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The Onion Twins
04:01
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The Onion Twins have moved away, and left all their troubles behind.
And with their fears, they leave their faces and put all their emotions on the pyre.
So help me dear, I'm weak again, from changing the way that I act
As my face can change to suit my day my insides remain in tact.
So take off my face and be done with my heart
Peel back the layers of skin
'Til I'm left with no face like the Onion Twins,
Nothing to give me away
So take away my safety net, and leave me with luck and with chance
But so that each passing day can be won or be played so that losing cant happen to pass
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The Octopus
04:02
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The octopus in all of us raises its weary head,
And blows out all the candles that are littered round his bed,
and he raises tired tentacles and clearly writes in ink
“all my troubles are behind me as I sink into the brink”
And every one who stopped and stared noticed he was a little scared,
but no one cared and no one tried to comfort him as he did cry
And apathy will always be the way that we go
We keep ourselves to ourselves we never say hello
And so the octopus in all of us says his goodbyes
with a final saddened look he sinks into the brine
The Octopus in all of us is gone
The octopus in all of us clearly never said,
whether it had found his love and told her he was dead
Since he's gone its been a while and we haven’t asked why,
Our eight-legged friend joined the sea life in the sky
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3. |
Oh, My Fellow Countrymen
02:48
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Oh, my fellow countrymen, cast aside your demons and pick up your pen,
and write that awful letter you've been meaning to write,
take up arms against the man who would have made you fight.
Smoke your god damn cigarettes and drink all you want,
give up on your five a day and your cereal bars
chat up the girl that at the bar she won't be there for long
and she might be the one you love and she might love you back
Oh my love you've made me love again,
I'm not the evil cynic that I was when we first met
You took me in your arms and you took me to your bed
and you made me love you like I'll never love no one again
Oh my fellow countrymen, raise your flag up high and be proud of yourself
Because if we can beat the nazis we can take up arms again
and fight those who put us down and fight them yet again
and although I may not have a job and I've never won a fight
you know I'll always be there darling standing by your side
I'll never be a sporting hero and I'll never save the world
but by god darling I'll help you fight that spider in the night
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Pick up your rifle son, wear it with pride
You’ll be needing to battle on, the fields of the rhine
And hold back your tears girl, have a stiff upper lip
he’s fighting for freedom, for what we believe in
The country it needs you to carry straight on
to have unwavering faith in the course that we’re on
and dig for your victory and fight till your death
give them no quarter and take none yourself
The boy he leaves on the next train to France
And the girl she believes that he won’t be coming back
And that his body will be burned and returned to mother earth
on the fields where flowers will grow
Boy in your letters, your letters back home
say you’ll be back in time for the first snow to fall
Tell the girl you love to keep warm by the fire
and you’ll be with her soon to bless her with child
But now pick up that rifle and stand man to man
We’re over the top lads lets get ‘em while we can
Girl in your letter say your faithful in life
how you’d stand by his side and tell god your his wife
but now burn it to ashes post it to the earth
let it join him in resting beneath german dirt
Get on with your life now he’s not coming back
there’s a country to get back on the right track
So get out and get married there are babies to be born
born into a world where there will be no more wars
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Boats
04:00
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The boats are in the harbour, waiting to set sail
And it feels like if you don't jump on they will leave forever
But Boats, they come and go
with Boats, you'll never know
Boats, they sail the seven seas and
Boats will be there for me
Are you sure you want to leave? next high tide
I see holes in lots of ships they might sink and die.
When you're sure you want to leave, tell me when you go
I want to see you off darling, to the depths you go
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The Trans-Antarctic Expedition Bristol, UK
Eclectic Folk band from Bristol.
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