Wake to a Bright Morning

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• 1 Boab (Time Is A River) 3:43

  I found your name carved course and deep

  In the branches of a boab tree

  A tattooed, gnarled and twisted thing

  Cut all around with memories

  And though I knew you'd never stood

  Beside that ancient, bloated wood

  I thought of you and cursed the hand

  Who stole your name and made it theirs

   

  Ooooh

  Time is a river, we are rain

  Ooooh

  The clock is a countdown, don't delay

   

  Well, time alone can separate

  Two people standing in one place

  And working with my nimble blade

  I proved that I was there

  Most of the time I'm never sure

  If anything is real at all

  We dance under the mirror ball

  With thick smoke in our eyes

   

  Ooooh

  Time is a river, we are rain

  Ooooh

  The clock is a countdown, don't delay

   

  This place was a prison

  Long ago

  Roots chained to the ground

  If time is our gaol cell we'll never get out

   

  The tinderbox, the atom bomb

  The unborn child, the eldest son

  All waiting for their chance to come

  The day they are released

  The boab stayed to meet us all

  Its scars mapping our mortal toil

  And never needed any proof

  To know that it was real

   

  Ooooh

  Time is a river, we are rain

  Ooooh

  The clock is a countdown, don't delay

   

  I found your name carved course and deep

  In the branches of a boab tree

• 2 Don't Believe The Hype 4:22

  Don't believe the hype

  Let it hit you

  And then decide

   

  I might be an old man trapped in time

  Maybe I'm jaded

  Maybe I'm right

   

  The window is my changing mind

  Back and forth from day to night

  Outside

   

  So many shiny, pretty things

  They're gonna knock until you let them in

  But everybody knows there's nothing much inside

  Don't believe the hype

  Don't believe the hype

   

  Let the turnstile spin

  From the outside

  Looking in

   

  I'm wound up like an anchor

  Dead weight falls

  And I'm a man

  Over bored

   

  Dressed up like the olden days

  But empty in a modern way

  I'd say

   

  So many shiny pretty things

  They're gonna knock until you let them in

  But every time you do there's nothing much inside

  Don't believe the hype

  Don't believe the hype

   

  Plastic bags and plastic bottles

  Racing through a concrete jungle

  Dive until you hit the bottom

  No connection

  Constant comment

   

  Such a shiny, pretty thing

  It's gonna knock until you let it in

  But every time you do there's nothing much inside

  Yeah everybody knows there's nothing much inside

  Yeah everybody knows there's nothing much inside

  Don't believe the hype

  Don't believe the hype

• 3 Dragnet 3:44

  Eyes on the horizon

  And hands on the wheel

  I gotta put in some distance

  To know how I feel

  And so I

   

  Drive toward the fading light

  Cut through the heavy night

  And out the other side

   

  You hit me like a dragnet

  Deep below the surface

  Caught up in your bulls**t

  Like everybody else was

  I loved you like I meant it

  You loved the way I said it

  I'm caught up in your dragnet

  And we're going down

   

  I picture you back then

   

  As the day starts to break

  Still claiming the high ground

  On the crest of a wave

  But then we start to slide

  Caught in the rising tide

  And swimming our lives

   

  You hit me like a dragnet

  Deep below the surface

  Caught up in your bulls**t

  Like everybody else was

  I loved you like I meant it

  You loved the way I said it

  I'm caught up in your dragnet

  And we're going down

   

  Such an empty thing

  This early morning wind

  So I fill it with the words I wanna whisper in your ear

  "I wish we'd never been"

   

  You hit me like a dragnet

  Deep below the surface

  Caught up in your bulls**t

  Like everybody else was

  I loved you like I meant it

  You loved the way I felt it

  You hit me like a dragnet

   

  I'm straining 'til I break it

   

  You hit me and I felt it

   

  Deep below the surface

   

  Caught up in your bulls**t

   

  Like everybody else was

   

  I loved you like I meant it

   

  You loved way I felt it

   

  I'm caught up in your dragnet

   

                

  And I'm getting out

• 4 Autumn Leaves 3:34

  Autumn leaves

  I feel the warmth leaving me

  The sun makes a slow retreat

  And winter moves in

   

  You and I

  We hang like a lullaby

  Our breath on the frozen night

  It's a trick of the light

  And time

   

  We could run for the equator

  You could take a chance on me

  I won't let our love get buried

  Under autumn leaves

   

  Holding on

  To days that have come and gone

  You can't stop the march of time

  I know

  I've tried and tried

   

  We could run for the equator

  You could take a chance on me

  I won't let our love get buried

  Under autumn leaves

   

  Earth is a spaceship

  We're on a big trip

  And every year we begin again

  I'm on your side

  So let the frost bite

  And bury us for spring to find

   

  We could run for the equator

  You could take a chance on me

  Or you and I could warm each other

  Under autumn leaves

• 5 Giving Up 3:58

  Walking through a foreign city

  Feeling like I'm going nowhere

  Golden leaves crunch underneath me

  Waiting for the coming snow

   

  And I might never find the answers

  To the questions my mind throws up

  I am not as smart as I thought

  The seasons change and we change with them

  But that is not the same as giving up

   

  All the news is f**king awful

  People acting like animals

  Are we all that capable

  Of reverting to primal instinct?

