1. |
Tongue Tied
03:06
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Tongue tied
I can feel the shadows
Your eyes
I don’t know 'em now
Tongue tied
And I feel the shadows
Oh I
I don’t know you now
Cannibal star / cannibals starve
Come over and listen
And cut me apart
To show what I'm missing
I don't ever know
How to hold
The weight of my soul
When letting go
But I’m falling
In my own illusion
I don’t know my way back
Home
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2. |
Bees and Swans
04:10
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Oh my colossus I’m blind
But I can see this room so well
From our youth our fossils I find
Buried in lobbies of macabre hotels
Press your own foot on my own thigh
I fall in love with everyone I’m told
But when everyone I know is always on my mind
I find it's too much to behold
In a dream of lightness I’m blurring
Your heavy spirit into my spine
Is it a nightmare of merging
When all of you is me and all of me entwined
I don’t know if it’s wrong or better
When what's entwined will unwind and be gone
I could goodbye to earth in a letter
But I’m still obsessed with bees and swans
Time it is strange and I would
Never find it I would
Never wanted it babe
Your timing is strange and I would
Never find it I would
Only edit this stage
Your timing it is strange and I would
Never find it I would
Never wanted it babe
Your timing is strange and I would
Never find it I would
Only edit this stage
I carried on in another way, everyone goes
I made a noise joyfully anyway, everything knows
How could I not die every time I think of the gift that the ancients gave
Wild mare, curled hair, unfurled, the time that I’m alive delighted in the world
Birthstone, first home, nude skin, an ancient gift to me the body that I’m in
Dog bite, searchlight, some day, the mother of the earth tearing me away
Black cloth, cast off, all worth, the ancient gift to me back into the earth
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3. |
Sans Land
03:27
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I’m lost in
Whatever I believe
But the worn path has grown up
Like me after years of
Carrying my cross
But am I just lost
In some rehearsed lines
I’ve learned my whole life
I've waited
For a sign
To build my own home on now
But I missed it or it never came somehow
Everyone I cross
Is a little less lost
As I rehearse these lines
I've heard all my life
Told be holy
But I don’t know which way to walk
I’ve got no sign to one place only
And no guide here to show me
I walked across
I walked across
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4. |
Our Remains
04:04
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I survived the wasteland, of tasting tongues but can’t deny,
A beacon shined, in blistered light, for a while burning in an open eye
No room for improvement, you’re just some muse I use for joy,
The version of, you I love, is some other, not this virgin little boy
Little souls, blurred in bowls, and poured on anyone, it’ll never be the same
Thundering loud, I stand up proud as lightning crashed to waves, I don’t wanna stay, I’m wearing your remains
I pulled you in my body, the thought is really odd I know,
Does it alarm you or disarm you? I should’ve warned you, I didn’t mean to harm you so
I only said I wanted, to bring you near, you flaunted how,
You were a loner and a stone, who didn’t know if you could be my home right now
Little signs, are beacons shining, poured on anyone, it’ll never be the same
Summer storm, bodies worn, we’re shimmering in lakes, I don’t wanna wait, I’m wearing our remains
On bed your sadness shimmers, I press my tongue against your hair,
You invite me, you say “delight me and come inside me” but there’s no room to hide me there
Am I a torture glutton, am I some portion of a whole,
On your horizon, always shining, the beacon brightest, I take my hands off all controls
Little souls, can take no more, I’m torn from everyone, it’ll never be the same
Summer haze, all decaying, hand around a blade, I don’t wanna wait, I’m wearing loves remains
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5. |
Realistic City Living
02:58
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I arrived on earth
In no form of my choosing
Born a spirit to a womb
In a room that’d soon consume me
What can I sing about
To find a lasting meaning
And not be obsessed to detriment
In looking for a reason now
Everything will bow
Under change
The void was closing before we ever came
You’re a spirit in
The ancient transition
Searching for New Jerusalem
Lost in human condition
It’s pulling at your sleeves
It’s what everyone was saying
Ephemera and vestiges
Are the only songs left playing now
Everything will bow
Under change
The void is closing we’re not long in this place
It’ll change
The void will close come and show me all your ways
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6. |
Gone for a While
03:48
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Waylaid by wild ideas and lines
You said “lean in to the punches you’re taking”
All the blood rushed to my mind
Cause these days my head is just racing
Thought I was not on my own
But I’m just a dog my tail chasing
Who in their own company
Isn’t gone for a while?
