1. |
Prelude
01:37
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I'm spread across the elements
In body and in mind
And in my darkest moments
I could leave myself behind
And just beyond the shadows there was you
So what's a man with nothing left to do?
God damn, talk to me
What have you done to me?
I'm dancing out a fever in my bones
It never came to me
How crazy I could be
Maybe I'm just better off alone
And if you ever wonder what went wrong
My feelings grew a little bit too strong
I'm digging up a hole
To cover up my soul
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Despite your creature comforts
You're still an animal inside
You've got the lion's share of pride
Deep down inside you
In all your jungle sermons
You never spoke of purpose
What lies beneath the surface
Monkey see what monkey do
Maybe it's in the essence of your soul
Where all desires play a role
How nice would that be?
Lately have you felt your life is in a hole
Did your disciples heed the call
And are you happy
Howling at stars?
Barking at cars?
Bury her
Like the dog that you are
Girl with butterfly wings
She gave you everything
And now you'll watch her
flying out your window
And so it follows you
In every single step that you take
To say you made a mistake
Would be an understatement
Despite your creature comforts
You're still an animal inside
You've got the lion's share of pride
Deep down inside you
We heard a song in the air
The final song that you shared
It was a funeral dirge
About a love affair
And now the sermon be damned
It's time to strike up the band
Now the word is everywhere
Now all you reap
Are the secrets that you keep
Locked away
In the drawer by your bed
Girl with butterfly wings
She gave you everything
Everything
That's flying out your window
And so it follows you
In every single step that you take
To say you made a mistake
Would be an understatement
I hope it follows you
In every single step that you take
To say you made a mistake
Would be an understatement
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3. |
Letsby Avenue
04:47
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Was born in a place where the lights stay on
The sun never shines
And the night drags on
The people are asleep
Yet they walk
Singing a sad, sad song...
The residents here are a drain
Walking around in the fog
Their aspirations, memories long lost
Extolling the virtues
Of a comfortable, grey stone wall
And settling down
Where the rubble will bury us all
You and I
Gazing up the sky
We were watching the searchlight
Keeping us under it's eye
And you said
"It's hard to deny
I think this might be love"
Unexpressed
By the feel of your breath
I could tell you were scared
You were scared they would guess
Then you turned
With the breeze in your dress
And you left
"You'll never amount to anything
With your foolish dreams
Of love and fame and fortune
Find a job
And make a life worth living"
So the crowd would sing
In mocking tones of jealousy
"We are of broken glass within
We want what is best for you
Feel every shard beneath your skin
We are a part of you
Wherever
Whenever
You'll never leave
Wherever
Whenever
You'll never leave"
We'll make it out there on our own
Lets get away
From Letsby Avenue
Where there be dragons
We call home
So far away
From Letsby Avenue
Our stars ignited
Burning down
This wretched place
Letsby Avenue
In smoke and dust
We left this town
Into the flames
Fell Letsby Avenue
Empty receptacles
Watching for spectacles
Wading about in a swamp
Letsby Avenue
I am not one of them
And I will not follow them
Down and deep into the dark
Of Letsby Avenue
Cars on a hill
All rusted and still
Time will make fools of us all
Letsby Avenue
I would say anything
And I would do anything
Not to be left in the dust
Of Letsby Avenue
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4. |
I'm Leaving Home
03:06
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With defeat comes comfort
Comfort in the knowledge
That I did all that I could
Like you knew I always would
So I hope you'll still be proud
Proud to say you knew me
In the finest of my hours
With power in my blood
In all the moments that we shared over the years
There sat a raven singing sadness in my ear
Should we meet again
I'll pray you see a difference
For every sudden end
I'll pay a little penance
I really am trying
I'm trying to grow
And I want you to know
That I'm leaving home
I'd look you in the eye
But the eye beholds my shame
In all my self abuse
It seems I've nothing left to lose
Although the road may lead me nowhere
From nowhere I have come
I'll prove to you my worth
More than the dirt beneath my shoes
I want to thank you for ignoring my mistakes
Despite the hurt in every action that I take
Should we meet again
I'll pray you see a difference
For every sudden end
I'll pay a little penance
I really am trying
I'm trying to grow
And I want you to know
That I'm leaving home
26 and 0
When did I get so old?
