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Good News For No One
02:43
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Verse 1: Why do we have leaders when they can’t lead a line?
Who knows exactly what to do?
How do you believe when all the words out of your mouth are lies?
What’s in the future if the past is to go by?
Chorus: So little time to put all things right
Open your eyes to see our demise
Well a promise said ain’t a promise kept
They’re two separate things so don’t hold your breath
And if there’s no news it’s good news for no one
Verse 2: Anyone can see things aren’t where they’re supposed to be,
How do you sleep with your own mess?
Why would I ever give the time or day to forget,
That you’re stuck with your own skin?
Pre 2: It’s too much (cause when it’s over)
It’s just too much (it’s never over)
It’s just too much (cause when it’s over)
It’s just too much (it’s NEVER over)
Chorus 1
Chorus 2: Can’t understand, how you trust this man
Faith in his hands means no safety when he lands
And a promise said ain’t a promise kept
They’re two separate things so don’t hold your breath
And if there’s no news IT’S GOOD!
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Jynx
03:52
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Verse 1: I love my dead but not tangibly,
the necrophiliacs get all the fun.
I’m just betting, with enough endorsement,
this could easily become the norm
Pre 1: I’m not saying that I am perfect,
or have the arse to want to flaunt it.
I’m intrigued to see if this would sell,
to the blind or has it already?
Chorus 1: What on Earth has happened?
Real life meaning seems invalid
It’s hard to ignore with no power
Verse 2: In desperate need of recovery,
we’re in an industry of eye candy.
Money for doing nothing.
Better off understanding Vincent Van Gogh
Pre 2: No one really cares if they can’t speak,
as long as there is alcohol and plastic.
Buying in and selling out is fine.
What’s the point if you’re not ‘making it’ right?
Chorus 2: What on Earth has happened?
Really life meaning seems invalid
It’s hard to ignore with no power
Benefits from past achievements
Zombie halfwits, poor investments
It’s hard to ignore with no power
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Ambient Wind
03:07
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Verse 1: Ambient wind, it flies by every six years, then blows away again.
Taking with the memories created, that last eternity
Chorus 1: No one can replicate what’s been done here
The legacies far outweigh all the tears
Verse 2: The ambient wind, it doesn’t take too much to be completely satisfied.
Food and sock will do but cards don’t quite suffice, wasted morning light.
Chorus 2: No one can replicate what’s been done here
The legacies far outweigh all the tears.
Everything’s lead up to this moment
To be prepared for what’s coming round….
Bridge: the bend
The bend
Chorus 1: No one can replicate what’s been done here
The legacies far outweigh the tears
Verse 3: Oh ambient wind, it’s been a pleasure as always.
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Skinned Alive
03:05
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Verse 1: Sometimes, when there is a moment, no one wants anything to distract
But when in Rome, there’s no need to breathe. All the angels live here
Chorus: Lost for words; skinned alive. Going back, too soon
Verse 2: When time leaves a hole, hope to meet and see the soul again
Chorus too soon
Chorus
Verse 3: Blood feels the same way as light,
coming back is never bittersweet.
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Can't Get Rid Of This
03:07
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Verse 1: Get from underneath skin, pressure’s added in but,
it keeps coming, coming back.
Doing all the things read, in the magazines they,
don’t seem to work with this type; with this type.
Chorus: No matter what, matters what the risk. Who, can’t get rid of this?
Verse 2: There’s times of relief and, moments of triumph but,
it’s too rare and far between.
Was it something taken? Was it something done?
Either way or neither way, it’s always around.
Chorus
Soft Chorus
Who… x3 Can’t get rid of this
No matter what x3
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Reverse Lions
03:42
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Verse 1: Again, back again, but in a different way
A rainy location but realized the same
A lack of knowledge and a lack of words have lead to the downfall again
Chorus: Yes there were moments, but not nearly enough
That damn achilles heel that damn crooked lid
Reverse lions, they haunt and they strike
It’s early before it’s night
Chorus
Verse 2: It wasn’t gonna be easy. Parachutes taught that.
And yet hope seemed to linger, positively back
A sense that maybe, yes just maybe, everything would be alright.
