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Run (Steal Away)
03:59
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Sweet days, sweet hearts
Count on me, your counter part
Another daydream
A long time ago
It never fades away
You watch your game show
I couldn’t take it
Run, run. Steal away.
Around our island on the Queen’s chain
I’m Magellan of the kitchen
I’m the King of Spain
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Build a Fire
05:38
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Breathe the cold air and leave the house
Take the streets back to where it all shook out
Feel the first touch of morning sun
This blood and bone you own it’s all brand new and unbegun
Build a fire
Let the dogs get the scent and run
Bring your spade we’ll dig them up, we’re not the only ones
Finders keepers, in the hills we’ll hide
What we don’t want we can burn, leave unidentified
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Lighthouse
04:00
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A drop in the ocean
Dreams drift off course
Unsettled emotion
Drown in remorse
Far from the coastline
Your knees to your chest
Something controls you
Has you possessed
I can feel the water rising
I can feel it pull me down
She’s a storm, I see the lighthouse
Welcome home my weary wanderer
Round the horn, the ghost of Jonah
Promises safe waters back to you
Guided by night sky
Bright Southern Cross
Celestial pilot
White albatross
The song of the siren
To watery graves
Drawn by the voices
To die in the waves
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The Walk of a Dead Man
04:25
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It went from just a minor crime
To capital offence
Existential crisis from
Paranoid suspense
Detective smokes a cigarette
Beneath a neon sign
The anti hero monologues
Starts to blur the line
The private eye
Loves the femme fatale
She finds the dirty cop arresting
A touch of evil
Running deep
Shadows with unhappy endings
Indulge a wicked fantasy
No way that this can last
Creeping claustrophobia
Haunted by the past
Spider woman double cross
Her lover shoots her dead
He’d be 25 to life
But I pumped him full of lead
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Wish You Were Lovely
05:39
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Hung high in the trees
The radios play
Each one a different song
And the birds are the DJs
The weather is here
I wish you were lovely
Walk down to the beach
We’ve got all we need
I love this place we live
Between the water and sunshine
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Silk Cut Auckland, New Zealand
In a way Auckland band Silk Cut are simply thinking aloud. Drawing on their affection for 60’s and 70’s British TV and early
90’s shoegaze, they are at once eccentric and perfectly normal.
Recorded with a load of reverb and harmony, they present like echo-chamber daydreams.
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