26 and 0
Why do I still feel cold?
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5. |
Bad Alchemy
04:23
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Smoke in the fields
As the druids, they pray
What would you say
If you met me today?
Smoke in the fields
As the druids, they pray
What would we say
If we saw them today?
Burning of candles
As light as the day
If we could see them
Then what would we say?
This love
Whispering, jealous, possessive and strong
Spitting its poison from serpentine tongue
Was it just like this when we were young?
All this bad alchemy
Coming undone
Raising the spectre, the phantom, the ghost
Here at the feast that the last of them host
What other name would you have but the rose?
So this bad alchemy goes
We were so happy
Once upon a time
Once upon a tortured rhyme
Line by empty line
I promised a room with a view
But all that we got was this closet for two
And it's filled with your shoes
And with all of my blues
You know I ain't no superman
No I'm not even that other man
So what can I do for you, babe?
My Louis Lane, ball and chain
Well I haven't got the energy to be chasing you no more
No, I haven't got the strength to be facing you no more
I'm happier here with a half empty beer
And the radio nailed to the floor
This love
Can you give a definition?
Can you use it in a sentence?
Can I get a helping hand
'Cause I no longer understand
How can I follow?
If I haven't got a clue?
Or something I can use?
This bad alchemy
This love
This love
Digs beneath the skin
And I can feel it
And I can feel it crawling
This love
Burrows deep within
And I can feel it
Crawling
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6. |
Dragon
04:35
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It all looks so wild
Through the eyes of a child
Scaling the heights
Of a yearning to crumble
Fighting the dragon in my head
Beautiful lights
Such magnificent sights
Everybody around
Is looking down from a mountain
Fighting the dragon in my head
Such futile plans
Just holding hands
And I can't understand you
See flickering lights in the tower blocks
How I wish I could live among them
From the circus to the freak
Just shut your eyes and speak
Cryptic confessional
Smoke in the box
Pandora, she warned you
To check all the locks
An evening of lessons
You get what you pay for
You get what you stay for
The mirror don't talk anymore
Don't talk anymore
So tell me again
When does the pressure relent?
And how do the rest of you
Cope with the torment?
Fighting the dragons in your heads
Fighting the dragons in your heads
Fighting the dragons in your heads
In your...
I'll take a moment
And I'll breathe a little easier
I think I finally understand it this time
Even in darkness light still blooms
Even in madness you're still you
More's the pity
It's going to catch up with you soon
Fighting the dragon in your head
Fighting the urge to stay in bed
More's the pity
It's going to catch up with you soon
Washing the spiders all away
Clearing the cobwebs every day
More's the pity
It's going to catch up with you soon
Fighting the dragon in your head
Sword in the forge and wish for death
More's the pity
It's going to catch up with you soon
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7. |
A Happy Song
04:08
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I shook off the void
Like an old faded jacket
That face in the gloom
Was the face I had doomed
Would I give up my teeth
Or the skin of my knees
For a taste of a life in the sun
With you and all of your friends?
The truth will always bend in time
So here is mine:
I'll make you happy
Ever so happy
So long as you tell me
Will the clouds take the blame
When the night screams my name?
I'd lie to the Gods
In bare faced defiance
And I'll kneel by the light of your hair
In prayer
I'll shed all my skin
While a fire within
Burns a torch
With the heat of the sun
For you
And all of your friends
The truth will always bend in time
So here is mine:
I'll make you happy
Ever so happy
So long as you tell me
Will the clouds take the blame
When the night screams my name?
