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Island
03:52
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You've got a lot of problems, do you think that I can solve them?
Do you think that I can swallow them somehow?
We could move away to the coastline with an idea of a new life, with imagery of old board games and stories
You'll never leave this island alone
You'll never leave this island alone
You'll do a lot of talking and I'll do a lot of listening and one day the records will come out of their sleeves,
The one that has my name on the back and the one that has the secret track, and everything between the backdoor and the sea wall
You'll never leave this island alone
You'll never leave this island alone
Right on top of the island there's a passage right through
Right on top of the island
Ahhhhhhh
Really think it's an island you could come home too, you could warm to
You'll never leave this island alone
You've got a lot of problems, do you think that I can solve them?
Do you think that I can swallow them somehow?
We could move away to the coastline with an idea of a new life, with imagery of old board games and stories
You'll never leave this island alone
You'll never leave this island alone
Right on top of the island there's a passage right through
Right on top of the island
Ahhhhhhh
I really think that it's an island you could come home too, you could really warm to
You'll never leave this island alone
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2. |
Voices
03:10
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All at sea with the fabric of living and no notion to ring the alarm,
When her heart stopped giving there was someone to comfort her
Voices singing, asking to make up her mind,
And a flash of lightning that sets fire to the fabric and gives her a chance to survive
Survive! In that tiny building, the steady pace of living
The well worn trot to town, her picture sits up there on the bar room proud
And there's voices singing asking to make up her mind
And a flash of lightning that sets fire to the fabric and gives her a chance to survive
So go on, go on, go on, in spite of the shortened slumber,
She wakes and knows what part of the spell she's under
The voices strong, they gather at pace, in number
Her mouth is soft enough to pronounce her name
And there's voices singing asking to make up her mind
And a flash of lightning that sets fire to the fabric and gives her a chance to survive, survive, survive, in spite of it, ahhhhhhhhh
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3. |
Stone Steps
03:31
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Stone steps, fuzzy head
On the boat early, heavy door, leaning in.
White light, voices, harmony
Overhead toy islands zoom out
Faces in the sky, Boudicea walks on
White light, voices, harmony
White light, voices, harmony
Leaving their houses and every duty behind
They steadily gathered at the heart of the space
Calling out, whirling hundreds of metres upwards
The warm, the rich, the light as air tones
The most beautiful sound I had ever heard
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4. |
Didn't I Say
03:25
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Boxes full of papers holding space
Didn't I say? At the time I was lost and confused
Down the coast on a beach in Spring time
Blue and white tiles in hillside towns
Sailors arrive missing part of the story
Figures twirling, illuminated, mustard and gold
There were good people, here to learn
We were all good people, all here to learn
Running through the gardens at night
Didn't I say, at the time I was running away
Sleeping to the strains of your guitar
On the other side of the wall
Smoke spilling up to the ceiling, pouring under the door
There were good people, here to learn
We were all good people, all here to learn
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5. |
System
03:18
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The road is on fire, think like a man
The fire is in the stomach, think like a man
The movement is below the palm of the hand
Drives you to the airport, lifts off the land
The road is in the distance little stick man
Toss away your wristwatch tiny stick man
Up against the nimbus flat is the land
Rinsing out the atoms think like a man
White and grey, very well, similar to, a system
White and grey, very well, similar to, a system
The road is on fire, think like a man
The fire is in the stomach, think like a man
The movement is below the palm of the hand
Drives you to the airport, lifts off the land
The road is in the distance little stick man
Toss away your wristwatch tiny stick man
White and grey, very well, similar to, a system
White and grey, very well, similar to, a system
I am very well, very well
I am similar to other systems
I am very well
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6. |
Love will tear us apart
03:21
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When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed, our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep, all my failings exposed?
Get a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Is it something so good just can't function no more?
But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
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Breathe
03:13
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Pushing up through the ground, white and tender no sound
Lying there all along, bright yellow song
Hot honey ale to hold awhile
Burning bright daytime fires, pure midnight farm skies
If I breathe in, if I breathe out, I won't feel alone
If I lift my head, if I share with you, I won't feel alone
The rattle of pots and pans, the keen ringing of bells and chimes
The shaking of hands
Wake up the frozen ground! She brings the good spirit in
And bears us all through the sound
If I breathe in, if I breathe out, I won't feel alone
If I lift my head, if I share with you, I won't feel alone
If I breathe in and breathe out, I won't feel alone
If I lift my head, if I share with you, I..
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8. |
Let it go
03:36
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If they ever see you, it will be too soon
For you have switched it off and quietened every corner of this room
Hail across the landscape and hail upon his house
Everything is as it should be and everything's allowed
And the weight of the fire
And the wind on the roof
And the dogs on the beach
And the mist across the peaks
And the feel of the land
And the drink in your hand
Let it go, let it go, let it go
If they ever find you it will be too soon
For this path was swept away by snow and undetected lies in ruin
The only buzzing voices speak from the radio
And in the dead of night you hear the ground shifting below
And the weight of the fire
And the wind on the roof
And the dogs on the beach
And the mist across the peaks
And the feel of the land
And the drink in your hand
Let it go, let it go, let it go
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9. |
End of an Era
03:08
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Got to get up North by tomorrow
Because I've seen the way that things are going
I understand that you might not make it
And I've got to tell you all the things I've thought of
Like....
Cos' I'm driving the first time on the Silk Road
And I get to your side just as the light goes
I understand that you might not get out this time
Cos' you keep hanging on, yeah you keep hanging on
For this is the end of an era, a beginning of new life
Got to get up North by tomorrow
Because I've seen the way that things are going
I understand that you might not make it
And I've got to tell you all the things I've thought of
Like....
For this is the end of an era, a beginning of new life
This is the end of an era, it's the beginning of new life, beginning of new life, a beginning of a new time
Make way for the new life
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Lost Chimes London, UK
"I don't know what to say about this record other than that it is absolutely magnificent"
(Chris West,
Phoenix Radio, Australia)
"Hauntingly beautiful" (New Music Saturday)
Gemma & Nicky Kirk (Hunt Us) release their debut, self-titled album in May 2021.
Cover "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division was released in 2020.
Here follows a further 8 original songs, starting with "Island".
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