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Veteran's Day
04:55
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He's not ugly
He's just going through a rough time
Thinks that he's a joke
because he never earned his stripes
A teenage girl
Paints her thoughts upon the road
The change won't come
but it's where she hangs her hopes
Smoking cigarettes
On the balcony
Fill those lungs for me baby
breathe them into me
The managers
They are turning into fascists
Hate in their hearts
Amateur dramatics
Some things we can't control
We live in such a sad world
And long ago
we really had something
Or at least that's what
The veterans told him
A silhouette
high up in the window
She disappears
as the curtains draw to a close
Some things we can't control
We live in such a sad world
Some things we can't control
We live in such a sad world
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2. |
Rot
03:15
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Injected in my veins
The poison in my brain
The ideas, the man-fears
The angry little kid inside
Wedded and welded
and moulded and sheltered
I'm falling, I'm falling
to all the perversions
I needed to hear it
I needed to feel it
To see it with my eyes
Take me by surprise
I cannot afford it
I cannot afford it
But if you will let me
I will move toward it
The rot got me
The rot got me
The rot got me
The rot got me
It's so pathetic
The place we are headed
The things that they're saying
The price that we're paying
What are we drinking?
What are you thinking?
What you do tell me
Your heart is unblinking
You do not own me
If anything you owe me
If anything you'll show me
How I am not the old me
Wandering eyes, pay the price
What's my prize? Anaesthetize
Hands are numb, heads are dumb
Smells like cum, having fun
The rot got me
The rot got me
The rot got me
The rot got me
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3. |
Supply and Demand
04:38
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Take what you want from me
It's so easy to get
what you want
For the sake of my dignity
I'll do anything to get
in your grace
It's so easy to get
what you want
It's so easy to get
what you want
Find what was sent to me
Things are changing
Don't be afraid
Time gets away from me
Everything will fade
away
It's so easy to get
what you want
It's so easy to get
what you want
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4. |
Red Meat
03:58
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What I do in my own house
Don't wanna know anything about
Stay awake 'til the sun rises again
What happens when the lights go out?
Look for a reason to complain
Find yourself praying for rain
There's always something to feel bad about
But nothing ever seems to change
I'd like to stay
but I've got to go home
I'm sorry that
I left you alone
Burn it up in the summer heat
Charcoal smoke covers up red meat
There's always something to be mad about
She says it's time to take a seat
Things were different in your day
Back then you would get your way
There's always something to feel sad about
You tell me I should be ashamed
I'd like to stay
but I've got to go home
I'm sorry that
I left you alone
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5. |
Litterbugs
03:12
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She feels everything so much
All the weight upon her shoulders
Feeling everything she touched
It's the pain of getting older
As she sat down on the curb
All the days that passed her by
All the things she never learned
(She never learned, she never learned)
Scraps of paper in the sky
She never used to have to care
But she would try to anyway
Pick and choosing what to wear
(What is she gonna wear?)
It's gonna be a good old day
Do you remember when we were just litterbugs?
Before we knew better we were only little thugs
Talking about all sorts of things we didn't understand
When we were the kings and queens of a forgotten land
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6. |
I Got Rain
05:48
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Eat the same food every day
Read the same news every day
Another man has revealed his hand again
Show me something I can believe
All these mouldy tricks up my sleeve
I've got no say waiting on your way again
I don't care what you were before
I just want you walking through my door
I got rain coming on my way
And I really need a change
How long must we play this game?
When all the dice rolls are the same
Dismiss the Lord and you will end up bored again
Aiming arrows at the sky
When they hit you will surely die
In for the kill firing at will again
I don't care what you were before
I just want you walking through my door
I got rain coming on my way
And I really need a change
I don't know what it is that you think
All of these opposing hints
I got rain coming on my way
And I really need a change
I don't care what you were before
I just want you walking through my door
I got rain coming on my way
And I really need a change
I don't know what it is that you think
All of these opposing hints
I got rain coming on my way
And I really need a change
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7. |
Hear Me Out
02:05
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Feel the weight of your face
as you listen to songs
That remind you of
the past that's gone
Sit at the bar
hanging with the young crowd
You tried so hard
to figure you out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
You said "one day this
shall all be yours
From the mountains high
back down to the shore
For king and country
fill up my shoes
Put a gun to my head
Replace me with you"
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Glass in the hand
and a thousand yard stare
Duty calls
and you're not there
Down the hill
and into the lake
Acting the fool
from birth to your wake
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
Hear me out
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8. |
Great Men
03:13
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Don't listen to copper people
They don't know what things are like now
We tried our best in the river
But it feels like we still might drown
There are no great men
Only tall tales of the dead
We are so well read
We bought all the things that they said
Big people on concrete boxes
Grateful for the world they saved
Dead, packaged, buried and rotten
Hearts eaten and their sins erased
There are no great men
Only tall tales of the dead
We are so well read
We bought all the things that they said
There are no great men
Only tall tales of the dead
We are so well read
We bought all the things that they said
You are not great men
You are the ones that they'll forget
There are no great men
Only stains of the blood they shed
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9. |
Potato Eaters
03:16
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Women in a shadowy place
Barely leaving a trace
Candlelight above your head
Work and eat and go to bed
Potato eaters in the town
Paint your palette grey and brown
See things for what they are
Got one brush now get the tar
You had no right
You had no right
You had no right
to condemn my work
I gotta try
I gotta try
My day is bright
but I know that it hurts
Creative and compassionate man
A wealthy helping hand
Paying for all my tools
Denigrate the higher rule
All in the same boat
Persist with spit and hope
I'll show them who you are
Never like they've seen before
You had no right
You had no right
You had no right
to condemn my work
Is this alright?
Is this alright?
My day is bright
but I know that it hurts
I'm not a potato eater
I'm not a potato eater
I'm not a potato eater
I cannot speak for you
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10. |
Moth Eaten
03:41
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Everything's lying
next to me and I
feel alright for the first time
Fall asleep as I
overheat but I'll
take this over lonely nights
And these days I do some things
where before I didn't
And I hope that I'm not a drag
Moth eaten
Everything feels like
doom and gloom in the world
except for when I'm with you
All my days spending
far too much time online
except for when I chat to you
And these days I do some things
where before I didn't
And I hope that I'm not a drag
War ridden
And these days I do some things
where before I didn't
And I hope that I'm not a drag
Moth eaten
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11. |
Can I Say What I Want?
02:15
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Can I say
What I want
This time
Do I get a shot?
I know things
Feel so weird
But if you give me a minute
Would you lend me your ear?
There's no need to be scared
Everything can be repaired
Soon
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GOD RIBBON Brighton, UK
Indie solo artist from Brighton
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