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Twilight Season
05:35
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Meet me at the corner of the twilight season
Born of heat and hardship in the passing time
You can see the sense and I can give the reason
Sharing in the feeding process
Common to the animals that graze
Like you and I
Leaning to the substance of the light
This evening you shall catch me up in your small fever
Bear me over deserts of a pleasant kind
Like spastics shitting in the spring of pale blue water
We’ll touch the hands of messengers
And more such to be found that can amaze
Like you and I
Leaning to the substance of the light
Your bones are your heart and your bones are tender
Mine are just the words that form a failing rhyme
Turn your back to me and show me your true nature
Stealing past the breeding process
Common to the ones that we displace
You and I
Leaning to the substance of the light
You and I
Leaning to the substance of the light
You and I
Leaning to the substance of the light
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Wrong (early version)
05:24
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Well, I knew that there would come a point
Where I’d see myself as something more
And what did I expect to find
But bitterness within?
And for you it was just distraction
You taught yourself another rule
To govern vicious impulse
And to lead yourself away
And I know I’m no kind of leader
I’m more the kind that just falls short
Through laziness or sheer remorse
Through a burning lack of desire
I invert this into everything
Brought to bear and only able
To acknowledge what I fail to see
I fail to see at all
So I am wrong
So you reside now in intervention
I try to reach through the layers of
My own self reverence, to come to some
New point of revelation
That doesn’t just pass, forgotten
With the host of tawdry, daily miracles
That afflict me still
Afflict me still the same
And for you it was just distraction
An unreminder rinsing off
The silly whims of every other day
That passed unreformed
A gloss for my intuition
Because you know that there is really
Nothing they can tell you
There is nothing there at all
So I am wrong
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In a different room
Having lifted myself from the mess that I’ve made
What do I do?
I lay myself down and begin to fade
I divide myself into separate parts
But what is the point when I’ve lost the will to even try to start?
Misery swells into me
Perhaps I can eventually
Sail away on waves of it
Or fail again in spite of it
In a different room
You pinch at mirrors or test your neck
Then what do you do?
You lay yourself down in your cold, damp bed
And reinforce what once was your heart
Until you reach the point where you accept that there are waters you won’t chart
Misery swells into me
Perhaps I can eventually
Sail away on waves of it
Or fail again in spite of it
Please sail with me
One single thud
Won’t disturb me up into life
But I believe that I would
Remove the cause of this general strife
If I didn’t squirm at the words that I speak
If I truly revealed what lies beneath my failures
Misery swells into me
Perhaps I can eventually
Sail away on waves of it
Or fail again in spite of it
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Odour (early version)
03:35
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You were always so unkind
Deliberately blind
Locked into your pain
Into spiteful rage
With no conscience there to find
You’re shut inside your room
Remote presence, remote fools
I have done what they do
I cannot look at you
But you won’t last forever
You won’t last
I’m climbing down the stairs
I feel sunshine in my hair
I was never strong
But my day is long
And I’ve something to declare
You won’t last forever
You won’t last
I’ll burn your house down
With all of your neighbours and their odours inside
I’ll cut your mast down
With your energy within
You won’t last forever
You won’t last
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Naevus London, UK
Lloyd James: voice, guitar. Ben McLees: bass. Hunter Barr: drums. Sam Astley: guitar.
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