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Grace in the Blue

by The English Wraith

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1.
The Mainline 03:31
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Born like birds, we fly away, we’re made to stray Save your excuses when the sun shines On the mainline Now open up those eyes, you'll recognize You'll see it rising in a straight line Oh the mainline Oh but I remember in a passing way When you would shine you'd have the whole world wanting you at your display But who would know the truth if everyone gets answered at the same time by the mainline How was I made for this, devoid of bliss The emptiness within the same lines Of the mainline Go wander through the sand, travel the land Your shadow stands, but what did you find of the mainline Oh how I longed to take you dancing in the rain The music played with me unsurely stepping blindly into pain How long I'll suffer until I'm released of everything that is mine Oh the mainline The sun got in our eyes, we lost the prize We never saw until we went blind Oh the mainline No shelter for the sky where we will fly All flapping feathers of the same kind Towards the mainline And as the wind blew through your hair upon the beach I mourned your face as it was clear that you had grown out of my reach There were no words to say and it only gets harder seen in rewind Oh the mainline
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Sun Spots 04:33
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And I keep tastin' the sun Could be an ocean of fun All comes undone In a cloud a drop runs down beside me Cause I remember your eyes The windows of your surprise Horizon skies like vapor You hang instilled inside me We light our candles in the wind In bitter means to the end The will just bends All is fiction so let us be pretending If you fly too high Your wings will burn Each lesson learned too late Heavies the weight upon you Shine down to me Shine down to me Come down to me And please release the chains upon me And I'll fall down to the bottom of the ocean The sun will scream unheard this far past the surface Shine down on me Shine down to me Come down to me Your lowly meek and unworthy beggar
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Transfer 02:19
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Above the wishing well I wish my wish had fell To sounds of movement in the fluid Here it's just a wasteland All roads will lead back to graceland To let me know that you were never here On and on we wait to transfer Everyone gets old And the wait is on The weight is on It's on my head Too much here to miss To seal it with a kiss And drop the weight, my hands tied to ruin I fell into the water Gather round all mothers, daughters I break the glass I fall into my tears On and on we wait to transfer Everyone gets old And the wait is on The weight is on It's on my head
4.
Point of No Return 03:55
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Spit out the cloud; I'm rainin' down And filling your void Guess I'm at the point of no return The memories, the injuries The mountain to destroy Guess I'm at the point of no return Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry You say you're not sorry? The sacrifice that paid my price The blood of the lamb Guess I'm at the point of no return What never was was all because And who could understand? Guess I'm at the point of no return Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry You say you're not sorry? Remember when the safety pin was holding? Guess I'm at the point of no return The heads all shake The fingers are all pointing Welcome to the point of no return I'm at the point of no return Oh but I'll say it just to make you sorry You say you're not sorry? I'll take it once and do it all over again Sorry
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Sugarcane 02:01
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Relapse in sugarcane Sunny skies begin to rain I don't know where you parked the car But I'm sure it's not too far The tower is all shiny-like But that's okay, that's what you do when you're away Everything is coming down Everything is fading out Everything is glistening Nobody is listening The tower is on fire now But that's okay, that's what you do when you're away Glance on your idle stare The soft curl of your hair Your skin against my cheek I would stay like this for weeks But the tower burnt down to the ground But that's okay, that's what I'll do when you're away The sun goes down, skies are returning back to grey You flickered here but I knew that you couldn't stay But that's okay, that's what I'll do in sugarcane
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Ivory Saint 02:57
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You're my ivory saint Piece of work from yesterday Hair sticks to you like glue You're my ivory saint Smiling as you sail away Away to some place new You're my ivory saint Memory long gone astray The light that's shining through You're my ivory saint Country side of a maiden stay I'll excite the morning dew Christened to stars of light There is no adultery I can only hope to be a penny's worth When I feel the way I do You're my ivory saint As silently you drift away Scattered shards coming back to one You're my ivory saint Brushed my teeth Took the knife away Always shaken, never done Christened to stars of light There is no adultery I can only hope to be a penny's worth When I feel the way I do
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Ceremony 03:10
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Hope, I've got it in spades I've got it in pain I hope it can stay To fall so far away I'm wading in the shade A needle in the hay I let you slip away We'll have no ceremony now Time got in our way We'll have no ceremony now Nothing is repaid We'll have no ceremony You are too precious to me Just know that to be Wherever you go And I will thank you heaven that you found me Till I'm being lowered down Till I'm six feet underground I let you slip away We'll have no ceremony now Time got in our way We'll have no ceremony now Nothing is repaid We'll have no ceremony You will never be forgotten, not by me I just want you to know I let you get away We'll have no ceremony now Time just gets away We'll have no ceremony now I let you get away We'll have no ceremony now Life just slips away We'll have no ceremony
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If She's Leaving 01:48
