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Last Lovers Alive
03:34
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Let’s talk about love, or life, or nothing
They’re all the same
Let’s talk about all the ways we’re running
And the reasons we remain
I’m wondering if we had seen this coming
Would we have saved the world today
We were the last of all the lovers
No one will feel this way again
It started in the fall with the sense that the summer
Was the antidote to rain
We ended up jumping into each other
To stave the winter strain
And we must be unique, we’re the first to discover
That there is more beyond the pale
We are the last of all the lovers
No one will feel this way again
Before there was you there was nothing but the struggle
And the seasons and the weight
There was just a sore and a lowly lover
Knowing nothing but to take
When are you sending me someone to covet
Against this solitary fate
We’ll be the first of all of the lovers
To ever feel this way
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Duck for Cover
02:25
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How many days since your casual confessions
The wistful relay of your idle indiscretions
And me the master of the mindful disposition
How do we mend this endless daylight hour division
All the cracks around this thing begin to splinter
Already wasted but I’m braced for something bigger
Can we agree at least that something has to give here
Or maybe baby, I’ll just stand while you deliver
It’s colder here than the bridge above the river, where we
Danced and sang until the colours ran together, you said
Let’s not talk about who will be who’s forever
I am what I am and you can just duck for cover
Meet me on Monday at the end of the street
Time for old time’s sake to take time to see, if the
Freedom we needed came at the cost of being free
I’m sorry for Sunday if you’re sorry for me
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Fallen
03:57
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I’ve been having trouble sleeping
Something to do with this feeling of déjà vu
And my head is spinning
I got something to prove to you
When we make too much noise
And when they all come to our door
We’ll explain that the rain half a world away
Is falling for you / I’m falling
A memory of knives, night
Unconscious moves and days
A paternity of lies and flight
Cigarettes and ashtrays
Where’s a broken man to go?
There’s pieces of us everywhere
Guess that’s why that the sky half the time
Is falling for you / I’m falling
This legacy of life in fright
The vicious blues and greys
The gravity of day and night
Always stealing you away
And if we make it through this time
Let’s agree we won’t ask why
That we find that the sky half the time
Is falling for you / I’m falling
So let’s make too much noise
When they all come to our door
We’ll explain that the rain half a world away
Is falling for you / I’m falling
We’ve all fallen for you
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4. |
Feeling for Fashion
03:14
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So you never felt passion, just feeling for fashion
Tried us on for the thrill of the show
So your life’s about living, and giving and freeing
You need to go places you and I will never know
Can you show me something that’s better than this
Or is this all that there is
I'd like to know
So you’re leaving on Sunday, gonna see the world Monday
And on Tuesday you’ll let us all know
We should all think of leaving if we wanna start breathing
Can’t have us holding you down on the ground any more
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Southern Song
03:08
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Fly the 6am to catch the southern sun
Break up with the city and her winter rush
Welcomed by my river to her loving arms
She murmurs, ‘Such a pity, why’s it been so long’?
Hello Louisiana my darling
What will it take to make you be mine?
Wind my way across the Mississippi delta
Turn on your bright lights, shine baby shine
Now we’re moving slowly like we’re losing blood
We’re never gonna leave here when our time is done
Hello Louisiana my darling
What will it take to make you be mine?
Slide with me across the Mississippi delta
Throw away your bad times, shine baby shine
So come on Louisiana my darling
Just for the weekend say you’ll be mine
I know they all say Virginia’s for the lovers
But we’re gonna show ‘em how we shine baby shine
Return to real existence and the race we run
We dreamed we’d never leave that perfect southern sun
Goodbye Louisiana my darling
Promise me now you will always be mine
Follow me home across the Mississippi delta
Cradle our memory and shine baby shine
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6. |
Hold On
03:58
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We said our last goodbyes to the state
As we sailed off into the night
And maybe it's some cruel trick of fate
But baby I'm feeling alright
Hold on like you’ve never held anything before
Where’s the mystery when all the meaning is on the wall
We bear these injuries that remind us of how we fall
It’s 14 hours more to California
Hold on baby
Face to face with my regrets
I chose the lesser of two demons
Looking back now I understand
I drove this nail through my own hand
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Save Me
04:42
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Taking it on the chin
Taking you down with me
Taking it out of here to bury it in the ground
You were going to save me
Now who’s going to save me
Now who’s going to save me
So come on over it’s 5 o’clock
And we’ve only just begun to lay the lines out
You say we’re too close to see what’s real
Well I don’t know what that means
Now the whole world is turning upside down
All these pale horses are riding into town
And running all around
So come on over it’s 9 o’clock
And we’ve only just begun to tear our minds out
Why did we we think
That we could possibly live
Without breathing and why'd we hold it all inside
Tonight is the night that you and I collide
So bring on the night
So don’t come over, it's been too long
And we are too far gone to care our time’s out
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Beautiful Lies
04:40
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I’m trying to tell you I’m tired, I’m tired, I’m tired
And now, you’re telling me we’re fine
I’m trying to make it alright, I’m trying, I’m trying
But how’d we waste a million miles
Spend our time preoccupied with our beautiful lives
Never feeling the damage we do with our beautiful lies
Set fire to the city and run for our lives
One last chance to make it through this mess alive
Time to put out this fire, it’s time, it’s time
For now, we can’t pretend we’re fine
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Otherman
02:59
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He lives a solitary life
Round and round like a carousel ride
And time is slowly passing by
And he just sits and wonders why
He feels the same as every other man does
He numbs the pain until it all wears off
He hangs around until the night comes on
Always knew there was something more to life
Just a matter of time till his chance comes by
By and by he’s more and more unwired
And he can’t understand why
She breathes the city in at night
Drinking in all the neon of the lights
Every time that she moves she’s electrified
And she never wonders why
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10. |
Stand Up
03:38
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Hey let’s do what we did last week
I'll pretend that I can’t see
Anything you want from me
Looks like the rules have changed
Since we last played this game
It’s such a shame we danced it all away
It was in our hands to be the first ones
We had our plans to be the next ones
We lost our chance to be the last ones
To be last ones standing
So run away with me
I’ll be young and you’ll be free
We’ll both wear faded worn out jeans
Like they do on our TV screens
Seems that you are leaving me
For the coast on last night’s train
Is there anything you want to say?
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11. |
These Bridges
02:33
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Civil Hands Dubbo, Australia
Civil Hands is the secret love-child of REM, Pearl Jam and the Cranberries, hand-crafting indie-rock musical tales with a dash of joyful pop.
(Photos: Patrick McGuire Photography)
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