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Please Vacate The Planet
03:33
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Does it rattle through your bones?
Are we breeding out integration?
I’ll cry a river while I’m at it, so we can wash off our sin
“Deliver us from evil” - wasn’t that the deal?
We should’ve never shook hands with the devil
Our greed has cost it all
Mourning deaths on burnt-out bridges we knew would never hold
For all the miracles we’ve missed while begging for forgiveness from gods that don’t exist
You can play the leader but we will stay formidable
Deep dark skylines that never seem to clear
Yesterday’s animals have become the gods you fear
The world is dressed in black
Praying for some colour back
The slogan on your T-shirt reads “Nothing lasts forever”
Oh god what have we done?
Our hands covered in blood
We are all to blame
Are you not ashamed?
Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Can’t mend the ties that we’ve severed
No “nothing lasts forever”
We are leeches
Yeah we are leeches
We are leeches
We’ll never be satisfied
We are leeches
Yeah we are leeches
We are leeches
Won’t stop until the bloods dry
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Live & Let Live
03:15
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This shell it weighs me down
Why do we come in peace to strangers but loathe others of our own?
Sometimes the skin doesn’t fit right, like one button skipped
And you can’t fight the overwhelming urge to hide
Just be yourself
There's no-one else
Your body is somebody
Read me unconditionally
Don't hold it back
Live and let live
If you ain’t got nothing positive to say your double negatives will fix it all
Genetic inheritance; luck of the draw
Don’t sweat about the physical
Chased through a jungle of poison tongues
If you play the lion, they will run
The golden ratio is unremarkable
I’m on the outside looking in
Culture club uniform
We strive to be adored
Break the mirror
Don’t reflect on self-perceived defects
I’m on the outside looking in
Don’t you know...
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Manipulate
02:50
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You hide behind your anger
Hold a light up to my flaws
Projecting onto me all of the hate from those before
Burnt tongues have kissed teeth a thousand times
Don’t swallow down your pride just to throw it up on me
Say what you mean
Don’t manipulate
I won’t be your escape
Say what you mean
All of our mistakes silence our decay
So fabricate excuses
I won’t sit and bear the weight of all your bitter sadness
It’s more than I can take
No more animosity or unwanted remorse
Just stubborn rusted pity that’s overrun its course
Speak before you suffocate
Dig your own grave
Asphyxiate from all your wasted breath
Speak now or you’ll never rest in peace
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Listen
02:03
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Dig up the grave in your back garden
This one's been buried alive
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
No holy prayer could save us
The ghost at the kitchen table devoured my youth
If you feel like dying be alone with me tonight
If you feel like dying
Be alone, alone, alone
I will listen, if you'll listen, just to make it through the night
If you feel like dying
You're not alone
Still deafened by silence
Always said that tomorrow I'd ask you
So haunted
I'm so haunted by the depths that I knew we shared
I wish I would've asked you
I wish I would've shown how much I care
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6. |
Learn
04:36
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Heaven and hell - It’s all intertwined
Even if I knew the difference, who is there to tell?
Is this heaven or hell?
They won’t stop lecturing “lower your expectations”
But what they see as greed is pure determination
We breathe in perfect harmony
You know me inside out so we don’t need to talk about it
Wish me goodnight, but I’m already fast asleep
I’m dying for a future
You’re living in the past
This curse will be the death of me
No I’m not alone
No I’m not alone
No I’m not alone
No I’m not alone
A common sense born out of fear
We’re never gonna learn
Never gonna learn
Never gonna learn
Never gonna learn
Hell knows how hard we fought to be on the same team
Our hearts beat in unison
There’s no need to speak
Time after time I kept my promise well
Swore that you’d be there for me in sickness and in health
All I have realised is I still hate myself
Will you wait for my tongue to disintegrate before they burn my body?
Where do we go when there’s nowhere left to know?
Despite all odds, let’s call it even
‘cause all our vices are versa
Can we re-calibrate and find a balance
‘cause all our vices are versa
Can we re-calibrate?
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Josephine
04:02
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Call ground control
What goes up must come down
You’re my black hole
What goes in won’t come out
I’ve lost control
What goes up must come down
You’re my black hole
What goes in won’t come out
You steal my thunder
I always pay the price
I’ll be back in black and trade for you my life
You pull me under
Drown me in those poison eyes
One more panic attack and you’ll be my demise
I’m a slave to you
You’re always on my mind
I often wonder how you trick me with those alibis
All I wanted was a taste of freedom
All you want is just to drag me down
Cold bars chain my body to the night
So I bury it, bury it underground
Try to channel your high spirits
but I bottle it every single time
Stop telling me, telling me I’m alright
I’m a ticking bomb, you’re the catalyst
All my patient friends they’ve had enough of it
I guess I’m better off without your forgiveness
Said I’m done with you, yet here we are again
I bring fifty but only get back ten
We’re getting closer to our ever-nearing end
Oh Josephine… You’ll be the death of me
Held you in my arms to try and drown the sorrow
An anchor laced with rust was dragging me down so low
For every moment lost inside your bitter end,
is every second guess at when should’ve been when
I nearly lost it over you
I almost tore myself in two
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
I’d bury it, bury it, bury it, bury it,
I’d bury it all for you
Go home Josephine
No I don’t need you anymore
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8. |
Lost In Translation
02:00
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Gonna let it pour out
You’re gonna get caught in the avalanche
I’ve got too much to give and I don’t know if you can handle it
So sick of burying my love, I will smother you instead
Watch the blood spill out my heart and rush straight into your head
Fire away
Fire away
There’s gonna be a massacre tonight
Fire away
Just fire away
Have we got nothing left to say?
