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Carl Sagan
01:28
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Hawaiin Getaway
01:09
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This is me feeling sorry for myself.
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3. |
I Want to Believe
02:48
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I've got this 7" from this film I like
and it always makes me think of you
It's about the consequences of the mistakes we make
and fate...
But you don't believe in fate.
It's make me think of all the people I tried and tested
Before I found this final resting place
It makes me think of rainy cities and snowy landscapes
It makes me think about that look upon your face
Yet you don't believe in fate.
Lets draw out a map of what-ifs and what could have beens
and see where we wind up?
Cause I don't think that we got here
Without someone's help.
But still you don't believe in fate.
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4. |
Space Mountain
02:10
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So what my ears are bleeding, there's a drink in my hand
and I'm standing in the front row for some shitty emo band
and I think of that time when- you threw a penny in a wishing well in a theme park in Paris
By king Arthur's stone, I promised you you'll never be alone
Just as I do, you quickly interrupt to tell me the same thing
and now my eyes are leaking into the drink in my hand
and I'm screaming in the front row to some shitty emo band
and I think of that time when It'll only be me and you- by king Arthur's stone
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5. |
Glass Hands
02:23
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I hate myself sometimes, you know it's true.
I'd probably waste myself if I had the courage too.
Instead I scream into this tape machine when I'm alone.
or watch YouTube clips in the bathtub for hours on my phone...
and the only cure. is your face.
it's the only thing that doesn't make me feel like a waste of space
and my brain says my hands are gonna shatter!
It says they'll shatter like glass.
oh my brain doesn't know what is the matter. oh it just knows it's moving too fast....
And I'm looking at the wind farm from the window in my mother's room.
Watching you drive off in the snow, oh god I hope you come back soon.
Before my brain tells my hands that they should shatter.
It says they'll shatter like glass
Oh come back and help me find what is the matter.
Oh please Louise come back fast...
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6. |
The Battle for July
01:42
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I wish that I could skate
I wish that I got high
I wish that I played bass in a pop-punk band that toured all the time
I wish I lived in Glasgow and didn't live with my mum
I wish I wrote songs rich with metaphors that didn't sound oh so dumb
and I wish, wish, wish sometimes that I didn't exist
but I do, so I'll do what I do and what I do is sing sad songs about you
And I think, think, think, think, think that I need a little time
to write some more sad songs about you...
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7. |
Xmas Box
03:06
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I can count my soul mates on the fingers in my right hand
I'm just turning 18 and I think I can understand
Just how people feel, Just how people feel about each other
And I can count my fuck ups on the fingers in my left hand
Like the time with closed fists I said fuck you to my Dad
and we took out on the road, not knowing where to go
and I look up to the sky and I start to wonder why
We can't find a place to breathe...
Hold a nail to a candle.
It's the end of the fucking world.
But I still love you James.
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8. |
Chainsaw
03:06
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When people talk of heartbreak, I don't know what to say
He said "You ever had your heartbroken?"
I said " It doesn't feel that way"
He said "Do you like Modern Baseball?"
I said "No"
He said "That's probably why, I guess You've got to live your life
a certain way to understand art sometimes"
I said "Maybe it's just cause I'm older? I've got the power of hindsight.
I can see what things were bad for me. I can see what things were right"
and yeah you were my profile picture but you were never the one.
Guess we all said a lot of stupid stuff when we were young and dumb
Never made it to your graduation. We never made it that far.
We made it as far as splitting our belongings up, outside the co-op in the car
and I told you that I'd found someone who let me be myself
You looked me in the eye and said the same and put us back on the shelf.
I wonder if you like Modern Baseball.
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9. |
Scottish Weekend
03:11
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I drank too much again
So now I'm dancing on my own
A girl caught your eye tonight.
So now I'm with Katy on the phone.
I'm trying my hardest. To get fucking Lost.
Trying my hardest to figure out the cost-
of some food
Maybe a bus back home.
or maybe I should go somewhere else and dance some more
on my own...
I'm like Barry Eagan or like Hallum Foe
Except in Life there's no quirky soundtrack so...
I'm just a weirdo with a short short temper
Who wanders these streets at night trying to see what he can see
I saw two lovers. Too nervous to kiss.
Standing there in that strangers back garden I realised
I started to miss you
I'm so full of fear when you're not here.
So full of fear. Fear and whisky.
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10. |
Me; crying as a kid
03:20
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Had do you do it?
How do you communicate with people?
I can;t do it in my life or even in my art
and now It's raining outside and I'm a little rain cloud
but dressed in drainpipes and a torn up black hood
and I want to cut my hair
But I don't think you'll love me anymore
Maybe if it's done right I might have chance.
