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Whiskey & Water
03:50
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Please send me a sign
And set me up against the lane
Give me something I can trust
In all the drama and change
I followed a dream
And if a man is born to fall
Then let me live against my creed
In all the filth of it all
And I can drink
My whiskey and water and
Fix folly and peace
'Cause there's a price you pay
To live this way, it's called ill at ease
Please drop me a line
And send me love and sun to boot
'Cause I am idle, drunk and well
Busy with nothing to do
This battle is cold
I have to make the grade alone
'Cause I have traveled far to find
I need a room of my own
Where I can
Break habit with fortune 'cause
She's something to be
She's spending Saturdays in Partick
With the SSP
And I am charged guilty as sin
Because it hurts me to know
That she is working so hard
But for the joy of stock control
Oh let me sing out to myself
And polish off these bottle cries
And send them down to Saville Row
'Cause I'm not ready to die
But I am ready to live
Can I make it out with pride
Or play the left wing let down king
Put out with something to hide
And I can run to you for cover and
We'll bury the dread
And when the time has come for leaving
I will love you instead
Oh won't you sing something in minor key
This stillness is bleak
Could we dream away the
Guilt we have for the working week
And in the warm arms of a stranger I'm
Too happy to lie
I know we've both been here before
Just please don't ask me why
And I have walked here with you close to me
But never alone
Oh won't you cling to me in major key
You're the joy I've known
Oh the joy I've known
Oh the joy Iāve known
Oh the joy Iāve known
Oh the joy Iāve known
Oh the joy Iāve known
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la
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This time of night I could call you up
Iād get angry with athletic ease
Break questions down in twos and threes
And if I die clutching your photograph
Donāt call me boring, itās just ācause I like you
Oh take me on back, take me on back and take me back
To the place where I could feel your heart
Is this the end or just the start
Of something really, really beautiful
Wrapped up and disguised as
Something really, really ugly, wonāt you
Come by and see me, Iām a love letter away
Iād break your name before Iād say
I really love you, love you
I donāt care if you saw, I watched every inch of film
Flash across your Roman features
And I loved it, loved, no I donāt care if
You think Iām eager to shut your eyes
Well, Iām sorry everybody knows
You canāt break me with your gutter prose
Would you believe it, she sent me a letter
The ring it nearly weighs her down
Sheās got another boy, oh boy
Take me on back, take me on back oh read my lips
Poetry is not a luxury, itās how Iāll break this home
And when Iām really ill, oh wonāt cradle me
Man is not a noble animal but maybe woman is
Remember, I heard you
Inside your room you said youād never really live
āTill your backās against the wall
Oh did you really mean it?
Oh I never break my gaze just to see this scar
Reflected in your eyes, oh call the cops Iām burning
I break the law once every week to feel your touch
Oh whatās a book to you in bed, do you feel better, older?
This just makes me ill, your name is dripping from my pen
But still youāre not around to curse, oh God Iāll
Drop the gun now, Iām in love with you
Marianne let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne letās the ghosts sleep just
Cut your hair and burn the past
Marianne let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne let the ghosts sleep just
Cut your hair and burn the past
Marianne let the ghosts sleep tonight
Oh Marianne let the ghosts sleep
Iāll cut your hair and burn the past
Marianne let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne let the ghosts sleep just
Cut your hair and burn the past away
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Come inside you are hungry for sleep
You are the warmest part of the winter
When I was young I made a plan
That I would never break myself
Lift the shade and let some light in the room
We don't see the sun anymore
I've been told I gave my soul to
Live the days for someone else
Oh you will wake to find you have died
Oh you will wake to find it's gone out of you
Oh you will wake to find you are all covered in dark
With nothing ready to start or to see through
I had a name
I let it leave me
I had a plan to settle you in
I am a man
I am uneasy
Come out come out and let me go in
Done and done you caught the scent of a man
You can never get back to nature
When you are down some dirty dream will
Keep you up all through the dawn
Turn your head
Remember this is free love
You are free to bury the body
That ties you down and sets you free and
Touches you from right to wrong
Oh you will wake to find you have died
Oh you will wake to find it's gone out of you
Oh you will wake to find you are all covered in dark
With nothing ready to start or to see through
I had a name
I let it leave me
I had a plan to settle you in
I am a man
I am uneasy
Come out come out and let me go in
Tell me you love me but don't say it with words
I wanna feel your body around me
And twenty years of push and pull have
Left you searching' for a name
But maybe I have come here to die
To watch the life go out of my body
Take apart the ugly days and you will never see the same
I had a name
I let it leave me
I had a plan to settle you in
I am man
I am uneasy
Come out come out and let me come in
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4. |
Berlin Without Return
04:35
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Do you spend your whole life trying to get back home?
