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Mooving on
04:03
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Mooving On
Guess I’ll be mooving on
Guess I’ll be mooving on
Nothing is sacred here
Not worth a single tear
It’s not my problem but you make me feel it is
So I’ll be mooving on
So I’ll be mooving on
I’ll make no bones or vows
They would be broke by now
Then I’ll stop flashin’ my passion and take a final bow
And moove it on
My conscience is clear I’ll have no talk of falling
Unfazed behind a new concept
I feel no fear – no tentative first steps
I’ll crush you all underfoot just like insects
And if you hold me hand I’ll let you come too
And if you hold my hand I’ll let you come too
The general feeling is unappealing to me
The general feeling us unappealing to me
Guess I’ll be mooving on
Yes I’ll be mooving on
Feel undervalued here
It’s now my turn to steer
I think you’ve had the wheel for long enough my dear
So I’ll be mooving on
So I’ll be mooving on
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Lost Hearts
03:24
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Lost Hearts
Choose to lose those blues
I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse
So you can stop poking at your brand new bruise,
Oh I am not your foe
I could be your new best friend though
And I may even miss you when you go
Soul is nothing you can control
Better pick up the pace so you don’t get cold
I’ll give you back the time that I stole,
Peace – you still have some at least
And I hope that it doesn’t cease
I know you can’t control the beast
Programmed for easy disposal
My various coy proposals
Destiny rightly shits on the morals
And my hearts still beating
I keep on searching everywhere
And you don’t even seem to care
I’d clear my head of everything that’s there
Ask for a heart if one is going spare
Here I can’t find no cheer
My spirit fled my body in fear
I don’t expect him to reappear,
Oh I am not your foe
I could be your new best friend though
And I may even miss you when you go
Programmed for easy disposal
My various coy proposals
Destiny rightly shits on the morals
And my hearts still beating
I keep on searching everywhere
And you don’t even seem to care
I’d clear my head of everything that’s there
Ask for a heart if one is going spare
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Someday (I’ll Need Someone)
If I were a gentleman
I’d close my roving eye
To keep the emptiness inside,
If I were an optimist
I’d wish you well
Even though you can never tell
Where do your eyes go when there’s nothing left to see?
And you don’t want to look at me
We felt heartbreak but we turned our backs on sorrow
Although we knew we’d feel it again
Someday I will need someone and it just has to be you
If I was inadequate
Well how would I know
Would you tell me if this was so?
If I were a joy
I’d pleasure your zone
I’ll even tickle your funny bone
We felt heartbreak but we turned our backs on sorrow
Although we knew we’d feel it again
Someday I will need someone and it just has to be you
If I was a reason
A risk to take
A tough decision for you to make
Where does your mind go is it drifting out to sea?
Like some fading memory
We felt heartbreak but we turned our backs on sorrow
Although we knew we’d feel it again
Someday I will need someone and it just has to be you
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Inner Demon
03:13
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Inner Demon
Drench your smile in a paranoid cup of tea
Deliberately paced to keep your company
Proud of what you did and justifiably
Soon it won’t matter – it happens eventually
Purge your thoughts of any kind of escape
Brace your ears for that final barrel scrape
I’ll provide you with a good excuse for your mistakes
Grab your inner demon shake him till he wakes
Meanings and reasons all that I bring
Demons crave none of these things
Sour feelings, hatred and sin
Proof you can’t win
I’m so glad you don’t really speak to me
I’m much better off without your company
But I’ve kept your number dialistically
In case you begin to act unselfishly
Meanings and reasons all that I bring
Demons crave none of these things
Sour feelings, hatred and sin
Proof you can’t win
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5. |
Angry at Shadows
02:14
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Angry at Shadows
Happily stealing leftover feelings
Scrape them away like potato peelings
Words are for writing and sometimes igniting
The fire inside when it’s time for fighting
The syllables mounting practically shouting
No virtue is made of the facts they are doubting
Geniuses fading once were so laden
With fantastic ideas they’re no longer parading
Shame this trust is wreathed in misery
Drunk on warped and bitter memories
Angry at shadows pissed at mist
Resentful cos I didn’t make the list
Cheerfully working although you’re uncertain
You’re pushing too hard and your insides are hurting
Promises broken sheepishly hoping
It’s not my eyes it’s my ribs you’ll be poking
Is it worth asking what straws you’ll be grasping?
And why you weren’t there when they done the unmasking
The cycle is ending the gender is bending
I won’t think twice about whose rights I’m defending
Strain to see what’s really happening
Is it me or you who’s laughing?
Angry at shadows pissed at mist
No matter how hard I try to resist
Movement is lyrical moonlight is cynical
The risk of opinion is swapped for a miracle
My temper forgot it happens a lot
He has such a shit memory of what he’s been taught
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6. |
Mental Sentimist
01:21
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7. |
Drunk Enough to Tell
02:57
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Drunk Enough to Tell
What would you rather –
Ignorance or backhanded compliments
or something else equally dire?
What do you expect –
Apathy or old-fashioned bloody mindedness
or the Spanish Inquisition?
Said that I needed you
I understand that once you may have needed me too
But that’s a hard sell
Even if you’re drunk enough to tell
It’s never a good time
When there’s been no preparation of any kind
But now and then it’s good for the mind,
Sometimes it’s upsetting
I’ll admit that routines are not for everyone
They’re something I can’t do without
Every day passing through
The memory of me and you
Remember your mask fell!
