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She explains
01:51
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This road used to be a river, she tells me
That house used to be an inn right on the water
She says her soil is made up of mussel shells
And oyster shells and
She points out where all of the willows grow
She explains it so well
The animals occupy the streets here
They know
The geese are hissing as they’re chasing us away
And the dogs are barking desperately, as if to say
Is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you, is it you
Is it you that made them feel this way?
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2. |
Down
01:28
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Everyone can see how much I love you
They’re telling me all over town
And they just know I’m so proud of you
Baby it’s been getting me down, down, down
Baby it’s been getting me down
I hear that it’s clear how much you need me
But when I look it’s a blur
When they say it comes naturally
Baby I don’t have the words
It goes down, down
Baby it’s been getting me down
I’m trying my best to accept kindness
I’m trying my best to be kind
You can’t tell me how you find it
But baby you don’t seem to mind
When I’m down, down
Baby you don’t seem to mind.
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3. |
One more
01:52
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We cut your hair on the grass
We see the bits we miss too late
You test your legs I test my arms
We take five deep-ish breaths and try again
One more time, one more, one more time.
I can’t imagine what she’d think
Change pushes her into the past
If I could give it one more try
I’d answer everything she asked
One more time, one more, one more time.
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Inside, come back to life.
Seismic changes, the rock formations.
Smooth black stone at your center.
You can be kind, can make it nice.
A bit of time, a hand in the soil
Green shoots
Your hair in the wind, invisibly snowed in
I fill up the washing machine
We drive to the place, the joy on our faces
My friend’s brother so full of joy
He is a mountain exuding green life
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4. |
Lostness
01:23
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I see our histories written in your face
I see a shape emerging every day
I see it settle then I see it change
I see you, I see you
Surround yourself with softness
Grow into the light
Grounded in this lostness
Tether me to life, tether me to life
I know that this falls somewhere in between
What helps you and what is good for me
I know how to ask for what I need
I know you, I know to
Surround myself with softness
Grow into the light
Ground you in this lostness
Tether you to life, tether you to life.
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5. |
I am here
02:52
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With your hands in the dirt
And the rain and the cold and the call of the birds
The flocks are flying, the fragments are falling
The river runs, the wild geese are calling
Oh my heart you are so small
and you are so unmonumental
Worn smooth by the push and the pull of the waves
As they throw you each day to the shore
I do not know the way forward
I do not know the way back
But I am here
And that is all I have
And the night is the same as the day
‘Caus the space that contains us
Still moves in the same arrangement
The stars in the same constellations
Looked at through the eyes of the ancients
I am the shape of the waves that have formed me
I am all the people who have lived before me
The same life force in a new situation
Still tuned to the same radio station
The universe is moving
And we are moving too
But i’ve been here before
And i remember you
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6. |
Summer nights
01:28
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I am swimming in the ocean yet again
Sewage in my hair and mirages on the horizon
Try to do the right thing but the only problem is
I make it worse every time I try to help
You must end this world and you must start again
Get of the ride, dust yourself off
The city is a brutal mechanism, crushing people
Into shape or out of this world
We don’t have to be alone anymore
We can belong, we can all go home
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I could find a way, then maybe we
If I could find a way then maybe we could be
Then maybe we could begin
This is hard
If I could find a way into your arms
Then maybe we could begin to belong
My body doesn’t know what it’s done wrong
It’s thinking we should go
I’m thinking we should go
Home.
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7. |
So good
01:26
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You’re so good and kind
I’ll be waiting in the car
When you sleep I will be sleeping
Next to you, our bodies in the same shape
Dancing to one side of the dance floor
Dancing slowly with my hands in yours
You just let me know where it is you want to go
You just let me know
People all have things they want,
It makes them hard to understand,
But when i see the things you do
I know it’s love that’s driving you
I’m so overjoyed
I am so underqualified
I could read every book there is
and still not know what I am doing.
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8. |
Enough now
01:50
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You made the world bigger
You made the world simpler
You made the words make sense
When I would have sworn they didn’t
Like ‘If you wanted to leave me and roam
When you come back I’d say welcome home’
You made the world
You won’t remember all the times I sang it but
You’ll hold it in your body, some version of it
I can’t remember every time I held you but
I held you in my body and I held you on it
You made the world
So much, this is so much
This is so much, I did enough
I did good enough
Enough now.
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9. |
Dirt song
03:04
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Carry the water
From the trough
For the green fingers
That are reaching up
From the soil
Where they were sleeping
Into the sky
Where the sun is waiting
Worn away
Footpath eroding
Winding down
The new river shining
The dogs out walking
The babies crying
The last few kids in the playground
Whose parents are still working
Kneeling in the dirt, I feel the world moving
And I’m still holding on
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10. |
Ponyo
01:45
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Ponyo, if you decide to stay
I promise I will do everything to make it nice
And if you go back into the sea
I hope you will return someday.
We drive through deserted empty streets
Strangulated roads and demolished parking spaces
To meet you and shatter this tired world
I am ready to let go and leap.
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11. |
I'll drive
01:54
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Run soft
Sweet spot
Can I keep it
Semi-secret
I’m a fixed place
I’m a failsafe
I lick my hands
I wipe your face
Now you fall asleep in the back seat
And I’ll drive
And I’ll drive
I’ll drive you.
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12. |
Get a minute
01:48
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Give up the things you planned today
Give in and start again
Give everything away, away, away, away, away
I get this feeling like if I could get a minute
Then maybe I could figure it out
And it’s so misleading
I know life’s already happening
Life’s already happening now
I’ll take it, my glory and my pain
While I’m allowed to stay
I can’t take it away, away, away, away, away
I get this feeling like if I could get a minute
Then maybe I could figure it out
And it’s so misleading
I know life’s already happening
Life’s already happening now.
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13. |
Horizons
02:19
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With my hands on my throat
And your hands on the steering wheel
With a long way to go
Could you play it again for me
Our windows, tides riding
I dreamed of horizons
Strange place, new friends
No skin, no cares
Open all the windows
Take me to the river
Borrowed beds suit me best
Leave my thoughts somewhere else
We are so small
No power at all
Letting everything go
Back into the ocean
Took the train for hours
I crawled in, stayed sleeping
The trees whispering
In their language
Can almost understand them
At least that’s how I feel.
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Afternoon England, UK
Afternoon (of East Anglia) is a pen-pal songwriting and recording project between Anna Knowles and Henry Ireland.
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