Where do you go?
Kino eyes unfold you in a kodachrome
The feelings show
Oh what do you know, baby
What do you know
What do you know about where I come from?
What do you know
Tell me, what do you know
About who I am?
When I see you naked, I see more than flesh
Do you see the same thing?
Entertainment value
No, I couldn't care less
The feeling's hide
And you were so young, baby
You were so young
Dragging your feet in the face of creation
I was so young,
Yeah, we were so young
And still there was you, the center of me
Oh and still there was you, the center of me
I don't know you, baby, you don't know me
We are just victims of the same situation
Baby's big war, tell what you die for
We were just born to lose this life
Could we please get married
Do this just for us?
The way we would do
It doesn't make much sense but maybe nothing does
It never will
And these gears years keep turning
These lives keep burning and
Love keeps changing around you
Stuck in one place, painting your face
The color of milk
The color of sky
The colors of you
The colors don't lie
And I don't know you, baby, you don't know me.
We are just victims of the same situation
Baby's big war, tell what you die for.
Urges grow cold but the feeling stays
And what do you know
Tell me, what do you know?
You don't know me
Don't you question my love
And what do you know
Tell me, what do you know?
You don't know me
Don't you question my love
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5. |
Your Biggest Fan (Demo)
03:45
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Life on the margins
Little looks we have to steal
I want to run like vagrants hand in hand across this field
But I know the way you are is like a falling to a star
It's not easy for everybody to fall in love
The city walls are reigning perilous and tall
Over dark Turin streets
No, it's not weakness when you fall
Oh it's just too much too fast
Crash that car into a wall
Don't let them tell you that there's a right way to fall in love
And she says
I want to live my life
Don't want to waste my time
I want a man who makes me feel like a woman, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
Now I find that you are slipping in my estimation, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
And now I know that you could never love someone like me
I used to run with my whiskers to the sun
I used to shed my weakness like a bullet sheds a gun
But as they closed in on me my foundations came undone
I said, āwhy oh why is there so much hate in this world?ā
Belt out a song, some vicious call-to-arms gone wrong
No pretending now we're going fifty thousand strong
This was your dream so shut your mouth and sing along
Oh the science of music is all stupid and cruel
And I know I want to live my life
Don't want to waste my time
Trying to strike the right lyrical density
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
Now I find that you are slipping in my estimation, I
I used to be your biggest fan
I used to be your biggest fan
And now I know that you could never love someone like me
And I know I want to live my life
Don't wanna waste my time
I want to be the toast of the shantytown
You stick around a while
You you cut your teeth
You can't go home
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be your biggest fan
And then I saw you in a doorway
For a moment you looked tender and I knew
That I could never ever ever ever ever ever touch you
āCause you might touch back
Oh yes, you might, you might touch back
Well I made a mistake, well maybe two
One for me and one for you
And then I knew
That I would measure everybody against you
Yes I would measure everybody against you
Well I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
I used to be
Your biggest fan
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6. |
Fifteen Minutes
04:00
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Everybody wants to see you broken down by law
And everybody wants to see you crippled and diseased
Everybody wants to see you broken up by light and day
And everybody wants to see you jobless on your knees
Maybe I donāt wanna be that brutal branch of man
And maybe I donāt wanna rip this flesh right from the bone
And maybe I will feel this burn for years after, years after
I pledge my patience in the memory of a stone, of a stone
Do you wanna walk by me, bodies moving at your feet
Seconds go so fast, could you make fifteen minutes last forever?
