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Guidance
04:39
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Have a sit down
Don’t stop to look
Keep moving
Wear the right clothes
Don’t stop to dress
Keep going
When you’re in town
It’s a new age and questions don’t need answers
Drizzle back down
Bind up the sky and dance across the chimneys
Open yourself
Don’t show the fear
Keep crying
Double back down
Don’t show your face
Keep smiling
It’s a new time
Wonderful swollen angels bear their cargo
Struggle like vines
Wending you’re way down scary boats of midnight
Instrumental
Make a new path
Stick to the map
Don’t go there
Kicking up sparks
All bets are off
Just go there
Make a right turn
Into the gaze of weeping eyes all bleary
When you get time
Fend off the newts and wash away the fairies
Have a sit down
Don’t stop to look
Keep moving
Wear the right clothes
Don’t stop to dress
Keep going
Opening out
Spandrels time all busy open season
Tumbling through the eye of the storm
All hairy beasts of burden
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2. |
Back to the Centre
05:40
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Get here any way you can
It don’t matter ‘cos there’s no charge left to pay
Get here any way you can
Take the train, they don’t have windows that’s one thing I can say
You’ll need protection from the glare
As the sun in knife like visions creep across the sky
It’s only sometimes that we care
‘Cos time is wearing thin now ever since the storm
The fires burned on through the gloom
Taking everything, taking everything
We threw our bodies to the swarm
As the fought to take the last of what we owned
We found there’s something left to save
Now we understand, now we understand
The fires fold into a seed
So just get here if you can, across the burning ground
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3. |
Chrysalis
07:47
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All that you see
You’re intended to see
The world that you’re in
Is for you and you alone
Metamorphose
Metamorphose, feel the change
As the skies turn to grey
Burrowing through
Into the leaves
As the tracheal tubes start to grow
All that you see
You’re intended to see
The world that you’re in
Is for you and you alone
Under the skin
Safe in the void
As the wind makes the rain dance away
Nowhere to hide
Caught by the blade
As the seeds blast apart in the spray
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4. |
Sit Down
08:59
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While you were gone things changed
We couldn’t get through on the phone
We couldn’t persuade them to leave that place
And you will see
What they have done
The birds were all flying north
We didn’t take in the signs
How many times do we have to explain?
The time’s run out
There’s nothing left
The rains never came this year
The showers of dust have cleared
The horses were seen somewhere in the murky glow
But too far
They’ve gone too far
All your accounts have been blocked
They’re tracking you as we speak
They know where you are so just let us take the weight
Sit down
It won’t be long
There’s no turning back the clock
Sensations of what’s been lost
But now in the age of loneliness we find
It’s too late
It’s just too late
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5. |
Jackie’s Song
06:30
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6. |
Nidderdale
07:50
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Nidderdale, silently sloping beyond the pale
How did we lose our certainty
Inexorably to the sea
Drizzling through
Our dismal prophecy
Gentian
Common centaury, Celandine
Evening primrose, Butterwort
Selfheal and travellers joy
Trapped in the seedbank
Waiting to be free
Nidderdale, silently shading to monochrome
Devils bit scabious
Rupturewort
Cleavers and wayfaring tree
Trapped in the seedbank
Waiting to be free
Mend and twine
Doesn’t come easy
Won’t they say
Where did I leave my sense of time
Stumbling down unseen
Starved of a world of colours
Torn from sight
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7. |
Walking Guide
06:57
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Walk across the field
Sticking to the wall
Then you’ll find a gate
Left across the bridge
Pull into the town and see
The graves of ancient clans
Spirits of the trees exhale
The cold against their skins
Bear towards the church
By the sighing stream
See the ancient copse
Feel a sense of loss
Harden in the sun somehow
Necessity takes hold
We can only wonder why
We never can let go
Follow down the lane
By the leaning tree
See the spreading mound
Don’t be tempted down
Hide among the reeds which ooze
Their power and decay
You were never meant to see
This breaking of the world
As you move around
Try to understand
Sacred leaves intact
To rub upon the wound
Harden in the sun somehow
Necessity takes hold
We can only wonder why
We never can let go
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8. |
Archeopteryx
07:21
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9. |
Arthur’s Song
07:37
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Learning to appreciate
All the troubles all the troubles you bring
As I walk through land and dale
I’ll be thinking I’ll be thinking of you
Through the only channels
We go sailing through night and day
Even as I understand what they’re selling
What they’re selling to me
We were once just notions
Waving on a tide no-one can see
When you came it was as though
You’d never been away
Hoping that you’ll stay with me
Down the rivers and the tides of grey
Heading for some unknown shore
You suggested we go away
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10. |
Quarantine Song
04:33
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When the wanderers come
As heroes in a dream
Breathe in time
Oh life, rise up again
And out with the old now
Time when meanings flow
As feathers on the wind
Emptying
The lies burn out by now
And gather in sparkle
You who never learned
To look into the dark
Come what may
You’ll find your self again
Enraptured in shadows
When the leaches come
To feed upon the light
Don’t forget
It’s you who plays the leading role
In this little drama
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