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Edge of Change
03:08
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I’ve been a long way down
I’ve been shipwrecked on the rocks of big ideas fallen into the sea
I’ve been a long way down
Holding my breath, or breathing through a straw of hope I couldn’t see
But now I’m on the edge of change like the edge of a blade
I’ve been a long way down and I’ve seen a lot of sides of me
I’ve been a long way down
I’ve been to places I never meant to see
But now I’m on the edge of change like the edge of a blade
And I’m holding my ground and I’m not gonna fall away
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Tangled
02:53
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I thought I should let you know
I've been walking the streets again
Without any place to go
All tangled up in my head
And I thought that I'd come to the end of the struggle
But I see that it may never end
Please take my hand my friend
I thought I could let this go
Walk on and not return
But maybe that is just not how life goes
When the lesson is hard to learn
And I thought that I'd come to the end of the struggle
But I see that it may never end
So walk with me my friend
All tangled up in my head
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Lucid Moment
03:08
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Look at me waving my arms
Calling out the names of all the people that pass
Doing all my magic tricks, destroy myself and heal the sick
I sense danger in here
Look Mum no hands!
“Look son a car, best get off the road now”
That’s alright I have other skills far beyond the run of the mill
I sense danger in here
Stand above me for just a moment and I’ll turn liquid
In a lucid moment I’ll crawl back to my highchair
Begging for my own forgiveness
Everyone loves getting into a hot bath
But I sense danger in here
So if you see my eyes roll up, pull the plug and pick me up
I feel faint now in here
Stand above me for just a moment and I’ll turn liquid
And in a lucid moment I’ll crawl back to my highchair
Begging for my own forgiveness
This is my confession
I am faced with a decision
Whenever I am in a position
Where I’m standing too high
If I’m standing too high
Stand above me for just a moment and I’ll turn liquid
And in a lucid moment I’ll crawl back to my highchair
Begging for my own forgiveness
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4. |
Art Will Save America
03:32
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Maybe art will save America
From being polarised, polarized, polarised
But open up your ears, your own music speaks against you
Your being ostricised by your own
Careful – a crack is spreading
‘Cause you do not act in love
Righteousness with no humility
No self-checking machinery
Guns and the heavy shroud of T.V.
Blanketing our minds, blanketing our eyes
Keeping us so safe, keeping us so dry
Underneath a blackening sky, that’s raining down with fire.
Careful – a crack is spreading
‘Cause you do not act in love
Righteousness with no humility
No self-checking machinery
Guns and the heavy shroud of T.V.
Blanketing our minds, blanketing our eyes
Keeping us so safe, keeping us so blind
Underneath a blackening sky, that’s raining down with fire.
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5. |
Home
02:31
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What have I done
I havn’t sat still for 7 years
What if I came back home
Wouldn’t they know that I overcame all my fears
Don’t I deserve a free ride now
I am home
I’m not afraid
I’m not alone
My heart doesn’t race
I am here with all of these friends
It’s just that they don’t know me yet
Isn’t it good to find yourself in a desperate place
You suddenly find you’ve got nothing to lose and no time to waste
People seem closed until you look them in the eye
And say “Hello, I’m lonely”
I am home
I’m not afraid
I’m not alone
My heart doesn’t race
I am here with all of these friends
It’s just that they don’t know me yet
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6. |
Bricks of Sand
03:36
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Remember when we thought this was all impossible
We’d have to make the best of a bad situation
So we did the best we could building houses with no wood
Until it turned out that bricks of sand really aren’t that good
And I’d go down to the corner store
And buy $3 worth of happy thoughts
But they’d never last long enough to please me
And you’d go round to your friends house
To buy me out of what I wasn’t proud of
So I wouldn’t have to think about it
But it turns out bricks of sand
Crumble the moment they leave your hand
I ignored my inner voice, thought I didn’t have a choice
I’d have to make the best of the only valid option
So I denied myself of light and wondered why it felt like such a fight
And it never even crossed my mind that something wasn’t right
And I’d go down to the corner store
And buy $3 worth of happy thoughts
But they’d never last long enough to please me
And you’d go round to your friends house
To buy me out of what I wasn’t proud of
So I wouldn’t have to think about it
But it turns out bricks of sand
Crumble the moment they leave your hand
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Entrenchment
02:10
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To get past the blockages
You’re gonna have to keep moving
You’re gonna have to keep massaging the creases
Cuz every doubt pulls you down
Entrenchment comes like a thief in the night
And lies down next to you in your bed
As every doubt pulls you down
If you want to get on with this
If you’re ever gonna move on
You’re gonna have to believe
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The Fateful Kind
03:41
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Leaving his life behind him
Resting the body that confined him
Releasing his soul from the earth
He’s proved his worth and lived a long time
So now it is time for us to say goodbye
Fighting with tragedy
Angels won’t hear his plea
They’re ripping his soul from the earth
And all that he could have been will never be seen
So now we’re obliged to say goodbye
And it hurts for those who are left behind
But I don’t really think that I mind
Which one of the fateful kind I’ll be
It doesn’t worry me
Life is a fragile thing
A work of art I’m a colour in
And I want my strokes to show
Whether they’re short or long is of no matter
As long as they are strong when I have to go
And it hurts for those who are left behind
But I don’t really think that I mind
Which one of the fateful kind I’ll be
It doesn’t worry me
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Coastline
01:35
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The coastline calls to her loved one
He draws down close to her side
He flickers into flame and brushes a cloud across her brow
They call each other’s names, repeat the age old vow
And I am man
Holding them apart with all the strength that I have
I am man
I echo their art the best that I can
And I sing praises to the coastline and the sunset
And I sing praises to the maker and the made
And I sing praises to the ocean and the moonlight
And I sing praises to the maker and the made
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10. |
Where You Are
04:26
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The shape of minutes dissolves
When you’re waiting
You start forgetting the goal
When you’re waiting
Details start to emerge from the cracks
You focus your attention on the things you never looked at
You start to hear the sounds that you didn’t know were there
As they’re pulling you back to where you are
Conscious breathing evolves
When you’re waiting
You start regaining control
When you’re waiting
Details start to emerge from the cracks
You focus your attention on the things you never looked at
You start to hear the sounds that you didn’t know were there
As they’re pulling you back to where you are
Where you are there’s nothing to plan and nothing to be done
Where you are there’s nothing to remember and nothing to forget
Where you are the world you live in opens up before your battered senses
The metaphor slides away
You see things as they always were as though they’re being born before your eyes
And you glimpse outside
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Andy Gibson London, UK
Andy Gibson seeks to make sense of the puzzle we find ourselves in, writing honest songs around themes of psychological (dys)function. Often hopeful, his songs are a documentation of the journey of a queer person seeking mental wellbeing.
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