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The Fight
03:39
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We always try our best to sleep right through the night
But instead we just drink ourselves to rights
Then in the morning light we find ourselves
Lost to the day and losing the fight
We always try our best to sleep right through the night
For tomorrow is another other fight
But instead we just drink ourselves to rights
I swear we’re all the same, I swear we’re all the same
We always try our best to sleep right through the night
But instead we just drink ourselves to rights
Our blood is our blood and some things never change
I swear we’re all the same, I swear we’re all the same
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A century of battleground pictures, of muses and nudes
Drawing applause, harlequins and fighting the tide
I’ve woken up with war, I see that you did too
Political century, drawings and leanings of love
Mocking your history, turning her face awry
I’ve woken up from dreaming, I see that you did too
Pablo, Pablo Picasso, you helped to paint my life
Helped to paint my life, helped to paint my life
A century of battleground pictures, of muses and nudes
Drawing applause, harlequins and fighting the tide
I’ve woken up with war, I see that you did too
Pablo, Pablo Picasso, you helped to paint my life
Helped to paint my life, helped to paint my life
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I'll Go To Another Room
03:24
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I'll go to another room, I'll be another man
I'm in a better place, I'll be a better man
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Black Elizabeth
04:03
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Darling you fall through the words I say
And no one can tell me different
Oh little fool stop killing time
Pick up yourself and drop the glass
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
Oh warrior come and fight your war
In my dreams you save the world
Don't be too precious time will say
Eat up your greens and die of age
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
Hail Black Elizabeth
Don't drop the mirror now
In my dreams you save the world
In my dreams you save the world
In my dreams you save the world
In my dreams you save the world
In my dreams you save the world
In this life you made me
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I crossed a road with you and took you to school
We looked at each other like mirrors, like brothers
I held your mind while it grew and pushed your troubles away
Now look at ourselves as children, as brothers
You held me up when others would not
We looked at each other like mirrors, like brothers
The strength that you bleed is the same strength as me
Now look at ourselves as men, as brothers
I believe in you, I believe in you
In all you can do, all that you do
I believe in you, I believe in you
In all that you do, all you can do
So please believe it too
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Skyscrapers
04:30
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I wonder if I stepped a little closer would I fall, would I fall
I wonder if my fortitude did falter like it would, would I fall
And if I shouted out to the man I know
Would he walk away or look to the sky where I am
Where I stand
I wonder if I stretched my arms our further would I fly, could I fly
I'll splay my fingers open like the feathers of the birds by my side
There's nothing sinister in asking all these questions
I'm sure it's okay
I am just humbled by the magnitude of the sky, I'd like to fly
I wonder if I can fly
I wonder if all these people gathering all around want to see
Or are they worried like their faces would suggest they are, in part
They do not know me so why do they worry for me now
When I'm on the ground
No body listens and no body reaches out for me
Maybe they do not see me
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Like Agony
04:06
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It lays there like agony
Lays like agony
It lays there like agony
Lays there like agony
I'm scared to be, scared to be
Scared to be the man I'm scared to be
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Galloping Major
02:54
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Galloping Major, there's wars and wars
Galloping Major, you're there, I'm here
Galloping Major, of blood I've read
Galloping Major, to run or ruin?
Galloping Major, there's wars and wars
Galloping Major, you've fought, I've thought
Galloping Major, the scenes I've seen
Galloping Major, I'm scared of dying
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Palamino
06:02
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It's a sad song I sing about you today
You hold your woes to the floor and look to the sky for more
Yet you're there in my mind so wonderfully strong
When I wake it's for you, like you used to do
Now I'm searching through words for you in song
But these handshakes in thought are all I've got
It's a sad song I sing about you today
Drinking so much when you're sober you're cold
Yet you're there in my mind so wonderfully strong
When I wake it's for you like you used to do
Now I'm searching through words for you in song
But these handshakes in thought are all I've got
These handshakes in thought are all I've got
These handshakes in thought are all I've got
These handshakes in thought are all I've got
These handshakes in thought are all I've got
This song is a love song but it can't go on
This song is a love song but it can't go on
This song is a love song but it can't go on
This song is a love song but it can't go on
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Welsh Funeral
04:21
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Oh in this world, oh in this world, oh in this world
We mourn and mourn
At your Welsh funeral, at your Welsh funeral, at your Welsh funeral,
We're born and born
Your footsteps are on my mind and your shadows are on my floor
Every time I go to sleep I want to see you there
Your clothes are on my back and your words are on my soul
Every time I go to sleep I know you're there
Oh in this world, oh in this world, oh in this world
We're born and born
At your Welsh funeral, at your Welsh funeral, at your Welsh funeral,
We mourned and mourned
At your Welsh funeral, my heart it died
At your Welsh funeral, my life it died
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Awash with violin, acoustic guitar, baritone, haunting harmonies and drunken poetry, we sound like Marco van Basten at Euro ‘88 or sad, emotive, lo-fi, dirge-folk songs
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