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Film of your life
03:28
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All night before the world began
Heard the beating wings of insects in a sacred golden dawn
Then we overheard the rumours of a distant holy war
Now on sad and dreaming screens I cannot see you any more
And they’re streaming executions in the street outside your door
But I’m fine, you’re fine - all good this time
Here’s us screaming - keep on breathing
Some kiss the sky and some kiss the sun
Some kiss their bibles then kiss their guns
She kissed the hounds of the chosen one
I kissed the road and the world that turns
And the girl that burns
All night before the world began
If we cannot help the feeling that we've all been here before
In the shadows of our silence we’ll be burning on the shore
Like a psychopathic army we destroy what we desire
We can start a new religion from the writhing in the fire
But I’m fine, you’re fine – all good this time
Keep on streaming - meanwhile breathing
Some kiss the sky and some kiss the sun
Some kiss their bibles then kiss their guns
She kissed the ring of the chosen one
I kissed the road and the world that turns
And the girl as she burns
All night before the world began
Now our love it lies in pieces at the ending of the earth
If this is all we have for answers then the dogs know what it’s worth
You asked your algorithmic saviours what the boys were marching for
By the orders of the prophets now they’re kicking down your door – they said
“You can be my baby”
“Lighter for the lady”
“Silence on the inside”
But the woman brings her own light
Woman brings her own light
All night before the world began
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Walking the wire
05:03
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Walking the wire
At seven years old
I fell for the music
And the wild eyed singers of songs
Oh they were strange
But strange in a beautiful way
I tried to follow along
And it became all I ever wanted
To play that desire
Oh without them we’d never started
Walking the wire
And more than one could call up an ocean or break the heart of the boys
Now they are gone
Gone is the dream of the day and their unholy noise
Think of the feet to walk on these stages
The voices for hire
When the applause was all of their wages
Walking the wire
I got caught up with wandering monsters and thieves in the night
Meanwhile they took the emotional load
Fought on with the fight
Over real historical forces
Balanced promethean fire
Only the brave ever endorses walking the wire
So to all the heroes of music, overlooked or underhired
It's for you we carry the dream of the day
And still walk the wire.
Because there is truth in all those emotions
Birthed in the fire
And what we do is second the motions
walking the wire
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3. |
Fall away to love
05:21
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Fall Away to Love
Through our doorways and in more ways we have wandered from home
In a world full of lovers we stare at our phones
Trying to feel some connection that we lost in the womb
But there’s a longing that waits with us deep in our rooms
So we keep family first ‘til the kids are all grown
Then I've been a loner but it tears at my soul
And we reel in our hopes as we reel in the years
But there’s no one an island to the laughter and tears
In all of the nights we wait alone
There’s another loving mind who’s waiting so
And the haunting thought self-taunting
Falls away to love, falls away to love
So we keep love alive though against all the odds
And if romance is dead then it died with the gods
But we still love to love, we are primed to receive
And the gods may be dead but in this we believe
That in all of the nights we wait alone
There’s some other ever loving mind who’s waiting so
The unfailing fear of failing
Falls away to love, falls away to love
As I stand by the shoreline she is there through the trees
My love is waiting on the edge of the breeze
With her arm in my arm, see the song writes itself
It's a song for the lovers to care for yourself
Cos in all of the nights we wait alone
There’s a world full of other loving minds who are waiting so
And the boring introspection
Is gonna fall away to love
It’ll fall away to love
And we fall away to love
Yeah we fall away to love
We fall away to love
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4. |
Home (in lands unknown)
06:09
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Home (in lands unknown)
Home is more than occupation
Though I walked for years through other nations
It burns inside and home is like a wave of rolling memory
And it’s breaking over flashback scenes
As I think of joys and forget the grieving
I stand alone in lands unknown
And sing, of home and the weight of it
And the heart exiled and ex-patriate
Oh we loved the world that came our way
But there's no words that can make it stay
Had a walk on part in the affairs of the heart
But still the heart is the home of us
And the blood, soul, and the bone of us
We’re gone home – home
So in my mind I stand in Ironopolis
By the Tees in the early morning
It's like I see the energy and heat
Of a thousand furnaces
In the teeth of the nineteenth century
Where the great ironmasters' greater workers
Spanned a world with tracks and girders
For an Empire's wheels - these men of steel
After 200 years hope the morning sun
Will arise now the work and the days are done
They’re gone home – home
They said we’d made our beds in human nature
And "If you spilled your blood, well no-one made you"
We can be high if we deal in rhyme
And we sing mainly now for the football team
But these gods have lived and gods have died
As an angel falls a Satan rises in our siren night
Like a homeless child we were still
And we never gave the game away
And on the hills, the gods made the same mistake
They’re gone home – home
So as I walk the hills of Ruahine
And Tararua it's still within me
But now I find I'm more of the mind
That home, like fortune and destiny
In the end it comes down to you and me
Like faith, hope, love and charity
In the end it comes down to you and me