  At the very heart of me

  I feel our shared humanity

  A beautiful and scary thing

  We cannot let the b**tards win

  'Cause that would be the same as giving up

   

  Giving up

  I fantasize about it all the time

  Giving up

  A path taken by stronger men than I

   

  Framed within the bigger picture

  I am such a lucky human

  Born with love and running water

  Taught to empathize and question

  The wind blows hard between the buildings

  Cuts straight through my old cardigan

  I stub my toe and bruise my shin

  And feel the darkness creeping in

  Then look up at the starry sky

  And think about the age of light

  A million years to reach my eyes

  And still it got here right on time

  And never ever thought of giving up

  Never once it thought of giving up

• 6 Tell The Truth 3:12

  I watch the sun going down

  In the middle of the day

   

  There came a change in my heart

  Relentless as a wave

  Unhook the shackles of time

  And I'm rudderless and free

  I feel the order unwind

  The relentless entropy

   

  And I can smell the sugarcane on fire at my feet

   

  What's the point of anything

  If we're never as we seem?

  Pastiche sweeter than a tooth

  I want to live so I can always tell the truth

   

  Sit on the rooftop at night

  And watch the jet stream flow

   

  Think of the thousands of lives

  Up there flying coast to coast

  And when they look down at me

  Do I blend into the grey?

  A pixel lost on a screen

  On a retina display

   

  The thing I love is boring me and driving me away

   

  What's the point of anything

  If we're never as we seem?

  Pastiche sweeter than a tooth

  I want to live so I can always tell the truth

• 7 Do I Make You Crazy? 3:49

  First you don't wanna talk

  And then it feels like

  You're holding your breath

  But it's all in your head

  I'm doing my best

  To reach across the distance

  But I can't understand

   

  Once in a while

  There's a break in the line

  The big picture gets harder to see

  Do I make you crazy

  Like you make me?

   

   

  Who's gonna captain this ship

  Across the wave crests and valleys

  Looming ahead?

  Shoulder to the wheel

  And rain in our eyes

  Raising our voices against the tempest outside

   

  Once in a while

  There's a break in the line

  The big picture gets harder to see

  Do I make you crazy

  Like you make me?

   

  I dreamed a little bird

  Who flew halfway 'round the world

  To tattoo your name on me

  Ink on its claws and beak

  And you slept in fits and starts

  A rainbow leaks from your heart

   

  Somedays we work to get through

  But I wouldn't change it

  And I always choose you

   

  Once in a while

  I can hear that you're smiling

  And nothing can come in-between

   

  Do I make you crazy

  Like you make me?

• 8 Long Time Coming 3:17

  It's been a long time coming

  Down the line

  I felt my will unravel

  One more time

  Kept under smoke and mirrors

  Like some tired circus clown

  Well I pull the pin

  The clock starts counting down

   

  I got a secret and I'm gonna let you in

  There's no promised land

  It's all sleight of hand

   

  You gotta get some notice

  Get the look

   

  Push your numbers higher

  Bait the hook

  Another blue-eyed baby

  Is gonna move out to LA

  With an Instagram and nothing much to say

   

  I got a secret and I'm gonna let you in

  There's no promised land

  It's all sleight of hand

   

  Here honest conversation is as rare as desert rain

  It's got me feeling like a washout

  Got me circling the drain

   

  I got a secret and I'm gonna let you in

  There's no promised land

  It's all sleight of hand

  And when the lights go out

  The soul-searching begins

  There's no promised land

  There's no promised land

  There's no promised land

• 9 The Wires Are Humming 3:57

  The wires are humming

  All of the time

  They won't give me a moment

  Or let me unwind

  I'm just floating around

  On a cloud in the sky

  And the black hole will pull me in

   

  Oh there is no gravity here

  I just free-fall through everything that has ever been

  A binary code that greets me like a friend

  Leaves me anxious as anything

   

  A cascading torrent

  That never turns off

  Gotta catch the Atlantic

  In a watering trough

  Now I'm rubbing my eyes

  'Cause enough is enough

  And the black hole will pull me in

   

  Oh there is no gravity here

  I just free-fall through everything that has ever been

  A binary code that greets me like a friend

  Leaves me anxious as anything

   

  Oh there is no gravity here

  I just free-fall through everything that has ever been

  Oh there's no humanity here

  I just free-fall through everything that has ever been

  A binary code that greets me like a friend

  Leaves me anxious as anything

• 10 Fleeting 4:42

  A fleeting touch

  A fleeting glance

  A fleeting fear

  A fleeting chance

  The knowledge everything will pass

  Even, eventually, the sun

  So, measure time with dripping taps

  And notice as it bends and snaps

  Now stretching out

  Now springing back

  Already past us as it comes

   

  A moment is only a moment

  A year is just one trip 'round the sun

  And somewhere, from some distant perspective

  There's a way they can be seen as one

   

  A fleeting change

  A moment's rest

  A second's time for second best

   

  The here and now is all there is

  Make a note to future self

  To sum my life up in a word

  An abstract noun, a gentle verb

  An adjective, a soaring bird

  I hope it will be "Loved"

   

  A moment is only a moment

  A year is just one trip 'round the sun

  And somewhere, from some distant perspective

  There's a way they can be seen as one

   

  I see the shadow of a gallows

  Some nights, on the back of my eyes

  Everyone's posing for perfect strangers

  But all I want's a simple, honest life

  I want it bad

  I hope that's alright?

   

  The fleeting feeling you're alone

  And no one understands your pain

  Can spiral you down like a drain

  But it's almost never true

  Think of the ones who came before

  The false belief

  The bloody wars

  The mad king's reign

  The surgeon's saw

  And yet, still, here we are

   

  A moment is only a moment

  A year is just one trip around the sun

  And somewhere, from some distant perspective

  There's a way they can be seen as one

  There's a way they can be seen as one

   

  Both fleeting, and ever-long