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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2. |
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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3. |
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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4. |
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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5. |
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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6. |
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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7. |
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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8. |
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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9. |
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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10. |
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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11. |
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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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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