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Time is Defeated
08:23
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In this image
Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty
Time is down
Attacked by the happy group
His wings are plucked
Time is bitten
Beauty, crowned with pearls
She will spear him
And take his hair
And Hope, crowned with flowers
Laughs at Time
And takes a hook
To the hourglass
Opposing movements
Diagonals prevail
Brilliant colours
The light is clear
Agitation present
In every gesture
Time is defeated
By Hope and Love and Beauty
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Whenever I look up
The sky is always falling
Whenever I look down
I see pieces of the sky
We always have to watch
We always have to care
The sky is always falling
It's falling everywhere
Blue is at my feet
Blue is all around
The Sky is always falling
Pieces on the ground
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3. |
The Expedition
07:53
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To the middle of the desert
Where they've never seen the rain
We took the expedition
We'd never be the same again
Time took on new meaning
As the sun roasted our souls
Evaluation of the water
Evaluation of our goals
There's something in the distance
And I think I see some trees
But I can't be sure if this is real
Is that water on the leaves?
Come on let's get there quickly
And set up for the night
We should be safe from everything
We know we're in the right
We trample on their culture
We trample on their souls
We pay no heed to anything
We have our stated goals
And it's all about what we can do
To make things so much better
Destroy the lives we come across
We do it by the letter
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The two
One in the front, one in the back
Driving round the country
In their old VW Camper Van
In love
One in the front, one in the back
Dealing with the stuff
They'd rather not deal with
It comes, the buttons on his shirt
The songs he wants to sing
He just, he just cannot remember
The songs he wants to sing
Remember what he was
And not who he will become
Remember what he was
And not who he will become
Not what he will become
The tears roll down
I can't remember
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5. |
A Day By the Sea
07:32
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We were running along the beach like there was no tomorrow
And today was the only thing that mattered in our lives
The sun was in the sky and we saw dolphins in the bay
Nothing they could ever say could ever take this feeling away
We had driven to the coast to enjoy the sunny weather
We could not have known what was on its way
But the clouds rolled in from the south and the sand blew in our faces
And we ran back to the car to shelter from the waves
The houses started crumbling and falling into the sea
And the cliffs tumbled into the waves and you stood and looked at me
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, the rain, the wind, the water and the tide
All conspired against us as the planet caved right in
And then I heard the ice cream van and I knew it was a dream
I'd drifted off in my deckchair, drifted off into dream
And everything was good and everything was fun
And today was the best thing that we'd ever, ever done
As the sun went down above the cliffs we walked back to the car
And we took our litter with us as we set off for afar
And soon we were back home and we sat down by the telly
And we'd had such a lovely day and so we sat and rubbed our bellies
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Lifelong
09:06
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Here we are with nowhere left to go
Here you are you know you have to go
It's been a blast as everybody knows
But there comes a time when we all just have to go
And so we say goodbye goodbye goodbye
And I think I see a teardrop in your eye
But let's not dwell on this one last final moment
Let's remember all the good times, remember all the good times
There'll be no day from now until the end
When I won't think about the time that we have spent
From stupid drunken youthful lovers to companions in our home
And now it's time for us to be alone
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7. |
Here We Go Again
07:02
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And in the end, we're all the same
We are all playing the same old game
We didn't write the stupid rules
We are all taken for stupid fools
Here we go again
Up and down again
Round and round we go
I don't want to play this anymore
I don't want to say this anymore
I don't want to be this anymore
I don't want to see this anymore
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8. |
All The Things I Did
09:36
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F is for the feelings, F is for the fraud
Everything I say to you, everything is wrong
Watching from the window, the birds are in the trees
I'm crumbling to the carpet, I'm falling to my knees
I go to put a record on, the one I've always loved
But now the sound is just so wrong, the sound of those I've loved
And the voices on the radio, say nothing more to me
The noise is overwhelming, it cannot set me free
The TV in the corner, the sound is always down
I criticise the content, I watch it with a frown
I lie about so many things, I never tell the truth
I've been like this for years and years, I never tell the truth
It's made up as I go along and now I'm at the end
I've stolen everything it's built upon, it's all within the blend
Hear me play the guitar, watch me cut and chop
Listen to the synthesiser, it plays in my laptop
And when the evening falls and the air it starts to chill
I check my pulse, I feel my heart, I know I must be ill
The family round the corner, they're waiting on my word
Can't bring myself to let them know all the things I did
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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK
A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more
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