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Nomads
05:14
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Nomads
1.
There was once a perfect dream about you,
Single bed, loving nights in your room,
So many things that I wanted to say,
But like a misty rain, the words just drift away.
2.
I feel afraid when the sky begins to fade,
I am a child reaching out to the stars in the Milky Way.
I am a nomad with no destination home,
But I just don’t want to live this life alone.
3.
Sunday morning and the dew is on the ground,
Chemicals inside my blood stream slowing down,
The coffee crowd has found a quiet place to be,
They’ll talk of art and life, but they just won’t mention me.
4.
There’s a road that leads from the city to a mountain ridge,
There are lives that span themselves like a broken bridge,
There are planes and trains and nomads seeking something new,
But their faces are just traces of me and you.
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Leviathan
04:44
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Leviathan
1.
Tranquility,
A wine-dark sea,
In wakeful dreams,
Imagine me.
My child in white,
Deep ocean light,
She’ll rise tonight,
You’ll hear her cries.
In blood you trust,
Your harpoon thrust,
The sea turns red,
Three shades of death.
2.
On lives you feast,
Untethered beast,
Your blade will fall
On Sacred Lore.
You’ll make your peace,
You’ll pray to me,
You’ll seek my light,
In sacrifice.
3.
And so recall
The restless shore,
Leviathan,
Pale eyes, dark sun.
The ocean roars,
Lost spirit calls,
So set her free,
And I’ll weep god’s tears.
God’s rears.
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New Games
04:06
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NEW GAMES
1.
Portobello market in the height of summer,
I hear that you're back in town;
Fortune tellers, ice-cream sellers, read my palm.
They say you'll play me then you'll leave me again.
CHORUS
Hope fades—
When you're living in your own parade,
Love betrayed—
You're a performer in your own charade.
2.
Dirty swirling breeze and my eyes are streaming,
You say you'd like to walk me home,
The market’s shutting down,
You say your heart is bleeding
A line I've heard so often before.
CHORUS
Hope fades—
When you're living in your own parade,
Love betrayed—
You're a performer in your own charade.
BRIDGE
Ah no, ah no!
What new games can you play?
Ah no, ah no!
What new games can you play?
CHORUS
BRIDGE
CODA
What new games can you play?
New games, new games
What new games can you play?
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Falling Star
03:16
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Falling Star
1.
Microphysics of the City,
And I’m dressing up so maybe
You will find me in a bar
And we’ll wonder who we are.
Then you’ll talk until you’re finished,
I’ll direct you to the limits
Of fate—
Where I’m falling
From this State of Independence.
2.
We’ll demonstrate against the war,
We’ll kiss and then you’ll ask for more,
You say you like my coloured hair,
We’ll take you pills and then we stare—
At the actress in the street,
And I’ll say something indiscrete,
And you’ll know—
That I’m falling
From my State of Independence.
CHORUS
Yes, I’m a falling star,
And I feel my defences undone,
Yes, I’m hoping
That you will be the One.
3.
I have a job that has no future
As a hip-hop music tutor
With a passion for dissent,
Hyperactive malcontent.
But when you touch me I concede,
It’s like asthma, I can’t breathe,
And you’ll see—
That I’m falling
From my State of Independence.
4.
They say the world ends with a whimper,
I can think of something simpler,
A climax like a quaver
That goes on and on forever.
Or a love that has no limits
Like a start without a finish.
And I know
That I’m falling
From my State of Independence.
CHORUS
Yes, I’m a falling star,
As I feel my defences undone.
And I’m hoping
That you will be the One.
CODA
Yes, I’m a falling star
Watch me burning in the sky,
And I’ll light your life,
Catch me as you’re walking by.
Yes, I’m a falling star.
Let me light your life tonight
Let me light your life tonight
Let me light your life,
Let me light your life,
Let me light your life tonight.
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Joustene Lorenz Australia
'Sexy, smart, poetic—Joustene is a unique artist. One of the best singer-songwriters of the current era.' Felipe Rollins (The Musicians' Journal, June, 2023).
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