Everything would be alirght
Chorus
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True Lies
03:39
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A Section: Get the mind and get the whole body and change it all, change everything
Your thoughts, your words are lower than the low
Clear the page and clean your tongue
Never rely, never rely, on someone else
Never rely, never rely, on someone else
B Section:
The way it is, the way it is,
The way it is, the way it is,
Faker than the self, faker than the self
Faker than the self, faker than the self
Never rely
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Nala
04:56
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Verse 1: It wasn’t cold or warm, just a normal day,
When the sight of stripes and red forever will stay…
Pre 1: ‘The one’ that got away because of the feeling of poultry
Perhaps this has to do with the fact that no one’s gonna be…
Chorus: Oh Nala come back to the lonely guy
After that, it’s complete and everything’s alright
Verse 2: There’s something about a good track to get all back in tune
No act how small is ever wasted when it comes to…
Pre 2: Being with the feeling like it is always a dream
But it’s reality so be lucky that it’s here to begin with
Chorus 2: Oh Nala come back to the lonely guy
After that, it’s complete and everything’s alright
Oh Nala please come back to the lonesome side
Sooner’s better much better to finally live the life
Verse 3: Familiar perfumes and colours, trigger vividly,
All locations and positions that Nala used to be.
Pre 3: It’s getting harder not to be weaker without a better half,
Being ever present to prevent the bad things to start
Chorus
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Clothesline
04:39
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Verse 1: I have my mind, I have my tongue, I have the world upon my shoulders,
you have your gun.
I want to lead, not be lead out. Can I be right and you be left for good
without a doubt?
Pre 1: I want to go, go, go…
Verse 2: There’s always a will, so where is my way? If there’s no blood on the wound don’t worry
that’s what you say.
Pre 2: Time I should go, go, go.
Chorus: For every time that I was pushed aside and questioned why,
For every time I sucked it up and gave it one more try,
What am I to do? Nothing here came true.
Just leave me out here on the clothesline left to dry
Verse 3: I can’t escape, and I won’t commit. I’m so frustrated I wasted my time now I won’t quit
Pre 3: Please let me go, go, go.
Chorus
Bridge:
What a day, such a day.
All that’s wrong with, what’s wrong at all
Chorus
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It's All From Need
05:54
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Verse 1: It’s so hard to leave but it’s the only choice,
it’s all that’s left
Time will wait for a few, but in the end
it’s a waste of time
Pre 1: Why oh why, did it drag on, did it drag for so long?
Chorus: How long before, the break up then the ignore?
Why were there lies; say it’s sweet then say goodbyes?
It’s all from need
Verse 2: No one looks forward to the day to look forward and start again
The perfect gardener injects, planting seeds of doubt that keep growing now
Pre 2: Hands they will tell, was it heaven or was it hell?
Chorus x2
Coda: It’s all from need (isn’t it?) x3
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More Nothing
05:53
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Verse 1: Beautiful blue case, beautiful lies, beautiful England.
Close to a kindness, forever there, always there.
Pre 1: If you’re wrong you’ll survive, at least you’ll be doing something right.
Help me to help you, once was a worm now just misery
Verse 2: Bad is easy to, believe briefly, but not really.
Worth being tired for, and it was, and I was.
Pre 2: Messages aren’t so clear, but I’m still here, and can still hear.
Work and pleasure don’t mix, questioning if all this even matters, even matters
Bridge: oo
Verse 3: Beautiful blue case, beautiful lies, beautiful England.
Worth being tired for, and it was, and I was.
Chorus 3: If you’re wrong you’ll survive, at least you’ll be doing something right.
Help me to help you, once was a worm now just misery
Messages aren’t so clear, but I’m still here, and can still hear.
Work and pleasure don’t mix, questioning if all this even matters…
Bridge
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Empty Fish Tank NSW, Australia
Empty Fish Tank is pop/rock from the Blue Mtns. Starting in 2014, 2022 sees the release of 'shortandsweet' album #5
'Ladybeetle'.
Think The Go-Betweens and Pinegrove having dinner.
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