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Gutter Heart

by Jacky

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1.
Sleep Well 02:50
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Return to the places where you have no concern Leave the front door open Let the lamplights burn See the trees are growing By the river flowing Now let's close the book Take a breath and take a look The past is not so dangerous these days Broken hearts painted over with sunshine Nightmares put on their coats and walk away When you hold her hand and walk by her side You don't always have to fight For your years and strange ideas If you fail, that's alright Your life is worthy of some tears Here you are in Copenhagen Here you are, stirred, not shaken The birds are settling, the lakeside brimming The future is bustling, the music is loud You have my permission to sleep well tonight
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Fake Man 02:05
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I'm a fake man faking it to make my way In my fake clothes faking it through the day At least I'm not just a fake to everyone else I spend most of the day faking myself Faked myself to get a job Making smoke and mirrors Fooling others Helping them to be fake like me Faked my way to lay the lady She's also fake but less than me She's in my arms but I'm not there I'd like to run my fingers through her hair Yeah fake it till you make it And make it till you break it Never make it go away But I'm true when I'm sleeping Try to meet me when I'm sleeping Try to make it go away Everyone respects me Everbody likes me They say that I'm authentic They want learn my tactic They say that I'm insightful They want to be more mindful Learn to be fake like me Yeah fake it till you make it And make it till you break it Never make it go away But I'm true when I'm sleeping Try to meet me when I'm sleeping Try to make it go away
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Daydreamers 02:34
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Daydreamers We used to be daydreamers We called the shots Found the spots To be more than alive We took the trains Freed our brains Tore a hole in the sky Daydreamers We used to be daydreamers We used to reign In the rain Used to soak to our bones We used to side with the night used to bask in its glow Daydreamers We used to be daydreamers We didn't deal with the real It had no hold on us We made the most of our time we were in no rush Daydreamers We used to be daydreamers We were in touch with so much we had spiralling arms We were two minds one kind In nostalgia town I took the train for a walk down memory lane I caught a grain felt the pain saw a glimpse of the flame We spun the days went our ways Into different times We spun the days went our ways Into different times Daydreamers We used to be daydreamers
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At The Lakeside 02:28
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There's a blessed union on the street They wear their flags upon their skin Every Friday night at the lakeside they are fighting wars for us When you look around their evening rites They are not my kind and not your kind This is their our, this is their time And their ghettoblaster play this city's song Would it make me better to be one of them? Oh how the music makes them fly See them fade into the sky Every Friday night The creative minds They are winning ground for us
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Under Clouds, Under Trees 03:37
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Under clouds, under trees in the tones of old songs Closed bars and abandoned cars Shooting stars in my heart It's something I possess and which possesses me Stolen roadsigns and darkened fields The dust under my heels Everything is a beautiful lie Everything except the night I've been here a hundred times Here I was born, here I'll die Time eclipsed Time warped and rewound Once I thought that I'd changed Thought I'd become someone else Be my word, be my dream Be my moon, be my beam Be the soil of my homeland And the fabric of my sky If you can see with my eyes You can walk in my night Until the grass grows above us And the wind sings our names
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Parade of The Past 02:26
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In a place with a thousand windows And not a single door They say that people have lived there But not you and I Many-splendour, expanding, multiplying All in silence, or in sound that repeats No longer restrained by our squares No longer restrained by our circles No longer restrained by labour No longer restrained by relations Shining, enduring and vast The parading of the past Here in the city we stride By the sidewalk-cafés at night Casually being what we are, unspeakable In a bus through Copenhagen, not you and I
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Streetcats 03:19
