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Miss It
02:08
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we’ve got projection that should warrant further study
our transference is currently attracting much research
and several experts independently quite worried
we broke the mould here
or we broke something
what’s the end of your project?
there’s no ending to this love
what’s the net gain of looking?
i know you’ll only go and miss it altogether
extrapolations never help me not to worry
transiently i tend to be persuaded here and there
and i appreciate you’re kind of in a hurry
if they can’t keep up
what are you proving?
what’s the end of your project?
there’s no ending to this love
what’s the net gain of leaving?
i know i’ll only miss us being altogether
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2. |
In Hove
02:02
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what’s a boy in Hove supposed to do?
i read a self-help book; now i think i’m screwed
and is a saturday night really included in this voucher code?
that schtick gets so old
and tears have no effect upon the shingle
saline waves and salt tears mingle
and why this temperature
so unprecedented for the time of year?
yet little fear here
i know you vape but here’s an ashtray
saw it and thought of you, for old time’s sake
why were those sunday night restaurants in the nineties
always housed within a railway arch beside the bins?
i do and don’t feel very different
to a younger self who’s never gonna listen
and when the time comes i know i won’t
be even in the slightest ready
enough now
steady on
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3. |
Stance
01:34
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where does truth go?
it’s there below
in the comments
that no one’s reading
do a little dance
have a little solo time
take another stance
hatch another brand new line
where does fear grow?
it’s there down low
that appendix?
you didn’t need it
do a little dance
have a little solo time
take another stance
hatch another brand new line
everybody waits to uncover
the big mistake
here’s another chance to deliver
your hot take
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4. |
Downtown
02:22
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the riverside of twisted roots
and mattresses and shoes
can only hold you for so long
you’ve done bucolic blues
there is a new old life ahead
i see you waltzing through those louvre doors
your life is not quite over yet
i know i will see you downtown...
…where melodramas
never quite desist
a party’s happening somewhere
and you never could resist
a tried and tested life’s ahead
i see you marching through an open door
if life is not quite over yet
i know i will see you some time...
…but only if you’re done with twigs and stones
they only held me for so long
and now i’m going home
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5. |
Lifesaver
01:41
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they shot it down in flight
let it feel the pull of fate
but unblinkingly
you just brought it straight home
lifesaver
staving off natural laws
you gathered up that sparrow
put the world back as it was
I ran aground sometimes
in a setting safe from sight
and unbelievably
you could make it right
lifesaver
saving from here or afar
you scoop right up old cravings
and put the lid back on the jar
there you go
lifesaver
staving off natural laws
you’ll gather up the broken sparrow
and put the world back as it was
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6. |
Normal
01:49
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you've got stuck in a loop
where your hard work never recoups
if you stepped off, what would it mean?
why keep on if nobody sees?
somebody has to be
so deliriously normal
some people have to strive
it won’t be us
god-given or not
easily or painfully won
if you're upward, don't let it go
if you're unmade, don't let it show
some people get to be
so luxuriously normal
some people have to thrive
it won't be us
somebody has to be
so extravagantly normal
somebody has to strive
it can’t be me
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7. |
Wind-Up
02:29
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i’m sure that you will have
another chance to make your mark
but it might not be in this life
leave that theatre dark
and you’re so eager to be constructive
but it’s so easy to be distracted
i know you were born to
wind up strangers here
but it isn’t quite a life plan
this all-new old career
and you’re so eager to be destructive
but it’s so easy to be deflected
and you’re so eager to be destructive
but it’s so easy to fall
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8. |
Eternal Deferral
02:16
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it's old-fashioned then to mean this stuff
to do as you have said you would
but we're hesitant to go along with how you want life treated
all return
all refrain
all dig in
all resign
all conspire
all believe
our eternal deferral
begin living up to this
are you ready then to go without
the things you take for granted now?
and whoever cares enough to scream
you might as well get started
all return
all refrain
all dig in
all resign
all conspire
all believe
our eternal deferral begin
living up to this
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9. |
Hi-Vis Man
02:05
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a master of alarm
the constant throb of harm
and no one wears a hi-vis bib as badly as you do
it never was about
what you think it's about
you're doomed to be unnecessary:
some purpose served, then dead and buried
your dad can't bear to look
your step mum's off the hook
cos no one throws the insults round as stupidly as you
it never was about
what you think it's about
you're doomed to be unnecessary:
some purpose first, you secondary
so go and find a better way to spend your precious time
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10. |
Post-Post
01:22
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you shouldn't have posted that
i wouldn't have advised it
you're nervous and anxious now
and looking for an answer
you've got to the second page of search results
but still nothing you have read
makes this any better
you wish you had never
i could be comforting, soothing, emollient:
"never confront the obnoxious contingent
they've got nothing better to do with their time"
but still nothing i can say
makes this any better
i wish you had never
i wish you had never hit return
because it's a lovely day to see the world
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11. |
Longest Day
02:03
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an emblem of a semblance of
something you know you were meant to finish
but anyway
whose thoughts are they?
just get to the end of the working day
life is at home where you left it
love is at home where it stays
i’m holding out for the end of
the longest day
i’ll disappear
in finding the end of the last great task list
but who’s to say which bits remain
and what ripples out into something more?
life is at home where we left it
love is at home where it stays
i’m holding out for the end of
the longest day
life’s right there where you left it
love’s there right where you let it fall
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12. |
Highwaymen
02:02
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i think you’ve got enough material to go on with for now
give yourself a break and turn it inside out
spin us a yarn
some highwaymen abound
some scumbags hang around
some nightmares do not end
until you send them on their way
a villanelle, an elegy, a ballad, haiku or burlesque
when you find you’re in a cul-de-sac, keep on
stay at your desk
when highwaymen abound
and scumbags hang around
some nightmares do not end
until you send them on their way
what do you have to say for yourself?
you ought to write it down
while chances still abound
our words might hang around
even when we are miles away
where highwaymen find that their nightmares end
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