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Words And Ways

by Unfuture

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1.
Every Time 03:14
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This one is the last one I will send It's hopeless really I know it's the same In the end Every time that I try you decline You vanished, no warning A second time Addresses still unused like mountains left to climb Every time that I try you decline Every time that I try you decline A letter lying, it told me It said you didn't live there And every time that I find you You disappear again Every time that I try you decline Every time you know it's time we're failing Every time you know this time keeps changing Every time you know in time we're fading
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Seasons Delayed 04:04
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Something I should've said to you Seasons delayed by the door How could I be so obvious Knowing I'd missed something more? Searching stories in vain Real world passing you by Walking home through the rain The answer's right by your side Who are you waiting for? Seasons are passing you by Always you doubt yourself Nothing's just in time Second time's always the charm Somehow you waited for me Stumbled evenings and morning light Slowly see what this could be Searching stories in vain Real world passing you by Walking home through the rain The answer's right by your side Who are you waiting for? Seasons are passing you by Always you doubt yourself Nothing's just in time
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I'll Go With You 02:32
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I know it's hard to find When you're both looking in the obvious place I said to her that we should try To look for answers in a hopeful space And rented rooms with leaking walls Gave way to houses filled with chores I don't know what the future holds for now But I know that I'll go with you And I know that in the morning We've slept on arguments that couldn't find their way There's all these years and still we're learning Our understanding things we never had to say We set our course, we sailed away The maps had changed while we were underway I don't know what the future holds for now But I know that I'll go with you When I sit up late and wonder How the stories all around us got their ends I realise that I'm misguided Love's not a question, it's the answer that remains I've never felt so sure of things Where you end is where I begin I don't know what the future holds for now But I know that I'll go with you
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Lend An Ear 03:01
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All these words flying round Watch them shiver and fall All this energy flows Powers nothing at all Won't you try something new? Put yourself into gear All you need is to keep your mouth shut Why don't you lend an ear? He's never short of a take on it all when it's Begging for thoughts and debate Doing the world a disservice if he chooses Not to find something to say Won't you try something new? Put yourself into gear All you need is to keep your mouth shut Why don't you lend an ear? Can this careless talk really cost us so much when it's Idle and harmless and cheap? A man with an urge to profess all he's learnt Surely needs no audience If everything turns on the weight of concerns By the loudest voice shouting their piece Then we might as well choose to Continue the ruse that we Care what you say Fall on deaf ears like it's autumn for listening And everyone's speaking at once Ears to the ground hear the rumbling sound of you Losing a war on all fronts Won't you try something new? Put yourself into gear All you need is to keep your mouth shut Why don't you lend an ear?
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Monument Of Dust 03:42
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I was alone Symbols and sigils stowed My clothes in rags Lost artefacts Wrapped in reeds Burned black under trees Temple left in ruins My limbs cursed I was sacrificed They lay in wait for me Fixed for centuries Laid down in misery And to the light I climbed Found my way home In the pyramid I tried To find the words denied Sailed the river blue and white Red sands shifting I dissolve Turn to sand and water sinking Silted figure weighed down I was sacrificed They lay in wait for me Fixed for centuries Laid down in misery And to the light I climbed Found my way home In the pyramid I tried To find the words denied I read the words The ancient lie They're written down Carved here in stone This place was mine Trampled down by careless time A monument of dust
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Say It Like It Really Is 03:35
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All that looking over someone's shoulder's Gonna hurt when you don't even see the mess you're making Each time asking for the inside line will leave you Trapped in honesty there's no way you can be Saved Saved Save your breath We know that talk is cheap even when you foot the bill But when the price is steep tell me when we go downhill Testing times Beyond our prime Say it like it is All I know is what you can't afford for me to Say it's everything that I don't pretend to be Broken promises and empty words don't make this Any easier each time you should be Saved Saved Save your breath We know that talk is cheap even when you foot the bill But when the price is steep tell me when we go downhill Testing times Beyond our prime Say it like it is Say, say, say it like it really is Say, say, say it like it really is
