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All in vain
03:17
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You waved goodbye, then I waved back
That's how it all began fading out
I'm struggling in the heart
Accused of an unmade crime
My mind is stuck in awry plans
The glance of love, the scowl of hate
Its silent speech will see no ink
The stars above, beyond the trees
Have no boundaries, they are infinite
Don't dare the sea, its rage is mean
Don't dare the earth, you'll end up there
The glance of love, the scowl of hate
Its silent speech will see no ink
You think you are nice
But your heart is stuffed
With arrogance, spleen and pride
Every soul, with shrilling cry
Will pass like smoke in space in time
Below this sky
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One fine day
05:27
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How can I wait, wait for so long?
until you come once more
one fine day, I'm gonna wake
and find good fortune
knock at my door
This is the year and this is the month
this is the day that this song was born
this is the time, this is the train
this is the place where our eyes met
When beauty is gone
it leaves a turmoil
beauty awakes the souls to act
waiting for that melody
to drive me insane
instead I get a fine that I must pay
I'm sitting in this dark plane
from Auckland bound to Melbs
and I wonder if all the people here
have taken their meds
screaming jay shouts, right in my cans
he says he ain't lying
then I realised
one fine day, had already come
that day, that month, that year, that place, that night
that bar, that cigarette we had
which enticed my heart
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Apparent reality
04:07
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Satin skin, velvet dress, wonder lust, the perfect match
coy allusions, verbal tension, toying with affection, loaded suggestion
lifting the veil, stripped of the props, it does not stop, starting out small, trying to find your worth
beauty seeker your time has come
that what is and was not, cannot be without having become
half a life spent in dreams, the other half perfecting sins
has it ever occurred to you to know on the fact?
that sounds gets where other things wouldn't arrive?
blow the horn and pluck the harp
all that never bleeding ink
resembles to an unborn child that will never be or become
now that sophists rule the world, sat upon a demagogy throne
lies are getting so much bigger, people are blind and everyone's right, in their own mind
for those labours we've been through lost its purpose in time
looking afar and hoping to find that one right for you
that's hope in the eyes that cannot see in the dark
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As I hold my breath
04:55
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I remember now
I realise, materialised
so I hold my breath
try to do my best
as I hold my breath
as I hold my breath
Can you spare me the pain
not long ago my wounds were healed
I know I can wait
only to get the best
'cause I can wait
'cause I can wait
I'm sure I'll rearrange
the rest of my life
and I'll start afresh
only for the best
as I hold my breath
as I hold my breath
though it's hard
for me to wait
while I hold my breath
the pain cannot be spared
it's only for the best
if I could only hold my breath
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5. |
Baby go down
04:03
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you said baby go down
baby go down
it's the last chance
so baby go down
you said baby go down
in your devil's disguise
and I'm on fire
so babe I'll go down
you said baby go down
flames reach high
I'm down on my knees
I'm bond to your thighs
you said baby go down
night turns a strive
you said baby go down
I can't but comply
you said baby go down
through a shaman's drum
you look like a saint
you taste like wine
you said baby go down
as I'm turning hard
you said baby go down
hell's gate open up
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Back for more
03:55
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I don't know how it started
don't know how it'll end
your days are getting shorter
and mine are the same
let's make a hold the fire
a kind of simple truce
you tell me that you love me
and I tell you I love you too
last time we've seen each other
the winter was so warm
but I did a great mistake
it was coming back for more
nature is often hiding
in front of our nose
we pushed ourselves together
to a place we did not belong
we practice our errors
as if they were gifts
given by a higher power
in which you never believed
since we don't talk no more
bitterness of words is gone
there's no greater mistake than coming back for more
and I came back for more
Don't know how it started
don't know how it'll end
but it seems I'm bold enough
to make one more mistake
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Too many tomorrows
04:54
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We pile up days to our stock
we check them out from time to time
we cannot grab what we don't have
if tomorrow were right here, you'll be in my arms
there's just one thing
I cannot solve
there's too many tomorrows
'til my lips reach yours
I'm walking through these lonesome streets
where once I dreamed being awake
the same old clouds up in the sky
same meaningless living without you by my side
they try to impress me
with silver and gold
I say don't bother and get rid of them all
I'm stranger here and there
and another days without here
it's a day to waste
the truth told, out of time
it would always sound like a lie
things will last for a while
before they fade out into a heartless past
I believe in all and I believe in none
I believe in things that are long gone
so I piled up days to try to solve
what could go wrong if my lips reach yours
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Hypatia
05:07
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And who's to blame
for Hypatia's death
my teacher's words, ease my soul
she's pure like the water, she's pure like the snow
flowing form the fountain of a wisdom source
she's wise as a the rumours never told
oh my wise fair one
sooth men's lust with your lyre
though your blood-stained rags
might not change their minds
shame on them
who did not stand
your gift of knowledge
your beauty of mind
damned be the ones
who laid their raging hands and eyes
on your purest soul
when we look at the night sky
we see Hypatia's star
shining down on us
enlightening our lives
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9. |
Road of mistakes
04:58
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So I took the hardest road
or at least it seemed so
even though I've had enough
there's no way I come back where I come from
as past echoes seek their trails
on a blown minding rain
I gaze upon the universe
standing on a filed of machine-gun shells
some faces dissolve in thoughts
like some mystic ancient tongues
abandoned and forsaken in a blindfold gaze
so painfully easy to forget
however was the past
it's present now
when it feels that curse being cast
don't let it drag you for a mile
as the days roll by
I'm too weary to tell
all those stories I've learned
from the road mistakes
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10. |
I didn't get you
04:43
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From bar to bar
I roam around
and listen to all
the dirty jokes
from drunk men
And I didn't get to you
from club to club
I've spent my last pound
I've asked all the neighbourhood whores
about your whereabouts
I think of you every night
but in simple past
I'm still on your hook
and I don't think I should
from winter to summer
from summer to fall
hours turn into months
and nothing has changed at all
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Henry Hugo Melbourne, Australia
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