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St Rita's Matrix
03:15
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Back to school
Start the game
Change the name
Straight down the lines and love the rules
Sit for the wise who turn to fools
Take the train
Locked in silence
Men as islands
Fly from the centre once again
Before they see what home contains
Night was short
Day was long
Prove to the weak that he was strong
Defend the ground he’s standing on
Prove he was right and others wrong
Count the years
Through the windows
Watching time go
Staring through mist that never clears
Wait for an end that’s never near
Wrapped in thought
Blossom gone
Saint Rita never heard his song
Realised, lamented on
That he was weak and others strong
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2. |
Standing In For Love
03:29
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He lifted her from chaos
From the matrix, from the lies
She landed on emotion and she flew
The next one came from nowhere
Read her future in his eyes
She exercised, but wanted something new
Careful what you wish for
Sometimes truth is what you see
His promise you invented warmed the days
Work was standing in for love
Your time outside was free
There’s nothing more
Number three was what he wanted
Counted, knew the score
He sang, she danced, she moved, she came to stay
Others came, you get the point
No need to number more
He never understood their need to play
Careful what you wish for…
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3. |
Swiss Disco
04:41
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Green grows
Meet the Spring in temper
Sing as water flowing clear
Understanding, cool, sincere
Red rays
Warming Summer temper
Stimulating, rising air
Beaming happy, active, flair
Yellow falls
Harvest Autumn temper
Like a fire’s last display
Irritation, anger, grey
Black shrouds
Frozen Winter temper
Like the earth lies down to die
Ruminating, fearful, dry
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4. |
Wastewater
03:39
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Hold on, stay strong, more to say
Think fast, live long, show the way
Hold hands, stay warm, have your say
Head high, on form, work is play
Last call, don’t fall, end the day
The future was planned
With succession in hand
And determined the time to go
Who misunderstands
With a change in command
And it’s suddenly time to go
The time has come
To stand aside for better men
The past was minor key
And so you go
New men, old hands, more to say
Old head, new plans, show the way
Hands off, strong will, let them go
Hold back, stay still, watch them grow
Last call, don’t fall, end the day
The future was planned…
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6. |
Folder Dressed In Blue
04:27
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Notice board
Heard you break the news
Others bore
The heartache that ensues
A folder dressed in blue
Sympathised
Felt for friendly pain
Thinking tries
But fails to be the same
A folder dressed in blue
Now it’s us
For once you were concise
Without fuss
A shadow’s last goodbye
We had to talk
That’s what ’phones are for
A single spot
That was the world before
A folder dressed in blue
Horse’s mouth
The one who is the news
Heroes both
Courage clears the blues
A folder dressed in blue
Swallow, try
Try to speak again
A folder lies
The nothing it contains
After life
“not... enough for moan...
Motherless"
In the wild alone
A folder dressed in blue
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7. |
ECML
02:28
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Early train and leave the station
Wrapped in sleepy daze
Waking sun, day’s preparation
Golden morning haze
On the way
Settle down
Come the day
Labour done
By they go
Berwick, Morpeth, Durham fast
Before you know
Darlington and York are passed
Time and destination
Calling, coming near
Public occupation
Private disappears
Say goodbye, and early evening
Heading for the train
Back from south to north appealing
On the rails again
Under way
Settle down
After day
Labour done
By they go
Doncaster and York are passed
Before you know
Durham, Morpeth, Berwick fast
Time and destination
Calling, coming near
Journey termination
Private re-appears
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8. |
Jump Jump
03:54
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Jump, jump baby, obey your orders
As you leapt into my heart
Just don’t change into all the others
For they pulled our home apart
Jump, jump baby, I love the feeling
And it’s fresh air on my face
Lost in space, with my body reeling
There are crowds who’d take my place
You were the only lover
You’re the writing on the wall
Wait till the world discovers
They will answer to your call
You were on all the covers
You’re the star, you stole the scene
You’re like a sister, brother
You’re a rock, you’re king and queen
Jump, jump baby, you melt me smiling
And I’m thinking as I fall
I can’t help it, you’re so beguiling
I have no will left at all
Jump, jump baby, you just inspire
You’re the one that I revere
With you missing, there’s no desire
It’s too dark, too bleak, austere
You were the only lover…
Jump, jump baby, I hit the ground
And it’s time to tend my wounds
My lost baby, you can’t be found
Why did you let me down so soon?
Jump, jump baby, my world’s dissolving
You were meant to be alone
So sweet, I can’t help my absolving
You from fault, you’re still the one
You were the only lover…
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9. |
Poland
03:41
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Started early, under basement light
Ron and Charlotte tucked you in at night
Young and adamant and holy blessed
Found the right school
Found another fool
Tweez their names
Paint houses
Nice people
Bend rivers
Writing signatures on passing trends
Boarding passengers to stay as friends
Drawing sketches for your masterpiece
First the road bends
Then the deep end
Poor captains
Don’t sing words
Sing spiders
Night, my love
Congregations follow breadcrumb trails
Watch the rise and spread of different sails
Retrospectively they see the joy
In your odd mind
Yours is no kind
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10. |
Embers
04:01
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As a stranger come, like a stranger go
Fevers of a life are burning
Darkness now, light to grow
Elements of life returning
Hope in sun, love to grow
Glory of the music sounding
Only one, nothing else to know
Flowers spread in spring abounding
In darkest night, “lead kindly light”
Each step is sight, just one, one
Breathe power still, less now until
Each step ends night, each one, one
As a friend you came, as a friend you go
Embers of a life are glowing
Into fortune stare, into future lands
Elements of life are showing
In darkest night…
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11. |
The Viper's Bite
05:03
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In Modern Love we spend our nights
Alone, aside, the vipers bite
The offered hand brings cold surprise
The waking tears, the poison eyes
Drink silence long, crave innocence
Bring love once strong, but faded since
Think feelings reconstructed so
Sing feelings lost to others go
“She walks in beauty…”
Come arrows rain, and tear through flesh
Come wounds converge, the more to bless
Come transcendental pain to share
Come peace at last, come wedded care
The dream concludes, scales fall away
As night deludes, truth follows day
So help us learn how silence speaks
Come fire to clean the desperate weak
“She walks in beauty…”
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Dancing Mice Edinburgh, UK
Dancing Mice - indieprog/electropop - nine albums. Melodic, quirky songs mainly about people: some famous, some obscure, and some others.
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