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Emperor
02:38
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You know your place
Amongst rivers and daisies
And hearts beating safely as one
And you could find comfort
In mountains of hugs
But you're better off loving the ones that you want
And you could have it all
What could I say to bring you back
You'd be an emperor
Nothing I do would even matter
Go on be an emperor if you
Wanna feel the heat of a
Thousand dead promises and lies
Made by the people who
Live through some thinly veiled disguise
Go on be an emperor if you like
And what's a whole feast if
The comfort's not sweet
And the love and the peace have gone bad?
We can sit by the daisies
And talk until day bleeds to night
And then we'll say that my parents want me back
I can't quite, believe it all
But you're here I guess I'll enjoy it before you leave it all
I can't quite, believe it all
But you're here should I thank you
Are daisies enough, to keep pleasing you
Have I gone crazy it feels like I'm dreaming up
All these godforsaken tales
You found your place
Amongst rivers and daisies
And hearts beating safely as one
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Happy
02:48
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Hello to the fog of the day
Will you be nice to me
And thaw the ice for me oh
Where will I go if I'm scared of the way
Why don't you let me see
and leave the sunshine be
Where is everyone going?
Where is the weather in sun all day
and I'm Happy
Just a voice or a word
Wrapping round me smiling out at the world
Saying everything's gonna be alright
Just sit here for a minute let me hold you tight and
Out of something so small
Nothing matters and you're ten feet tall
Why don't you bottle it up and let me have a try
And remember this feeling for the rest of your life be
Happy
Oh and when you come will you happen to stay
Or are you leaving soon
Come again when you choose
Give me a person, a smile and a song
So I can talk to you
Come on and talk to me too
Oh hello
Where are you going
Hello (where are)
Where are you going
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A Song For My Dog
01:19
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I know the loveliest boy made of soot, sand and silk
With a jewel in his eye and a neck made of milk
With a brain twice the size of the boy that it built
With eyeliner smudged around the bottom and spilt
He's the loveliest boy with the loveliest grin
He'll smile so wide, mind his teeth on your chin
He loves bees and birds and bottles blowing in the wind
He’s the loveliest boy because I love him
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Hit The Road
03:00
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Hit the road, love
And use your common sense to know it won't explode, love
Grab a handful of cards, and hit the road
'Cause you know that life has a lot of time spent doing nothing
Ooh, I have to say I'm proud of you
'Cause you won't go insane, you'll just call back saying that the week was good and the month was fraying at the seams
Ram the curb, love
Leave skid marks and gravel and fire wherever you turn, love
Make it hell behind and run so you don't burn
'Cause you'll learn that life doesn't run on petrol and luck half the time
Ooh, the world won't know what's coming through
When you make your mark you'll be in central park, gotta get on the road and drive there fast, love
Slow down, slow down, slow down
Hit the brakes and look around at everything you don't know yet
Hold on, let go, call me
I can't decide because of everything about you that I don't know yet
Because of everything about you that you can't know yet
Because just everything you left behind
Is burnt and dead
But still love
Ooh, I have to say I'm proud of you
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New York
02:18
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Lights up as the world turns down its' brightness
Pour your soul out into New York
Lady with a rose and vine and sharing
Her whole life with New York
Oh the streets live and breathe
With the lives that flicker by on the silver screen
The sky's a sleeping beast
Tickled by the hands of our masterpiece
Your heart hangs hardly to your chest as day comes
Running breathless into New York
And your eyes grow eager bathed in neon posters
Selling people
Lives they can buy to be beautiful people
With a hundred new eyes in the square every evening
Watching flickers of posters of people who are coasting
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Colours
04:02
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Colours, colours, colours
Laughing, dancing right into the night
Oh, so many colours of stories and eyes
Rapt with surprise
With fear, with doubt, with unkempt excitement they'll run
Laughing, dancing into somebody's arms
And, hope that it feels like you thought soft and sweet
Light on your feet
Ooh
Waltzing away from the
Known
Everything's brightly lit
Faces and freckles on cheeks
In the night you can't place all the colours so
Please, go and dance with whoever you please
Friends, of friends, with beautiful smiles you can watch
Laughing, dancing through hazy tainted glass
Mix, dashes of green with an ocean of blue
Muddle through hues
For you, and you, and everyone just has to know
Laughing, dancing so you can't slip away
But, the world will still turn for the night to come again
With colourful friends
I wish that I knew what I thought
Just a little bit earlier
And I wish that what it has brought
Would be pearls of a
Life lived in full colour
Maybe soon I'll dance in colour
Maybe soon, under stars, under moon
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I Have a Home
02:15
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Somewhere there's a child with a flower on his head
And his mother in his heart, and a backpack full of dread as he goes home
To a place he hasn't found yet
How to help a child as the flower slowly dies
Cause your family's a hoax, and you've heard a pack of lies so find your home
And cherish what you've got left
Autumn and winter
Will tear out the splinter
And summer and spring will kiss it better
Keep the flower alive and you'll be fine
Have you seen a child with his pockets full of seeds
And a garden in his head that is choking from the weeds, I have a home
In a place he hasn't found yet
Tell him to come quickly and to choose the route he likes
'Cause the roots put in his head, can't keep putting up a fight, We'll make a home
Full of kids we haven't found yet
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Prickly Brain
03:31
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Oh what a view, out there from your prickly brain
Clouds of candyfloss
That only signal torrential rain
Is the sky grey so crops can grow?
