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Intro
00:43
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Unspent High
03:49
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In a northern town
You wear a golden crown
Big fish in a little pond
You’re the king of the things you were never fond of and it drags you down
In a fading dream
You’re picking at the seam
You’re gonna float even if you take a running jump in the lake
You can never wake and you’ll return to the stream
Dance monkey, dance monkey, can’t be love if it’s not fun
We daren’t jump
We’re scared, dump the last bad memory and let’s run
If the song ends, we’re not done
We’ll make this mad dance linger on
No regrets, no unspent high
Just you and me and no goodbye
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3. |
Keep Moving South
03:55
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You moved south and you changed your life again
Your big mouth put you in a world of pain
The weight of the world upon your shoulders, strained
Your clean slate is shimmering in summer rain
You fell in with a band of miscontents
They taught you how to think in just the present tense
Life seemed pretty sweet for a time, on the sunshine coast with a bottle of wine
Until the past caught up, put you back into line again
We can do anything
If you marry me, we’ll make this all real
Our souls we’ll adorn with faith that we’ll steal
A look in the eye, a kiss on the mouth
With hearts open wide we keep moving south
Take a breath and you’re back on track again
Engine on and the fire is crackling
Take my hand and we’ll run through the sand to where the ocean spray brings an end to the land
And we can swim along to the sound of the mandolin
You moved south and you changed your life again
Your clean slate is shimmering in summer rain
The weight of the world upon your shoulders, strained
Your big mouth put you in a world of pain
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Rome
03:46
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They stayed at home
And you went to Rome
Ate on your own
Embraced the unknown
You counted leaves
While they stared at trees
Down on your knees
Escape their disease
It’s too far, it’s too high, it’s too hard to climb
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5. |
Bury Your Best Girl
04:53
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Hold your breath, your serenity prayers and your sorrow
Feel your chest burn, bury your best girl tomorrow
You’ll turn blue
We’ll come through
And bring stories of 21 years for you to borrow
Tongue-tied and you lie on your side, wait to recover
The fine line in-between a surprise and a shudder
You’ll hold tight
It’s alright
You’ll find time to reveal your disguise to another
Your mind stares down
Your eyes have drowned
Future you need to know you’ll pull through
The rest of you doesn’t want to pull through
Cos that’s not what you want to do
Hold your breath and your hopes and your prayers and your sorrow
Feel your chest burn, bury your best girl tomorrow
Ten weeks and the memory fades into an echo
Your heart speaks to the hope that it keeps beside your pillow
It’s all clear
You’re still here
The dam crumbles, it washes you out from the hollow
You buried your best girl you’re gonna be fine
Oh, you’re gonna be fine
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6. |
Hold You Up
03:27
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We burned like a fire in a field of snow
We yearned to be higher than our highest hopes
They turned to see why we didn’t chose to show
We learned to stay quiet rather than say no
We’ll hold you up if you are falling down
We won’t give up or let you touch the ground
We know that you would only do the same for us if we had found ourselves that way
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7. |
Orange Baby
03:23
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Rained, four years
Shamed, the crowd cheers
Lied your way down
Hide, your time’s out
If you dare come back home again
You’ll see us sky high on the wind
Throw your toys out the pram and you stamp your feet
Phone the boys in the club, they don’t wanna meet
All the words and the rage, they don't mean the same as they did yesterday cos it’s all in the game
Pride comes before a fall
And you thought you had it all
Reigned for years
Shamed, the crowd cheers
Lied your way down
Hide, your time’s out
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Hands and Knees
03:21
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Run fast and fall before the finish line
On your hands and knees you’re gonna crawl
You should have asked before you started vanishing
Why the birds and bees were so small
You ran fast and soon ran out of breath again
The others overtook you on command
You came last and so you started panicking
It’s high time your head was in the sand
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It seems to me that we’ve done it all wrong
It came to me when I was writing this song
Gonna start again and we can start at the end
Didn’t need to mend, think I just needed a friend
I’m falling apart
You’re driving a stake through my heart
You came to me when you were needing a hand
Afloat at sea, we put you back on dry land
You threw it all back in the drink
You blew it on smack and down your sink
We’ll try another time
Just one more time
One more time again
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Don't Do It
03:54
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Oh, you got it bad
Oh, you got it so bad and you’re digging down deeper in a hole
Oh, you want it bad
Oh, you want it so bad you’d be willing to do anything at all
Oh, you’re looking sad
Oh, you’re looking so sad your reflection is unrecognizable
It’s true they make you mad
Cos you have never had any choice in the matter of illusion of control
One more for the road and then out in the cold
Lay down on the sheets of a previous life
It’s no fun getting old when you haven’t got a shoulder to cry on
Your habit cuts it out like a knife
Don’t do it, you know that you shouldn’t
You tried kicking it, you knew that you couldn’t
Don’t do it
Don’t do it
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An Apology
03:46
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The first thing that I did when I remembered the fight
Was picking up my guitar and documenting the night
As far as memory served, you were just trying to help
I know you never deserved to feel the way that you felt
Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?
I can’t apologize enough
And I’ve been torturing myself to re-live this
And now I’m standing here, tell me what it is I can do
The first time that I saw you standing next to your friends
All the deafening voices tuned to one and made sense
I told myself that I could never to a thing to cause you pain
But here I am on your doorstep in the November rain
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Band of Gold
04:09
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The stone within a band of gold
A fairytale with parts untold
The words you write with the pen you hold compose the nightmares which unfold
To walk along the frozen path
To see the sadness in the laugh
It takes a week to walk a mile
Is that a grimace or a smile?
They’re holding hands while throwing stones
We’ll feel the chill within our bones
Is it too late to turn around before they burrow underground?
It's a one-time chance in a one-horse town
They promised that they’re never gonna let you down again
And again and again..
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13. |
Launch
03:01
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When she arrived, fixed me with purple eyes
Life changed in a moment
knew I've got to keep her alive
I get scared for the future, when my time is mine again
no knowing who I’m gonna be
I don’t care for this
There’s something about this that I’m supposed to hide away
It three-word silence so loud it is deafening me
After we launch you, are you gonna come back home?
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14. |
The Fortress
05:33
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Plastic snow in a globe made of glass
Settles low, model house, plastic grass
Don’t look at the camera
The alarm is on
Pulling at the cannula when your arm is numb
You’re frightened of the thoughts you get with your shaded friends
They tightened up the tourniquet as the haze descends
And if we balance all the forces we can arrange our symphonies
And with we barricade the fortress we can achieve some sense of peace
Plastic snow in a globe made of glass settles low, model house, plastic grass
Spun around and a blizzard is formed
Scene’s engulfed in a gathering storm
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The Welton Shipwreck UK
TWS is an indie / shoegaze / folk-rock band based in the UK.
Long distance collaboration between Scotland and Yorkshire.
Members- Stu Head and John Culkin.
Music available on all streaming sites.
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