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I remember the look in your eyes
In the right light reflected mine
Believing that I knew all the things that were ailing you
And maybe some of our adolescent pain was true
You wrote yourself as the hero of the story,
A savior and a saint
Messiah for the masses in your head,
Coming to save them once again
[chorus]
But it’s never ending,
It’s your story
Slave to your perfect crime.
It’s never ending
Your crowning glory
A god to the mirror on your wall.
Sometimes I wonder whether your dreams are now your reality
But with a heavy heart I see all your best years there at the age of seventeen
A matter of time and this you knew
But I couldn’t have given you my advice
Trapped within your paralytic life,
Still believing that you’re divine.
You wrote yourself as the hero of the story,
A savior and a saint
Messiah for the masses in your head,
Coming to save them once again
You can run
You can run
(There is nowhere to go, nowhere to go from here,
A slave to your perfect crime
There is nowhere to go, there’s nowhere to go from here,
Slave to your perfect crime)
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Slink No. 5 (K.M.A.)
03:54
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Well I got my girl, she’s pretty great, I told her it must be fate
She looked at me with one eye open, told me ‘go to sleep, it’s pretty late’
She wakes up with her head full of questions
I’d answer them all, all the best ones
The days are kisses and tangled sheets
The nights alive and on repeat
Where we go today we’ll never know
Where we’ll go tomorrow we’ll go…
Just come on over
Just come on over
Just come on over
[Chorus]
‘Cos you’re my queen, yeah you’re the real thing!
And there’s no question about the feelings I feel
yeah you’re my cutest little sexiest little day dream
and when I think of all the rest, you’re the only one I see
Well I got my girl, she’s a bit like me
Just a bit of madness in her eyes
Living for the weekends, the half-remembered nights
With half of the world there in our sights
you’re the spark, you’re the fire, you’re the light
Where we go today we’ll never know
Where we’ll go tomorrow we’ll go…
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Time For Another
04:02
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(This is one for the kids, oh...but you know what you're doing)
On the summit of someone’s climb, you plant your feet
At the heart of someone’s throne, you take your seat
Spoilt by the answers no questions asked
Don’t know where it comes from, you know it lasts
On the back of someone’s work, you claim your reward
In the middle of someone’s back you drive your sword
Spoilt by the answers no questions asked
Don’t know where it comes from, you know it lasts
[Chorus]
Time for another, you really need another, go and get another two
Time for another, ready for another two, you really need another two
Time for another, you really need another, go and get another two
Time for another, gotta get another two, you really need another two
And you’re so far gone, you’ve never known any less
Anything you’ve done, someone’s cleaned your mess
Spoilt by the answers no questions asked
Don’t know where it comes from, you know it lasts
There’s no reason for you to fend for yourself
Cause you know there’s so much else left on the shelf
Spoilt by the answers no questions asked
Don’t know where it comes from, you know it lasts
Buy until your soul’s complete (x8)
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Streets
04:10
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There’s a place for you and I
over the seas and over skies
In the future we will be
In a place where we can see
[Chorus]
In the shadow of our sun,
In the lives we’ve just begun
On the streets of our city
We’re the only ones, only ones
For a moment we are fine
Trying to forget our demise
Your alibis won’t last the night
Chasing our dreams till they’re out of sight
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Well she doesn’t feel a sense of a direction today, no not today
Walking down these streets with her final plans she delays, tries to delay
And she’s trying to hold onto what she held for so long
But she wants to let it go all the same
Well she’ll never know how close she came to knocking down their doors (and winning their hearts)
And she’ll never know which streets this story would lead her down
Though I guess she’ll never know where stardust comes
To rise, to stall, to crumble and to fall
[Chorus]
She let me know, she was leaving that day
Where no temptations can find her
I wish I could have told her the things I had to say
Or the things she had to hear, for her to stay
Well it’s been a long long time since I heard from her directly
I hope she’s doing fine wherever she may be, does she think of me occasionally?
Did she ever let go of the gifts she gave to us all?
Is she still dancing into the hearts of everyone,
or just twirling alone in the autumn leaves watching as they fall?