I remember seeing you dead quiet in your house
Choked up on dreams of burning money in the dark
This doesnāt have to be so cold and angry, cold and angry
Self-cut rebellion, itās so cold for all our lives, for our lives
Do you wanna walk by me, bodies moving at your feet
Seconds go so fast, could you make fifteen minutes last forever?
I donāt know what youāve been told, lovers die but some grow old
With you by my side, could I be someone better, so much stronger?
Oh was I brave enough to be scared at all
Into this pale deliverance we are thrown
Try and try oh but you canāt get lost
And I canāt do, canāt do this on my own
Do you wanna walk by me, bodies moving at your feet
Seconds go so fast, could you make fifteen minutes last forever?
I donāt know what youāve been told, lovers die but some grow old
With you by my side, could I be someone better, so much stronger?
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Don't worry boy, it's just your queer life
Totally different from your real life
Don't worry boy, it's just your queer life
No connection to your real life
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of life
I can't wait I can't wait for you
To turn around and get it
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of life
Weāre still waiting, just waiting, just waiting
For life to begin
And how's your queer life?
Yeah, how's your queer life, is it killing you?
How's your queer life?
Yeah, how's your queer life, is it killing you?
Don't worry girl, it's just your queer love
Totally different from your real love
Sometimes I wake up in a total fit
Oh, us boys we never work and
Girls addicted to their struggle
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of it
You can't be, you can't be
You can't be afraid of what you can't see
And how's your queer life?
Yeah, how's your queer life, is it killing you?
Oh, how's your queer life?
Yeah, how's your queer life, is it killing you?
And the day that I come to you and say
"I'm no longer happy, will you set me free?ā
And the day that I come to you and say
"I no longer feel it, release me"
These sons of Rother, these sons of mischief
These sons of mine in an open field
These sons of Rother, slouching towards Bedlam
Strangle each other in an open field
Real life yeah, real life yeah
Oh real life as we once knew
It is just around the corner from here
In a stretch crushed velvet for me and you
Oh real life yeah, oh real life yeah
Oh real life as we once knew
It is just around the corner from here
In a big denim pocket for me and you
Oh real life yeah, oh real life yeah
Oh real life as we once knew
It is just around the corner from here
In a poly-cotton headpiece for me and you
Oh real life yeah, oh real life yeah
Oh real life as we once knew
It is just around the corner from here
In a dress net stocking for me and you
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8. |
Loan Shark
04:06
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Number six Masonās yard
I stood outside and watched a million years go by
Dream love come into me easy
Washed out and breezy, the rivers that turn
Beneath the sky lines swallowed up by towers
Too many hours spent eating the world
Oh what a country brought me to a clearing
Direct upon hearing the beautiful song
Of progress sweeping like a shimmer
Develop and simmer, the fever is gone
Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out
At the time it was better I believe you
But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt
You had a blast, oh didn't you?
Hard rain boils underneath me
I want you to teach me whatever you learned
Of all the secrets, harboring desire
Professional fire which passively burned
Oh what a waste of beauty and retention
We don't ever mention the grit and the grime
But I still trust you, I will always love you
Don't let the papers unravel your mind
Cause there's a hole in the pocket where the money ran out
At the time it was better I believe you
But it was grace under fire, there's no reason to doubt
You had a blast, didn't you?
