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Dreamless Sleep
04:11
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My Back covered in sun and I never want to speak my mother tongue
I can stand behind a lens staring at a heavily filtered world
Now that I’ve slammed the door on a cold and uncivil moment of war
I can live a life in peace where I don’t know anyone else at all and they don’t know me
Sick of people talking when I’m up against the wall
Sick of people talking when I’m up against the wall
When I already know what they want to say
It all ends in a dreamless sleep
But I can’t shake the thoughts when I’m awake
A series of weekends and weeks
But I don’t seem to move from this one place
It all ends in a dreamless sleep
But I can’t shake the thoughts when I’m awake
Memories I can’t erase
But that won’t stop me trying to
Versions of you I’ve cobbled together in a head that’s stuffed full of everything
That I have ever said or done
Peel off my skin expose my bones
Sick of people telling me to just forget it all
When I already know what I want to say
It all ends in a dreamless sleep
But I can’t shake the thoughts when I’m awake
A series of weekends and weeks
But I don’t seem to move from this one place
Surrendering to dreamless sleep
And I can clean the mess up when I wake
A feeling I can’t recreate
But that won’t stop me trying to
It still remains, are we willing to do
What the clouds above our head demand that we do?
Or distance ourselves
Leave all of the wandering to the mind
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2. |
Something Has To Be Done
04:21
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Words fall I’m arranging them all in to whatever I can to feel sane, oh boy!
The eyes, are sick of reading you for lies
I know that the fire burns again
And then you feed it every night
Complete mental and physical decline
A swollen throat and itchy eyes
I couldn’t dry this damp it set in far too
Deep inside a small and cynical mind
Shovelled coal powers lamp light
But when the fire starts I want to stay and fight
I’m not advocating violence but something has to be done
I can’t drown here in this silence
I will never come unstuck
Word arrives clean out of the sky you’ve been singing and dancing all over the grave that I’m sleeping in
The snakes!
I rid my body of the snakes!
But it only works for a day, then at night
Asphyxiated but awake
Disaster comes in various disguises
But always the same look in its eyes
Well should I shake its hand or dig it in the guts?
I’m not advocating violence but something has to be done
I can’t hold my breath in silence and curse my wretched luck
There’s no healing there’s no recovery
When I’m just licking at the same old wounds
I see nothing stretched out in front of me
I need something to come along soon…
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Plagued with an absence of feeling
It all turned around
It was hardly a watershed
Wasn't profound
I know that I've been just guessing
For far too long now
I've been shouting the answers out
Asking the questions the wrong way around
You told me I've been regressing
Into a shy little kid
And i know it's not good enough
Nothing ever is
What we need it to be
When we need it now
When we need it now
The ink won't take to the page
I try to write
When I look there's nothing there
I've been hollowed out
Worn away like the carpets I pace
I've been hollowed out
I'm waking up in the ruins of a beautiful home
If I parade in a costume no one would've known
Won't strike at the heart of what I really am
Just another lazy idiot
Perhaps something even more deadly than that
I can't lay a glove on this world
Close my eyes and swing
When I look there's no one there
I've been emptied out
Can't be long 'til I'm more cracks than man
I feel empty now
The time doesn't heal it just shortens my life
And time after time though the time wasn't right
I can't still be as weak as I was
And though I'm not strong I can just laugh along
The ink won't take to the page
I try to write
When I look there's nothing there
I've been hollowed out
Worn away like the carpets I pace
I've been hollowed out
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4. |
Active/Passive
04:46
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Well I have never been so scared
As the key turns inside an unfamiliar door
Though I fear feeling what I felt before
Still I know I’ve got to get in
It’s all just screaming down below
Picture your face despite all of the alarms
On that beach looking back over your shoulder
I hope that you don’t come to any harm
No pillow wants my head to rest ’til the morning
Tell myself there’s surrender in a life repeating
I’m foetal at the foot of your bed
And all that I am sorry for won’t ever give us peace or go away
I say that I won’t pay it any mind
Still I’m there listening with a glass against the wall
To the footsteps getting nearer and nearer
There’s been a real disconnection lately
Scream words to you I wouldn’t breathe to my enemies
An active mouth meets a passive brain
And in a flash of light the thought I just had is gone
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Hospital Corner Edinburgh, UK
Hospital Corner is the music project of me, Edinburgh musician Chris Finn. Hospital Corner becomes a sensational 5 piece rock band when the opportunity arises.
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