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Circadian
03:51
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God help us go to bed
We’ve been betrayed our phones are dead
We hear the coming of Circadian
These years have given way
to desperation singing out each day
The gaps are shrinking
what the hell have we just done
And there shall come a day
when blisters from the friction heal again
my fingers taking in your skin
I drink it in but I’m no cistern
Circadian
Such a cold sun
Gravity has won
There’s no point trying to run
Circadian
Laid bare in the swordplay
Dividing joint and bone
Spirit from the soul
You can't write your own eulogy
For what you suffer willingly
Words rediscovered like a lost melody
When those who loved you come collect your body
clean you up and dress your body
weep upon your chest
Burn into a memory
In the shadow looming over me
This loomband is my rosary
An apparition I can feel
I’ve bottled up the best of me
And poured it out at Bethany
A taste of death is an epiphany
Circadian
One last revolution
Our scars sing out the song
The stars try to hum along
Love won’t be outdone
Love won’t be outdone
Love won’t be outdone
Ever, Ever
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2. |
Right
04:20
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Round and round we go
You see this street is A cassette
Where B repeats exactly what we know the other side's just said
We ride upon a track
that keeps the cycle of our choices
rolling overtop the voices of the ones we dispossess
I just wanna do right by you
Lord of hosts let down your son
to set the table where we finally
eat the bread beside the ones we’ve
dragged beneath our tyres
We’re gonna need the wine to wash the truth down
That there's nothing we can do
to fix it even if we set ourselves on fire
I just wanna do right by you
Holy ember burn so bright
Touch my mouth put hate to flight
Kiss away my need to prove
Cause I just wanna do right by you
Lord of ages
we’ve just begun
to face the music
to face the sun
Lord of hearts
the time has come
not our choosing
but theirs be done
I’ve done so much wrong by you
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3. |
Ghost
03:09
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Holy Ghost
come and heal my soul
Pull me up from the depths below
Could you heal my soul right now
Holy Brother
come heal my spirit
when the breeze blows I can't feel it
Brother heal my spirit now
I don’t know when
And I don’t know how
But it feels like rain
And it feels like now
Holy Mother come and heal my body
The moral arc's dragging slow and steady
Mother heal my body now
Well I don’t know when
And I don’t know how
But it feels like rain
And it feels like now
It feels like rain
And it feels like now
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4. |
Hide
04:14
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Always testing the waters before I'm jumping in
I know 16 to 23 ain't gonna kill a man
But silent hypothermia sets in and you don't know when
Think I'll just sit here in the shade
My wife heard a blue ring washed up on the beach where our kids swim
My life is a film on inertia and coming out even
But violent anxiety rattles the bleachers I'm sitting in
Think I’ll slip under in the shade
Cause it's a lonely life
When you ain't got no fight
And it's a bitter pill
When you're just trying to not get killed
It's a travesty
When pain is all you believe
It's ok I'm fine
Happens all the time
So you can count I'll hide
Rest for a bit here in the shade
Happened so quick like a Brutus blade
This little kingdom’s gonna fade
I’m thinking that jumping this ship could permit me to live again
Down into deliverance waters I'll sink or I'll swim again
My daughter beholding with wonder the squalor and decadence
Think I could fit here just the same
Cause it's a lonely life
When you ain't got no fight
And it's a bitter pill
When you're just trying so hard to be still
It's a travesty
When pain is all you believe
It’s a glimpse of light
When you crumble and you survive
And it’s better still
When the fire alarm is a drill
It’s a melody
When the pain finally sings out in grief
Think I’ll come out alive
Think I’ll come out alive
Like the changing of the tide
So you can count I’ll hide
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5. |
Darling
03:31
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In the leaving is the lavishing
6 miles up I feel the gravity
In the needing is the reckoning
through and through I
Wish that you were
here next to me
In the tasting is the sacrament
Wasting nothing of this house we rent
In the bleeding is the reverence
We have come
Far beyond
Our innocence (Darling)
You’ve been on my mind
for days and months and years
As I’ve fumbled through the haze and all these fears
When we met who would've known that I’d
inspire so many tears
But almost every night when the babies are asleep
Pain somehow finds it’s way to love
And you somehow find your way to me, Darling
You receive me as the falling snow
Every baptism that I provoke
You’ve acquainted yourself with my sorrow
Everything that’s
Infinite and
Natural (Darling)
You've been on my mind
for days and months and years
As I’ve fumbled through the haze and all these fears
When we met who would've known that I’d
inspire so many tears
But almost every night when the babies are asleep
Pain somehow finds it’s way to love
And you somehow find your way to me
Yes, pain somehow finds it’s way to love
And you somehow find your way to me, Darling
Come to me (Darling)
Come to me (Darling)
Come to me, come to me
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6. |
Kingdom
04:03
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All in All in All in All in All
Image of the invisible
Firstborn, like a sign
to the patrons and presidents,
multinational empires
the ones leeching their time
upstream from the bloodshed
Water turned into wine
It’ll never be depleted
This love will never die
This love will never die
In us and to us
Beyond us and through us
Your Kingdom come
Over and under
Surround us like thunder
Your Kingdom come
Break down our bunkers of shame
where we hide in the lies
And tear down all we’ve built up in vain
Sweep it out with the tide
‘Cause in us and to us
Beyond us and through us
Your Kingdom come
Over and under
Surround us like thunder
Your Kingdom come
In the minuscule and the majesty
you're holding our existence
In the beautiful and profanity
you're sharing our existence
In the thrilling and mundane
In our numbing and our pain
In the One who was slain making everything new again
You carry our existence into Kingdom come
to Kingdom come
Bring it all under cover
In the arms of our Mother
‘Cause in us and to us
Beyond us and through us
Your Kingdom come
Over and under
Surround us like thunder
Your Kingdom come (All in All…)
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7. |
Southerly
04:31
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Brakes take a beating
down the pass from Robertson
Aloe vera pealed across the Nullarbor
down to the rim
Never crossed my mind to think
about the wind and where its been
Hammerhead in brackish water
I can’t see what’s right in front of me
But I never bothered
Sure as hell nobody taught us
And I never thought of
The intimate lines you were singing to each other
Oh, when I waltzed right in
When I waltzed right in
Shaking like a fevered child
you take me in and make a bed for me
Though we are forsaken
Kata’s on her way to cool our heads, you see
Burning out the underbrush
the canopy protects our memory
Undergirding all the us
the vapour will condense eventually
Everything covered
Fathers and mothers
Then we can be lovers
The intimate lines we’ll be singing to each other
Oh, But I don’t know when
Oh, But I don’t know when
But I don’t know when
Southerly
Evening Muse
Say you’ll stay
Heal the wound
Suddenly
Sleight of hand
You find a way
to cool the land
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Chris De Souza Wollongong, Australia
Acoustic warmth, frosty soundscapes. HotHands® in soaked mittens.
Born and raised
on Dené and Sto:lo lands (Canada), Chris has been a guest on Dharawal Country (Wollongong, Australia) for the past decade taking in all he can - the volatile gifts of love and creature-hood.
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