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Persephone
01:40
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Tell me, Persephone
How does your garden grow?
Can’t find a remedy
But I’ve got a seed or two to sow
I could use some time
I could use some patience
You could use a place to call your own
Sweet dreams, Persephone
You’ll get used to the cold
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Retrograde
04:52
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Sitting opposite me
Eyes just like a mirror
Look in her reflection
The spaces draw us nearer
Warmer than I am now
But better than I was then
Oh, the mornings they remind me
How days go on without you In them
It’s been an hour
It’s been an age
Since she took my hand, we danced in and out of retrograde
Came out the shower
It aches to change
The lows and highs, I metabolise them all the same
Living is a gesture
A sum of all that has been
So I’ll ask where we came from
To remind me where we’re going
It’s been an hour
It’s been an age
Since she took my hand, we danced in and out of retrograde
Came out the shower
It aches to change
The lows and highs, I metabolise them all the same
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Apollo
04:27
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I afford a minute every mile
To count the seconds separating us
A one track train delivering denial
Of how this distance warps my calculus
I’ll be on my way tomorrow
I’ll be leaving warmth pinned to the walls
Only when the room is hollow
Does it feel like I exist at all
When I look away they heavens open up to me
Tell me how it feels Apollo
Apollo seventeen
When history dissolves into enigma
Tell me that the world is as it seems
Got me wrapped around her little finger
She is dancing circles in my dreams
But she’ll be on her way tomorrow
She will leave my heart pinned to the wall
Only when my grip is hollow
Does it feel like she was there at all
When she goes away the heavens turn their back on me
Won’t you let it go Apollo
Apollo Seventeen
Won’t you let it go Apollo
Won’t you let it go
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Satellites
04:36
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The day unwinds, away with words
All that is mine will soon be hers
I fell in love with the backs of her hands
The next ten years exist in plans
Justice is organic: everybody rots into the earth
But in the meantime, love is all she gets and still it hurts
Honey don’t you panic, the satellites will stay up in the sky
Centuries in orbit, watching every second last goodbye
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Violet
02:41
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This is your body: it is geared against you
This is your hair: clinging to your eyes
This is your skin: can you feel it shrinking?
These are your hands: this is how they work
This is the wind: she’ll take care of your secrets
This is the sun: she’s burning hard behind the clouds
This is the moon: she’s there when you can’t see her
These are the trees: they’re whistling for you
These are your loves: they can’t see you watching
This is your family: they weren’t there when you were born
This is the girl who made you good
This is the route she’ll take when she leaves
This is your doubt - I thought you wanted it all
This is the tension that says welcome home
This the orange from underneath your eyelids
This is the taste of a saline solution
This is the answer you’ve been looking for
This is where you found it; now you’re lost
This is what you hear: nothing
This is what you say: ‘Welcome to the world’
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Bloom
09:46
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Caught in the middle
Pushed to the edge
When I’m feeling blue
I start seeing red
Feel it in my forehead
It’s sticking to my palms
Slipping through my fingers
Enveloped in my arms
To each their own
Home is where the heart beats slow
I lose a breath when you tell me: ‘I’ll feel better if I don’t’
Her words ring true
Tell me that you love me too
I can’t wait to share another sunburn with you
With you
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Reprise
00:56
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Hear me, Persephone
Know it’s okay to cry
You’ll know eternity
When it comes a moment at a time
Amaranths will grow
Maybe even flower
Doesn’t mean they asked to be alive
Hold on, Persephone
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