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You were sunrise, I was high tide
When the river burst its banks
The water rose to meet the road, but you kept shining through the cold
Until the level sank
'Til your light crept through my windowblind
Into my bed and you were mine
And you didn't want to go
But you'd always have to go
When I held you like a sacred truth
In the city neither of us knew
I didn't want to go
Didn't ever want to go back home
I would try to explain, when the blood drained from your face,
That the terrible truth is its own remedy
And whether you left or whether you stayed
There was no explaining away whatever drew you close to me
Drew your light right through my windowblind
Into my bed 'til you were mine
And you wouldn't want to go
But you'd always have to go
When I held you like a sacred truth
On the promenade underneath the moon
I didn't want to go
Didn't ever want to go back home
You were sunrise, I was high tide
When the river burst its banks
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Love and Wonder
03:16
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The cormorant dives
I'm trying to fix my eyes
On where she might re-emerge
Into the formless black
A shadow on her back
Indulging every deadly urge
The tide is rushing out
And the sun is disappearing behind the darkest cloud
Wonder of my world, did you really have to crumble?
Love's just a word we like to spoil instead of keeping her humble
The tide will come back in
But it won't wash you back my way again
Wonder of my world, did you really have to crumble?
Love's just a word we like to spoil instead of keeping her humble
The tide defines in the land
And in time I'll understand
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Start Living
03:42
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When we gonna start living like there's a hell?
When we gonna tidy up all these loose ends and find someone to tell our secrets?
'Cause we don't have forever
When we gonna get that feeling back?
When we gonna loosen up and let somebody new in on the inside track?
I know you're in pieces, but you'll put yourself together
So lie down Annelise and sleep, these are questions that can keep
'Til we have the morning sun on our side
There's no use plundering so deep, in darkness nothing's as it seems
So pipe down child, and close your blue eyes
When we gonna start living like there's a hell?
When we gonnna see the people in it all around us, and put the shit back on the shelf?
To hear it's never been better is to feel complicit in a lie
When we gonna get the feeling that we've hit our stride,
And hear some magic click that lets us know our intents and our outcomes have aligned?
Never, but we all spend a lifetime trying
So lie down Anthony and sleep, these are questions that can keep
'Til we have the morning sun on our side
There's no use plundering so deep, in darkness nothing's as it seems
So pipe down child, and close your blue eyes
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Gentle
03:45
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Lover if I had the tools in front of me right now I don't know if I'd know how to use them
I'm barely alive
You go strange from counting bodies slowly passing in procession to these other worlds
It twists your mind
We're all weather systems of our own, we go around pulling down each other's power lines
Plucking the sun from out of the sky
And when the storm has passed it all seems different and the things that used to make you laugh seem more like warning signs
I want to be gentle
It's hard to be gentle
I have to be so gentle with you
I want to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you
Every day you see those who deserve it least get trampled under someone's ugly feet
There really isn't much you can do
And you get told that your morality is all bent out of shape because you use forbidden words
Well fuck you
And your identity gets wrapped up in the least interesting thing about your one and only sacred life
The surface must be clean, it must be smooth
And in the midst of this we're trying to love each other while a thousand crazy demons try to struggle out
We can't keep each other fooled
I want to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you
It's hard to be gentle
It's all so delicate
I have to be gentle with you
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Papertrail Cork, Ireland
Papertrail is the dark, ethereal, harmonically rich art-rock brainchild of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Lucy. 2016 saw the release of debut single I Never Knew That I Was Anyone - quickly hailed by national tastemakers Paul McLoone (Today FM) and Dan Hegarty (2FM) as something uniquely powerful - as well as the realisation of the project as a formidable seven-piece live act. ... more
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