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Tabakiera
04:06
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To your little box today
as to my dear friend
I'm entrusting my tears
each night we're both awake
Tuesday's gone already
Behind my window, Wednesday morning
Everything seem normal
But not the same
(Hey)little box it's time
To dream but before I fly
give me a cigarette
As if, it was his kiss
Sleep and don't regret
Anything tomorrow
Both you and my heart forever his e
Te tabakiere, just a little part of you
Te tabakiere, I can have with me today
Te tabakiere, as a gesture of your love
Let it poison me it hurts less
Te tabakiere, just a little part of you
Te tabakiere, I can have with me today
Leave it forever as a gesture of your love
Let it poison me it hurts less
Tuesday’s gone already
Behind the window, Wednesday morning
Everything is normal
But nothing’s the same
Hey, little box it's time
To dream, before I fly
give me a cigarette
As if, it was his kiss
Once more I'll touch myself
Inhaling the smoke slowly
Both you and my heart, forever his
Te tabakiere, just a little part of you
Te tabakiere, I can have with me today
Te tabakiere, as a gesture of your love
Let it poison me it hurts less
Te tabakiere, just a little part of you
Te tabakiere, I can have with me today
Leave it forever as a gesture of your love
Let it poison me it hurts less
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2. |
Strange Performance
04:02
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Honey I’ll dance for you between dead words and butterflies
collect some moonlight from grey, naked trees
Into your hands and into my mouth like a toy
My soul has gone with him I don't know how to replace it
It plays weird music that drives me to him I can't get free
But I won't speak because your ears are not to listen
to my enslaving words Instead I’ll lay at your feet
reach out for me
So much gold is so close
My soul has gone with him I don't know how to replace it
It plays weird music that drives me to him I can't get free
Can’t get free
I have become
Strange performance
To the world, to the world
To the angels
Oh, angels!
I can’t get free
Free…
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3. |
Breathless and Alone
03:24
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I’ve already dug my grave my dear
Need to be prepared with the way I feel
I can’t pretend that life is clear
When I live in this state of fervid fear
It doesn’t kill when they break your heart
But he just took it and refused to give it back
And it’s not the pain like broken bones
Longing or even death
This is so much worse
I walk the Earth 10 inches above
Faces crawl my way, oh I am so exposed
The air it cannot quite reach my lungs in a crowd
I am breathless and I’m
Breathless and alone
I do strange things everyday my dear
I can hear my blood - hollow drumming of wings
Wreaking havoc on this poisoned mind
Each face slightly darker, neither tender nor polite
It doesn’t kill when he breaks your heart
But he just took it and
Refused to give it back
And it’s not the pain like broken bones
Longing or even death
This is so much worse
I walk the Earth 10 inches above
Faces crawl my way, oh I am so exposed
The air it cannot quite reach my lungs in a crowd
I am breathless and I’m
Breathless and alone
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4. |
Charlie
03:28
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He said : Hey girl
Charlie needs some love
Dance in front of me
Let me touch you
What an evening, what a night
Under West Street’s neon light
You're a goth, oh baby that's alright
I drank so much you look like Rita Ora.
Her skin is burning
His blazing gaze
Was captivating, so they hailed
A Taxi to Perdition
What an evening, what a night
(And) You’re such a lustful sight
You're a goth, but maybe that's alright
I’ve took so much you look like Rita Ora.
On the pillow she left her lips
Placed her body in a bath
And took some pics
While death felt warm
What an evening, what a night
Under West Street’s neon light
You're a goth, oh baby that's alright
I drank so much you look like Rita Ora.
