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Pea
04:21
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That man’s attention may well have been lost
but what good did it bring anyway
If one day you might dare to ask what he liked about you
he’d find nothing to say
Skimming woman-shaped stones across the lake
Barely taking time to feel their edge
Never noticing their unique patterns
He just wants to make a splash !
That man’s affection may well have been fake
but then he never had what it takes
High time to admit that you might well have been
but a mere stepping stone in his life
Digging up rocky memories from the past
No need to go deep to make it ache
Doesn’t take the time to get to know you
He just wants to excavate !
He turned you inside out
Shrunk you down to a small green pea
Now you live under his mattress
Weaving his bad dreams
Haunting his sleep
Oh who am I kidding
It’s he who’s haunting me
That man’s profession may seem more important
than you ever dreamed to be
Just one little brick in the wall of his skyscraper tower
built of heartless concrete
Giant boulders still one day end in sand
Giant steps won’t reach that promised land
Set alight that home that you were building
He just wants to crash and burn !
He turned you inside out
Shrunk you down to a small green pea
Now you live under his mattress
Appear in his nightmares
Wrecking his sleep
He turned you inside out
Shrunk you down to a tiny pea
Now you live under his mattress
Weaving his bad dreams
Haunting his sleep
Oh who am I kidding
It’s he who’s haunting me
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2. |
Sluggin' it Up!
03:36
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Walking into lamp posts
A star role in my own comedy show
It seems that I’ve invented
A proximity between you and me
And now guess who’s lurking
Mad-eyed and mortified
I’m strolling oh so casually
By your workplace
Still hoping we can get past third base
Back on the loose again
Until the bitter end
If you’re not obsessed with me just pretend
I’m a slow-mo cyclone
You’re stood in the way
This summer’s suffocating
I’m groundhoggin’
Just sluggin’ it up
There’s clearly no potential
Between you and me but
I still wanna see
If my last two brain cells
Can’t get their act together, oh well !
It’s true that all my friends’ve got kids now
I’m still waiting on someone to take me out
Back on the loose again
Until the bitter end
If you’re not obsessed with me can’t you pretend
I’m a slow-mo cyclone
You’re blocking the way
In my defence I was ovulating
In my defence there was a full moon looking into my bedroom
I should know better and I do yeah I do yeah I do
But life’s humiliating
I just wanna make it through
Cramps are out to get me
Bed spreadin’
All day doubled-up
A Nurofen ain’t helping
But I’m finally dressed up just to trot round the block
For some fear and loathing
Your local joker’s high on hormones
Hot-flushing in the day’s first shadows
Deliver me your dirt cheap merlot
Back on the loose again
Until the bitter end
If you’re not obsessed with me can’t we pretend
I’m a slow-mo cyclone, cyclone
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Don't Go There (for S)
05:06
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Silent observer I notice you’re watching
What can you read from my sullen regard
How would you feel if I told you my secrets?
I won’t ! We already know how that story goes
It’s better we don’t go there
I have been known to fool round at the party
Muddy the mood with my idiot jokes
I can be careless, dress up as the clown
But I won’t! We already know how that evening goes
It’s better we don’t go there
You might think that I’m sharing too much
I promise you this it’s never enough
To win over a lover or even a friend
So should I shut up or just let it spill out again
Boy are you dumb or just asking for trouble
I know I must give off a curious vibe
You could just leave it and pour me a double
You won’t, we already know where this story goes
It’s better we don’t go there
You might think that I’m sharing too much
I promise you this it’s still not enough
To re-write the past on my buckling skin
So will I shut up or just let it spill out again
We all dream of travelling light
But my body’s a map of hard times
So now when you roll back the sheets
Will you see my past or will you see me
You might think that I’m sharing too much
A body’s a body - we all need to be touched
Let me off light, yeah you knew I’d give in
I can’t shut up, here it comes flying out again
You might think that I’m sharing too much
I promise you this it’s never enough
To win over a lover or even a friend
So should I shut up or just let it spill out again
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4. |
I Was a Fountain
03:59
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I was a fountain, you found her at my feet
While I was still gushing one big foolish flood right out of me
With nobody there to see
Me and the pigeons just kicking up the dust
Cradle your absence and one lonely shoe nobody needs
I know just how he feels
Although now I run on empty
Still carry my heart upon my sleeve
But I’ll never be your go-between
Just suck it up
then spit them all out,
Like all men I’ve found
This life has it’s way of letting you down
Following the flooding, they cut off my supply
Draped in white netting I’m married to my redundancy,
Just me and the memories
Flat on their belly, the dogs can’t take the heat
They used dive in, go splashing around then shake it off down the street
At least someone misses me
Although now I run on empty
Still carry my heart upon my sleeve
But I’ll never be your middleman
Just suck it up
Then spit them all out,
So sick of this crowd,
This life has it’s way of letting you down
Letting you down
I was a fountain, you found her at my feet
While I was still gushing one big foolish flood right out of me
With nobody there to see
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In Milano
04:51
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My tallest winter shadow
drags me frozen back
to this purple room where I lay
Send you a risky photo
then I shut my phone off
mirror please don’t look at me that way
Alone but at what cost !
Why am I waiting ?
I can be hungry too and not have to feel ashamed
In Milano
I got my appetite back
I am reminded that you are not the only meal in town
Make it through one more winter alone
Climb my way up and out of your danger-zone
In Milano, in Milano
Sat at the silver dinner,
smiling stupidly
I text you under the tablecloth
My glass is spilling over
the waiter’s on his knees
but he’s everything that you’re not
Sure I’m gonna take dessert
No good in waiting,
I can be hungry too so why should I feel ashamed!
