1. |
Inside a Tiny Box
03:51
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1, 2, 3, 4
I'll give you my life
If you promise that you'll keep yours safe inside
Next to mine
Watch them laugh entangled in the night
That's right
My life is yours inside a tiny box
And that's fine
It's youre to hold and keep safe for the time
Time
Every second I spend
Talking to you
It doesn't make up for the time that you deserve
I can only give you words from here
I hope they're all you need right now
'Cause I'm
Not in the right place at the right time
If I were with you now
I'd make you feel okay
In a beautiful car crash of the words I want to say
Oh they'll mean more face to face
Oh they'll mean more face to face
That's right
My life yours inside a tiny box
It's mine
But yours to hold and keep safe for the time
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2. |
Primrose Hill
04:12
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Let's go to the zoo
And maybe I'll go home with you
Let's go to the park
And hang around 'til it gets dark
On Primrose Hill
On Primrose Hill
Let's go on the tube
And maybe I'll go back with you
Let's go and lie down
On the grass just north of town
On Primrose Hill
On Primrose Hill
Life will never be the same again
And I don't care
We're fine
Life will never be the same again
And I don't care
'Cause I'm yours
On Primrose Hill
(I shiver and I'm alright, I don't care)
On Primrose Hill
(I open up my eyes and I smile, 'cause you're there)
On Primrose Hill
(I never thought that this would happen, but I'm so glad it did)
On Primrose Hill
(I havent felt that happy in a long time)
Said I haven't felt this happy
In a long long time
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3. |
A Face For Radio
03:58
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They're trying to sell sex
If the arse is good then the art is good
They're trying to sell sex
If the facade is good then the art is good
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
They're trying to sell sex
The intent's not good and the art's not good
They're trying to sell sex
It's not empowering, it's humiliating
Yeah the puppetiers are on the loose
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
She's got a face for radio
She know's because they told her so
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4. |
Breakaway
03:32
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It seems you've forgotten
You're a human being underneath
Even if you with you weren't
Even if you wish to somehow fight the urge
You just can't break away
I couldn't help but overhear you say
You wish you were somewhere else
You wish you lived the life of someone else
That's just what you've become
A product of the cynicle and dumb
Don't fly then crash and burn
Don't bury yourself away 'til it's your turn
It won't come around
At this rate you will not be around
To see your rise or fall
Posters of your face on every wall
Someday I want to hear you say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Someday I want to hear you say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Like a fish drowning in water
Or like the cuts you didn't feel until the bath
You fade away from mind
A memory half as sharp as other kinds
You thought it was okay
To come up with a plan to run away
At least that gave you time
Thinking out your problems acting fine
We all have our bad days
We all have days we want to get away
It's strange yours seem to laugh
Stranger still how I still make you laugh
Someday I want to hear you say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Someday I want to hear you say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Someday I want to hear you say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Mundane, thus so easy to say
The world's a better place than the one that you left behind
Once upon a time
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5. |
Gasp
02:45
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We are ants floating out to sea
We are broken, can't you see?
I gasp for air
I sink, I drown
The waves they knock me up and down
I drink the sea, there's no control
Help me, help me
Down I fall
But I'm not the only one
Yeah I'll die when I am done
Hold my hand we're floating out to sea
We are broken can't you sea?
I hit the deck, the sharks attack
Help me, I'm not coming back
I'm falling down in to the blue
What the hell am I gonna do?
I'm not the only one
Yeah I'll die when I am done
Hold my hand we're floating out to sea
I'm not leaving, can't you see?
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6. |
Surrounded By...
04:15
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Faces dimly lit under over hanging kitchen lights
We sat on the floor
What makes this night so different from other nights?