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I am a waif with a ragged heart But the cats they are my friends When I roam on the streets alone They're my hope and they're my home Jumping from the garbage cans Or hiding under cars Every cat has got a sense of art And a cat flap to my heart Hey cat! Don't you wanna talk to me? Hey cat! You know I'm not gonna hurt you Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street Absinthe, coffee, beauty, wine I'm always drinking too much With a spoon of cool and a potful of lost I'll be walking the night because I must Across the corner and there she stands It's a black and white romance She retreats when I advance It's an enigmatic dance Hey cat! Don't you wanna talk to me? Hey cat! You know I'm not gonna hurt you Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street Yeah I'm looking for love in an empty street And I know who's gonna make my slob life complete You may think that it's quiet but the streets are alive It's a celebration under the moon I should be finding a bride, I should be telling lies But I hate the clubs and I hate Friday night The cats are on my side we're in league with the night You are wrong and we are right Sometimes they come And sometimes they run It's a love that must be earned Calvino concurs the feline fur is the softest fur on the Earth Hey cat! Don't you wanna talk to me? Hey cat! You know I'm not gonna hurt you Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street Just trying to spread some cross-species love on the street
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Song No. 7 03:26
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I can't reach the old songs anymore I can't reach the old books And what I want to say I'm not going to say it because I can't My life is not about working for money My life is not about projects My life is not about good food or beer My life is not about you Twenty-seven years and I'm still just kidding Sometimes happy and sometimes sad Not even an illusion to follow Who am I to be singing you songs? My life is not about freedom or war My life is not about politics My life is not about believing, achieving My life is not about you The kids that I'll have when I've given up Will grow up to have kids when they've given up You could walk around this lake and wonder why But then again why not? My life is not about birthdays and weddings My life is not about happiness My life is not about blue skies or railways My life is not about you
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The Chestnut Tree 03:38
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You turn your head slowly, you remember a voice You eyes move across the old garden There are leaves in the forest, there are tiles on the pavement Everything stands much too still As the light brings the silence As the light brings the word They are building a new place in the city They are running their saws through its bones And the sun sets on the chestnut tree And the sun sets on the chestnut tree We sit on the hill and talk until sunset A thousand ways to waste our youth We sit far above the veins of the world Where the bile of the ages runs A thousand years of blood a thousand years of bones the wailing, the praying the cities burned down And the sun sets on the chestnut tree And the sun sets on the chestnut tree A black cat comes and gives me its love A black cat comes from the heart of the street These walls are decaying, there are patches of grass Rising in the cracks, spreading in the voids And the sun sets on the chestnut tree And the sun sets on the chestnut tree
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A Squirrel, A Duck, A Beetle, The Grass 02:50
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On the crooked tree a squirrel climbs Looks at me with anxious eyes Its shadow moves among the leaves Stops to look then cracks a nut The squirrel watches me pass by The squirrel looks me in the eye Beneath the tree the water's still soft gleaming willow shades the ducks three ripples flow into the lake feathers brush the bright green leaves A duck watches me go by A duck looks me in the eye Far down below the rhubarb's arch a beetle makes its lonely way Across the earth towards the water's edge Climbs a bump then stops in its tracks The beetle watches me stand by The beetle looks me in the eye In this little patch I watch the sky As the crickets sing the sun by In the tall grass they sit prepared In the tall grass they sit aware The grass watches me forget The grass grows around my head
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An Image of a Useless Day 04:50
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I woke up in my room And started to dream about the cup of instant coffee I would make myself when I got out of bed I lay in my disorganized sheets And flipped through old Facebook updates on my phone Turned out someone I don't really know did something or other sometime lately And I wonder what's my world going to be like after this? An hour later when I got out of bed Cleared my couch of clothes so I could sit And look out of the window at the windows across Lamps and teapots in the windowsills still and empty because there's no one home And the coffee was even better than I'd dreamed Spent 15 minutes finding the right song for this morning But when I put it on I had to go pee It didn't matter cause I knew it by heart So I sang along from the bathroom Then I went out the door, and it was starting to get dark I didn't care about my hair, just felt the cold blue air And all the people coming home from work together People on bikes, people in cars People with hats and people in coats Like a big procession down the roads In the grocery store you might be anyone But the weird things people buy Makes you worried because you are what you eat And coming home with my paper bag It's already dark But I don't want to turn on the light Because the music sounds better when you lie on the floor And there's nothing to see but slow shades And then I have these little dreams that are just for me That I take out of their box in a moment like this I'm a dying breed in a beautiful town And the paintings on the walls begin to talk to each other As evening passes into night

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released September 4, 2012

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