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Turbulence
03:35
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Put miles between us
Take off to the sky
Too soon to have to say goodbye
This loving and leaving
My attachment style
Even wishful thinking has a shelf life
May everywhere you fly from here be safe and smooth
High up above my turbulence
Where grey meets blue
I wish the best of luck to you
No lonely vanity
Needing to be seen
No dusty relic to remind you where you've been
Onward and upward
Forward to your dreams
This is how we face defeat now separately
May everywhere you fly from here be safe and smooth
High up above my turbulence
Where grey meets blue
I wish the best of luck to you
May everywhere you fly from here be safe and smooth
High up above my turbulence
Where grey meets blue
I wish the best of luck to you
Fly away
Way over my head
Into the sunset
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Graceful lady with the lamps
In the back of my mind you’re setting up camp
Putting new shades on old bases
Showing skin in suggestive places
Patient waiting for the dance
Does this skinny have a chance?
If you came to my rescue
Courageously like not everyone would do
Hedging bets on shore leave sailors
Letting go of your fear of failure
One of us is led astray
Does it matter anyway?
Hopeless hurdle stumble fall
If you see no good in me at all
Stretching out like Chinese dragons
Two dead horses drag my wagon
Poles between these sagging lines
It's not the best in us that rhymes
Short of anything that works
Could there be success or triumph over hurt?
A chance to change when things get broken
Who can tell if you’re only joking?
Graceful lady with the lamps
In the back of my mind you’re setting up camp
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Pretty Lights
03:21
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Always in mind though we're far apart
Keeping an idea afloat
Easier when you're within my reach
Always the night on the beach
When I said, "Look at the pretty lights
Guiding the boats which way to go"
My arm around your shoulder
With you in my heart
Picture the people in all their cars
Glittering over the bridge
Nobody knows how long they have
Taking the day as a gift
Now, look at the pretty lights
Guiding the boats which way to go
My arm around your shoulder
With you in my heart
Now that I've waited enough I'm sure
That you are worth waiting for
Saving for you, protecting space
That you may be adored
Look at the pretty lights
Guiding the boats which way to go
My arm around your shoulder
With you in my heart
My arm around your shoulder
You're here in my heart
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4. |
No Perfect Man
03:43
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Love grew weedy in the shade
A season's doubt set seed
Undermining inner monologue
Lead you to believe
All your worries were reality
All your worries were reality
Now your perfect man
Has a heart without a soul
While the light of his foreign land
Illuminates the hole in you
There is no perfect man
There is no perfect man
Love got compartmentalized
The centre could not hold
Diminishing capacity
Has left you on your own
Now you struggle with reality
Now you struggle with reality
And your perfect man
Has a heart without a soul
While the light from his foreign land
Illuminates the hole in you
There is no perfect man
There is no perfect man
There is no perfect man
There is no perfect man
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5. |
Thirty Four
03:08
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Flaked on the bed beside me
Your stockings are though
Now could your lonely dream be true?
Thirty four
In love no more
Now could your lonely dream be true?
Fear of your broken beauty
Sadness of eye
Honey, your bedside table don’t lie
Thirty four
In love no more
Honey, your bedside table don’t lie
Wired with a line still buzzing
You’re making me stay
Holding my arms like I might fly away
Thirty four
In love no more
Holding my arms like I might fly away
Holding my arms like I might fly away
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6. |
It's Over
01:58
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It’s over
Over
Things won’t be the same
It’s over
Over
Sad and such a shame
All the joy and pain
You will love again
All the joy and pain
You will love again
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7. |
The Bright Side of Me
03:57
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Cursed be the man who breaks his bread
In the sweat of his brow
Blessed be the bride on who it shines
It's raining in my house
Catastrophe, catastrophe, catastrophe
Warding off catastrophe
The bright side of me
Fighting hard but unsuccessfully
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
Take your records, take your wine
What was ours has returned to being yours or mine
Put your faith in the promise of a liar
Did he set your heart on fire?
Were you blind?
Warding off catastrophe
The bright side of me
Fighting hard but unsuccessfully
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
Asking why did he love me
The way that he loved me
The last time he loved me?
Asking why did he love me
The way that he loved me
The last time he loved me?
Catastrophe, catastrophe, catastrophe
Catastrophe, catastrophe, catastrophe
Warding off catastrophe
The bright side of me
Fighting hard but unsuccessfully
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
The bright side of me
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8. |
Follow the River
05:33
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Follow the river, graceful and slow
Build on the high tide, wait through the low
Forever changing, flowing one way
Down from the mountains tall, made out of rain
Sing for December, sing for July
After the darkness, always light
Joy and sorrow and all between
Sing for the lost ones, sunrise unseen
Don't hold too tightly to what might have been
Gone now forever, with you they'll be
Safe as the treasure of memory
Sing for the sunshine, sing for the rain
Joy and sorrow will be both washed away
Sing for tomorrow not yesterday
Try to be patient, lessons are learned
Love without needing love in return
Love without needing love in return
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Galaxy
03:25
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Please, please accept this offering
And read, read between the lines I sing
You can see me magnified
In darkness and the light
No more playing hide and seek
What you find is yours to keep
I want you watching over me
To be my galaxy
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
The weight of the world
It won't be too much for me
Fortune may not shine for us
But every hurt will heal enough
You can build your home in me
And be my galaxy
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10. |
Lovebirds
03:03
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The sparkle in your eye gave you away
Something that your heart was shy to say
Lonely little love bird broke her wing
Though she cannot fly she still can
Sing so sweetly for her baby
Depending on how well you play your cards
The end may be as sudden as the start
Devotion doesn't mean beholden to
Treasuring and trusting that you
Feel all these feelings without speaking
Lovebirds want the same thing
Lovebirds want the same thing
Sing so sweetly for her baby
Lovebirds want the same thing
Lovebirds want the same thing
Lovebirds, lovebirds, lovebirds
Lovebirds want the same thing
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11. |
Broken Tambourine
03:40
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From your heels up to your hair
Who's hiding under there?
Share your loveliness with laughter
And riding on the thrill
Of magic flying dreams
Bruises everywhere
Now that you are here
You can play your drum beside me
My broken tambourine
Is murder on my thigh
It takes time and care to grow into the new normal
It takes time and care to grow into the new normal
The child is not released
The bridge is incomplete
Help me hold the beat for this one
My broken tambourine
Is murder on my thigh
It takes time and care to grow into the new normal
It takes time and care to grow into the new normal
It takes time and care
It takes time and care
It takes time and care to grow into the new normal
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Nick Batterham Melbourne, Australia
Nick Batterham is a singer-songwriter and composer from Melbourne, Australia.
He has been a central figure in the bands Blindside, The Earthmen and Cordrazine.
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