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The Secret Tea Room
03:22
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I want to meet you
At the secret tea room
In the botanical garden
In the heart of the largest airport in the world
The envelope was shock pink
It held a single brass key
Tied with a green string
And a tag that read “dream tea”
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Sandrine
03:41
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O Sandrine
Keep your heart open for me
Let the sun kiss you
You know it has missed you
O Sandrine
O Sandrine
Go pick an orange for me
Dig through the pith
‘Til you get to the golden bits
O Sandrine
Tra la la la la
Always leave room for cream
Fa la la la la
Balance is everything
O Sandrine
Trailing your flag in the street
Moved by the face of each
Stranger that passes you
O Sandrine
O Sandrine
Lay in the ball field for me
Outlast the flood lights
Defying the endless night
O Sandrine
Tra la la la la
Always leave room for cream
Fa la la la la
Balance is everything
O Sandrine
Break out the good wine for me
Hold my hand firmly
Don’t ever abandon me
O Sandrine
Hold my hand firmly
Don’t ever abandon me
O Sandrine
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Together (In That Way)
04:01
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Although you’re always here with me
It feels like an eternity
Since we’ve been together (in that way)
We fought back time
Chasing the sublime
And we faced the grind
And robbed the good days blind
Now we’re coughing up dust
Losing our lust
Tearing between ground and sky
Oh no…
Although you’re always here with me
It feels like an eternity
Since we’ve been together (in that way)
Lost in your mind
I tried to meet your eyes
Under fluorescent lights
Your flickering decline
Searching for signs
Or anything kind
To carry you over that line
Although you’re often here with me
It feels like an eternity
Since we’ve been together (in that way)
You built a shrine
One pearl at a time
And through shifting tides
I felt you at my side
Now I sit in the dark
Clutching my heart
Longing to hear one more time
Come on
I know you’re always here with me
But it feels like an eternity
Since we’ve been together (in that way)
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4. |
Half Here
02:36
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I’m half here, darling
Half here
I don’t know where the rest of me is
I am half dressed
In my half best
And I give you a faraway kiss
I’m like a shadow
That slides ‘cross the back wall
I’ve been a ghost in my dreams
Unable, it seems, to touch anything
I just slip right through
In my half home
Where I half read
And just half of the meaning remains
Where the rest goes only God knows
With the laundry all half put away
I’m like the lost song
When it’s been so long
You can’t be sure if the tune
Familiar to you
Bears any resemblance to the one that’s true
I’m gliding on air with my hollow-eyed stare
My thoughts are like dust
That won’t land anywhere
I am half here, darling
Half here
I wish I had much more to give
Who knows how long
I’ll be half gone
I want to do more than half live
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5. |
Half Gone
02:45
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Some days
Are blue
Start early
Push on through
Hold your head up
Turn on the light
Banish shadows
From the night
Sing sweetly
To your kids
Don’t speak freely
Stay hid
No one’s calling
Gone too long
Cracked vision
Split horizon
Half here
Half gone
Half with it
Half on the phone
Half you
Half me
Half drowned in the divided sea
When I read
A word of comfort
Eyes too tired
To receive it
Mind blurred
By the image stream
Cavalcade
in hyperspeed
Some trips
Are one way
Can’t get back
And can’t stay
I’m needing
Renovation
Dam the thought flood
Get off adrenaline
Half here
Half gone
Half wit
Half song
Half you
Half me
Half prayer for a whole delivery
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6. |
Island Eyes
05:44
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Tracing a palm tree’s smile lines
Frozen in space and time
Memory like silken moonlight
That I call on to ease my mind
Papery fronds are blushing
Bowing in graceful time
My pallid skin is flushing
‘Cause I still have my island eyes
Oh I still have my island eyes
When the stars die
In the twilight
stir awake and I still have my island eyes
When a bird glides
Like a kite I
Know it’s true that I still have my island eyes
Lost in the hold of winter
But each time I close my eyes
I’m in the arms of summer
And we’re waltzing into the night
Deep in the jungle’s chamber
dressed up in shadow’s lace
Amethyst, emerald, garnet
casting patterns across my face
When the stars die
In the twilight
stir awake and I still have my island eyes
When a bird glides
Like a kite I
know I’ll always be true to my island eyes
These days, often times I fear that I may lose my shine
The hours erode my fractured mind
One wave at a time
Reshapes the entire shoreline
A face you wouldn’t recognize
When the stars die
In the twilight
stir awake and I still have my island eyes
When a bird glides
Like a kite I
Know it’s true that I still have my island eyes
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I know it when I see it
Mangled and tangled on the side of the highway
Living and dying and the dead
I start feeling like myself again
On the edge of the meadow
Early October can be lonesome
The thicket is a bounty,
Of the things I wouldn’t let grow
But here
I start feeling like myself again
I start feeling like myself again
I’m feeling like myself again
Time always passes
It’s always moving
Waxing in the shadows
Such strange, wild beauty
Months inside a fog under a crumbling overpass
And then one morning you wake up
and you
Start feeling like yourself again
I’m feeling like myself again
In the back of the closet
words from a friend now out of focus
Kindness intended for some other version of me
Foam of Aphrodite floating on the adolescent sea
Now we
Start feeling like ourselves again
Yeah we
Start feeling like ourselves again
I’m feeling like myself again
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8. |
Waterloo Sunset
03:21
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Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night?
People so busy, make me feel dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright
But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Terry meets Julie
Waterloo station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy, don't want to wander
I stay at home at night
But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Millions of people swarming like flies 'round
Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound
And they don't need no friends
As long as they gaze on
Waterloo Sunset
They are in paradise
Waterloo sunset's fine (Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
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9. |
On Snow [album version]
04:45
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Snow on snow on snow
Ice ferns on the window
Warm inside, where the golden embers glow
Come on snow on snow
Black bird circle whirl
Down the drain they swirl
Smoke stretching, tired arms to the sky
Raptured up in white
Snow on snow on snow
Keep an eye on the window
And an ear on the trees, buckling at their knees
Underneath their heavy load
God only knows
How strong a tree grows
Hard as stone
Then soft as a rose
One more diamond and down it goes
In the black heart of a ring of fire
That is licking wild and wider
Center still, as sleep, as death
Rattle crack the rest
Molten stays the breast
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10. |
Stuntwork
03:17
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Your silence reminds me
Of that one winter in that book
The Great War was coming
And ice barges broke the block
When a channel freezes over but a thaw comes and with it rain
cold slabs of the river leave devastation in their wake
I don’t think you’re like the river
Or the ruined town
You’re like the people’s minds
branded by the sound
Of death fast approaching, now here and then gone
But you’re still looking up
Singing the magnificat
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11. |
If This Is The End
02:50
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If this is the end
I’m gonna call my friends
If this is the end
Let’s go down singing
I have to say
Ive loved our strange days
A whole world of things I never thought I’d know
If this is the end
I’m gonna climb that fence
No keeping me in
I’ll go out sprinting
I’m getting low
Down where the moss glows
One last long and loving look at all that grows
If this is the end
I’m gonna call my friends
If this is the end
Let’s go down singing
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Lowland Hum Charlottesville, Virginia
For over twelve years Lowland Hum has been a landing strip for your lesser-loved emotions. You can go listen to all of that
if you like; eight albums, several EPs, et cetera.
They aren't slowing down. Except metaphysically.
Lauren and Daniel Goans are into DIY. They make their own music and art.
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