1. |
The Creature
03:51
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Verse 1:
When I was alone
Was always someone there
When I thought I was down
I knew up couldn't compare
And I followed hot on your high heels
handstands and cartwheels
For my daily bread
And I swallowed, hook lines and all
till I was in thrall
to the steps you tread
Chorus:
Here is the note
I should have left by the phone
From a sender unknown
and marked in red
And here's the coat
I could've worn in the cold
That might have consoled
The creature under my bed
And all of those times
Now clamour to be heard
All those unsolved crimes
And reckonings deferred
And I sing out
For a last slurred song
That rights all my wrongs
And sends me to bed
And I have no doubt
If there's one thing I know
Above or below
It was left unsaid
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2. |
Magic Circle
03:47
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If it was not on the level
Would you let me know
If sands were shifting beneath
Our squarely planted toes
Would you then sound the alarm
while whistles rent the air
And use your poise and your charm
to smooth the ruffled hairs?
Chorus:
Everyone knows better than that
they know crouching low wont save your soul in a crash
But you know things, with mirrors and rings
And soapy words that'll take out the sting
when you saw us apart and together again
We'll still pick a card from your deck
And though I do doubt the shiny veneer
And I know that a gleam is not all it appears
I still love the feel of a breath in my ear
And a hand in my pocket below
Chorus:
We are not babes in the wood
We always thrown light on as much as we could
Middle-8
Fool me once shame on you
Fool me thrice thats a charm
But when you prefer haze
on a soft gauzy day
to the glaring blaze
of a winter sun's rays
I didnt want it at all...x4
You gave me gifts Id just as soon give you back
Filled up a suitcase I cant unpack
Drove me so far off my well beaten track
That Ill never find my way home
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3. |
Snow Day
03:27
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Please take a number
And get in line
Behind greasy glass I
swig a thermos full of wine
Its never a school-night anymore
don't you know?
Its a four day week of the soul
and the roads are clogged with snow
Chorus
And this is what I always used to crave
When forever would invade the everyday
This is what I always wanted
Like a bunker in a raid
And the speaker of the radio
combs the music to a purr
a soft bath of static
that bubbles softly through the door
I got you a sick note
and I wrote it just right
It says you're excused from
the dying of the light
Middle 8
Wont we say dear that then
those, those were the times.
The times when the sirens
made you glad to be alive.
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4. |
Down Tools
04:15
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What you stash in the drawer
With the broken handle
Is not a golden treasure
Its not the spoils of a war
The closer I get
the more it shrinks away
And I know that the hardest work
Is when you're trying to play.
Chorus:
And thrown down tools seem to find a way
(when you leave them and not when you stay)
Come back to fool the one that threw them away
(when you need them and no other way
It seems that the young and the dumb
know what you're trying to learn
Cause they told you the deal was that things
were only worth what you earned
Well its not the biggest lie
That youve ever been told
Cause its true on winter nights
when your insides are cold
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5. |
Riot of Cells
04:34
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She checked out with a smile
and left a tip with the girl
lysol and hired hands
washed her scent from the world
And the rooms are the same
even a blind man could see
and the men behind the doors
are really detainees
Verse 2:
Dont they all want, to wipe the sameness away
to scrawl corruption, on a fresh coat of paint
And thats what you do, you really take apart
the little enclosures that are made for your heart
Bridge:
And everyone carves a name
they think is theirs alone
In the back row of desks
plexiglass by the phone
We poison the well of the good and the pure
The pull of the broken
The tarnished allure
Chorus:
And thats what it is, to make a mark on things
To draw on your body, to gift a ring
Saying here was an accident
A riot of cells
That spoke with an accent
that had its own smell
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6. |
Simmer Down
04:26
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The damned elite were rising
Flying far beyond horizons
Of your dreams
Rising far above the playing fields
Where they picked up the welts and weals
Of men
Riding pockets
Of Stolen Air
made of sighs of your despair
You
Simmer down
So beautifully
I
Could never try
To disagree
And the crescent streets where you and I
Made the names we both go by
Are lost
Smothered with a lullaby
of Swimming pools and Azure skys
They're gone
Grass has grown around our feet
While we lose our rising heat
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7. |
Broken Egg
05:12
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I do not cry at the end of a man
I never knew
But I cannot bend to the will of a plan
like you do
Oh I beleive that you're saying something
And It rolls from the heart of the earth
And I can see that its better than nothing
and I know that thats what its worth
And all along the road ahead
the scattered waste of the weak and the dead
For every mile a broken egg
so it goes.
What ever you do
Its alright, its alright
What ever you say
We turned day into night
And I cant play with trick or treat
though I try
I can always see whats under your sheet
is a lie
And I know that its now or never
And I know theres a sting in the air
But I cannot commit to forever
when I still feel the wind in my hair
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8. |
Visible Light
03:58
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In your dressing gown on a road, you wave at the cars as they pass
And your bare feet dance on the street as you skip past the shit and the glass
And I watch you with wonder, as the cars rumble by
And the heads as they bob behind glass
Never pay you the meagerest mind
Verse 2:
And you're beating your wings in the hope that
the ripple will rise to a wave
And your hoping the world follows suit when you try
to get them to behave
And I told you they'll never, pose for you, and give you their actual names
There wont be a day when they say that they'll play by the rules of the game
Chorus:
Fumbling around
black in the night
lost in the day
Chances we found
Visible light
for breaking away
Bridge:
I only know , cause I learned it
I can only speak, in a voice that broke
So I'm telling you now cause you've earned it
By tilting at things that once fell on me
Who am I, well, who are you?
Who is anyone, but what they become
By listening to things, that they whisper
In their own ears to block out the sound
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9. |
City Walls
04:42
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I got written on my skin
Whatever it said on my shirt at the time
And the face I made when the wind changed
Became the one that you know me by
And the bindings on my feet
became the plaque upon my door
Chorus:
And thats how you started to build
Over lines that were easy to draw
Spread yourself between rivers and hills
And lay accident down as the law
And the stones that are worn by your feet
well they happen to lay as they fall
And the names of your winding streets
Are as weak as your city walls
And now I whisper in my ear
Things in a language I no longer know
And I cant decide if they soothe me
Like the places I used to go.
And I strained at my own leash
till my neck was red and raw
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10. |
Feet Of Clay
03:46
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Leaving footprints on your doorstep
Dragging mud into your hall
Cigarette burns on my carpet
While you walk before you crawl
Taking leave of your senses
On a dog day afternoon
Falling sick with an illness
To which you thought you were immune
Chorus:
Please excuse, my filthy shoes
Cause Ive been blazing trails I shouldnt use
Oh please forgive my how late it is
Its been so long since Ive been so far away.
Verse 2:
Do not disturb on the door
Thought you hung it for all to see
But in crashes the cleaner
to your muddled reverie
Toast made on a candle
and a sheet on a curtain rail
the door missing a handle
and a shirt hung on a nail
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The Mash Combo Dublin, Ireland
The Mash Combo are a Dublin-based band based around singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Declan Murray, previously of Irish/Indian Band The Unseen Guest, and Dublin band The Four In Hand. This is their first full-length album.
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