1. |
A Bright Interval
04:48
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Meet me out of your sphere
Insular mate, silent befriender
I see you shift
Away from your peers
Ready to glow
I sense a crack in the clouds
A sunnier spell for late bloomers
Some gold reprieve
No blues could enshroud
Don't miss the show
I can feel it from here
Pulling me close, holding you near
The brightest interval
On the path less travelled
Little did we know
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2. |
Lifelines
03:29
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We’d set our minds
To Greenwich Mean Time
Honeymooning pilgrims
Secretly wed, lovers on the run
With our minds full of hopes
And a bun in the oven
Counting all our blessings
And it felt like wonderland
When we walked hand in hand
To Violet Hill Gardens
And there we sat in the sun
Blissfully beaming
At the peak of our heyday
Such a defining moment
To remember our love by
With our clandestine passenger
Before the third-type encounter
Mostly fulfilled, wonderfully pregnant
Absolutely thrilled, shamelessly expectant
You appeared to me like the Virgin Mary
With your heart full of grace
And your peaceful stare
Radiating over London with natural care
And we got to meet
The kindest human beings
All’s good in St John’s Wood
Flowing in an effortless way
And no evil spoiled our day
I still hold on to that feeling
Like a lifeline
Such a sense of wholeness, lover
How could we ever get higher
Let’s set our minds
To Greenwhich Mean Time
Be honeymooning pilgrims
Again and again
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3. |
Edgewise
05:39
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Multiple beauty around
Not perceived by minds unsound
People numb and lazy
Overwhelmingly immune
To the levelling down
True self dismissed as disguise
So much for a compromise
Wake up slipping edgewise
In a slanting afternoon
To peripheral ground
Why fit in when you were born to stand out
Standard needs breeding in lines
So much noise but no real life signs
Herds concentrating
In one big square stupid loon
With a deafening sound
Why fit in when you were born to stand out
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4. |
Natural Highs
04:13
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More of that romantic exaltation
However out of fashion
Bring back that old magic in new experience
Love’s now the act of resistance
Hold on to natural highs
Trust in your natural highs
Rise up above the feeling
That you might start to look a little rough
Rise up above the feeling
You might begin to act a little too tough
Missing yesterday’s own flavour
Let’s do ourselves a favour
Euphoria comes in any shape and colour
Nothing we can’t recapture
Hold on to natural highs
Trust in your natural highs
Rise up above the feeling
That you might start to look a little rough
Rise up above the feeling
You might begin to act a little too tough
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5. |
Oceania
03:51
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(instrumental)
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6. |
Exposure
05:07
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Pulling me out of my reverie
She walks up to me
Gorgeous creature
Picking a stranger out on the tube line
Eyeing me wild
Intensely bold
Hands on hips, jaunty lips
A threat to my peace of mind
She dares me to stare
She dares me to care
She sends electric signals in the air
From a defiant source
To a candid destination
The heedless light carries
Sensitive information
Wish I could figure out
The rules of her game
Is this some kind of romantic holdup
Or sentimental hit-and-run
Hijack my feelings
Expose this heart of mine
Mirror yourself in me and rape my mind
Mysterious encounter
Mere seconds feel like forever
The drama’s over now
You’re getting off at the next station
The doors open, you turn your back
And leave the rest to my imagination
As I watch you walking away
The day follows its steady course
Life goes on as before but not quite
And I pretend to just ignore the curse
That tease with one glimpse
Of what could have been
Lingers to haunt me til the day I die
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7. |
The Kiss
04:18
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(instrumental)
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8. |
Serenader
05:00
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Like an unrequited lover
Like a humbled serenader
True romance is nearly over
Walking loner, melancholic dandy
From a museum to a cemetary
For lack of a better shelter
If rejection made you stronger
You might head for the next magnificent blunder
Your past dressed up as your future
Like a long record of missed opportunities
Life unfolds in fast-changing cities
Your same old self just getting older
Did you ever think you’d strive to dream again
Entitled to a little blues now and then
Such an easy prey for nostalgia
Such an easy prey for nostalgia
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9. |
Silvatica
02:34
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(instrumental)
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10. |
Utopia
03:03
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Could beauty get us this far
Once we've lost each of our bearings
Would you leave the door ajar
For utopian motives to settle in
Systems may collapse now
In favour of the real alternative
This dream was not born to run down
This dream was not born to run down
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Sweet Gum Tree Angers, France
Sweet Gum Tree is musician Arno Sojo's psych-pop / art-rock project. He's played a hundred shows in eight countries and collaborated with such luminaries as Isobel Campbell, Heather Nova, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) or Marty Willson-Piper (The Church). Embodying a distinctive kind of elegance, he cultivates his own aesthetic in a beautiful collision of the intimate sphere and the wide open space. ... more
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