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Rising 02:51
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Roots and reminders of autumns and endings This evergreen crumbling to dust Drinks spilled like secrets are soaking through seasons An effigy coated in rust Oh oh yeah I'm crumbling to dust Oh oh everything silver will rust Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising for you Cut through the corners like tongues sharp with warnings It's always too early to tell Shoulders to cry on get cold in the end when it's Useless to try something else Oh oh it's too early to tell Oh oh useless to try something else Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising for you Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising Sail against the wind Turn the tide It's rising for you
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Sinking Time 04:16
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We climbed on gravestones every week Round crumbling tombs played hide and seek Who said that it was disrespect? Dead bones can't resurrect Each endless hour cooped up inside An early grave, the years defined On etchings worn and stonework cold Were you like us? Once overbold? Places pass us by Writing home No reply Sinking time Hiding ghosts down every street Pale memories of passing feet Who walked here hand in hand Straining hearts to understand? Same old faces passing by Stares fixed in concrete, glassy eyed Time moves differently down here Regress in echoes regrets for years Places pass us by Writing home No reply Sinking time Step into the sunlight An empty house, sighed Why am I here again? We do this to ourselves He sat in the room, dark Head in his hands, parked Hadn't moved since I left "What happened here?" I said
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Owls To Athens 04:02
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Don't need that sadness at all Your golden light's going to fall Send out for someone to carry on Don't need that sadness at all No performance of pain Curtains fall just the same This open theatre's been closed for the day No tragedies left to play Still there's something Left to hide from Somehow you know where to look Roads to nowhere Still you walk them A one way trip off the hook You will fall on your feet You will dance up every mountain in the summer You'll know just where to be You will float up where the elements are lighter than the air Don't hope people will change Actors don't leave the stage Save your suspense for someone else Don't hope people will change Leave the stormclouds to frown Rivers flow to their mouth They'll drink your sorrows but thirst for them still Leave the stormclouds to frown Still there's something Left to hide from Somehow you know where to look Roads to nowhere Still you walk them A one way trip off the hook You will fall on your feet You will dance up every mountain in the summer You'll know just where to be You will float up where the elements are lighter than the air And you know we're always looking back And that tightrope's run out of slack Still we're sending all these wasted things With the guilty conscience freedom brings Don't need that sadness at all Your golden light's going to fall Send out for someone to carry on Don't need that sadness at all
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A Lucid Nation 03:27
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Face by face Just in time Places in mind We're each everywhere Consciousness raised Claim every line Homecoming fate It's a token of mine Empty gestures System tension Ask it if it knows us Lucid dreaming Intervening Save it for the future I can't carry on this game Let's invent a way to exit Self-assured Doubting none Conflict of interest Shaping a district Open closure Keep us there Taken and tested Broken and rested Empty gestures System tension Ask it if it knows us Lucid dreaming Intervening Save it for the future I can't carry on this game Let's invent a way to exit Face to face Out of time Places in ruin They reach everywhere Consciousness vain Wait in line Home came too late Tokens are gone
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Fantail 02:52
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Flying higher, morning's over Brown wings circle dipped in cloudless sky Seeking thermals, soaring closer Then he turns and starts to dive Twists and turning Plummets down from the sky Rollercoaster Motion passes me by Paired in motion, silent partners Crane your neck but you'll never see them land Hunters proud, no safe harbours Reckless wonder as empires expand Twists and turning Plummets down from the sky Rollercoaster Motion passes me by Flying higher, evening's waning Buzzards calling, find each other again Silent forest, sinews straining We are hunting, watch for our wings in the end

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released June 19, 2023

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Unfuture Birmingham, UK

Unfuture is the musical alias of Matt Andrews, a Birmingham, UK-based singer/songwriter who writes folk-influenced songs with an infusion of alternative guitar work and piano.

Contact: matt@mattandrews.info

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