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Modern World
04:08
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There is a lie
That traces the spine
Of some suburban
Telephone line
What I'm meant
to rely upon
Revealed to be
Sand, not stone
Don’t ask! Don’t ask!
Don’t ask me how it feels
The same as any other fear
It’s an immature modern world
A promise that was made to her
An immature modern world
A promise that was made
It’s an immature modern world
The same thing that she’s always heard
An immature modern world
A promise that was made (hey hey hey!)
So this is what
You leave behind
Every day
Some new consolation prize
What I’ve heard
My whole life long
From the grave
The same old song
Don’t ask! Don’t ask!
Don’t ask me how it feels
The same as any other fear
(Don’t ask! Don’t ask!
Don’t ask me how it feels!
Don’t ask! Don’t ask!
Don’t ask me how it feels!
Hey hey!)
It’s an immature modern world
A promise that was made to her
Another cheap old lie conceived
To keep her under lock and key
It’s an immature modern world
Waiting like Faith said we would
An immature modern world
A promise that was made
A promise that was made!
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Dark Exchange
04:06
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Static, sound
There’s movement underground
Something fades,
A dark exchange
Like subways in the tunnel
Like two ships in the night
Everyone looks like somebody else
In the deep unending night
I see through both the windows
And I see through both your eyes
Everyone looks for somebody else
When something isn’t right, isn’t right
(It isn’t right!)
Isn’t right, something isn’t right
A hidden touch
Is nothing close enough?
No other way
A dark exchange
Like strangers in the tunnel
Like two dreams in the night
Everyone looks like somebody else
In the long unsteady light
I find you on another plane
But I can’t meet your eyes
Everyone looks for somebody else
When something isn’t right, isn’t right
(It isn’t right!)
Isn’t right, something…
Like two screams in the tunnel
Like whispers in the night
Everything is lost again
At the break of morning light
I am scattered everywhere,
Afraid to meet your eyes
This isn’t right
(It isn’t right!)
Something, something isn’t right
I haven’t talked to you lately
Wonder where you’ve been
Nothing like I remember
Withdrawn, within
It’s not enough to be my own body
It's not enough to know you in dreams
It's not enough to whisper sweet nothings
Just say what you mean
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Follows
03:40
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When green breaks ground
In the garden again
Think of me and
grow, my friend
Spring follows winter
For a reason
So while I lay down roots
In search of deeper soils
Kiss me goodbye
and leave for a while
Wind follows wings
For a reason
Of all the stones in streams
And each December snow
I always thought that we
would outlive them all
I follow you
For a reason
When green breaks ground
In the garden again
Think of me and
Grow, my friend
Spring follows winter
Wind follows wings
I follow you
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Reckon With
03:06
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When the light of day
Isn’t enough to keep you awake
It's a darkness I provide
A rising, falling, ruthless tide
Look and you might see
The power that I claim to be (Power!)
And what I’ve given, forgiven and forgone
Will all be coming back before long
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am! I am!
Is there nothing now
That lives inside you and needs to get out? (Get out!)
You don’t know how it feels
Don’t know what the absence reveals
Whatever you believe
It’s only the truth that interests me
So if what you say is true
You'd better find a way to make me believe you
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am the force that you reckon with
I am! I am! I am! I am!
I am the force that you reckon with!
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Ghosts
02:48
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I feel the warmth of your arms, it's a fantasy
Something I remember when I'm fast asleep
I never can forget who I am in dreams
Embarrassed to admit that it's all make believe
Somehow I will find they’re disappointed in me
Another déjà vu that I can’t complete
All the ghosts of anything I couldn’t achieve
Congregate inside until you’re next to me
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All we ever wanted was everything
All we ever got was cold
Get up, eat jelly
Sandwich bars, and barbed wire
Squash every week into a day
The sound of the drum is calling
Sound of the drum has called
Flash of youth, shoot out of darkness
Factory town
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
Oh to be the cream
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You’ve Always Known
06:04
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You’ve always known the way I am
I can’t forgive the things I’ll never understand
The greatest mercy of this age
Another never makes you wait
So if I forget to watch you go
You’re just another that I’ll never, never know
I’ll never know (I’ll never know, I’ll never know)
I’ll never know (I’ll never know, I’ll never know)
I’ll never know (I’ll never know, I’ll never know)
I’ll never know (I’ll never know, I’ll never know)
So while I wait for this to pass
The weeks are wide, the days grow vast
At night I’m talking to myself
I listen patiently, pretend I’m someone else
The greatest shame I’ve ever known
Maybe you always knew you’d leave me here alone
Now I’m alone (I’m alone, now I’m alone)
Now I’m alone (yeah I’m alone, yeah, I’m alone)
Now I’m alone (now I’m alone, now, I’m alone)
Now I’m alone, now I’m alone (now I’m alone, now, I’m alone)
Now I’m alone
And if I have nowhere to go
At least you’ll never need to know
And if I have to be alone
At least I get to be alone
Now, Now
now, now, now, now I’m alone
You’ve always known, you’ve always known
(you’ve always known, you’ve always known)
Now I’m alone, now I’m alone
(now I’m alone, now I’m alone)
You’ve always known, you’ve always known
(you’ve always known, you’ve always known)
Now I’m alone, now I’m alone
(now I’m alone, now I’m alone)
You’ve always known, you’ve always known
(you’ve always known, you’ve always known)
Now I’m alone, now I’m alone
(now I’m alone, now I’m alone)
I’m alone, I’m alone
I’m alone, I’m alone
Now I’m alone
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8. |
Water Under Wind
04:18
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Enough of anything
Moves like water under wind
The things that I have yet to find,
Or yet to find within
Enough of anything
Moves like water under wind
The things that I have yet to find,
Or yet to find again
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Phoebe Collins Fanwood, New Jersey
An old soul since birth and young only by circumstance, Phoebe Collins has probably spent more time knitting and listening
to punk rock than you. An artist by both choice and genetics, her body of work includes sound, image, text, and performance.
Her first LP, “It’s not enough to be my own body. It’s not enough to know you in dreams,” is available now.
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