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Pain Sells
03:19
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You say blue like it's something to be scared of
I exist inside that paradigm
All my life, reacting to the wire
When bird song stops, I'm not ashamed to cry
And hold your truth till the fanfare passes over
Me and you can count the lingering crows
All my time, perfecting blessed silence
What comes next I'm not afraid to know
Pain sells.
I'll put my trauma on a postcard
And you can read it till your hear swells
And sum it up inside a blurb
And go change the world (go start a fight)
The sky remains blue (come back black and blue)
I'll sit with the birds
And tweet about you.
You say new, like the old should be forgotten
But I remember just how frail we are
All our knowledge written on a bloodline
I believe we need to bleed that scar
And what the birds see never really phased you.
I was always more concerned to know
All our secrets hanging from the oak tree
Sunlight shapes us in tomorrow's mould
Pain sells.
I'll put my trauma on a postcard
And you can read it till your hear swells
And sum it up inside a blurb
And go change the world (go start a fight)
The sky remains blue (come back black and blue)
I'll sit with the birds
And tweet about you.
You say blue I say beauty (Blue, Beauty)
You say cry, I say move me (Blue, Beauty)
I went off-road on a flyway
Some say one way
I went a-wall on a highway
Some say, I stray
Pain still sells but I'm giving up on those acrobats
I'm happy and I hope you're well
3 hots and a cot in my habitat
All I need, is to tweet about you.
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2. |
After the Goodbye
03:45
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And you said
'Thanks for the memories, but I've forgotten you,
a long time ago. Lost to the wardrobes and the weather.
And the prints in the snow.
I used to see you as a princess.
All spell bound and kind.
How did you take down our fortress?
Was it the cracks in your mind?'
You know, I didn't even notice
I didn't even blink when you started swearing twice as much
No, I didn't even flinch when you shuddered at my touch.
Oh what we lost
Somewhere inside Glasgow's scattered shores.
You cut and run
No explanation and no consequence.
You just fell out of love.
I used to see you as an avalanche.
Guess I got caught underneath
Just a victim of your circumstance
And I didn't even see when your tide,
It turned on me.
And I didn't even see when you stopped having fun with me.
And the bitter taste of winter never stung me like that.
You were stone cold sober
Quick to sever all that we had.
I begged you reconsider, but you just turned your back
Oh what we lost.
It's the simple things that flash above your eyes
You were not for me
After the goodbye
Oh what we lost
Are the simple reasons hidden from our minds
You were not for me
After the goodbye
You were not for me.
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3. |
Numbers Game
03:36
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Ripples roll for miles
Collecting on the water
To tell you it's month's more
But it's been minutes since you saw her
Sometimes she's vanilla,
Something so expected
Then suddenly, the textbook's down
You're on the ground and your gone
You said you wouldn't bend
Swore she couldn't break you
Automatic on
Your assumptions make me hate you
Grading all the stones
She's kissed so many takers
She's scribbling your number down
She says it's a numbers game
Its a numbers game
She leaves you at the door
Dismisses all the stories
Ripples fade to dust
40 years of hoarding
She's always on the bench
Reminding you it's over
And even when the ghosts go away
She's got your number as she scratches off your name
She's the lady in waiting
Moonlighting as the Raven
Keeping tabs on me
And I don't feel afraid
While I'm living day to day
On the path she weaves
The autumn wont haunt me
Colours console me
As they change, and age and bleed
Leaves her soul behind
Counting out of time
2
3
4
Its a numbers game.
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4. |
Symphonies
04:17
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It all comes to nothing
The second chances, were seconds wasted
A second time for something
But to nothing we return
Well I guess I was searching
I was lonely, lost and in need of warmth
You just, scooped me up and I settled
And we wished away the storm
And that old wind, she's catching up again
Yeah, the wind blows
It all was for nothing
The seconds I took, were second hand
So at the second time of asking
I withdrew a minute from a time machine
With my keen nose and cast eyes
Your song made my lip quiver
And I can't seem to stomach the things I find familiar
And that same old feeling's catching up again
I can feel it in my bones
You, said there'd be shelter
Somehow I'd be safer
You said it would all work out
But I don't, hear the symphonies coming out now
You said I'd be stronger
Somehow I'd be wiser
But I've still got my feelers on
And I don't feel the symphonies coming on.
And I feel like the young pretender
As I watch you, dance through
The shapes in kaleidoscope weather
Better now to know, better now to know
Better now to know if it all was, for nothing
This type of storm
Throws caution to the wind
It rains on my parade
It's a dagger in my heart
You, said there'd be shelter
Somehow I'd be safer
You said it would all work out
But I don't, hear the symphonies coming out now
You said I'd be stronger
Somehow I'd be wiser
But I've still got my feelers on
And I don't feel the symphonies coming on.
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5. |
Call of the Void
03:20
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Step 1: Board the boat and find your sea legs.
When the semaphore signals, choose your way.
Step 2: Ignore the muddy waters in your head.
Everything is fixed, until the goalposts change
The call of the void
Don't Jump
And there's no time, until we make time
And there's no time like now
Step 3: Heed the words your mother said
A stranger's a debt you've yet to pay
Step 4: Hopscotch, through their shoes instead
Savour what you can, but never stay too late
The call of the void
Don't Jump
And we won't face, if we just save face
And there's no face quite like yours
Pay no mind to the soothsayers on the mountain
They come and go and I should know x 2
My story ends there
Step on,
Step off,
All in time
The call of the void
Don't Jump
And there's no time,
Until we make time
And there's no time at all.
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Cede Glasgow, UK
Cede are the combined songwriting talents of Becci Wallace and Alan Kerr.
Taking influences from mutual tastes in
music and across different genres and songs spanning decades, they formed this lyrical focused, acoustic duo with just a touch of satire.
Writing in the shadow of an unprecedented year of torment for far too many, Cede re-evaluate the common tropes of love, loss and need for attention.
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