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They said you couldn't treat it with anything
And that's just life, that's just death
Not that many people really have it
but often you'll be out of breath
you get so sick of tests and trials
when no-one says anything good
well i could walk for miles and miles
but be breathless where I stood
one day i was standing by a pond
near the house of raymond briggs
with my wife, with my son
it was lockdown, in a fix
and my phone began to ring
and my phone began to ring
i was offered something new
โwe think we can help you
and I wonder if you could please
call the hospital todayโ
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Mum, I know youโre on the mend.
I hope youโre feeling better.
I hope youโre feeling sensible.
Dadโs missed you so much.
Iโve missed the pair of you.
I love you.
When I was a child,
I didnโt know just what it meant
to be told everythingโs alright.
Mum, I know youโre home.
I hope you feel at home.
I hope you know yourself.
Mum, youโve been gone a long time.
Come home.
When I was a child,
I didnโt know just what it meant
to be told everythingโs alright
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3. |
Raking Leaves
02:10
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I've been raking leaves
ever since November
Just raking leaves
Goes on forever
Apple leaves
Cherry leaves
Lilac leaves
Beech leaves
Smokebush leaves
Do as I please
I don't know what I'm doing it for.
Is it all a metaphor
or just a chore?
Raking leaves
I've been raking leaves
ever since November.
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Well we married in the heat
of the summer,
while the willow trees
bent in the storm
then I sat down and I cried
for my mother
and I longed for a more
forgiving way
when you slip off your moorings
then life is not boring!
But you slipped off your moorings
And the pain is appalling!
No amount of warnings
Can prepare
Ah yeah
And no relief will comfort me
youโre asleep, lost at sea
better just stay in bed
this was sโposed to be our year
and sheโs fading, thereโs no explaining
itโs amazing, jil is fading
And the pain is appalling!
No amount of warning
Can prepare
Ah yeah
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5. |
Derek Jarman
03:30
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down down to Dungeness
we caught a glimpse
of another life
and loved it
down to the desert state
we hung around and waited
for another life
mind out where youโre going
and put down your phone
thereโs so little rainful
itโs dry as a bone and
it's rude to pick off letters
from derek jarmanโs home
you should leave it alone
that house is a headstone
Shall we catch the little train?
Seemed like a good idea before
but too comical now
Stones into the sea
all those brilliant homes
those brilliant brilliant homes
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je ne savais pas
avant et aprรจs toi
Comment ai-je pu faire ca?
avant et aprรจs toi
avant, avant, avant tu es parti.
et toutes les choses qui nous sont arrivรฉes.
je me souviens d'elles
Elles qui me semblaient รฉternelles
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7. |
I'm So Much Better
03:59
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Dreamed I woke on a bed of grass;
such a special dream.
Somewhere in the distant past;
oh what a dream!
At the edge of waking up,
I felt the earth beneath.
I had to smile and stick around a whileโฆ
Wonโt you come and hang around with me?
Dreamed I woke
by a lake with all
the people Iโd ever known
standing around me
Staggering in scale
Staggering on.
Wonโt you come and hang around with me?
Feel like I was born in the olden days.
Thereโs a rhyme with my life,
And Iโm
Trying to get back to you
Trying to get back to you
Iโm so much better, babe!
Magic, magic
How long will it take
for the magic to run through
and run out to sea?
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8. |
Overwhelming
02:51
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wake up
got to do it all again
got to do it all again
somehow
Itโs not really everything
but it feels
kind of overwhelming
Itโs not really everything
but it feels
kind of overwhelming
i donโt know what iโm gonna do
but iโm glad to have you
i donโt know what iโm gonna do
but iโm glad to have you
hey love
I know youโre feeling sandpapered
I know youโre feeling sinister
and how
you three are my everything
though it feels
kind of overwhelming
right now
you three are my everything
but it feels
kind of overwhelming
i donโt know what iโm gonna do
but iโm glad to have you
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9. |
Bring Them In
03:09
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I want to paint in light
i wanna disappear
So bring them in, bring them in,
shut the doors, test the wind
slow the seas, slow the seas
bring them in.
shut them in, shut them in,
if you know how to begin
you and I we are twins
we are twins.
tell me that we're getting along fine?
and we'll be alright.
I want to paint in light
i wanna disappear
but I just wanna sit tight
if it's alright.
shut them in, shut them in,
if you know how to begin
you and I we are twins.
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Fresh Ingredients
03:37
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Thereโs a gap in my memory
a gap that shivers, contracts
like the blinking of an eye
It engulfs certain details at times
then spits them back out
fresh ingredients?
fresh ingredients.
ba da ba da daa daa daa
back home for christmas
a room kept perfect, that must be
another house
preserves certain memories or times
gathering dust
fresh ingedients?
dead ingredients
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11. |
Tread
03:37
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Footsteps above me!
I hear them sometimes.
ย
A midnight tread,
Walks me to sleep.
ย
A print in the dust
At the edge of my mirror,
ย
A distant click!
I dimly notice it.
ย
oh and will i
will i look up there
and what will i find
what will i find?
ย
Do I share anything
everything I do?ย
I wonder does he listen
as i glide round the apartment
does my midnight guest?
always hold his breath
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when you call
when you call
when you call
when you call
it feels like youโre
a million miles away
when you call
when you call
when you call
when you call
it feels like youโre
a million stars away
I love you so much
I love you so much
I love you so much
I love you so much
but it feels
like youโre a million miles away.
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Assistant Brighton And Hove, UK
Assistant are Pete, Jonathan and Anne-Sophie. They formed in 2002 and have released five LPs to
date.
Assistant have been compared
to Felt, Yo La Tengo, Stereolab and The Field Mice and produce their own fanzine, In The April Sun.
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