Well an exodus of sorts
Our brain floods our heads with thoughts
That soon we'll be alone
Surrounded
Surrounded
We cannot help but cry
I try to hold tears back but I
Know it's not the last time
Seven years condensced in to a night
This'll be gone soon
It'll be expensive train rides to the moon
And then I'll be alone
Surrounded
Surrounded by
The throbbing face of the crowd
A thousand faces that scream too loud
I can't scream loud
The throbbing face of the crowd
A thousand faces that scream too loud
I'm new again
I'll have to make myself again
I don't want to not see my friends or find new ones to know
I hope that they don't end up like my Primary School ones though
'Cause I said we'd always be friends
Now look I've gone and lost touch with them all
I don't want to see the ones I love now
And not recognise their smells
But be
Surrounded
Surrounded by
The throbbing face of the crowd
A thousand faces that scream too loud
I can't scream loud
The throbbing face of the crowd
A thousand faces that scream too loud
I'm new again
I'll have to make myself again
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7. |
Seventeen
01:15
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She says it's best
(It's not)
I know it's not
(She's got)
One eye on you
But the other eye's not on her pride
It's not okay
She doesn't mind
It's best
(So what?)
We know it's not
(It's not?)
Find time to stop
So we can tell her it's a bad idea
And now I'm getting out of here
It's best
(She's lost)
She's lost the plot
(Or not)
It's what she wants
But what she wants is gonna ruin her
You know it's gonna ruin her
I'll tell you what
(It's bad)
So maybe not
(That's bad)
She's done it now
She's off throwing her life away
We knew she wasn't here to stay
So I
(You what?)
Won't even try
(To stop)
Her run away
And the inevetable happening
There's no stopping it happening
I'm gone
(She won't)
Remember me
(She don't)
And I don't care
So really why should I now care
I'm just a t-shirt she won't wear
And now I hope she doesn't dare
And now I hope she doesn't dare
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8. |
Believer
03:25
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Scale the walls of popular belief
Breach the windows of common grief
Hear the ones whose hearts are beating
Listen to your loved ones sleeping
Look in your mind for memories
And scour your heart for feelings
Take on the world for teachings
And then there's all of us believing
Loose your grip and start to fall
Your mind won't save you from the storm
Falling from the bricks of towers
Remember when you were in power
Look in your mind for memories
And scour your heart for feelings
Take on the world for teachings
And then there's all of us believing
Scale the walls of popular belief
Breach the windows of common grief
Hear the ones whose hearts are beating
Listen to your loved ones breathing
Breathing
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I don't want to get older anymore
I don't want to feel it grip me and pull away from who I was
'Cause I know that I'm still here
I just don't write the same
I don't think the same
But I know that I'm still here
I just don't write the same
I don't think the same at all
I reall want to breathe out and for my breathe to turn to steam
Like it did when I was small
Because it doesn't feel the same anymore
And sometimes the saddest songs make me happiest
Because they verbalise the way I feel in ways I'd never thought
Well I just want to lay down
With the ants in the uncut grass
And I'll bring all my friends
And we'll wonder how it is we grew up so fast
My memories smell like Year 5 school trips
Or cooking on Christmas day
Like trips to model railways
Oh I just can't feel it in the same way
Sometimes the crisp and cold makes me happiest
Wrapped in layers I'll step to the beat
When I'm running down The Southbank or Regent Street
When I just want to lay on the ground
With the ants in the uncut grass
And I'll have all my friends
And we'll wonder how it is we grew up so fast
How did we grow up so fast?
How did we grow up so fast?
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10. |
Flying Armchair (Sleep)
05:09
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It's the one way ticket train
Mum always said you were a pain
But if it's the end it's right you know
Now you're getting ready to go
So put on your best suit
Shined shoes and smile to boot
You were never one to leave a lady waiting round for you
And she's in the waiting room
She was told you'd be here soon
She was the one you love
The one you couldn't be happy without
So I hope you're ready to go
Are your bags all packed?
Can you hear our voice?
We're here, and we're here standing next to you
So what are you gonna do?
Look up and take that leap
In drug induced sleep
Your lover's on the other side for you
Now you can dance the night away
Somewhere you'll always stay
There's nothing here
There's nothing left to fear
This house it stays the same
Thrugh happy times and pain
There's somewhere more important in the sky
For when you give up this fight
She sits impatiently tonight
Her hand on yours and mind up in the clouds
So even if you cannot hear
I know in body that you're here
So just let go and run in to the light
But surely now's the time
You were told we'd all be fine
And we hope that you'll be too
So I hope you're ready to go
Are your bags all packed?