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With your hair down you're wild and free You run around away from me I chase you down and up a tree You shake me down, you get me high Your shapely sounds will get me by Yes everything must have a try I look into your eyes Is she leaving on the train again? If she's coming back, I won't pretend But does she hear my whispers in the wind I'll miss you more than you will know But I have nothing more to show I'm emptied out, my covers blown Now that's it's time to wave goodbye The heart won't mend, the eyes won't dry But nothing's giving and nothing does Endless time to view what was Is she leaving on the train again? If she's coming back, I won't pretend But does she hear my whispers in the wind
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Animations 02:33
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Go and tell your children, don't lose yourself in words All ages are to have their place and time You connect your worries And looking for the signs Don't lose the road and fill your face with lines Your animations color up the world Closing to unfurl The connotations as I see you twirl Everyone's a world Every boy and girl Everyone's a world Like a light that's shining and beamed from outer space Somehow in the darkness you get through When you're really smiling I fall away from earth And in the black, all I see is you Your animations color up the world Closing to unfurl The connotations as I see you twirl Everyone's a world Every boy and girl Everyone's a world
10.
Doldrums 01:57
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11.
Treble Clef 02:05
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I'll wait forever just for you Don't make me shiver in the blue I'll wait for you baby Cause I can wait, maybe I'll wait for nothing to be turned If the tide won't learn I will teach it good Nothing is left for me now Nothing is left Treble clef You take the tired train I won't let you go run away in a race to make it snow in the clouds when it's cold You know I know what it takes to be a-racin' in this world I'm leavin' to the corner lands to see what you promised, what you promised me I've got nothing left I've got nothing left Treble clef
12.
GraceLand 04:14
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Let me see your hands and I'll show you the world If you wanna know, everyone can come back to life If there's any grace then I would see your face there I would know if you would know, now everyone wake up Down by the river, forever I will shiver There's a home on the land if you send forth a dove Let me know you wanna know, let me know you wanna go Lesson learned, lesson learned - now please let me wake up It's a place to go if you wanted me to know It's the reason I'm given if you wanted me to show It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out I know you do Babies all but being born mourning with a crown of thorns Aching at the fingertips, frothing at the mouth You will know your age when the letters fill your page But for your life of flesh all you'll know is pain Guilty in my penitence, a requiem of innocence Flickering in images that come from where you came Practice makes the best of me, if you want the rest of me I'll wait for your command while I'm lying belly up It's a place to go if you really want to know It's the reason I'm given if you wanted me to show It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out I know you do Go to where the light is, where the white knight lives Follow broken roads, fallen trees in the pass I'll ask for direction where there's no protection Bodies lying dead, men are nursing injuries The path will only narrow, bones will lose their marrow Darkness will prevail, nature's armies storm the sky All alone and naked, noone ever makes it Beaten out of body, out of mind, and out of time It's a place you can go if you wanted seeds that grow There's a reason once given is it worth for you to know It's a place you can go if you wanted it to work out I know you do
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Last Waltz for the First Time 06:36
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I have foraged in the meadow with the old country's widow Taken little of little and left with her name For this queen of the clover, no drop hath run over Brim full just to know her, spilt out in the rain For the heart she's a breaker, in the night she's a waker Born again undertaker, blowing kisses at death She's a token collector, a soft light projector A sure hand protector, sweet salts on her breath And as reddening skies bleed into the night I'll awake with a fright but she won't be there In a cold haunted wind, no feeling will send And I'll break and I'll bend and I'll feel for her hair Oh to walk on the water with the emerald's daughter Sea-tamed and sea fathered, she's worn in her dress With no prelude to entrance - delight of a new sense Entranced and belittled, made known to the flesh No picture could prove her, no charm could exude her The sun will not lose her so shine ye of light Make her presence known, prepared to be sown In gardens of Eden and origins of sight But it wasn't all maybe cause I did love your baby Took two scales to weigh me, heavy on my feet And without an answer, too clumsy a dancer My shame was my cancer - impatient on your seat No charms are exacting on her nature's reacting No light so refracting as to pierce through her will Her blemishes shimmer, her dead eyes still glimmer And as she grows dimmer, the emptiness to fill The horror in the twilight, innocence in the dawns' bright All mirages to my sight, and left with her mark The days linger foul, the cannibals all howl The age in the owl unknown in the dark Got stuck on the latter, unlaced, torn to tatter and I'd shatter the matter and I'd bend back the spoon No shortcut to heaven, our bread went unleavened I could've been, should've been, could've been you I'll find you in pining, in death's silver lining My face will be shining, my heart full to bust The mourning of diamonds born of the new hymen As once was alive then, now's chasing the dust Just harvest me whole, take a lock off my soul All I want you to know is that we didn't just try And as all hope is gone still your eyes linger on So I made you this song when I was too dry to cry

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released March 9, 2013

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