Maybe you were drunk enough to tell
Friendships falling apart at the seams
Like some barely remembered bad dream
If I could live it again I would
If I could live it again I would
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8. |
Why I'll Never Learn
02:21
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Why I’ll Never Learn
Piece together an inelegant show
From fragments high and fragments low
Your concentration must have been slow
We all have moments like that though
Piece together a particular scene
It doesn’t matter if you know what I mean
On the older one I never was keen
I decided it was all a bad dream
This is why I’ll never learn
This is why I won’t remember you
This is why I’ll never learn
This is why I’ll never learn
Pick your brain apart cell by cell
And show me where the remnants fell
Close your eyes and cast a spell
Pretend that you don’t know me well
Reasons I do try to find
But none are settled in my mind
At last I understand the signs
You’re definitely not my kind
This is why I’ll never learn
This is why I won’t remember you
This is why I’ll never learn
This is why I’ll never learn
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9. |
Your Face is a Screen
03:16
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Your Face is a Screen
Take a long hard look at yourself
Though I doubt if you are able
After all it is the modern way,
Take a moment out of your time
To notice where the time goes
In the palm of your hand is where it slips away
Disconnect
It’s more fun that you’re likely to expect
Clear your head
Take a long hard look at yourself
Though I doubt if you can hear me
I can see that you are in the zone,
Take a moment out of your day
To notice the world around you
In the blink of an eye it’s bound to pass you by
Your face is a screen
I’m not trying to be mean
But I feel that someone ought to point it out,
Your screen is cracked
Like some Faustian pact
Harder to interact
Take a long hard look at yourself
Though I doubt if you are able
After all it is the modern way,
Take a moment out of your time
To notice where the time goes
In the palm of your hand is where it slips away
Have you nothing to say?
Online people say it anyway
Clear your mind
Your face is a screen
Like some Orwellian dream
Try as we might but there are no signs of changing,
Your screen is barely intact
An inescapable fact
You want your life back
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10. |
Yellowbelly
01:38
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Yellowbelly
I’m never gonna follow you you
There’s many things I’d rather do
I’m never gonna follow you you
So get over it – so get over
You told me you dropped it
I picked it up
A thousand lies runneth out of
Your paper cup – ooh ooh
What did I ever do to you you?
Nothing at all you know it’s true
What did I ever do to you you?
It’s impossible – it’s impossible!
You told me story
That didn’t end
You asked if I believed you
I said ‘It depends!’ – ooh ooh
Could be mistaken but your belly’s not green
Or red or orange or purple
Yellow’s okay it’s the colour of the sun
But the sun goes down on everyone eventually
I’m never gonna follow you you
There’s many things I’d rather do
I’m never gonna follow you you
So get over it – so get over
You told me you dropped it
I picked it up
A thousand lies runneth out of
Your paper cup – ooh ooh
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11. |
Temporary Smile
01:59
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Temporary Smile
It’s hard when you realise
That nothing really matters
It’s tough when you can’t seem
To get yourself heard
It’s difficult to quantify
Everything that happened today
So I’ll flash you a temporary smile
It’s hard when you realise
There’s no one else behind you
It’s tough when you can’t seem
To get noticed
It’s difficult to anticipate
The next best course of action
So please make do with a temporary smile
Too late! There you go again
Thinking there is nothing left
You may be right
But perhaps look a little harder
I’m no expert but I’ve been around
The block more than a few times
And I did so with a temporary smile
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12. |
Mental Instru
01:52
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I Left my Thoughts to Science
I left my thoughts to science
I hid my doubts in silence
Amongst a thousand regrets
An army of my secrets
I know it doesn’t matter what pen you write with
The words will find a way
I left my thoughts to science
An obtuse act of defiance
Another poem on the fire
Another misplaced desire
And I know they may never fully understand me
It’s their loss and maybe my gain
I pushed all hope aside
No wonder I’m dead inside
With nowhere else to hide
I step out into the light
My thoughts were returned intact
I totally didn’t expect that
Suppose I’ll have to learn to live with them
I don’t seem able to escape from them
I know I will fade into the background somehow
Like an awkward memory
I pushed all hope aside
No wonder I’m dead inside
With nowhere else to hide
I step out into the light
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14. |
The Quest for Peace
05:32
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The Quest for Peace
It sleeps inside your deceitful hips
It uses your ruby lips
For feeding another fire
It stalks because it never learned to walk
Or indulge in happy talk
Breeding the perfect liar
My quest has mostly been in vain
It only amplified my pain
So I soldier on
My needs are really simple dear
In spite of what you hear
You’ll notice when I’m gone
If you had feelings
Your lack of empathy’s stealing
My positive energy’s draining
It makes you so unappealing
If I could shut you up
I crave the calmness of the grave
But I am not so brave
My fire still wants to burn
I sigh cos I’ve no tears to cry
My emotional well is dry
That last bit was a lie
If you had feelings
Your lack of empathy’s stealing
My positive energy’s draining
It makes you so unappealing
If you had feelings
Your lack of empathy’s stealing
My positive energy’s draining
It makes you so unappealing
If I could shut you up
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15. |
Mental Detri
00:34
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Chairman Cow Glasgow, UK
Good old fashioned homemade Rock music made primarily because I have to or my brain will explode. I have gone by many names over the years and most of them can be found here in one handy location.
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