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Oh Maria
Your old friend's here
Collecting pennies from our wishing well
I said I'd meet you there
Just for Maria
And Maria
That searchlight's near
We'll dig & retreat from here
Sit up & dry your tears
For me Maria
Oh Maria
When we were young
Another story only raised alarm
Another yarn was spun
In you Maria
And Maria
All I had done
Could not arrange the order of that storm
Direct you from your course
Oh sweet Maria
I said I'd meet you down
Down by that wreck you found
And all those bells sound
It's just a howl for Maria
Stealing my heart at the band parade
Leaving your claws in the night's remains
Reeling from the clamour & brawl
I left for Maria
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Vog
04:17
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When they called you to surrender
And the house was found surrounded
Please take my life
Please spare my love
When the gale bit through the morning
And the smoke strangled the mountain
Flee while I fight
Reach sanctuary
I raised my hand under the sun
But my throat won't clear
The raindust & vog
Please forgive my blunt reflections
They were carved from god's illusions
Keep by my side
Dream a white flag to hold
I raised my hand under the sun
But my throat won't clear
The raindust & vog
When they called you to surrender
And the house was found surrounded
Please take my life
Please spare my love
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Receding Jesus
04:25
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Coiled in my mouth
A secret nailed into my tongue
As the silver leaves return
Fall & blanket everyone
I drink 'til the feeling withers
And the rows drown in my heart
Soon the radio's replaying
Last night's footprints in the ground
How can you claim
That the mark's already healed?
Bruises glow like Monday headlines
Wheezing riddles unrevealed
It's a sad state of conditions
When the bombs refuse to land
Father John turned debt collector
Sister Mary at the bar
Feel the heat of the sunlight leaving
Feel the hum of the road
Sunk a pocket of trials in the cinders
Won't you pour me out a path I can run?
But I'm tethered to her heart
Ray worked that corner
'Til the day they took his eyes
Now the burglars carry matches
And the sirens stutter lies
There's a saboteur in me
Keeps her sweet beneath the flowers
There's a radiator heating
All the fines the rain devoured
Feel the heat of the sunlight leaving
Feel the hum of the road
Sunk a pocket of trials in the cinders
Won't you pour me out a path I can run?
But I'm tethered to her heart
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A House is Not a Motel
03:54
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At my house I've got no shackles
You can come and look if you want to
In the halls you'll see the mantles
Where the light shines dim all around you
And the streets are paved with gold
And if someone asks you
You can call my name
You are just a thought that someone
Somewhere somehow feels you should be here
And it's so for real
To touch
To smell
To feel
To know where you are here
And the streets are paved with gold
And if someone asks you
You can call my name
I hear you calling my name
By the time that I'm through singing
The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing
More confusions, blood transfusions
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
And the water's turned to blood
And if you don't think so
Go turn on your tub
And if it's mixed with mud
You'll see it turn to grey
And you can call my name
I hear you calling my name
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Cold horizon
The sound of your voice hangs a shelter in me
A grip that won't leave
Cold horizon
To sink in an ocean of blood orange seas
With just you & me
Cold horizon
I flounder & scuttle around both your left feet
Led by your lead
Cold horizon
A reverence
A decade
A night I still hold
Delivered & told in that dream
Held in my bones
Cloaked in these walls
In London's bruised teeth
Cold horizon
The blossoms of rain paint the glass as we ride
All fragments of light
Cold horizon
The solace I found in the roots of those weeds
Bound as they creep through that dream
Held in my bones
Cloaked in these walls
In London's bruised teeth
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Last night my inquest found you dancing in the night
Beneath the old illuminations
In the coughing neon light
Down on the pavement I was drinking out of sight
As the police perused my lumber
And the smokers barked outside
She is all I need
All my eyes can see
Leaving town tonight
I thought I caught you glance a raincloud through the glass
So I crept through grogged contention
Took remission by the bar
Looked on as hands entwined in crumbling revelry
As the band played on in fractures
And led my heels back to the street
She is all I need
All my eyes can see
Heading out tonight
Dusting for prints I found another in my head
And I saw my own reflection
Reaching out to comprehend
Two silhouettes beneath the lantern at your door
Meant the fire between my fingers
Was the last you ever saw
She is all I need
All my eyes can
Fading out tonight
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Leave your stumbling heels & half-hung head
Take the altar from my knees
There's a scorn within your make believe
It's a struggle for retreat
Don't you think I thought it over?
All you wish I'd claim to see
Don't you think I thought it over?
We're not moth or flame but the light between
And the love they cast is enough in you & me
There's a remedy for that bind you're in
But that snake oil cuts you dry
Borrow beg or steal for that skeleton key
Cut the brains to your supply
Don't you think I thought it over?
All you wish I'd claim to see
Don't you think I thought it over?
We're not moth or flame but the light between
And the love they cast is enough in you & me
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High Wire Dance
06:24
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The old ghosts revealing
And tied to the ceiling
Of my mind
My glass jaw defeated
The hand that was beating
A blind eye
A trapdoor appearing
And a signal receiving
That won't hide
Looted & empty
What shone burrowed through me
A black light
Nothing I dragged through the tide
Could command what surrounded
So listen as you breathe
Talking in your sleep
The wind is black & blue
And the moon is a blur
I found you in my pocket
An etching on my fate
A rope to thread my needle
Oh trouble hangs on that weight
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I remember all the puzzles
That you used to bend the rules
I was tempted by confession
But I saw your face refuse
I was always 23 when you called
Though the furrows weren't convincing
And the crow's feet lingered far too long
She was sinking from the corner
Of my mind
When the past was just revision
And the sidekicks held the prize
Too much hanging by the water
'Til we're wading at our knees
An accomplice for the nightbirds
When the station drones repeat
But there's green in those baby blues
I recovered all precision
From a wilted aim I threw
You're a shield that won't be shadowed
An affray that I pursued
Put it all on 23 when you called
In a town that paints it's riddles
To the punch-drunk floors below
Taking shelter from the ashes
In my eyes
Hanging all my contradictions
On the sparks that fled the fire
It's impossible to wonder
How the breaks fell in your hands
An acclaim found in translation
An appeal on your command
But there's green in those baby blues
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Cat Meat UK
Cat Meat Are:
Phil Rogers (Guitar and Vocals)
Ian Olney (Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Bass, Electronics)
Louisa Wood (Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals)
Barney Bodoano (Guitar, Harmonica, Bass, Drums, Backing Vocals)
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