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Cell Divided
05:07
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CELL DIVIDED
One day the break and the cell divided
Nothing would do and no one denied but
See
It made a pretty, pretty picture
Kind of a sight that really grabs your eye
Wait
However it’s played like we already tried
A dry paper heart with nothing inside but
Weeds
And a cold lonely feeling
I don’t know why I try to read your mind
I’m not inclined to wanna
Turn back the time
Queuing up
Beside yourself
Do you really gonna wait?
Wait
One day the break and the cell divided
Nothing would do and no one denied but
See
It made a pretty, pretty picture
Kind of a sight that really grabs your eye
Wait
However it’s played like we already tried
A dry paper heart with nothing inside but
Weeds
And a cold lonely feeling
I don’t know why I try to change your mind
It’s fate
Pull your pious front away
Who are you now?
They say
Every dog has his day
You can’t put me down
Fake
Say what you wanna say
Can’t take me down
It’s been a cold, cold winter
And I’m not inclined to wanna
Turn back the time
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LIVING IN A HOUSE OF CARDS
Lighting up my cave
With the fire of preparation
And a hope I tailor-made
For coping with the wave
Of your ill presentation and capacity for rage
Darkest of my days
Been pulling teeth and hair in a variety of ways
Nothing stays the same
You’re bending walls
Forever changing the rules
I aint gonna go
Givin it up, givin it up
Giving you the reasons that you want me to give
Living it up, living it up
Turn up all the heat on how you want me to
Step up step up
Givin it up, givin it up
Giving you the reasons that you want me to give
I’m living in a house of cards
We’re gonna bring it down
Only thieves and fools
Try and get out now
Living in a house of cards
A thin paper facade
No way to relate
No way to relate to you
To you now
I aint gonna go
Givin it up, givin it up
Giving you the reasons that you want me to give
Living it up, living it up
Turn up all the heat on how you want me to
Step up step up
Givin it up, givin it up
Giving you the reasons that you want me to give
I’m living in a house of cards
We’re gonna bring it down
Only thieves and fools
Try and skip this town
Living in a house of cards
A thin paper facade
No way to relate
No way to relate to you now
Now, now, now
I’m gonna take it underground
Salvage what I can
From the Devil’s lost and found
Listen to the sound
Of temptation burn to nothing but ashes
Ashes
Nothing but Ashes
(On the ground)
You don’t
Don’t really feel it
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3. |
Raise The Roof
05:06
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RAISE THE ROOF
Like treading water
To find you’re made of stone
An eerie laughter
Could chill you to the bone
Now they’re creeping right into your home
And you’re feeling like you owe them something
Feeling like you owe them something
Feeling like you owe them something
You could take a different tone
You’re coming across all wrong
Screaming at me down the phone
Coming across all wrong
Now they’re tearing right into your home
And you’re feeling like you started something
Feeling like you started something
Feeling like you started something
Feeling like you started something
Started something
Started something
Yeah
Hey you
Wont you give me some truth
Wont you give me something I can take
And put to better use
Put it on a loop
So I can use it as proof
So I can use it when I fake my alibi
For when you raise the roof
The roof
With the broken news
Raise the roof
Say you’ll never love another
Say we’ll always come together
Say you’ll never feed me lies
Take the sun and stormy weather
Take the road from hell to heaven
Take this vision from my eyes
Bring me back from double vision
Tune me like a television
Brighten up the darker skies
You say you started war another
Reason for your blood another
Reason for you to cry
A reason why
Hey you
Wont you give me some truth
Wont you give me something I can take
And put to better use
Put it on a loop
So I can use it as proof
So I can use it when I fake my alibi
For when you raise the roof
What you gonna do
When they come for you?
What you gonna feed them in the night
So they can fill their boots?
Tying up my noose
So I’d be living proof
So I can use it when I fake my alibi
For when you raise the roof
Raise the roof
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4. |
Wake Me Up
03:21
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WAKE ME UP
Come on in and light me up
Them stars, they never looked better
You’re heaven’s open, take me up
She’d pave the way if I let her
A compromise
Of Landmines
Laid out before your eyes
In a straight line
A straight line
Come on in and wake me up
To all the noise that I’ve been keeping
Break me down, build me up
Are we above or am I sleeping?
Forever was never
Laid out before your eyes
For the first time
In a long time
A straight line
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Beautiful Complication
02:49
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Beautiful Complication
Pitch me your sell, walk through the door
It’s lyrical
The way you paint your words
Time will tell, I tell you
You cannot stop the world
You cannot stop the world
No, no, no, no
Take your stand, it’s an open floor
And typical
That you’re the centre of the world
But I keep running back for a little more
You cannot change the world
We wanna change the world
You broke my line of concentration
A burning light on the situation
I’m gonna bury my crime in this manifestation
Of a beautiful complication
A beautiful complication
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6. |
All The Angels
04:07
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ALL THE ANGELS
Cuts you just left of the middle
Replaces all your innards with the words you wished you’d say
But never will
Sometimes a bite is worse than a bark
Sometimes rolling over wouldn’t make it right
Or really make you
Stronger
Meaner
Lean not on others
That are passing you by
I know that you cry but
Take it
Easy
Please we could never tell a story untold
Listen
Sometime you got me caught up in a riddle
Sometime I think I knew you better yesterday
But it made me ill
Sometime we feeling out in the dark
Sometimes it could be better if you come unstuck
And say it could be brighter
Lighter
Hyper
Tension is a no go to know
I won’t give you reason
I see none
Just keep on breaking the mould
With stories untold
Listen
All the angels sing
(You better do right, you better do right)
All the angels sing
(You better do right, you better do right)
All the angels sing
(You better do right, you better do right)
(You better do right, you better do right)
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7. |
Spell For Morning
08:20
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SPELL FOR MORNING
Somebody once told me
That songs are like prayers
Spells that we cook up together
Take to the air
Like God is listening
Like Conscience is new
When you wash your fear in the rain
If you’re gonna sing something
Over and over again
It may as well cast some kind
Of suitable spell for the morning
The turbulent gloom
And remind us why we came here
I hope you know that I’ve
Been thinking of you
Although I’ve been running
Dazed and confused
For an alternate rouse
To the cage that I built for two
Mmm
You know it’s true
I will do
What I can
To make an honest man
Out of me
Nobody’s perfect
It’s certainly true
And I know that I fucked up I know
I put it on you
Still I say I’m sorry
What more can I do
But draw a line in the ashes
And go home where a ghost
Sits on the stairs
And each day he tells me
There’s much I need to repair
Every time I pass him
I ask him his name
And as he turns to stone
He says
I hope that you make it
I hope that you do
I hope you go sailing
On oceans of blue
And stand undisturbed
By the waves that crash
Around you
Mmm
You know it’s true
I will do
What I can
To make an honest man
Out of me
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PhoenixCastle Productions UK
Roving minstrels and entrepreneurs of the arts - Martin Lee Renshaw and Jim Harrison, spin yarns and misadventure with the collaboration of many talented folk, the most recent manifestation taking the form of Lucien's Library.
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