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Bruising, Losing

by Paul Piper

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1.
Take You Back 04:40
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If only you could just relax I'd take, I'd take you back If only you could just relax If you would let me be myself I'd be free or whatever the hell To be myself We are weak, but we fight We are meek, but we write If only you could just pretend To me and you that depression is dead If only you could just pretend If only we could make it stay We'd pack our love in forever and a day If only we could make it stay We are weak, but we fight We are meek, but we write I miss you so... I miss you so much I miss you so... I miss you so much You took your case and then walked out No don't you ever cast that doubt Don't seem like something that you do What is this reason I give you And if I ever hear you sing I will be the diamond in your ring I adore the future that we share I adore you I.... If only you could just relax I'd take you back If only you could just relax I'd take you back
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Not Loud Enough 03:34
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Anything I can do To make you feel more colourful Anything Anything you can choose But I am selfish From living alone Being alone The house in my heart for you to live is not the same Bleeding out, red, cut But maybe I'm just not hurt enough Lighting the fire leaving my lungs But maybe I'm just not loud enough Maybe I'm not loud enough Anything we can dream To make our lives more evergreen Anything Anything we believe in But I'm an idiot I'm difficult I'm complicated Singer-songwriter ego Bleeding out, red, cut But maybe I'm just not hurt enough Lighting the fire leaving my lungs But maybe I'm just not loud enough Maybe I'm not loud enough for you Bleeding out like red from a cut But maybe I'm just not hurt enough Lighting the fire leaving my lungs But maybe I'm just not loud enough Maybe I'm not loud enough You say you saw something Behind my eyes But maybe I'm already dead inside Maybe I'm already dead inside you
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Barbara Boone 05:41
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On the evening of the night before the dead came to greet you There was a very odd atmosphere in the living room Like there were many people gathering in there (but there wasn't) In a phase, In the shade, under cover of the moon Oooh Bar Bar Barbara Boone In the hearth of the cauldron after all life had left you Your bones were the brittle frame keeping you intact Where the season of the soul departs, I came to see you In the gloom of the morning after you are taken back Oooh Bar Bar Barbara Boone Oooh Bar Bar Barbara Boone (NASA sample) Bruising, fading Exploding feelings Where are you? Bruising, losing This floating feeling Where are you? Bruising and losing These floating feelings Where are you? Bruising, losing this floating feeling Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? And the light and the dark will now live inside forever Between the beating of a heart and time moving in reverse And that ghost that you saw outside your kitchen window A horse-drawn coach procession now becomes your hearse Oooh Bar Bar Barbara Boone Oooh Bar Bar Barbara Boone
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I'll Be King 05:43
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Hey you, quit moving! Can't you ever stay still? Have you nothing better to do? Why don't you take a CHILL PILL? (Legs and lungs, In the spirit of having fun Turn around and count to 10. I'll be 1) Hi Mum, I'm living But I'm lonely up here Hey Dad, I'm doing my best Got all my energy in fear (Keep in touch. Am I good? Not good enough? (At saying all the things you wanna hear) Dear friends I am not who you think I am Dear friends I am not who you think I am (I'm sailing at sea, helplessly downstream I'm not happy where I am) One day I'll find where I belong One day I'll find where I belong (Cruising upstream on a boat fit for a queen To a lake where I can swim I'll be king) I know I know I know I know what you're thinking I know I know I know I know what you're thinking (I'm a a little bit washed out, a prisoner of doubt I'm sorry all my efforts are in vain) Listen, I love you A little more each day I worry that I'll come home one night And I'll find you not breathing (I'll seal my love in a time capsule of us Send it into space for the future) One day I'll find where I belong One day I'll find where I belong (Cruising upstream on a boat fit for a queen To a lake where I can swim I'll be king... I'll be king)
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Lisa 06:04
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Lisa, wherever you are You are beautiful You are Lisa, wherever you've been You are all to me Everything Lisa, how is your heart? You are special to me You are Lisa, wherever you've been You are all to me Everything Are you afraid of anything? (This morning, I looked out my window and all I saw were slate grey rooftops from here to the horizon. Yesterday it rained for hours and hours but today the sky is open and clear. As clouds drift slowly over above my head, I think of your eyes - the bluest, bluest, bluest blue that I can ever imagine. As blue as the sea, as blue as the sky, as blue as the blue in your eyes.)
