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Down & Out
03:36
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DOWN & OUT
I think you’re going way too hard man
You know this ain’t 1986
You said I looked like a monster
I watch you ride the waves and peaks
Oh, if you could see what I see now
You would hold yourself so tight
Instead of holding on to something
To keep you wired through the night
All the trouble’s leaving patterns on you
And the worry’s leaving shadows on me
Were we always down & out?
I think you’re going way too hard man
Riding the edges of the black
Trying to drink entire oceans
Of all that’s good and real and wrong and right
I know you’re holding on to something
I know you lie awake at night.
All the trouble’s leaving patterns on you
And the worry’s leaving shadows on me
Do you feel a madness rising in you?
Were we always down & out?
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
All the trouble’s leaving patterns on you
And the worry’s leaving shadows on me
Do you feel a madness rising in you?
Were we always down & out?
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
Always down & out.
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2. |
Glass
03:24
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GLASS
My head is heavy like glass
If you were home soon I’d
Hear the sound of your car
I’d hear you pulling in
But I’m heavy like glass
I think I’m smashing in
My future and my past
Meet at the door at last
So thick and so fast
I feel it rushing in
Or is that the sound of your car?
The sound of you turning in?
If you didn’t look at me like that
How would I have known?
I would have never known
That you didn’t love me like that
That you’d let it go
And now I’m letting go of all of everything this was
Cause you didn’t look at me like that
My head is heavy like glass
If you were home soon I’d
Feel the heat of your arms
I’d hear you crawling in
But I’m heavy like glass
I feel like smashing in
Our future and our past
Tear at the seam at last
Oh so quick and so fast
I felt it smashing in
Is that the sound of your car?
The sound of you turning in?
If you didn’t look at me like that
How would I have known?
I would have never known
That you didn’t love me like that
That you’d let it go
And now I’m letting go of all of everything this was
Cause you didn’t look at me like that
Saturday nights move quickly on my own without you
Saturday nights move quickly on my own without you
Saturday nights move deeply on my own without you
Saturday nights move quickly on my own
If you didn’t look at me like that
How would I have known?
I would have never known
That you didn’t love me like that
That you’d let it go
And now I’m letting go of all of everything this was
Cause you didn’t look at me like that
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3. |
Downfall
03:55
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Lately all I
All I can think about is did I let you down?
Had no idea that you were looking for an out
Baby why’d you hide your feelings?
When you were young
Everybody bigger than you let you down
Everybody older than you let you down
But baby my world changed when I was your girl
When it all got gritty, we made a pearl
I’m so mad that we
That we fell into the old familiar ways
You were proud and I was petty and afraid
All those things were so beneath us
Caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
Caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
The good kind of love
Ain’t always pretty
Ain’t always easy
The big kind of stuff
Will leave your mouth dry
Will leave you queasy
Your quiet lung
It is your silent
Kind of screaming
When you were young
Nobody showed you
What to believe in
Baby the world changed when I was your girl
When it all got gritty, we made a pearl
Now we’re caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
Caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
Uh huh
Caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
Caught up in the downfall within
Such a heavy kind of downfall within
Lately all I
All I can think about is did I let you down?
Baby why’d you hide your feelings?
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I said it like a friend to you
But that ain't how I wanted to
Those three lonely little words
Can fly away like little birds
You can count a heart in hurts
I'm picking at my nails again
Yeah you know how I feel
And you know why I'm hesitating then
I have loved and I have learned
From pretty boys and pretty girls
How to count a heart in hurts
Oh you went quiet, so I just went quiet too
I should’ve said something, but you could've said something too.
Let me be that one for you darling
Let me be that one that you hold on to
You've got to hold tight to what's good
Let me be that one for you darling
Seems I'm back to my old ways again
Trying to hide this loving gaze again
We're just dancing out of turn
And when we kiss goodbye it burns
Oh you went quiet, so I just went quiet too
I should’ve said something, but you could've said something too.
Let me be that one for you darling
Let me be that one that you hold on to
You've got to hold tight to what's good
Let me be that one for you darling
Let me be that one that you hold on to
Let me be that one for you darling
Let me be that one that you hold on to
Let me be that one for you darling
Let me be that one for you darling
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Smoke
04:31
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I wonder when I’ll stop
Dreaming of you?
The night’s are staying hot
I sleep to dream of you
I breathe in all the smoke
All the smoke that fills the room in
I breathe in all the noise
How a throat it fills a room
How do you understand me?
God how I’ve missed
I’ve missed being real
God how I’ve missed
I’ve missed being vulnerable
How do you understand me?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
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6. |
The Dog Years
04:03
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I met a man via letter
I wrote him to ask if he thought
Things would get better
Replied in his own hand
His strange, familiar alphabet
I met a man via letter
He said,
“Be still for now, try to heal
Try to feel what you feel.
Don’t let the dog years cash in,
They’ve got to learn how to heel/heal.”
I’ve got aches where I shouldn’t
I’m still young
You should look after yourself little one
But I’m just too scared to think of life as just a bluff
Hey you live and die and why ain’t that enough?
He said,
“Be still for now, try to heal
Try to feel what you feel.
Don’t let the dog years cash in,
They’ve got to learn how to heel/heal.”
You can work like a hound
Til you’re rough at the hand
You can sleep under stars
And in gutters and on trains
But you’re mind can make good
Of the darkest of days
And write bright little notes
In the margins of pages
Oh I’ve never had anything to spare
No I’ve never had anything to spare
Please man, have you got a buck you could lend?
Please sir, have you got a fiver to spare?
We’ve both got these lessons to learn here my friend
So please man can I bum a smoke from you my good man?
“Try to heal
Try to feel what you feel.
Don’t let the dog years cash in,
They’ve got to learn how to heel/heal.
Oh be still for now, try to heal
Try to feel what you feel…
Don’t let the dog years cash in.”
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Moreton Australia
DON'T LET
THE DOG YEARS CASH IN ♥
New EP
The Dog Years
out May 25
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