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Tramp in St Tropez
03:52
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He’s got a suntan made of grime
And a beard so cool it makes your clean shaved face a crime
His hair’s electric and a smile that’ll make your day
He’s a tramp in St Tropez
His smile won’t be quantified
He’s got the look with a magic eye
He ain’t looking to occupy
So why are you so scared?
Hold on, he's showing his hand
As the billionaire recoils got no time for this man
Sometimes beauty is having no plan
He is watching you and getting near
As you stand in your bathrobe
from your Triple deck yacht you peer
Looking down on him with dismay
At this tramp in St Tropez
His smile won’t be quantified
He’s got the look with a magic eye
He ain’t looking to occupy
So why are you so scared?
Hold on, he's showing his hand
The billionaire recoils got no time for this man
Sometimes beauty is having no plan
He's a tramp from St Tropez
Sometimes beauty is having no plan
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About the Soul
05:15
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I heard your Jesus weeping
He said your claims weren't true
He gave it up for free
You sold it all to me without a soul
Your Jesus won't be keeping those secrets you claim to hold
Your God emits a sigh
He ain't a lord on high since you lost your soul
About the soul
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Power Lines
03:26
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Fizzing and crackling as you stretch to the tropopause
Subtly kettled bleeding electrons cos
These power lines feed function sublime we all need
Fixing and nurturing youngsters with neon beams
Pinning their future on the nuclear fusion teams
All of the light from our portable phones wrecking souls
Cover the landfill
Burn what you can’t kill
Cage all the chimps that have tried to escape what you sell
We sold all the silver to the market dismay
Disposable incoming future today
For the people who sold out to the
People who hold out for less
The power line’s tripping as the monsters crowd round
Feasting on bones before they’re in the ground
These power lines drawn that will keep us forlorn
And alone
Cover the landfill
Burn what you can’t kill
Cage all the chimps that have tried to escape what you sell
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Put it all back
03:49
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I remember the buzz of a summer in June and the smell of cut grass by the ponds
The bees on the holy magnolia trees sang for childhoods that never felt wrong
We picked at young knees these abrasions of living a life so oblivious to fear
Forgive me. Can we put it all back. Can we put it all back
We majored in innocence and played to our strengths to a nature that couldn’t reply
Looking behind us I shudder to think that reaction these days is a sigh
We broke our connections to the temptress called Gaia who laid out her treasure for us
Forgive me. Can we put it all back?
Please forgive me.
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5. |
Good Day for Falling
03:37
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Today seems like a good day, a good day for falling down
We can nestle amongst the litter and teach me not to frown so much
Search for what is reason, reason in the skies
I search your face for something with every season in our eyes
I could read your palm and you could learn to howl
To a moon that forgot your spirit forget it, WE get it all
We could leaf through books on Dali on those days when it rains
Or paint our life with numbers
It pains me to say the numbers win
Nauseating choices and numbness that is beige
Waking up in boxes and boxed into a cage
Horizons that are endless and seas that are always calm
I think I died of boredom when I neutered all your charm
So hide with me in litter and cover me with leaves
This view from our precious gutter is all that relieves us
I hear the weather's turning nasty and the salad's turning brown
Let's crack on with this falling let's really go town on this
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6. |
For Free
03:35
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Baby tell me secrets
That I’ll hold on in the night
Wear that special negligé
That fills me up so fine
Wear your favourite perfume
And drink that extra wine
I’ll hang on every word you say
My attention for tonight
See I know it’s far from perfect
When the love evaporates
And the world it keeps on spinning
As it presses on your soul
But look into my weary eyes
And shrug in time with me
But here’s a thing here’s a thing
They will never steal our kindness
See I know it’s far from perfect
When the love evaporates
And the world it keeps on spinning
As it presses on your soul
But look into my weary eyes
And shrug in time we'll see
Drink more wine with me
But here’s a thing here’s a thing
They will never steal our kindness
Kindness ain't a weakness
Kindness is the key
Kindness there to find us
Kindness is for free
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The Knowing
03:20
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I grabbed my phone and stepped outside
Go grab a coffee in a café where I can hide
There’s the man with the wildest eyes
And he can hear the Knowing
He always hears the Knowing
I stepped aside for the tortured man
All this knowing but without our master plan
I could ask him about his day
But he will tell me of the Knowing
He always talks of the knowing
The knowing feels bitter
The knowing is here
It feasts on the marrow
Of bones you hold dear
It’s a stranger to pleading
And it knows all your shame
It knows of your black dog
And it calls out his name
The knowing will find you
When the world is upturned
It grows deep inside you
When the ground’s feeling firm
And the man that you step round
Has conquered his whim
He welcomes the knowing
With a virtuous grin
I think he is trying
To teach me to know her
But the world is so fast
And I don’t want it slower
Is this man a savant
Is he not round the bend?
Is he trying to say
Make the knowing my friend?
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8. |
Giorgio
05:28
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Giorgio in the flow - pulsing light - feels so right - Bass was his -Octovation - Innovation
I might be feeling older
I'm a disco weary soldier
I can sing about the bass line
Of Giorgio Moroder
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9. |
Goodbye my Friend
04:32
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The last time we drank wine it didn't seem so bad to me
No idea you'd drawn the line
Digging your tiny tunnels in the sand
You have always drifted
Always shape shifted
Whilst you held your aces close
But ace is low
It's not the way to go
Giving me that body blow that day
The puzzle you always set
Your principle's a mare you can't untangle
You were somewhere gathering sighs
And you sensed the shadows weren't for you
So throw it all away my friend
Make the shiniest friends of yours disposed of
I know you prefer it slow but I'll miss you even though
Our world has changed
You're not the only one who feels it but I think you forgot this
Burning all your bridges because you have been gathering sighs
You gave in
I gotta begin to throw your memory away
Goodbye my Friend
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When our lungs are empty
05:38
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Last year we found our demons
That each of us possessed
We kept them in the darkness
Along with all the rest
And many kept on feeling
Are these journeys made in vain?
Keep on driving on without us
And don’t dare to use our name
So we’ll sing your muddled chorus
In a key we cannot play
And when our lungs are emptied
We will slowly fade away
(Do you hear the) sirens
That amplify our shame?
Yet you drive this car without us
And you dare to use our name
So sing your sweet chorus
In a key we can’t see
And when our lungs are empty
You can fade out with me
We’ve got scraps inside our psyches
That trace a path to shame
And a head full of weary strangers
That don’t even know our name
Fade away
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Joe Adhemar London, UK
Joe is both a songwriter and Producer / Remixer.
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