1. |
Home
03:09
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(Ho - ome
Ho - ome)
Everyone has beginnings
Then we roll down years
Never know when we’re ending
’Til we just disappear
Through I try hard to leave you
I am pulled in reverse
And you find me and heal me
As my atoms disperse
Home, behind us
Home, inside us
Home, please find us
Home
Home, outrageous
Home, contagious
Home will save us
Home
(Ho - ome
Ho - ome)
Theres a street, there’s an ocean
There’s a village in ruins
There’s a war never ending
In the very next room
We are chickens and foxes
We are germs in a jar
But we should count our blessings
That we made it this far
Home, you made me
Home, you break me
Home, please take me
Home
Home in my bones
Home all I’ve known
Home, I must phone
Home
(Ho - ome
Ho - ome
Ho - ome
Ho - ome
Ho - ome
Ho - ome
Ho - ome)
Ho - ome
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2. |
I'm Singing Again
03:32
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(Ooo -
Ooo - )
Finally I’m released
My birds have all flown
I’m kicking ‘round the house
I’m dancing alone
Just me and my bones
Deep within
The great unknown
Is trying to call me
Now where’s my phone?
Who knows where this could end?
I’m singing again
(Ahhh -
Ahhh - )
Finally I’m released
I was struck dumb
I’m a broken bell
Couldn’t be rung
Cat got my tongue
Now I can finish
What I’ve never done
So stick your hands up
Don’t try to run
There’s no competition
That I’ll ever win
Just ears I’m gonna bend
I’m singing again
(Ahhh -
Ahhh - )
Over the rainbow
Down in the valley
Somebody’s calling
Somebody’s calling
C’mon just do it
Shoot out the lights
The heat seeking verses
The chorus that bites
I’m no bird in the treetops
But I can pretend
You might wanna join in
I’m singing again
(Ahhh -
Ahhh - )
I’m singing again
(Ahhh - )
Like a bird
(Ahhh - )
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3. |
Time
03:38
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Look at my face
I can’t believe
Time, time, time
Creases and cracks
No turning back
Time, time, time
Every year, shorter by half
Forty years stampeding past
Leaving lines each time I’m
Llaughing
Laughing
Laughing
Laughing
Time
There are the young
Once I was one
Time, time, time
Looking through me
All they can see
Time, time, time
Sure, I was just like them
Eventually they’ll remember when
They were dreaming it was
Never ending
Never ending
Time
Never ending
Time
Never ending
Never ending
Time
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna go
I wanna move fast
Keep up with the show
I just wanna bow out slowly
Plenty of dark
Plenty of space
Dots of light
Plenty of what
The universe makes
Long, long time
At twenty three the world was mine
Waters rose by thirty nine
At sixty four please pour me more
Time
More time
More time
More time
Once I was burning with lust
Soon enough, cosmic dust
Knock knock knock
I guess it must be
Must be
Must be
Must be
Time
Give me
Time
More time
More time
More time
More time
Please
Time
More time
More time
More time
More time
Time
More time
More time
More time
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4. |
When Your Parents Go
03:03
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When your parents go
At first stunned
Still in the world
Abandoned
Then you start to run
When your parents go
Some things
Revealed
Boundaries collapse
Edges disappear
Then you start to run
Run for the exits
Run from the church
Run with the coins
From Mummy’s purse
Run from the demons
Run from the curse
Run run run
Run run run
So starts the rot
The lid comes of the pot
Your siblings bicker over what
You’ve become what you thought
You were not
Run in the darkness
Run from the worst
Run like a child
When it hurts
Run from the memories
Run ’til you burst
Run run run
Run run run
When your parents go
Finally, air
At last you're free to go there
So just go there
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5. |
Hello At Home
02:46
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Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
At home
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
At home
Is there anyone there?
I hope you’re living somewhere
Can you make-like-a-roof
Cuddle up with the truth
Good riddance and thanks
To all the markets that tanked
Now we’re fighting a war
With a sign on the door
Saying
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
You’re fiddling with your phone
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
At home
Hello at home
We’re going with the flow
Hello at home
‘Cause we’re all in the zone
Hello at home
You’re not alone
Hello at home
Woo-ooo
Haven’t seen you for days
But I held onto everything
That your screen tried to say
You were blowing your nose
When everything froze
It’s gonna be ok (ok)
President clown’s
Gonna soon just go away
I got Jesus on the line
It’s not the end of times
Just yet
Hello at home
Hello hello hello
Hello at home
Turn on your microphone
Hello at home
Your hair has grown
Hello at home
Hello at home
We’ve nowhere else to go
Hello at home
Don’t worry ’bout the loan
Hello at home
We’re not alone
Hello at home
Oooo
Hello at home
Ooo
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6. |
As The River Flows
03:35
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Oh, as the river flows
Oh, as the river flows
We’re drifting in a dream
(Oh, as the river flows)
Hearing cries and screams
(Oh, as the river flows)
Too soon we pass the scene
(Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows)
As the river flows
Forests and fields bare
(Oh, as the river flows)
Towns, dull and in despair
(Oh, as the river flows)
Is anybody there?
(Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows)
As the river flows
We’re drifting slowly
Slowly drifting
In a silent place where time has been suspended
Ghostly we are creeping
Who are we and where are we going?
Weddings and funeral pyres
(Oh, as the river flows)
Factories and burning tyres
(Oh, as the river flows)
Sizzling electric wires
(Oh, as the river flows, beware below)
As the river flows
Dead cars and dying trees
(Oh, as the river flows)
Wiped out by that disease
(Oh, as the river flows)
Buried in sites like these
(Oh, as the river flows, we’ll never know)
As the river flows
We’re in the darkness, in the darkness
Where we whisper and our voices hiss like paper
No one dares remember
But our memories hang and linger in the ether
Closer - stay together
Who are we and where are we going?
We try to change the song
(Oh, as the river flows)
But we are dragged along
(Oh, as the river flows)
Soon… all gone
We let it go as the river flows
We’ll never know as the river flows
Oh, as the river flows
(Shhh)
Oh, as the river flows
(Shhh)
Oh, as the river flows
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7. |
Asteroid
02:43
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Are you at peace?
How did you vote?
Did you storm the streets
Or stop the boats?
How many sins will you admit?
Your feeble wit?
Your ‘80s hits?
It’s come to this
You’ll never get fixed
Soon you won’t exist
What else have you missed?
How long, how long
’Til you fall to bits?
How long, how long
’Til the asteroid hits?
Down at the church
Crammed in like fish
The roof collapses
Like a dying wish
Four horsemen of the
Apocalypse
Come riding up
And plant a kiss
No one will
remember us
When we’re all turned
Into cosmic dust
Of all the fates
That could be worse
We’re everywhere
In the universe
Shake your fist
Or just get pissed
God doesn’t miss
She doesn’t even exist
How long, how long
’Til you fully commit?
How long, how long?
You gotta confess
How long, how long
Left to listen to this?
How long, how long
’Til the asteroid hits?
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8. |
Happy Daze Again
03:57
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Happy daze again (ahh)
Happy daze again (ahh)
I can recommend (ahh)
Happy daze again (ahh)
Alright
Look at my face in the mirror I see
The monkey in me and I’m bananas
PJs and shirt, completely alert
I’m zooming to work (I’m in heaven)
Ageing with grace I’m fully composed
Bucket and hose, now I’m a fireman
Ladders and poles and digging for souls
In bottomless holes (I’m still in heaven)
Happy daze again (ahh)
Happy daze again (ahh)
Follow my nose and follow the prompts
I get what I want, I go to pieces
Float like a stone, I’m flying alone
My hair is un-mown (I’m in heaven)
Eating a phone and holding a peach
And pounding the street (I’m still in heaven)
(Love is everywhere)
In cobbled lanes
(Love is everywhere)
In blocked up drains
(Love is everywhere)
Just look again
Take a look again
The end of the road’s at the end of the street
And you follow your feet and you gotta repeat
And you gotta repeat and you float like a sheet
You’re a ghost made of meat
You search for contentment and during the sentence
The past and the present, you muddle your tenses
You come to your senses, amazed and incredulous
Dazed and defenceless
And ‘round and ‘round and ‘round you go
The walls have ears
The windows, noses
One door shuts
Another door closes
And no one knows
When the next live show is
(Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
Happy daze again (ahh)
Happy daze again (ahh)
Bucking every trend (ahh)
It’s happy daze again (ahh)
Sink into happy daze again (ahh)
Alright
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
Love is everywhere
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9. |
Ray Of Hope
02:40
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Searching for a ray of hope
Flickering here and there
Blinding me with its glare
Oh - oh
Chasing down a ray of hope
Like I’m delirious
Though it’s deadly serious
Oh - oh
Maybe it’s a plane
But it’s far too bright to see
Squinting at the sun
When a shadow swiftly flashes over me
Searching for a ray of hope
Hush at the cusp of dawn
Blink and the moment’s gone
Oh - oh
Chasing down a ray of hope
I am in hot pursuit
Longing and resolute
Oh - oh
Waiting by the gates
As the train is flashing by
The light jumps through the cracks
I am mesmerised and then the moment dies
(Die-ie-ies)
Hope!
