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Behaviours
05:08
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jennifer gentle is frightened again
picks up their eyes in her thoughts and falls overboard
every monday without fault
following a rip tide, there she goes
to open water
where she will sing
oooohhh .....
always sings
yeaahh .....
sometimes on tuesday gets tangled in space
stands in the street for an hour 'till it's over - poor girl
picking up an earful when it rains
pulling down the sunshine in her heart
waiting for the right time
to sing
oooohhh .....
yeaahh .....
with what they will call her behaviours
she tears the labels off
"life is lonely, living through a glass darkly
i am here, if you listen closely you can hear me roar
i have lent an ear to your suggestions
i have answered a thousand questions unacknowledged
the world is full of tangents, of comings and of goings
people following patterns without knowing
i live in closed loops, spinning febrile hoops - but so do you
your arc is just wider - my orbit is tighter, close to the bone
i may fly blind but with my X-Ray eyes, i see
through your smiling grimace
the refractions in your smoke and mirrors
where meaning is effaced by the unmoving hands
on a silent clock"
jenny on wednesday will come up for air
calling collect from her bed on the ocean floor
she doesn't mind who's listening
empty chairs are fine for mannequins
in sheep's clothing
she lives in the echo chamber of her loneliness
stuck with pins and needles in her favourite birthday dress
they put her in poses, dress her in clothes
and send her out to meet the wolves
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well it starts from dark and it gets hard enough
and it'll pull, it'll cut you in two
it'll always be the same things that hurt, get stuck in your heart
but in truth - they don't matter at all
because life is such a beautiful thing - YEAH!
it'll always be the same things your mind tries
to keep you on the downside of everything
in a trial or error situation
remember to be kinder
no! to make an effort to be so - with intention
not just by the by
i wish that you would understand and be open to it
to place all before your own
and be glad to do it
to be GLAD to do it
the game will be to gather up the shards
return all disparate parts of the diaspora
and find your way back home
reconcile the many with the one
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Interlude
02:04
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foreverbones
04:09
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let's get on, oh let's get on
life is short, so short
so it's time to move along
let's commit to disappear
list ourselves among the dead
and lie out low
foreverbones
twisted wire men and women, made from twisted wire
pipe cleaner people, pushed and pulled together
see how they push me as they pull you
until we're glued
likes and gripes and hopes and groans
foreverbones
sweep the floor, wind the clock, change the locks, throw away the key
what was once just here has up and gone away
one day you'll wake up
and something's changed
all the old arrangements needing to be rearranged
twisted wire men and women, rend their twisted hearts
pipe cleaner people, pushed and pulled apart
see how they pull me as they push you
become unglued
fall apart to lie like stones
foreverbones
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Kt when i'm older and balding
when i'm loud and boring, will you be there?
even when you've heard my stories
when i'm broken and haunted, will you still care?
promise me we'll keep exploring
looking for our kind of ordinary treasure chests
whenever you are melancholy, i will make you tea with honey
that we'll share
take me on the open road
piece me all together now, split pieces all together now
we'll be where the north winds blow
and the rain falls heavy round our simple island home
Kt now it's getting closer, it's at our shoulder - we're almost there
just a couple months more maybe
and we'll be in Orkney, i swear
promise me we'll keep exploring
looking for our kind of ordinary treasure chests
no getting up at 5 in the morning to drive to embroidery
no more cares
take me on the open road
piece me all together now, bring pieces and we'll go
we'll see where the grass is grown
and the wind plays steady round our simple island home
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flakebelly Stornoway, UK
Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Outer Hebrides. "Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom
Robinson, BBC 6 Music
found underneath a gooseberry bush, some time past. grown crooked-tree and raggydoll. now a purveyor of pomes and posey, liking nothing more than to be thumbing his Flaming Jangle Music all hours
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