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Kings
03:35
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Our race is over we don't need to return
When power answers I can't hear at all
A lie for you and a lie for our children
Love-sick devotion will keep you amused
It doesn't matter if you wanted it all
It doesn't matter what you asked to say
Like lifting winter's lament
Dragging sorrow from a melody
We live like kings
There was a life before there was darkness
Lover's lost too far out to see
A lie for you and a lie for the future
You shall be perfect behind the abused
It doesn't matter if you wanted it all
It doesn't matter what you asked to say
Like lifting winter's lament
Dragging sorrow from a melody
We live like kings
I will listen when someone speaks
No reply, no final speech
I will listen when someone speaks
No reply, no final speech
I will listen when someone speaks
No reply, no final speech
I will listen when someone speaks
No reply, no final speech
It doesn't matter if you wanted it all
It doesn't matter what you asked to say
Like lifting winter's lament
Dragging sorrow from a melody
We live like kings
Oh! We live like kings
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Not Close Enough
04:48
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Comfort by your side
A stage or a door, I'm watching you shine
Our aura keeps us warm and close
We can't talk, it's easier this way
Now I'm reading your thoughts, portraying your song
Meeting the memories, of a life gone
Our love, keeps us warm and close
We can't talk, it's easier that way
And then the night brings the cold
To another, another winter's day
Then the night brings us close
Then the morning, the morning will leave you cold
The clothes you chose, I can't seem to wear
The words of your song, so wide open
Our aura keeps us warm and close
We can't hear, it's easier that way
And then the night brings the cold
To another, another winter's day
Then the night brings us close
Then the morning, the morning will leave you cold
And then the night brings the cold
To another, another winter's day
Then the night brings us close
Then the morning, the morning will leave you cold
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Irritated by the day
Food and water get in the way
The cries of neglect
Like breathing or death, like breathing
When books built our dreams
And cinemas brought screams
And pictures held more than a gaze
Life alone never reaching the end, life alone
Am I right or wrong, do I really see?
I've loved for you but not for me
Faces in the dark, only we can see
Now you're on your own, for eternity
Irritated by the day
Love and guilt get in the way
And sorrow wins in the end
Smiling down never reaching the end, never reaching
Am I right or wrong, do I really see?
I've loved for you but not for me
Faces in the dark, only you can see
Now you're on your own, for eternity
Faces in the dark, only we can see
Now you're all alone, for eternity
Now you're all alone
Words and music by James Parkinson
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4. |
This Eternal Life
05:11
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You took your life to another world
Looking down on all the boys and girls
Sometimes I hear your voice
It's so confusing, like I have no choice
Is anyone getting this down
For all to hear
Don't let it disappear
Sometimes, I seem to get it right
Oh this eternal life
You took a cab to a far away place
Dreamt of a life, without the glamour chase
Sometimes, I hear your old songs
Just like they were mine
Not right for this world
Is anyone getting this down
For all to hear
Don't let it disappear
Sometimes, I seem to get it right
Oh this eternal life
Life, life, life
Is anyone getting this down
For all to hear
Don't let it disappear
Sometimes, I seem to get it right
Oh this eternal life
This eternal life
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Must I write for you?
I'd rather tell the truth
Present it in my own way
Searching for, searching for, the lost souls
Who turn, who turn and talk to the walls
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
I'll speak to you in prose
Poetry still sickens the cause
I'll connect with you another day
Leaving for, leaving for new grounds
Why bring what has already been found
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
And over the new horizons
I see the greyness of time
An endless stretched out desert
With jaded, tortured life
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Living doesn't have to be such a great big lie
Such a great big lie
Such a great big lie
Such a great big lie
Living doesn't have to be
Words and music by James Parkinson
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6. |
Wave Goodbye
04:45
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The first was always the last
Stay a lie my dear
I thought there would be hope
Wave goodbye my fear
As soon as silence spoke
A tasteless sea of tears
My language very old
Stay a lie my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
Stay a lie my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
We speak but you're not here
Stay a lie my dear
When liberty disapears
Wave goodbye my fear
My words are too sincere
A tasteless sea of tears
At last death is clear
Stay a lie my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
Stay a lie my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
Cannot reside, cannot connect
The life of the outside's the life of regret
The last one to go
Is the last one alone
I'll failed to show you skies
Stay a lie my dear
Now I know you're life's not mine
Wave goodbye my fear
Wave goodbye my dear
Wave goodbye my dear
As soon as silence spoke
Wave goodbye my dear
Words and music by James Parkinson
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7. |
Faithful People
03:46
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Faithful people still break their hearts
Even though they knew right from the start
Left without a goodbye kiss
Midday sun and nothing missed
A whole world would end right there
A crowd soon vanish into thin air
Faithful people still break their hearts
Even though they knew right from the start
Faithful people are in love
But they don't try too hard
Night time fell the streets lost sleep
She is awake, her bedside grief
Warm hands cling until the end
Death so simple, life laments
Faithful people still break their hearts
Even though they knew right from the start
Faithful people are in love
But they don't try too hard
Faithful people still break their hearts
Even though they knew right from the start
Faithful people are in love
But they don't try too hard
Faithful people are in love
But they don't try too hard
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Back to the Start
03:19
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I've been bleeding from the same
Mistakes all the while
Could I go back again
And rearrange time?
