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Paperchains
03:03
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Is it even true
Where is all it leading to
My short sight is good at stealing views
And leaving truths appear as lies
Like eaten fruits
I’m so numb I can’t believe the news
Stirring thoughts reheated soups
Counting breathes in 3s and 2s
Is it even true?
Why do I limp before I’ve lost a leg
Fear grips the hostage head
Death
My fostered friend
What’s the end?
My worn answers get washed
Like the socks I’ve lost again
Slow down
How I wish there was time
The days falling high like a water slide
As I form my sight to hoard the light
I often forget to call goodbye
I try and Store the sights
And before I know the roses
It’s autumn time
But I saw you cry.
I caught a glance.
Do I really need answers or an open hand.
Do I need a zeus or a broken man.
My mind steers like a loaded van
Taking garden shears to holy lands
Inside my trojan plans
Do I know who I am?
Reflections strengthen as darkness grows
Too often in my party clothes it hardly shows
But as my imaginary friends start to go
I park the boat long enough to become
The only one my Father knows
Please calm the ghosts
I think see you inside the glass
I close my eyes like it’s the last
A spear head in my side as I fight the past
Sinking sodden in clovered fields
Dying under horses and roman shields
I can see this moment for how I will
Statue still
And as the days fold out
like paper chains
I wait
I wait
I wait in vain
To see your gorgeous face again
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Hush! now my fears
It’s gon be fine
Take one more breath in
Close down your eyes
It’s not the end
If it’s not alright
Don’t get it twisted
Like that thorn in your side
I’ve been scaling the mountains
With a desperate heart
In all of my searching I found
the finish line was right at the start
Now I’m on my way home
I’m on my way down
I’ll be there besides you
Someday oh somehow
Now I’m on my way home
Now Im already gone
There’s a table prepared for me
Where I belong
Hush! Now my doubts
You had your use
Now you’ve got my neck stuck
Inside your noose
Hush! Now my guilt
I paid you the cost
I’m so much better than you
Told me I was
There’s a story inside me
Reshaping the land
I’ve come out of hiding
Now I know
I’m loved just the way that I am
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The Light it always finds a way
Heights warn me of my climbs a stray
Still I climb still I yearn still I strive away
No brakes yet I pedal this race
All my hero’s are dead or disgraced
Potential in my mind
Foreign coins in a drawer
I know they’re worth something
But unsure of what for
I’m hard to cancel
like a free trial
But My hang ups about my self
And my art Aren’t afraid to redial
Meanwhile
…I’ve been Breaking eggs for some Sunny thoughts
When will I learn stillness harbours all I hurry for
Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s
When the money talks
But my greed is so uninformed
Lift the lid on my love and there is hate beneath
All my dreams fell apart but they were baby teeth
Yeah There’s bigger to come
If I listen to some
Give me the wisdom to stay
Or the wisdom to run
I’ve been Fast asleep
My mum spent her whole life planting trees
The shade of their leaves she never sat beneath
That’s the meaning of life
I’ve been left shipwrecked now I’m seeing it right
What’s climbing ladders,
When you know that kindness matters
My friends are my wealth Now I know that My friends are my wealth
Been trying to be a better friend to my friends and myself
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Freedom Freedom
02:42
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Listen Son (feat Flores)
03:25
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I don’t ever wanna let go
I don’t ever wanna ever say bye
I know that whenever we spoke
You’d say it’s alright
I don’t ever wanna let go
I don’t ever wanna ever say bye
I know that we’re never not close but tell me
One more time
Listen mum
Miss you like I’d miss a lung
Miss you everyday still, you know that I miss you tons
I write to you in my dreams and my thoughts alike
I’ve been writing words to heal yeah you taught me right
Well You’re my flour you’re my yeast yeah I knead you
I’ve been trying to disguise but I’m see through
I’ve been tryna freeze the tears but they snow ball
I’d do anything today for a phone call
I really wanna float above
From all this stuff
