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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Changes, 45, London is Blue, Youth EP, A Secret Public - b-sides & rarities 2001-2006, Last Holiday Before Divorce - Deleted Scenes From An Unfinished Sequel, Front, and Best Kept Secret - Demos & Rarities 2001-2004.
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Youth
02:58
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new found alarm
more heat than light; no real harm
shoved in their shoes, you'd do the same
thrown up, torn down
all roads lead to capital now
will dust ever take real blame?
your fingertips have healed clean over
but DNA reveals, throws open
somewhere in your family tree
false start; fierce heat
but someone was allowed some dignity
someone was allowed some dignity
they're gonna do matter-of-fact
it isn't enough to be meta about that
your online views are a bike ploughed into a sand dune
your fingertips have healed clean over
but DNA reveals, throws open
somewhere in the place that you'll flee
false-flag newsfeed
but someone was allowed some dignity
someone was allowed some dignity
someone was allowed some dignity
someone was allowed some dignity
your fingertips have healed clean over
but DNA reveals, throws open
your heart
your heart
your heart
if you've not been lobbied, you'll be...
if you've not been brutal, you'll be...
if you've not been selfish, you'll be forever young
forever young
forever young
forever
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Land & Sea
02:11
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what becomes of a little boy
grown up now
but still in need
of a love unconditional
safe home from sea?
what becomes of a mother then
work all done
yet just begun
how to lose and yet gain as well
far out to sea
mother now
you know he's found
the echo from a perfect sound
a son-in-law
who carries on
that love
what becomes when you've never lost
anything that mattered too much?
how will solid land really be
worse than the sea?
well a green ray forms on the horizon
sometimes and just for a moment
when there's nowhere else i really need to be
mother now
you know he's found
the echo from a perfect sound
a son-in-law
who carries on
that love
sweetheart now
i know i've found
the echo from a perfect sound
a resonance
repeated on and on
and on
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Avenues
03:26
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look up from your inkwell and it's not so bad
how did you surround yourself with friends
in the first place?
i want to sway you
and realise you
not just to know you
through a screen
i had to show you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a safe profundity
or a tragic look-at-me
and now i can't start taking avenues unknown
head up from the lightbox and the world's not ending
i'm glad i got to live with and without
this thing
i want to hold you
i want to see you
not just to know you
through a screen
i think i owe you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a well-spun slow retreat
with a shoulder glance revealing...oh
a backstory of impossible consequence
exquisite art direction to distract you
from the contrived coincidence
underpinning the story
which would have been obvious
any other way
but i can't start taking avenues unknown
lights up as the night ends and we all look older
but there's always tomorrow until there's not
anymore
i want to sway you
and realise you
not just to know you
through a screen
i had to show you
all that i've been through
not just to tell you
unrevealing blandities
or a safe profundity
or a tragic look-at-me
or a well-spun slow retreat
the coincidence conceit
the coincidence conceit
the coincidence conceit
i can't
i can't learn a new medium just now
i can't
i can't learn a new language overnight
i can't
i can't start taking avenues unknown
try not to take it too badly
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Dare
04:13
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fast and wild
sharp and free
therefore, nothing like me
still sneaking home with cigarette smoke lingering
and wondering
if that fire went out
or the hedgerow burned down
a six-thirty summer evening
there's another way, it said
but i'm not listening
call from twenty years ahead
that boy's not answering
not quite ready
and his thoughts all hot and put away
but there to come alive another day
you start writing it down
see your smalltime beliefs
set badly on the paper
is that all you've got?
prosaic and flat
we've all thought that before
now make it sound believable
there's another way, it said
but i'm not listening
call from twenty years ahead
that boy's not answering
not quite ready
and his thoughts all hot and put away
but there to come alive another day
but i dare you to
i double dare you to
i dare you to
i double dare you to
i double dare you to
i double dare you to
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Land's End
01:06
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luxembourg London, UK
Luxembourg are a British five-piece indie band, formed in London in 2001. Most often compared to artists like Pulp, The Smiths, Suede and Roxy Music, they have been described as "pop noir".
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