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Move On Those Tired Feet
01:59
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Oh there’s nothing left
Final traces have now been swept
Oh no nothing left
Wash the salt from the tears you wept
Clouds for a time will keep
But roses grow through the cold concrete
Move on those tired tired feet
Oh just let it be
The sooner clear then the sooner free
You can’t kill a memory
But can bury it deep so a man can breathe
Clouds for a time will keep
But roses grow through the cold concrete
Move on those tired tired feet
Standing still won’t get you anywhere
Don’t stand still I know I’ve done my share
Oh no summer froze
Winter came, just the way it goes
You take the sun then you take the snow
Life is Bitter but it’s Sweet you know
Clouds for a time will keep
But roses grow through the cold concrete
Move on those tired tired feet
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There’s a fever growing in my stomach
There are questions I’ve tried to ignore
Though I bite them down they always come back
And now they're knocking at my door
I wish your lies were better my dear
Your secrets further from view
I wish your lies were better my dear
And I could ignore the truth
Doubt it grows in silence like a cancer
Questions held too long held will start to burn
Anger moves within you like a dancer
And eats at the truths you held firm
I wish your lies were better my dear
Your secrets further from view
I wish your lies were better my dear
And I could ignore the truth
Over and over i’ve turned your words
They can’t hide what i see
Where’ve you been tonight my only darling
And what are you doing to me
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Thin Skin
02:45
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I have thin skin baby
Can’t help how I bruise
Your honest words are needed
Doesn’t mean they’re welcome too
There is a dividing line
Cutting through the will and the design
There is who I’d like to be and who I am
I’m the sum of choices made
I’m the sum of errors and mistakes
There is who I’d like to be and who i can
I have thin skin baby
Wish it were not so
Give me some truth honey
And I’ll tell you to go
There is a dividing line
Cutting through the will and the design
There is who I want to be and who I am
I’m the end of choices made
I’m the sum of errors and mistakes
There is who I try to be and who i can
Admitting fault is easier than facing it
I have thin skin baby
Sorry how I bruise
Sorry that i punish
Those that tell the truth
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We danced till the morning till we couldn’t walk
We danced till the morning to hold off our talk
I would like to see
You tonight can we
Find some time to be
On our own
I held you to me as our bodies swayed
Couldn’t be closer yet so far away
I would like to see
You tonight can we
Find some time to be
On our own
There’s a problem here my dear it’s clear
There’s a problem here my dear
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Don’t know how you got in
But now you’re under my skin
You’re every thought I think
You’re every song i sing
My feet I have found have no need for the ground
I am lost and I’m losing you
Off with my head now the cold’s claimed my bed
To a grave of my choosing
I thought that I was strong
Turns out I was just young
Thought i could take you on
Time showed me I was wrong
My feet I have I found have no need for the ground
I’m lost and I am losing you
Off with my head now the cold’s claimed my bed
To a grave of my choosing
As the bubble burst
I was marvelling how well it worked
As the market crashed
I was buying everything you had
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6. |
Better Man
03:38
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I will be a loving man
I won’t be the one I am
I will treat you like I should
I won’t treat you like I did
I am careless and unkind
Owner of a selfish mind
But I will be a better man
If you ask me to stay, you ask me to stay
For some time i’ve willed myself
To turn into someone else
Don’t know if I can succeed
But I know who I want to be
I am careless and unkind
Owner of a selfish mind
But I will be a better man
If you ask me to stay
I know who i was before
Don’t know if I’m him no more
But I know that i want to be
forever in your arms, forever in your arms
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Don’t you come running, I’ve got a gun and
The will to sink you into the ground
So deep that you won’t ever be found
There’s teeth in the clouds, they’re weighing them down
They’ll tear as sharp as nails ripping through
I’ve a roof but I’ve no room left for you
I’ve known love and I’ve known harm
Big my heart it swelled so soft and warm
Oh you took an oath you tore in two
Bitter resin formed to stone it grew
How weak and unguarded, the happy heart is
With no safety net to save against it all
And no arm to raise to parry fists that fall
The seeds you have sown, They have grown they have grown
In my hands the harvest’s waiting here for you
When I see your face I’ll grant you your due
I’ve known love and I’ve known harm
Big my heart it swelled so soft and warm
Oh you took an oath you tore in two
Bitter resin formed to stone it grew
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Coward
03:25
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To be happy one must break a knuckle now and then
An honest heart will come to blows with many men
Honesty must navigate one through the darker nights
It’s gaze looked upon and mirrored back with all it’s might
Oh i am a coward,
To live fear must be devoured
Else your looking glass will haunt you till you lose your mind
Your reflection stare you down until you shut your eyes
Regret tunnels deep within and withers you away
You’ll be mourning for what might have been on sunny days
Oh i am a coward
To live fear must be devoured
Oh i am a coward
To love fear must be devoured
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Had What You Had
04:42
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I’ve been sleeping too soundly
oh I’ve been too sure of the ground I walk on
I’ve been talking too proudly
Oh I’ve been too confident of my welcome
But it only takes one fall
To prove that it can all fly away
And once proven you can lose
Doubt grips hold of you and it’ll stay
I’m not cut out for failure
I can’t get used to the way that it feels
I won’t get better at losing
Just cos I’ve learned in time I’ll heal
Oh it only takes one fall
To prove that it can all fly away
And once proven you can lose
Doubt grips hold of you and it’ll stay
If I had what you had, I’d be so scared to lose I don’t think I could ever win
If I had what you had, I’d be so scared to lose I think i’d just give in
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The Hardest Thing
02:37
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The hardest thing is to go and to stay gone
Give you your space not add to the confusion
To weather the cold that has grown in my home and the bed I made
I never found a thing easy about walking away
The hardest thing is the urge to be near you
Knowing the hurt that you feel and the fear too
Knowing that i’m not the one that can comfort you anymore
Cos I am the one that brought all of this to your door
And the hardest nights when all sleep has been stolen
When the ghosts terrorise and your soul is torn open
Though you want nothing more than to take back it all and undo all you’ve done
Still doesn’t mean that you made the wrong decision
The hardest thing is the hole that's created
The absence that grows till your heart's inundated
Hope the time will come soon when the silence that looms isn’t all I hear
I know it’ll come but I don’t think that time is near
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Benedict Benjamin London, UK
Benedict Benjamin is Ben Rubinstein, formerly of The Mariner’s Children and Peggy Sue
(Wichita). His
debut album ‘Night Songs’ is a collection of timeless compositions recorded in a
series of churches, bedrooms and kitchens across London and Kent with producer Dan Blackett
(Landshapes, Bella Union).
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