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Vacuum
02:34
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You’ve been caught in a vacuum
Of misspent loyalty
‘Cause people like you are people like me
But some are magnetic
To the things that bring them grief
So if it’s any comfort to you
You’re worth more than ten of them
You’re the drum that I’ll beat to
You’re the broken I will mend
You’re the dark of the backroom
Discontented royalty
But people like you need the light to see
Some people are addicted
To the stings that make them bleed
So if it’s any comfort to you
You’re worth more than ten of them
You’re the drum that I’ll beat to
You’re the broken I will mend
So if you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
If you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
But if it’s any comfort to you
You’re worth more than ten of them
You’re the drum that I’ll beat to
It’s you I will defend
So if you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
If you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
If you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
If you take my hands
I'll pull you out
No need to believe
And no need to doubt
If you take my hands
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2. |
Blemish
03:14
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You can no longer ignore
This monster that’s camped itself up at your door
‘Cause you know you could always make so much more than just disaster
So no more excuses from you
Being blind to truth doesn’t make old things new
If you’re still in there, put one foot before you
Be your own master
Make peace with your blemish
Even pain can be cherished
Let your blood be replenished with mine
Don’t make a guest of your menace
Don’t let sadness stain every sentence
Let your wounds turn into weapons in time
And I’ll be waiting for your thunder to crack
When the storm’s before you, I’ll be at your back
The ground may try to swallow you
But I’ll map a path back to your home again
Make peace with your blemish
Even pain can be cherished
Let your blood be replenished with mine
Don’t make a guest of your menace
Don’t let sadness stain every sentence
Let your wounds turn into weapons in time
What I’m saying you can no longer ignore.
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3. |
Muscle
03:19
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Keep sending the muscle to knock at my door
I’ll hide behind sofas and crawl on the floor
If I just hold my breath still and try not to move
I might just make it through
If I stay out all night then you’re not gone
If I start a fight then I’m not wrong
If I try to hide than I’m not lying
If I try to not to cry then I’m not dying
It must be hard to be so tough
There is no muscle strong enough
There is no muscle strong as love
And it’ll break your heart.
I weep from my muscles and I leave a trail
Of apologies behind me every time I fail
If I just hold you closer and try not to bail
It might just be okay.
If I stay out all night then you’re not gone
If I start a fight then I’m not wrong
If I try to hide than I’m not lying
If I try to not to cry then I’m not dying
It must be hard to be so tough
There is no muscle strong enough
There is no muscle strong as love
And it’ll break your heart and shatter it like glass
Without the muscle you can't stand impact
No body was ever built to last
You're gone so fast.
If I stay out all night then you’re not gone
If I start a fight then I’m not wrong
If I try to hide than I’m not lying
If I try to not to cry then I’m not dying
It must be hard to be so tough
There is no muscle strong enough
There is no muscle strong as love
And it’ll break your heart
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4. |
Acting
02:56
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You’re a battery to the tongue
An anarchy reserved for the young
But where did you hide the years you missed?
Holding your own hand clutched in a fist.
You’re allergic to the clock when it ticks
Your Calvary is the moment’s tricks
But where you slide is where you slip
Folding your own hand and calling quits
Won’t you grow up now?
Because you’re acting half your age
When you’re acting out your rage
You’re just acting life on stage
The part you play takes your self away
A sadder day for your Saturdays
But how do you find what’s not on your list?
A colder kiss from the week’s dead lips.
Won’t you grow up now?
Because you’re acting half your age
When you’re acting out your rage
You’re just acting life on stage
Won’t you grow up now?
Because you’re acting half your age
When you’re acting out your rage
You’re just acting life on stage
Where are you going
And how will you know when you’ve got there?
Why does this matter
And when will it be enough for you?
Won’t you grow up now?
Because you’re acting half your age
When you’re acting out your rage
You’re just acting life on stage
Won’t you grow up now?
Because you’re acting half your age
When you’re acting out your rage
You’re just acting life on stage.
Where are you going
And how will you know when you’ve got there?
