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Time To Get Sad
02:59
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Look for a dark corner to fall in
One where you can't see the walls meet
Where figures start to form
When you stare too long
Don't fumble around for the light switch
It'll find you in time, just you wait
You deserve this raw deal
This untimely ordeal
It's time to get sad
Time to let it all go
Lose yourself, lose your mind too
Don't go searching, just let it consume you
It's time to get sad, to get blue
Don't get out of bed 'til the sun sets
So you won't have to wait out the day
You won't have to pretend
You made it to the end
Don't look for an order to put this in
It's meant to be a maudlin affair
Let yourself twitch and shout
Shake your fists in your cloud
Sit in that corner knowing it's not meant to be fair
Yeah, it's time to get sad
Time to let it all go
Lose yourself, lose your mind too
Get up to get down
Turn that smile upside down
It's time to get sad, to get blue
Oh, it’s time to get sad, to be true
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2. |
Everything Here
04:20
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Take me back to the fog and all four seasons in one day
To the world in the middle of what I wanted but never knew how to say
Take me through all the endless turns, through the mountains and the hills
Where my fears fell through the trees into silver beds and my heart always stood still
I’m away from everyone I’ve ever known except you
I’m away from all the times I’ve only known,
From the same place, from the same room
There’s a better version of everything here, everything here
Like it’s all rising up to meet you
And instead of the person I thought I was, I thought I knew
There might be a better version of me too
It’s all black over here now that I know what it could be
Yeah, at best monochrome or sepia tones, I wanna feel the colours I keep in me
I know that they are all in there, even if they’re primary
I’ve gotta start somewhere, I’ve got a heart in here and now it’s time to learn how it beats
I’m away from everyone I’ve ever known, except you
I’m away from every place I’ve ever known,
From the same space, the same view
There’s a better version of everything here, everything here
Like it’s all rising up to meet you
And instead of the person I thought I was, I thought I knew
There’s gotta be a better version of me too
Take me back to the place
With the truly sacred ring
Where nothing really happened
But everything still mattered
Because it was a place we’d been
Oh there’s a better version of everything here, everything here
It’s in here, it’s right out the window.
I was in my head with a notion that I knew where to go
But now I’m going to be someone I want to know
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3. |
A Bad Day
04:43
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It’s just you and I and the pup here
I hope you know that’s all I need
On the corduroy couch not knowing what to watch
On my shoulder already asleep
I don’t need another night out
But you know we don’t have to stay in
You don’t need to be sorry either way
I will do the dishes tonight
Can you please just go and sit down
You’re allowed to have a bad day
It’s just you and I and this house on the hill
With a view full of frangipanis
At the breakfast table wishing we didn’t have to work
Eating from bowls full of anxieties
But it's a gift to come home to you
So let's push each other out through the door
And we’ll try very our best to find a way
To make it through the hi's and the smiles
All the small talk amongst the aisles
You’re allowed to have a bad day
And sometimes you’ll have to come and get me
Because I don’t know how I got there
And other times take me to the emergency ward
'Cause y'know, this shit isn’t fair
We’re gonna find better jobs
We’re gonna get to follow a dream
Everything will fall right into place
We are going to figure it out
We are going to figure it out
But for now, we’ve gotta keep a brave face
‘Cause there’s always gonna be a bad day
There’s always gonna be a bad day
And it’s okay to have a bad day
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4. |
Slack
03:59
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I’ll message you
It summons you into the driveway
The only magic in a long day
Of rumination and ruin
Talk to me
Tell me what your day was made of
Tell me what you’ve been afraid of
You’re worried they’ll realise you don’t know what you’re doing
Cut yourself some slack
Maybe I’ll do the same
Get down from your own back
So much easier to say
Don’t stay out in the cold
Your soul’s so warm
You’ve gotta keep some for yourself
You’re going to fade away
You won’t get the chance to burn out
When you’re beset by all the self-doubt
The demons get under your skin
So find your circle of salt before they come knocking
Cut yourself some slack
Maybe I’ll do the same
All the panic attacks
Won’t just go away
Don’t stay out in the cold
Your soul’s so warm
You’ve gotta keep some fire for yourself
You've gotta keep some fire for yourself
You’ve gotta keep some fire for yourself
You've gotta keep some fire for yourself
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5. |
Born To Lose
04:38
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Take the blue lift to the first floor
To the right you’ll see a place to sit
Everybody else has been waiting fifty years or more
But you’re the first to go through with it
Do you know what you’re here for?