I'd buy you a ring
With the change in my pocket
But the richest of rags
Are still only rags
Yet for all that it's worth
I'd trade half the Earth
For a chance at a life in the sun
With you, my darling soon
I won't mean anything I do
So long as you tell me
I'll make you happy
Will the clouds take the blame
When the night screams my name?
my darling soon
I won't mean anything I do
So long as you tell me
I'll make you happy
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8. |
Fire Dance
05:29
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Fallen from the sky
Born in the heart of a meteorite
She left a scar across this barren land
The stars had left
An omen of death
Whispered under muted breath
Her legacy is burned upon my hands
And the shape of her name
Is a white hot pain
A hole in my gut is burning
Churning
Smoke in my lungs
The night I was young and stupid
What is this feeling?
Sickly and sweet
A warmth in my heart
Too soon unbearable heat
Yes I loved you
I never deserved to
When the anger I felt
It sparked a fire that raged
My bed of flame
My burning shame
A chorus of embers when you came
Why must I smoulder in your name?
The light in her eyes
Is the light that fries
My body's a vessel, holding
Moulding
The flickering tongue
The call of the young and stupid
Well I doubt that she realised
The smoke on the rise
A jealous mistake and I miss her
There's blisters where everything stung
The night I was young and stupid
What is this feeling
Sickly and sweet
I'm sorry I burned you
With my selfish retreat
Yes I loved you
I never deserved to
When the anger I felt
It sparked a fire that raged
My bed of flame
My burning shame
A chorus of embers when you came
Why must I smoulder in your name?
Insignificant bodies
Revolve around the sun
We're burning up like fireflies
Insignificant bodies
(I'm sorry)
Revolve around the sun
(Please, forgive me)
We're burning up
(I never did deserve you)
Like fireflies
(And I've grown to hate the light)
God damn, talk to me
What have you done to me?
I'm dancing out a fever in my bones...
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9. |
Water Dance
10:17
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Then came the tsunami
To wash away the flames
Smoke and ruins languished
Beneath eternal rains
And all I knew of anger
Was slowly washed away
Memories and clouds obscured the sun
And all was grey
The voices in the river
They gathered in a whisper
Of lies and doubt, a burden on the mind
(A thousand leagues were calling… run!)
I wish I'd spoken sooner
And asked about the future
But your silence was a pressure
And I couldn't leave the whispering behind
What were you thinking?
I'll never know where did you go
Inside your head?
And so I'm sinking
How I behaved is now my grave
Upon this bed
I wish for sleep...
With all the secrets that the water surely keeps…
God damn, talk to me
What have you done to me?
I'm dancing out a fever in my bones
Love and ocean madness
Where a sadness slowly trickles down my neck
And these chills that mark the biggest of regrets
I turned to childish blame
As I was drowning in your name
Teardrops danced together down my window
(In a dance of heavy rain)
I swallowed every question
And acted in aggression
All in an effort to escape the undertow
What was I thinking?
I let you know I had to go
And so farewell
For I am sinking
And all the pain will feel the same
Upon this bed
I wish for sleep…
With all the secrets that the water surely keeps…
Love and ocean madness
Where a sadness slowly trickles down my neck
And these chills that mark the biggest of regrets
Why did I say that?
I guess the biggest wave of all
Was when I didn't stop to listen
And then you said that
You said you didn't mind at all
But I was running
And I didn't want to know
How did you feel?
I didn't ever want to know
I said I'd never ever know
How did you feel?
I hope you didn't have to hurt
I hope I never made you hurt
So, why did I say…?
Sailing away
Drifting down the river
Wonderful undertow
Carry me softly
Thinking of you
Every second I stay
Why did you cast me away?
Sell me down the river?
