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Encore
04:20
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If all the girls who ever left came back with sorrow and regret, however hard I tried I’d never get time to see them all.
In a mourning suit but an evening tie, in buildings that are occupied, by people wanting to resign but know they never will.
And if the planet dies we can’t complain, we’ve only got ourselves to blame, so hold each other close again before it all kicks off.
If all the boys you ever kissed wrote songs about their pain and misery would there be enough acoustic nights to cater for them all? (I don’t think so!).
Resign yourself to a free-view state, sofa bound in a comatose state and watch your own death take place every night from half past eight.
And if the planet dies we can’t complain, we’ve only got ourselves to blame, so hold each other close again before it all kicks off.
Is it the end of it all? No time for an encore, no time to make amends, no time to find all your old friends.
Is it the end of it all? no time for an encore, no time to make amends, no time to find all your old friends, no time to find all your old friends.
If all the kids who ever died in bloody wars came back to life, screamed “Where’s the peace for which we died? There’s people dying on either side!”.
A capable but emaciated state, we’ve made mistakes it could be too late, to make a change while wars still rage, what’s left behind will be left to waste.
And then there’s you and then there’s me and we’re standing in the ruins of the World we see. You take my hand, I look in your eyes, a simple act of kindness always made me cry.
Everyday, every night, I lie awake, I hope to hell we all survive.
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Atoms
03:13
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So we can be endlessly distracted by these mysteries, nobody satisfactorily can answer for us.
So she used to play piano and she says she would still like to, but I fear when I hear, I won’t hear what she hears.
You’re a fragment of a whole searching for your soul, we’re atoms spinning out of control.
So I used to ask myself, why I couldn’t feel what others felt and could they sense what I sensed and did they even exist at all.
So we must speak carefully cos meaning can still be deceiving, oblique and vague but still revealing, something of ourselves.
I’m a fragment of a whole, searching for my soul, we’re atoms spinning out of control.
So we can be endlessly distracted by these mysteries, nobody satisfactorily can answer for us.
So she used to play piano and she says she would still like to, but I fear when I hear, I won’t hear what she hears.
We’re fragments of a whole, we’re searching for lost souls, we’re atoms spinning out of control.
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3. |
Then They Came For Us
04:54
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I was there when the rivers all ran dry and I was there when the stars fell from the sky and so we prayed to all of our heads of state to put in place something to save us all.
We were there when the far right began to rise and from their ashes, dared to capitalise on peoples fears, economic downturn, insecurities, what have we learnt.
The air was heavy then, that night.
We found it hard to breath, but we carried on just the same as before.
We were there when the extremists screamed for change and we were there when they made horrific claims, we were there when they looked for someone else to blame, we were there, we just hung our heads in shame.
The air was heavy then, that night.
We found it hard to breath, that night.
The air was heavy then, that night.
We found it hard to breath, that night.
but we carried on just the same as before.
We were there when they came for the refugees and we were there when they came for the sick and elderly, we were there but we chose not to see, we were there when they came for you and me.
And then they came for us.
There was no one left to speak out for us.
And then they came for us.
And there was no one left to speak out for us.
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Now it is clear there was something going on, that nobody told you about when your father left home. “Words are like friends now” she said “cos they can be cruel, hard to decipher at times, but oh yes they can be true, if you want them to be”.
“You light up my life with your smile” she said, “because that's how I feel and don't believe all that I say” she said “because nothing is real”.
You knew then that something was wrong, when you came home late that night and noticed his car had now gone and with it all of the reasons why.
Sometimes when you hear your own voice, it reminds you of him. You don't want to make the mistakes that he made but you fear that you will.
“Words are my friends now” she said, “because they can be cruel, hard to decipher at times but oh yes they can be true if you want them to be”.
Now it is clear there was something going on that nobody told you about when your father left home.
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5. |
Myleene
04:21
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Searching for the remote, the words were sticking in my throat. You know I was only teasing when I said you weren't the one for me. Realistically I know that you and me may disagree about what to watch on TV though we'll compromise eventually and when I'm in a mood and I'm spouting crazy views, I see you're listening eagerly waiting to disagree with me.
