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A Little Heart
04:43
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Just a lapdog in a factory
Waiting for the whistle to blow
I'm rundown
I'm a battery
Rusted up beginning to go
It can't go on this way
I know
Yesterday seems like a beautiful dream
And I'm all about letting go
I sure could use a little heart
You let me down
But the sun will shine again
You let me down
But I'm better off that way
This day is a bad day
I'm not getting anything down
In the pits
I'm not even scratching
Waiting for an idea to come
It can't go on this way
I know
Yesterday seems like a beautiful dream
And I'm all about letting go
I sure could use a little heart
You let me down
But the sun will shine again
You let me down
But I'm better off that way
Now I don't mind
Being all by myself
In my prime
But all the time
Gets too hard
You let me down
But the sun will shine again
You let me down
But I'm better off that way
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Pacemaker
03:53
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Damn my inability to make that change
Don't mind humility
But I'm estranged
I can't elevate
It may be fragility I'm running from
Lost my virginity at 21
On my neighbour's lawn
Derelict heart
Pacemaker
Oh my derelict heart
Pacemaker
I'm letting you down
Love is a lottery
Life's crystal ball
Live by economy
No risk at all
When you're so damn small
Derelict heart
Pacemaker
Oh my derelict heart
Pacemaker
I'm letting you down
You've got all matter of time
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Void Devotion
03:31
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Half light creeping
Shake off sleeping
I feel alright
Don't mind just lying
Waking distant
You insisted that we were fine
No one knows about tomorrow
You said all our dreams would last
But they don't
They just pass
And you said both our lives would change
But they just stay the same
Sorry, sorry...
Two disheveled
Held together in feathered light
The weighted quiet is a warning
Once bright beings
Hochzeit feelings
Candid bite
We weren't scared about nothing
You said all our dreams would last
But they don't
They just pass
And you said both our lives would change
But they just stay the same
Sorry, sorry...
I walk by every door
In the hope of recognising the familiar
A cue or trigger
I walk by everyone
In the hope of recognising the emotion
Void devotion
You said all our dreams would last
But they don't
They just pass
And you said both our lives would change
But they just stay the same
Sorry, sorry...
Hang dog
Beaten
Wake up sleeping
I can't think right
Who knows about tomorrow
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Mild Psychotic
04:21
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If you're not gonna talk to me
Then how can we get along
Welling up with emotion
I put your name in a song
Maybe a moment of violence
At least the feeling was real
I always try to be honest
But there are things I can't reveal
I'm a mild psychotic
Of the functioning kind
Neither guided by voices
Nor perpetrating a crime
Got a big old ego
With a creative tongue
Just a fictional cowboy
Who keeps forgetting where he's from
It's gonna take a long time to be right to love again
And if this were a movie
Well I'd be played by Timothy Spall
Quiet and friendly
So motivated and all
Absorbing the cruelty like a human shield
Celebrating my body
Well just the parts I keep concealed
I've been playing it backwards
Like I'm looking for signs
Every hidden expression
I've studied multiple times
Got a realisation
I'm in a futile game
Better growing my beard out
Than slowly growing more insane
It's gonna take a long time to be right to love again
Sometimes I feel nothing at all
Sometimes I feel nothing at all
Sometimes I feel like everything depends on you
I don't depend on you
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While We Can
03:30
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Come with me and I will take you to a place
I've never, ever been but they say it's something
There's an open bar
No lines
Except the folks doing coke all the time
(All the time)
I will never be the one who calls you names
When you feel the heat we'll head out country
There's a friend I know
He lives up north
I got him though a hard time when he divorced
(He's divorced)
We're on the juice again
What a year it's been
And so far everything's rosy
Let's talk about moving in
I can see this now
I know my mind
And this love feels like it's the medicinal kind
Come with me and we can head straight into the sun
No one has ever been but it sure is something
Well baby you're the star
And I'm your man
We've gotta make love while we can
(While we can)
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Daylight
04:15
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Daylight
All the stars are gone
Help me on the train and take me home
I've gone missing
Is that the way now?
Nothing sure will last
Like the voices of the people that we pass
I don't listen
And I can't find that light anymore in our eyes
And I can't see that light anymore in our eyes
Another grey sky
Try to shake it off
Everyday we come to terms with what we've lost
And what's missing
Is that the way now?
Nothing sure will last
Like the voices of the people that we pass
I don't listen
And I can't find that light anymore in our eyes
And I can't see that light anymore in our eyes
And I can't find that light...
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I Live For This Dance
03:11
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I live for this dance
I use to stand around waiting to fall
I live for this dance
I use to kill time pacing the floor
I live for this dance, I turn
I live for this dance, I burn
Someone took the tired away from my bones
Antipodean crawl
(I'm tearing it up)
Found my foot in the door
(I'm tearing it up)
Hung myself on the wall
(I'm tearing it up)
Made a hammer out of blood, sweat and toil
I live for this dance
Someone took a tyre and made it a home
I live for this dance
Someone tried squeezing gold from a stone
I live for this dance, I turn
I live for this dance, I burn
Someone took the tired away from my bones
Antipodean crawl
(I'm tearing it up)
Found my foot in the door
(I'm tearing it up)
Hung myself on the wall
(I'm tearing it up)
Made a monster out of leaves in the fall
I live for this dance, I turn
I live for this dance
I've learned it's the only thing that keeps me alive
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Play Me That Song I Love
03:37
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Lay down with me
We deserve our time in the sun
It feels good to be loved
It feels good to be lovers
Gentle teacher
I have given in to your touch
I know who I am
I know who I am when we touch
We incubate and cancel our vacation
Enforced island time
I like it alone
I like it alone with you
Stand here with me
Let's open up ourselves to the world
I love what you've done
I love what you've done to my world
We must rely upon the nature of our interaction
The parts conspire to spin in place
Creating our attraction
Play me that song I love
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Marco & Me
05:06
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I've been sat here, waiting
Wheels in my mind
Turning at each thought I have
Until the spokes align
Reject all earthly love and emotional ties
Disconnect desire and learn to give up control
Time to purify
Marco looked away
As I explained my side
Marco said that my position wasn't justified
He said...
“If you rejected love
(like you get to decide)
Then you'd become apart
Not one with the world
Lost and petrified
Then nothing matters
Nothing matters at all”
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One More Goodbye
03:27
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I am tired
Down and drifting
Out of fight and over everything
We are fading
No one forced it
I won't fend off love's decline
As we tear
There are no false words
We go quietly
We go quiet
Slowly we break apart
This is too hard
No more plans and sharing our dreams
While you slept I kissed you delicately
Then just lay there thinking backwards
Sorting through the reels of our life
As we tear
There are no false words
We go quietly
We go quiet
Slowly we break apart
This is too hard
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Richie Setford Berlin, Germany
Previously working under the moniker of Bannerman, the New Zealander has spent the last 9 years in Berlin building his
reputation as a songwriter and vocalist, a live musician and session player.
Richie also writes and records under the name Bliss Creek and with Andres Barlesi under the name Harmonie Fields.
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