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Bottle
03:03
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Hey, you got yourself a haircut, can see you standing at the bar
I'm a bit late again but you got here some time earlier / I walk in the pool room, you're standing by the table
I walk through the tables and join you where you're standing at the bar / You're playing with a man, I get kind of jealous
So our jackets are just touching and I kind of lean against your shoulder / I fight it and I move on
You say kind of gently not to stand so close, you're trying to make a move on a girl / Again you seem quite child-like which I simply adore
Ask me for some money so you can entertain her / But cork those feelings Billy and love her from afar
I say okay I'll back off, it's not like I've got a hold on you
Now I'm standing at the bar and you're standing slightly over there / I move on
Our love, our love ain't something you can drink
Like you can at the bar with a pint of lager in the pub
Our love, our love ain't something we can just drink
Got to bottle it, bottle it up
After a while I leave but just kind of walk about / I maintain my silence
The streets at night then lay down on the tarmac of a carpark / I flirt with other girls
Don't move much just lie there in the dark / I block out all that surrounds me
And I don't blame you at all for trying to break my heart / I keep you out of my world. I move on.
Our love, our love ain't something you can drink
Like you can at the bar with a pint of bitter in the pub
Our love, our love ain't something we can just drink
Got to bottle it, bottle it up
And I'm bottling it, ain't I
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2. |
Climbing up a Tightrope
02:27
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Your frame is as slender as it gets
You sneak and you creep like a thief
And you're stealing my heart away
You're stealing my heart away
I never thought that this would happen to me
But it has and I can't stop it
But I empathise with him
And I wanna be him
But I could never be him
And age ain't nothing but a number
And beauty's skin deep
And you're always tanned
And in the ideal world nobody would care
But everybody cares, everybody cares
And once again I don't know what to do
Once again I don't know where to go
No I don't know where to go
No I don't know what to do
What do I do now?
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3. |
Lost in Space
02:03
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First met you
You were drunk and stoned
But your music
Was from another world
If I could save you
From your black moods
And your torn apart heart
Then I would
Because I want you
Like Venus wanted Mars
Like matter loves a vacuum
With the lack of planning of a falling star
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4. |
Liquid
03:15
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So bite my lips off
And tear my soul out
For we were liquid
We were liquid
We became
We became as one
I don't want the best parts of you
The part that goes down to the sea
I want every atom of you
I want you to consume me
I'll protect you
I'll deflect you
I'll be your stable
Your voice and cradle
I don't want the best parts of you
The part that goes down to the sea
I want every atom of you
I want you to consume me
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5. |
Bug on a String
05:22
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Telling the time by the fall of the tropical fruit
Up all night, night after night
Hands of bridge as if your life depended on it
Dealing cards still holding your cigarette
Look at you! Look at you!
You're climbing up the coconut tree
Laughing like a wild thing
Laughing like a wild thing
In your girls' beads and your bare feet
The Asian boys laid out like jewels
Get hold of a living green-backed beetle
Tie a thread to his leg for something to do
Fly him high like a kite on rocket fuel
Look at it! Look at it!
A battering of green iridescent wings
Crazy bug on a string
Crazy bug on a string
He'll do anything
You flew up and up 'til you didn't come back
Went beyond the clocks of the tropical night
And in the early hours, still, I don't sleep
For the buzzing of a boy in girls' beads and bare feet
Look at you! Look at you!
A battering of green iridescent wings
Crazy bug on a string
Crazy bug on a string
She'd do anything
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6. |
Half Devil Half Saviour
03:06
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You say you've got no credit
But where there's a will there's a way
Haven't heard from you
Since you left yesterday
Half devil and half saviour
Are you punishing me
With nails and with fire
So I feel how you feel?
Went collecting sweet chestnuts
To clear my head
Kept texting you updates
In an act of faith
Half devil and half saviour
Are you punishing me
With nails and with fire
Why don't you call me?
