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Driving Out of Town
03:54
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Riding through the heartland
The weight of the world pressing down
And sanity just a touch away
She’d love to believe that was true
She’s headed for the thin grey light
She’s headed for a better life
She’s wearing her options down
She’s driving out of town
People who gave everything
Got nothing in return
The anger and frustration
The talent left to burn
There’s nothing left to give
And nothing left to learn
She’s facing the future down
She’s driving out of town
On a morning bright with stars
A million miles from home
Maybe I’ll take you down
When you’re driving out of town
Driving through the heartland
History is a mess
A catastrophe for everyone
We never can redress
And you can never hide
With your animus and your pride
But don’t let it bring you down
When you’re driving out of town
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In the Twilight
03:57
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And your beauty surpasses reason
But your words cannot inspire
All these thoughts may well be treason
The truth is often dire
But in the twilight hours
With the power of light and steel
They took you down
And pinned you to the wheel
And you’re not quite there
Our experiments with freedom
A disaster for the soul
The abandoning of reason
The struggle for control
But in the twilight hours
Of the southern hemisphere
I follow you down
To love's most wild frontier
And you are almost there
And in the twilight hour
Where the deepening shadows grow
I took the life that
That the ragged people know
And you followed me there
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Acceptance
05:06
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Up on the ridge they're closed down for the night
All over town people dimming the lights
And whose is that voice that you hear in the dark
As you quicken your step as you walk through the park
Now as you lie with your head to the ground
Your thoughts are in tune with the night and the sound
Of the wind as it stirs the leaves in the trees
Did you ever accept that you do as you please
Now as I watch you your movements so slow
You whisper to me that you really must go
And the words that you speak are as subtle as sand
That slips through my fingers and clings to my hands
That slips through my fingers and clings to my hands
And clings to my hands
And clings to my hands
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4. |
Tower of Dreams
05:51
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I am going home
Back to the cleansing fire
Travelling alone
Cutting it close to the wire
All the roads beneath these feet
Seem to be the same
From the houses on every street
People call your name
Love is the law
The law is unjust
It’s a cupful of sand
It’s a mouthful of dust
Love is the law
The judgment is clear
We’ve our backs to the wall
Heartache and tears
All the lies that I have heard
I realise were true
All my secrets and my dreams
Are nothing without you
The wisest of the fools
Can never save us now
No one sets the rules
I’ll make it back somehow
I’m going home, I’m turning the tide
If the past is a dream let’s leave it behind
They’re shutting us down at the close of the day
We’ll go back to our lives, go our separate ways
High above the town
Towers break the shoreline
Time has worn us down
Dreamers dreaming lifelines
Stars begin to fall
The truth too hard to bear
No-one makes the call
There’s trouble everywhere
Love is the law
The law is unjust
It’s a cupful of sand
It’s a mouthful of dust
Love is the law
The judgment is clear
We’ve our backs to the wall
Heartache and tears
I’m headed downtown
I’m cutting ties
I wait for your call
Your bullshit and lies
I’m riding out
I’m pimping my ride
I’ve got nothing to lose
I’ve got nowhere to hide
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5. |
Above the Waterline
05:03
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Your words are blue as they go drifting by
It’s the sound of your goodbye
I watch them fade against the open sky
To the sound of your goodbye
She waits above the waterline
With all the doubts that crowd her lonely mind
And all the things
That she can't undo
Will slowly drift away like the evening tide
Nothing changes what you say
It doesn't matter anyway
If life is only just a dream
At the dawn of the day above the waterline
While all around the city breathes and stirs
She'll wait until
The morning light
And take her place again in the shuttered world
And there is nothing you can say
It doesn't matter anyway
If everything
Is just a lie
And nothing now can save the day
All her dreams will fade away
We are mortal
We will die
And there is nothing you can say
It doesn't matter anyway
If everything
Is just a lie
And nothing now can save the day
All her dreams will fade away
We are mortal
We will die
Your words are blue as they go drifting by
I watch them fade against the open sky
Your words are blue as they go drifting by
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6. |
The Bridge
04:24
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Leave me by the bridge
I’ll make my own way home
Don’t wait for my calls
Disconnect the phone
There’s a dark cloud falling
Time to make amends
There’s a cold wind calling
This darkness never ends
They found her by the bridge
She’d been travelling alone
The things that she had seen
The seeds that were sown
But that’s all over now
Her fate was set in stone
The fire and the gold
The angels heading home
And the truth comes so hard
There is danger from the start
The universe will listen
But it cannot rule your heart
We all choose different paths
And who knows which is which
There’s a price upon our heads
I’ll meet you at the bridge
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There’s a thin white light at the edge of the world
She doesn’t take flight, she’s not that kind of girl
She rides the bus, the number 23
To the shore, to the sea
If you never believed that the gods intervene
Then you haven’t seen what she has seen
She never took that train across America
And like a child she flew out of the sun
She often dreams the strangers who depend on her
So much to lose and life spent on the run
She rides the bus the number 22
No time to waste she’s got work to do
She thought she knew that you would wait for her
This never ends it’s just begun
She takes the bus the number 53
She takes it where wild things run free
She’s never been so brave before
The silent strangers along the shore
And when she takes that train across America
Like a child she’ll fly out of the sun
She’ll only take her necessary animals
They never lie they do it just for fun
This never ends it’s just begun
They never lie they do it just for fun
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8. |
Trick of the Night
03:32
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I hear you late at night
I hear you on the phone
It’s another trick of the light
And endless nights alone
These memories are painful
Everything runs free
It’s business as usual
That’s how it seems to be
It’s the ones you leave behind
Who cause the most regret
They populate your mind
They cause the gravest threat
The chances you declined
The one they couldn’t get
Your demons robbed you blind
It’s business as usual
But maybe that’s just this trick of the light
But experience says it’s a trick of the night
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9. |
Oxygen
05:07
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Necessary Animals Hastings, UK
Necessary Animals is an alt psych/classic rock/experimental band based in Hastings. Our debut album features members of the Good Missionaries, 23 Skidoo, Near Jazz Experience, The Big Believe, Cuban Boys and Alabama 3. Our featured vocalists are Amanda Thompson (The Big Believe) and Norwegian actor and singer Ingvild Syntropia (Avengers Age of Ultron, Relationshit and Star Wars Rogue One). ... more
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