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brave (intro)
02:47
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i spend my time on you
did what no other would do
you bend towards the sun
not sure what i’ve become
i’m tired of being brave
i wanna misbehave
i’m hiding from my age
afraid that i will stay
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2. |
you & your devil
04:24
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you throw me underneath
the safety i try to keep
to follow what’s behind
is the worst habit of mine
you & your devil make a team
that’s out to get at me
but i cannot deceive
what’s crawling in the sheets
so don’t watch me as i’m leaving
we’ll be dead by the evening
i am soft but i am seething
you’ll be gone by the morning
so take me to the altar
and drown me in god’s water
you want to see me suffer
i’m your drive-thru never-after
now i know that blood means less
it’s the bone that’s used to stretch
the fine fabric of reality
there’s two hundred faces staring back at me
so don’t watch me as i’m leaving
we’ll be dead by the evening
i am soft but i am seething
you’ll be gone by the morning
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3. |
sacrum
06:28
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control myself
i have been known to haunt
i am young and i am insecure
wear your coat there out in the cold
i’ll be safe when we close the door
and i’ve known you from somewhere before
from an old land, whatever it shows
where did you come from
where do you go
i trace shadows down to far below
you can wear my blood if you like
i will wear yours in clear sight
and a sacrum knows not to fight
as a secret seeks for the light
lanterns could here glow
mountains, a see-saw
you know what i do not
we throw doubt into fire
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4. |
X, in blood
05:32
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i saw you there
from across the room
you had trouble in your hair
they wouldn’t look at you
a smoke in your mouth
your son at the door
i couldn’t work it out
i guess with these things
you just can’t be sure
lock your doors
an X, in blood
& where did you go love
that night that you walked out
your lungs dry out
in their own hell
so throw it at the wall
i’ll clean up
if you ever fall asleep
i know, i’ll ask them
to give you a shot
& eat that white rose
& call it a day
if you ever wake up
i’ll tell you
i should have loved you anyway
lock your doors
an X, in blood
& where did you go love
that night that you walked out
your lungs dry out
in their own hell
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5. |
your man
04:28
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hold yourself together
drown yourself again
lord it’s been ages
since you’ve seen your man
he went that night without you
as you cradled my head
and lord we don’t deserve you
won’t you choose a bed
and come back again
without your man
so pull yourself together
fear what you love, what you know to be true to the end
lord i’m in trouble
i might lose my head
til i come back again
you know your man
and while you wait
i will separate
you from your man again
while you tell all your friends
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6. |
suicides
04:21
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for you i won’t
i’m hanging off the ceiling
for you i don’t
i wake up every day and haunt
for you i’m here
the car’s on and i’m sleeping
for you i’m queer
don’t fuck me if you’re leaving
and i’ve, lost, my, home
tired, drunk, undone,
lord
hold my hand
we’ll jump off where we’re feeling
we’ll hit the sand
under waves that rip reeling
and i’ve, lost, my, home
tired, drunk, undone,
lord
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7. |
hawkeye
03:56
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take the kid
take your wife inside
i want it all
but i can’t decide
just how to fall
i must be living twice
i want it all
but i can’t decide
ooh
is it, on me,
the hawk eye, creeping
i heard they had it coming
i heard them scream
for silence
ooh
you were a child
bathed in white
your mother’s hair,
your father’s eyes
you said be gone
to the hawk eye
they took it all
left nothing behind
ooh
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8. |
outro
01:17
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“history is a set of numbers – the sky speaks to the people, it
warms them,
reassures them with sun and sunset, convinces them with
rain, imprisons them
with gravity, fills lungs and sails, lifts the wings of their wild
fowl,
settles around their buildings like a mother, like affectionate
cement.”
- from michael dransfield’s 'geography'
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lou millar Sydney, Australia
sydney-based singer songwriter || ghost folk
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