I love the way you don't listen to everything I say.
I love the way you don't let me take myself too seriously.
Well I know you got the arse when I mentioned Myleene Klass, you know she means nothing to me, she's just an image on TV and if she did approach me and seductively suggest, that her and I should run away I'd say no thank you not today, because I want to stay and be here with my baby, you see, though secretly she likes Jack Dee, given the chance I think she'd stay with me.
I love the way you don't listen to everything I say
I love the way you don't let me take myself too seriously.
Though our feelings grow, there will be times when we're both low and if I see you cry I'll do my very best to make you smile and if my jokes don't work, if they only make things worse, I won't give up I'll persevere to wipe away those soggy tears. Maybe I'll do that dance, yeah the one that makes you laugh, you could then join in, put on a stupid voice and singalong.
I love the way you don't listen to everything I say.
I love the way you don't let me take myself too seriously.
If I should leave the toilet seat up, could you still believe that this could be love.
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6. |
The Longest Day
05:00
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Later someone would say, you were sensible but daft.
I remember cigarettes on the back seat of your dad’s car.
And my parents were already awake at around half past three, when a knock on the door and news from the Police.
It was a tidal wave crashing into our coast.
Now your motorbike comes home on the back of a boat and a friend of yours said you built prisons for yourself, which is why you were so keen to try to break free.
On your thirtieth birthday, sliding on wooden floors.
You came to all of our gigs, I never knew what you thought.
Because your taste in music was one of the worst that i’ve heard, so this song has no chorus, no middle and one verse.
I saw you in a dream, on the edge of my bed.
I asked “where have you been?”, embarrassed you said “it’s all a fuss over nothing”.
How I wish that it was.
We won’t see you again, we won’t see you no more.
So we look at old pictures, cos that’s all we’ve got left.
It was the longest day ever and it’s not over yet.
For as long as we live we’ll still remember you.
For as long as we live, you will live too.
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Ghosts
04:07
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I once knew a girl who said she climbed inside this old guys head, pulled out all his thoughts and gazed at them.
Though they were not her own, she kept them close and when alone, drew some comfort from hearing them.
She said “It’s no joke, I hope you believe in Ghosts, because then, my friends, in the end, I might see you again”.
I once knew a girl from work who wasn’t well and then got worse, took time off. We never saw her again. Though I hardly knew her, people talk and I heard, something wasn’t right with her mind.
She said “It’s no joke, I hope you believe in Ghosts, because then, my friends, in the end, I might see you again”.
I once knew a girl who said she heard voices in her head, telling her what to do and what not to do. All her friends said she had changed, but so had they, they stayed away and things were never quite the same for her again.
She said “It’s no joke, I hope you believe in Ghosts, because then, my friends, in the end, I might see you again”.
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8. |
The Third Party
03:47
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I was young or so it seemed, spent time alone with all my hopes and dreams, you were there ripped at the seams. So was I we both know what that means.
Well I know you were alone with her that night, yeah I know cos it was what you felt was right. And I know that you believe I did my best not to deceive you, but I thought I’d never leave you, cos I thought i’d never need to, my lady on fire.
Well whether we were right or whether wrong, yeah the message stays the same so don’t be long and I know it sounds insane and you must think I am strange but I’m sure I’d do the same if I had the chance again, my lady on fire.
Well the hope that we once had may now have died, oh i’m sure there’s better days and better times oh and i’ll try not to belie all your dreams cos they were mine and i’m sure you must have lied but I still think you were right, my lady on fire.
Well she could break your heart just with a stare, though it seems sometimes like she was never there and I know it seems a shame that you won’t see her again. I didn’t mean to cause you pain, there was no one else to blame, my lady on fire.
I’ll face the night off to you, i’ll see the light shine through you, i’ll face the night, i’ll face the night, i’ll face the night off to you.
I’ll face the night off to you, i’ll see the light shine through you, i’ll face the night, i’ll face the night, i’ll face the night off to you.
