1. |
A Boundary
02:32
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I always get tired around this corner of the day
I begin to drop into the darkness from the stage
But the play goes on without me
The players forget about me
As my dream
Lifts me out of the stream
Time loses its fragile grip on space where I once was
I fall through a meta-world ecstatic now because
My heart knows my mind completely
Every memory marches sweetly
Hand in hand
With where I will land
I awoke awake and all the time seems strangely bent
'Though I've been away for years there's twenty minutes spent
And that's proof of our existence
Imposing with insistence
A boundary
On what we see
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2. |
Ukulele Song
03:49
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You kissed my scalp
I traversed barriers
Descended the escalator
Two steps at a time
(That's not possible)
Well that's what it felt like
I studied the lines
Considered all to be possible
You seemed special in your way
I let myself be taken right in
And when I heard about your new friend
I felt left out
And memories
Buried deeper than I was that night
Began their ascent
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3. |
This Song
04:47
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Used to be
Music made you feel better
A ringing bell
A perfect shell
That could shelter you
You'd roll along
Your soul and song
Perpetually together
Melodies for maladies
That's what got you through
But this song
This song
It's the finger now held
Halted on the glass
This song
This song
Is a snake coiled in the grass
That lets go of itself
Just to bite you
When you ask it for a kiss
This song
Asleep you dream
You've sailed the seven seas
And cannot find where you started
Then as a bird
Flying against the world
You hang still in space
Watching the tie
Of moon on tide
Break as the sea is parted
Your revolution cannot find the right
Time and place
And this song
This song
It's the finger now held
Halted on the glass
This song
This song
Is a snake coiled in the grass
That lets go of itself
Just to bite you
When you ask it for a kiss
This song
The clocks have stopped
The seasons are not
Turning
Any more
And you're a poor one for you're tethered
Like a bird to heavy feathers
To music that does not make you feel
Better
Any more
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4. |
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Where did he go?
He had me held close
I fell asleep
Stood on my feet
He had gone when I woke
I'll be lonesome
I'll miss him so much
I could die in
The space between
Our last and first touch
I never knew
The world could turn upside-down
Never knew a boy could drown
Looking at the sky
When up's above
The world hates our love
We turn it here
Upon its ear
This world loves us
But when we part
It hits me so hard
There is nowhere
Once we're down there
To be what we are
I never knew
The world could turn upside down
Never knew two boys could drown
Looking at the sky
And the mountain
Once our Eden
Was deceiving
It's a rock
To drag us down
To the deepest floor
Where a lock turned by kisses
Can open the door
To the freest love
We'll ever know
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5. |
Wake
03:58
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Wake
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6. |
Sepulchre
02:04
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A tunnel
Closing in
A carriage
Rocking you to sleep
A sepulchre of slumber
But the doors of feeling
Open
Approaching
A station
At twilight
A new sight
Conspires to give you hope
'Though the chances seem remote
You feel you've found your home
And you alight
Alone
And standing on the platform
You begin to weep your tiny heart out
Because what is felt inside you can never ever be touched
No matter where you clutch
And home is nowhere
Nowhere that you look
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7. |
Constellation
02:02
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O constellation
There's no consolation for life
Like that star-spangled Blackness
Above us
Something must love us!
It fit that reeling ceiling
Each feeling is wired to a stellar bulb
And out sprouts bright recall to make your heart full
So when forest green
Comes to mean so much more
Than just trees you'll see
It's part of the firmament of memory
Leaves on a solar breeze
Memories like stars
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8. |
For Your Helping Hand
02:39
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Your breath is part of the fog
'Though you speak to show me the way
Your words are part of the puzzle
'Though you seek to solve as I play
Your care means much to me
But in this mystery
I must venture
Alone
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9. |
The Shadow
03:02
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I have started at each day's end
To stare into my shadow
And as I gaze at this negative me
I reflect on the darkness I see
The angry and the violent
Petulant
Malevolent
The hater and the hurter
My hope is that by looking
At what naturally I hide
I will come to know myself
Completely
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Owen Duff London, UK
A true adherent to the DIY ethos, Owen Duff creates everything related to his music, from artwork to videos, as well as playing/programming nearly all of the instruments on his songs. His songs that blend influences from folk, 60s chamber pop, electronica, film and TV scores and jazz. Owen's lyrics are inspired by books, films, TV, high and low culture, politics and personal experience. ... more
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