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I'm twenty two, Living in Salford and I just write songs.

[wildernights]

Common

And I’ve been wondering, do you have the time?

To listen to me moan about sophisticated rhymes. 

And i’ve been crumbling, maybe it’s the weather 

Maybe it’s the fact that I can’t seem to make it rain.

And if I could would you still be the same

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Because i’ve been wondering, If we had time

Would you listen or take the chance to call out all the crimes.

At least i’d have your attention.

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And you’ve been wondering, If i’m really there

If i’m reliant on being drunk and to busy to care.

But I’ve been crumbling, I’m certain it’s the weather

And not whether you’re standing on close to me at all.

Because I work best when we do it together.

And if we could would you still be the same.

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Because i’ve been wondering, If we had time

Would you listen or take the chance to call out all the crimes.

At least i’d have your attention.

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How’s this Home

My Love, don’t keep me down

I’ve been running round this whole damn town

People don’t wanna hear, what i’ve got to say

But baby, how I feel today.

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I just wanna love ya

I just wanna keep you close to me

I just wanna love ya

Let’s keep this 

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It’s been keeping me asleep all night

Because I don’t wanna loose that sight 

Every single memory, in our home

It helps remind me, i’m, not alone

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I just wanna love ya

I just wanna keep you close to me

I just wanna love ya

Let’s keep this

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The Fear

What I fear most in life, is the same I fear in death

That anything you have and could love, would fade between breaths

To fall into a memory, like dust in the attic

Like a testament of feeling, to an instant of static

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What I fear more than lose, is the pain of loosing

Sometimes it’s better to run, than the sight of bruising

To loose good friends, lovers and family

Or to know the simplicity, that had me

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What I fear most is living, the constant worry of giving.

To anything you have and could love, or simply forgiving.

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Keep me in for summer

So keep me in for summer

It might end up funner

than running away with you,

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So take me out for spring

I just hope it brings

me even closer to you,

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So don’t keep me waiting

I’ll keep hyperventilating

Until it blows into winter

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So we hit the autumn 

And I had forgotten

How easy it is with you,

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Now it’s turned winter 

Pinches like these splinters

How long until i’m back with you,

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So don’t keep me waiting

I’ll keep hyperventilating

Until it blows into winter

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Confessions of an addict

I’m one of those who struggles on the inside

I’ve found so many recipes but none coincide

Part of a generation that should have died

Countless of near encounters but not that we’ve tried

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We play out the war of the pacifist. To strong to care, to weak to be an activist. 

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Drowning in our thoughts but attempting to keep afloat

At the time seeming content but not like we hoped. 

we’ve been at our best, and lived at our worst

It’s almost independent to survive with a build in curse

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We play out the war of the pacifist. To strong to care, to weak to be an activist.

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The day ends with how it begins, wanting to fly

And that’s how a generation found love at the end of a high.

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A cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins 1956 hit ‘I Put A Spell On You’

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Once or Twice

And I told you once or twice,

I won’t be one of those guys

Just might fall in.

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And I told you once or twice,

Loving me’s got a price

That you might fall in.

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And love ain’t that fun,

When you’re on the run

Just because you fell in.

And you used to love to pray,

But I told you to stay

And that I don’t pray that way.

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And I told you once or twice,

I won’t be one of those guys

Just might fall in.

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And I told you once or twice,

Loving me’s got a price

That you might fall in.

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Kept Raining

It’s been raining a lot recently,

Right about the time I stopped hearing your voice.

It’s been raining a lot recently...

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I bought an umbrella recently,

Right about the time I ran out of thoughts.

It’s been raining a lot recently...

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I saw a gust of wind recently,

People seem to just be bit of a blur in this city.

It’s been raining a lot recently...

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I’ve stopped talking recently,

Haven’t got much to say to them anyway.

It’s been raining a lot recently...

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I’ve missed you quite a lot recently,

It’s easier to pretend that you’re still in my life.

It’s been raining a lot recently...

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You’ve seemed happier recently,

And maybe it’s better to let it stay that way. 