Kait said “what will be will be”
If so come in to me, be nearer
I have no reflection to see
An apparition haunting mirrors
I cut my own arm to the bone
Hand of God save me from razors
Here in my own company
I’ll be gone in a while
How it will end I don’t know
But the universe is not erased yet
Alive in the world’s company
Only gone for a while
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7. |
Everyone Around
04:23
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I hit my head upon the door
In this world I’ve never
You walked in past the chandelier
In the hall all earth is waiting now
And there was everyone we’d meet
And no one could whisper
They said the feeling was so proud
It was all the whole earth’s wedding now
And so it’s run over
Lost in Santa Monica you found
Everything you adore here
With everyone around
Everything I adore will die
I feel it more than ever
So spirit come and drink with me
Bring a nearness I’ll remember
I'm in love with everyone I've ever known
Though everyone I’ve known I’ve hated
Everything is weird and so unclear
Everything is a tongue I've tasted
How then could I have ever known
I lost all control when
All those moments added up i found
Everything I adore here
With everyone’s around
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8. |
All at Once I Saw It All
03:54
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As we’re leaving I feel homesick
But for where I’ve never been
On the edge of Hinya Sheema
My ancient drives and instincts end
I try to focus on it clearly now
But it’s a forever receding horizon
All at once I saw it all
How rare and beautiful, that we were ever even born
All at once I saw it all
Flash before my eyes, and then the flash was gone
Oh time it feels so rare
When everything’s not complicated
When everything can all be seen as clear
The sunset in your window
You trace my hand on the glass before I go
In a moment all was over
But for that moment all was close
All at once I saw it all
The void remembers now and so I say my name
All at once I saw it all
The ghost parade a shroud, my body rearranged
All at once I saw it all
At predawn in the Canyon, the only place where I feel sure
All at once I saw it all
Homesick for post oblivion, where I won’t worry anymore
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9. |
On Your Horizon
04:52
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Between my head and my horizon
I scan to find a place I can lay my eyes on
A dragon’s head, face of Poseidon
Is there a myth a can find to confide in, oh
But on your horizon, oh
Come put your own mouth on me underwater
Quickly cause it’ll all
In a moment wash away
Little obsessions that rule me
Titan, Prometheus pull me in the light
Little myths feel so familiar
Come in close so I can feel you one more time
But on your horizon, oh
Come put your own mouth on me underwater
Quickly cause it’ll all
In a moment wash away
I thought of Eurydice
When l looked back on what was forbidden
Were you a fantasy
Or just some myth I could create
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10. |
Wasted
03:36
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I must be wasted on the waiting
I been wondering about a home
A fable painted, is it my creation
I guess I been chasing what I don't know
I been seeking some assurance
And coming back to old ceremonies
I see my old friends and they seem to find it
But I'm still seeking my own home
I spent my summers on incantations
I put my tongue in to tell and taste
But I went back there where I was younger
Where they're just waiting on the waste
I don’t want freedom or to be bound up
I just want to believe this void will close
But still it’s yawning, a gap like canyons
But still I'm seeking somewhere to go
I must be waisted on the waiting
I been wondering if I will see
The fable painted through my confusion
Where everything is soothing and everything is free
I had a first time, I had forgiveness
I had an answer, but I had to go
Is there one path maybe, but I need a clear sign
Light me a beacon so I can know
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Beta Radio’s Americana-folk sound is the result of a decade-long collaboration between Ben Mabry and Brent Holloman. Their sound is rooted in vocal harmonies, with guitar, banjo and an eclectic range of additional instrumentation and soulful arrangements. ... more
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