Wasting away in a whirlpool
Well, I don't need your love
When love is in the water
Grabbing me, dragging me
Holding me under
Sailing away
On such a wonderful day
The light upon the surface breaks
I'm pushing and I'm kicking
Like I pushed you far away
Water gives and water takes
A shipwreck is my home
Until I find the words to say
I'm sorry for the mess that I have caused
Love and ocean madness
Where a sadness slowly trickles down my neck
And these chills that mark the biggest of regrets
in my darkest moments
I could leave myself behind
And if I run now
Then I'm running for the rest of my life
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10. |
Air Dance
09:17
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The air grew heavy the day the water dried
But deep inside
A whisper lingered on the wind
That silver breath
It never left
Too soon the whisper leaves me deaf
To all the reason I've been preached
Now I know I can't be reached...
Hers is the spectre
That haunts every shadow
It's cold every day
And it drives me insane
Her Eidolon speaks to me
Outside my window
Steely and grey
And she won't go away
In my head
Where I go she will follow
Now I'm wandering pale as a ghost
Off the coast
The weather is turning
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes...?
Towers fall
The power of her memory
Is written in a gale
By the violent hands of winter
I can't let her go
The weather in her laughter
Hear it roaring in the night
I never could forget
She's in my head
Where I go she will follow
Now I'm wondering pale as a ghost
Off the coast
A tempest is brewing
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Heard it coming from the skies above
I never had the right to call this love
I'll pay the price
From cruelty comes tornadoes
Heard it coming from the skies above
I never had the right to call this love
I live in shadows
But just beyond the shadows there was you
So what's a man with nothing else to do?
Each day a new reminder
Triggers in the air
At night I sleep beside her
Triggers, triggers everywhere
Why do they name...?
God damn, talk to me
What have you done to me?
I'm dancing out a fever in my bones
Castles crumble
Their battlements eroded
I demanded you
And claimed my right to answers
(I never had the right, I never...)
Houses tumble
My home away from home
These days is misery
The cracks embrace a bitter cold
The wind is in my bones
A chill that never ever lets me go
I wish to leave you
Your voice, it moved the trees
I want to be alone
A silence in the air to call my own
I wish to leave you
Your voice, no longer speaks to me
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes after people anyway?
Why do they name hurricanes...?
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11. |
Earth Dance
10:15
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The months passed
And still it didn't go away
I had dreamed
I'd win her back somehow
The Earth yawned
And into it's gaping maw
I had fallen
We'd patch it up somehow
The flowers growing
Up from her feet
She built a garden
On the end of her street
The soil blessed
In every single one of her steps
I'll come to terms with all of this regret
I'm spread across the elements
In body and in mind
I think about you
Even now
You keep the space
I never left behind
I'm digging up a hole
There's time in a safe
Years I invested
Now all gone to waste
just taking up space
But I know it won't always be this way
When the earthquake comes
You'll stay behind my eyes
And I'll never ever go
Where my dreams refuse to die
And when the dust has cleared
You'll stay behind my eyes
And I never shall return
Where my dreams refuse to die
The cracks upon the mountain
The lines upon my face
Time escapes
The more we waste
The planet quickly turns
And in my place
I'm digging up a hole
She lives as I dream
Awake as I sleep
As I lay myself down
I feel a tremor underground
And I know it won't always be this way
When the earthquake comes
You'll stay behind my eyes
And I'll never ever go
Where my dreams refuse to die
When the dust has cleared
I'll walk into the light
And I never shall return
Where my dreams refuse to die
I'm digging up a hole
To cover up my soul
The darkest of my sides
He wanted you to feel as low as I
I'm digging up a hole
To cover up my soul
That part of me still hides
But eventually I'll leave that man behind
I'm digging up a hole
To cover up my soul
We know that you deserved
Greater than the love I could provide
I'm sorry for my selfish, bitter pride
I'm digging up a hole…
In the end, it's just a story
Giving breath to the living dead
I will persevere
An earthquake's drawing near
In the end, it's just a story
Giving breath to the living dead
I will persevere
An earthquake's drawing near
In the end, it's just a story
Giving breath to the living dead
I will persevere
An earthquake's drawing near
In the end, it's just a story
Giving breath to the living dead
I will persevere
An earthquake's drawing near
God damn, Talk to me
What have you done to me?