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7. |
Grumpy One
02:11
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For I am so young
And you're just too old
And I have got none
And you've got a grumpy one
Yeah you've got a grumpy one
For I am so bored
But I just can't move
And I don't feel the same
No I don't feel the same
And then you come around
And so do I
For I am the grumpy one
Yeah I am the grumpy one
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8. |
Saint
02:47
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You ask me “Say something nice”
I say again you look like Christ
But I don't say
I'd drink your blood like wine and eat your body like bread
When you go all holy it makes me kind of scared
That I pray to you a hundred times a day in my head
You say “I'm a Saint compared to you”
I say “Yeah that's mainly true”
But I don't say
I kept your unwashed shirt like a forbidden relic
I want something from you I don't know you can give
When I cycle after you round town its a pilgrimage
You look like a mercenary angel
In your white dress and stubble
And I don't say
After all this time, you've made my heart whole
It would help if I knew which side you were on
When you hold my body feels like you're holding my soul
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9. |
Teething Problems
02:16
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Mini-war with kin
Fighting battles we all can't win
Maybe this is wrong, I should move out
Maybe this is wrong, I should move out
It's your home (Like a dog)
When is it mine? (Pissing on trees)
I think the girl's (You wonder why)
A little swine (It don't smell sweet)
Maybe this is wrong, I should move out
Maybe this is wrong, I should move out
(Open arms and open heart
Bury the cat in the yard)
Maybe this is wrong, I should move out
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10. |
Robin
01:37
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Went to visit your flatmates
Though I knew you were out
Be with your debris
And sit where you'd sat
Go to the cafe
Where you'd thrown titbits at the robin
And later, in the tower
You'd been the monarch with nothing
But your kingdom still has walls
Just like this walled garden
And the robin ain't your guest
She just eats what you were having
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11. |
Magic
01:33
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This love is magic; this love is nuts
You have squeezed into my heart
When I thought it had been irretrievably crushed
Like when Nell reversed over the kettle
Metal doesn't mend spontaneously
The kettle's not been any good, since, for making tea
How does blood mend? How can hearts mend?
Hold you like a talisman, my magician, you crazy fool
For what you have done doesn't seem possible
This love is magic; this love is a gift
You have squeezed into my heart
When I thought it had been irretrievably crushed
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12. |
The Story's All Over You
03:38
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It's a struggle not to gloat
Whilst I'm painting you this coat
I will make you
I will make you
A slinky Cheshire feline
With this there is no beeline
With this there is no exit
We might as well accept it
It's down down murky depths for us
This boat is not gonna stay afloat
To the translucent creatures that are unknown
That's where this truce will find its flow
With this there is no beeline
With this there is no exit
We might as well accept it
Deep blue and green it surrounds me
The green tangles it impounds me
And it could make me
It could make me
A snarling grouchy canine
With this there is no beeline
With this there is no exit
We might as well accept it
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13. |
Witch Hunt
06:50
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She's been burning for a thousand years
The iron door of the furnace closed
The sweets look incongruous, she don't get how they don't melt
She loved once, but it didn't end well
She don't recall how the woods got so impenetrable
Now she gets to burn alone, she gets to burn alone
And it hurts like hell
Chased into the woods a thousand years ago
Out of harm's way, but now along comes this boy
With eyes like a deer. Why? Why did he come here?
Lost in the woods, he saw the smoke from her candyhouse
Didn't know better, came step by step like a sacrifice
Drawn to the fire, drawn to the furnace
The red hot door of her heart swings open wide
She does it again! But she don't mind
A world burning out of control is beautiful
And the candyhouse burns
The forest burns
The fairytale burns
And the boy burns
Decent folks have had enough, look at the damage she's caused
Track her down and bolt tight those iron doors
Let her burn inside, leave her to burn alive
And it hurts like hell
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Strange Billy the Saint & Bernadette Pike Bristol, UK
A slightly crazed, delusional boy crossed paths with a slightly crazed disillusioned girl, they wrote songs to each other and threw their lives upsidedown and now they have an album.
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