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A Boundary (The Stopgap EP Expanded)

by Owen Duff

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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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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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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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Beyond the Valley Lies the Mountain 04:27
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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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Wake 03:58
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Wake
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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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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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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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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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A re-recorded, remixed and extended version of The Stop-Gap EP which I first released in 2008.

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released August 15, 2018

Written, performed and produced by Owen Duff.
Violin: James Underwood

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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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