Push your hands into the flame and fire away
So why does handing out my love lead to a thousand shaking fists?
Have I got too much to give?
Have I been lost in translation?
What did I miss?
You’ve got to learn how to share if you want to live
Take cover
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9. |
Epitaph
03:03
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Curses line my spine but I’m the luckiest fuck in town
Got nothing to weigh me down except for the devil inside my mind
Bruises on my tongue confess the lies that we try to hide
I guess there’s nothing left for me to say except goodnight
Maybe I’m not meant for this world
Maybe I’m not meant to live anymore
Maybe I’m not meant for this world
Maybe I’m not meant to be here at all
Wildfire is all that I desire inside
Forever pine the ghost of my pride
You better believe it
Will I ever be satisfied?
Someone is calling out my name but I can’t seem to place the face
Epitaph reads “- ‘18”
Still running this hopeless race
I’m not ungrateful… just a little lost
I’m not resentful… got my wires crossed
What stays before these eyes is all of my design
So how do you still crawl inside?
So much for out of sight
I’m not ungrateful… just a little lost
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Colourblind
03:05
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You are the sun, I am the moon
I’m only bright because of you
Been searching for the light, but I was colourblind
It takes a certain type of mind to find the depths of our design
Little did I know until you found it in me
Through stained-glass windows
the purest sight before me
Beautiful truth walked in
The whitest slate I had ever seen
I was so senseless
Said “could you spare me a little of your energy?”
‘cause I’m running on empty
Spinning around in circles
Pulling triggers with my eyes closed
I was no good for myself
You said focus on me. Don’t forget to breathe
and the shadow faded into darkness
We’ve figured out a language not many learn to speak
I will never hide so you’ll never have to seek
You got the best of me
She had the rest of me
You got the best of me
The parts of me that I learnt to hate are nowhere to be found in you.
If you become the death of me at least I’ll die happy
It was all black and white
She had me colourblind
It was all black and white
You opened up my mind
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Grey Matters
03:04
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For what it’s worth, I don’t believe that you are ignorant
Salt of the earth, plagued by such belligerence
This fear and loathing are your shame, so don’t pretend you’re not to blame
I’ve got these lines on my fingers that give me away
So far the end's unwritten so don’t feel like you have to stay
Have you forgotten me?
I’m left speechless yet again
An apparition of my youth
Keep on circling the truth
Just a little more poison to keep the truth at bay
Just a little less honesty to aid our great escape
I feel the leeches steal the blood that warms my bones
And when my chest gets cold I’ll cry and say I should’ve known
I should’ve known
The blackbird’s song is echoing
Grey matters turning too dark
In our microscopic skin heat is overpowering
Burn a hole right through my heart
Sweet pacifier
Why won’t you call my name?
Who wrote this misery? Sylvia would be proud
I don’t feel like pretending that we are worthy now
But all I want to know is can you feel the leeches?
Nobody gets out alive
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12. |
VOID
02:56
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Choking on the leftovers of words we never said
Burying the bones of us because we both know it’s dead
The knot we tied together became the noose around my neck
I’m sorry, I’m not sorry
I don’t owe you anything
I’m sorry, I’m not sorry
for all the anger I’ve been burying
Explosive nights went off like fireworks
Taking shots, shooting daggers
Old dreams are full of rot
Hazy mornings full of silence
Black coffee and tired eyes
I guess that Pat was right - Yeah it really is a battlefield
I’m sorry, I’m not sorry
I don’t know if I can handle it
I’m sorry, I’m not sorry
for all the lies I know you’re hiding
The dormant power of a thousand suns...
come to burn all of the bridges and kill all of our fun
It floods from my eyes and bursts out of my lungs
So fill the void with drugs before I come undone
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13. |
Warning Signs
03:23
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A chain reaction; the consequences bleak
A great attraction in a bottle buried deep
“How much longer can we ignore the warning signs?”
“Well, it won’t happen in my lifetime, so let’s just sit back, enjoy the weather and watch all things die”
In our egocentric world, if I’m going down, you’re going down
We’re going down
Call it vindication, so if I’m prison bound, you’re prison bound
We’re prison bound
It’s funny how our bodies will rot but our inventions cannot
We will subside with time, I just hope the world can realign
No I am not a saint
We are all the same
A festering disease always passing ancestors the blame
Force elements together to undo our decay
It’s too late to revitalise
We must revise our ways
When all is said and done, our ash returned to dust
The smoke will clear, revealing our hell is right here
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DRONES London, UK
Lois McDougall
Tim Kramer
Tom Thain
James Kerr
Mitchell Thomas
London, UK
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