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I’ve been waiting for a tonic
To blunt the blow of what’s been coming
I’ve made my peace with being honest
Letting you know
I’m letting you know
I told myself it felt just right
Walking off into the night
That what I’m feeling isn’t spite
How could I know
How could I know
I’ve found myself above the salt
A better man with better faults
Burning blades of weathered grass
Wringing out my weathered hands
I’ve been sipping gin and tonics
To numb the hits as they keep coming
I hit the floor and you keep running
Don’t know how to end or where we started
I told myself that we’d grow old
Like purple palms braced for the cold
Tried and tried but can’t it let go
It’s like I hold on for the principle
And I’ve found myself above the salt
Better cos I know my faults
Burning blades of weathered grass
A forest fire from my hands
I’ve been
Waiting
For someone you won’t become
Anticipating
The quiet before the rush
I’ve been chasing
A feeling that never comes
I’ve been waiting
For someone you won’t become
Idling on the fringe
Staring at the sun
Looking back at where i’ve been
And how I can become
Water sitting on the skin
Sulfur in the cut
Learning how to let it go
Idling on the fringe
Staring at the sun
Looking back at where i’ve been
And how I can become
Water sitting on the skin
Sulfur in the cut
Learning how to let it go
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Learning How to Die
03:51
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If I wrote my life down
Would you read it back to me?
Would I hurt the same way
As I did in memory?
Tell me all about the moon that pulled our strings
Tell me all about the sun that stained our skin
I won’t have a final word
When I lay down my head
Cause I’ve learned the hardest way
To say the things I meant
I did the best with what I had
Without a reason why
But in the end I know I’ve lived a life
That taught me how to die
If I lived forever
Would it change what I believe?
Does the fear of dying young
Cause us all to be deceived ?
Would I still need convincing of the things
I can’t perceive?
Is it our naivety to put faith
In what we can’t see?
I won’t have a final word
When I lay down my head
Cause I’ve learned the hardest way
To say the things I meant
I did the best with what I had
Without a reason why
But in the end I know I’ve lived a life
That taught me how to die
We don’t know how far we are from heaven
But we’re ninety million miles from the sun
We don’t know how close to God we’ve come
But we’re face to face with everyone we love
I won’t have a final word
When I lay down my head
Cause I’ve learned the hardest way
To question where I’m led
I did the best with what I had
Without a reason why
But in the end I know I’ve lived a life
That taught me how to die
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Afterglow
03:10
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I’ve made peace with losing you
If I say it out loud will it make it true
I was cheated of my youth
Cause everything moves too fast so soon
Face the ocean trace the sun
We’ll give it all meaning where there’s none
Silence speaks to me in tongues
I’ve carried my coal but now I’m done
Oh love where’d you go?
Burned through all of our days
Feel your afterglow
Keeping me awake
Feel your afterglow
Keeping me awake
Oh love where’d you go?
Burned through all of our days
Feel your afterglow
Keeping me awake
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4. |
Kerosene
03:27
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Kerosene
To the fire searing
My uncertainty
Velveteen
Smoking like the fabric
Of our history
I don’t wanna reach back out
I don’t wanna sow my doubt
Again
Oh my love is spent
How am I to force forget
The beauty that I now regret
Instead
All my love is spent
On you
You
You
Running out of steam
Kerosene
Black and white
Losing colour with the grain it comes to light
Love of mine
The balance now is reeling
Cause we broke the bearing wall
And our footing felt the fall
I don’t wanna reach back out
I don’t wanna sow my doubt
Again
Oh my love is spent
How am I to force forget
The beauty that I now regret
Instead
All my love is spent
On you
You
You
Running out of steam
Kerosene
I don’t wanna reach back out
I don’t wanna sow my doubt
Again
Oh my love is spent
How am I to force forget
The beauty that I now regret
Instead
All my love is spent
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You are the sun
Bring light where there’s none
If I look back on the moments
How they all played their part
There is meaning to be found
In the still of the dark
Daylight burns away
Tomorrow people change
But I will know you always
If your air leaves my lungs
To lose is still to love
And I will feel you always
There’s beauty in this life we’ve built
You are the sun
Forever shine on
I can feel you in the fractures of time
I know by heart
There is meaning to be found in the still
In the still of the dark
Daylight burns away
Tomorrow people change
But I will know you always
If your air leaves my lungs
To lose is still to love
And I will feel you always
There’s beauty in this life we’ve built
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6. |
Disbelief
04:02
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Give me something to believe
Got no faith in mystery
Or a love that I can’t see
I find hope in disbelief of you
Flowers blooming in the snow
When I die where will I go?
Some things we’re not meant to know
But meaning is my disbelief of you
Give me something to believe
Got no faith in mystery
Or a love that I can’t see
I find hope in disbelief of you
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Portair Canberra, Australia
“It is always difficult writing such personal things and knowing the people closest to me will speculate that they played a part in that. For me, this is a cathartic outlet. I hope it can be that for other people, too.”
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