1. |
Big Wave
04:26
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The mist cleared from my eyes
And as light filtered in I could see the outside
for the first time
It came as a surprise though I knew it all along
I could hear the longing in your old songs
And now this beating pressure is
a permanent reminder of a dream
But you knew best, despite my early warnings you persisted
And in this light I can see your faces for the first time
This ship is taking on water
Big wave comes down
Washing, clearing ground
Big wave comes down to drown
A river flows toward the sea
All rivers flow but not all of them get there
And is this really fortunate
or is this just a slow burning failure?
Friends can be your rescuers
And friends can pull you backwards like an anchor
This ship is taking on water, it’s shifting, it’s showing
This is almost over
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2. |
Take Flight
03:56
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Erase this
Wings, take flight from broken arms
Tangled, frantic, push on ahead
Your face to the wind, determination
Headstones and trees bend to your will
Staring out blankly the city decays
Huddled in pairs against the gale
Arrogant we seek to blind the open eyes of the Earth
That remember every move
Raise up, we open fire
Why then catches fire?
Now I can see you I am no longer calm
Now I can see that what’s real don’t seem to hold
Erase this
Open heads and crawling hearts
Overturned but not apart
This home is now a tomb haunted by ghosts of you
Kill ‘cause you must eat tonight
Wings, take flight
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3. |
Glass Flowers
04:56
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I ran blindly like I was asleep
With no mercy - straight into my eye
Better to rush than facing a defeat - witnesses deny
I was trapped in a forest made from my own devices
I couldn’t see for the scales on my eyes
A question, a million answers
Listen, don’t listen - a crystal ball won’t tell you
I’m calling it off, run to the outside
Breaking glass flowers as I go
I’m calling it off, calling the outside
Breaking from everything I know
I fell into a crystal hole where the scaleless one ran me through
And I woke up in unfamiliar surroundings
That looked the same as what I knew
It didn’t matter where I’d been, who I’d known
They meant nothing
Now I depend on you two to keep me alive
Straight into your eye
We never allow each other the space to move
We never allow ourselves to take more chances
I’ll take my chances - taking the chance to depend on your thoughts,
depending on instincts, depend on your pride and heeding those lessons
Depend on less rumours and asking more questions
Follow the light inside
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4. |
Savage
04:08
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A tree fell in a forest - nobody heard a sound
They were indifferent as always
The world rests easy just beneath the warm and
heavy weight of not looking ahead
Of choosing safe and senseless things
I’ll always talk in twos, always think in threes
Who made you protector? Who made you the law?
What good god would let you replace hard-won words
and thoughts? You talk in twos.
This magic comes in little waves
A savage here, dressed to get its way
A machine that’s sentient, a heart that beats
without a head
A mind that always shrinks but multiplies
to the horizon
Who made you protector? Who reduced the law?
What good god would let you take
the light out of our thoughts? You talk in twos.
Who’s the god who let you in here? A promise to
exclude the living. All profiteers are not forgiven.
I was born awake and restless
I will always recognise a lie.
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5. |
Perpetual Dance Move
03:56
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Consolidate our lives into the shiny god
Reinstate old laws - why not?
Of course your life ain’t over, of course it looks better redecorated
Send a drone to do your work
Of course my mind is older, of course I think it’s overrated
Better than all these pops and clicks
Better than any word I’ve said
Better than the sounds that make me sick
Better than things that make you feel alive
We’re all caught in a false state
A perpetual dance move mistake
Something I defy but cannot win, something so vile, unseen
Don’t slow me down
Of course the lines get bolder the closer you get to the edge
Undo all your worth
Look over your shoulder the closer you get to the edge
Better than you, better than me, better than the super sum
of us combined
I don’t wanna have to teach you how, misinterpreted for the
millionth time - can’t get past words that were written down
Can’t get enough to reach the bottom now
Of course my ideal mind would think it’s overrated
The path is clear for the initiated
Don’t slow me down
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6. |
The Final Chapter
04:55
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When I was a young man stories sounded true
Blindly taking a stand against you and you and you
I felt control
Better stand corrected than to be confused
Hard for us to take your point of view
You held the rope
Breathe, make it up, save it up, missed intention in the eye
Can interpretations be just a simple lie?
Say how it is, play your cards, boy are you a winner
Seems to me you have outgrown - why so hard to let it go?
Help me forget my prophetic life
Not something I would’ve chosen
Head hardwired to overload
Pure, unspoiled unless heartbroken - something real
and something never there. It’s a simple lie.
When I was protected, hiding - prodigal I ruled
Aimlessly directed, I would strike at shadows one by one
Short to think and long to burn
It’s a simple lie
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Tightrope
04:26
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The sound and the space - paraded upside down
Left in its wake, driven underground
Once I was purposeless, waiting for your answers
Didn’t matter what was truth nor kindness
‘Cause you’re dead in the water son
So long boy, I wish you well
You’re standing on
A moving tightrope under me that’s drifting sideways
Looking for release
Well I’ll never judge a man by his demons
Never when they seem dark nor shining, no
So long, you stayed so long
I wish you well
Just once - starting to collapse
Just once - nothing has to matter
Just once - live a day without regret
Just once - feeling like I’m home again
Hello sweet relief
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8. |
Mirrors
04:26
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I didn’t come this far to quit
But man these mirrors, they don’t forget
Well I got intentions twisted backward in the end
Though I am certain they were perfect to begin
I tell myself it’s just a phase, I tell myself
‘Boy, will you leave it?’
This is terrible - no mother to save us
We’re just like animals led astray
Tests with riddles oh no other can save us
We’re naive animals led astray
So it comes to this, a reckoning
And nowhere to hide - ‘I’ is all-seeing
Guides you through the dark like an unseen hand
Different in the end, different to begin
Can you honestly promise me that this is just a phase?
I see but I just cannot pretend
But go on, you pretend
This is not the sum of me
And all that I have struggled to create
Let it be man
It’s just the mirror, not me
Yes it is
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9. |
Absent, in Recovery
06:54
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Loner or superstar, try to hide what you are
It’s so unfortunate - erase what might’ve been
Your world, my world, the same to me
Each lesson becomes part of me
The answer’s not a reflex, no
It’s in your reflection
I’ve been dying to tell you so
Can someone send an ambulance to save me?
Can someone come and rescue who I used to be?
I come apart as I am made whole
I now realise who I am failing
To live takes great mistakes
I feel like I know less with every passing day
You take the safest risks to hide your truth away
I feel like I am less with every passing day
I feel like I am absent, in recovery
It’s when I’m absent in recovery that I come apart
There’s no point in reminiscing
You cannot help yourself
You cannot save me
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Meantime London, UK
The brainchild of Slovakian and South African ex-pats Stefan Klein and Adam Stanley, Meantime was born when the songwriter and drummer-singer met online and fulfilled a mutual desire to create music that was exactly what they wanted to hear, pushing themselves out of their comfort zones to perform and create in a way neither had before. ... more
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