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Azure
08:11
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Trying to light a fire in the sand, early morning
Keeping my fingers warm from the breeze, that whispered a cold melody that inspired me
Trying to scream,
A wish in the wind
Set me free
again
I was the sky and sea,
and I was free
An angel of the storm
I lost it all and took my fall
until I was just Azure
Now I'm a prisoner in a cage, in a body
I used to drink with the devil, I was so dangerously close to drowning
The sea grows strong,
and unpredictable
so alone
You are the sea and sky, and so am I
an angel of the storm
we traded roles, I gave my soul
until I was just Azure
Sea and Sky
Sea and Sky
Sea and Sky
Wind and Tide
Sea and Sky
I feel a storm, on the horizon
Here comes the storm
Here comes the storm
After the storm, I open my eyes
I find myself back in the sky
the sky
(back in the sky)
Back on the ground (back in the sky)
Safe in my bed (safe in the clouds)
Was it a dream? (I am the storm)
Was it a dream?
I am the storm
I am the sky and sea and I am free
an angel of the storm
I'm beautiful, I'll never fall
and I'll always be Azure
I'll always be Azure
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2. |
Friends
03:29
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Don't worry about me darling,
I can walk home alone
Next time I catch you crawling,
I won't be so kind
Don't you remember when we ran as deep as blood?
But we aren't having that much fun anymore
Friends are always there for you, they say
But I don't see that much of you these days
All around the world you sail, but
I'm still here and I feel like giving up
Did you ever really care?
Were we ever really friends?
I guess I could find another to pass my time again
but
Don't you remember when we ran as deep as blood?
But we aren't running anywhere anymore
Friends are always there for you, they say
But I don't see that much of you these days
All around the world you sail, but
I'm still here and I feel like giving up
Did you ever really care?
Were we ever really friends?
Remember when we ran as deep as blood?
All around the world you sail, but
I'm still here and I feel like giving up
Did you ever really care?
Were we ever really friends?
(Friends are always there for you, they say)
But I don't see that much of you these days
All around the world you sail, but
I'm still here and I feel like giving up
And you never really cared
We were never really
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3. |
Dream Electric
02:44
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Lately, I've been dreaming of days where we can cry
Maybe I've been dancing through the night,
Like a mayfly burning far too bright
I've seen things you would not believe
Is it just a slave's belief that everyone should be born free?
Maybe I have wasted too much sleep,
No-one would believe that androids dream electric sheep
I've seen things you would not believe
Priscilla, the dear Pris I've left behind
I've seen things you would not believe
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Once, upon a daydream in the sun
I was squelching wellies in the
Mud and muck, when mother called me home
'Stay indoors, and promise you won't go'
I thought I saw you there
Late that night, I crept outside once more
Marched the mud along the kitchen
Floor, the door was open wide again
Easy to escape my country pen
And in the dead of night
I left my house behind
What was my mother hiding from her only son?
Whatever it happened to be, I could never return
I could never go home again
Father used to have a way with words
(Tell me stories that I'd never heard)
I ran away when I was just a girl
(Mother said he was a useless)
Drunk and tired, he said he didn't care
Like I wasn't ever really there
If I could fly away
I'd try and find your face
No-one will take your place
Father, father gone without a trace
I have lost everything for you
A man I never knew
The words are all I have to hang on to
Something seemed a little odd to me
Why would you pack your things and
Leave me here?
You weren't that kind of man
Or were you?
Maybe I'm exhausted and I'm old
Should have believed what I was told
I never learn
Thanks to you I wasted my youth, my love, my life
And now I lay with broken wings
My mother said such awful things about you
Yet here I am
Here I am
And now the dawn chorus, as it comes
Brings with her a final song
And finally, I can see
The wings from your words
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5. |
My Body (feat. HETTIE)
03:47
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Cloud 9
We are so blind (sublime), again
In turns we break the bread,
you whisper to me but you can't make a sound because
Now I messiah you, you've
Traded your throat for your words
Feeling my body
Bleeding my wounds
You are so kind
Breaking my Body
Let's redefine
What's yours, what's mine
I yearn to make a bond,
A union of trust where we see through each other's eyes
Where I inspire you to take away
All that is mine
Feeling my body
Bleeding my wounds
You are so kind
Breaking my Body
Feeling my body
Bleeding my wounds
You are so kind
Breaking my Body
Body
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6. |
Piglet
03:28
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I saw you enter this world
Handled like a babe in the mud
I used to feed you my breakfast,
and watched as you learned how to cope in the dirt
You are so gentle to me
Why can't they be gentle to you?
Watch out little piglet, the whole world is set against you
Farmer is sharp'ning his knife
You are my family, the whole world will laugh at me for
Valuing you for your life
and I'll always be by your side
Sometimes I think you can tell
Your friends disappearing, and I had to lie
Sometimes you try to escape from your pen
And my friend you know that I know why
Hold on little piglet, the whole world is set against you
Father is pointing his knife
You are my family, the whole world will laugh at me for
Valuing you for your life
I just don't know what to do
Is there anything I could do for you?
