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Homewreckoning
04:06
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in the jaws of teh yapping dog
where we wrote our epilogue
where you lied to me and didnt even blink
and all she is a shadow of herself
and sober she's much prettier
it doesn't get easier baby, it only gets harder to drink
watching you grow up into a lady, oh what do you think?
What do you think?
A time when my head's full of choices
A time when yours needs to be free
A time when you can't even tell me
These impossibilities eat me eat me whole
You cry wolf now every week
For those rough sketchy thrills you seek
I keep my counsel just to feign ambivalence
But every now I leave an inch
In hope you'll step down from those plinths
Stony towers of your famous arrogance
And all she is
Is a lost child in the night
And I could bring her home
It doesn't get easier baby
It only gets harder to know
Watching you grow up into a lady
Oh what does it show, what does it show?
But something sweet surely can make me
Forget the way I'm supposed to be
When my head just reflects simmered hatred
And the symmetry fails to reflect what you can't ever see.
Don't talk wet
The day isn't done yet
She's got more of her body to give
Leave me be
I'm tired of trying to protect you
It breaks my heart
I'm gonna get me some
You can't have one without the other
I gave you everything
I loved you like you were a brother
Come on and enter in
I'll cast you out into the airlock
This is my reckoning
And I reckon you forgot.
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2. |
Everblind
04:26
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don't listen out cos God willing I won't be coming back if I can help it
don't you wait up cos I'm feeling like
the child in her eyes is gonna mend it
You're kissing him, you're forcing it
You don't want this
Don't be what they expect of you
Opinions skulk round corners, everblind
I hope you know that one day you'll find
That I'm losing my respect for you
Cos all you do is squirm when you are tied
To things you said before you capsized
I'm laughing at the walls again
You represent the way they close come morning
So many years papering over
All the little cracks; they're always forming
She's waiting up like spraying mace
In her own eyes
This fear is what is chasing you
Opinion skulks round corners, everblind
I hope you know that one day you'll find
You'll stop stuttering on every word
Forget to bear a grudge- is just absurd
And I'm storing these deactivated mines
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3. |
Limitations
03:35
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these are the limitations
of a life we built where I
I'm fine
and all these remonstrations
are just the bed you made I'll lie
In mine
In the arms of whoever you like
I'm not broken I'm just psyched
I find in time
That I must confess
I can only ever pin this all on me
But I was second guessed
By everything I see oh
Everything, you'd be.
Forty days like fogged mirrors
These memories, I made a few
With you
His songs have faster chords
And sweeter congealed metaphors than I
Can spew
But I must confess
I can only ever pin this all on me
I was second guessed
By everything you'd be
Oh everything I see
These are the outer reaches
You'll hear this song and then you'll leave and be free.
To love whoever you like
Without this vein without this spike
This barb, this heart:
She can't ever get away
Her gagging order drives me away
I'm getting bored, I'm in your sway
Your gagging order drives me
A way I lied: I'm fine.
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The thing about roads is they all have an end
Some reach the horizon but always subtend
Bisected by battling the one that you love
It's not always war but it is always tough.
For six hundred days or more walk hand in hand
Spin out of a future you hadn't yet planned
And land in a heap that's where you always land
Laughing and kissing and joking around
And I know I'm at a fork in the road
The fear of the fact that I don't even know
And if I could just change it up, rearrange it all
Throw it back at you and do it again
I'd know what I wanted, I know what I've got
But I can see the last one drifting off
I'd edit the world and just heave it away
I'm not frightened by discourse made timid by change
But fuck she's so beautiful and this is so strange
I can't make decisions when vision's abstained
I'd give you my all and that's all we could be
But that's not enough quite yet evidently
We'd land in a heap: that's where we'd always be.
Laughing and kissing and joking
And I know I'm at a fork in the road
The fear of the fact that I don't even know
And if I could just change it up, rearrange it all
Throw it back at you and do it again
I'd know what I wanted, I know what I've got
But I can see the last one drifting off.
Purgatory, it's still hell to me.
They call it limbo, but what do they know?
Purgatory, it's still hell to me...
But I can see the last one drifting off.
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5. |
In The Absence of No One
05:19
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she's got a child, he lives in her heart
he manifests himself in her actions and her art
she's got a slyness to take you to bed
spins gold from your kindness when your love is in her head
In the pomp of her youth she just can't see
It's never pain free
But in the absence of no one she's got me
And I'm watching the train leave, I do this a lot
And I'm keeping stock of what I could be, what I'm not
And it's quite self absorbed to drink to her health
When her health is waning, and she told you that herself
Cry into me, it's temporary, and you just can't see
That in the absence of no one she's got me
And in the end we're all floating on the still breeze
And in the end only you brought me to my knees
You represent what I can't be, but you've got me.
And she's got some words that I wrote as a kid
Every nook I crawled into, every corner I hid
I tell lies of forgetting, I tell lies that it's gone
But that beach is so quiet, and the nights are so long.
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6. |
Mouth Of A Million
05:24
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see i'm too young to wear the crown
I make my millions when I stick around
Oh my god, I love her now
But tomorrow I'll be going downtown
and she's too young to dress me down
but when she screams it makes an awful sound
and just to trust, is learning how
By tomorrow, you'll be going down
You'll be going downtown.
Stop saying that you're sick of me
You're a sycophant and you're sick of sticking up to me
And I ain't saying that i'll set you free
I just won't tie you down by not saying you're in love with me
And when I'm gone tomorrow or the next day
I'll say I'll see ya then we'll never intersect
Hey, I guess mutual separation is the best way...
A chain of reactions collides with my recent past
She takes her clothes off cos he likes the way she laughs
Love isn't supposed to be pseudoprecociously breaking me down.
She's in my lungs, I breathe her in
She's in my veins and underneath my skin
That's how I know, I'll never win
Cos I've got nowhere to begin.
Stop saying that you're sick of me
You're a sycophant and you're sick of sticking up to me
And I ain't saying that i'll set you free
I just won't tie you down by not saying you're in love with me
And when I'm gone tomorrow or the next day
I'll say I'll see ya then we'll never intersect
Hey, I guess mutual separation is the best way...
A chain of reactions collides with my recent past
She takes her clothes off cos he likes the way she laughs
Love isn't supposed to be pseudoprecociously tearing me down.
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Isaac Lister York, UK
Isaac believes in the passion and attitude behind the craft of songwriting. Found making a big noise in every pub from North Yorkshire to Suffolk, he blends the rough and ready aesthetic of the old blues with the heart of the modern troubadour. His influences are wide ranged, from The Black Keys and The White Stripes to Muse and Radiohead, and this ethos leads to unique and powerful songs. ... more
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