Even if it rains a lot recently...

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he’s in the bedroom, and I’m your best friend

He’s in your bedroom, and I am your best friend. I’m happy for you, but I can’t help but savor that you called me baby this morning when I cooked you breakfast. You love to do that: call me baby, stroke my knee. And all the hugs I cherish mean nothing, but— and all the nights you sleep over mean nothing, but— and all of the times you say I love you in the rain with raindrops glistening in your hair, and we should have gone inside, but you had lip gloss like dew drops on your lower lip, and I wanted to kiss it off, but I didn’t— that means nothing.

He’s in your daydreams, and I am your best friend, baking cookies by the pound because you’ve had a rough week, and biting my nails to drown out the sting of the conversation. Today’s the day you confess that he plants fast-beating question marks in your chest like bombs, and plays rat-a-tat on your ribcage with his crooked smile— today’s the day you confess that he makes you feel all the ways you make me feel. “You should tell him,” I said. Now the rain is streaking down the window as I warm my hands above the stove and try not to glance at the closed door.

He’s in the parking lot, and I’m in your bedroom, caressing your shoulders as you spit half-baked curses turned inward. You cry, “He’s so stupid!” and, “It’s all my fault.” He’s blind, he’s blind, he must be blind, to reject someone like you. You ball my shirt in your mouth and scream. So tonight, I cook you dinner as you line the shot glasses with salt and sliced limes. He’s blind, he’s blind, he must be blind, so we drink for every day wasted thinking about that crooked smile, and you end up in my lap because I’ve pulled you there. He’s blind, he’s blind, he must be blind, as your hand runs up my thigh and slips beneath my shirt, as your glassy eyes fill with something like love, as your soft stomach meets mine and your hand strokes my neck. I’m blind, I’m blind, I must be blind, because as I lean in for our kiss, you call me his name.

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You said it’s just like i’m drowning

While everyone’s still breathing

I said I know what you meaning

But this is how it’s seeming

Why won’t you let me in, why won’t you let me win

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‘Cos i’ll crack your head, rocks upon the bed

Forget everything you ever said, until these thoughts fall dead

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So you take me to the darkened room

With the seat and the clearest view

Oh babe, you don’t know what i’d do

And i’d do it all for you

I follow you home again, you’re all alone again

Your footsteps make no sound as they hit the ground

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‘Cos i’ll crack your head, rocks upon the bed

Forget everything you ever said, until these thoughts fall dead

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The Blues

21st century blues, Ain’t that old news

Hope to live, born to lose

I stopped dreaming when I left you

Keeps me up, thought of you with someone new

Because I let you down, and I let you go

And it hurts more than you’ll ever know

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Man can you feel the blues

I can’t shake it no matter what I do

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I wish you could forget me

That’s what I would do

And just be happy

Because I love you, I swear I still do

But I let you down, and I let you go

And it hurts more than you’ll ever know

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Man can you feel the blues

I can’t shake it no matter what I do

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In a city full of people, yet only want one in your world.

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It feels like i’m burning from the inside

You can shed so many tears but you can’t hide

Because she probably was the only thing keeping you together

And now those distant memories will last forever

Can you remember the first time you fell in love?

I do... I do.

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Letting Go

The hardest part of letting go, Is dealing with that you’re not

Right now the memories of us are all i’ve got

I don’t want to forget your voice or how you smiled

So i’m happy being miserable just for a while

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I don’t want to loose the time we danced to Placebo

Or stuck in Birmingham with nowhere to go

Fell in love in a hazy Cardiff nightclub 

And hurt ourselves sober in our favorite pubs

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The hardest part of letting go, Is hoping that you won’t

Telling everyone you’ve forgotten her but you don’t

I miss your touch and your tears

I miss being yours and being your fears

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I don’t want to loose the time we danced to Placebo

Or stuck in Birmingham with nowhere to go

Fell in love in a hazy Cardiff nightclub

And hurt ourselves sober in our favorite pubs

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Track too off the forthcoming album ‘Hide & Freak’