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Ends in Themselves
02:47
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ENDS IN THEMSELVES
Is this something to grasp or let go?
A saviour in stasis, a threat to control?
Lead your watch you can put on your wings tonight
Lead on, perhaps you can grow your wings
Don’t assume ‘cos you didn’t ask I didn’t know
You should know I’ve been watching for weaknesses to hold
Lead your watch you can put on your wings tonight
Lead all, perhaps you can grow your wings tonight
Lead your watch you can grow your wings tonight
Lead all of us you can get up for a fight
I won’t pretend ‘cos you didn’t ask I didn’t know
Your sharp tongue made hard work of the soft words you spoke
Leave all of us you can put on your wings tonight
Leave all perhaps you can grow your wings tonight
Leave all the souls that you came back for last time
Leave all of us you can shed your wings tonight
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Season's Rest
03:30
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SEASON'S REST
All out for season’s rest, tired limbs, back, sinking chest
The promise: You won’t fight a harder season
Bleed slower than you’d think, it dries before we meet
You’ll wait for me, this time, this time you’ll wait, this...
The last light hugs the trees and brings a sense of ease.
The brakes won’t work for any reason you’d say
Lean on some fireless eyes, they’ll slake the need
you’ve reached the point where you would call another number.
But no, don’t
The thorn slips in your side,
but no-one entertained the least thought you would pull it out so quickly
Keep on for all you’re worth, too weak, too cold to work
The sinking light brings all the flies around me
Called out for you,
some tearless face
All light, no space.
Don’t move, you fool
Kindness takes the sting from falling where you shouldn’t
Glory reaches ages where the others wouldn’t
So pile them up, pry them out where the orders lead them
The slack yanked tight trips out the lights, now we’re all equal
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Folds
03:57
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Climb up this fleshy frame
Hands and feet are fixed, stretching up above me
This man-made, shoulder-wide ladder's broken sides
The wind rose, I lost my step
Cushioning my back, the sands that came to greet me
The fallen: ranked and filed away with all the wherewithal
And when you touch the sun
Remember what it's for
The heat pulling sweat from your pores
You'll see it in their eyes and shoulders
Cushioning your lives, enfold us
Cos even if you pushed it forwards we've got it wrong
Still winds, a shineless night
Weightless in the folds of winds and silent feathers
But still we'll push overland
As breathless as the day we came
And when you touch the sun
Remember what it's for
The heat pulling sweat from your pores
You'll see it in their eyes and shoulders
Cushioning your lives, enfold us
Cos even if you pushed it forwards we've got it wrong
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Rest Your Bones
03:54
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REST YOUR BONES
Caught out at last to the shame of everyone
Mindless pursuits brought to fall
Now say what you will, you were not so innocent
You reeled me in I’ll rail you out as well
Thin wire falls, somehow cuts through all of this
The joy and the trauma will pass
In chimes a voice, brings you back inside yourself
Speaks truth til you’re blue, repeats it:
“It’s been too long...”
Brought up in safety beside cacophony
Picking the sense from the background noise
Sadness or fear brings you underground again and surely you won’t find it there
Rest your bones in this hole
We’ll come back for you, we promise we will not leave you here
Rest your bones
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Forgotten
04:18
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FORGOTTEN
Cold hands cover my aching ears, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Make a sharp breathe-in space
Slight and sly, sealed away
Cut-out words, smoothed and razed
Take a broad look around
Cold hands cover my aching ears, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Words, bombs and anything I won’t hear, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Clay souls trapped behind walls and doors, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Stifle your respite, no way to recognize an opening for a fight
You’re missing your chance to fly
He steps to find a new design that pulls you round to see his side
But you can fight, you will fight, you fight on,
‘cos you can last
Cold hands fall on my aching ears, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Words, bombs and anything I won’t hear, I’ve not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten
Books, tapes, hopes of some better days when I’ve not forgotten, you’re not forgotten, I’m not forgotten, you’ve not forgotten...
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Once
03:18
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ONCE
The soft exhaust seeps, chill makes you creep, the tide will decide for all Steps ring sweet: concrete, feet. A purpose that follows the falls
Fight that need to go by feel, the voices that count will call:
“You’re back on the right side, now”
You’d burn through the middle, but you stick to the sides
And crawl up the right shore of the arm
But drained of all experience, you’re crashing lines again
Once you didn’t know
When faith is lost, all sense of humour gone
But the worst of it, you won’t fight it alone.