Can you tell us what it’s called?
So you say you’ve had this done to you before?
But you’re not even that old?
Oh you’re much too young for this to happen to you
You poor, poor thing, we hope you make it through
This kind of thing doesn’t pick and choose
You might be born with it
But baby that don’t mean that you’re born to lose
Expect a mood shift and so much more
Feel the fight come into your fists
You know everybody else has their own flaws
Sometimes we’ve just gotta put up with it
You might not come out the other end
Not in the way that you hope to
We’re going to do everything we can
We’re going to do what’s best for you
Oh you’re much too young for this to happen to you
You poor, poor thing, we hope you make it through
This kind of thing doesn’t pick and choose
You might be born with it
But baby that don’t mean that you’re born to lose
You are loved
You’re cared for
So no matter what happens today
You will have a hand to hold
An ear for anything you have to say
Oh you’re much too young for this to happen to you
You poor, poor thing, we hope you make it through
This kind of thing doesn’t pick and choose
You might be born with it
But baby that don’t mean that you’re born to lose
We will go through this again
If we find out we have to
We can’t tell you when this will end
But we hope it’s sometime soon
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6. |
So Far Away
03:55
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How did you go sleeping last night
Did you manage to get some rest?
Or were you woken by nothing at all
To find everything on the ceiling?
It’s all coming down
You better get up
Shower, breakfast
You say you feel so far away from everything
It’s not just the city that you’re living in
Looks like everybody else takes all the winnings
You feel so far away from everything
How did you go getting through the day
Did the dramas drain you dry?
Did the peak hour traffic take to your veins?
You’re too busy to be preoccupied
It’s all coming through the front door
What’s for dinner tonight?
You say you feel so far away from everything
It’s not just the city that you’re living in
Looks like everybody else takes all the winnings
You feel so far away from everything
And you do everything that you should do
But you still feel like you’re born to lose
How did you go there in your head
Were you reasonable for once?
Are you working with what’s there inside
Are you letting go of enough?
Observe, don’t absorb
And dish out way less fucks
You say you feel so far away from everything
It’s not just the city that you’re living in
All the plants around the house keep dying
But love, I know that you’ll never give in
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I’m afraid of all the faces
I find down at the end of my arm
What are they all doing there
While I am here just trying to be calm
Do they want something from me?
Thought I didn’t care but now I see
Fear feeding off insecurities
I swear I never had til now
I swear I never had til now
With hearts and veins and arteries
All filling every fibre of my sleeves
It’s hard to say, it’s hard to see
If they’ll take me in or yell at me ‘til I leave
How did I even end up here?
I wish they would all disappear
We’re all headlights, we’re all deer
What did we do before all of this?
What did we do before all of this?
