1. |
Killing the Precedent
03:08
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You walk around the room, with your potential hidden
You got the sun and moon, branded on your skin
And now you know you're found out
I'm gonna have to turn you in
'Cause now you're caught in the middle aren't you
Of the drama you invented
You got a fucking nerve, treating me the way you did
Completely undeserved, but I should have seen the precedent
And now you're caught in the middle aren't you
Of the drama you invented
Now you're caught in the middle aren't you
I think you like the attention
You don't know how to deal with self-entitlement
But you make me feel, transcended from the life I'm in
And now you're caught in the middle aren't you
Of the drama you invented
Now you're caught in the middle aren't you
I think you like the attention
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2. |
We Who Love Pretending
05:16
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Bingo hall is empty, fair today
Bath St, Fishwives' Causeway, Esplanade
Winter morning, sunny day
Summer calling, us away
People talkin' at me, what they say
Matters nothing to me, wish they'd lay
Bare their meaning, honestly
How they're filling, empty space
Living unreliably, give in to the anxiety
A different fate to any one you ever cared for
Shackled to a vanity, an image that they had of me
Feels like everyone that I love goes down a sinkhole
There's some I don't speak to no more
It's not out of choice, I swear, it's down to circumstance
Stumble over as I'm nearing the shore
It's like the hand that I'm grabbing for lands in a
Different palm, at a stranger's door
You take your mass at midnight, you kneel to pray
You pick whichever nightlight illuminates
Underwhelming, and overpaid
There's trouble brewing, I see it's face
The promise of the city is unfulfilled
The water tastes like envy, the salt like silt
Loveless endings, self-worth parade
We love pretending we got it made
Trying to make an honest living
To cure a sickness called the human condition
Paint yourself in chainmail, perform an exorcism
This is a modern exorcism
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3. |
Gin and Coke
02:58
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I wanna hold you to ransom
Give me some answers
That will let me breathe
You are the glue in the padlock
That keeps me from breaking
Into the heart I need
And we spend another night in the family village
No imagination, it don't make a difference
Gonna run away to a city with a sunset strip
Now I'm a little fucked up on the gin and coke
Everybody's leaving that I've ever known
And the question is, 'Why do we ever leave at all?'
Got a friend in Vienna and a family home
But I was never that grateful for the blessing bestowed
'Cause I never asked why I thought that the sky would fall
Travelling back to Massachusetts on your own
We never lose we just move on
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4. |
The Dance Hall
03:46
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You always said, that you could lead a life all
By yourself, that you didn't need a lightbulb
But the problem is, you can't shine that bright
Without a moth circling your glare
I didn't like to be caught there
You always said, that the most important time
Comes at the end, of a summer in decline
Because the winter is, a challenge
For your complicated mind
Dig deep and you won't like what you find
I'm at a crossroads, I'm happy but I'm blue
My independence still depends on you
I'm getting on board, I'm in the waiting room
I'm close but still too far away to bloom
Your soul is set, behind a face that always glows with
No regrets, as you dream with one eye closed
But the question is, will you peel off
Another layer for a friend
Or keep the whole world to yourself?
There's a universe I crave that only you could know
As I try to claim myself a place that is my home
We only get, so many masks that we can
Wear to bed, before The Dance Hall closes on our
Lonely pirouette, and we open up
Or lose ourselves instead
Free your bones, or get lost in the corners of your head
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5. |
Harbour Me
03:49
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You say you're with him, I play the victim
Surrendering my rhythm
Measuring myself against him
Something's missing, blame the system
Conditioned to see anything
Except my own resistance
So when you look me in the eye, I hide my flaws
And all the conflict that my inhibitions cause
I have more petty fears to cling to
Than I have years to contradict you
Prison guards still live within the prison walls
So consider yourself forgiven once for all
I have a good friend, that I paid a visit
There is an early flint of Genesis
That has her name within it
Sharing wisdom, she pushed me to my limit
Entangled in a talk
On 'spooky action at a distance'
Hey there, why don't you harbour me,
Harbour all my need?
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6. |
Still Waters
03:21
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I thought you were for me
But still waters run deep
Far more than you know
At least as far as I can see
And you wanted relief
From that space in between
Where two minds meet, where
My kind of quitting heart recedes
And now you want to leave him
Don't you dare go and keep him
When the winter cold cuts you clean in two
For a month and a half is too long
For a fragile mask to hold up
But you pull it on fast, it's all you've got
Now you're lounging there
In that tacky, vogue armchair
I know you get self-conscious
At the way that I can stare
And now my bucket and my spade
Won't dig me any other grave
There is no saving grace once the
Daylight fades away
And now the night is mounting
And what we find, found wanting
We get hurt more than we counted on
You grit your teeth, your gums hurt
You grind your axe for what love's worth
You grind it out for blessed peace
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Seven nights on the Danube
One more for good measure
But it's the magic I felt there
That most troubles me
And now I'm writing a song to say
How much you mean to me
That I'm tired of tragedy and
All that it leaves behind
Leaves behind
When I swam in the river I
Remembered my dead friend
And the imminent wonder
Of what it means to be
To appreciate the silence
Of a thundering shiver
That I feel whenever I realise
The beauty in humankind
Humankind
It's only thirty days later
But I'm older than ever
As I cry for the memory
But never the past
For the future is the promise
Of all history untethered, if you
Weather this storm, then you'll find
Yourself tight to the mast
Tight to the mast
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Josh Fuchs Edinburgh, UK
Singer-songwriter hailing from Edinburgh.
Has appeared on bills alongside the likes of Ethan Johns, King Creosote and Withered Hand.
Debut EP 'Serle' released 31st October 2016.
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