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On Being Poor
03:51
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Seas surrounding
I just can’t sleep
With this wolf hounding my door
Fees are mounding
So pay me please
Bring me order to my shore
‘Cos when I’m faced with poison
I just take it down with joy and ask for more
So please pay
‘Cos I can’t keep temptation from my door
And these days
I could write the book on being poor
Oh I long for not a fortune
Not a jewel nor trips abroad
Just enough to keep the landlord in tune
And the taxman keeping score
Oh but when I’m faced with poison
You know I’ll take it down with joy and ask for more
So please pay
‘Cos I can’t keep temptation from my door
And these days
I could write the book on being poor
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2. |
I Work in Lies
03:16
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I work in lies
Write the news to sell the papers
Spread our editor's agendas
I work in lies
I work in lies
Manufacturing the scandals
We're the literary vandals
I work in lies
We'll hack your phone now, baby
We'll tell you lies
Track down your car and then we'll cut your tires
We'll hack your phone now, baby
We won't think twice
Tell us your secrets or we'll print your life
I work in lies
Holding sway in the election
Cast your vote in our direction
I work in lies
I work in lies
Chase celebrity affairs
But protect the millionaires
I work in lies
Never wanted to be a writer
I'm in too deep and if I run, I run, I run, I run...
They'd hunt me down like a fighter
I know too much, I'd see the gun, the gun, the gun...
We'll hack your phone now, baby
We'll tell you lies
Track down your car and then we'll cut your tires
We'll hack your phone now, baby
We won't think twice
Tell us your secrets or we'll print your life
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The English Way
03:11
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I came to England
I came to study in this hallowed place
But I discovered
A hidden darkness running through the grace
All the men they won't talk
Let the world give chase
They just suffer inside
Scared of losing face
I found the English way
Shrug it off, brush it over
Gotta be a man now
Stiff upper lip is what their fathers say
All these emotions
Pushed down inside for another day
A silent killer roams the streets
Picking off easy prey
You've got to learn how to speak
These troubles won't go away
I found the English way
Shrug it off, brush it over
Your friends and family want to help you, boy
We're all here when you want to talk
I found the English way
Shrug it off, brush it over
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A Thousand Tiny Cuts
04:14
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You ran with scissors, you say?
Blamed Stanley Knives
Oh how it’s never your fault
Deflect and disguise
But I know what you’re playing
Have known for a while
Cutting groves into your skin
To sharpen your smile
A thousand tiny cuts
Would never be enough
To break the bond of us
So roll your sleeves down again
Let’s cover the scars
This is nobody’s news
No business but ours
When you’re ready to talk
And answer the whys
Then believe me I’m all ears
No judge would chastise
A thousand tiny cuts
Would never be enough
To break the bond of us
Cos we’re all a bit broken
Scratched from former lives
Hiding razors from ones we love
Oh but nothing could damage
The bond that keeps us tied
So let’s side aside your marks and disarm the lies
A thousand tiny cuts
Would never be enough
To break the bond of us
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Fast Trains Portsmouth, UK
Combining inventive alt pop with a cryptic visual space known as ‘ourWorld’, Fast Trains is the boundary-pushing solo
project of Portsmouth born songwriter Tom Wells.
Backed by BBC 6 Music, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, their award-winning music is a modern songwriter's take on alternative 80s bands like XTC, Squeeze and Tears For Fears.
This is Fast Trains. Welcome to ourWorld.
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