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Noir
04:07
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In my switchblade haste
My stumbling boots laid waste
In only days
To what has taken me
In my ferocious need
So many years to make
Now there's no soul so weak
As mine left in these graveyard bleak
And haunted streets
Beneath this starlit shade
Here soon the dead will wake
And that's the company I will keep
Chorus
So I'll just slip into the silence
Of the city on the shore
Knowing I'm only ever inches
From the wolves that prowl at every door
Else I'll be swallowed by the sea,
A shipwreck on the ocean floor,
Cos no house that's built upon the sand
Can stand the burden of a storm
Out here these open roads
Have never seemed so closed
No green lights ever show
It's just my flailing limbs
Trying in vain to swim
Against the undertow
But there's still life, I'm told
Left when the night has stole
The sun that shields us from the cold
Indeed, the moon and I,
We're thick as thieves and side by side
Like two halves of a whole
Chorus
So I'll just simmer in the silence
Of the city on the shore
Knowing I'm only ever seconds
From the wolves that prowl at every door
Else I'll be swallowed by the sea,
A shipwreck on the ocean floor,
Cos no house that's built upon the sand
Can stand the burden of a storm
So I'll just suffer in the silence
Of the city on the shore
Knowing I'm strung up at the mercy
Of the wolves that prowl at every door
Else I'll be swallowed by the sea,
A shipwreck on the ocean floor,
Cos no house that's built upon the sand
Can stand the burden of it all
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Nightingale
03:52
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Nightingale sitting in the trees
On folded wings he sets his sights on me
A stone to bleed
But show me patience, show me sympathy
Maybe I will lay my guard down
Maybe see my walls recede
But I choke so easy on the words that leave
A familiar poison on my tongue
That I must taste if just to breathe
'Cos mine's a hunger I don't dare to feed
And you're a sickness once inside
There ain't no cure to meet my need
Now I've come to fear the lonely hours of sleep
The weather's closing in with lustful,
Murderous designs on me
See, I'm dry lightning to a bed of leaves
A spark of fire to wake the dark
That my arm's length don't seem to reach
Bridge
She seems to me a half-remembered dream
A slip of smoke, a whisper spoke in quiet reverie
See, there just ain't no easy way
To stop the rain fall where it may
Nightingale, you sing your sorrow sweet
Me, I'm just howling at the moon
See, my young scars run marrow deep
You've been a witness to the worst of me
And you know I'm running out of road
To keep the ground beneath my feet
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3. |
Travel Light
03:04
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If I keep staring out to sea
Maybe the waves will part for me
And what once seemed so out of reach
My fingertips would meet with ease
Chorus
'Cos I've been down on bended knee
The bruise of whiskey on my teeth
And I got dirt beneath my nails I cannot clean
My tongue tied neat, my heart too weak to beat
If I thought wishes would come true
Maybe I'd step out of my shoes
And live a day as someone new
Somewhere my shadow isn't you
Chorus
But that won't close my open wounds
It'd just paper the cracks to hide the view
And such a fault line's prone to sever me in two
And bare the brittle bones that you outgrew
Bridge
If I could lose sight of the sun
Maybe the days would never come
To drain my colour till there's none
And tame my spirit till I'm numb
Chorus
So I'll just steel my will, before I come undone,
To bind my fibres so they're finely spun
Then I can travel light and open up my lungs
And bear the weight of sins
My soul must live among
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4. |
Valentine
04:04
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Come closer my sweet valentine
You see these shivers down my spine
That's where you've angered up my blood
And now my nerves are running wild
And I ain't ever seen the night
Shine the dark out of the sky
And I ain't ever heard the quiet
Sing so loud in all my life
So I will follow every star
That lingers near and far apart
A stream, a guide, a trail of light
Back to you my sweet valentine
Come closer my sweet valentine
And ease the fever in my mind
That I've been feeling since this season
Left your fingerprints behind
And I ain't ever seen the night
Steal my breath without a fight
And I ain't ever known a prize
So worth the wait in all my life
So I will shepherd every star
Down out of heaven's fragile arms
To lead each road that I may drive
Back to you my sweet valentine
Come closer my sweet valentine
And lean your body into mine
Come and take my trembling hands
And hold them steady for a while
'Cos I ain't ever seen the night
Lift the blindness from my sight
And I ain't ever lost myself
In eyes like yours in all my life
So I'll make a fire with these stars
To cauterize our wounded hearts
And burn a line through space and time
Back to you my sweet valentine
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