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Loose Leaves

by The English Wraith

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1.
Operation (In a dry well) 02:45
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Operation I'm your patient - fix my style When red lights flash please do not pass you'll kill a child Nothing to fill our cups Rot us out and dry us up Covenant that heaven sent in blueprint picture tiles We shadow on - Our hands get set We shadow on - Our tongues stay wet We shadow on - What's left to get? We shadow on in a dry well Operation dead on shore - salt in the tide They come with vacuums, suck the conversations dry There's really no need to fuss You make it seem so obvious Our hands are strained but when it rains our mouths are open wide We shadow on - All hands get set We shadow on - Our tongues stay wet We shadow on - What's left to get? We shadow on in a dry well Seems I'm too late, the last plant wilts Headlights in the dusk - rabbits on stilts Last exit's leaving soon Would you like to go along?
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Face the Shade 04:01
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You got me so out of tune, just how bad I couldn't say I give credence to every moon, I can't just wish them all away It's all because I am the pawn that can't be played White noise in fuzz another shadow in the shade Looking out your point of view it's clear that nobody will do I wonder if it's true as I'm not talking to you Your easy face says that you don't notice me But I don't think that's very possible Because I'm sitting right there, yeah I'm sitting right there Cause I'm loaded Can't you see that I know and there's not a thing to understand All these people that you live walk together hand in hand You are unseen, a stem off our endangered breed Same race to run, running from the same old seed Seems like all I do is bluff, so there's no tail between my legs But nothing's never enough, when nothing's all I ever say It clouds over as I step out on the street I'll go nowhere following my feet But I just had to get close to you, yeah I just had to get close to you And I’m losing When it comes it’s got to come in straight And the time is always getting late If you walk into the wrong whirl Everyone will know that you’re unfurled A dustbowl blues everywhere that I can see The colors fused with a modern irony Naive to indulge, no this is not a holocaust Some lucky stars were all I ever really lost Now I tango with the fear as I stumble to my home Maybe I should stay out, but then again who really knows The evil mind just won't shut up and go away I will exist but I'll always face the shade I'll always face the shade
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Turntable's Always Broken 02:38
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Battery gets low, it gets really slow You’re too visual to see at all And I gotta eat the morning banana Build a cannon Potassium is good for my stomach now quit This sounds like bad indie shit I’m gonna make it up now Here comes the chorus it goes I don’t wanna know No I don’t think so Turntable’s always broken And if you gotta go I don’t think so Turntable’s always broken Words are running on black fuel, black gears, no rules Take heed to wherever you go or eaten by the wolf wearin' that wool I know that I should just quit This sounds like bad indie shit The time is like my mother The monkey is my brother I don't wanna know So I don’t think so Turntable’s always broken And if you gotta go I don’t think so Turntable’s Always Broken I must have been asleep Da da da da dee Tomorrow never knows Fidelity is low I'm forever in these clothes There’s nowhere else to go, no Turntable's always broken
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Tally Ho! 03:32
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Smooth out the creases too cruel to show Cut up the pieces; look out below They got nothing on me, and what's more is I know The faces of the disease seek out the growth And make a whole new scene that'll be so hip Just take everything out and put it all back again Space to fill out, we fill it in Just before we crack: too old to pretend Don't talk to me as if I already know Lost my pretense, look there it goes Ready or not get set explode Don't talk to me Tally ho tally ho! It's a treat for the sense so peel slow and see There are no accidents born mysteries Spare no expense, be sure to please If I plot my defence they got nothing on me Infants get warm from the TV glow As the animals feed just outside the window Takes a lot out of me if you know that I know Hold up the light but don't let it show Don't talk to me as if I already know Lost my pretense, look there it goes Ready or not get set explode Don't talk to me Tally ho tally ho! Enter in through the back, let's go for a ride You're still armed for attack - I'm a fountain of lies Let us go inside we have mouths to feed Say no words of pride, say no yuppy creed And you pause and stare, mouth dripping with lust Thinking of me that it's you that I trust Strategized to tease so you blink first I just let it be you, worse comes to worst Don't talk to me as if I already know Lost my pretense, look there it goes Ready or not get set explode Don't talk to me Tally ho tally ho! Cross the black tar streets, still putting up signs Promise a mountain of treats if you play on a side It's a holocaust, see their nazi smiles Baited breath underneath, sleep with one open eye And they'll take it all out to put it all back again Say whatever you want just as long as they win Dancing in the shoes made only for old men Iconoclasts: never too old to pretend!