Now it's raining outside, I'm in listening to the same sounds.
Screaming into a tape machine at the end of my bed
and I think about me crying as a kid
I won't forget about that teacher and what she said
She took me to the side and said
There's a rain cloud above your head
YOU'RE A RAINCLOUD
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11. |
Charles Crumb
01:14
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Why am I here? I should be at home.
I should be alone drawing spirals in my notebook.
There's no room for pictures. There's too much to say.
I wonder if we'll look back on this and laugh some day...
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12. |
ARMS
01:59
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Sometimes I want to lay down and not get back up
Sometimes I want to lay down like I even give a fuck
I'll pull fucking arm off, they're weighing me down
Tell me, Tell me, Tell me, when we getting out of this town?
I think you're wasting all your time on me.
Wasting all your time telling me it'll all be fine
and as the sky turns grey, I turn to you to say
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There's something wrong with me
I feel it deep in my stomach when I'm alone
There's something wrong with me
Like when I scrape at my flesh til it's just blood on bone
There's something wrong with me
It hits me in the dark when I'm driving home
There's something wrong with me
I'm listening to awkward hip-hop about being awkward and alone
There's something wrong with me
But I don't think it's too late for me to be saved
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15. |
Fine, Whatever
02:03
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I flooded the bathroom again
I closed my eyes in the supermarket
This is the day- I turn away
I wonder if you can bake happiness
I hope so, I'll try
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We never really cared for Iain, so we ran from him in the snow
and you were just a girl in a song I didn't really know
Oh, I wonder if I'd go back if I could
and do these small things mean anything like they say.
I said you've got friend in me and you moved closer
you were one for me, but oh so soon it was over.
Oh, I wonder if I'd go back if I could
and do these small things mean anything like they say.
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17. |
The Original Tune Guy
02:15
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Do you know the only single Led Zeppelin released was "Whole Lotta love"?
Do you know what's in the ashtray in the car?
Do you know how far a twenty would get us in the record stores in the city?
Do you know what your mother would do if she found out?
And if you've got love and music in your life
Just remember if everyone leaves you, you'll always have the tunes.
Do you know the story of Bowie and Warhol and Andys love of shoes?
Let's take the long way round for an extra twenty minutes in the car.
You've got to wonder how you'd spend your hard earned secret stash
If you were still here today
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18. |
Sorry, I don't Smoke
01:31
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19. |
Not Going Out
02:01
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I could look out my mothers window for hours and hours and hours
I could watch the tree's line the mountains, cutting through electrical towers
or I could go into our room and watch you put on your make up
cause you're going out. You're going out but not me.
I'm not going out!
And I can hear the boiler, it's over flowing
I can hear Joe Strummer
but your good friend got some bad news, some bad news
ah shit man, that's it's a real bummer
Now I'm going out
Not staying in
Fuck these crowds.
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.... and we're inside, inside, all having fun in your bedroom, bedroom
til someone drops a pill and I get nervous, nervous
I don't know how to act around you
and I love you, love you but deep down I think you hate me, hate me
at times I'm such a burden
and sometimes you don't know what to say around me
and I can talk for fucking hours about shit that no one else cares about
I just don't know what else to do. Cause silence in my head ain't a virtue.
.... and we're outside, outside all having fun in the sunshine, sunshine
then we're alone and I get nervous, nervous
I don't know what to say around you
and I wonder, wonder if deep down really hate me,
she always says it's untrue
I guess I'll think that no matter what I do
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Who's your Beatles, who's your Stones?
What do you wanna do when you get old?
Would you pick Elvis or Johnny Cash?
Who's your Raina?
Do you call their name out in the bath?
Like I do you, Like I do you.
What's your favourite colour?
Your favourite song?
Your favourite movie?
Tell me have you stayed here long?
Now we're smoking cigarettes in my front garden
and I wonder why you're so far from your home
to me you're just a little girl who sings too many sad songs
and I know that no one likes to be alone
but one day our worlds will be so small, shit like this won't matter at all
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23. |
Result!
02:05
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Don't be crazy of course I miss you.
and the sky looks a little more grey, and you've only been gone half the day.
Don't be crazy of course I miss you.
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24. |
King of the Long Goodbye
07:34
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Lovers Turn to Monsters Glasgow, UK
Lovers Turn to Monsters is a long pale man, slowly falling into middle age.
He wishes he
could be one of those guys who tours all the time, but he likes baths far too much. So instead he stays in his room and makes lengthy albums of emotive lo-fi nonsense.
... more
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