Moonshine

The night draws in from soft sun haze

The tide comes in and washes it all away

The moon is hanging high above

I don't know what  it's suspicious of

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The night is still, the air is calm

I still feel the tension like the strings of my guitar

Looking upward toward the sky

We are standing still in time

 

Hey moonshine 

Hey - way out in the darkening sky

Hey moonshine

Hey - searching for satellites

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Silver moon in black and blue

All this time we've always been looking up to you

In the dark you guide us through

Until the morning's cobalt blue

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Hey moonshine 

Hey - way out in the darkening sky

Hey moonshine

Hey - searching for satellites

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Hey moonshine 

Hey - way out in the darkening sky

Hey moonshine

Dancing in the stars tonight

Hey - searching for satellites

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Counterparts

I'll quit dreaming

And put my feet on the floor

I'm not the person that I was before

I'll bring myself back

Dreamers can dream 

I think this sunlight

Has followed me here

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It sends me high

It sends me high

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And now

You see the light through the trees

You feel it from your head to your heels

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And here 

You've been dancing alone in the dark

Always standing apart

Waiting for things to start

I only want to be your counterpart

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I keep feeling that there's something more

Something hidden that I missed before

I'll bring myself back  - I'll drive my car

I'll return to where you are

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She sends me high

She sends me high

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And now

You see the light through the trees

You feel it from your head to your heels

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And here 

You've been dancing alone in the dark

Always standing apart

Waiting for things to start

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And here 

You've been dancing alone in the dark

Always standing apart

Waiting for things to start

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I only want to be your counterpart

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I want to be your harmony

You can be the tune

You are the main melody

You are the muse

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Turning up the volume

Breaking out the costume

The signal's coming

This is the end of nothing

This the start of the something 

This is something new

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Kaleidoscopes

We sit here

My arms keep you from the cold

I have tried

And failed to find my way home

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Deluded night

We both surrender to the the light

Lost in time

We, the static suburbanites

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We are kaleidoscopes

We always change

We are kaleidoscopes

We're reflected back the same

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We sit here

No awkward silences to hold

I have been

Believing anything

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We stand here

Against a starlit autumn sky

Remembering

To pick up the pieces of our lives

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We are kaleidoscopes

We always change

We are kaleidoscopes

We're reflected back the same

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We are kaleidoscopes

We always change

We are kaleidoscopes

We're reflected back the same

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Back the same

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We are kaleidoscopes

We are kaleidoscopes

We always change

We are kaleidoscopes

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The Quietus

​Drenched in male order perspective

Chasing a sliver of sun

This place where the sun is still shining

I won't be moving from

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Wandering round here in summer

The leaves by the old swimming pool

The centuries echoed in whispers

Suffering in servitude

Collapsing into you

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All is well in the cloisters

The bells ring out still

When we're all gathered

The Quietus will begin

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Photograph album of memories

Neatly compartmentalised

Mentally saved on the hard disc

That's whirring behind my eyes

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Ghosts of winter remember

Spectres of summer days lost

In memorial halls we'll wander

Regretting the lines never crossed

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All is well in the cloisters

The bells ring out still

When we're all gathered

The Quietus will begin

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All is well in the cloisters

The bells ring out still

When we're all gathered

The Quietus will begin

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All is well in the cloisters

The bells ring out still

Now we're all gathered......

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You Go On

When next we meet, we'll talk of the old times

Somewhere there's too much sky

She believes she's a soul collector

Well, somethings are worth a try

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This is a new day

You're walking on your own

The sun is rising up 

But you are not alone

You go on 

You go on

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We all thought this would last forever

Reflections in a pool

You're driving through this heavy weather

Deep inside of you

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This is a new day

You're walking on your own

The sun is rising up 

But you are not alone

You go on 

You go on

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This is a new day

You're standing on your own

The sun is rising up 

But you are not alone

You go on 

You go on

You go on

You go on

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This is a new day

You're standing on your own

The sun is rising up 

But you are not alone

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This is a new day

You're waking on your own

The sun is rising up 

But you are not alone

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You go on

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Belong

Gone at the time

In the blink of an eye

There's still colour in the sky

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There's no way back from where we go

We walk on

We carry the weight of our former selves

That doesn't belong

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So long ago

And far away

Memory cannot shape the way

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There's no way back from where we go

We walk on

We carry the weight of our former selves

That does not belong

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Do we belong?

Or are we too far gone?

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There's no way back from where we go

We walk on

We carry the weight of our former selves

That doesn't belong

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Paint the Red Sky Blue

When you're turning like a clock

And your monkey won't get off

And you're paying far too much

Too live

Just to live

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When you shoot at the hurricane

And cannot forget the rain

Longer silences are harder to break

When you stand in your way

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Why can't we turn the red sky blue?

Return to the lives we all knew

We could break the night in two

We can paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

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When you can't face another day

When your hope's turning you away

And there's no-one left to blame

And no time

No more time

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If the past makes us wounded and wise

we can walk beneath electric skies

The greatest gift we'll ever know is time

And we all know why

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Why can't we turn the red sky blue?

Return to the lives we all knew

We could break the night in two

We can paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

Paint the red sky blue

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No Ordinary Place

Endless night​

Working overtime

Stare at the walls

'Til the morning time

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Summertime

All that is left behind

I can't recall

The many miles

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That was then and this is now

Just lean back and feel the sun on your face

We came from there and now we're over here

This is no ordinary place

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All this time

Living different lives

Under the same blue sky

We're gone in a while

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Stand and fall

Fall in love with it all

Patterns and rhymes

You can't ignore

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That was then and this is now

Just lean back and feel the sun on your face

We came from there and now we're over here

This is no ordinary place

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That was then and this is now

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Falling to Climb​

Oil in our bones

Up the hill

Moving on

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I climb the incline

And through weary eyes

I catch sight of the town

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I feel a presence here

Of those who've gone

I stand looking further on

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We come and go

Up the hill

Moving up

Here 

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I climb the incline

And through weary eyes

I catch sight of the town

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Climbing up further

Bird of prey against the sun

I stand looking further on

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Who are you, when you're falling to climb?

Who are you, when you're falling to climb?

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Climbing up further now

In the burning sun

I rest before I carry on......

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