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1. |
What I Need
07:03
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Don’t pray for me
Your Gods not listening and that’s
just fine by me
Oh the last thing I need is his sympathy
Stick your pity
Your home cooked meals of
well-meaning intentions
Oh it’s not what I need
It’s not what I need
Do you know what I need
You come to me I pick you so efficiently
You make me laugh you make me cry
you kiss my neck so tenderly
It’s just what I need
Yeah, it’s just what I need
Oh it’s just what I need
Just what I need
Yeah it’s just what I need
You come to me I pick you so efficiently
You make me laugh you make me cry
you kiss my lips so tenderly
Oh it’s just what I need
Yeah, it’s just what I need
Oh just what I need
Oh it’s just what I need
Yeah just what I need
You talk mortality
Naïve armchair philosophy
I told you what I need
I told you what I need
Just what I need
Keep it real
Old school zest free
Wake me early with gin in, in my coffee
That’s what I need
Just what I need
Don’t you know what I need
You’re stuck with me
Thanks to this, absurdity
Perfect time to give me
Perfect time to give me what I need
Oh just what I need
Just what I need
Oh just what I need
Just what I need
Oh just what I need
Just what I need
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2. |
Home
04:11
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Your fingers on the strings
You play them so beautifully
I’m drawn towards you
Emerging from the vale
My beauty’s forever yours
If you’ll always play for me
Now take my hand and guide me home
We dance and sing and laugh and cry
I love you so perfectly
On your wedding day you summon me
Yet the smoke makes the priests cry
No omens of good fortune
For my candle does not catch fire
In those bushes, do you see him
He’ll surely harm you and take me with him
Flee through the forest and run to safety
Lead me to the other side and take me home
I run I fall the serpent strikes
The venom spreads so quickly
And Hades takes me
Again I hear your fingers
Playing so beautifully
I knew that you would follow
And come to save me
I’ll follow you so closely
Now guide me from this underworld
And take me home
My love I am close behind you
You promised Hades you
would not turn to check
The light is not yet upon me
Yet you turn and now I can never go
home
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3. |
That's Beautiful
05:27
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That’s beautiful, lovely words that you said
So beautiful, love letter last to my bed
I always held a place for you in my heart
From Hydra to Montreal, New York, Oslo, never truly apart
So beautiful, just beautiful, that’s beautiful
I strum a twenty dollar guitar
That you left at the beachouse
I had your love but your lack of trust
Was never in doubt
So I’ll just play this old guitar
That you left at my beachouse
And it sounds so beautiful,
just beautiful, that’s beautiful
You say you’re only steps behind, in this short journey
Evicted from beauty, expelled from all eternity
Dearest you address me, wish me a safe journey
Say that you could never forget me
So beautiful, just beautiful, that’s beautiful
I used to start each day with coffee
In the cup that you left me
Until I smashed it into one thousand pieces
I can still recall the coffee we shared
It was so bitter but tasted so beautiful,
just beautiful, that’s beautiful
So beautiful, just beautiful
Oh I’m reaching out my hand
I’m close behind you
Oh I’m reaching out my hand
I’ve always loved you
Oh I’m stretching out my hand
Don’t say anymore
Oh I’m reaching out my hand
Take my hand
So beautiful, that’s beautiful, just beautiful,
that’s beautiful, so beautiful, just beautiful
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4. |
The Edge
04:27
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Now I feel so close to you
Just lean back a little
And let me share the weight
With my arms wrapped around you
Oh the edge is a little further away
I watch you floating naked, smiling, next to me
I want to reach out, it’s only a dream
What does it mean
Crying like a baby when I hear you again
I feel so close to you
I feel so close to you
Raise your eyes a little
Turn your head you’ll see I’m always beside you
Now tell me what’s the rush hey
Oh we have more than enough
Let me share it with you
For I feel so close to you
Just lean back a little
And let me take some weight
With my arms wrapped around you
Oh the edge is a, little further away
Shed your clothes and hold on to me
Close your eyes, let’s go to sleep
I’ll take your nightmares, give you back
The sweetest dreams, I feel so close
Oh I feel so close to you
Yeah I feel so close to you
So close to you
Reaching out for you
I can feel you now
Let me take the weight
With my arms around you
Fall into me, I’ll take you away
Away a little further
Oh just a little further
From the edge below
With my arms around you
Oh the edge is a little further away
Oh I feel so close to you
Yes I feel so close to you
So close to you
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5. |
Way Too Deep
04:35
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I built my own castle, yet no tyro am I
Oh not when I’m so crafty,
yeah not when I’m so sly
Your daughter bore my fruit,
and then she watched them die
Oh Mary why’d you pick me,
all your sisters married Gods
I’m just a mere mortal
