1. |
Super Recogniser
03:33
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Trying to strike a chord
That you haven’t heard before
You’ll recognise it
You recognise it all
Searching for a tune
That I haven’t sung before
One that’s lesser used and lesser sad
But somehow maybe more
You’ll recognise it
You recognise it all
Trying to describe
The indescribable
As I never have before
And what it’s like to know, you know something
So much more
Than you ever have before
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2. |
Like This
01:39
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Take a picture of nothing at all
Sing something low and incomprehensible
Blur the edges of it all
Your blood is like water
Your will is paper thin
I’m tired of too much nothingness
Sucking up everything
White noise for the ear
Valium to the brain
Same voice mumbling
Over and over
Over and over again
I’m sick and tired of being told it doesn’t stick
When you won’t sing it,
When you won’t sing like this
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3. |
Never Lie
02:48
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Read yourself a story that you wrote
Tell yourself whatever lies you like
I can never lie
The truth is sharp it hurts my eyes
Walk around a hole that’s in the floor
Pretend like you don’t see it anymore
I can never lie
The truth so bright it hurts my eyes
There’s a sound
Drowning out all the other sounds
How do you live with that din in your ears
If you can only learn to let it lie
Then all the falling stays up in the sky
I never lie
The truth runs all through my inside
Just pretend you didn’t hear
Nothing good will ever disappear
I can never lie, dear
The truth is like a needle in my ear
There’s a sound
Drowning out all the other sounds
How do you live with that din in your ears
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4. |
Chains
02:18
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These, these are the chains we forge in life
And I’ve finally found a promise I can keep
But is it too late
Is it all laid to waste
Does it all run too deep ?
When every part of you
Is promised to some past lover somewhere
There’s nothing I can do
To free the part of you that’s still living there
But If I’m to leave
Then I’d need to believe that you didn’t care
That in time you wouldn’t be mine
These, these are the chains we forge in life
And I’ve finally found a promise I can keep
But is it too late
Is it all laid to waste
Does it all run too deep ?
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5. |
If It's Not
01:29
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If it’s not a love I can use
What is it for, what is it for?
If it’s not a dream that I’m in
It’s really no good to me
It’s just money I can’t spend
A car I can’t drive
A house I can’t live in
It's no kind of life
If it’s not a love I can use
What is it for, what is it for?
If it’s not me that you see
You’re really no good to me
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6. |
Sit Out
02:47
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I’ve not heard a word of contrition
You don’t learn how to firm your position
All you stand for
Makes me want to sit out
I’ve not heard a word of compassion
You think love is a power to be rationed
All you stand for
Makes me want to sit out
I’ve not heard a word of contrition
You don’t learn how to earn your position
All you stand for
Makes me want to sit out
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7. |
Sting My Heart
01:43
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No I don’t have a shell
And why can’t you tell
Why don’t you care
Why isn’t it a thing
To sting my heart so badly
Why wouldn’t you try
To apologise
Why is it nothing
To leave me crying
When did I lose humanity to you
You think there’s nothing that you can do
But I don’t have a shell
And why can’t you tell
Why don’t you care
Why isn’t it a thing
To sting to my heart so badly ?
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8. |
The Collector
03:02
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Oh how I earned my place in your cellar
With all of my porcelain power
Behind the cellar door
On the stone of the cellar floor
I know I’m a precious one
Rare and raring to run
You’re the collector
You’ll keep me forever
A small unknowable thing
With you as preceptor
Cos you’re the collector
Who owns unownable things
By pinning their wings
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9. |
Tiny Bit Of Life
03:56
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I conceived an idea
A notion of a family
Pulsing to a beating heart
All of my imaginary
I’m not being maudlin dear
It’s hard a thing to resign
Know all you wanted all at once
And lose it at the same time
The idea doesn’t go
A circle that we’re still inside
You and me and all we know
And our tiny bit of life
I’ll carry it forever long
This tear upon our hearts
If we stitch our scars together, love
So we never come apart
An idea doesn’t go
The circle that we’re still inside
You and me and all we know
Our tiny bit of life
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10. |
A Letter On A Page
02:27
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Sift it through your memory
Check the time, check the date
Mark the place
Then be on your way
You cannot hold in certainty
Not the time, not the place
Just a trace
Of all that falls away
Life it has no constancy
Not a line, not a trace
That will not ever change
Love is like setting sun
Like a letter on a page
One will burn
The other slowly fades
So I love you like a setting sun
Like I’ll know no other day
All temporary truth
Sung upon a stage
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11. |
Deep Cut
01:52
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You’re nothing but a deep cut in my back catalogue
You’re nothing but wasted time
A rejected line
From a song I never sing anymore
I wish you whatever you want
But don’t come darkening my door
Yeah I’m all scorched earth and fire
There’s nothing else left
Since you liars set in
Yeah, yeah, yeah, lemons,
Suck ‘em up and see
I’m half as bitter as you’d be
If you were me
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12. |
Out Loud
02:51
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I’ve never been one for running my tongue
For declaring all my love from the rooftops
I’ve always been shy cos people will pry into your life
I’ve been inclined to hide
But if all you ever wanted
Was someone to love you out loud
I can do it, I can do it now
I married this guy
And I didn’t lie but I barely told a soul
Pretty cold
And the next guy I had, well I didn’t share that
And no one even knows
But if all you ever wanted
Was someone to love you out loud
I can do it, I can do it now
For something has changed
And I don’t feel afraid
Or ashamed to say your name
Any time, any place
I guess all I ever wanted
Was someone that I could love out loud
And I can do it
I can do it now
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13. |
Repaid
02:34
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I cannot be confined
Or contained
I will not be refined
Or restrained
For what I have retained
I will not give away
You can hedge your bets
And you doubt your debts
But they’re gonna be repaid
Someday
I cannot be maligned
Or mislaid
I will not be defined
Or displayed
For all that I remain
I will not give way
You can hedge your bets
And you doubt your debts
But they’re gonna be repaid
Someday
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14. |
Unbound
03:18
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Time is a great healer
And I’d wager space can do that to
As I look out at all the water
I feel damage beginning to undo
I lost a thought, a thought of time
When I’d be unharmed and unbound
As I look out at all this water
I feel that time slowly coming around
Time is great healer
And I’d wager space can do that to
As I look out at all this water
I feel damage beginning to undo
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Josienne Clarke Scotland, UK
Songwriter/Singer 'Onliness (songs of solitude & singularity)'
Out 14.4.23 on Corduroy Punk Records
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