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Sinister A
02:27
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Sinister A picked up a little lamb
And took it home with him
And for a moment it was beautiful
And his head was soft and warm
But somehow then, without a warning
The lamb started to invert
His head was screaming and his body ached
And as the lamb shook it put its insides out
He stood in horror looked at what he’d done
Wanted to stop this, wondered what he’d done
Wished he could turn him back
Put the lamb back to the place he stole him from
Sinister A picked up a little lamb
And took it home with him
And now the stories fill up the empty schools
Across the meadows you can hear it still
Sinister A, look at what you’ve done!
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I’m feeling kind of sorry when you’re gone
I’m feeling kind of lonely when you’re gone
But it really doesn’t matter in your eyes
I’m feeling sick and tired when you’re gone
I feel this pretty sickness when you’re gone
But it really doesn’t matter in your eyes
Does it make you kind of cool to behave this way?
Does it make you kind of cool to leave me this way?
But it really doesn’t matter in your eyes
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Coat Of Arms
02:38
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Susie lay awake on a warm October night
Dreaming of castles and princes at the bottom of her garden
Walking with him in the woods and the moonlight with her hands out
Wrapped around and holding onto your coat of arms
And every step is closer to you now
Your main mistake is letting things get to you
Better hold that’s steady course to America
Until the sun, until the sun goes
You’re not gonna leave me she said, I think that I might die
And oh no, he said, at the bottom of the lake we’ll rot and rest forever
Holding onto your coat of arms
Your dream has an ending
Your dream isn’t ending
And you can wake up
And you can’t wake up
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Doctor, Doctor
02:56
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Doctor, doctor, I’m at your mercy
Please let your purgatory set free your missionaries
I’m not your friend, you’re not my enemy
A silent afternoon remains so involuntary
Yes it’s been a long time since you came here
Let’s take out your records, have a look here
And your mother’s side was filled with plagues I see
And your father’s side will make you stronger than me
Doctor, doctor, a friend of the medicine
A friend of the dark
A friend of the mercenaries
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Best Believer
04:57
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You’re my best believer
Yes you are, yes you are
He looks like a boy and he looks like a girl
So there’s nothing wrong here
She looks like a girl and she looks like a boy
So there’s nothing wrong here
You come here at the weekends
Yes you do, yes you do
He looks like a boy and he looks like a girl
So there’s nothing wrong here
He looks like a girl and she looks like a boy
So there’s nothing wrong here
She looks like a girl and she looks like a boy
So there’s nothing wrong here
And he looks like a boy and he looks like a girl
So there’s nothing wrong here
It is some kind of thinking that makes you come back here, come back and stay
Your pre-conceived thoughts bring the death of your monsters
So come back here, come back and stay
Your eyes are like mine, my teeth are like yours
So come back
You’re my best believer
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Circles (feat. Danielz)
02:45
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I’ll walk around in circles ‘till we’re both almost there
I’ll hold onto everything so tightly from your feet up to your hair
Waking up while you’re still dreaming
When the silence wakes the dead
Smoke another matchstick by the window
In the dark the flames will spread
I’ll walk around in circles ‘till we’re both so nearly there
Everything around is golden, those mistakes fall down the stairs
I’ll let it take you all around and turn your face to frowns
You’re sleeping now you’ll let it all come down and down and down
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Battle Of The Sexes
02:37
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You say when you came
All you want to do is
It’s a battle of the sexes and there’s nothing you can do about it
You say when you left
All you want to do is
It’s a battle of the sexes and there’s nothing you can do about it
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That's What You Do To Me
03:57
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I still remember the day in monster-raving alley
We were telling lies, and now you’re on your own
I still remember the day in yoh-ga-cola café
We were telling lies, and now you drink alone
Bits of my heart between your teeth
I can’t remember the day in sophisticated prison
We were telling lies, and wasting out our lives
As the bars passed through the walls
That’s what you do to me
Just why do you do it to me
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Falling Up A Tree
02:41
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The jury was out on a Friday
I wish it didn’t have to be this way
And now you’re locked inside your cage with me
So god help you
And I begin to see what the others thought of you
My god, you’re not the girl that I loved
And every thought of mine is aching just every part of me
So god help you
‘Cause in my car I am just falling up a tree
And I’m just a cat inside an old refinery
And your long hair it is so elegant and old
You’re too slow
So why don’t you come back here
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Sister, Sister
02:49
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You are straight to straight you aren’t ever going under
On the way to slumber you are ever growing stronger
As the walls and floor start to move and start to hunger
As the air around is like the calm before the thunder
I begin to think I am starting to descend
And as the sandman calls I believe my life will end
And as stillness rocks like an infant in a life-raft
And the silence rings bringing doors and bringing pleas I ask you
Clocks and catches bring the meaning into slumber
And the racks and hatches bring the meat into the parlour
The mice and rats will bring the illness and the hunger
The men and dogs will bring the killing and the gun I ask you
Sister, sister save me till the morning
Sister, sister save me till the clock strikes
I can see you moving in the headlights
Don’t you let go
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I will conceal that I am to blame
My memory’s colder now
My heart remains the same
And here you are waiting
In the cold and darkness
This fire is burning
And out here
Here on the plain
I’ll stay with you here
Here on the plain
‘Cause my heart is open
This fire is burning
And if there is god, the devil and hell
Surrender me
And if there is light and dark
Surrender me
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