I wish that you could hold me up
Even though most the magnets on the fridge have changed
You’ll always be the ONLY face that fits the frame
It’s Been kinda tricky without you
I still see Nan it’s hard to visit without you
Our special day won’t be the same without you
I just want you to knooOooOw
Chorus
Listen son
Miss you like I’d miss a lung
Miss you everyday still you know that miss you tons
I write to you every morning from the forest stars
Im still your mother if we’re close or we’re far apart
I really love who you chose to love
You opened up
I know it hurts sometimes
it’s supposed to love
When the flowers died
You rose above
I love you loud
I love you you
done me proud
I can’t
wait to meet her
wait to see her
I just know we’d be the bestest friends
She’s lovely and She’s stunning & she’s caring too
Seeing you happy There’s no joy I could compare it too
And There’s no weapon that I
Won’t destroy
To Hold to you tight
I know your voice
You’ll always be my
Oldest boy
My Mostest joy
Don’t forget to take a bunch the polaroids
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Magic 8 Ball
03:20
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Christmas Eve blistered feet
Weight on my hard shoulders
Walking on the side of a foreign motorway
Greeted with signs saying closed again
Thinking
If he knows my pain
Where’d He go?
It takes time to repair the toes of feet
Walked in faith too small for too long
Low battery mode
Torch light glows
On Road kill
As I lemon squeeze the blurry dreams
I’m owed still
And in my negotiations with life I always add on extra for virtues like oat milk
I’m alone still
Rattling at the grief and a locked gate
Thunder crashes like a dropped plate
Hands become ghosts infront of my blotched face
it must have got late
So I stop straight and realise I can’t go the back the way that I came
My oat cracker crumbs disappeared in the wind
And Everything I know is gone
And My childish sobs become holy songs
Caught inside a choir of tears
As the electric storm’s Fire appears
Falling on high from light years away
I hideaway but still he sees me
Still he sees me and greets me into great halls with marble floors
As I’m Wading in mirrors of rainfall
And shaking God like a magic 8 ball
Only to find he was never in there at all
Heaven resides in the last place I’d look
The last place I’d deem worthy
The last place I’d ever love
The temple is torn the captive is free
I find refuge in he who finds home in me
Something in the starry black
Arrests me like cardiac
The flood ruined the wallpaper
But underneath were artefacts
All along
Guess I must’ve Fallen wrong
I’m everything I love and fear
All in one
what should I focus on
Everything I know is gone
Drowning in the Icelandic
I’m your clone except I’m right handed
I still remember when dad told me
The metaphor in the sky landed
I never got to say goodbye
A byproduct of by standing
I just hope you find family
I just hope your flight landed
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Ruins
04:32
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Fighting some foreign war
Frozen water on all fours
Longing for a notion of home that is
Fading like carpet in the sun
What have I won if I’ve lost my sense of me….. My sense of meant to be
An old friend to me
Who now seems immature when we meet now
Beat down and swollen
The* tremors can still be felt
I’m on fire but I keep down and roll it out
I am a city over run , over taken
Broken windows
A field full of land mines
Im as old as land lines
But my wounds As so youthful
When I am pushed the floor
It is the child inside of me who falls
I am tired of feeling…
I’ve wandered in the dark
So many nights
Than even in the light
Sometimes I close my eyes
A force of habit
All I carried
Is falling out the shopping bags
But I know it’s In my shrinking I grow
Has it been a while? All these weaponised reflexes fastened to my side
Me & God are boats passing in the night
But I have come to tell you
There is joy in the morning
Peace in despair
Courage in the falling
Calm in the cares
So don’t be scared of the ruins
Keep it moving
If falling apart
Leads me into your arms
Then that’s all that I want
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Caleb
03:20
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Can’t you see the clouds are crying
Can’t you hear the thunder roll
I can feel my fear is firing
I could use some gun control
All of me is broken down
