1. |
YOUTH ASCENSION
04:50
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The thrill of the chase
Breaks down in your haste
To limit yourself
Oh, you bring the doubt
And I'll bring the date
It's never valid, it's never valid, it's never valid
Just like you 'are'
But if you built things
Not on your offerings
Or your demanding
We might start
O young believers, o young believers, young Boudiceas
They're all around
If you could hear us, if you could bear us, if you could see us
But when we're found
Oh, just you wait...
Youth ascension
From a wealth of forced transitions
Youth Ascension
Hounded by your definition
Always
Your time is up
You've held my head long underwater
'Cause you can't see it, you can't see it
From an elder mouth, I become the author
Do what you want to, do what you want to
You take my highs
And filter them through your deception
Well, you can keep them, you can keep them
I can only try to hold it together
'Cause I still believe in, I still believe in
Life
You'll be with or without
Beyond reasonable doubt
'Cause there used to be something they all spoke about
But it's no more
You really feel you've got to prove something
(Oh, do I need this, oh, do I need this, oh no, not really)
To be right
(For my sins)
Youth ascension
From a wealth of forced transitions
Youth Ascension
(You really feel you've got to prove something)
Hounded by your definition
(To be right)
Always
Your time is up
You've held my head long underwater
'Cause you can't see it, you can't see it
From an elder mouth, I become the author
Do what you want to, do what you want to
You take my highs
And filter them through your deception
Well you can keep them, you can keep them
I can only try to hold it together
'Cause I still believe in, I still believe in
Life
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2. |
HALLOWS
02:26
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How do you get a seat at brain height?
When you return us to the bad times
Cross go, walk up, you're moth, you're bug
Back home, it's death, it's gone, it's crushed
Hello 'Hallows'
How do you get a seat at brain height?
When you base reason on a dislike
Cross go, walk up, you're moth, you're bug
Back home, it's death, it's gone, it's crushed
Hello 'Hallows'
All the way up there
All the way down here
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3. |
LET ME DOWN
03:26
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Caution advised
Death to surprise
Anyone better could surmise
Holding in shame
Being the blend
Of your dead pets and absent friends
Only just
And I could never make you understand it
When all your sympathy is secondhand
It's obvious
Because you're looking for a quick return and
You don't want to spend it on concern
For both of us
Not good enough
For me to trust
A worn piece of work
The worst of it
I swerve to miss
But plummet headfirst
Again
Hanging around here since 2am
Promising I never will again
Treating avoidance as some suspense
To let me down
And I could never make you understand it
When all your sympathy is secondhand
It's obvious
Because you're looking for a quick return and
You don't want to spend it on concern
For both of us
Hours and hours, of future lost
Not that a crook ever counts the cost
A war on wealth that never was
Learn the hard way and all because
Hanging around here since 2am
Promising I never will again
Treating avoidance as some suspense
You let me down
Try again
Now you've found
That I've left
You let me down
And I know that every time
You'll let me down
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4. |
FURTHER ON
00:32
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[INSTRUMENTAL]
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5. |
CARICATURE
03:14
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Don't fight me
I'm a caricature
You wanna pick a fight with someone your own size
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Put me in my place
A pixel dot
Justify your rage
It's good
But here's a heads up
Don't fight, don't fight me
I'm a caricature
Don't fight, don't fight me
I'm a caricature
Now that we are all
Invested in
Some proportions blown
Stones thrown
But there's just one more thing
Don't fight, don't fight me
I'm a caricature
(Don't)
Don't fight me
I'm a caricature
You wanna pick a fight with someone your own size
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Don't fight me
I'm a caricature
You wanna pick a fight with someone your own size
Don't fight me
I'm a caricature
You wanna pick a fight with someone your own size / from real life
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Don't fight
(Don't x10)
Here, unsheltered from
The search deluxe
Green and pleasant forms
You've sworn
Well, here's a heads up
Don't fight, don't fight me
It's a caricature
Don't fight, don't fight me
It's a caricature
Don't fight
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6. |
IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
03:19
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No resonance of place
No thought or deed
Can fill this dead space
My given land cares not
For who you are
But what have you got
You won't show us
You won't show us
Like I thought you would
Come to "treat" us
Come to lead us
In your neighbourhood
And when you crow, "it's no great loss"
Do you say it
Just because
You won't show us
You won't show us
Like I thought you would
Come to "treat" us
Come to lead us
In your neighbourhood
N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D