And tell me what was it like and how did it feel
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel
Robert took the rap and spent 10 months in jail
We had to lie, to lie
Sometimes I feel like all my heroes are dying around me
And all my answers are the questions and dreams
I have to shake myself to the forces that hold me
I have to dream waking
But maybe when I breathe my last I'll be steadied by reason
To throw my nerves at the wall of the earth
Oh don't you leave me here, no direction and vision
We have to tread slowly
And I will throw caution bravely to the wind
I'll cut myself free from burning stretched within
I have no self greater than nothing I am
And we drift, we drift like sound
And beauty breaks our ears again
We drift, we drift like sound waves
We drift like sound waves
Take a long walk cobble stone and city
Did you used to run here, did you used to shout
I had a long day trying to remember
Breathing in silence and breathing it out
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9. |
Kindergarten
03:43
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Baby donāt you go
And keep your troubles on the inside
Suck it up and flow to a man like me
Into a lover for the first time
And Iām taking my time, baby, understand
That I believe in you, I believe in you
And you worry me sick with the pills you take
And all the things you do, the things you do
Trouble donāt you crush me to death like this
I want my body when I was young
āCause I can be afraid of a thing like this
Itās just a darker kind of deep fun
And no we never got scared in the all night rave
I was a leading man with my head on fire
But risking my love I was never brave, and so we
And so we cry, we try, get sick and deny, I know why
Then we break it right down in the middle of the beat
Fucked up and loaded, I used to be afraid of it
Break it right down, wonāt you cover up and leave
Youāre calling out a message you never seem to
Get across, get across, get across, get across
Come on wonāt you trust me
You know itās gotta happen sometime
āCause I can be afraid of a thing like this
It makes me happy for the first time
And do the hours go by with the silent curse
Of all the love you lost, you threw away
āCause I can be hip to a thing like this
Or I can try, and cry, get sick and deny, I know why
Then we break it right down in the middle of the beat
Fucked up and loaded, I used to be afraid of it
Break it right down, wonāt you cover up and leave
Youāre calling out a message you never seem to
Get across, get across, get across, get across
Iām just a sucker for you baby, I cry, cheat steal and lie
I never know why, no I think I know why, ācause
You know, yeah you know
That the color, cut, shape of the life you build
It only lives in you and thatās the hardest part
And losing yourself under silent skin will never get you far
I know itās such a fucker for you
Everything conspires to keep you hungry and afraid
But I wonāt let them, I wonāt let them
Turn you into something weak
Iām just a sucker for you baby
Iām just a sucker for you baby
Iām just a sucker for you baby
Iām just a sucker for you baby
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10. |
Dirty Version
05:21
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Drive a sleepy mile āround this town
stretch yourself across the bed
We can get the boys to come round
We'll watch the day decay
I remember we were reckless
Half asleep across the floor
I was young and we got restless
Oh pretty girls make graves
Do you have the nerve to ask me
What's the center of your world
I am drunk with love, set me free
Promise you won't forget
Make believe that time is resting
Sorrow on a fading chair
Please be waiting where I left you
This summer's set to set
And I bet he had a habit
Of pulling down the wool
And I bet he made a fine job
Of bending all the rules
I go east to west in this place
My feet upon your steps
Screaming louder than a gunshot
I haven't finished with you yet
This one wants a revolution
I can see you've had your fill
Yours is just a dirty version
I'm gonna walk away
Can't you see that your big promise
Fell apart in '73
Give yourself to something honest
What makes a man today?
Baby let me follow you down
Market to a lonely place
Part of us belongs to this town
Maybe I'm made to run
Baby I'm on my last chances
Iām alive from time to time
Iām sharp enough to feel so worthless
The season has come undone
And I bet he had a habit
Of pulling down the wool
And I bet he made a fine job
Of bending all the rules
I go east to west in this place
My feet upon your steps
Screaming louder than a gunshot
I haven't finished with you yet
And I bet he had a habit
Of pulling down the wool
And I bet he made a fine job
Of bending all the rules
I go east to west in this place
My feet upon your steps
Screaming louder than a gunshot
I haven't finished with you yet
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Voxtrot Austin, Texas
Born in Austin, raised by wolves, now dispersed across the USA š¹
Voxtrot recommends:
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The full-length from Mitch's International Waters project. It's called 1994, but was released in 2011.
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