1. |
The City Weeps
03:21
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Back at square one
(turning the clock 'round)
Ring Liberty Bell
(for you to hold)
My name’s not Franklin
(yearning a town)
If I’m born i can’t tell
City weeps
City that i love
It’s guard is down
when the trees flower
Declarations
(turning the clock 'round)
Deep in the blood stream
(forming in you)
The city weeps
City that i love
Then you split yourself in two
I saw less anger
I saw less pain
Laid it to rest
I see you again
Made me think with a creatures brain
I see right through you all the same
Back at square one
(Gramercy gates)
A thousand paces
(room full of paints)
I see less anger
I see less pain
One dose too many misguiding my brain
It makes an earthling feel so ashamed
I see right through it all the same.
We laid your father's body in the sunbeams
Don’t you worry about acceptability
Fancy cart you’ll see he will go out in.
If they damn a good soul...
Made my bed
on a rock in the rain
I made my bed
on a rock in the rain
The city weeps
City that i love
Why do you split yourself in two?
Lead me away
from the kingdom of fables
I’m done living life
under the table
I can only think with an animal mind
that bleeds true colour in electrical light
I see less anger
I see less pain
One dose too many misguiding my brain
It makes a body feel so ashamed
I see right through you all the same.
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2. |
You Seem Confused
02:27
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You take my hand ever so casually
At the end of your tether
I can see your eyes get wetter
It’s your ego that will not let you show
Inner killer thaw
Takes me to her basement world
At the end of your tether
I can see your eyes get wetter
It’s your ego that will not let you show
You seem much better
now that i predict the weather
Though how i know
is not for you to know
Only when i look inside
Teardrop miles and open skies
Your way, so rare
Your want, so raw
Only then your looking soul can...
Inner trees where we can go and...
Don’t stop ’til we’re out of it now.
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3. |
Heart In Delay
03:33
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Nasty charmer
A tin pan hymn
Abandon my logic
With a neighbourhood grin.
Should I hear you out
Although I hardly care
For second hand wisdom
I am too numb to bear.
Black clouds come spinning down
Can't take the pain
Taking over unannounced
A heart in delay.
Another heart in delay
Our tongue tied world
It's hired moon
Who's on parole
Me or you?
Should I hear you out
Get it told straight
For second hand wisdom
I will not wait.
Back in the ring again
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Took me down the easy way
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Seized your coat
Sized me up
Pulled your fist
Took a swing and
Knocked me out
A heart in delay
Another Heart in delay
Oh tongue tied vision
Travellers hymns
Abandon my logic
With a neighbourhood grin
Should I hunt them down?
Or Is it too late?
For second hand wisdom
I will not wait.
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4. |
Being Frank
02:30
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Wasting yours
Why are you grilling me?
Talk is choice
Two can be in
Well i’m listening
How the heavens fall
Could you talk to me
Without that hole in your heart
I watched it all unfold
A witness to the part
I’m falling in your dust
But I don’t believe you hear
I find it hard to trust
Waking from this din
Not wanting to explain
Down in the garden state
The ever supreme, ‘Let’s’
Could you talk to me
Without that hole in your heart
Knowing from below
Stubbornness falls apart
It’s not a foregone conclusion
Pack up, don’t stray, mind engage
Set out, back straight, steady pace
Stick my neck out
See if i’m wrong.
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5. |
A Little Lit Up
03:04
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Washing down tables
Dusting ‘round picture frames
I need a train fare
I need to get paid
Gonna turn my back
On the darkest day
Sometimes sombre
A little lit up
Let’s be courageous and talk
If I can hold your ear as well as listen
Do you want to take first draw?
From place to place
Discourse to oblivion
I know we are probably wrong
Anoesis, pure sensation
With fears laid bear
Who would bat an eyelid?
It’s going to take one stiff drink
To make this memory die
Sometimes sombre
A little lit up
Let’s be courageous and talk
Baptised by neon
Cut shapes to the sky
Do you want to take first draw?
Sometimes sombre
A little lit up
Let’s be courageous and talk
If I can hold your ear as well as listen
Do you want to take first draw?