I can’t really mask the scars
begging at my saviours feet with open
alabastar jars
Blinded by the dark
I need you to line the floors
You were a distant torch now
you’re the light inside it all
Oh there’s a depth to this
I can feel it underfoot
But the only words that I can manage, all that I can muster up is
Oh my love
Can’t you see the crowds are here
Can’t you feel it closing in
There’s no louder sound than when
they throw the roses in
I’ve tried to shake it off
I’ve tried a different lens
But at the end of it
I just really miss my friend
Still I can feel a peace within
It meets me like a carnivore
Somehow I’m in the storm
and also in the calm before
Lost in your embrace
I don’t even know the way
But I can feel my *tears against the *cloth *upon your shoulder blade
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Frightened I’m like my mum
No control of my highs and slumps
…I wonder if I’ve felt the worst
I wanna hold the hands that held me first
I wanna hide sometimes
Kazadum it and climb the mines
Face to face with the kindest eyes
all this grace I was Blinded by
There’s so many side effects of hiding it
I find in the silencing
I really can’t hear at all
Cracks in the wall widening
But that’s how the light gets in
Chorus
I know that’s it’s raining outside yeah
But there’s sunshine in my soul
I don’t know if it’s time yet
But if it’s time I should let go
When I feel like I’ve got
less to give than prove
I hear a voice of love inside my chest
There’s only one, there’s only one of you
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Little Brother
02:05
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Tortoise Two
01:53
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Lets go for a walk love
Tell you all these things that I thought up
singing out your name like a chorus
You breathed life into my sawdust
I don’t know It’s more just
Why would I be touring
If you’re not on the tour bus
We should spin a globe
And just go …where he calls us
Ordinary paupers
Backpacks Borders
Wander like your tortoise
Take me to a Higher place
You Set fire to my Fire place
And Give me all the things that I was Tryna chase
I got all this time I’m not tryna waste
If someone had told me back at 21
I’d met you now I wouldn’t bothered anyone
You’re not like anyone that i’ve ever met along
The way you glide around this life is like twenty swans
You’re Way More than I could Dream up
Me and you should Team up
Know you love your Free stuff
Fleabag reruns
Jesus
Me and him been talking bout you
If we told you how we feel …you wouldn’t believe us
It might be hopeless now
But I Wrote this down
Just to Show you how
That I’m so in love
Since you showed up wow
I’ve been grinning all day
I’ve been floating round
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Hope Sweet Hope
03:25
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I came here with nothing
Left with even less
Still humming something
Tail between my legs
I’m inconsistent
And smaller than average
But ill go the distance
Crawl on the canvas
Dying of thirsty
Be-sides a stream
I fall off the bedside
When I try to dream
And I get this feeling
That this time its over
Fans on the ceiling
Blowing me sober
Mmm
I yearn for a home where
I haven’t been yet
I don’t mean a front door
I don’t mean a three bed
My middle names are
Failing and falling
Riding the waves but
My sailings appailing
Mmm
My best friend died this year
And it really fucked me with
Covered in black tar
Everything stuck to me
The slither of something
Keeps me from jumping
Is that the last thing I wrote back
Was that I love him
Hope Sweet Hope
Come to me
Hope Sweet Hope
I could use some
Hope Sweet Hope
Im hanging on
Hope Sweet Hope
I had a dream that
you were alive and
We were arriving
Upon an island
I think I’ve outgrown
The plant pot that grew me
It turns out that freedom
Came with what over threw me
And Im still awaiting
All of the best things
Wrapped up inside me
Like my intestines
There is a window
Behind every curtain
Light pouring in slow
The morning is certain
Mmm
There is song for
All that is unsung
Where all that is evil
Will surely be undone
There is place where
The gates always open
Gold on the pavement
Restored what was broken
That’s where I’m going
That’s where you find me
Next to my best friend
With my wife beside me
I don’t have answers
But I have a feeling
That all of your pain will
One day reveal them
Mmm
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