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Friendly Fire
04:50
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These are the seven steps you will take this for getting better
I see you yawning, see you yawning
Just listening to the reasons, making you just believe us
See it dawning, see it dawning
So shocked at the thought of being stuck in the mud that you will kick and you tug 'til you are sparkling with blood and then the guilt that then gnaws like a big dog on a bone and then the fear takes a hold like the strong grip of gorillas, it's your
Friendly Fire! I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it. I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it.
These are the seven steps I'm just trying to know you better I've seen you snoring, whale from water.
Done everything barring treason, blaming it on the season.
See you crawling, seen you crawling.
And out from the cloud we then met inside the rainbow it was bang in my face like the full punch of an angel you are weak at the knees but it is not from my winning smile and promised to someone else it cuts like a knife and that's your
Friendly Fire! I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it. I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it.
Aaaaaah! Aaaaaah!
Friendly fire makes this hard
These are the seven steps you will take this for getting better (I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it)
I see you falling, see you falling (I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it)
Just listening to the reasons, making you just believe us (I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it)
Seen you falling, seen you falling (I just wanted to see you, you just gotta believe it)
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2. |
Jones
02:35
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You gave me wine turned into water
I want you mine but I'm not a stalker
Don't stand too close I'll bite you if I'm feeling threatened.
To feel alive is to be tortured
Personified though paltry performance
I know you try but seriously give it over
Gave me a rise, I know it shouldn't
I can't defy but think of my students
Their bedroom eyes, come hither lure is taking over
Unsound in mind, bonkers, erratic
My self beside and ardent fanatic
Your facebook page, I'm a tiger by the tail that's growing, that's growing!
I never cry, just unaffected
You seem surprised I should have detected
You narcissistic, self-observant primadona
You ask me why, you'd be frustrated
Sit on my hands, drop that hot potato
I'm free and easy unattached and uncommitted
I realized, maybe I wrecked it
A second try but I don't expect it
Up the creek low-tide no paddle hey at least it's sunny
It could be worse, I got your friend in
I know you flirt but I'm not pretending
A consolation prize but it is you in my head, in my head.
Give it up, do it! Give up, do it! Give it up, do it! Give up, do it!
You ahem and haw you really gotta make your mind up
Give it up, do it! Give up, do it! Give it up, do it! Give up, do it!
My head is sore all I really really want is you to take me away, all the way.
A year has passed, decided sort of
Gave me advice but I'm not your daughter
I really feel it's time to stop all, this I've had enough.
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Lovespoon
03:52
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Even though you're inside you got me beat up, beat up, beat up you got me beat up
Looking on the bright side, you got your feet up, feet up, feet up, feet up
Hanging off the fence outside I've got a cold
My head's in a state from all this crying you've got to get out before you get old
Telling all my friends these lies it's gonna leak
The spoon's in the cake just dig tonight and then I'll see you in a couple of weeks.
Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! Lovespoon! Lovespoon! Lovespoon!
Won't you give me some sign you got your freedom, freedom, freedom you got your freedom
Got the cash and guards bribed so we can leave 'em, leave 'em, leave 'em, leave 'em.
Carved it all from snakewood stock it's gonna hold
Made in a day with a wheel inscribed and there is a keyhole for luck in the core
Better work because if it don't I'm gonna scream Dig, dig, dig, dig for me.
Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! I will break you out with my Lovespoon! Lovespoon! Lovespoon! Lovespoon! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
Even though you're inside you got me beat up, beat up, beat up you got me beat up
Looking on the bright side, you got your feet up, feet up, feet up, feet up
Even though you're inside you got me beat up, beat up, beat up you got me beat up
Looking on the bright side, you got your feet up, feet up, feet up, feet up
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The River
05:02
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Make your way into the trees
Turn around but you must promise not to leave
Broken bones outweigh the fear, start to feel the breeze
Welcome to the river tonight
Take a dive into the deep
So alive that you can barely stop to breath
Cold we float in tons of tears carried by the stream
Welcome to the river tonight.
Make a vow unto the Styx
You’ve been saved but now you’ve Gods to try and please
Annwn waits for those who yield, drink for silent dreams
Welcome to the river tonight.
Ooooooooooh!
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5. |
Clean as a Whistle
04:21
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Clean as a whistle, I couldn’t see
You hurt my head and my heart and my groin and made me absolutely Bitter and cold, it’s taking me over.
Wake up and sigh, check the time and think what could have been.
A pig in the thistle, a cat in a tree.
Stuck 'tween and rock and a hard place of hot and cold, it’s opportunity. I’ve been here before, I already told you.
Maybe it’s time to cut the ties, wipe the bullet clean.
Jesus take a ride before you blow my cover, All those bleeding noses rise up, row your boat ashore, ashore.
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6. |
Bugred
03:42
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This is the story of Bugred, The master of the Universe ‘round these parts,
-“No, no, not again, don’t listen to this lying fake,”
He sleeps in the sea off Russia in a hammock on a really little island, -“Yeah, yeah like you said he walks and talks and flies as well,” Originally from far away he likes to think he comes for Ursa Major-Minor,
-“Oh God, it’s this again, don’t tell me what he does again,”
Purveyor of all things wine he likes to drink a little red-white on the weekend.
-“Right, now I’ve heard it all, go bang my head against the wall.” Please don’t make him mad
-“Yeah, ‘cos when he’s angry, with a knife he’s rather handy,” He’s good but when he’s bad “Oh, he grows gigantic gets all fussy and pedantic and he says…” You piss on your own and then you dance in the middle. We talk on the phone but I can’t see those eyes. Piss on your own but then you dance in the middle. Give a dog a bone and then you make him cry. Now Bugred is not from China but spits far, could win a gold in the Olympics, “Oh, that’s really gross and did we really have to know that?” He likes to eat crab and fish ca-ca-ca-catches them with hand grenades and pylons, “A little heavy handed, but it works well I imagine,” Was living in Marx’s beard until he moved to stinky London in the ‘40s, “Yes, he is an architect, those spider-bees they are his friends.” Postmodernist corporate culture is his thing, he loves his Lyotard and Burroughs, “Oh, now just you stop it, this is boring, crass and pointless.” Please don’t make him mad.“Yeah, ‘cos when he’s angry, with a knife he’s rather handy.” He’s good but when he’s bad. “Oh, he grows gigantic gets all fussy and pedantic and he says…”
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7. |
Metoro
04:55
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8. |
Hedgehog
05:00
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9. |
Let it Go
04:17
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10. |
Corners
03:43
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11. |
Hitori
04:34
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12. |
In Time
03:12
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13. |
Hosoki Kazuko (live)
05:28
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14. |
The End
03:44
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Nanbanjin Japan
This Kyushu-based indie/art-pop band are a combination of experimental structures together with a melodious and poppy sound. A canorous billow of condensed breath and lithe lyrical phrasing, their sound is guitar driven and harmonically luscious.
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