What an evening, one more life
I’ve seductively deprived
A former goth who’s soothed my spite
I thank you all, including Interflora
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5. |
Sleep my Love
04:14
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Shhh Sleep my love
When your trust is overwhelmed
When righteous dreams cloud your head
Shhh Sleep my love
As soon as you close your eyes
I will go under the cover of the night
I need to run from you
as far as I can
I need to go before
your love swallows me whole
I need to run from you
as far as I can
I need to go before
your love swallows me whole
Forgive me I can’t say goodbye
Shhh Sleep my love, just sleep
The more you touch my face
The less it reminds me of myself
Shhh
I need to run from you as far as I can
I need to go before your love swallows me whole
I need to run from you
as far as I can
I need to go before
your love swallows me whole
Forgive me I can’t say goodbye
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6. |
My Room
03:14
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My room it has no view
Just the view inside my head
A friend’s little soire
The first time we met
Oh how we laughed
It was so meant to be
That night will last forever here in my heart
ALa aLa aLa
These walls don’t say a word
Don’t drown the whispers in my ears
Life’s gifts showered on me
Love had appeared
Solitude changed for a new kind of pain
The world seemed much sweeter with such possibilities
La La La
La La La
A shrug , some hurried words , no appeal, no compromise
Who is this stranger?
Who’s are these eyes?
Cold is the rainfall on love unrequited
Shelter, respite is denied me in spite of it
La La La
La La La
My room it has no view
Just the ceiling above my bed
Alone with my memories
No callers
No guests
Fires are out
Embers are fading
What’s left is a bore so draw the blinds
Close the door.
La La La
La La La
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7. |
Not a Bird
03:46
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She is bustling about in her little dress
From the time to time she turns her head and smiles
Oh, you and could swear,you saw a shadow of her wings
And how she hid them underneath her dress
But she is not a bird, she is not a bird, she is not a bird.
Can’t you see?
Her every little movement spells - I love you
Yet still, you’re searching for feather amidst her lace
Oh, but you could swear, you saw a shadow of her wings
And how she hid the underneath her dress
But she is not a bird, she is not a bird, she is not a bird.
Can’t you see?
Oi nana, oi nana, oi na na na
On this very day when darkness steals her heart
She’ll be smiling at her window, no more tears
She’ll loosen darkness of her hair
Changed into Raven she’ll escape
To come back in an instant but not herself
As a Raven, as a Raven, as your Raven pet
Just like you wished
Oi nana, oi nana, oi na na na
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8. |
Stay
04:56
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I have found myself in you
My blood is different now
Everything has changed
I feel pain in unusual way
I'm drifting in my loneliness and the wind disappears
It's so hard to catch the waves and I
close their shapes in my hands
Stay
Stay
Stay with me
Take me somewhere and hide me
Because I exist for you
Between flowers and shadows
Under fog that covers my brain
Stay
Stay
Stay with me
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9. |
Hard to Love
04:06
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How could I ever feel
True happiness, it's so rare
If pain was foreign to me
For this pain I thank you my dear
Although I ran
I always came back
Through tides in the ocean of tears
It's hard to love you
but still easier
than not loving you at all
Would I hear the whisper
Of what love professes to be
If I never heard your cruel words
For your malice I thank you my dear
Although I ran
I always came back
Through tides in the ocean of tears
It's hard to love you
but still easier than not loving you at all
but still easier than not loving you at all
but still easier than not loving you at all
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10. |
Wasteland
03:34
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And within this dream we did set sail
Avoiding night-time storms
And in this dream, I am never alone
Trying to own the moon
We've built this wasteland slowly
(As) we’ve yet to believe in ourselves
We've built this wasteland only
To find that we’ve forged my fate
Silent
Silent as the sun sets before your eyes
Suspicions lingered in the depths of my mind
Scavenging through traumas I spy
the ghost of a hope that we’ll flourish
When we fail, we’ll both claim we’ve tried
Cry with me baby, let woes be gone tomorrow
the past will make saints of the heartless as life weeps on
We've built this wasteland slowly
(As) we’ve yet to believe in ourselves
We've built this wasteland slowly
To find that we’ve forced my fate
Silence as the sun sinks before our time
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11. |
Purple Watchmaker
04:38
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And when he finally comes for me
The Purple Watchmaker of the Light
He'll mix the blues in my head
And I will be ready and bright
The days will flow down right through me
The sun, the air will go off
I'll take last look at everything
And I'll go I don't know where forever
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The Mother of Crows Sheffield, UK
Gothic folk from the heart of South Yorkshire.
Vocals - Sylwia Anna
Drwal
Clarinet - Ceri Ashton
Piano - Janine Rogers
Drums - Natasha Allan
Bass - Andy McAuley
Guitar - Marcus Bishop
... more
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