As alone as you’d like
When drained of all experience, you’re crashing norms again
You speak so much of cowardice, stay silent just the same
Once you didn’t know
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Be Patient
04:33
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Stealing nothing from something’s hands, I was blinding eyes bouncing off the sands
I was paid for
Look behind you and I’m not there. When you get to close you thin out the air
I was over my head
When you look at me as if you’ve never seen the wheels come off There’s cardboard filling spaces in the road
Turn the corner laughing as the sentiment explodes
Your gods have promised everything for you
I’m as sick of this as you are, it’s not simple scratches, not subtle scars, this is painful (they know we know)
Without meaning I burst through the clouds, I dried the soil out, I cracked the ground. Is this over?
Because you look at me as if you’ve never seen the wheels come off There’s cardboard filling spaces in the pavement, in the road
You turn the corner laughing as the sentiment explodes
Your gods are putting everything on you
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Keening
04:23
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KEENING
Keening like some awful voice, wordless and without a choice
Whipping around buildings, disturbing the pigeons where they sleep
Barely in this chair at all, nod and smile and wait to go
Water your thoughts down, pass them around, watch them tumble around
Your words are moving in and out
Your images moving in and out
Leave your shoes on the stairs, crack the window
New socks are kissing floorboards, breeze-blown hair tickles ears
Find it when you’re letting go - everything you didn’t know
Water your thoughts down, pass them around, watch them tumble around
Your words are moving in and out Your image is moving in and out
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Tendrils
03:42
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TENDRILS
Old rages blocking all the halls, hide inside walls, decided to go
Calm silence, don’t pick apart its source: make it up, or just put it aside
Dawn find us sleeping upside down, find your sense or hold it, you watch it unfold
Phrase tendrils, creeping for a hold: The steely-grey glow of your eyes
But by night I’m silenced and still – can you make yourself feel unkind? You cry out war when you see that we all have come freely alone
Know brightness, but misinterpret words, deflect us from the sight of you drenched and afraid
Fight in the sourness that pools around the brain
It’s an offering, an offering, an offering again
Sealed inside each verse, up above my words, you’ve a sense, I’m sure, that’s as true as any
For the times I’ve tried, but didn’t make the connection, and I’m left to feel if I was you, I’d lie
If I was you I’d lie
Old judgment, picking apart your eyes, fooled by the scope, pulled as rope.
Old judgment picks apart your eyes. We barely are truthful to us
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Watch Me Go
04:48
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WATCH ME GO
So sick of pages that lead and mislead him
he gave up on words altogether today
Plastic for fire burns heavy, toxic.
A throat-sticking sweetness that counters the flames
Spread the salt out, don’t leave the dogs out.
Snow come down, rainfall turn to ice
Spread the salt out, leach all the dank out
Called out for order, for silence, for solace.
Responses are mute, it all turned on its head
Over-mechanical, violent and soulless.
At least you got something: away from the threat
Reach out to pull in, it’s taken as lashing out.
With no words to couch it it won’t slip aside
So pull it up, pull it up, away from unworthy hands
Loosening, loosening, enough to slip your fingers in
Thickening, thickening.
It grows to fill up the empty space
Would you all, could you all be just about as sound as you are?
Will you watch me go?
Keeping hands to the sides, elbows in, fingers tight
When you’re just no good.
If you leave you’ve no say.
Gave it up, you’ve no right
It’s the speech I know.
It’s the seeping inside leeching out through the sides
Will you go fly off, midst the roots, midst the soil, midst the mud,
will you watch me go?
Will you watch me go?
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Let Me In
03:31
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LET ME IN
Paid up for me, stayed up for me
Find me places, set my table
On the run, she’s out about the place, she’s
on the run,
She’s out
Laid on for your storied faith that
sounds like hope made bids on slow ropes.
Drinking wine you’d set upon the table.
Stayed up, washed out, let me in
Wear yourself out, bear your words out
Let it pass your pith, strength drained out
Raise, shine on
Leave greater hands to bear it.
Hey love, say, say, let me in
Say love, hey now, let me in
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Paper Beat Scissors Montreal, Québec
Musical monstrosity deposited in Montreal, Quebec after the first years in Burnley,
England.
Tim Crabtree’s haunting voice burns at the centre of the Paper Beat Scissors sound with an honesty and rawness that skirts discomfort.
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