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Farewells

by Tragicomics

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1.
The Place Where Lives Are Saved 06:10
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Well I don't know about the truth of living I don't know what songs they sang But I only know the time that I have left And either way the night is getting darker And the sky is always on fire And the curtains are drawn in the evening And the blanket's a good place to hide And the fires that I keep stoking well they catch everything else alight Until the emptiness of the daytime 'Til the sorrowful goodbye I keep going to the place where my demons got chased Going to the place where I come second in the race Going to the place where lives are saved Well that's what they keep telling me anyway And the shivering cold of the weekend All the days that you ain't bulletproof Well the season is turning faster than you know Better fix the holes in the roof Behold the falling star of fate's reveal What else you gonna do but cry into your meal I am assured the world is still turning All the top brass tell me it's so But as far as I know there ain't no place to go that feels like a home from home All the second hands are broken and the chains invincible But I keep going to the place where my demons got chased Going to the place where I come second in the race Going to the place where lives are saved Well that's what they keep telling me anyway All the rubbish you pour in the gutter All the unhelpful noise that you make Well it all goes to show that you ain't in the know And it's not only hearts that break And when the infinite comes calling will all your apologies be enough I don't have the patience for faith Never cared too much for the soul But all the twisting roads and open doors They start to just close and close Is there a single spark in that silence Is there a reason for you at all 'Til then walk on the path to oblivion Shuffle onto that sorry stage And perform once again for the voice in your head As the idiots sharpen their blades And at the curtain call of sunset I will trace what paths we have made I keep going to the place where my demons got chased Going to the place where I come second in the race Going to the place where lives are saved Well that's what they told me anyway Well that's what they told me anyway
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After The Rain 03:46
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Hanging off a branch Waiting for the avalanche The snow is gonna fall All we had to say Sinking into the ashtray The smouldering remains And it's no good at all Tall tales gonna fall Feeling at the walls Baby they're so small And there ain't nothing to save when nothing remains Blow a hole in your brain in the shape of yesterday And if I stay I'm just gonna fade away After the rain there was nothing to say Waiting for the train Impossible to concentrate Thinking of your face The deepest shades of grey You cannot hope to walk away The pain is going to stay And it's no good at all Flailing as I fall Breaking all the laws We've both done this all before And there ain't nothing to save when nothing remains Blow a hole in your brain in the shape of yesterday And if I stay I'm just gonna fade away After the rain there was nothing to say
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All That Disappearing Love 04:15
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It's happening again All that disappearing love that does me in And oh the breaking of the ground beneath my feet And the door at the end of your street It's happening again A crooked shake whenever I write your name And all the futures that we planned in our ways Like sun behind cloud they fade And we were beautiful together But we were intangible And we were nothing but a natural disaster Caught in the rapture Don't come to me with your little words That razor tongue will make the bubble burst Don't ask for me in all the ways That you can't handle and I can't take And all the many faces that I wear are making it hard to care It's happening again All that disappearing love and fading friends Is it all just a symptom of some disease Or irresponsibility And it's happening again For the final time you better believe it The wheels are busted and the engine's choking And this time I don't think I'm joking with you And we were beautiful together But we were intangible And we were nothing but a natural disaster Gone everafter Don't come to me with your little words That razor tongue will make the bubble burst Don't ask for me on all the days That you can't handle and I can't wait And all the many faces that I wear are making it hard to care
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Maybe I Will Maybe You Won't 04:18
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Destiny can die in the weeds beneath my feet I spin in place and whichever way I face I walk to my defeat Long county fair Took a while to get there through the trees But I daydreamed too long and then the thought was gone Like a ghost that found release And the wind will howl my name And the moon will rise again But in the end the dawn only brings defeat Maybe I told you so Maybe I will and maybe you won't Maybe I planned it so Maybe I will and maybe you won't Spring early frost and calculate cost Tip the scale With you in my life like a rabbit in headlights Only bound to fail And the song will play again And this foolish game we play will never end But this I swear The winning hand is always a pair Maybe we'll plan to fold Maybe I will and maybe you won't Maybe we'll break that mould Maybe I will and maybe you won't If history's done anything it taught me well Every excuse for living life recluse Trapped under your spell