Why does this matter
And when will it be enough for you?
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5. |
Splinter
02:45
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I’ll take a splinter
In every finger
While I work just for you
I’ll leave on the shelf
Time I spend on myself
You are the clock that ticks for me
And me for you.
I swear I will
I’ll be good
Everything will be as it should
A home I’ll build
I’ll be human glue
Everything that I do will be for you.
I’ll warm the winter
Love will live and linger
Rainbow smiles with pots of gold at both ends
I’ll believe in myself
So I can be my own best help
In training now to nurse promise to health
I swear I will
I’ll be good
Everything will be as it should
A home I’ll build
I’ll be human glue
Everything that I do will be for you.
I swear I will
I’ll be good
Everything will be as it should
A home I’ll build
I’ll be human glue
Everything that I do will be for you.
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6. |
Nails
03:13
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I’m hanging on
Nails piercing your coattails
Battling
Nature and sad details
Babbling
Like a madman
Babbling
Don’t you understand?
It’s the only way
To try to escape cliche
And still to find some lexicon to say
You’re the only way
I’ll outrun hungry mistakes
I will be bound to you for all my days
So I’m banking on
My words leaving jet trails
Prattling
Unsure and bit-fingernailed
Maddening
Emotional handstands
Babbling
Don’t you understand?
It’s the only way
To try to escape cliche
And still to find some lexicon to say
You’re the only way
I’ll outrun hungry mistakes
I will be bound to you for all my days
It’s the only way
To try to escape cliche
And still to find some lexicon to say
You’re the only way
I’ll outrun hungry mistakes
I will be bound to you for all my days
It’s the only way
To try to escape cliche
And still to find some lexicon to say
You’re the only way
I’ll outrun hungry mistakes
I will be bound to you for all my days
I will be bound to you for all my days.
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7. |
Win
02:23
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You’re the map to the memories
The string that leads us home
You conduct the electricity
The paint that colours my monochrome
I’m the hat that I raise to you
The ring around the bone
You untangle the complexity
All pain will just leave us alone
And I win because: you
And I win because: you
And I win because: you
Years and years and months and days
Just melt away
Fears and tears and slumps and weights
Just melt away
You’re the light when the sun is down
The singing voice below
You’re the luck when my fingers cross
The angel in the snow
And I win because: you
And I win because: you
And I win because: you
I’ll grow to be like you
Then I’ll know just what to do
I will water all the plants that make a home bloom
I may have said this all before
But I will paint every last door
Until our hallway floods like a kaleidoscope
And we’ll win because: us
And we’ll win because: us
And we’ll win because: us
And we’ll win because: us
And we’ll win because: us
And we’ll win because: us
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8. |
Performer
03:42
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Not the most articulate,
You’re just a violin in a case
You’re a sound off in the distance
A reflection of a life erased
Where there was laughter like a wave breaks
Now there’s a silence like in space
On the brink of non-existence
With no chords left now to play.
Don’t let yourself be a clown
A performer with no-one around
You’re an audience of one now
A show with no crowd.
There’s a knot in your throat when you sing
Like you’re a songbird in a cage
You’re unfound where you look for yourself
Like you are a missing page.
Don’t let yourself be a clown
A performer with no-one around
You’re an audience of one now
A show with no crowd.
Oh, are you listening to your heartbeat?
Oh, are you living to your heartbeat?
Or are you limiting your human heartbeat?
Oh, are you living?
Don’t let yourself be a clown
A performer with no-one around
You’re an audience of one now
The loneliest sound.
Don’t let yourself be a clown
A performer with no-one around
You’re an audience of one now
A show with no crowd.
Oh, are you listening?