yet you guide me as I sail
The water’s getting deep now,
oh so deep, way too deep
Way too deep
The chains that hold me down,
they’re slowly killing me
Thanatos grant me one wish,
before Charon takes me
Oh you wear the chains so well,
the uproar’s on me
Oh Mary does she love me,
oh how much can she care
When she throws my naked body,
into the public square
Oh I feel my soul sinking,
the Styx I can’t snare, I’m in too deep
Way too deep
Way too deep
Sisyphus has but one boulder,
and one mountain peak
I’ve got an entire mountain range
Many boulders crushing me
I always knew there was no heaven,
always knew there was a hell, for me
Destroy your Tarantos,
one stone at a time
Fill in this valley, and bury me inside,
oh so deep, down so deep
Way too deep
Way too deep
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6. |
Ocean Glass
03:44
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You say that I’m, the love of your life
Days before you leave again
No need for goodbyes
No regrets, no remorse
But then I see ocean glass and I want to cry
Just for you
I would find it all
All the ocean glass
For you, just for you
All the blues and browns and whites and greens and all the other pretty colours,
in between
Your hold on me
It might seem so tight
Our lips they dance together
for most of the night
But it ain’t right
Something’s not right
But then I see ocean glass and I want to cry
Endless beaches
Shifting shorelines
I can’t find your ocean glass, anymore
No tears for you
No final goodbyes
No greatest heartbreak
No will to try
No remorse
But then I see ocean glass and I want to cry
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7. |
Lydia
03:47
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Slight brush of your leg, concealed below
An intentional accident, well only you know
A whiff of chemistry lingers dangerously
You’re as forbidden now as you’ve ever been
Lydia, so playful yet so confident you are
Lydia, your vulnerability oh it doesn’t fool me
Your hand strokes my arm for all to see
I give you my eyes, you fall into me
The forbidding glares come from
everywhere
C’est la vie it just increases my dare
Lydia, so playful yet so confident you are
Lydia, your vulnerability oh it doesn’t fool me
Through sliding doors,
I searched for you outside
If I found you oh what might have been
The judgement of others,
would have forced us underground
Our passion is ours it’s not for others to see
Age has not weathered you,
not in the slightest I see
Through the same gaze,
your beauty encaptures me
Time cannot fade our concealed desire
But you’re as forbidden now as you’ve ever been
Lydia, so playful yet so confident you are
Lydia, your vulnerability oh it doesn’t fool me
Lydia, so playful yet so confident you are
Lydia, your vulnerability oh it doesn’t fool me
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8. |
Longing
03:08
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My lips on your neck,
you surrender much
Pleasure within, secrets exposed
Understanding each other,
learning grows
And now I’m longing for your touch
Never thought I’d miss you this much
Woken midnight, drunken from sleep
I glance over, a faint shadow greets
I reach across, to stroke your hair
My heart sinks, you’re not there
Longing for, last week
Longing for, when we’ll meet
Longing for, longing for
Longing for you
Sharing ourselves open and raw
Vulnerable like never before
Intimate thought, intimate touch
Intimacy, absolute trust
But I’m longing for you so much
You’re so far away,
I need your touch
Singing and laughing,
love slowly falls
Crazy feelings,
together can we soar
And while you escape
I’m here alone, longing waiting
Longing for, last week,
Longing for, when we’ll meet
Longing for, longing for,
Longing for you
Longing for, last week,
Longing for, when we’ll meet
Can’t help longing for you
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9. |
Again
06:12
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When I was immortal, and you were a genie
Out of the bottle, and into my dreams
Together we were immortal
I held you close to me
Now all these later,
I put you back again
Into the bottle, metaphorically
Now grant me three wishes
I wish that I could do better,
that I could do better
Wish that I could do better again
When I was immortal,
with opportunities
Many mistakes later,
they’re few and far between
When you were a genie,
ahead of you your dreams
I tried to guide you,
not always the best it seems
Oh I had a dream,
you were a genie once more
I caught your fall
I held you in my arms,
held you in my arms,
held you in my arms again
When I was immortal, a gift from you
Everything made sense,
everything was true
Now all these years later,
I wish I could give to you
The same gift that you gave me,
perhaps a genie will
If you had three wishes,
what would you choose
Would you turn to me, and say that
We could do better, we could do better,
we could do better again
We could do better, we could do better,
we could do better again
We could do better, we could do better,
we could do better again
I could do better, I could do better,
I could do better again
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Melbourne band 2 Inch Tape adheres to an aesthetic of yesteryear; real instruments played with an authenticity that is often abandoned in our technology-enabled times.
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