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Aesthetic margins fall into loose barriers
I'm too easily led into temptation
Everyone feels comfortable commiting ancient crimes
EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER IN THE SUN
I'ts not funny anymore
I'm not choking and I never was
You don't seem to understand
What I'm saying, what I'm meaning
Who looks out too desperately?
Who really needs this to work?
Who's your God and does he smile when you're falling down?
Everyone feels safer in the back
It's another time, for me to tell the truth again
And suffer when I do, cos everyone knows what I'm gonna say
Even you, but you hide in your capital
I hope that caps it all, I hope you text or call
In vain
I'ts not funny anymore
I'm not choking and I never was
You don't seem to understand
What I'm saying, what I'm meaning is I know
Don't underestimate your value
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Black And White Thinking
04:21
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Lying, counting backwards,
Forgetting my place on this window pane
Looking through my curtains disdainfully
At the Manchester rain
With winter fever creeping in
And poisoning my mind against
All of you with your carefree attitude to life
Conversationally stumped to three or four words only
If all's not well then why is it so dull
But for all these unopened envelopes with my days inside them
I would live my life as if I was one of those people
Who have no limitations ever
You fall behind, fall behind instead of going faster
You could have been so much greater if you'd tried
I fell behind without knowing what I was doing
At all
So flying break-neck speed
With your counter-intuitive thoughts and
What did I know, fight the last bastion of things to do
Makes for beautiful sound in a larger environment
I wish I was happier with what I've got
Major incidents occur so frequently I can't step back
Another reminder of your shining eyes
Your beautiful lies and my
BLACK AND WHITE THINKING
You fall behind, fall behind instead of going faster
You could have been so much greater if you'd tried
I fell behind without knowing what I was doing
At all
I'll find a way to forgive you
Make it better, make it better
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From A Distance
03:35
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You used to be so busy that
You would never see me
And I would admire all the effort that you went to
But now you just sit eat chips, watch the TV
Maybe have a cocktail if you're in the mood
But you rarely are
You dream and dream and dream
You'll have it made
But you're not getting and younger
And people are ignoring you
You could make a loud noise
Make them listen if you dared
But you're comfortable right now, just doing nothing
You have your back against the wall
And slowly undo yourself
My voice rings through the night
As you use me to scream out for help
But I can't get involved with a time to be absolved
My confusion is unsafe, my fear keeps pace
And I watch FROM A DISTANCE
And always destined to carry on in the same way
I was sure I had found what I needed to say
Asked if you were awake who understood
I wish I did, I wish I could
I wish I had, I wish I would
But I didn't
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Jealousy Is A Parasite
04:22
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JEALOUSY IS A PARASITE, let it eat your soul, not mine
And it springs up in the night
Always a trigger, and a sign
You look up at me, and see nothing in my dead grey eyes
A spark of hatred here and there
And a sadness, paradise
Shit, I missed the train again, oh a feckless child I am
Who agrees, who can't see?
The exit from here; I climb up a tree
Hands stretch to pull me down
The cancer, choking on my own
And all the world, outstretched dystopia
And I sit at home
It's just not happening, is it?
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How To Win Your Favour
03:45
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Time
A virtue I do not have
To just sit and wait
While you make up your mind
If you even want the date
You're smoking like a chimney
I'm struggling to breathe
But you could put life in me
Should I choose not to leave
Ask HOW TO WIN YOUR FAVOUR
But you just stand and stare
You don't give me an answer
You don't show that you care
The curtains keep on rising
I pay too much to see
Before I follow blindly
I need you here with me
You
You're an acoustic nightmare
You want me to do it all
You're saying even less now
So I question more and more
What's the game you're playing?
And do you even know?
What can I do but tell you
I need your face to show
Ask HOW TO WIN YOUR FAVOUR
But you just stand and stare
You don't give me an answer
You don't show that you care
The curtains keep on rising
I pay too much to see
Before I follow blindly
I need you here with me
They're calling, they're calling, but won't stop their moaning
They're speaking grammatically poorly for fun
The answer I don't have is so nearly there
But it's not what I want, It's not what I want
And left handed scissors are screwdrivers mainly
Cos I can't afford it, I can't afford it
The bleeding the reasons, the afterlife treason
Poison me slowly and wait in the sun
And climbing forever and falling eventually
Give me some medicines if only one
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We were there when the company fell
Waving their banners in the streets
And the tram passed a building on fire
You hadn't been this quiet for weeks
A ghostly apparition
And we invented a drink called COCONUT COFFEE
And created a pattern of late nights and abuse
And I don't believe the stories they tell me
And you didn't care for a man in a noose
Who told you to sell me your
Bastard rhetoric and empty lies
I should have seen all this coming
And never trust anything but my instincts
And I've not seen a reason to give up all hope just yet
And I wouldn't agree even if I did
And all of these fuckers don't know what's best for them
Not just a sneering citation you knew I'd pick up on
Someone's got to hang
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Your eyes may be whole
But the story I'm told
Is YOUR HEART IS AS BLACK AS NIGHT
Your lips may be sweet
Such that i can't compete
But YOUR HEART IS AS BLACK AS NIGHT
I don't know why you came along
At such a perfect time
But if i let you hang around
I'm bound to lose my mind
Cos your hands may be strong
But the feeling's all wrong
YOUR HEART IS AS BLACK AS NIGHT
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Matt Hartless & the Maverick 7 Manchester, UK
Many moons ago, Matt Hartless rode into town from across the Sea on horseback with nothing but a guitar and a song in his
heart.
Selling an aquatic horse would have made life easier, but that's not the Maverick way and Matt soon found himself recruiting troubadours from across Manchester to give the gift of Gypsy-ska-flamenco-folk-punk-rock to the world.
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