1. |
Going To Amsterdam
02:14
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2. |
Win Is Easy
02:57
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We made it through the Summer
Has it ever been so hard?
I know we help each other
But that’s barely a start
The win is easy
You just have to care enough
Care enough
Two bullets in the barrel
And it’s pointed at our heads
Don’t think about the peril
Take the shiny thing instead
The win is easy
You just have to care enough
Care enough
Today is much to short to spend
On what we face tomorrow
So never mind
Forget I said anything
Let it die
Let’s find another way
To survive
The win is easy
You just have to care enough
Care enough
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3. |
Bless the News
02:31
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Spiders in my blood
Feels like the old days
Not sure what I can take
Anymore
I don’t even know
If I should go home
It makes less sense alone
I suppose
At a glance
What a taste
But it can’t
Linger on
Another time
Another place
Bless the news
And you’re gone
And you’re gone
Sleep is for the dead
So I’ve heard it said
Not sure it makes much sense
But ok
We should wait a while
Something to admire
Some madness reconciled
Tonight
At a glance
What a taste
But it can’t
Linger on
Another time
Another place
Bless the news
And you’re gone
And you’re gone
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4. |
The Lights
04:36
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Just across the street from us
There’s so many things to reach for
It never quite looks the same when
It's in front of you
Sometimes I think we missed a trick
But we lucked into a better thing
It never quite looks the same when
It's in front of you
Lights eat the stars
Lights eat the stars
In the winter time
The shimmering grit from cars that pass
A kerbside mirage, it never lasts
It never quite looks the same when
It's in front of you
There’s some time inside our hearts
And as it ticks by, we fall apart
It never quite looks the same when
It's in front of you
Lights eat the stars
Lights eat the stars
In the wintertime
I know what it means
The cold shoulder to our memories
It's harder it seems
To be understood
Like you really should
Lights eat the stars
Lights eat the stars
Lights eat the stars
Lights eat the stars
I know what it means
The cold shoulder to our memories
It's harder it seems
And you're drawn towards false remedies
But all, we really need
Is to be understood
Like you really should
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5. |
Fall Back
03:03
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6. |
Old Life
02:59
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Bruises underground
Here to psyche me out
What have you left me with?
I need a lesson in
Getting over these
Lost letters redacted
Broken hand me downs
To sift and sort out
can’t think straight anymore
Funny to think how
The past has a hold
On your head right now
Sold it on
Your pale complexion
I heard it all
Raised expectations
That old life’s lost, so let it go
Look to me again
Take it for granted
That I’ll be back for more
Stand and take it all
Put your hand to my chest
And watch me fall
Sold it on
Your pale complexion
I heard it all
Raised expectations
That old life’s lost, so let it go
That old life’s lost, so let it go
That old life’s lost, so let it go
That old life is lost
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7. |
Bottleneck
03:42
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8. |
Tell Them What They Want
04:14
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9. |
Something New
03:22
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I’m not quite sure that I
Did the right thing
In bringing you here
Each time you smile at me
I must remember
To swallow my fears
It’s a fire
It’s a ghost
That haunts me
You are a sailor that
Cannot quite swim
And we’re out to sea
One day the ocean it
Will pull you in
It terrifies me
It will rise
over us
As we slip
Wish I could reshape the planet for you
Smash it all down into pieces and make something new
That you could love
The way I love you
I took a long walk
Off a short pier
In bringing you here
Every faith will get
Tested sometimes
No matter how clear
Let it shake
And I’ll keep
It close to me
Wish I could centre the world around you
Crash it all into the ocean and
Make something new
That you could love
The way I love you
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The Volunteered London, UK
We like to think of ourselves as a less miserable Sparklehorse.
It started as one person recording
very scrappy demos during his son's naps. As of 2020, we're an actual band, switching between sparse acoustic songs to fuzzy, messy rock and a few points in between.
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