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Don't Let The Ice Into Your Soul 04:47
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How do you know that we are really here And how do we feel each others pain How do you see the sadness in her heart As she simply doesn't wish to remain When you walk by the poor man in the street Do you stop and say hello to him When you think about the loneliness around Do you let it get under your skin Chorus You let the world Into your busy life But you don't ever really take it in A heart isn't cold unless you freeze it out Don't let the ice into your soul Don't let the ice into your soul
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Sorry For Everything 06:09
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Plenty of suffering More than enough I'm sorry for making you cry so much The devil is changing me Shedding my skin I'm sorry for letting you let me in Bruising then losing my love I'm sorry for everything All your new scars I'm sorry for making you cry so hard The devil is chasing me Watching me run I'm sorry for making you think I'm the one Bruising then losing my love (where are you in this dark world?)
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Nobody Loves Me 07:46
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(Can you hear me?) (Hello?) We were damned Doomed from the get go In the space My shadow Nobody loves me Nobody loves me Nobody wants me Nobody Loves me We were damned Doomed from the get go In my space Is my shadow Nobody loves me Nobody loves me Nobody knows me Nobody knows me Nobody loves me etc We were damned We were doomed from the get go Here I stand In the space of my shadow We were damned We were doomed from the get go In my space Is my shadow
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A Mountain Divide 03:11
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There's a valley between us A mountain divide There's a river between us And it flows so wide We can blame ourselves Forever to blame ourselves We can blame ourselves There's a desert between us Hot as hell There's an ocean between us ...And the tide ..And the swell We can blame ourselves Forever to blame ourselves We can blame ourselves And we rust We erode We decay We explode We want answers We can blame ourselves Forever to blame ourselves We can blame ourselves
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Summer Smile 04:58
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You were gone, so gone I get to write my winter song Let the cold fall down Force it's freezing spell upon the ground Throw more fuel onto the fire I separate body and soul Divide the mind, it's our control In an empty room Floating on the scent of your perfume Did it all because I do I will be your summer smile In the kitchen for a while Let your garden grow Let your garden grow so wild I will be your pick-me-up Pour the tea into your cup Let your garden grow Let your garden fill with love Distance pulls at longing hearts All those long hours in cars On a memory Drifting on a liquid history In a dream within a dream Midnight air into your lungs Barely breathing just for once In that bed you made Still inside your sleep you passed away What more else can I say but.. I will be your summer smile In the kitchen for a while Let your garden grow Let your garden grow so wild I will be your pick-me-up Pour the tea into your cup Let your garden grow Let your garden fill with love I will be your pick-me-up Pour the tea into your cup Let your garden grow Let your garden fill with love x 2
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No Flame Is Like Another Flame 04:11
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I want you to know that I can Take off my shoes and walk in the sand Forget our cares, my brother and I Aim the throw where the sea meets the sky Always... No wave is ever twice the same No flame is like another flame Admire the view for me Admire the view for me Goodbye I want you to know that we came To stand here and stare at your name The window down on your resting place The sun at your side to forever stay Always... No wave is ever twice the same No flame is like another flame Admire the view for me Admire the view for me Goodbye (Ba ba ba ba ba barbara) No wave is ever twice the same No flame is like another flame Admire the view for me Admire the view for me Goodbye Goodbye Goodbye
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Interlude 01:09
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13.
Something To Write Home About 05:30
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Will you remember me when I am gone? Will you look out for me when I am alone? Gets me down sometimes Spins me round my life So gimme gimme gimme something to write home about I've been waiting these walls or watching them falling all around. I'm under it. Will you be forgiving me for all that I felt? Will you forgiving me? Well it's better than guilt. Gets me down, sometimes Makes me doubt my life So gimme gimme gimme something to write home about I've been waiting these walls or watching them falling all around. I'm under it. If we do return to this Chasing our ghost If we do return to this On the North Devon coast So gimme gimme gimme something to write home about I've been waiting these walls or watching them falling all around. I'm under it.

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released September 11, 2016

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