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("hold on",she says...)
Oh you're dying so quietly
Oh your death is so polite to me
I hear the stars
I feel the dark
And they're breathing so silently
And any sound is a reply to me
A shivering heart
A homeward dart
But they'll miss it when...
When the dawn comes
Taking life in your own hands
That's what I call Progress!
When your mama calls
Taking life in your own hands
That's what I call...
I stand upon a fallen tree
And I'm grateful that it died for me
All stuttered steps
All hours spent
Now you're painted and erased, I see
On a wall, the window light a sea
And I feel no pain
But I cry the same
Cos I miss you but...
When the dawn calls
Taking life in your own hands
That's what I call Progress!
When your mama calls
Taking life in your own hands
That's what I call...hmmm
(So I saw him
Down on his hands and knees...
Touching, inspecting, separating one
Stalk from the other...
Pleased to feel each little weed-root break,
But rueful also . . .
Then found myself listening to
The amplified grave ticking...)
When your mama calls
Taking life into your own hands
That's what I call...
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Did you run some distance?
Did you know they had a knife?
Does it make no difference
If they let you lose your life?
I confess what a God awful mess
What a God awful mess they left here...
Come outside if you're awake in the night
Swear sometime and put a name to a crime
What a God awful mess
What a God awful mess they left...
If it were my mission
To make you feel all right
There would be omission
Or otherwise I'd lie to you
Cos I confess what a God awful mess
What a God awful mess they left here...hmm...
Come outside if you're awake in the night
Swear sometime and put a name to a crime
Come outside there's been a death overnight
Swear sometimes I think my memory lied
What a God awful mess
What a God awful mess they left...
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timshel
02:23
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Some separate life that I led
On the spine of some book seen from my bed
A word folded time
God bless the child I was then
And that I never looked for what it meant
'til it caught my eye
On your sweet left wrist
What others missed
I know it but I don't know how
This timshel is
What others missed
I know it but I don't know how
So most sacred a thing
From a line in a book stuck in your head
In bold, underlined
God said that we should be blessed
You were dying to get my fingers wet
With your mouth, close to mine
This timshel is
Relent, Resist
I know it but I don't know how
This timshel is
What others missed
I know it but I don't know how
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the theft and the flight
03:57
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Soon you come crawling
In the dead of the morning
Gaping and yawning
In the dead of the morning
There you lay awake
And try to concentrate on
The theft and the flight of the stowaway
How she got away...
The stars paint an awning
The moonlight's a warning
You're faking and fawning
In the dead of the morning
On your face a grave
You're lying, concentrate on
The theft and the flight of the stowaway
How she got away...
The Theft and The Flight!
Oh... the never knowing!
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JJ Draper London, UK
Independent singer-songwriter from the UK, making music that is unflinching in its honesty and boundless in its ambition.
Expect moments of vulnerability punctuated with raw defiance, captured in records that orbit around great musicians and experimental production techniques.
Previous collaborative work with Ed Tullett on Spotify
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