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5. |
Open road home
05:13
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Open road home
There’s a line, a vagrant rhyme that haunts our minds
Says we are pieces that have ceased to fit together
And time will make our bed, will take our best
Says we are free to make allusions to the weather
Please your mind, we’ll be fine,
We are piloting a solid world
Holding tight, she’ll be right
We are totally compatible tonight
And free to roam on the open road home
Yeah we all know where that goes
Find in martyr’d hands the fine-grained sands
That count the ever-loving labours of our mothers
And when the sands subside, our opened eyes
Appear like stars on all the canvasses of lovers
Hear me now hear me now,
We are hopelessly devoted to the one
Or why do we look for love
In complicated love affairs that only lead on
To the open road home
Oh I know you know where that goes
And if we really feel we’ll make it real yeah if real is what we’re after
Then on our road I see the red lights fade before us
Take me down, we are bound down the only road that rises
But it finds you alone it’s the open road home
Spin me out lead me round
In these eddies of emotion here we
Silently look for love
On the only road that rises and you said
Hold me tight she’ll be right
We are hopelessly devoted to the one
Or why do we still look for love
On the only road that rises cos it’s all that we own
It’s the open road home
Oh yeah we all go where that goes
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All night before the world began
Heard the beating wings of insects in a sacred golden dawn
Then we overheard the rumours of a distant holy war
Now on sad and dreaming screens I cannot see you any more
And they’re streaming executions from the street outside your door
But I’m fine, you’re fine - all good this time
Here’s us screaming - keep on breathing
Some kiss the sky and some kiss the sun
Some kiss their bibles then kiss their guns
She kissed the hounds of the chosen one
I kissed the road and the world that turns
And the girl that burns
All night before the world began
If we cannot help the feeling that we've all been here before
In the shadows of our silence we’ll be burning on the shore
Like a psychopathic army we destroy what we desire
We can start a new religion from the writhing in the fire
But I’m fine, you’re fine – all good this time
Keep on streaming - meanwhile breathing
Some kiss the sky and some kiss the sun
Some kiss their bibles then kiss their guns
She kissed the ring of the chosen one
I kissed the road and the world that turns
And the girl as she burns
All night before the world began
Now our love it lies in pieces at the ending of the earth
If this is all we have for answers then the dogs know what it’s worth
You asked your algorithmic saviours what the boys were marching for
By the orders of the prophets now they’re kicking down your door – they said
“You can be my baby”
“Lighter for the lady”
“Silence on the inside”
But the woman brings her own light
Woman brings her own light
All night before the world began
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7. |
Eleanor
03:41
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Eleanor
You are the colour of the day my love
You’re a slice of the sky
And I would lay down my arms my love
For an hour of your night
Eleanor, Eleanor, we’ll cry no more Eleanor.
We’ll plant a tree for the future love
For what it’s worth
It’s worth a shot in the dark my love
Worth a seed in the earth
Eleanor, Eleanor, we’ll cry no more Eleanor.
I saw you wander alone my love
Where the wild cranes fly
I could give you a home my love
Between the sea and the sky
And if the mountains fall and cover us
And the river runs through
I would sing to the stones my love
Of the beauty of you
Eleanor, Eleanor, cry no more Eleanor.
Well suppose there’s a devil on you
Suppose the Lord of the Flies
I would gut them and bone them love
I would paint them with fire
And if the sun ever burned your skin
If the rain runs dry
I would build you an ocean love
Throw it into the sky
Eleanor, Eleanor, we’ll cry no more Eleanor.
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8. |
Souls are human made
03:13
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Rewa dawning (make it now)
Up from the lockdown
Lina warms an endless night
I'm deep for the dancer
She moves like the answer
In the reaches of morning
Whanau all sleep inside
Dawn pinks the morning
Our days are warming
No heaven waits to fake it
So make it now
Make it now
Or we won't hesitate
We'll find a human race somehow
Oh there was a prequel
Of harbour lights and endless tides
Where the Manukau reaches
Waste on the beaches
Now home for the summer
My Lina throws the vital line
And there's always the waiting
Always the waiting
Don't wait for a scene to make it
We can make it now
We'll make it now
Know what we never did?
Love like this
We'll make it now
Make it now
And like we never said
Love's not dead
We'll make it now
Make it now
Don’t think we ever did love like this somehow
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10. |
Build bridges
05:26
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Build bridges
Rest in me your destiny and I’ll be warm in the night
I’ll be warm in the night
The greatest things in life are free but never easy
Never easy
For all the birds that sing us out of heart and mind
The runners up and runners down
We will make room inside our lovers’ opened minds
It’s time
Build bridges and kick down your walls
Build bridges and kick down your walls
Sow your seed in love not greed
And we’ll be cooler in time, we’ll be cool, we'll be cooler wherever we walk
The greatest things in life are free but never easy to find
All the love in the world where does it hide?
And our emotions follow those who strike a pose
And celebrate their own demise in convolutions
Sell devotions to the sky
We cannot trust their telephones
The ancient bones of evolution sing a song of celebration
To the tune’s atomic fusion in our minds
It’s time
Build bridges and kick down your walls
Build bridges and kick down your walls
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