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What Even Is
05:21
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See this path we're walking down
Seems steady then you
Swept me off two feet
A spark of light unravels
From each curl of the tongue
I thought I was
Keeping with the pace
Blindfolded by my afternoon
And daylight won't give any clues away
As to what will
Happen next
And I've forgotten where
Oh where I came
and what even is?
What even is
Original?
How was the moons night
Wrapped between your love
I'm going out of my way
But I was still lost on you today
In the lull of January
Surprises still await
Each twist and turn
Doesn't keep me at ease
How I keep on getting tangled up
Living for
Each and every absurdity
And I've forgotten where
Oh where I came
and what even is?
What even is
Original?
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Diary Retrospect
05:22
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The strangeness of the comfort in
When we first met
The diaries of two outcasts
Tales which seem to come of age
All steps at a time
All steps hand in hand
All steps at once
I noticed when
You was gone
The fact it drew me up
At night
I trace back our steps
In diary retrospect
The strangeness of the comfort here
You have no idea
I nearly slipped into blackout
Unaware of the flow, the rush
From heart to lungs to head
From chest to lungs to head
From lungs to heart to head
Now I am forced to sit still
Wild brushes emerge and paint
In the end scene
I traced back our steps
In diary retrospect
The strangeness of the stillness in
When we next met
Two halves of the evening
Laid awake as the river
Paints pictures on the ceiling
The flow between us
The flow between us
Isn't the cycles of
The neighbourhood
Our lives as viewed
From outside
Has plagued evenings spent when I
Should've been lifting you up
We walk back step by step
In diary retrospect
There's too much detail
To see clear
After each spot is traced
On the iris
I think this is our
Story unfinished
Running with each heavy breath after breath
Then
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Wound No Dressing
03:50
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I fell into a trap
It was my own doing though
So I see it better if I
Stop, hit reset
A horror story mist
Running ribbons through
Days gone silent
Uncovers when I call out and
Stop, hit reset
I would never leave this room
Then suddenly you opened the door
I feel it behind
Open close
I slept on this wound for days
Hoping it would heal
Without dressing
Stop, hit reset
My doubts intertwine on a loom
How intricate
I've been telling no one
So I see it better if I
Stop, hit reset
I would never leave this room
Then suddenly you opened the door
I feel it behind
Open close
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5 While 7
03:22
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Colours all fade on the next scene
The tune that leads us
Down the stairs
My thoughts all race
Far ahead of me
Each step, a pulse, a beat
Steady
A sudden call that calls
Me to breath in and
and
Untied from all this clutter
That surrounds me
Stranger you speak unkind and kind
You're never out to impress
Take joy in distractions when I
Don't need to think
Until it all settles in and I
Pick apart the case
A sudden call that calls
Me to breathe in and
Out
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Memories you are new to me
Each footstep that's passed can be
Felt in the dust now
Memories you are
Now undressed
Each curve that weaves
From rips to crook of neck
The unsung have their
15 minutes of fame
Why settle for less
and bellow the refrain
Strangers you are
Yet still ready at my side
A small circle we are
Yet in the know
No pains do I feel
Just convention eating away at me
My postures are postures of some
Asking questions for some, comes last
But you're a like mind in that you
Think differently
Filled me up
Mouth wide open
Hanging on the words that jump
From your lips
Stood at the street
Thinking to lug twice my weight
Both us know this doesn't
Make any sense
I stop and pride can be
Happily lit with a flame
All this lowering of my head
Now rests in the crook of your neck
These shoulders feel to
remember the weight
What can't be fixed can be
Nursed today
Memory you're only, behind me
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The Rounds
06:13
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My heads been doing the rounds
And then you
Look me up
You look out for me
And when I fall
Caught by you
We walk side by side
Mirrored in time
At two different
Parts of town
Speak to me the words I wouldn't
Want to hear
After all we are
Human anyway
It's okay to say where you've been wrong
It's okay to say
It's okay to say where you've been wrong
It's okay to change
It's okay, it's okay, it's o-kay
It's okay, it's okay, to change
Enough of this baffling buzz
Some fat chance
Of white noise
As we can't sleep
With it on
Tune out of it as we
Tune into each other
We sing out at once
For no reason other
Than a love
One they couldn't
Ever steal
The bustle of everyone I hold close
Isn't the noises that pollute both the land
and the cities
It's okay to say where you've been wrong
It's okay to say
It's okay to say where you've been wrong
It's okay to change
It's okay, it's okay, it's o-kay
It's okay, it's okay, to change
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Lull
03:20
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10. |
Close
03:18
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A simple life - we've got less going on
That's a simple lie
Told by apathetic eyes
These simple lies you've been told
They're as old as why?
Raised on convention
Nourished on repetitions
They're closing their eyes
and all they see is no one
They're closing their eyes
and all they see is less going on
Closed doors in ankles
You ask
Can you manage?
When no one asks for your help
You're of no help to them
You wouldn't want to relate
To understand another's troubles
It's too much to make
Amends
They're closing their eyes
and all they see is no one
They're closing their eyes
and all they see is less going on
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Tom Gunn Nash Sheffield, UK
Mostly self-taught, I write folk songs as a way of telling stories and challenging my own way of thinking.
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