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Sky High 03:05
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Bleed bursting at the seams Don’t you follow me We can breed for free It’s so seasonally assumed Destitute and doomed Hollow out the tomb But the party never ends They go up and they say "Oh my, it’s way up in the sky high" Choke, you know you shouldn’t smoke Hey that’s not a joke I refer to me as thee when occupying jealousy And I’ll give just to receive But dawn will lead to eve And here we go again Just look up and you’ll say "Oh my it’s way up in the sky high so high it’s way up in the sky high" Oh, is there a way to get in? Oh, is there a way to lose when they let you win, when they let you in? Come, follow me my friend I’ll lead you to the end An invitation sent, just say "yes majesty, I too do believe," and see just what i see And the party won’t conceive the baby speaking "Oh my it’s way up in the sky high so high it’s way up in the sky high"
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Naughty Girl 02:20
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Well she's got old excuses running in her head Each day is not, the time forgot, her fortune read She was a naughty girl You're looking for expression just to say the first word But there's nothing you can say that she has not already heard She was a naughty girl I'm holding back again Just to say it to her wouldn't have to hurt But you are a naughty girl So much is left unsaid about the ties that bind As forever from now on her face is burned into your mind She was a naughty girl You wouldn't know but she's the queen of the street It might not show but she's just happy to meet ya In the naughty world She was a naughty girl
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Peace Out! 03:55
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Been busy buzzin' like I'm one with the hive To be so busy, not as dead as I'm alive And to know what's real If kids are dyin' I'm no part of that clan I fill the corners praise the God and thank the man Cause I know what's here But now we wanna know Peace Out! And mop the floor a little better No....Peace out! Make sure you're reading all the letters That they wrote then sent down here Picture motion advertisement schemes Here come the pictures floatin' down into the screens So that we know what's real Fix your quotients from a satellite beam When brains are fried we'll have to make it all seem Like it's real. It's real. It's real. But now we wanna know Peace Out! And mop the floor a little better No....Peace out! Make sure you're reading all the letters That they wrote then sent down here I'm not stealing anything I can't wait til I go home yeah I'm not stealing anything I can't wait til I'm alone yeah Tell me what the future brings I can't wait til I go home yeah Tell me what tomorrow brings I can't wait til I go home So go home. Go home! But now we wanna know Peace Out! And mop the floor a little better No! ...Peace out! Make sure you're reading all the letters That they wrote then sent down here
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The Realtors 03:32
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Transistor radio wires tried to call you until I lost all patience I bartered for assimilation but found out I was a part of a nation The exiles are free in desert heat but is it worth desiring These motions that keep the beat Our place of mourning just got retired now But here’s a piece of ruin And you can keep it in spite You know there’s nothing to it Just get behind it Its hard to keep the bleeding inside Been running out of places to hide I sent a message to my alien friends: 'Please send this back so that I know that it sent' Part owner of a cloud of vacancy where I’m the registry A haunting in the lost and found that Only silence fills - there’s no ground But here’s a piece of ruin And you can keep it in spite You know there’s nothing to it Just get behind it I’m taking pieces of everyone but you The market is free and open to your view Been planting seeds in a garden I can choose I’ve grown to seeking anything that’s new It’s all that I can do yeah yeah yeah Still howling on the bitter moon by the entryway to the key of no man’s A green ghost exhales in blue as the black lambs stare with their flowers in hand One last dance upon the drunken boat that floats on fairytales Daydreaming in an empty shell where all’s been sold So what’s left to sell? But here’s a piece of ruin And you can keep it in spite You know there’s nothing to it Just get behind it
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Opiate 03:49
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Weekends broke and I’ve been choking Pass it off like i was joking Child in my soul is fading And everything is so degrading Travesty’s are missing me so Dance inside these old sensations Apathy will conquer me but Hold on to your shorts be patient Accidents will happen when you try to chase the rain i’m thinkin’ Nothing left but time to kill I’m drowning all my pain and winking Cause hey, we’ve got it made Grey is on my pencil stroke Been trying to find the words to say just What it is I want to hear and how i will get out of here but notice how she’s always smiling There’s no space I’m occupying Cannot hold attention spans I try to notice and I can’t but Accidents will happen when you try to chase the rain I’m thinkin’ Nothing left but time to kill - I’m drowning all my pain and winking Cause hey, we’ve got it made Looking for someone to tempt me I have never felt so empty Ugliness is what I’m here for Punk rock kids aren’t what they once were Everywhere a cult of winners On their fucking glory benders Fall asleep on memory lane Wait in line or wait in vain for Accidents to happen when you try to chase the rain I’m thinkin' Nothing left but time to kill I’m drowning all my pain and winking Cause hey, we’ve got it made
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Mary Kate 03:10
