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Hold it Together
04:47
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If we walk on down to the riverside
we can fall in love on a turning tide and we're gone
It's a talking point on the morning news
A performing troupe that'll never choose to perform
You're a girl inside your home
You're afraid you're alone
and you hide in your mind
and it lights up your heart
So take a stroll outside
You know you can't hold it together forever
when everyone's falling apart
You're a girl inside your home
You're afraid you're alone
and you hide in your mind
and it lights up your heart
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2. |
January Flowers
02:04
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We're shaking off December
so we're ready for the next
We poured it down the drain
It's for the best
January flowers
they always seem to die
so an empty vase
is more pleasing to the eye
We're ready for the weekend
but we've barely started work
We're scrabbling for pennies
in the dirt
January flowers
they always seem to die
so an empty vase
is more pleasing to the eye
January flowers
they always seem to die
so we sing along
to the songs that make us cry
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3. |
Dripping Blues
03:58
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The skin you're wound in
won't keep the sound in
so stop pretending
You hiss and you are steaming
Your eyes are streaming
and I can't say here, no
Slip-on shoes and dripping blues
You're waiting for the shipping news
Birds dive beneath the waves
They're showing you an early grave
The sea is where we go to die
The moon is hidden by the night
Waterfalls run backwards
and continents will drift apart
The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart
I can't stay here
No
Slip-on shoes and dripping blues
You're waiting for the shipping news
Birds dive beneath the waves
They're showing you an early grave
The sea is where we go to die
The moon is hidden by the night
Waterfalls run backwards
and continents will drift apart
The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart
The universe must shrink again
so you can have your heart restart
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4. |
Sink or Swim
04:00
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In time, we find the long way
is the better solution
Remind me that I did say
you'd get a shot on your own
Behind another birthday
is another year wasted
We find it hard to relay
what we're aiming for
We don't even know
Inside a private boardroom
a plan is created
To hide the truth of our doom
in propaganda and lies
We climb upon the next step
with our heavy heads clouded
by wine and drugs and excess
and tomorrow we'll do it again
The storm, when it comes
will batter all before it
Arising for the people
with less than you have ever had
No fear of crossing
Because the waves are nothing
No fear of crossing
We can sink or swim together
Or you can man the beaches alone
The waves are nothing
No fear of crossing
In time we find the long way
is the right way
and the only way to do it alone
Because the waves are nothing
If we steady the course
then we can focus on building our home
We can sink or swim together
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5. |
Peace Time
03:21
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As the last of the Great War soldiers hear their bell
They take away all they taught us about hell
And in our minds we just see dust and mud and ruin
But don't mistake that fossil
Cos it's not the truth
They built the walls
and they placed us all within
with brothers from the other lands
in binds of mutual compromise
It's like a marriage
where the vows have worn too thin
We can blame the ring
but it's the finger that's changed size
They give us a minute to think of sacrifice
But glory, death and heroes is all that fills the space
What was offered up in battle is not the lesson we should heed
If we really want the peace
it's sacrifice in peace time that we need
I built the walls
to keep your love within
With other me-s and other you-s
cast aside to die
But like a marriage
where the vows have worn too thin
We can blame the ring
but it's the finger that changed size
If we really want the peace
it's sacrifice in peace time that we need
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We rolled a rug around it
and we threw it on the floor
We rolled it down the mountain
and we dragged it to the shore
You said I had it coming
but you never told me til
the lights had turned to amber
and the beating hearts fell still
We sold off our belongings
and we headed to the hills
In solitude and longing
survived on drink and pills
The mob became and army
and they haunted us for years
The ghosts of what we could be
Inspired by others' fears
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7. |
Running for Your Life
04:13
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Tiny plastic building blocks are strewn across the floor
You stand on one,
scream at your son
and remind yourself he's four
The rent is due, they're calling you
to collect on all your debt
While overhead
the sky is red
and the sun will never set
The pictures on the wall display the life you wish you had
You stitch the holes within your soul
but you can't help feeling sad
Another day begins
within the city you were born
And you try to hide self-pity
in the feelings you were taught
Oh are you coming outside?
Are you running from your problems?
Are you coming outside
or are you running for your life?
Are you coming outside?
Are you running from your problems?
Are you coming outside
or are you running for your life?
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8. |
7 (Appalling)
03:23
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3, 2, 1
Take a deep breath
and come join the fun
You gotta learn to enjoy yourself
In the morning
In the morning
it'll all be over and done
10, 9, 8
Take a good look
and take what you want from the plate
It'll make you appreciate something
Something
you might not experience ever again
You learned to run before you can walk
and you're far too young to get away with that talk
It's appalling
what you're calling me
You're not welcome inside this house anymore
Your life plan is a clog in the drain
It's a stain on the pane of the window
that you're trying to look out from
You're a burden
Or so you keep on telling yourself anyway..
Let's be appalling
We'll dig a ditch and fall in
Let's be appalling every morning
Let's be appalling every morning
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9. |
Word of a King
03:37
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To rule over everything
is a poisoned chalice for sure
To fool them all and make 'em think
you're in any kind of control at all
You're schooled in all the clever ways
of avoiding an answer in public
So spin your silver webs and never say
what you really think
unless you know that you can trust it
Who am I
to challenge the word of a king?
You're too damn high
You're ruining everything
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10. |
Explicit
02:30
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Who do you think you are fooling with that smile?
A stare cold and brooding
Gloomy and wild
The clock keeps on turning
in spite of your pleas
The fire, slowly burning
approaching the trees
Today is impossible
to repeat
so don't try
The rain is unstoppable
Come in
and stay dry
Too many times we have been here before
It blew out your mind
and it knocked down your door
It pays to revisit
the places we found
when we were explicit
with our feet on the ground
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11. |
Demon
03:06
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A pawn in a game of impossible pain
You're collateral
You shouted your name
in the face of the wild, raging animal
as it crawled down your chimney
We're born in the shade of a fragile arrangement
It's in our blood
He called in his planes and his armies to tame us
and bring the flood
but we will never be broken now
It tore at your shirt in an attempt to bring hurt
to your iron soul
You crawled in the dirt to another uncertain, hidden rabbit hole
and you gathered resistance
to fight off the evil imposed on your people
and on your land
The night is a demon
it comes in the evening to raise a hand
You gotta know,
you're not alone
No, you're not alone
You gotta know,
you're not alone
No, you're not alone
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12. |
Something Better
03:10
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Controversy surrounds the loneliness of you
and all the doubt around the things you said were true
In time we'll understand what really did occur
The pain and underhanded lies you told to her
How can anyone forget that we could be something better?
I wait for the day we remember
it wasn't like this forever
But you were not alone
You acted out a plan
complicit with your peers
inside your home
You chose a messenger
You chose a scapegoat
knowing that heads would roll
but never yours
How can anyone forget that we could be something better?
I wait for the day we remember
it wasn't like this forever
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13. |
Retirement Plan
03:10
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Feel taller than a mountain
after hanging up the phone
You're 44 and counting
and you're drinking on your own
In summertime you wander through
the flowers in the park
to while away the hours
and you're home in bed for dark
You spent a whole lifetime
living in a confined environment
It's time to find yourself
a new retirement plan
You gotta turn on the gas
and you gotta set it all on fire, man
You gotta pack a bag
so can leave it behind you, man
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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.
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