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9. |
Mary
03:40
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The first time I saw Mary in love she said “never felt this way before”.
The first time I saw Mary in love she said “don’t ask me anymore cos I won’t say, I can’t say”
The first time I saw Mary with him she said “I’ve seen his face before” and when he spoke she looked at the floor, he said “I think we’ve met before, but where, where, I can’t say, where, I can’t say”
The last time I saw Mary alone she said “he hasn’t called me since the last time that I saw him and I don’t know, what could I have done wrong, I don’t know, I can’t say.”
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Lucy
04:31
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Lucy said, “how did we get to this stage?”, as she lifted the needle from the record I played. “I’m not keen on this album, I’ve heard it before. I used to quite like it, but not anymore”.
“I want to be free” she said, “don’t be deceived. I’ve made my mistakes, but if I make mistakes then I’ll leave this place. “We all make mistakes but from my mistakes I have grown” she cried. Well, we all make mistakes but at least my mistakes are my own.
In the foreground us two on a sofa in silence, in the background TV shows destruction &
violence. It makes me feel sad that we live in a world, where I see images of war and feel
nothing at all.
That’s when Lucy said “what will you try to do now?” as she stared at the tea that i’d made
her an hour ago and was sitting untouched growing cold, a little like me, I thought as I said “I don’t know”.
Retreat at the first sight of war.
The battle lines are now all drawn and nobody here’s keeping score
That’s when Lucy said... “I like to read books in the dead of the night, under blankets by only torchlight. Reminds me of when the world was a mystery and we were still happy”.
Lucy said “how did we get to this stage”.
Later that night we’d kiss and say goodbye, but before then we’d fight until the end.
Later that night.
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11. |
Dynamite & Gunpowder
03:45
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Shine a light on the sun, shine a light on the sun, shine a light on the sun.
Wait a minute can’t you see the newspapers and the crap on TV
but you know you can find your own way home.
Feeling lost and feeling low. It was your choice, you said you had to go, but I hope that you can find your own way home.
Look out everybody’s leaving soon.
Look out everybody’s leaving us behind.
Footsteps on the gravel outside by now I’m sure you’ve arrived, so goodbye.
You can find your own way home.
Look out everybody’s leaving soon, I heard you say.
Look out everybody’s leaving us behind, I hope you know.
Well you know I don’t sleep every night, and we know nothing is what it seems and we spend too much time in our dreams, you want reality then we’ll watch TV and the closer it gets to sunlight, i’m faced with fear, faced with despair and I hope one day you will be free; one and one and one is three.
My heart now beats louder than dynamite and gunpowder, my heart now beats louder than dynamite and gunpowder, my heart now beats louder than dynamite and gunpowder.
My heart now beats louder than dynamite and gunpowder.
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12. |
No More Encores
03:08
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All these days will dissipate, what once was early now is late and all the friends you ever made are not here to see you now.
Before you sleep you have to wake, the more you try to leave you have to stay and all the games you ever played are over now.
Is it the end of it all?
Is it the end of it all?
As day now turns to night, what will be dead stays alive and slowly climbs into the light for all of us to see.
Afterwards now comes before, after peace there will be war and there will be no more encores for us to sing,
Is it the end of it all?
Is it the end of it all?
Is it the end of it all, no time for an encore no time to make amends, no time to find all your old friends, no time to find all your old friends.
If all the girls who ever left came back with sorrow and regret, however hard I tried I’d never get time to see them all.
In a mourning suit but an evening tie, in buildings that are occupied, by people wanting to resign but know they never will.
Is it the end of it all?
Is it the end of it all?
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The Reverse London, UK
The Reverse is a North London guitar band making an urgent, literate style of indie-rock. New EP "If The World Ends Now" and LP "Which Way Out" out now on Blang Records. 3 EPs and debut LP released between 2006-20013. The band have played festivals incl Great Escape and Standon Calling and with acts including IDLES, and The Wave Pictures. ‘Abstract Heart’, was in Gary Crowley’s top songs of 2018. ... more
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