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Black Light
04:31
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I am black light
Everything bright
Only in time
All the days will show what’s right
I’m frozen still
You’re half gone
I dare not breathe
Lest you lose grip on this world
All the days
Fall away
A pall of grey
Over us
This is the way
We turn away
From the love
And from the light
Take off your face
Caked on like clay
So thick it peels
Like blubber from a whale
Run for your life
Blind, panicked prey
The fear flooding
Empty bodies borne away
Lost my way
On the way
To the door
To the light
As the day
Ebbs away
We are smoke
We ignite
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Waiting
02:52
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Waiting for the word to form upon my tongue
I’ve been open-mouthed now for a week
I showed up at my own office to make a complaint
That everything I do is never good enough
I guess that I have to face what ever it is that’s going on
Sometimes life don’t rhyme, oh no
But I could be so wrong about that
For now you’ll get what ever slips between my gums
A broken tooth, a lie, a measly crumb
And all my bad lines
The end is near so I’ll just have to start wrapping it up
La da dee da dee da dee da dei da dai
Something’s wrong
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Music is your laughter in my ears
Your laughter is music in my ears
But every time you call my name
I smell tears
But every time you call my name
I know there’ll be tears
There’ll be tears
There’ll be tears
Now there is a growing trepidation
As we count the days until vacation
You saved up for your dream trip ad astra
I spent it on a Fender Telecaster
But every time you call me lame
I age like twenty years
And every night that we stay in
We toke on our fears
There’ll be tears
There’ll be tears
And every time things settle down, it shows up
It blows up, I won’t grow up
You’re quiet; are we headed for disaster?
What’s after, disaster? What’s after?
There’ll be tears
There’ll be tears
There’ll be tears
There’ll be tears…
Your smiles put the music in my laughter
You used to sing my praises to the rafters
Your skin is the whitest alabaster
I’ll see you in the here in ever after
I’m running out of road, “Then run faster!”
But my arms and my legs are in plaster
Still your smiles put the music in my laughter
Your smiles put the music in my laughter
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Oath
03:39
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Anyone home?
I don’t know. Right?
And I’m not going to try
In and out
Of all the hole money can buy
And the opiate at night
Numb
In a world
Where I had no pride
Where I had no shirt on my back
On a rope
Had a no-good life
And the old man he didn’t hide
From
Heaven loves me, yeah
Heaven loved me
Heaven loves me, yeah
Loves me not
Heaven loves me
Heaven loved me
Heaven loves me, yeah
Loves me not
In the end
I had no right
Always running from the light
Lift the weight
And then no more fight
Giving in to the bright
Day
Heaven loves me, yeah
Heaven loved me
Heaven loves me, yeah
Loves me not
Heaven loves me, yeah
Heaven loved me
Heaven loves me, yeah
Loves me not
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Keep on walking
Although your eyes are clenched
Keep on talking
Although your shirt is drenched
I know you're tired and your feet hurt
Just keep talking, and stay alert
Just keep walking, just keep walking
Keep on walking
Under the burning sun
Keep on walking
I'm sure we'll meet someone
I know there'll be an end to all this sand
I know we'll find a way through no man's land
Just keep walking, just keep walking
Do you see something coming up ahead?
I think it's a camp, I'm sure I see a riverbed
Let's speed up, we're almost there
I feel hope flickering in the air
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Ambulance Song
04:20
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This is a tired ambulance song
Yes I am mired in this endless all day long
I am the one who rang you one, one two
You should be glad this shit ain’t happening to you
The blade is sharp but don’t focus on the pain
I got these two old notes bouncing round my brain
On any other day I hear a siren, I’d run
My wife is wailing for the ambulance to come along
The man in white singing his blue song
They’ll dance on my bones, I’ll give it a day
Don’t lose your nerve now and start to prey, hey
You wait all day then three come
One for my head
One for my heart
To late, a soul has left the room
And all that’s left is this reverberating song
This is a tired ambulance song
Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee
Wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee-ooh-wee
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The Last One
03:09
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I am only me, I am only me
I am the last one, I am what is left
I am floating free, I am floating free
I am the last one, I am not dead
I am not to be, I shouldn’t be
I am not undone, I am, I am
There is only me, I am the last one
There is only me, I am all that’s left
It’s always been me, I am, I am
I am the only one
I am the only one
I am the only one
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Own Road Denmark
One of the Danish alt-folk scene's finest songwriters.
Never one to follow the latest trends, he has for more than
a decade charted his own unique course through the Danish music scene. Ultimately the destination is always the same: the great flowing river of song, which he has a rare gift for tapping into with melodies that feel at once brand new and ancient.
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