And let the silence of the earth devour me
The past could be my finest hour
The future is a fragile sun
Burning light in darkened lungs
My innocence torn from one
And I'd look back if I could carry on
Back to the start
Carry on, back to the start
Back to the start
But not for everyone
Destiny undone
Eternally numb
And let the silence of the earth devour me
Oh the past could be my finest hour
The future is a fragile sun
Burning light in darkened lungs
My innocence torn from one
And I'd look back if I could carry on
Back to the start
Carry on, back to the start
The future is a fragile sun
Burning light in darkened lungs
My innocence torn from one
And I'd look back if I could carry on
Back to the start
Carry on, back to the start
Back to the start, back for everyone
Back to the start, back for everyone
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Tired
03:39
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I've been telling myself that
Very little thing counts for nothing
No hoping or plans for time
The days are just low
The nights never high
The oceans are mute
The deserts choked dry
The beauty of asking
Is taken from you
Believe me, I'll understand
Crouched on tables half-reading
Absent of great human minds
The veil of time replaces sight
A voice of silence
Echoes through the earth
Leaves me all frozen
Shows you what it's worth
The beauty of asking
Is taken from you
Believe me, I'll understand
The beauty of asking
Is taken from you
Believe me, I'll understand
The beauty of knowing when
Has gone
Believe me, I'll understand
The beauty of asking
Is taken from you
Believe me, I'll understand
Words and music by James Parkinson
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Not a Word to Anyone
04:30
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The snow upon the hills
Has turned the sun to gold
The air is thin, solitude
The wind has foretold
And all this is your dream
Your joy your fill
And nobody knew
No one but you
Nature caught wild
It has no need to hide
Under our playful heads
A lost and sullen sky
And we go by whatever
Leaps into our hearts
And danger forever lost
Until we are apart
Not a word, not a word to anyone
Our eyes befriend the fading sun
Not a word, not a word to anyone
Our land, we are the only ones
The only ones
The shores of a wide world
We soon reach the end
Casting out household pains
We stay ourselves to pretend
And in laughing we now cry
Unearthly love no shallow
The past is plentiful
With what we take we borrow
Not a word, not a word to anyone
Our eyes befriend the fading sun
Not a word, not a word to anyone
Our land, we are the only ones
Not a word, not a word to anyone
I heal, forget but I still run
No one will know, not a word to anyone
Your soul in me now in everyone
Words and music by James Parkinson
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11. |
His Skin
04:39
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When I think about his skin
When I think about his soul
It breaks my heart
A weight I cannot hold
Thank god that he doesn't know
Thank god that no one knows
Or even cares, will a voice always show?
Somewhere out there we fear
Someone who seems to know
A life that understands the joke now baby
And holds your arms and holds your stare
Time will always let you know
How the heart it craves sorrow
And finds you there
Sleeping in the shadows
Somewhere out there we fear
Someone who seems to know
A life that understands the joke now baby
And holds your arms and holds your stare
Words and music by James Parkinson
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One Cure For Man England, UK
One Cure For Man is James Parkinson. An English alt-rock artist, poet and illustrator combining intricate, heartbreaking guitars with rich vocals tinted with loss and introspective, thoughtful lyrics.
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