Or is the rain a mystery
That you'll learn tommorow
Oh what's there
In that prickly mind of yours
That could have been cherished but grew its' thorns
Each one borne out of innocence I guess this is the best way
Oh what's seen
Through those baby blue eyes of glass
That search and they scan as the world moves past
So many things they shouldn't see I guess this is the best way
Travel the world, for hours with your finger and thumb
No long cold rainy days
When you can shoot at 0's and 1's
As the earth falls apart and melts in front of your eyes
Your future dissapears
From all the mess we've left behind
Oh
Can't you leave my mind alone
I wanna think on my own
Now I'm scared before I'm grown
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Luck And Hope
01:27
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Summer moves like a trophy wife
She's trying, she's trying like you asked her to
While spring just sits on a bed of knives
She's hoping, she's hiding it well enough for you
They'd do anything to make you happy
You better bloody act like you're happy
Mmmmm
Autumn comes bearing ash and thorns
For parties in moonlight with the ones who belong
And winter stares at you cold and worn
While summer and spring stand in the sides looking
Longingly at circumstances
Freedom isn't found through rain dances
But luck and hope, and a tiny voice in your head
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Your pupils are blue
And your irises green
Your hair might be ginger, or chestnut, or golden, or anything in between
You sing like the devil
And you dance like a god
We could be in heaven, or hell, pick a subset and do what you want
And I think there's a photo somewhere
Where you're hugging a redwood and your arms don't reach halfway round the sides
I'd quite like to go there
Where there's photos and redwoods and time
You said I used to know you
And it's stored like a slideshow in my mind
A kid in a hoodie, and dance shoes and pigtails, with the same infectious smile
And you're just as amazing
So I don't care who's around
We'll be ten minutes late, to a class in my dreams that I've found
They say that you can't make up faces when you sleep
So you have to be real and those eyes are quite something
So why waste your time singing songs back to me
When you kinda make me feel like I'm everything and nothing
But I'd buy you a redwood for your birthday if you'll stick around
What's your name and your birthday, here's ten feet of ground
So show me your photos
And sing me a song
It doesn't have to be good, just to drag all the time with you along
'Cause when you're gone I'll be lonely
And it won't have been enough
'Cause you're amazing, and I'm dreaming, and when you leave then I'll have to wake up
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Interlude
00:41
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Years
02:43
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In a couple years I won't be the same
My face will have changed and I'll act kinda different isn't it strange
That myself might be waiting a few years away
Who are, you I, don't know
If I'm supposed to look forward to you
Who cares, you'll come, soon and
Maybe I won't notice I'll be happy enough
I have too much hope for what it is like
Will it turn out right or will I be left waiting for something despite
Being right where I wanted and fed up with life
I hope not
I hope not
Is that good enough?
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The Credits
03:19
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There it is
The sun, the moon, the stars
And everything in between
With a bottle or a book as a souvenir
To show the world where you've been
'Cause you gotta have a past
That's the way it's gonna be
There's a box full of junk in the back
Pick something and leave
We're at the end of the credits now
And we've hopefully got something to show
We've stumbled through our scenes
Like angry, broken teens
Now we're adults 'cause we've grown
Or something like that
You can end it now
With a song so you can leave on a high
'Cause god forbid you see
What happens after they all leave
When we're adults for a while
There's the names
Surprise nothing is real
We've been acting this whole time
And we all go through our methods to convince the world
That we're actually good at lying
So the story's told
And we're hoping you don't mind
But there's a box full of junk called the plot
And we've got a character to write
We're at the end of the credits now
And we're hoping it does well
'Cause there's people to be paid
And careers to be made
And another film to sell
That's just the same but in a
Different town
'Cause what's the point of being new
Your life's already lived
And you're not special 'cause you think
There's a film about you
There's a million other people
Who thought every single thought
And you're not special, you're not different
You're a teenager who's bought
Into a demographic aimed to
Reassure you of your faults
So you're not unique
You're something close
After all is said and done
You've got a life of your own
And it may seem kinda similar to other lives you've seen
Just in different clothes
What's the point in that?
Thinking everyone's a clone
There a box full of junk and a sunset
Beckoning you home
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Erin Snape England, UK
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