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Sonder
02:26
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Ghosts
03:59
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One day I'll grow old
And bigger than these bones
One day i'll grow cold
And i'll fill a sudden hole
For once what was lost
can almost certainly be returned
But once this bodies lost
All my thoughts will be interned
And I still think of you
Even when you don't think of me
And I still drink to you
Cup runeth over these hollow bones
It's like all my thoughts have calcified
Oh such contentious issues
You're so terribly terrified
It's like my dreams are paper tissues
And I know there's no such thing as ghosts
But I would take an ethereal host just to talk to you once last time and drink your wine
And I know there's no such thing as ghosts
But I would take an ethereal host just to talk to you once last time
And drink the last of the wine
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Midding
00:56
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Lovers
04:29
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We lie in beds
Your exhale so soft
And we will divide under Harvest moons
Delicate plants on the ledges aloft
Under the bluest of skies will bloom
Exhausting our hearts to their last desire
We are two halves of a whole
Reflecting the two fold light of our fires
Across the twin mirrors of our two souls
And it is death that consoles you
And yet causes our lives to live
It’s the goal of this life and the hope of the sole ray
And gives us the strength to the end of the day.
And all through the tempest
The Frost and the snows
It’s the shimmering light on a black sky line it’s the crack in our hearts on heavens faultline.
It’s the fame of the gods
It’s the curse of the poor
And to the unknown heavens
It’s a wide open door
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Monochrome
00:36
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Forgotten
05:45
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I Forgot more
Then I ever knew
Feet through the floor
Into a darkened room
Forgotten Light, Forever Now
Forgotten Light, Forever Now
I died before you got to see me
A particle of light so infinitely less worthy
So don’t look too close you’ll soon forget me
Don’t look too close you’ll soon forget me
Forgotten Light is Forever Now
Forgotten Light is Forever Now
Forgotten Light is Forever Now
Forgotten Light is Forever Now
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Colour
03:50
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Gaunt and Frail
Hands that haven’t grown
Are white knuckle on handle rail
You’re surrounded but alone
Taught and Told
Your slight unweighted frame
Nestled in hospitals alabaster silent wings
The softest melody oh the silence sings.
How’s the weather in here?
Does it rain in Ward B?
And the less said about the food the better
But at least you’re talking to me
So colour it in
Never talk it out
Write it down
Try to spit it out
You’re too young to understand it
Oh but yet you feel it anyway
You reach out
Feeling the space
You’re a phantom limb
A peculiar ache
I am a stranger
I wish you knew more
And you are flesh and blood
And I have never loved you more
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Morphine
06:33
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Embroid your pleasant designs upon me
Such banal canvas
Such pitiable destinies
These souls never bold enough
At least, not for me
And i’m dreaming of gallows and hookah smoke rings float
Oh you delicate monster, my likeness, my brother
This boredom
Is the worst
Of all miseries
Can I interest you in a little Morphine?
No, well, more for me now then
This takes some more from me
Now and then
You were more than half a friend
But less and less until the sweet end
And I would waste you on half-told jokes
And circumspect evidence against the contrary
You were always
My Jesus, Joseph and Mary
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Alexander Carson London, UK
Alexander Carson is a neoclassical, downtempo, composer and songwriter based in the UK.
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