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I lost my way / Approaching Badger's Edge / Followed the faultline / When the trail went dead / Across the valley / The Home Counties rest / The fallen arches / Of the barefoot architect / I reached out / I held the planet in my hands / Built the South West /The North, Midlands / I kept it warm / I lined it up with other worlds / The greatest week I ever had / Showing off for the girls / I lost my way / Approaching Badgers Edge / I looked for shelter / When the trail went dead / Beyond the riding / A new season brings / A place where we find hope / And dreams take wing
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Moonshine
05:22
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Flesh and bone / Are all we know / Beneath the skin / The baby / Will grow / When the world is sleeping / We work the nightshift / Our bodies dressed against the cold / And lunar cuts through amber / Jetstream and drizzle / Rake the riverbed for gold / We heed the warnings / Of barren hillsides / No children born in '29 / Adrift in English landscape / Warm machines and distant light / Where nothing living ever dies / And the birds are silent / And the insects break formation / And everything is space / I drank the moonshine / I felt the moonbeams / I saw the moon light up your face / Like Chinese boxes / Keeping our secrets / From growing up to growing old / When lunar cuts through amber / Jetstream and drizzle / We rake the riverbed for gold
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Antidoting On You
04:42
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It's like a motor running slower every day / The battery charge about to go / The wheels are rusted, the timing belt is frayed / And now I can't feel my toes / Antidoting on you / Your friends / And all your poison / It's like the dawn chorus louder every day / The windows open to the birds / My ears are throbbing / My body is in pain / And now my mouth can't shape the words / It's like a kettle boiling slower every day / Can't clear the steam to dry my face / Doctor's orders: make the time to get away / Take the tablets, find some space / It's like the dawn chorus louder every day / The windows open to the birds / My ears have shut down / My limbs have gone lame / And now my mouth can't shape the words
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Underwater Horns
05:07
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They're teaching vets to play the drums / Gamelan and steelpan bowls / So when the animal kingdom comes / We'll play interspecies rock'nroll / And move with the animals / Groove with the animals / Keep it smooth with the animals / Wake with the animals / Shake with the animals / Break bread with the animals / They're sending hives out in the mail / To pollenate suburban fields / So when the autumn harvest fails / We'll feast on supernatural yields / They're pulling goldfish from the lakes / Learning scales on ornamental lawns / So when the solar flaring takes / We'll all play underwater horns
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This is the letter never sent / About a love that barely / Covered half the rent / You know your place and I know mine / No way across the great divide / Remembering our private jokes / Like when I put that garden rake / Between your spokes / Your leg in traction / Sucking grapes / Erasing Stately master tapes
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Al Shepard
05:31
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Al Shepard shows us where we come from / Al Shepard shows us who to be / Writes out a prayer before the first manned mission / Straps in and brings us to our knees / Al Shepard, piloting the spacecraft / Al Shepard, orbital and free / Takes in the view before the first transmission / Calls home to tell us what he sees / Al Shepard, digging through the moon dust / Al Shepard, planting crops and trees / Conducting tests, he plans for reignition / Maps out the future by degrees / Scotland to Derry on the Mayflower / CA to burial at sea / Al Shepard plays among the star-spangled heavens / Al Shepard brings us to our knees
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Pain Of The Pints
04:00
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And we / We have gone home / And you're on your own / Crumble like bone / When pain / Pain of the pints / Pulls you in tight / Hides you from sight / And worms / Come from the ground / And wiggle around / A beautiful sound / And we / We have gone home / Drinking alone / You fall like a stone / And worms / Come from the ground / A beautiful sound / Echoes around
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Atmosphere
03:30
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Your girl is right beside you / You feel like number one / So get your body moving / Tonight has just begun / Make it last forever / Dancing with the gang / You've got your favourite record / And Frankie's got his band / Queuing up for lifeboats / As the stern goes down / Share cigars with strangers / Cling on to the bow / Visions of the future / Panic on the land / Debris in the ice floes / Scratches in the sand / Atmosphere / I love a party with / A happy atmosphere / And you and I'll be dancing
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Liberty Bell
03:12
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Under the sea / After the shipwreck / Your sunken fleet / And the liberty bell / At periscope depth / Checked for survivors / I saw a mermaid / And she said to me / Can you feel the presence of angels? / Do you hear the crying when angels sing? / Listen to the crying of angels / Listen for the beating of angels' wings
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Sleep Where You Lay
01:19
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The wolf works on his den / The fox regrets the hen / The jewels are in a robin's nest / The golden leaves are spent / So sleep where you lay / Let sunlight find a way / When shadows fall on frozen ground / And icy fingers play
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Beard Of Bees
02:31
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You say you've found a new way / To get yourself through the day / Tried to grow a beard of bees / But there's no practical value in these / You say you've got what it takes / Attaching rosebuds to your face / But the bees don't care for glue / And you can't tell a bee what to do
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Under Heavy Breathing
04:38
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Speak and / Spell and / All the city daughters / Look what they taught us / Weekends / Bin ends / Dog ends / Dead ends / Show and / Tell and / Voices in the static / Box in the attic / Rhyming / Stealing / Under heavy breathing / I lost the feeling / Speak and / Spell and / All the city daughters / Look what they taught us / Sinkers / Bailers / Fuck-ups / Failures
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It's Over
06:02
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In city parks / Cathedral domes / The British Library / Stately homes / We listen in / Decode the chatter / Our dying signal / Anti-matter / In city bars / William The Fourth / We turn our heads around / To face magnetic north / We take a picture / On our camera phone / Searching for evidence / We're not alone / In city farms / Concrete domes / Rewire dead radios / Rebuild our homes / No interference from / Satellites above / There's just Billy Milk / And White Glove
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