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Beauty Queen
03:58
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Summer clothes and sunglasses that are
Far too nice for you
The perfect kind of someone who
Exists to be a beauty
Queen, lens flares and tight skirts and
Palm trees, in an eternal summer
What it's like to be a movie star
TV and a brand new car makes you
Worth our while and our hearts and a smile
You're the voice of all our hopes and dreams
Living out our fantasies hop on
One more plane for the people to play along at home
Oh the glamour it can whitewash all your skeletons and knives
'Cause the remedy to spite is just more birthday suits and nicer
Rings, filters and touch ups on
Everything, look pretty to please the camera
What it's like to be a movie star
TV and a brand new car makes you
Worth our while and our hearts and a smile
You're the voice of all our hopes and dreams
Living out our fantasies hop on
One more plane for the people to play along at home
La la la la la, it's so easy being wrong
La la la la la, when nobody plays along
La la la la la, and the whole world isn't
Watching you 24/7 to hear you slip up and go
La la la la la, why would anybody try
La la la la la, if you never live that life
La la la la la, 'cause it looks so good on
Screen and in the photos and the
People saying "oh my god its you"
What it's like to be a movie star
TV and a brand new car makes you
Worth our while and our hearts and a smile
You're the voice of all our hopes and dreams
Living out our fantasies
Hop on one more plane or we'll
Go insane you're the
Nation's favourite
Hobby to play along at home
What it's like to be a movie star
TV and a brand new car makes you
Worth our while and our hearts and a smile
You're the voice of all our hopes and dreams
Living out our fantasies
Hop on one more plane looking like a beauty queen
We'll go insane living in a fever dream
The nation's favourite on all our screens
Our hobby for all the family to play along at home
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Warm Things
03:23
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Warm things, warm places
Keep you safe, keep you living
Warm things, warm places
Keep you safe, keep you living
Take a step outside
Look at trees look at berries
With two brimming eyes
It's a breeze to be merry
Standing takes an age
So the world becomes real
Hung in one slow gaze
Living through the surreal
And it's only a matter of time
'Cause the dog barks and beckons you home
Where a warm thing is waiting called life
Feet first, the berries can go
Warm things, warm places
Keep you safe, keep you living
Warm things, warm places
Keep you safe, keep you living
See a better day
Grab your bike, grab your backpack
Learn the time away
Come home cold, and intact
Waste the afternoon
Watching Glee, bingeing stories
Warmth will be here soon
For a night, maybe more
And it's only a matter of time
'Til the night calls and wraps you up close
And the day's filed away in your life
Head first the stories can go
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things
Warm things, warm places
Keep you safe, keep you living
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Tiny Faces
03:14
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Tiny faces fill my room like
People staying long after they're welcome
The funny thing is I don't mind
They keep me company in truth and
Listen to the songs and thoughts I tell them
The funny thing is that seems alright
And I don't quite know what to think anymore with the
Way things are going
And I never quite get to sleep anymore when the
World won't stop blowing through my window
So far from home
Tiny people can be loud enough
To break a glass in two in protest
Of all the small talk they have shared
'Cause peace and quiet is handed out to
Lucky few who live life by some old sensibility
That seems so rare
And I don't quite know what to think anymore with the
Way things are going
And I never quite get to sleep anymore when the
World won't stop blowing through my window
So far from home
So far from home
One day you'll be sitting in a field somewhere
And feel like the human race has left you alone
So far from home
Like a man on the moon watching earth from a toy box of chrome
And that day, oh that day
It'll be wonderful, and you'll be okay
And you might not know what to think anymore with the
Way things are going
And you might still not get to sleep anymore when the
World won't stop blowing through your window
But you'll feel something, yes you'll feel something
That feels like home
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Nettles
03:49
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Bring me a nettle, and an hour alone
So I can settle, in my skin and my bones
And don't ask questions
'Cause you won't get anything
A pretty ring maybe but only made of stone
My skin's a painting, with brushstrokes and pores
It might be aching, but then so is yours
At least it's pretty
At least we revel in our art
It's pretty dark but no one else is keeping score
Nettles sting your throat and leave you choking all alone
Is that really what you want
To keep it coming, feel the numbing as it runs
Through your blood and you can't stop
Of course not
You've gone all hazy, come closer dear
You're halfway crazy, at least that's clear
Have you got answers
That would be of any worth
Or just more earnest games of self deceit and fear
Nettles sting your throat and leave you choking all alone
Is that really what you want
To keep it coming, feel the numbing as it runs
Through your blood and you can't stop
Of course not
Gather up the words I need and show me how to use them
If everything came easily I'd never need excuses
Oh patch me up and tell me that the nettles weren't all useless
Oh am I still messed up enough that it was all worth doing
Oh show me how to fix myself and tell me that it's real
Then take away the nettles, and give me time to heal
Nettles sting your throat and leave you choking all alone
Is that really what you want
To keep it coming, feel the numbing as it runs
Through your blood and you can't stop
Of course not
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Lullaby
03:12
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What's the world for
But to hold you
But to sing you to sleep every night
What's the sky for
But to watch you
But to keep you in safety all your life
What are we for?
Please don't ask me that
You hold the world in your hands
(Could you give me a little taste of what it's like to have such ignorance)
Ignorance blesses all those it can
(Now you lie gently there and wait until the morning comes)
Night time can fix all the wrongs of the day
Lie gently, sleep the past away
What's the sea for
But to take you
Oh it takes you from rivers into oceans
Though you can't
How your life works
You're still here and there's somewhere to be going
That's the beauty
In just floating by
You hold the world in your hands
(Could you give me a little taste of what it's like to have such ignorance)
Ignorance blesses all those it can
(Now you lie gently there and wait until the morning comes)
Night time will fix all the wrongs of the day
Lie gently now
Lie gently darling
Lie gently down
With empty hearts
For your precious dreams
Are spoiled with worry
Just let the sleep be your allegory
Lie gently now
Lie gently down
Lie gently
Lie gently
Lie gently, sleep the past away
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Erin Snape England, UK
Hello! I make indie tunes from my bedroom, stick around if you want, or go find someone else to listen to...
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