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Dropping
03:53
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When I'm at home
I'm the sober one
With nothing more to prove
While out on the street
There are crowds of people
Just trying to play around
And there's a carbon pill
With a plastic thrill
That brings them to their knees
On some little lady love
Who's only there because
She's had enough to drink
Just because I'm not dropping every night
Just because I spend my mornings outside
Does that make me the fool?
When I've got a home
With the women I love
She's there most of the time
All powder blue
Well between me and you
She's got the greenest of eyes
What they don't realise
Is that old green eyes
Makes love exactly when she wants
And most of the time
That's when they're outside
Dancing for a rose
Just because I'm not dropping every night
Just because I spend my mornings outside
Just because I don't live for the night
Does that make me the fool
More fool you
Just because I'm not dropping every night
Just because I've spent my mornings outside
Just because I don't live for the night
Does that make me the fool?
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Fires
03:30
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What once was our house is now all a fire
And what was our wood it now fuels the desire
Oh darling can't you smell the smoke
Why aren't we running now?
Why aren't we running now?
Because lately, it's been cold outside
And your hands are white
Because they've been clamped so tightly around mine, so tight
And there's no road beneath this snow that takes me home
But it's there I will go if you're coming home
Oh it's there I'll go
Well I smell the fuel but there's no arson here
Perhaps this is a fire we should always have feared
Oh darling can't you feel the flames
Why aren't we running yet?
Because lately, it's been cold outside
And your hands are white
Because they've been clamped so tightly around mine, so tight
And there's no road beneath this snow that takes me home
But it's there I will go if you're coming home
Oh it's there I'll go
But it's there I'll go
Well I've been drinking but it's not a poison yet
(Clapped so tightly around mine)
It's harder fighting fires in your very own bed
(But it's there I'll go if you're coming home)
Well I've been drinking but it's not a poison yet
(Clapped so tightly around mine)
It's harder fighting fires in your very own bed
(But it's there I'll go if you're coming home)
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3. |
To Being Free
03:33
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Feel it run away
I've been weakened by the stage
I'm cooling down as the waters stagnate
It gave me time to believe
I'd wait a month but now it's been a year
Glaciers burn past the post
But here I stand I'm just a firey form
Have I been wasting all my time?
If I can't help myself
Am I burning out
Ignore the calling that claims there's a war in here
Come and cut me out I'm a tangle of themes
Well I'd a fool to pray for another skin
But if you can help me in here I will sing
An ode to being free
Run from the tide that breaks upon my shore
Curse all the waves I craved a year ago
Have I been wasting all my time?
Just a foolish boy
With only himself to despise
Ignore the calling that claims there's a war in here
Come and cut me out I'm a tangle of themes
Well I'd be a fool to pray for another skin
But if you can help me here then I will sing
An ode to being free
Ignore the calling that claims there's a war in here
Come and cut me out I'm a tangle of themes
Well I'd be a fool to pray for another skin
But if you can help me here then I will sing
An ode to being free
An ode to being free
An ode to being free
Have I been wasting all my time?
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Mat Hunsley Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
In September 2022, the Newcastle-based songsmith will return with single Just The Family Inside. With intricacy akin to
Fleet Foxes and bursting with charm comparable to Bright Eyes' First Day Of My Life, Just The Family Inside provided yet further proof that Mat has become a writer comparable to few others.
Mat gratefully acknowledges support from PRS Foundation.
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