[Chorus]
She let me know, she was leaving that day
Back to a place of greater safety
I waved her on, but I wish I told her all the things she had to say
Or the things she had to hear
I wish I told her the things she had to hear, for her to stay
She was a dancer in the city, lighting up the dark
Fought through her lines to force her rejections back till she could fight no more
While she tried to hold onto what she held onto for so long
In the end it left her all behind
And in the end she left us all behind
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Watching Over Me
04:10
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Sitting there alone you see (quietly, quietly)
Acting like she’s known it all (drearily, so wearily)
Have you lost your mother, girl (by the town, or by the sea?)
or has the lost another girl (free to be who she wants to be?)
[chorus]
Who’s that watching over me, could it be that I see?
Who’s that talking over me, could it be, couldn’t be…
Memories come over me, over me, over me
All these things I’ve failed to see, failed to see, failed to see.
Sitting there alone you’ll see (quietly, quietly)
Feeling like she’s lost it all (wearily, so wearily)
Have you found your mother girl (in the hazy eyes of a melody?)
or is she lost in another world (watch her fade into obscurity?)
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Elizabeth in the Cradle
04:10
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She said, ‘I won’t be there in the fall
I won’t be there when you fall
I won’t be
I’ll never be
I won’t be there in the fall’
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Hail Down
04:50
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I wonder if it’s raining back at home:
maybe someone else is looking at the skies,
as drops of muddy water paint the roads with a fresh new coat of dust.
The smell of smog permeates, but the skies don’t open up for you
And lately you’ve been wondering why
it doesn’t just hail down
[chorus]
Hail down (you know it should)
I remember the skies darkening as the sun went sinking down on me
Another cold night to feel,
but in my bones I knew it would pass
These feelings are someone else’s to know now and I’m further each and every day
But lately I’ve been wondering why the place I left behind comes back again
[Chorus]
When the years pass like months
And the months like seconds before my eyes
These second hand emotions make me feel like my time has passed
And someone else is looking at the skies, waiting for it to…
[Chorus]
(Hail down) On you, over you
(Hail Down) on you, over you.
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9. |
Brother
06:12
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The sun is shining
There’s no cause to worry today
And yesterdays troubles seem so far away
Try not to think so far ahead
Worries can be worried about another time and another place
What’s left of the past is how you remember it
And rose tinted glasses make the future bleak
There’s no glass ceiling hanging above our heads
And you’re free, free to be.
[Chorus]
But it hails down there’s shelter above your head
When it rains, you won’t feel a thing
And if it comes crashing down over you
It’s never, never the end
It’s never the end.
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Chekhov's Gun
04:12
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One to run with, one to run from
And one to take you under
And one to take you away
One to destroy, one to rebuild
And one to take away the darkness
And one to burn you brighter
[Instrumentals]
One to take you away
One to take you away
One to burn you brighter
One to take you away
One to take you away
And one to burn you brighter
Ooh…
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11. |
The Unlit Stage
05:14
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Every time I disappeared in search of something else,
I crawled to the place I was before
Everything I threw away had a way of
curving in the wind and coming back to me
Time after time it fell away and reappeared,
heavier than it was before
And time after time it seemed an endless cycle,
on the same track for years
[Chorus]
But I’ll never be the man I’m supposed to be
But that’s alright with me
This could be the last time I chase the trail of another’s destiny
But that’s alright with me
Tearing down your walls is a two-fold act
Destroying your constructs is the same
The fear of a time when I’m nothing but a man
Held me hostage to my vices for too long
An elder spokesman for the masses in your head
As the knowledge of a two eyed prison is shed
On the stage of a play written years before,
A tired actor falls to the floor
[Chorus]
But I’ll never be the man you wanted me to be
But that’s alright with me
This could be the last time I chase the trail of another’s destiny
But that’s alright with me
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12. |
Seaside Solitude
04:43
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Tell me a little story
While the waves are crashing down
Leave your fears in my hands
Till you forget them all
Till you forget it all
A place to call your own
A place to call your home
A place to collect your memories
The ones you swear you won’t forget
A place to call your own
A place to call your home
A place to leave your troubles behind
A place for you
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Jasper Wong London, UK
Jasper Wong is a singer/songwriter and producer based in London, UK.
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