N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D
In your neighbourhood
You won't show us
You won't show us
Like I thought you would
Come to "treat" us
Come to lead us
In your neighbourhood
You won't show us
Get to know us
Like I thought you would
Supersede us
You don't need us
In your neighbourhood
(N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D)
You won't show us
Get to know us
(N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D)
Like I thought you would
(N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D)
I won't grieve it
When I leave it
(N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D)
Leave your neighbourhood
N-E-I-G-H-B-O-U-R-H-O-O-D
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7. |
FUNCTIONAL
02:09
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When you say things and you don't really mean them
All my bones grow inward and suddenly seize up
Now
Now
Now
Watching it tumbling down
Down
Down
I'm barely functional now
It is a fortitude
That will persist
In spite of all things
(I'm barely functional)
And I shall tolerate you
If you insist
Inside I will flinch
(I'm barely functional)
When you invent an imagin'ry treason
All my limbs will start uncontrollably bleeding
Out
Now
Now
Watching it tumbling down
Down
Down
I'm barely functional now
Now
Now
Watching it tumbling down
Down
Down
I'm barely functional
Now
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8. |
UNISEUM
01:24
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[INSTRUMENTAL]
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9. |
THE STARS, LIKE DUST
02:22
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Give them the gift
Give them the gift
'Cause if they gave it to me
I'd only waste it
Give him the gift
Give him the gift
'Cause if they passed it to me
I'd only waste it
Then we'll stand outside
The little world they've built
Of fears
When you outlive
When you outlive
An age of infinite dread
Your leisure left us with
Gold in a bag, wrapped in a flag
That doesn't love back
You found you came to the fore
For cloth that bore a myth
Now we stand outside
The little world they've built
For years
Now we stand outside
The little world they've built
The little world they've built
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10. |
SILENT RUNNING
03:44
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Well, I am over overdrive
So far from view
Silent running
Here becoming
An endless echo
Finding fragments
Of attachment
I've known
Silent running
Here becoming
An understander
Drifting further
Than you'll observe
Into the unknown
Here on the surface
It is just fine
A spectrum view
And I shall never quite return
Or need you
Silent running
Here becoming
An endless echo
Finding fragments
Of attachment
I've known
Silent running
Here becoming
An understander
Drifting further
Than you'll observe
Into the unknown
Silent running
Silent running
Silent running
Silent running
Into the unknown
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11. |
MISERY MASS
03:10
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Oh the troubled line
Of accomplished facts
(Misery mass, stand at the back, misery mass, slip through the cracks)
When it's not your fight
And you counteract
(Misery mass, stand at the side, misery mass, we're taught to hide)
Where there are no lights
There's no-one to impress
(Misery mass, standing around, misery mass, when you surround)
Will you ask me more?
Will you hear me less?
It's anyone's guess
Don't want to dance in front of strangers I don't know
Nuh huh
Oh no
Don't want to validate the people I've outgrown
Nuh huh
(Don't, don't, don't)
(Oh no)
Can we go somewhere else?
Where we can be ourselves?
If we held our smiles
We'd be free to go
(Misery mass, stand at the back, misery mass, slip through the cracks)
And we don't go out very often
'Cause "pristine" is part of the problem
I'm for radio
Don't want to dance in front of strangers I don't know
Nuh huh
Oh no
Don't want to validate the people I've outgrown
Nuh huh
Oh no
Can we go somewhere else?
Where we can be ourselves
Truly?
Don't want to dance in front of strangers I don't know
Nuh huh
Oh no
Don't want to validate the people I've outgrown
Nuh huh
Oh no
Don't want to dance in front of strangers I don't know
Nuh huh
(Don't wanna dance)
Oh no
Don't want to validate the people I've outgrown
Nuh huh
Oh no
Can we go somewhere else?
Where we can be ourselves?
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12. |
BEAST MOVES
00:50
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[INSTRUMENTAL]
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13. |
CASSIE
03:16
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The sound you heard has broken
And day
The things you love are dying
It's ok
None of them know you belong
Neither does anyone else
Numbers divided in sums
Merely a part of thyself
Subtracting where it's from
(Merely a part of thyself)
Talking in powers of ten
Being in powers of none
Never step outside the house
Living inside of the sun
With stardust in your lungs
None of them know
None of them know
None of them know
The placeholders
You want magic, brought to life
Yet you can see it's not
And all the years become you
In ways your means cannot
Cassie
Cassie
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Roberta Fidora England, UK
Falling somewhere between Bet Lynch and David Lynch.
"Ideal synth pop for melancholics..." - MOJO Magazine.
New EP out now: robertafidora.bandcamp.com/album/apophonia
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