My friend, it seems that we're
Stuck in the mud
But
I will always be by your side
Watch out little piglet, a whole world is gunning for you
Farmer is sharp'ning his knife
They think I'm crazy, but child you just listen to me
I'd die to give you a life
I will always be by your side
So together, we'll hide
Just keep me by your side
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7. |
River Dragon
03:24
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On a gorgeous april morning
In the south of England
I was floating on a wooden boat
Down the stream and far away
'Tween the dew-kissed reeds I sailed
A normal day
Through the lily leaves, I believe I saw a River Dragon
What a wish for spring! A fresh water specimen
In a blink she was beside me
She gazed at me and cried a melody that stirred the breeze
I had never seen a beast like her
Not like the dragons I studied at all
What a day
As a gentle rain baptised my face, I watched the River Dragon
Though it seemed unclear - serpents never visit here
Something tells me you're not from this stream
Pull the boat and we'll head out to sea
I will help you find your home
River Dragon, so alone
Oh, how I tried to help but carried away in river dreams,
She never wandered from the stream
So far from home, oh I know I'm not a River Dragon
Lost, lost at sea, Spring has cultivated me
Your pleasant home made me long to be a River Dragon
Now it's all I know, I've forgotten who I am
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(It's for absolution)
God, such vacant company
Here in the garden of Gethsemane
I know every single one of them and all that they believe in
Everybody is a junkie with a sinful life to lead in
Tell me it's for absolution
Death is a step in a sin-free solution
Tell me it's for absolution,
and leave the rest to me
If I have to die today, why can't you make it painless
and when I take their sins away, you know they won't stay sinless
Tell me it's for absolution,
and roll the stone away
Every time I bury my head in my hands, I see right through them
Lucifer was a scapegoat taking blame for human nature
Everybody is a junkie, waiting for you to come and save us
Tell me it's for absolution
Death is a step in a sin-free solution
Tell me it's for absolution,
and leave the rest to me
If I have to die today, why can't you make it painless
and when I take their sins away, you know they won't stay sinless
Tell me it's for absolution,
and roll the stone away
I could have a life, and
Watch as it unfolded
But you only think of yourself
Everyone is stupid, everyone is foolish
Yeah, you have been controlling
We were born to be slaves
Every step I take towards my cross
I feel the weight of another soul
Who isn't worth my
Blood and body, and I'm not sorry
You've been telling
Bloody Stories
Will they ever learn?
Drug-distorted tales they all yearn to be true
About me
'Well I never, we're so clever!'
They all cheered as they died
I don't long for what you've been taking
Guess I'm afraid of the high
Tell me it's for absolution
Death is a step in a sin-free solution
Tell me it's for absolution,
and leave the rest to me
If I have to die today, why can't you make it painless
and when I take their sins away, you know they won't stay sinless
Tell me it's for absolution,
and roll the stone away
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9. |
Bathing In Lunar Pond
03:26
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On a cool, blue night by the water's edge
All the others came to bathe
There were 12 of us, but only 2 of us
Not a person knew my name
What we shared was trust in each other
But we were cautious the whole night
Only I was real, and they couldn't feel
But I watched them as they tried
After dance became touch, we had drank too much
And our skin began to breathe
How we played, how we grew in the pool of the moon
Unaware that we'd conceived
Bathe the night away
Let's wonder for longer than we should need
Praying that you'll stay
Grow strong and belong here
Til you come clean in Lunar Pond
The beast is born with just 2 horns
And eyes as white as snow
and she'll never know your name,
but she will see you as a ghost
The bodies of the dead all come to bathe in Lunar Pond
And I will die here waiting for the loved ones that I lost
Bathe the night away
Let's wonder for longer than we should need
Praying that you'll stay
Grow fond and belong here
Til you come clean
I have sat here, waiting all my life
For my parents to come (home)
All my children, and my beautiful wife
They have left me here alone
So I wait the night away
Let's wander for longer than we should need
Praying that you'll stay
Grow strong and belong here
Til you come clean in Lunar Pond
In Lunar Pond
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Kissed by the sweat of the morning,
I lay wide awake
And my body is the darling of a new day
Oh sweet love, I beg you touch
My love, you lay unwoken
And oh,
I'm too much
and you don't sleep enough
These days, and I can't help
Waking you
And I know you can't see
You're my honeysuckle dream
and I want your hands
All over me
Early December, I've been
Lost in a haze of a delicate sun
Oh sweet love, I need your faith
and some more patience please
And I know
I'm too much
and you don't sleep enough
These days, and I can't help
Waking you
And I know you can't see
You're my honeysuckle dream
and I want your hands
All over me
You think that you're the mess that I can't clean
Darling you're the best I've ever seen
Oh, I'm too much
and you don't sleep enough
These days, and I can't help
Waking you
I know you can't see
You're my honeysuckle dream
but I want your hands
All over me
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11. |
Fairy's Tale
18:47
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I. 'Only a Mother'
And for my child, I'd give the world
and for a sprite, I never learn
Make her beautiful
Make her pure
Name her fairy
Make her boy
Safe in my womb, you will grow
Safe, til the moment of your birth
Everyone here is just out to get you
Only your mother can ever keep you safe
We run, all of our lives, spent on our wings
We are just nymphs....