Can you hear our voice?
We're here, and we're here staying next to you
So do what you have to do
Look up and take that leap
In drug induced sleep
Your lover's on the other side for you
And as videotapes play
We say what we want to say
A dream-like state
It's times like these it hurts too much to wait
But I promise that we will
Until at night we feel the chill
And then it'll be your turn
To wait around for us
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11. |
The Realist
04:37
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I like to think that we stay the same
We don't
We are constant
We change like ice to water
Like old people get shorter
Like English Summer sun in to rain
And I guess we have to face it
We don't all stay the same
In everything but name
You'll grow up
Becoming who you want to be
You'll grow up
Change to who you ought to be
And I will have no say
People always change
Please remain the same
And I will have no say
People always change
Please remain the same
I like to think that man is good
(So are you deaf, or blind, or?...)
But it's not all bad
(Oh right, so I'll put you down as unrealistic? Clueless? Idiotic?)
We try and change what's broken
We're not all too outspoken
Lots are tollerant of everyone
(Okay, so that's clueless)
And I guess we have to face it
Not everyone's the same
And not just by their names
We grow up
Becoming who we're told to be
We grow up
Change to who we want to be
And I will have no say
People make mistakes
Make choices that are sane
And I will have no say
People make mistakes
Make choices that are sane
You'll grow up
(And I will have no say)
Becoming who you want to be
(I will have no say)
And I will grow up too
It happens to the best of us
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12. |
Little Feet
04:24
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Look at your face
Haven't seen you this way
Since Primary School days
Now I don't know what I'm to say
Some things don't change
But some people estrange
Themselves from the past
From the characters of themselves they'd cast
I'm gonna be
Chewed up and spat back out
And all of the friends I've lost
Will seem further away than before
Yeah I think I'll miss them more
Every little detail that I saw
Think I'll miss them more
Take me in or take me out
I miss when I had lived without a doubt
Take me in or take me out
I loved when I could live without a doubt
I doubt I'll feel that way again
I doubt, I doubt
The weekend was God
And I knew that because
I prayed it would come soon
Whenever soon was
It meant so much more
Like the fields that I saw
When I sat in the backseat
They were more than fields of hay or wheat
But playgrounds for my little feet
And those of all my friends
But playgrounds for my little feet
With the earliest friends I'd ever meet
Where everything I say I mean
Where the smallest things were dreams
I'm gonna be
Chewed up and spat back out
And all of the friends I've lost
Will seem further away than before
Yeah I think I'll miss them more
Every little detail that I saw
I think I'll miss them more
Take me in or take me out
I miss when I had lived without a doubt
Take me in or take me out
I loved when I could live without a doubt
I doubt I'll feel this way again
I doubt, I doubt
And I had pulled the daisies out
Scraped at the dry ground that it had
And told my friends that I was glad
They weren't just in my dreams
Now they're only in my dreams
Take me in or take me out
I miss when I had lived without a doubt
A doubt, I doubt
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13. |
What Makes You
04:36
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Maybe you're lonely
Maybe you don't have to be
Maybe all your friends are here and trying to get to you
Maybe you're not like me
Maybe you don't have to be
Maybe open up your heart and let new people through
Do what makes you, you
Do what you would do
If you meant as much to you as we do
Maybe you're anxious
Maybe you can't take this
Maybe your emotions all just blur up in to one
Maybe you cry to sleep
Maybe you sleep to die
Maybe we want to help but don't know how to try
Do what makes you, you
Do what you would do
If you meant as much to you as we do
Were you told you were worthless?
Do you think you don't deserve us?
Is your only expression from all the colours in your hair?
Does your music understand you
Like you think your parents don't do
And all the boys you fall in love with just don't understand you
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Josh Aroesti London, UK
I hope you enjoy my music half as much as I love you for even bothering to read this
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