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We've been caught up in the race it's been this way for so long,
we're all in joint last place except the wiseacre ones pulling the strings, dangling enticing things in front of us just close enough
that we can all get a taste enough to want more of the stuff, it'll get you off your face the first time like falling in love, enough's enough oh but we all know that enough's never enough but we'll never get the chance to take a bonafide bite.
Flicking through 800 channels when only four did suffice, what happened to fun with a board and some dice now we're the game I guess and the stakes are all for real but just mean so much less to the ones spinning the wheel while we're spinning in it.
They can all bail at anytime and just when the shit gets real close to the blade of the fan they all throw the blame and make for the van, leaving the rest of us to take the heat and raid the land.
I was happy on the island I don't know about you, I don't need to know though and I don't really want to, it makes no odds, we're all stuck on this boat we may as well try and get along.
We've been caught up in the race it's been this way for so long, we're not in any danger just been in the game too long it's irrational but we're all scared of the actor with the loaded starter gun
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Talkboy
05:15
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All the love that you had for it when it started is a flash in the back of a fuzzy memory yeah we ground it into dust,
and I’ve played all my favourite songs to death oh but I still get that feeling when I hear them on the radio.
Can you kill the music so I can ruin it for myself
All of those Fridays that I’ve wasted in the whitest places all those lifeless faces, graceless, tasteless.
I’ve got 28 ways to get me over this, it’s always the last one, that seems obvious but not to me at the time.
Can you kill the lights so I don’t have to hide how I feel.
You’ve been seduced again by another sequel, we used to be friends now you’re just some people I know
The king’s alive, macca died, Courtney lied
You tell something I already know, I know we’ve been up this street before,
It’s only now that I’m with someone else it’s funny how you only noticed this time
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Sweet & Vicious
03:38
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So i'm swimming against the tide again, I find it numbs my aching heart, so I turn it up until It drowns the torment out, that solitary wake up call so loud, when it comes crashing down it's no surprise but am I hard enough for it, I could've sailed through the way I used to but there's nothing left along the well worn paths, I know what I have to do I always have a but am I hard enough for it.
We never gave it time to make it work, you didn't have the strength to keep holding me up, we’ll take a deeper breath next time, we both know you’re out of your depth and I'm out of mine, it’s in the blood.
I should know better but I can’t see past the first thing that comes in to my head, when it comes crashing down it breaks my heart, I could’ve taken the high road from the start, I thought I'd cracked until you came along, I like the music but the words are wrong. it shouldn’t came as a shock I saw the cracks, I could never have come up with that
We never gave it time to make it work, you didn't have the strength to keep holding me up, we’ll take a deeper breath next time, we both know you’re out of your depth and I'm out of mine, it’s in the blood.
You don’t get me anymore, we’re two old friends but we’ve drifted with time, that’s alright, maybe that's alright.
We never gave it time to make it work, you didn't have the strength to keep holding me up, we’ll take a deeper breath next time, we both know you’re out of your depth and I'm out of mine, it’s in the blood.
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A Sucker for it
04:44
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Hot on the trail but get caught up on the fine detail, stop on the way to get lost on the old PlayStations
I walked away long before the game, do I know myself too well, or not at all.
Let’s get away from the traffic's heavy breathing, it keeps me awake but there’s something comforting about it
And I’m best getting out of that zone, I like to be alone but for not too long.
If I can’t face the music, should I turn it up or should I just not listen to it, when it gets too much we can all get wired to it.
I don’t know that song, what does it matter where I’m from, I used to get easily wound but I just don’t let that shake me now and I won’t chase the crowd, I hate making people wait but I’ll probably be late
Just don’t lie about it, or is it too much fun? I know that I’m a sucker for it but it always comes around and catches you out
It Feels like Ghostbusters 2, the car’s dirty and they’re doing kid’s birthday parties, met a Psychopath on the cycle path, what genius came up with that, I always prefer the misheard lyrics, like Gaff said “who are the dirty birds again”
Hot on the trail but get bogged down on the fine detail, stop on the way and get lost on the old PlayStations, I couldn’t stay for the game what a shame. Is it too early yet, to have all these regrets?
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Middle of the Night
03:56
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I should've known at the time but I like to dive, I get easily carried away, I have to go back, after the fun I'm left alone anyway, this is the sweetness I've been missing.
In the middle of the night I come to life in the shadow of the city skyline lit by the moonlight a little bit of poison never hurt, it gets me through when I'm low oh oh oh
I should've known when they were all telling me I'm better off but I only listen to my heart, it's still young and wins all the battles with my head, but the war rages on
And in the middle of the night I come to life in the shadow of the city skyline lit by the moonlight a little bit of poison never hurt, it gets me through when I'm low oh oh oh
I should've let you in but I can't stand the way we are, I should've let you in but I can't stand the way we are..
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Gem
05:11
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Racing for the last train after hours in the glorious sun.
if only we weren't running late, it's just that we were having such fun,
oh you can try but you'll never understand
If we could change all the things that led us here we might never have met my dear.
Freaking over the littlest things, the things you now miss most.
oh i wish I'd have taken that job, we'd have moved away up north, oh I often think about that
If we could change all the things that brought us here we'd unlearn what they taught us dear.
If you happen to hear these words they'll be glad to find you well
and if you're listening I'm glad to know that you still can 'cause when the bottom falls away you don't think straight, that's just fate playing out, well that's just great, what am I to do now?
If it's in something else that you believe then please explain this pain, and why cripple people with fear?
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Ella's Brother Scotland, UK
singer, songwriter, musician, producer.
various projects. Big Store Studio
Pancakeland.
All enquires: ellasbrothermusic@gmail.com.
Cool, Crude, Alt Pop, Lo-fi, Indie
The OK Social Club 2008-2015
Kiddo 2004-2008
Potbelly 2001 -2003
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