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Driving Home Late
02:54
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With all these to do lists
I forgot why I started in the first place
Should I be climbing up this ladder
Or sitting on the step thinking again?
Sometimes it’s hard to concentrate or keep a steady pace
And it’s too scary to look down
But I don’t wanna miss the view
And besides I’ve been told it will
Haunt me in the night
If I don’t think things through
It’ll keep me awake
Like the coffee I have driving home late
How come I never feel at home
Until I’m about to leave?
Didn’t know what it was to be alone
Until I moved out to the city
I guess I couldn’t think in pictures today
Sometimes I tell people I’m fine
But I’m just waiting out the time
And it’s too scary to look down
But I don’t wanna miss the view
And besides I’ve been told it will
Haunt me in the night
If I don’t think things through
It’ll keep me awake
Like rolling windows down driving home late
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We climbed up high
You said the distance felt right
As a middle child
Between the ground and sky
You lit a light
Just to watch it flicker
It reminded you
Of the waves that day
When we swam out far
You said the feel of water
In summer’s like
Sun in winter
And you kept on swimming
Without looking back
It’s so uplifting, the way you don’t care
It’s so refreshing
Your mind is an ever-growing garden
Ever-growing garden
Ever-growing garden
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Movie
02:24
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Haven’t seen a movie for a while
But I just might tonight
So I can see the world through
Someone else’s eyes
Let them take the weight from my shoulders
Bring my shoulders down
And up here I’m gonna leave the curtains open because
My room looks so homely in the reflection
With plants and instruments
Lamp lights and instruments
And I don’t care if I don’t sleep at all
I’ll keep watching characters and situations unfold
And I don’t care if I don’t sleep at all
I rarely can anyway
The night before my birthday
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Pencil Drawn
03:25
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This fading sky looks like
The back of my mind
Where everything is drawn with pencil
I see windmills and pylons
Streetlights not yet switched on
All this metal can be drawn with pencil
When I stay all alone
There’s not much that can go wrong
But if I say how much comfort that brings me
It might never be the same
I start drifting into another daydream
And the lights start coming back on
And I can’t help thinking it’s a shame
Cause I love those moments in between
Remembering things completely or
Feeling any way fully
Leaving the country for the city
Me with you and me with me
So as the lights start coming back on
I can’t help thinking it’s a shame
Would I still love those moments in between
If they didn’t always end so quickly?
My favourite memories too
They’re all moments that I knew
Would be over soon
But I’ll put that to
The back of my mind
The back of my mind again
The back of my mind
The back of my mind again
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Colours Fade
02:52
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They never fall asleep before me
But they don’t know
That waking up too early
Feels like traffic in the summer heat
This time will be different
I promise
This one won’t get broken
Quicker than red leaves fall
This song will be better
Than all I’ve done
I keep saying
This song will be better
Than all I’ve done before
But if happy ever after’s only
Acceptance
Should I keep searching for a balance
Or should I just wait until
The colours fade away
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7. |
Sun Song
03:22
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Didn’t think I’d end up here today
It feels so right
Yesterday my thoughts were too much
I should have gone out in the sun
I’m just watching time
I’m just spending time out
In the sun
Sometimes I get too focused
On all the wrong things
Sometimes I get too careful
And I need to zoom out
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Under the Moon
02:57
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We were half asleep
Lying in the ocean breeze
I knew that it was good and I’d wanna go back
Though we live so many miles away
I still wanna go back
I would walk around the coast all day
Looking for that place
Didn’t feel the cold
Didn’t dream of anywhere else
I knew that it was good and I’d wanna go back
Though we live so many miles away
I still wanna go back
I would walk around the coast all day
Looking for that place
Home to me
Is travelling in circles with you
But now you are
Under the moon
During my day
And there’s nothing I can do
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When You Leave
01:09
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10. |
To Go On
03:17
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I close my curtains and eyes for a while
I can see the road and feel the wind right near me
And the sea’s shuffling sand like packs of playing cards
When I close my curtains and eyes for a while
I can see the forest ground light up like a dance floor
And I can see the coloured roofs that let me know I’m half way home
From the window of the train
That gives me so much to say
So much to say
When I close my curtains and eyes for a while
And start to miss the world outside I know I’m ready to go on
To go on
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11. |
Five Positives
02:33
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1). I spent quite a long time indoors and I felt okay
2). Lying on that broken bed while hearing your new ideas
3). I will never know why she called me Christopher
4). Nadia’s coming home soon
5). Your coffee flavoured pasta
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Guest Room
03:38
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In the guest room
Lying on the carpet
I felt peace like I was
Going back and forth on your motorbike
On the backseat I promised my wrists could hack it
It’s funny how I just spent the whole time staring at your jacket
And in that room I realised
Everything I ever felt was
Leading to what came next
Like winter into warmer months
And I felt peace like I was watching a plane window turn into a mirror
Everything’s okay when it’s in equal balance
It’s funny how artificial light looks so good in the distance
So in that room I lay there
Staring up at paintings that seemed
Somewhat familiar like the people I make up in dreams
And I tried to stay awake
Hard as I try to stay asleep some mornings
Of all the times when I have been completely present
It’s funny how many of them
Never really even happened
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