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6. |
Painters
03:23
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You came in from the major town
How you claim you loathe it now
Heading home in love's last bow
Y'said you’re never going back to the major town
Back then we were the painters
Back then we knew how
Back then we were the painters
Back then we knew how
When you broke the jar apart
Together fell a captive heart
You don’t end and you don’t start
In a crumpled shadow you hide your scars
Back then we were the painters
Back then we knew how
Back then I was a painter
Back then I was the shot in your arm
Back then we were the painters
Back then we knew how
Back then I was a painter
Back then I knew how
Who could be happy with being a seductive mute?
Back then we were the painters
Back then we knew how
Back then I was a painter
Back then I was the shot in your arm.
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7. |
Steel Pin Raindrops
03:22
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Lying tamed
In your room
When I wouldn’t wait for no one
Burning blaze of butterfly wings
They beat on and on
Into your falls
Steel pin raindrops
Heroine in the headlights
Relentless streams of black on red
Shadows swimming at night
Marion sea bass fingers fall
Down the metal river
She’ll avoid admirers calls
From the streets beneath her
Into your falls
Steel pin raindrops
Heroine in the headlights
Relentless streams of black on red
With a seabed heart you hide
His book of songs
His book of lies
Shakespeare of the midlands sighs
Black magic rhythm parade
Heroine in the headlights
You said we’d meet again
Maybe reconcile
If only for a little while
Counting the time
Half awake
Half awake tonight
You live your life
(Lying)
Half awake
Half awake tonight
Pop the key from your room
Shakespeare of the midlands, doomed.
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8. |
Tomorrow's Fires
03:00
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(The Day I Could Forget)
The morning was a film loop
Afternoon, a pen cap chewed
The evening plateaued to the day i could forget
Our first time of realising
Maybe we were half free
In exalted adolescence
Waiting to be absolved
Howling at the pouring clouds
Drink it down to pacify you
Searching for a golden sound
For tomorrow’s fires
No mawkish trails
No tall tales
The indelible arrow
In peacetime
In wartime
Keeping as a stranger
Howling at the pouring clouds
Drink it down to pacify you
Searching for a golden sound
For tomorrow’s fires
Howling at the pouring clouds
Neck it down to pacify you
Searching for a golden sound
For tomorrow’s fires.
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9. |
Heads Of The Bastille
03:39
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My mistakes are carved in rock
Through the Appalachians of your heart
Reasons to stay with me
Thinning like a spinning yarn
Developing a nightmare
You could not help me
Heads of the Bastille
Hanging over the door
Dusk light dresses the roses gold
Pale moon rises over long shadows
Memory is a locker
Of unspoken words
Full of untold insight
That's what really hurts
My friends are scattered
Living their own lives
Some married with children
Others are long gone now
Before the earthquake
Rolled underneath our feet
We created our own myth
Thinking time was an endless gift
The flowers of the Bastille
Hanging over the door
Dusk light dresses and roses gold
Pale moon rises over long shadows
Before the earthquake
Rolled underneath our feet
We created our own myth
Hoping time was an endless gift
Saturday into Sunday
Memory turns against me again
Daylight wane, memory fades.
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10. |
Really
02:49
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I look outside your window
I see suburban rain
Wide eyed i know
I am loath to say
Walking past black railings
Passing one by one
Then you point aloft
Take a snap shot
Why did i not see it
Not hear it
Strangling my mind
How did I not notice
It’s so basic
That we were not doing fine
Simply here it stands alone
A chessboard and a throne
Which one do you think you’d rather sit at?
I look along the tide
Boats are coming in
Someone does need saving
But I don’t know who
How did I not see it
Not hear it
When it strangled up my mind
How did I not notice
So basic
How foolish am I
How did I not see it
Not feel it
Strangling my mind
And how did I not notice
It’s so basic
I should’ve been somewhere else.
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Duncan Lloyd Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Duncan Lloyd is a founding member and songwriter for North East (U.K) art-rock band Maximo Park // His solo releases weave a musical maze of free and varied personal expression, deep and transient, spare, intense and urgent with a balance of grit, beauty and melody. “A Chime" is his first new music since signing with Reveal Records & Management. More new music coming later in 2021. ... more
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