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Saturn Square Saturn
01:51
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2. |
Snowflake in the Sun
04:17
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Like a snowflake in the sun
You can't ignore the melting has begun
Immaculately quiet and still
Such a beautiful shimmer but things are just going downhill
And everyone claims to know best
How you should serve your own interests
And the more you learn, the more you age
With increasingly little leverage
Feeling weary of longing for acceptance
Bitter-tasting defiance
And vainly striving for attention
Trying to handle rejection
And indecent swarming injunctions
To get over excited and be all smiles
Contrived happiness and blatant lies
In this toxic digital age
Foul beyond words, ugly as a cage
Heading fast for a tragic fate
Way before your own expiry date
How much freedom could you stand
Whatever safety left you with in the end
Feeling weary of longing for acceptance
Bitter-tasting defiance
And vainly striving for attention
Trying to handle rejection
And indecent swarming injunctions
To get over excited and be all smiles
Contrived happiness and blatant lies
Like a snowflake in the sun
All you can feel is the melting has begun
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3. |
Incandescent
03:16
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Unlike the sly rustle of envy
Far from theories of the ultimate cruelty
Standing pure as teenage fantasy
We're both hit by serendipity
Facing incandescent love
Incandescent love
This is incandescent love
And now push comes to shove
Yeah now push comes to shove
Almost alike and most likely
In the margins of androgyny
Leave the world to its own immorality
Keep a strong sense of immediacy
Here comes incandescent love
Incandescent love
This is incandescent love
And now push comes to shove
Yeah now push comes to shove
Succumb with me
Temptation denies jeopardy
Here comes incandescent love
Incandescent love
This is incandescent love
And now push comes to shove
Yeah now push comes to shove
Succumb with me
Temptation denies jeopardy
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4. |
Dusk Bleeds Hope
02:36
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Kid, why should we ever
Surrender to foul attitude, cheap behaviour
To digital servitude, blatant lies
Despicable hate
Zero in on the virus of the mind
On the poisons being passed out as antidotes all around
And now dusk bleeds hope
Of a conscience awakening
Don't let the love run out
Don't let the love run out
Kid, there's no lifeguard on duty
But don't give up an ounce of freedom for pseudo safety
As sure as all men are created equal
And all exits are final
Why would we willingly drown
In the sick mediocracy of world leaders unsound
But look now dusk bleeds hope
Of survival from the mental plague
Don't let the love run out
Don't let the love run out
Kid, it now rests upon your shoulders
Dream up your tomorrows, think up an alternative future
'Cause dusk bleeds hope
And twilight holds the promise
Of a new day
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5. |
Cobalt and Manganese
08:19
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Take my time and take it slow
Raise me as I watch you grow
You teach so much more than you would know
Take this love and ask for more
Take this freedom which I've got no use for
Oh no, not anymore
'Cause you're cobalt and manganese
Heal me like cobalt and manganese
With your power to even, soothe and appease me
You're the cure that paves my way
Witness of all things that fade
I crave to see you bloom instead
Kid, your fun could even eclipse the sun
How your power to enthrall
Helps me make sense of it all
Hope ain't gone, now it's where you belong
'Cause you're cobalt and manganese
Heal me like cobalt and manganese
With your power to even, soothe and appease me
You're the cure that paves my way
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6. |
Stormy Garden
02:14
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Been here before in your stormy garden
I felt the sorrow, I felt the anger
Reach for the heart, target the burden
Man on a mission, spellbound and honoured
How much more rain can soak in ?
How more pain can sink in
Before one falls apart ?
I stayed here before in your stormy garden
Vowed to belong in fragrance and colour
Distinctive beauty we bonded over
As we were being born of thunder
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7. |
Delayed Life
02:42
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Sagas long put on hold
Epics but longing to unfold
Further away, out in the distance
Old expectations versus patience
Global reluctant procrastination
Treading water in a lack of vision
Quarantine penance or lockdown romance
Too stuck in remembrance to save the next dance
Once making plans subsides
We'll merely plan to be suprised
Delayed life
In the present tense
Once making plans subsides
We'll merely plan to be suprised
Delayed life
In the present tense
Weird unprecedented present tense of
Delayed life
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8. |
After the Storm
03:20
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After the storm when peace settles in
And I linger on for a little while like phantom guilt
After the storm it all becomes clear
My tongue was curse, my throat was shout
And my mouth full tilt
I need to hold you close my love
There is no shelter quite like your arms
I want to trigger the brightest rainbow
All the way to your heart
After the storm when the fury has ceased
And I'm filled with regrets and the moment bites and remorse stings
Silence descends upon us and hope gleams
And I'm waiting for that little impulse from you
Which will paint the sky blue
I need to hold you close my love
There is no shelter quite like your arms
I want to trigger the brightest rainbow
All the way to your heart
All the way to your heart
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9. |
Secretly
03:37
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10. |
A Shelter
02:12
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Oh look who's dressed to kill and all smiles
Stunning pictures of you in happy times
Hey Little Mum, everyone agreed
You looked much like Romy Schneider
In your prime
Not yet pregnant, back when hope was rife
And still in love, just before you got hurt
And that sinister someone merely messed up
Your life
Hey Little Mum until you dried your eyes
We'd lock ourselves in my bedroom
I played your favourite late-sixties seven-inches
By Françoise
A shelter from the monster outside
A shelter from the monster outside
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11. |
City of Glass
08:10
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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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