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Flowers and Gardens
02:19
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So you missed the train
Standing in the rain
You watch it disappear again
This time it was so close
Right in front your nose
You really need someone to blame
And I think you take it well
You never had the gift
To discover or to lift
Pick a winner is always risky
It’s a tricky one
Time can prove you wrong
You need a nose to pick a whisky
I think you take it well
And slashing is so simple
Anyone can spot a pimple
But I think you take it well
Well I was told today
You wrote a wide array
Of books on gardening and plants
Maybe I was wrong
Misjudged you all along
Maybe you can when I just can’t
So keep exploring that well
And I can loathe myself
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Length Of The Ride
03:41
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I can’t even remember now, the first time that we spoke
It must’ve been sometime early spring
We were never meant to be close to close
Little did I know what time would bring
It’s funny, lucky, or maybe sad
We don’t know where we’re heading at
Or the length of the ride
Many times I’ve wondered why I’ve been ignored
With all my loved ones still on board
Maybe this is where my luck finally runs out,
just as yours and you will be my first
cause If you only fill your bag, and never do unpack
you know that someday it will burst
It’s funny, lucky, or maybe sad
We don’t know where the train is going
Or the length of the ride
Many times I’ve wondered why I’ve been ignored
With all my loved ones still on board
One year on you’re out of it, a sigh of relief
But still something has changed
The kryptonite has got to me, vaporized my shield
The incubator’s cracked, splinters fall like rain
While I was busy writing this, and you busy getting well
Someone else left the train
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Takeoffs and Crashes
02:16
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I hope we’re going to be friends
I hope we’re going to be friends
Always going to be friends
And you know I knew from early days
Walking to school through those alleyways
That somewhere further down the line
We we’re destined to be partners in crime
And if that plane came down in fire and fumes
Would I take care of you children for you?
Yes I would
Yes I would
I hope we’re going to be friends
Always going to be friends
The plane won’t crash, the kite won’t fail
It will just take off, and you away
There’s many chapters in this tale
Many seas for you to sail
And if late one night
I’d receive a note
That you’re about to write
The last episode
You know I will drop what’s on my mind
Let my worries off the hook
And I’ll be on the morning flight
To be there when you close your book
Yes I will
I will
I hope we’re going to be friends
I hope we’re going to be friends
Always going to be friends
Always going to be friends
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Grand Piano
03:34
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Suddenly it’s so quiet
Like a joke that missed the mark
Just the thoughts inside the head
Sparkles longing for the dark
It’s remnants of what is lost
Like neutrons gone astray
Running out of control
That collide and detonate
And the words that I wrote you
On your grand piano
Now rings untrue
And the promise that I gave you
Sounds so futile
And so out of tune
I want to be that crutch
I want to lend that hand
I want to be that ear
But time is your only friend
The only one to hear
And to understand
I read the words that you wrote me
The meaning coming through
It all comes from you
And the promise that I gave you
Although futile
Still might someday come true
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Just a Boy
02:47
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It’s so liberating watching you play
So mind-boggling to stay that way
Swing from tree to tree
From game to game
I am thinking:
That’s the way to stay and not come down
Carefree in infinity
No responsibilities
But baby you’re a big boy now
You sweep into the office
In your immaculate suit
A smile that open vaults
Words that seduce
You sip those drinks with ease and grace
One hand free to steer away
From any iceberg threatening your convoy
Cause you’re in charge of this whole fleet
A whole world is at your feet
But baby you are still a little boy
You sip those drinks with ease and grace
One hand free to steer away
From any iceberg threatening your convoy
Cause you’re in charge of this whole fleet
A whole world is at your feet
But baby you are still a little boy
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6. |
The End
03:37
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Money can take you far
Beauty can take you far
Parents can take you far
Friendships can take you far
Schooling can take you far
Handshakes can take you far
Uncles can take you far
Spouses can take you far
But taking it for granted
It’s the end
It’s the end
Implants can take you far