I'm dancing out a fever in my bones
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12. |
Ducks In A Row
04:32
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We planned our escape
Almost perfectly
It looked so good from the outside
Boys crying wolf
In the cold, dark night
Who knew that the getaway driver
Was a man from our hometown?
Business is business
Just give me a chance to explain
I'm sick with a fever
And I haven't felt right in years
So pleased just to meet you
I'm sorry to leave you
There's a man in the moon
Who knows of all my fears
I don't know what to say
We could have been friends
If I hadn't failed myself
For the seventh time today
The one thing that's clear, I've always known
So soon I will have to go
And when I get all my ducks in a row
Then I'm pulling the trigger
So low
I've been spiralling down
Into the depths of the toilet bowl
Where shit has nowhere else to roll
What would you do?
What would a real human do?
I drew a line, grew in time
Hid behind it
Dreamt of you
We looked to the others for answers
Expectantly
They looked so calm on the outside
Happy and bright
In the cold, dark night
I'm sick with a fever
And I haven't felt right in years
I wish I could keep you
Only to see
If you'd fix the ache
Inside my brittle bones
I don't know what to say
We could have been friends
If I hadn't failed myself
For the seventh time today
The one thing that's clear, I've always known
So soon I will have to go
And when I get all my ducks in a row
Then I'm pulling the trigger
And the world at large will part
And of a worm's five hearts
Not one of them will bleed
For your self esteem
So pick your body up
And show the human bodies tough
I want to go remembered
For more than just enough
I don't know what to say
We could have been friends
If I hadn't failed myself
For the seventh time today
The one thing that's clear, I've always known
So soon I will have to go
And when I get all my ducks in a row
Then I'm pulling the trigger
I'm pulling the trigger
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13. |
Last Astronaut In Space
08:11
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Round the world in 80 minutes
Just a pinprick on a midnight blue horizon
And I wish that I'd remember anything
Just anything about you
Than how damn much I missed you
I can see your house from here
Floating by way up high
See the signs I'm falling further out of grace
A voice pervades the atmosphere
Astral dust
And if I must I wish you well
Last astronaut in space
I treasured every minute
That the silence crushed my head
And wrapped around my legs
Pulling threads
Is it getting hard to breathe?
I barely notice anymore
Since my feet both left the floor
Since I bolted shut my door
Yet sometimes through the vacuum
Snatches of your laughter
Echo dispossessed
And with the gentle, lazy curling
Of your morning smitten hair
Cascading down my chest
For a moment I remember
I'm more than static on your radio
21st Century man in a can
So cold is the road out of civilisation
Talking with ghosts
I'm talking with ghosts
Will they find me washed up on a beach
In some interstellar sleep?
Will they find me, dare I dream
In a place of warmth and peace?
All burnt out
Crashing down
Through that happy home of ours
Any day I'll find a way
I'm coming back for you
In this unforgiving vastness
I could throw my voice
And hope that you could hear me
But out in space, nobody can hear anything
No one else for miles
How I wish that you were near me
I can see your house from here
Floating by way up high
See the signs I'm falling further out of grace
A voice pervades the atmosphere
Astral dust
And if I must I wish you well
Last astronaut in space
And I can see your house from here
Floating by way up high
See the signs I'm falling further out of grace
A voice pervades the atmosphere
Astral dust
And if I must I wish you well
Last astronaut in space
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Pea Green Boat Cornwall, UK
Pea Green Boat is an experimental rock duo.
Joe O'Neill (vocals) and Roger
Heathers (multi-instrumentalist) produce DIY 70s influenced rock, pop, doo-wop and electronic music.
Influences include Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Mike Patton, 10cc, Kate Bush, Carpenters, King Crimson & Ween
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