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Cry Tears
04:45
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Feel the rain drops upon my face in the morning
In the stillness, I feel your heartbeat racing
Tear away the shackles that can bind
Cry tears, cry tears, cry tears
Feel the breeze blow across my face in the evening
Comes a time when you can take nothing for granted
Hold me now, hold me through the pain
Cry tears, cry tears, cry tears
I’d be lost without ya
I’d be lost without ya
Cry tears, cry tears, cry tears
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2. |
How Easily We Slide
03:56
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I met a stranger on the train to Alamein
So familiar, he could’ve been an old friend of mine
Standing all alone, he’s decorated by a paisley tie
Oh, how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
Our conversation led to an awkward, strange impasse
I offered money he was offended, left aghast
I tried to save it, found that the good will weren’t to last
Oh, how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
I am a stranger, I am a toxic passenger
I come with baggage, come with a pack of lozenges
Don’t know where I’m going, don’t know which train I’ll end up on
Don’t try to save me, don’t help me find my way back home
Oh, how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
Oh how easily we slide
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Parked the car in the street, beside a poster I saw, bear my name clearly
Found a song I’d released to see another face staring back at me
Saw my name up in lights, I knew that wasn’t me, that someone had replaced me
Hey, how will they know which one is faking it?
(And can I come back?)
I had a name, but now he’s taken it
(Now can I come back?)
Checked my Bandcamp account to find a face that ain’t mine, mine I couldn’t find
All my family can say to me is how could it be? Has he become me?
How would iI know that someone else, that someone was me, someone who’s not me?
I dunno who am no more, in a mirror I see a stranger before me
How will they know which one is faking it?
(And can I come back?)
My name is no longer mine & now he’s making it
(And can I come back?)
How will they know which one is faking it?
(How can I come back?)
Hey, we had a deal but now he’s broken it
(Now can I come back?)
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4. |
Dream in Film
01:22
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5. |
Double Agent
03:49
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My double agent, my young renegade
You disappeared when our best plans were laid
On foreign colonial shores we were placed
My heart in its grave
Confused and so crazed
Yes, but when we were together, we could’ve changed the world!
Somebody saw you on Rouge Aprapo
You were in disguise, your expression was closed
Affiliated with whom I don’t know
Whose language you spoke
Your tone oh so low
Oh, the endless conversations, adventures every day
Who you working for? Someone higher than the law?
Who you working for? Took it to the highest floor?
Who you working for, tell me who you working for?
Those letters faded now I can’t explain
How every word radiates from the page
Some full of elation, some filled with rage
The laughter and pain, the tragic refrain
Oh, whatever made you happy was a mystery to me
In the sleepless hours, I still wonder where you are
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6. |
To the World
03:13
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Underneath your bed
Dancing round your head
All the things unsaid, beware
They will open you
Make you vulnerable
Make you hold your hand out to the world
On the ceiling fan
Nesting on the door jamb
All the things you cram inside
Who knows what transpires
When they finally prise
Their own way outside to the world
In the sunny rays
In my tooth decay
In the things you say to me
How you love and care
Would go most anywhere
Just to take me there to the world
On any given day
I’ll be heard to say
I just can’t find my way to the world
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7. |
Coming Home to You
03:45
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Peak hour in the morning, babe
Midst the rushing crowds of people
Bursting through the subway, darling
Underneath the towering steeple
Then in my mind
I got a picture of you babe
Can’t wait for the time
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
Burst out of the lift, babe
Through the corridors I wander
Til I find my office darling
Go to turn on my computer
Then in my mind
You walk in the room, babe
Is it close to the time
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
Then in my mind
You walk in the room, babe
Is it close to the time
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
I’ll be coming on home to you babe
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8. |
Cold Is the Crime
03:12
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Cold is the crime, when the crime’s disguised as friendly
So sharp was your knife, but ya keep on sticking it in me
Together we shine, but for you, it’s solitary
Control it was mine, but ya took it so completely
No, you didn’t scare me, but I lost my mind
Pivotal conversations, changing the time
Bold was the lie that you saw some value in me
Strobe lights that blind, and the flickering distracts me
Revenge it is mine, and I’ll do it nice and sweetly
No, you didn’t scare me, but I lost my mind
Pivotal conversations, changing the time
Shifting understandings, what’s yours isn't mine
Everybody’s moving, I can't read the signs
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9. |
On a Quiet Day
02:50
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There’s a place in my mind where the country carpet winds and it
Couldn’t make a bright-eyed boy feel better
Pastel hues, sparkling haze, I’m astonished, I’m amazed how my
Memory recalls it to the letter
In the country, it seems, you’ll experience extremes so the
Sunshine and the rain will serve you better
'Gainst all odds I’m alive, some surprised how I survived with a
Maximum exposure to the weather
On a quiet day, the yearning leads me so far away
On a lonely day, I wish I might have something to say
When the sun rose each day, I would chase the pain away while the
Factories spilled pollution in the river
Was a girl that I loved living in the hills above and I
Tried with all my heart not to upset her
When the trucks carted trees by the house at Wounded Knee and the
Forest knew eventually we’d forget her
When my girl took her leave in the morning, I would grieve and I
Prayed I wouldn’t feel like this forever
On a quiet day, the yearning leads me so far away
On a lonely day, I wish I might have something to say
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10. |
High Wind in Jamaica
01:19
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11. |
Bam!
03:58
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Bam! Have you forgotten who I am? I was your biggest fan!
I had profound belief in you!
Chimes from some forgotten time, your heart was torn and tired
You sang from every part of it!
Pow! I’m a different person now, back then I made a vow
That I’d be plagiarising it!
Clowning for the camera, schlepping with the fans
Fuckin with the media, castigating fads
Hangin with the flunkies, postin all your plans
On your guitar stand
Bam! Whatever happened to the band? That damned elusive flame!
You had the drive to be chasin it!
Pow! So sad and lonely in the crowd! Why didn’t you reach out?
Instead, you dropped your bomb on it!
Chime! You didn’t make it, it’s a crime, you ran right outta time
It breaks my heart to think of it!
Clowning for the camera, schlepping with the fans
Fuckin with the media, castigating fads
Hangin with the junkies, postin all your plans
On your guitar stand
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12. |
Strange Ride
04:32
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Locomotive, ramble on, through the burrows, through the throng
To those who came in far too late, redemption comes to those who wait
Does anybody know the way on this strange ride?
The unworthy, the estranged, burden-bearers with tarnished names
they got the anger, they got the sword, they got the gall to pull the chord
So as we can all escape from this strange ride!
Strange ride coming round the bend
Strange ride coming round the bend
Pain the carriage, paint it red, drawing circles around my head
You take the fat conductor man, I’ll take the driver, that’s our plan
ready for the mass escape from this strange ride!
Strange ride coming round the bend
Strange ride coming round the bend
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Murphnick Melbourne, Australia
Co-creator and co-song-writer for Australian psychadelic rock/pop act, The Anyones, Nick has released 2 highly acclaimed solo records, "Breaking The Light" and "What's In Your Mind?". 3rd album, "Strange Ride", is out 31st March 2023.
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