Language can take you far
Genetics can take you far
Secrets clubs can take you far
But taking it for granted
It’s the end
It’s the end
I say this because I love you
I say this because I care
I say this because I wish you
All the fortune that you can carry
But if you don’t carry it yourself
It’s the end
It’s the end
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Ain't Gonna Happen
02:26
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Walking down the aisle with Mr Perfect
take that final class, get your diploma
stop worrying about those extra kilos
Get an overnight apartment in Barcelona
Get up early, start the day out running
Finishing the novel in your drawer
Give up gossiping about absent friends
Have a word of truth with your employer
It ain’t gonna happen…
Get a backup disc and store it safely
stopping by your grandma at the center
return the book you borrowed from a schoolmate
learn another language, and then another
It ain’t gonna happen…
Moving to a house with your new boyfriend
Quit your job and open a taverna
Be a better more supportive parent
Be a better more supportive daughter
Spend the summer reading Marcel Proust
Tell your friends how much you really love them
Tumble down the stairway in Odessa
Sell the second car and join a car pool
Walking down the aisle with Mr Perfect
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8. |
Children
04:20
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You hate your mother
For not letting go
You hate her weakness
And for letting it show
You hate your father
For being overprotective
For all the fears
That he just projected
Spit out that poison
Spit out that taste
Go get your crayons
And wipe out that slate
You hate your mother
For not being there ‘n
You blame your father
For her disappearing
Suck out that poison
Spit out that taste
Cut off that hate-line
Reboot, update
You hate your father
For giving in to whims
You hate yourself
For being him
Spit out that venom
Spit out that taste
Don’t give your children
Someone to hate
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9. |
Stoneage Romeos
02:44
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There was a girl helping me get over somebody else
Helping me get over somebody else
Helping me get over somebody else
Helping me get over somebody else
That I used to love
We kissed goodbye, you said you’d call me or that maybe I should call you
You walked away, never looked back to see if I was looking back at you
And I walked away
Looking back
She helped me get over that girl
She helped me get over that girl
She helped me get over that other girl
She helped me get over that other girl
That I used to love
You walked away over the bridge to have a talk with your ex-boyfriend
And I went back and passed the shop we’re we just stopped to pick our phones up
And I went in and bought a record back that I once gave away to a girlfriend
Yes I went in and picked emotions up I once gave up when I thought I surrendered
And I went home
With Stoneage Romeos
You helped me get over her
You helped me get over her
You helped me get over her
You helped me get over her
Her that I used to love
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10. |
Titles and Frames
03:25
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In a world of games
titles and frames
where one is cast aside like change
in favor of someone with
a slightly more promising name
It’s a treacherous path through marshy plains
one foot wrong and it’s all down the drain
it’s a slow ascend, a life-long climb
the guard must never be let down
It’s not enough to stay alive
it’s all about sailing in style
It’s a treacherous path through marshy plains
one foot wrong and it’s all down the drain
it’s a life-long climb to reach the top
Never rest, always up
You must always know, as you ascend
on whom to step or to befriend
there is no room, to hesitate
Success, she never waits
So look for signs, in words, in clothes
and be prepared, to let them go
Enter: you, saying who is this
this person that’s in front of me
no formula, no recipe
just curious, just empathy
Exit you into the void
Board your ship, across the sea
and it’s plain to see, that when you leave
That’s the way we ought to be
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For a fraction of a milli-micro-second time stops
Planets hanging in limbo
Earth stops spinning
Motions blocked
As Universe dives in to pick
Out the one she really loves
And the world spins on
And the world spins on
And the world spins on…
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Un Rodo Cora Sweden
Seamless pop smarts drawing from a wide spectrum of genres and time periods.
Un Rodo Cora is a Stockholm based group
of musicians with links to both USA and India. They are somewhere between a solo project, a band and a collective, centered around the songwriter Bo Christo. Although a number of musicians form the core of the band the actual line-up is as fixed as a recipe for pizza.
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