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Book Club
03:04
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Your eyes are tired from reading
The words are all bleeding
into each other's stories
They make alternate endings
And I will turn your pages
And I
You play that song for hours
Until it cuts your fingers
And I will turn your pages
And I
And when you fall to pieces
And everything seems hopeless
And friends aren't even friendly
And all is hurt and envy
And skies are always blackened
And songs are all this bland, then
I will turn your pages
I will turn your pages
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2. |
Don't Worry Baby
03:39
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3. |
Padre Volante
02:30
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What a morning to be soaring over roads and rivers
Happy faces wave me off on my way to meet my man
Now I'm higher than a man has been in an easy chair
If faith can keep me there
Oh Jesus please this priest is almost at your door
Beseech your sweetest angels blow him back to shore
He's falling twenty thousand feet into the bay
As hosts of angels laugh and smile and turn away
What a morning to be soaring over
But yes this wild blue wilderness is pushing you to ground
Oh Padre please come down
Please come down
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4. |
No Connections
03:17
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No Connections
You are why I have regrets
And you are why I killed again
It is time I got on top of you
But you don't buy that, do you?
And you are why I was in so many pieces
And what is shame if not segmenting the whole?
At arm's length is sometimes still too close to you
And back to back, language lacks but I am watching you
In this sodden space give me more memories
My disgrace forged no connections
I will stay awake forever
Don't miss this, will you?
Give me hell, you might as well. It's not about you
I have to break the mess we make or I won't come true
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Nat Johnson Sheffield, UK
“A treat for fans of PJ Harvey and Alela Diane” – Subba Cultcha
"Let’s talk about Nat Johnson.
Sometimes people do, but not nearly loud enough or often enough, which is a shame, because she is as integral to the Sheffield scene as Kid Acne murals and Jarvis Cocker poems on the sides of buildings." - The Girls Are
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