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9. |
Mute
02:41
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Your lecture’s easy to predict
A statue in the mirror
A neighbour to your intellect
You never dare get nearer
So you’ve never had control
Of the climate of your soul
You’re just an unplayed piano
Uh oh, uh oh
No keys to your doors ever fit
So you just use white roses
With thoughts you struggle to evict
You just increase the dosage
So you’ve never had control
Of the climate of your soul
You’re just an unplayed piano
Uh oh, uh oh
Let your hammers sing
Let notes dance on string
‘Cause you’re only silencing yourself
Your only silence is yourself
Your nature keeps you in a cage
That’s where you feel safer
With loss and bitterness and rage
Like an old newspaper
So you’ve never had control
Of the climate of your soul
You’re just an unplayed piano
Uh oh, uh oh
Let your hammers sing
Let notes dance on string
‘Cause you’re only silencing yourself
Your only silence is yourself
You’re only silencing yourself
Your only silence is yourself
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10. |
Fool
03:02
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The gap that opens is a jaw a mile wide
It’ll take you inside
Make your ambition its bride
Your disappointment is torn and terrified
Just a species of pride
Like a wreck in the tide.
They’ve seen your kind a thousand times
Or more or less to be unimpressed
And I’ve been your kind a thousand times
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
‘Cause a fool will work for free.
You’re an exhibition of the worst work of all time
Absent of reason and rhyme
Your innocence is a crime
You’re faithful to the force that’s dragging you down
While you’re facing the ground
The clown is wearing a crown.
They’ve seen your kind a thousand times
Or more or less to be unimpressed
And I’ve been your kind a thousand times
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
‘Cause a fool will work like me.
I’ve been your kind a thousand times
I’ve been your kind a million times
I’ve been your kind a billion times
So I know
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
‘Cause a fool will work for free.
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
A fool is never idle
‘Cause a fool will work for free.
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11. |
Wake
02:43
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Let’s run the risk of living
No fear is broadcast in our brains
Forget the tiredness you feign
Let life burst right through your veins
There’s light in you that’s so heavy
Joy is a frequency your dial needs to find
Start the car, a tape rewinding
Change the world by just changing your mind
There’s a morning that you can’t see yet
‘Cause distance just can’t understand
When you wake you’re a telephone not ringing
But the sky comes alive when it hears you singing
When you sleep you’re a telescope not seeing
But the night opens eyes when it sees you dreaming.
No-one belongs to no-one
No tear escapes, its ghost remains
Don’t run, be caught by someone
Set life to the mistakes that you’ve made
There’s light but it’s just not ready to be seen
You’ll find it in your dreams.
When you wake you’re a telephone not ringing
But the sky comes alive when it hears you singing
When you sleep you’re a telescope not seeing
But the night opens eyes when it sees you dreaming
When you wake you’re a telephone not ringing
But the sky comes alive when it hears you singing
When you sleep you’re a telescope not seeing
But the night opens eyes when it sees you dreaming.
Dreaming.
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12. |
End
02:37
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Here’s the shock
With a little courage
You can drown the rain
No matter the circumstance
But the more you talk
The less you listen
I’d recommend that you just button your lip
Still you should know by now
What you’d sooner ignore
Ears just won’t allow
Anything you don’t care for
You should know by now
Darkness is not your friend
But it’s okay, everything comes to an end.
‘Cause fear‘s not thought
It’s just love malnourished
It feeds on pain
Whenever it’s given the chance
You’re like a clock
With both hands missing
Time moves through you
But you can never change
But you should know by now
What you’d sooner ignore
Your ears just won’t allow
Anything you don’t care for
You should know by now
Darkness is not your friend
But it’s okay, everything comes to an end.
Still you should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
You should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
You should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
You should know
You should know by now
What you’d sooner ignore
Your ears just won’t allow
Anything you don’t care for
You should know by now
Darkness is not your friend
But it’s okay, everything comes to an end.
You should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
You should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
You should know by now
(Your heart's a butterfly caught in your head)
Every song comes to an end.
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Beerjacket Glasgow
Beerjacket is Scottish singer/songwriter, Peter Kelly, who has opened for The National, St Vincent, Kristin Hersh &
Frightened Rabbit.
In 2018, Scottish Fiction released album/book of songs & short stories, Silver Cords, leading to an appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, a sold-out show with Cairn String Quartet at Celtic Connections, & radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP.
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