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Summer
04:18
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The closest that I came is knowing I will never feel the same way
I tried to figure what I did wrong
Inside I'm laughing, in here I belong
There's a village in my head, I hung it from its legs
and it bled out and now Im dead
My bones are soft and porous and I chose to ignore it
and I'll never get ahead
I ran away from the happiest Summer
Great grandmother prayed for me last night in a dream
I ache for my friends, I long for that feeling
In the pit of my stomach to the backs of my ears
I eat to remember, I drink to be theirs
I long for that Summer
But the closest that I came is knowing I will never feel the same
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2. |
On Bended Knee
05:23
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Dress me in your Sunday best and sip the cup from your own breast
I can't depend on your forgiveness
Little lamb; I need to witness love
Dress me in your Sunday clothes and strip the dove and sell for gold
My weight is measured in my actions
Not in favours, not in fashions, in love
I can't live on bended knee
My knees are too weak
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3. |
Waiting Game
04:51
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I wish my house was haunted it would make sense of the voices that I hear
I wish my eyes could focus but all I ever notice is my fear
Turn up the television, I don't want to listen to myself
It's to quiet in my bedroom, I ought to try out someone else's
Open up your heart, be honest; did you ever really call us in the end?
You said you'd stop you promised, how many gin and tonics have you had?
Turn up the television, I don't want to listen to them yell
It was a sunny afternoon, are you less partial to a sunny spell
But soon I'll be moving on, this is just a waiting game
Who would play this just for fun? I need to know who is to blame
There's the man; afriad of bridges
How does he cross over water?
Burn it down, burn it down
Are you flammable? Supernatural?
Soon I'll move on, this is just a waiting game
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4. |
Living Alone
02:35
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If you had a boat but couldn't tie knots
And the tide made it float right out of the docks
You should never give up
You're lost on the salt, blistering skin
exhausted from hope and feeling so thin
You should never give up
Crusty eyes open, scratching the ground
You have beaten the ocean but no ones around
Well don't ever give up
Lighting a fire for the angels to notice
Fighting the dire state that you call this
It's just living alone
Taste your bones breaking, spilling the marrow
Such a waste all this aching, drilling for sorrow
Mining the misery and mourning the morrow
Because I'll find myself bitterly awake
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5. |
Happy (feat KT Ball)
03:32
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Happy
Happy birthday
Is it your birthday?
It's not your birthday
Look that's okay
I got my days wrong
I sung the wrong song
So, so long
Happy
Happy to see you
Though I don't want to
I'll do it for you
So long
Waiting for so long
For you to leave again
What's different between now and then?
I am happy
I am lost
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6. |
Lie Fallow
04:05
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Nothing ever changes in my place
And that's the way I like it here
People look the same way backwards, pages read upside down
They're belly-flopping in the backpool
Maybe we've already drowned?
Because nothing ever changes in my place
Kissing strangers in the street
My tongue is getting tied up, my knees are getting weak
I feel like I should say something before we fall asleep
Maybe my need to sympathize makes it hard to say goodbye
But I don't wan't to live forever
So maybe I should go, lie fallow
Because nothing ever changes in my place
And that's the way I like it here
Keeping out of trouble, so safe inside this bubble
But it's getting hard to breathe now
I think the air is running out!
Paying off the boatmans hand and praying for a promise land
I don't want to live forever
Maybe I should go, lie fallow
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7. |
Mirrors
05:40
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I watched a tiny river flow into a massive ocean
I expect that all things living in it died upon exposure
To the salt and sharks and coral and the dirty oily spillage
That tends to turns the surface of the water into a giant mirror
We stared into the ocean to see each other’s faces
I remembered how I met you
We cared for each other and if I had a bit more patience
I’d remember why I loved you
We walk along the shore, my shoes were full with sand and gravel
Forgetting where you come from is a useful way to travel
Regret is for a Sunday morning sick from all the intake
I don’t regret the walking but I do regret the mistakes
We stared under the covers to see each other naked
I remembered how I met you
We cared for each other and if I had a little more patience
I’d remember why I loved you – I remember why I loved you
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8. |
Human
03:01
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I'm only human, or close enough
Following baby into the dark
Sing me a lullaby, tell me a song
Stories for bribes when the boatmen come
I'm only human
I'm at the river with no shoes on
Holding my silver under my tongue
Hoping that winter won't last too long
Following baby into the dawn
I'm only human
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9. |
Waiting Game ptII
05:28
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Bury me next to my master, I want to be his only one
Sweet Mary's late so call me after, I can't come home my works not done
I'm burying bones out in the garden because I don't need them anymore
If you're alone I beg your pardon, was only greed that wanted more
A heavy load makes for good passage, you need some grit between the lines
So I bestow to you this baggage if you bequeath to me your time
If I could only beg your pardon for all the blood and all the wine
I'd put you in a better passage, if I just believed your lies
Do you remember everything that you never done for me?
And everything I said I'd change for you?
Just let me be, so I can then use it just to get through it
I fell in love, but I haven't got enough time love
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10. |
Stay With Me
05:35
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Been changing with the seasons, not fast enough to fall
You know I've got my reasons
Hanging round with ghosts and wiry looking crows and in
Winter I was freezing
Paying for my problems and praying for a fame
I miss you when its Autumn
So why do you blossom and I fall down and
Turn into something rotten?
Stay with me darling, stay with me
The book about an old man high up in the tree and
He's looking for his old hat
He finds it in the densest thicket of the branches
Extends his arm in reach
Buried under kingdoms and more than one opinion
What sense is there in stories?
The old man and his glory had time enough to teach
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11. |
Time Will Tell
03:19
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I'm good at keeping secrets down at the deepest
Part of my underside, down with my own designs
I keep them safe from others, even my mother
Happy to just take part, see I don't have the heart
Too old to just take chances, too old for romances
Only seventeen...
I would have died for you, I love you, I love you
I'll stop the sun from rising, stay in the night
And only time will tell if it will rise again
The colour in me is fading, it's started decaying
My roots are less curious, much less arboreous
Dont wake me in the morning, I am in mourning
And only time will tell if I will spring again
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12. |
All These Dragons
05:12
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Mary I still want you
I don’t want to leave without my satchel
Couldn’t grieve this fragile fashion
I don’t know what you know
Tried to wait inside your chapel
Wait for something more to happen
But I don’t know what you know
Mary I still want you; I want you to be happy, so forget me
Have a meaningful encounter
Get the answers that I’ve paid for
But it’s the same old tired examples
Only lesson is to be faithful
You’re the good and bad in battle
I’m the gravel on a new grave
Yet, your light's so fucking fragile
We just sit and stand and behave
You’re afraid of all these dragons
I’m afraid of never living
Couldn’t grieve this fragile fashion
I can’t do it, please forgive me
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Elephant Dundalk, Ireland
Elephant is the musical vehicle of Dundalk based multi-instrumentalist Shane Clarke.
He has released
three studio albums to date with his fourth expected early 2024.
Listen to recent singles "Young" and "Olivia" for a taste of what's to come.
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