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Second Heart
05:08
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I found your second heart
In the attic, in a suitcase
Wrapped in tissue like treasure
Wrapped in lace
Well I’m no expert, but it looks
As if it’s hardly been used
Just a little wear and tear
Hear and there
I looked at my own heart
The dings and dents, the livid bruise
Blooming deep and dark
Even as I look
I switched your second heart
With a fox’s paw
And then I shoved the suitcase back
In its dusty corner
But I can’t forget it
No I can’t forget it
No I can’t forget it
No I can’t forget it
And I think you look sad today
But you won’t know why
No you won't know why
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Corpse Flowers
03:40
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I’m going out tonight
To pick flowers in the churchyard
Moon blooms all as white
As the earth is dark
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
I’m going to delve down deep
Dig out the roots and all
Preserve the living thing
Is what’s important after all
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
I’ll place them around your room
On the tables, chairs and windowsills
They’ll feast upon your ills
Little by little by little, and soon
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
Corpse flowers
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Want It Back
04:28
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You made a coin appear
Out of the summer air
Smiled and put it in my hand
That’s yours for free, my little man
And what I wouldn’t give
To have that simple trick
These days, these days, when coins are scarce
And summer’s haze is hard to stand
I want it back, that feeling
I want it back, that feeling
It isn’t even about the coins
Magicked out of the shimmer
Oh how I miss the heart-wow wonder
That wide-eyed glimmer
I don’t think I can take
That it’s only sleight of hand
I don’t know how to make
Myself believe any of this, man
I want it back, that feeling
I want it back, that feeling
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Falling
04:28
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Watching him sleepwalk into space
A speck against the contrails and the clouds
And all the way down here at the ground
It takes a while to ripple through the crowd
That something isn’t going to plan
It’s a thirty seven storey drop to the sidewalk
But this can’t be happening
He’s the man
And he’s falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Watching him tumble from the sky
Swears and prayers rising high
A murmuration of disbelief shimmers off the bricks
Like a sigh
And something isn’t going to plan
It’s a fifteen storey drop to the sidewalk
But this can’t be happening
He’s the man
And he’s falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Watching him serenely death defy
It’s a single storey drop to the sidewalk
But I know he’s got something up his sleeve
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Perfecting The Pass
03:16
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Fifty two bicycles
Once around the sun
A million breaths recycling
The longest way to run
Do you see me now
You see me now
You see me now
You see me
Do you see?
One big mistake to make
A cosmic misdirection
So I had to
Make a course correction
Do you see me now
You see me now
You see me now
You see me
Do you see?
Top shot, Hermann pass
Crimps and jogs, Reverses
Double lift, False cut
Side slip, Rehearses
And rehearses
And rehearses
All of this time
Perfecting the pass
Shuffling the miles
Impossibly fast
Now you see me now
You see me now
You see me now
You see me
Do you see?
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Miracle Mile
04:20
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To get to know a man
You walk a mile in his shoes
But does that just apply
To the likes of me and you?
If I want to be
Nearer my God to thee
I gotta question or three
Why did Jesus keep the best tricks for himself?
Isn’t that a little narcissistic?
Why is it heads it’s a miracle, tails you’re on the fire?
How is that anything but sadistic?
So I’m gonna walk a mile
Shore to shore and back again
I’m gonna feed the poor
And ease a little suffering
Gonna stop a fight
And put the world to rights
How can’t that be right?
Why did Jesus keep the best tricks for himself?
Isn’t that a little narcissistic?
Why is it heads it’s a miracle, tails you’re on the fire?
How is that anything but sadistic?
Wouldn’t the world be a better place
If we all walked a miracle mile just one time
If we all walked a miracle mile just one time
If we all walked a miracle mile just one time
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Jane Rebecca Yorke
05:08
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How was it when you took the stand in the Old Bailey, Jane?
Did you feel important, grand, or is it fair to say?
That no one really cared about
The last convicted witch in England
How did you feel when they declared you guilty on all counts
When for your seven heinous deeds you were fined five paltry pounds?
Because no one really cared about
The last convicted witch in England
There was nothing magical about your story
You were just a liar and a fraud
And all to hell with Helen, who got the glory
Even though she went down before
How were you feeling at the end looking back, Rebecca, girl?
When they repealed the useless law that made you look respectable
What a thing to have been thought
The last convicted witch in England
There was nothing magical about your story
You were just a liar and a fraud
And all to hell with Helen, who got the glory
Even though she went down before
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Pick a card, just any card, any card. No not that one one. Wait. Don’t look a minute.
Now pick a card, no this one, it’s the three of hearts bet you don’t know how I did it
Wide eyes and faked surprise, aren’t the desired prize
Maybe shoulda practised more, he sighs
See the rings! They’re ordinary solid steel there’s nothing fake about them.
Examine this one closely, this one. Not the one I’m holding. They’re identical.
Side eyes and disguised smiles, really take the shine off, guys
Maybe shoulda practised more, he cries
Amaze your family and your friends
If one of you could volunteer your watch I hope it isn’t valuable. Jokes.
Now watch, I wrap it up and smash it with this hammer... Oh come on, seriously folks…
I had it all under control, you were going to be amazed
Faith in the impossible’s so rare, these days
Amaze your family and your friends
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