1. |
Drama Pyramid
01:30
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Get back, get on, get by
Hoist by my own petard
I can’t tell you if I’m struggling
Because there’s been no change in that regard
I’ve gone stupid from lack of experience
I’m gridlocked from lack of time
I cannot break the cycle
I cannot cross the line
I cannot break the cycle
I cannot cross the line
I cannot break the cycle
I cannot escape the pyramid
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2. |
Colossus of Rhodes
02:27
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I am lonely
I am small
I'm graffiti on your garden wall
I'm a misery
I'm a bum
But with you in my life I am the sun
I'm Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes because I've got you
Well I hate it here
It's a swizz
I don't know who anyone is
It's the ignorance
It's the greed
Having you on my side's all I need
I'm Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes because I've got you
I get beat down
You show me how to be
Colossus of Rhodes
Colossus of Rhodes
I'm Colossus of Rhodes because I've got you
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3. |
Chief Bromden
02:10
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There was a time I could look to the sea
Back when the land sang kid's poetry to me
Now, inland, there's bindweed around my fingers
I should I could appreciate it, wish I could, but I cannot linger
I'm too loaded with sensitivity to wires and electricity
There was a time when there was quiet in the city
A time before the hydroelectricity
When the energy vibration was for the, for the fisherman
For the knowers of the land, the turkey leg & wishbone
Not to be appropriated by hippies
Wires and electricity
I'm not a child of nature
I'm a classic modern failure
But you are progression
And you make me smaller
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4. |
Scarlet Letter Sweater
02:33
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I forgot my own past
It was never meant to last
So I looked to beyond pretty fast
It's as bad as I feared
You think I'm a little weird
And now everything's gone wrong since I appeared
Put this letter on my sweater
Pronounce me an upsetter
I work better from the outside looking in
Put this letter on my sweater
I don't know how that's meta
But apparently your gesture says it all
What you are so were we
What we are you will be
So ring the bell, down your tools, come for tea
That's enough, OK you win
Reputation's in the bin
I'm surprised you don't consider that a sin
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5. |
WWF
01:14
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My love life was like the WWF
Tricky moments and awkward approaches to sex
Very little contact or flesh or broad necks or oiled biceps
But a lot of deceit
So I didn’t know what to expect
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6. |
Paternoster
00:46
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Paternoster
I try not to feel an imposter
At your behest
We all face these kicks to the chest
But life goes on
We just have to learn when to step off and on
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7. |
My Life, The Open Wound
01:03
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My life
The open wound
I want to share everything with you, my love
(And the internet too)
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8. |
Peckin Party
01:00
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I must have played a thousand times
But doing it alone never gets easier
You're waiting for me to finish
And I'm not exactly enjoying it either
At this point we're all waiting
For a single spot of blood
To begin the peckin party
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9. |
Grit In The Oyster
00:50
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My ship has sailed before me
As I write line after line
The task I’ll never master
Is these words that sort of rhyme
My heart was badly broken
You mended it so fine
It’s harder to write sad songs
With a love like yours and mine
Aspire to retire
My dream is in the bin
I’ll sing in peace as my release
From madness setting in
My grit is in an oyster
My beer is in a glass
What happened to the fashion
of the working class moustache?
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10. |
Thames Boom
01:26
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I don’t know what I’m alive for
Clearly perfection is not what I strive for
My defence is SNAFU
But today is perfect with you
At the Thames Boom
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12. |
Yossarian
01:14
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If only you knew
How to take responsibility too
You’d issue some retraction
And be culpable for your actions
Why I am ashamed?
The shame is all yours
Yossarian
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13. |
It's All For You
01:06
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When I broke the mirror in the hall
It didn’t matter at all
Because luck is not an issue
When I can lay with you and kiss you
You’re the reason I step outside
Work a day job I despise
Why I feed myself each night
Why I didn’t take my life
The music’s just something I do
It’s all for you
It’s all for you
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14. |
Smitten
00:28
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I’m smitten
Don’t have any money
But I’m the richest man in Britain
No shittin’
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15. |
Mickey Mouse Hat
00:54
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Low tide’s edge
You’re holding hands with me
We feel each other’s pulse
And the pulse of the sea
This is the way
I want to see out my days
Morning sun across a mudflat
Just us four
You run as I hold your Mickey Mouse hat
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16. |
Mood Ring
01:14
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Your mood ring is turning blue
Even though you’re wishing it diamond
As we listen to Neil Young
We’re tired, warm and silent
Everything is new to you
But those records are truly amazing
Saturday morning cartoons
Have fallen by the wayside
Your mood ring is turning blue
Even though you’re wishing it diamond
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