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Every Day
03:08
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Every day it feels the same
That’s what she used to say
And one of us would stop to ask
"Can you make that change?"
Staring at an empty wall
Like she’s done many times before
Neither of us stop to ask
"Can you fill that void?"
And we say we are so trapped
And we say we are boxed in
Born out of place and out of time
Bored half out of our minds
Has all the colour drained away
Or do we just tune into grey
Did I hear somebody stop and ask
"Can we make that change?"
Is it time to make the call
Or shall we wait a little more
If we try to climb out of this hole
There’s every chance we fall
And we say we are so trapped
And we yearn to be let free
In another place, another time
We can be bored half out of our minds
Every day is something strange
Every look that we exchange
Every word and every touch
We are not contained
We know it’s not too late
We’re only half bound by fate
Every day it is the same
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2. |
Breaking of the Waves
03:52
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Strange lights are in the sky
We take delight, don’t wonder why
But something is not right
Says the signal from the satellite
Like a show put on just for us
As hand in hand we walk the coast
Lights so pretty, so we make a memory
We listened to the breaking of the waves
As we walked along the beach that night
The sea, the air, the moon
They were all in phase
Something just felt very, very right
Why would we clock what’s going on
Two lovers both turned off their phones
In a quiet spot to get away
From the oh so busy day to day
The big story for us tonight
We read in each other’s eyes
What’s there to worry
When you hold me tight
Oh the breaking of the waves
The moon, the air, the sea
Waves breaking
By the time we rejoin the world
It feels like it has turned
Not just once around but upside down
Those lights we saw in the sky
Were not quite so benign
Who knows what it’s gonna mean eventually
We listened to the breaking of the waves
As we walked along the beach back then
The sea, the air, the moon
They were all in phase
Though something was very, very wrong
We listened to the breaking of the waves
As we walked along the beach that night
The sea, the air, the moon
They were all in phase
And for us everything seemed right
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Crash
04:02
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Flood, fire, theft
Wind cold rain
Storm damage
A hurricane
Flood, fire, theft
The crash has come
It’s been and gone
Been and gone
And we
Putting things back together
Faster than they fall apart
And we
Stepping back from disaster
Getting back on the path
Did you know it was coming
Did you see the warning signs
Be prepared
Don’t be scared
Turn off the lights
Don’t you pick fights
Make sure the children are tucked in at night
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Love Parasite on TV
02:28
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Some kind of parasite
Invades their brains
It makes their conduct change
In peculiar ways
Contorted faces, disrupted breathing
All kinds of bodily interweaving
Some can shake off the effect
After a little while
Others reach some stable state
Make a new version of their lives
Gotta catch that nature show
You know it’s playing on the free to stream
Documenting the weirdness of
Species humanity
They can build cities
And they build so many cars
They even make space ships
Though they don’t travel very far
They’ve cured so many noxious diseases
There’s food for all of them
Though sometimes they’re mean with it
But they don’t seem inclined
To turn their amazing minds
To free themselves from the impact of
The parasite’s strange designs
Gotta catch that nature show
Such amazing photography
Documenting the weirdness of
Species humanity
Some brains they are immune
Those humans feel out of tune
In some brains it only half takes
Those humans can’t find a mate
Gotta catch that nature show
You know it’s playing on the free to stream
All about the strangeness of
Species humanity
The soundtrack is great
And I think I mentioned the photography
How d’you get a gig on a show like that
Guess it’s a who you know thing
Documenting the weirdness of
Species humanity
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5. |
We Crossed the Water
03:06
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We crossed the water
Going to visit your sister
We crossed the water
There was no drama
Sea couldn’t have been much calmer
The sun was shining
Was it safe now
We talked about it, was it
Safe to cross the water
And your eyes shone
And you smiled bright
And the days were long
And the feelings were right
We crossed a border
Hoping our papers were in order
As we crossed the border
Some way to go now
Already tired from the driving
Long time before we’ll be sleeping
And your eyes shone
And you smiled bright
And we made it to
The other side
We crossed the water
Crossed the water
We crossed the water
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6. |
Old Friend
01:59
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You gonna call on me
You gonna call me later
Gonna call attention to
The aftertaste of the argument we didn’t have
My old friend
You gonna forget me
Forget my birthday
And the time we finished that bottle of whisky
Oh our sore heads
My old friend
Are you going to bury me
Or stand by and watch me burn
When it’s my turn to step away
I’ve a limited lifespan
But a little way to go yet
My old friend
Already missing you
You’ve not gone anywhere
I took a roundabout route to nowhere
Have we ended up so far apart
Don’t start again with that stuck record
You know it’s getting so tired
My old friend
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7. |
Third Invasion
04:39
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It was the third invasion of planet earth
It didn’t get the coverage it deserved
Oh no, oh no
“We come in peace,” the headline said
But the story was one hardly anyone read
Oh no, oh no
Can you get me to see
A little differently
Make the anger work for you
And make it work for me
She had a scream inside
He said, “Can you let it out gently?”
She says, “Ask me for improbable
But don’t ask that of me.”
Is it the umpteenth wonder of the world
See how it dazzles those boys and those girls
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Like the breakthrough drug
They’ve been dreaming of
A second coming of mercy from above
It’s a mattress lying on the floor
In a box room of a friend from long before
Oh yeah, long before
Not much privacy but it’s sanctuary
It’s what you’ve got
Hope you don’t have to leave
It’s not easy to see
A little differently
When the anger works for you
It don’t always work for me
She had a scream inside
He said, “Can you let it out gently?”
She says, “What you ask is possible,
but it takes so much from me.”
It was the last invasion of planet earth
An invasion that was hardly worth the time
Pay it no mind
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Startled Bee Edinburgh, UK
Singer-songwriter based in Edinburgh and the “m” in mph. I play mostly Startled Bee originals and acoustic arrangements of favourites from the mph songbook.
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