the truths I’ve ever known
One by one by one they hit the ground leaving nothing standing.
Nothing. Nothing’s going to be the same again.
One by one by one they hit the ground
Leaving nothing standing.
Leaving nothing standing.
Leaving nothing standing.
A warm breeze takes me by the hand
And no one’s going to find me here.
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When It Rains
03:12
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When it Rains
She didn’t really get the joke
She turned away and gave a nervous smile
Didn’t really know what to say at all,
She stood up. She walked out
I don’t even think she turned around
Like she was never even there at all
And when it rains I always feel like I’ll get washed away
Right now the clouds are looking grey
Just trying to lift the weight of mountains laying on my shoulders
People tell me to have faith, that my mistakes will lead me somehow to another plane
But there’s only so much I can take, at least today.
It’s alright, it’s ok. I didn’t really like her anyway.
Like saying that will somehow reprogram my brain.
And when it rains I always feel like I’ll get washed away
Right now the clouds are looking grey
Just trying to lift the weight of mountains laying on his shoulders
Oh lord, make me an optimist, and fill my glass half full
Remove this curse of thinking the worst will happen
Oh lord make me an optimist, I’m not asking for a luxury car
And yes, I guess it’s a messed up request, as a lifelong non-believer and a shameless lyric stealer.
To catch this tiger by its tail
The way to win is first, to fail.
Oh lord make me an optimist, I’m not asking for a luxury car
And yes, I guess it’s a messed-up request, as a lifelong non-believer and a flagrant lyric stealer.
So catch the tiger by his tail.
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Like It Never Happened
03:54
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Like It Never Happened
Congratulations, on your status change today.
Lots of likes from the gang, hangers on, distant cousins
It’s good to see you’re getting out and moving on
Love the pics by the way, ;) So good-looking!
And all I’m hearing on the radio are love songs. Remind me not to fall in love again.
The evidence is gone you’ve scorched the earth between us
I look into your eyes and know there’s nothing there
The trumpets and the choirs exchanged for one heart beating; a heart that beats alone (my heart now beats alone).
Like a dog with no shoes on. I could not see the problem.
But now you’re gone, but now you’re gone it’s like it never happened.
I close my eyes and see you standing with your bags packed, the sunlight dancing on the snow
So what we had is gone you’ve scorched the earth between us
I look into your eyes and know there’s nothing there
The trumpets and the choirs replaced by one heart beating; my heart now beats alone.
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11. |
Green, Unpleasant Land
03:47
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Green, Unpleasant Land
Charity begins at home, by checking out his wallet and his mobile phone
Cos if it feels like trouble then it’s probably trouble.
Working the weekend away or so he says,
But when it feels like trouble then it’s probably trouble.
It all boils down to you, you knit the truth, into a comfy jumper that suits
your seesaw moods until the world’s a mirror smiling at you
And no one can disturb you. Living in your green and unpleasant land.
There’s hot, hot hate, every day on a plate delivered by the voice of the Sun
and if it seems like trouble then it’s probably trouble.
The envy, resentment and bile; raging like a toddler past the chocolate aisle.
Cos if it seems like trouble then it’s probably trouble.
Sails her ship alone, to some twilight zone, where all the faces are more like her own
Skies are passport blue, taking back the rules, from all the unbelievers.
But no one can disturb you. Nothing’s going to change your mind. Living in your green and unpleasant land.
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12. |
Take Me Home To The Moon
02:59
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Take Me Home to the Moon
This could be a lonely flight
Past forgotten satellites
Hope the pay is worth the price
Take me home to the moon
Sleeping dead will be reborn
Only fifteen months ‘til dawn
In space no one hears you yawn
Take me home to the moon
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Captain Wilberforce Leeds, UK
Since the release of debut album Mindfilming in 2004, Captain Wilberforce have had airplay on BBC Radio 2, BBC 6Music, BBC Radio Leeds and Radio Aire as well as recording a live session for Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2 show. They've also had songs synched to programmes on HBO, ITV and The Fashion Channel ... more
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