I am getting bored of all the faces
I find down at the end of my arm
I’m feeling ill from taking in the drivel
And the drive behind the charm
But they’ve got me sucked in, head first
Everything just gets reversed
And as soon as you call out the worst
They’re placing bets on me being fun at parties
They bet I’m fun at parties
We’re starting fires before the spark
We’re way ahead of ourselves
So when the fire doesn’t start
We’re blaming somebody else
We’re putting out fires before they start
We’re putting out ourselves
We’re putting out fires in our hearts
And blaming somebody else
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8. |
History
04:03
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I watched the sun set through graffiti in a cloudless sky
The colours turning into the sand dunes and goon bags full of white
It’ll take an hour to get home
Swaying through all these postcodes
And suburban versions of wide open roads
I watched the sleeping suburbs in bore water breeze
While every bird you’ve ever heard was singing in the trees
For every front yard trampoline
There’s an Australian Dream
Being born or being cut back down to size
I keep close to the shop fronts
During the dry heat
To add up the sweet seconds
Of air-conditioned relief
I watched my back through frosted windscreen in a cold commute
Tin cans dripping with candle wax, all merging in disrepute
As we head from A to B
All at different speeds
It’s not raining yet, we might get to work on time
I keep warm in the cold fronts
It’s always a short stay
Never curse it while it’s here
Soon it’ll feel so far away
I watched the sunset again through Venetian blinds
There’s more to know than just two tones of horizontal lines
If you look closer you’d see
All kinds of history
The kind that’s coming tomorrow
But never overnight
Might not be at the forefront
Of anything
But surely all these roadworks
Must lead to something
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9. |
Just After 4
05:28
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Watch the curtains breathe for an hour
Before deciding it’s time to get up
Don’t really need to go and have a shower
But I need to walk the pup
She turned both fans on in the middle of the night
Oscillating your throat into space
Nobody can hear you out there but down here
You have found the perfect place
It’s okay, she’ll be back home just after 4
She’ll get you grounded, at least on the right floor
So open your mouth first and you’ll be fine
She’s can tell the future but she can’t read your mind
Watch enough tv to fill a week,
Then make lunch with two square eyes
Don’t really have much else to go and get done
But do really need to stop telling myself that lie
She knows that you’ve got this whole part of your life
That you know you could work harder on
Don’t really think sinking further into the couch
Will really point you in the right direction
It’s okay, she’ll be back home just after 4
So go get something done before she walks through the door
And open your mouth before you go to bed
She can help you, but she needs to be awake to hear what you’ve said
Be a real man, don’t screw the lid on the bottle
Don’t let it all set to have your soul throttled
Now there’s someone in your life you thought you’d never find
Now that you’ve found your best friend for life
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10. |
Panic / Peace
06:12
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I was sick, and I was sick of going straight to thinking
About what my last words to you might be
So I’d make sure you knew that I love you
In case I didn’t wake from my sleep
What else could I really say, to you to sum it all up
They’re just three words but their weight
Was the only thing I could back up
Was the only thing I could lift
Was the only thing I could carry
While being whisked into a pulp
While wishing I could cry for help
Yeah, I wished and I wished but there’s no point in wishing
To replace half a life gone to waste
I’d take in opinions on all my achievements
But it’s all just a matter of taste
There was nothing that I could do, but it’s not like I never tried
So for me what is brand new, is to others all fossilised
No, now I won’t be left on the ground
No, now I won’t be left to be buried
Now I might learn a thing or two
But I never had to be taught my love for you
Half my life, half my life has rumbled on by
It’s of no great consequence
But now I have the heart and the strength to decide
Which side I can jump off the fence,
There’s a better version of everything here, I am learning how to take a bad day
The yearning for dreams so clear can make it feel like they’re so far away
But that’s a distance that I can run
The least resistance I’ve ever faced
Everything that used to always fall through
Is now all rising up to meet you
I still get sick but now I have to think about
Whether it’s panic or peace
It sneaks right up on me but it hits me so gently
And then it won’t let me be
What does it mean to be still, to be silent and able to think?
What does it mean to feel an entire house of kitchen sinks?
And the dishes are all done for us
Now we go to bed and read together
I guess we’ve got a bit of a story
And it’s not even boring
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11. |
Held It Together
01:46
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It was the final appointment
Parked on level 2 or 3
Last time I’ll have to think about
The footpath they paved around that tree
I’ve come here on my own
That’s how this has always been
Sat next to the outdated Woman’s Day
And Better Homes & Gardens magazines
Held it together
Half of my life
I can carry on forever
Now that I’m making up for lost time
I’ll never forget
The depths of those lows
But the difference is
Now I can let them go
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Sugar Wife Perth, Australia
Sun & thunder indie-rock from Boorloo.
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