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Silver Wave
04:28
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So full and far away
The teacher's resting place
A lonely roving horde
So sure, grieving, what for?
Cruel forbidding wind
Bears down on us once again
Turns the air to flame
See the brave, breathe it in, and what for?
It doesn't hurt to be alone
You may be tall but not yet fully grown
There'll always be a tone to push your heart into its own
Float on a silver wave
There's no more perfect place
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Sunlight
04:02
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There was a time, sunlight meant nothing to me
Free from all the pieces of mind,
Those ones that might not agree
Violent swinging arms to draw curtains,
Speaking loud and long without pause,
The sun it does so nurture but
When channeled through the glass becomes too hot
Leave it in the wind, in the wind
It floats like a living bird against the sheperds' red sky
It struggles with the burden that it gains,
Then lets out one last song before the bloody night
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Byzantium
03:35
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Byzantium
Mind soaked in rum
Opposite the blind
There a land we could find
Free from fear where none should be
You will find me 'neath a fruit bearing tree
Precocious youth
Reach for the fruit
The truth evades your hand
It speaks as it lands
The evil is instilled in you;
This you are told and so it must be true
You will find me beneath the tree
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Lullaby
02:07
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Without
04:25
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Comfort me oh heaving wreck
On the lifeboat thrown adrift
I watch the seething water claim
The bones of what it means to live
Slowly drowns the gargling mess
That of wood and metal pipe
And just below the crescent moon
Let loose a flare provide some light
Ever bleak and full of doubt
At once I'm with and then without
Slowly drowns the sizzling light
The ones that reddens rippling waves
It passes 'tween the elements
The ones whose constant war is waged
One moment empty then so full
Yet tragically predictable
Lost
Comfort me oh heaving wreck
On the lifeboat thrown adrift
I watch the seething water claim
The bones of what it means to live
So clearly can we see the line
Dividing sea and cloudless sky
If man is the beach
Then his nature be the tide
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Wild Things
06:37
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One day i awoke, so still
Sounds around me, louder still
I woke amidst the sea, floating calmingly
One day I awoke, so sure
The sea is where my heart will
Lie forevermore
One day I awoke, so free
Eyelids open, creatures circling around me
One day I awoke, so broken
To jealousy, I want to be bigger than I am
As endless as the ocean
One day I awoke so tired, eyelids open
Sunlight spills onto my body
Rest
Moonlit waves
Take me away
To somewhere far
Oh hope is coming for me
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Entropy
07:33
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What is it you want
This husk of an ideal
Wherever were its innards
Whenever did you feel
The watery veneer
The tepid washing bowls
The ever sinking windows
To the rinsed and worn out soul
It comes and goes
Facades of quaint composure
A bafflement contained
A fear that must be snuffed out
Or tacitly rearranged
The disillusioned soldier
His windmill arms still turned
By the gale that blows the litter
Into the ears of the alone
It comes and goes
The body lifting hunger
The void that you might fill
Is the shape of a moving paper doll
Held by its hands and heels
The niggling sense of panic
From a sound that might not end
The string is strained so tightly
It will snap if it must bend
It comes and goes
Keep your eyes fixed on the bright light
Let me tell you what to feel
You can call it an injustice
And choke on your next meal
Close your mind to the disaster
Concern yourself with bills
But you won't have to pay at all
You won't suffer but your children will
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Jacobean Ruff Leeds, UK
Jacobean Ruff have been together only three years but in that time have proved themselves to be a versatile,fascinating and
ever-changing band.
Moving through the genres of folk, art rock and alternative with ease, each new release reveals a new side to the band.
Having made waves with their early track 'Family', played on Radio 1, they have now moved into darker territory with 'Sunlight'.
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