Never fall in love, it's never worth the pain
Noone wants you for your brain
I was a fool, thought my beauty didn't define me
Never again will i make that mistake, I was used and forsaken for that
I can't bare to watch my daughter suffer like I did
Keep it inside, never speak your mind
Shut it all out, I insist
Never fall in love, it's never worth the pain
Noone wants you for your brain
Sleep, sleep away, sleep til we die
Sleep til you're here
II. 'The Great Thinker'
So? I don't know what love is
Sex? Well I just don't care
God? There is no such thing, but
Love? Just tell me where
Born as a boy, born again as a girl
"Nobody talk to her, she's a thinker"
My mother said I can't make any friends
Nobody wants you if you're a thinker"
Why does nobody like me?
Secretly, I'm so lonely
All of the boys here want me
All of the girls intrigue me
Rain won't you please pay attention to me?
Nobody talks to me, I'm a thinker
Born as a boy, born again as a girl
Nobody wants you if you're a thinker
III. 'Rain'
Early december, oh how I remember
Your face as you told me
Your name was Rain
I was worthless, you were perfect, yet you couldn't stay
But oh, it was love
Just two nymphs in the winter sun
All a girl could ever want
Every touch, every breath, every colour in her hair
And if love was rain
Then she washed my pain away
Safe in her arms, I said 'run away with me'
Everyone here is just out to get you
Only a lover could ever keep you safe
So let's run
IV. 'The Life of Rain'
We were just devils in an honest place
He was a stranger with an honest face
And I couldn't believe the mess we were in
'Don't worry, my dears', he said with a grin
He helped us inside, said we could stay
And I guess I just trust every honest face
But we weren't aware of the trouble to come
He threw us in a cell and held up a gun,
"don't run
run away
There's no where to hide, my dear
You've nothing to fear
Yeah, you're safe here
You're safe here"
Then he pulled the trigger,he blew rain away
"Only a thinker should deserve this"
Now all I had has been relinquished
Weeks became months, locked in my cell
What once was a nymph is now just a shell
Not a thinker, not anymore
Once I was broken, the man let me go
"Any nymph caught 'thinking' will end up like her
So go"
Fly away, I'm not a fairy
I'm just a nymph
It took the death of rain
To set me straight
It took the the life of rain
But now you're gone
V. 'Just a Nymph'
Fairy walks home late at night
Finished for the month, now she waits for a week, she just sleeps til then
Now she's counting every name, using that big old brain, she remembers everyone, every touch
And she would fool you, seems so carefree
Like she's meant to, so you can't see
What she's been through, oh she's just nymph for you to do as you wanted
"And I feel lost and alone and ashamed, where is rain? Just a nymph, a nymph"
Beauty defines her, a war in her head still confines her, her lover is dead, don't remind her, just take her to bed, it's much kinder this way
VII. 'Beauty Defines Us' // 'The War'
What's on the inside doesn't mean a thing, no
Something that I had to learn the 'hard' way
Love is a fairy's tale, where you find the 'one'
But no-one has the time for love anymore
Beauty defines us, beauty divine
Beauty confines us, or absolves us of the crime
Beauty reminds us to relinquish our flaws
Hopelessly guides us 'tween masochistic walls
So thank god that I look like this
Beauty defines us
I am a whore, don't know what for
and this is my life, oh is this it?
Baby what's the point, though I look so perfect
I am just another lay, to another boy
Love is a fairy's tale, where your feelings matter
I don't want to feel a thing anymore
Beauty defines us, beauty divine
Beauty confines us, or absolves us of the crime
Beauty reminds us to relinquish our flaws
Hopelessly guides us 'tween masochistic walls
There was a war, not sure what for
And nobody wins, when you have wings
This is a war, I don't know what for
There is a war, and we have wings
And claws, and teeth that gnaw
If this is war, then how long for?
I must protest to make a nest
before we learn to clean this mess
Once in a dream, a beautiful dream
I had a friend, her name was Rain
Now in the dark, losing myself
Losing myself, and all for
Beauty, hair, the way I dress
The way I should seduce a man
I must protest to make a nest
Now that I know, I know
Beauty will ruin me, I swallow my pride
Beauty so temporary, not lasting all our lives
Beauty reminds us, that we are the same
Nymphs are all equal
When you treat them like a slave...
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Azure Brighton, UK
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