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Weight Of The Water
04:18
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Weight Of The Water
Make me weigh less than the weight of the water
Or make me an offer that you can’t afford
And when you eat the grapes of the wrath and the slaughter
And spit back the pips in the face of your daughter
You let yourself down and you throw out your babies
Look at you
Riders for horses and horses for courses
Births, deaths and marriages, bitter divorces
Air that is thick and is blue and is caustic
Words that fall heavy and dull with a plastic refrain
And a slap back so fractured and jarring
Echoes in marble halls
Time and all
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2. |
A Small Town
03:59
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A Small Town
birds won't sing on my street
there are no trees to sing from
milk round rattles round
like loose change in the half light
like loose teeth in my head
time is no longer friendly
time is working against me
time is running away from me
dawn in a small street in a small town
of never-ending grey
all summer long I waited
waited, waited
you never came
you never even showed your face
and the mark on the wall grows
darker as the glass falls and
days grow shorter and nights grow long
time is no longer friendly
time is working against me
time is running away from me
light changes as a car goes by and
shadows creep across the walls
these days I never seem to sleep
nights
hardly, if at all
I never even close my eyes
and the mark on the wall grows
darker as the glass falls and
days grow shorter and nights grow long
time is no longer friendly
time is working against me
time is running away from me
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Untitled 1983
03:41
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Untitled 1982
it’s so, so cold
that mark it darkens on the wall when it rains
the rain, it rains the way rain does
I watch it fall
from across the street I see into the room
you occupy
the light is off
the light is on
and I'm terrified
and the mirror man is watching
watching me
watching you
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4. |
Earth Rise
03:11
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Earth Rise
earth rise on black canvas
portrait of a young man
in light and optimism
laughing
still life in mixed media
landscape number seven
study of a woman
breathing
the artist in the studio
with companion, 1954
a series of small sketches
made at height of summer
survey of a work in
progress
iron bridge in winter
portrait of a close friend
portrait, pen and ink,
untitled
the artist in the garden
with a dog in 1963
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Sinners Of The World
03:04
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Sinners of the World
sinners of the world unite
take arms against the righteous
and be happier
spit it out son
spit the bitter taste from out your mouth
and spit it back at them
bile and all
sometimes
these people
get no more or less
than the hate and bitterness
that they're so clearly craving
do us all a favour
and help someone else's neighbour
if you want gratitude
we are unwashed, poisonous
and will not do what's asked of us
if it's good for us
especially if it's good for us
I swear
these people
mean to nail us up and will
forever nail us up for ever after
ever after
ever after
ever after
ever after
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Slowly, Slowly
03:25
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Slowly, Slowly
please, my mistake
put my head on a plate
lock it up in a
safe place for keeping till later
don't let the rain through the walls or the windows
and don't take the calls to the phone in the hall
I'm not here and neither are you
don't let the street in
the trams, trucks and people
the rain and the rain coats
and shriek of the subway
make the days go slowly
and in the end
all we have to do is pretend
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7. |
An Unfamiliar Kitchen
03:25
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An Unfamiliar Kitchen
I arrived
on a railway station in the rain
with no recall of having travelled there at all
and then it dawned
I had no idea who I was
the face on the licence in my wallet
I knew but not the name
I didn’t know the name
after an hour
a taxi took me to the strange address
that I had read
on the postcard in my hand
I rang the bell
but of course there was nobody home
I turned the key from my pocket
and stepped into the hall
I'd never seen before
a woman's coat
and boots belonging to a man
my blank face in the mirror
and dust floating in the light
I sat
in an unfamiliar kitchen as it rained
all that rainy afternoon
until
I heard a new key in the same front door
the chair creaked
the clock ticked
and I
looked up
for the first time
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8. |
Seberg
03:22
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Seberg
she is so foreign
and he is so french
I know what you're thinking
but that's not what I meant
and I was so breathless
watching him die
as if nothing quite matters
in the street right outside
but you're not Jean Seberg
and I'm not Jean-Paul
belmondo, you’re darker
and I'm not that tall
so sell me a Tribune
in the champs-elyses
and light us two cigarettes
in a femme fatale way
you're not a smoker
and neither am I
but light in the darkness
and smoke in the light
you're not Jean Seberg
and I'm not Jean-Paul
belmondo, you’re darker
and I'm not so tall
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Most Days
04:06
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Most Days
it's quiet
it's quiet
birds
I feel nothing most days
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The Girl on Top of the Tree
the girl on top of the tree
comes from somewhere other than here
far horizon vapour thin
and paper floating on the wind
smoke and dagger dust and lace
a distant days look on her face
the girl on top of the tree
doesn't know you, doesn't know me
pale impression
broken skin
everything is soft and worn
dress and tresses torn to tatters
gossamer rags
gossamer rags
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Oliver Cherer Hastings, UK
Croydon-born, Hastings-based Oliver Cherer is perhaps one of our most prolific, contemporary singer-songwriters and yet despite this, he’s always been careful to exist just below the radar, much aided by a variety of nom-de-plumes, Gilroy Mere, Dollboy, The Assistant, Australian Testing Labs, etc. ‘I Feel Nothing Most Days’ is his third album under his real name proper. ... more
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