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Mary Kate, I know I know I took shots at her apparel I followed her around She wore nothing but a rose to bed I think she wants to leave town Mary wait And she's been breathing on the window pane To blur the picture of the street It took a minute - put a pulse to the finger that will scratch until it bleeds Mary Kate, I know I know In the mind of the newlywed She was born to conceive The quiet eyes of a story That anyone can see Mary wait Don't hide away, this anaemia soaks into your sheets Another drop of blood in the cup I'm gonna lay down at your feet You golden child, the sky will smile Right on your face, just to give a taste Those clouds will part and that's just the start Breathe it all away, you suffer what awaits You are the light to shade Jesus pleads your case Magnet to the ray You'll find what makes you wait Breathe it all away breathe it all away Mary Kate, I know I know I'm going to the park at night I'm gonna sing myself to sleep And if the day fails to persevere I'll let them find you some new creep Mary wait The picture won't translate your paint on smile or your jealousy When time takes off your ribbons and bows you're gonna need something to believe And I've been breathing on the window pane To blur the picture of the street A torn infinite takes your hand, cuts your finger sows your life back to the seed
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Don't Look Back 04:05
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Get left apart looking for places to start Beat me out of my heart and take my name off the chart There’s no reply and it won’t matter what I say So stuff me into a tube and throw me out in the bay In the middle of the line it’s fine it drips down the well I look for glances in your eyes but all I get is the smell I’m seen right through so I do nothing on cue But split myself into two and pick whichever will do There’s nothing for you to do Be anything that you feel Everyone gets you for your mistaken appeal When you turn around there’s nothing for you to see Only three chords - it’s all that’s given to me When I try to be smart I know it’s stupidity You can’t relate you only pull up your sleeves How can it be that this goes on endlessly? When they get into the fight I’m still smelling the flowers At the top of the hill beside a lifetime of hours Lost in the breeze with no control to be seen I fell from the stars and fell further from the tree And so you throw away all of the clocks in your mind What it takes to feel yourself a part of the time Forwards we march, streamlining for speed It’s always late I don’t know how I will feel Call you later on the phone, I’ll try my best to be real Just can’t believe in everything that you see When you’re aesthetically charged then you have fallen ethically Creature out of the night - less a face than a name Down highway lines far from wherever it came Some Russian dice and a blind man’s bluff Got blue suede shoes and a conman’s touch There’s nothing for you to do Be anything that you feel Everyone gets you for your mistaken appeal When you turn around there’s nothing for you to see
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Gardens of Hades (War all the Time) 03:32
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Seek under shelter, shelter’s enough There are some things I will never give up Full strength in combat, a prisoner of love And everything to leave you wanting The battle of age is a war all the time War without country a war on the mind Learn to take the abuse, restless by design Keeping your hands above you Serving my time for a piece of the pie Sure you want time - but time only sighs In gardens of Hades it lays down and dies Where old ghosts rise again Let fall the straw, rise to the wind Take what you lack, try all over again Far from the cradle the unknowing end There’s no defense for the fruitless tree Leaves fall off the stems with unwanted seeds Noone to blame, no mouths to feed Leaves are falling fast Easy to resist, harder to concede If these are the pockets still paying for me Then it is now that I will never be free Man made gravity Generations divide, pull up the mast With the future plunging into the past Damn damn death self-willed amassed Moaning man’s underworld A great depression of a century A papercut on the pages of a history When i was there I just let it bleed Serving my time for a piece of the pie Sure about time? Time honors sighs In gardens of Hades it lays down and dies The old ghosts rise again Rest your able mind, give your hand for a dance Put myself in your shoes, leave myself in a trance Roll out the carpet for a second chance With death as a memory
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Ambrosia 03:36
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My luck - it's gettin' lucky Found a cash machine - rubber ducky And when I'm clean, dressed up and ready to be shown Prop me, take a picture and then crop me Halogenic when you're talking Talking in that warm ocean glow But you taste like ambrosia Oh honey, it don't get much better Lap it up, get every drop That thirsty tongue could still get wetter Cause everything that I keep in there May keep us awhile and if you will dare We could just split it up fifty-fifty But sooner or later I know it will hit me I could just call you I could just drink it down, drink it yeah uh huh Industry - so perverted you will pay to see Take their word like it is ministry Sinks into your teeth, into your gum Lookout - lookout for anyone I can find Sooner or later I will go blind Staring straight into the sun But you taste like ambrosia Oh honey, it don't get much better Lap it up, get every drop That thirsty tongue could still get wetter Cause everything that I keep in there May keep us awhile and if you don't care We could just split it up fifty-fifty But sooner or later I know it will get me I could just call you I could just drink it down, drink it yeah uh huh

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released August 15, 2013

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