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A Machine For Living 03:19
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Sometimes goodbyes are the strangest Fall down to the pavement in surprise Sometime waiting by the bedside Car-crashing the joyride every time In the darkness of the evening In the church's feedback cry In the future slowly freezing I hear my last goodbye Blackbird singing in the morning Front door open Sirens in the sky Come inside Devastate the balance Keep your distance from the twisting knife When I lay it in the ground again Save me from the fading light In the void that's slowly opening I hear my last goodbye Sometimes goodbyes are the strangest Fall down to the pavement and wanna die Seems like all that we've been given A broken machine for living life
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Glue 02:09
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We were so cold in the night Biding our time in the cigarette light Summer that stole us away Playing the countdown in calendar days Sinking like stones in the sand as we unmade our plans Eyes close on flicking light and it sucks to be right We're stuck like glue Me and you Stuck like glue Nothing to do in the zoo of natural selection Mother of God will you stay How can I go home when you've gone away Weep for the boats by the trail Chained and alone with nowhere left to sail But the fall The curse The empty goodbye Father I tried Spirit you walk by my side and save me from the sky We're stuck like glue Me and you Stuck like you Nothing to do in the zoo of natural selection Like glue Me and you Stuck like you We lucky two in the zoo of natural selection
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I Can Disappear 02:10
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Turn out the light Let your laughter light the way A million tiny candles in my brain Pour out the drink Come unstuck the remedy Directed and drunk into my veins You give me brains of dirt Viscous liquid in my knees Reach your shadow across my heart Oh baby please Sparkle eyed refrain that keeps me up for days Push your tongue into your teeth and grind me out a melody A heady thought into which I can disappear What you call love is just fantasy So why not live a fairytale with me Come on up to the house Leave your boots by the door Well you won't be needing them no more Flood me with your words Cascade down my open sores Wash me up onto your lovely shoes Starry-eyed reveries Impossibilities Push your tongue into your teeth and grind me out a melody A heady thought into which I can disappear A heady thought into which I can disappear
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Queenie's Dead 02:09
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Queenie's dead Gathered round her deathbed Dearest friends Edge-casing middlemen So wipe the faceless from the street And wipe the trespass tear-dropped cheek Just been one of those weeks Queenie's dead Hell of a message sent My old friend won't speak to me again And I've done everything that they said But fear the path that lies ahead I just wanna go to bed Queenie's dead
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Make Believe 03:09
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Hanging out on the barstools honey We'd keep count but I'd lose track At the bar in the railway station I lean in You lean back Cracks in stone The castle walls that we'd call home So below as above Would you confuse kindness for love Sinking through the floor Now we can't ignore That you and me are both are getting older baby You and me are taking it slower baby You and me are make believe It's only make believe Showing up in the wrong location Broken noses and bloodied hands In the end there's no consolation Cloudy skies Unmade plans Before your eyes a layer of dust upon your life A guessing game that sounds the same A bright red cross against your name Sinking through the floor Now we can't ignore That you and me are both are getting older baby You and me were a shower not a grower baby You and me are make believe It's only make believe
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Do I Love You 05:35
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Oh the night time comes around Reverberating groundhog sound Keeping time with this bottle and a glass that I found And I'm back in the blues somehow Genocidal candy clown Dreaming up nightmares in the middle of a crowd Oscar love curse that she had the worst Drown in the well or die of the thirst This way or no way I don't know which is worse In the morning your face at the window always scares me right back to my bed Do I love you Is that true Do I love you girl Yes I do Swept my desk clean and poured it out Half a lifetime of joy and doubt Forbidden fruit crushed into jams that I give out First is the worst and second's the best Third's the elusive and golden princess Under the spell of a soon to be static dress Afternoons dying in Paris And not a lost soul left to save Do I love you Is that true Do I love you girl Yes I do That little streetlight's idle now Broken down and hanging out With nothing that's current all it can do is blackout Every new moon I study that room Search every corner but no sign of you Close the door softly and slide back into my tomb Do I love you Is that true Do I love you girl Yes I do Curled on a branch of the fig tree Watching the purple turn black Claw my way back from oblivion It's you My darling you It's you My darling you

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released April 5, 2024

A record by Tragicomics.
All tracks written, performed, mixed and produced by Christopher Eatough.
Mastered by Adam P Gorman.

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