In Milano
I got my appetite back
I am reminded that you are not the only guy around
For once I can feed my ego
Do it all for the girl I was years ago
In Milano, in Milano
The drama and passion are back,
All these emotions are flashing through my mind like souvenirs
I’m hot and high after the show
God it’s good to be back on the road again
In Milano, in Milano
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6. |
Never Have I Ever
04:29
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It’s never just ‘taking a train’
There are so many feelings coming with me
It’s never just ‘taking a train’
One of us is lying
Or maybe it’s both
Ineptly I’m trying
Trying to prevent you from unravelling the truth
I know that it’s coming
Just please not today
But no-ones denying
That I hold on a little tighter each time that I stay
Never have I ever let it go this far
You’re pulling out the very wildest card in my repertoire
A sucker for self-sabotage
Never have I ever gone this far
I’m letting you push me
But where does it end
The yielding comes easy
Now this wild behaviour is scaring my friends
I paint on a brave face
To enter the fray
And yeah ‘I’m a strong-minded woman’
Destroying myself just to be loved, just to be loved
So my therapist says
Never did I not expect to end up here
We better let our vile desires unwind
One last final time
Come clean and then just disappear
Trying to stray but I want nobody else
While I’m tied up on
A ride through hell on your carousel
I’ll never be loving myself
Never have I ever gone this far
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7. |
Back in the Pool
04:34
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Obvious like a smack in the face
I clock that it’s ending, corset unlaced
Memorised all 3 codes to your place
Without even being invited,
I did everything in reverse
Maybe I should have learned how to swim
Before I got in real deep over my head
That’ll teach me to fling myself in
Now I’m stuck drifting backwards, sideways
Ever so far away from you
Take a fall, everyone does,
Still I climb back on the horse
Take a hit, out of the blue,
Still I jump back in the pool
Let them slide down the back of my throat
Doubts that I should have had about you
Must’ve bit off more than I could chew
Swallowed by expectations,
Impatience, funny it tastes like deja-vu
Take a fall, everyone does,
Still I climb back on the horse
Take a hit, out of the blue,
Still I jump back in the pool
I shouldn’t compare myself to the rest
For I’m only out here doing my best.
Boy isn’t it fun not knowing who’s next
Gimme somebody new, I now manifest
Boy isn’t it fun not knowing who’s next
Gimme somebody new, I here manifest
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8. |
Stuttgart, Hell No
05:25
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Spend a wild night in Hotel Vertigo
Counting the cars pass down below
Trying my patience
Swallowing my pride
Cigarette butts fall from the skies
In a few short hours it’s showtime
But I dwell upon incertitudes
These flags have been waving for a such a long time
I know what I should do
Dark city doom and gloom
Throw up in the swimming pool
Spat out through revolving doors
Shaken and tongue-tied
Spending a lifetime
Sitting on that busy line
Maybe he’ll pick up this time
Tossing and turning
Sweat instead of sleep
Nightmare on 5-star cotton sheets
Gotta keep calling nothing left to lose
What would I do if I got through
How about a nervous breakdown
Go on girl, release all your balloons
But I don’t wanna lose it in Stuttgart, hell no!
Despite my altitude
Dark city doom and gloom
Sleep right through the seventh snooze
Dry out on the king-size bed
Surrender to heartache
Stuck in his stalemate
Sitting on this busy line
Maybe he’ll pick up this time
Day drizzles down across the bed
Time to un-hear those things he said
Learn to say no to fear and dread
Find someone else to call instead
Give my heart again
Give my heart again
Give my heart again
I’m just another member of the solar system
In the end it doesn’t really matter if I don’t get what I want
It doesn’t matter either if I don’t achieve that much in my life
Yet some days I still believe that I could turn things around
And make a difference
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9. |
Not an Early Bird
03:58
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I am not an early bird but just for once I woke in darkness
Last night’s fireworks still exploding
I had hoped that you might write me tell me you’ve been dreaming of me
It got late, I lay there weeping
Morning came and went
While I shivered, cursing foolish things I said
Another disappointment, what did I expect
No more hanging round for love that clearly isn’t there
Even when the promise seems to linger in the air
All it does is show me how nobody really cares
I am surely better off alone
I’m not one to burn the candle but for once I lay there restless
Trying to keep the fire from fading
I had hoped that you might write me tell me you’ve been yearning for me
It got late, I lay there weeping
Midnight came and went
While I wondered if I’m just too much to take
Another reason for me not to leave my bed
No more hanging round for love that clearly isn’t there
Even when the chances seem to linger in the air
All it does is show me how nobody even cares
I am surely better on my own
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When all the water has run dry
We’ll share ocean memories by candle light
Will you still be my man when the real shit hits the fan
Carve our names in the desert sands
When we wake up, we won’t check the news
I’ll bring you spicy scrambled eggs and pineapple juice
Will you still be around when the cities all burn down
Hanging out in our dressing gowns
Can you hear that ticking of the clocks
Does this uncertain future start to scare you quite a lot
In sickness and health
’Til death do us part
Just looking for you
Before the world falls apart
When all the winters feels like spring
We’ll be sweating through the days, not doing anything
Will we still get along, when the glaciers have all gone?
Be my reason to battle on, and on
Can you hear that ticking of the clocks.
Does this uncertain future start to poison every thought?
To have and to hold
’Til death do us part
Just looking for you
Before the world falls apart
My yellow hairs waving in the wind
On the top of the hill as I beckon to you
I’ll wipe the sweat dripping down your brow
Dry you off from the floods
Save my last meal for you
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