Searching for a ray of hope
(Searching for the rays of hope)
Chasing down a ray of hope
(Searching for the rays of hope)
Searching for a ray of hope
(Searching for the rays of hope)
Ray of hope
Ray of hope
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10. |
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(Woh …
Woh …)
Holy water. cross myself
Holy water. cross myself
Leaking into every crevice
Holy water fills my eyes
I never asked to be baptised
But I was judged and I was sentenced
Oh, how my childhood self was coerced and bent
They buried it deep and put me to sleep
To hell I was sent
Holy water fills the street
In the rivers and the creeks
Polluting and dividing
Holy water in the sewers
It’s never gonna cure
All the misery and violence
But oh, how my life, so long, is so short tonight
It’s dark like a moat
I’m trying to float towards the light
Cross myself
(Woh…)
Cross myself
(Woh…)
Holy water in the veins
Of the missiles and the planes
Raining down from heaven
As the young man plants the bomb
On the road to kingdom come
Is he blasted to his senses?
Oh, how the village burned and the sky turned red
The witches were drowned, the children were found
All silent in bed
Cross myself
(Woh…)
Cross myself
(Woh…)
Cross myself
(Woh…)
Cross myself
Cross myself
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11. |
The Common Touch
03:39
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All I wanted was the common touch
But maybe I would feel too much
Or what I’ve got
Is simply not enough
I used to try so hard to please
All I got was
‘You’re all at sea
Way off key
What kind of songs are these?’
(Ah)
I have struggled to get through
(Ah)
To myself just be true
(Please)
Asked myself ‘just who are you
Who has the common touch?’
The common touch
I’ve observed how others go
(What is that?)
Eyes and lips and hands and clothes
I’ll be exposed
‘Look, a real wierdo’
Maybe there’s some magic code
That connects us node-to-node
Sparks explode
Electricity flows
(Ah)
How I wish that I could feel
(Ah)
Some emotional ideal
(Please)
Just how do I appeal
To the common touch
The common touch?
There are those who fake it all
Politicians who have the gall
To grab, to feel, to hug, to maul
To stoke the fires
To traumatise
(Remember the fires)
(Ooo)
(Ah)
There’s something brutal, something fake
(Ah)
Those who grab our hands and shake
(Please)
Eventually our bones will break
From the common touch
The common touch
Now’s the time we must resist
The all too canny populist
(Please)
The jackboot and the fist behind
The common touch
The common touch
It feels too much
(Feel it)
Feels too much (Too much)
The common touch (Ah)
The common touch (Ah)
The common touch
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12. |
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Me in my corner
You way beyond belief
I don’t want to hate you
But I violently disagree
We’re not talking
Sleepwalking through it all
No love or deep hugs gonna save our souls
Save my soul
Ooo
Now that push has come to shove
Ah
What the world needs now is more than love
Love won’t overwhelm the views
Of flag wavers and anti-vaxxers
Shouting how they have to be so free
Free to choke, free to grasp
To hurl insults, to now wear masks
To raise the temperature by two degrees
I feel like we’re sliding into a dark age
False gods and demagogues turning up the rage
Turning up the rage
Ooo
Now that push has come to shove
Ah
What the world needs now is more
Is more than love
It feels like the end but it’s not the end
Oh no
History rhymes, time goes forward and back again
‘Cause we’ve been here before
Make love, not war
Pleading sense
But we can’t break the spell
And nothing can quell the grievances
Ooo
Hold me closer anyhow
Ooo
Whisper in my ear
What the world needs now
(What the world needs now
What the world needs now)
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13. |
Less
02:54
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Take off your clothes
Throw out all your files
Feel the earth between your toes
Breath a while
Welcome to less
Welcome to less
Welcome to less
Less
Less
Empires fall
So does fruit
Enough for all
Undershoot
Don’t leave town
Slow down
The sky’s above
All you need is
Less
Less
Less
Eventually the lights go out
On consultants in executive wings
Slowly drawn towards the fire
Everybody sings
Welcome to less
Welcome to less
You’ve earned it
Less
Less
Less
Less
Oh
Oh
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