1. |
Invitation
02:49
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Oh baby can we not
Take any further steps
I’d like to linger I’m a doubter
And I can’t read maps
I know it’s just an invitation
It’s just the kind
You can never tell
Naa-na-naa na-naa
na-naa na-na-na
Oh baby can we wait
Before we fill in the gaps
Let’s not press and find
How long till it snaps
I know it’s just a conversation
It’s just the kind
You can never tell
Oh baby I am anxious
What could happen next
I need some guarantee
We don’t fall and collapse
I know it’s just a new direction
It’s just the kind
You can never tell
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2. |
Mortina
02:55
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All the time I see her
She never lets me be
I have tried to lose her
But she just keeps grinning
Grinning at me
At the start of a new day
She’s already on my mind
Through the smoke in a tavern
She’s creeping up on me
She’s the kind
Must be must be
Must be Mortina
She’s dancing with me
With me woo-ho-hoo
The last dance with me
I put on my blue raincoat
Sang broadly out of key
I turned up the clanging
But she wouldn’t go
That’s the thing
I made her pick up the wrong scent
Blended in with the crowd
I offered her my first love
Threw in my family crest
I’m not proud
And the sun is too bright
And the air is too thin
I am feeling peaky
It might all just end
On a whim
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3. |
Lazy
03:15
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I’m lazy
You’re lazy
Together
We’re lazy-lay
Swim the Channel
Win the medal
Hit the nail
Square on the head
Ohh we don’t care
What we should do
Let us let us be
The lazybones we are
Join the rat race
Push the sale
Climb the ladder
Find the Holy Grail
Buy a house
Raise some children
Make it quick
Better make it big
I’m lazy
You’re lazy
Together
We’re lazy-lay
Mow the lawn
Trim the sails
Write a novel
In a hundred days
A hundred days?
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4. |
Skin
03:22
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Today I’m gonna shed my skin
The worn and ragged life
From underneath the dorsal fin
The new is pushing out
The past is overrated
I know I have been there
Your cuts are not like windows
A claw mark or a heartache
A bruise is not a door
The pockets full of worthless junk
I don’t recall the nights
The way the future made us drunk
Or how it lost its shine
Ignorance, audacity
Or call it what you will
What’s past is past over- the- hill
A claw mark or a heartache
A bruise is not a door
What will we remember?
What will fall away?
Today I say fly free go far
Or tomorrow never comes
The old has brought me endless woe
And now restricts my sway
I much prefer a cleaner break
And look the other way
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5. |
The Beauty Strange
02:38
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If I could see
The beauty strange
The flatter wild
The maddest hatter
If I could go
And blow your cover
Expose all lies
Each rotten lover
I would see you see
In a mirror ball
I would see you see
I would see myself
And the night the night
It would last and last
Forever last
Yeah the night it would
If I could ease
All pain and grief
And charm away
The bees from honey
If I could break
The secret code
Avoid the gloom
The taxing road
If I could end
What’s hurting you
What makes you mad
Flirt with the dead
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This is not a good place to land
It would not be safe for us
Our engine searching high and low
This time has run out of stars
Looking round the place seems empty
People must have left for lunch
At the bottom of the ocean
Any moment we’ll take the plunge
I’m going down another road
No worn-out lane’s too far away
My restless feet will leave no traces
Not till love finds me an answer
Nobody waits that long for you
This is not a good place to stay
Rumours have it food is rotten
Sailing round and round for years
Where we’ve been we’ve long forgotten
Taking shelter between lumps of rock
We’re not the ones we hoped to be
In an alley on the final border
Chances lost is all we see
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7. |
Life Is Short
03:42
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At a crawl
Or at breakneck speed
Broad awake
Or maybe fast asleep
I’ll catch you up
There’s no doubt bout that
The day will come
On the run
In a stranger’s bed
Holding hands
No words being said
Life is short
I can tell you that
Don’t ruin it for me
Ahh-ahh ahh-ahh I’m sure we’ll find
A way a way a way to pass
A way to pass the time
You win you lose
You dine you snooze
Dressed in velvet
Or with holes in your shoes
In the dark
With a heavy heart
Don’t want to let go
Lost and lonely
In the driving snow
A famous name
Or with little to show
Life is short
I can tell you that
Don’t ruin it for me
Barricaded
Head down in a trench
All surrounded
By tinder and stench
I’ll catch you up
There’s no doubt bout that
The day will come
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8. |
The Caveman's Lament
03:14
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Before the winds
Hit by change of blow
And the beast of freedom
Leaves you alone and low
You’re lost at sea and you drink it dry
The world is scary but you’ll never die
Uhh-uhh ah-ah na-na-na
Honky-tonk along the long-long line
The caveman’s the caveman’s lament
Before you collide
And scatter your things
Say farewell to friends
Lose feathers and wings
Time always tells you when it’s time to quit
And every dark cheers you up a bit
Before the wild grows
And the legs cave in
And before you know
The lone voice stops to sing
Your eyes are leading you through misery
Love is blind as blind can be
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9. |
Wall To Window
03:56
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Wall to window
Winter to spring
Slowly decaying
The rot setting in
The house by the river
The roof fallen in
Shutters are squeaking
When pushed by the wind
There’s no getting used to
No making it stop
What’s now being added
Won’t leave anything
There’s no getting used to
No bringing it back
What’s now being added
A new tide will bring
Spiders and insects
They come from the swamp
They find a warm shelter
Then die on their backs
Where somebody’s mother
Gave love and gave time
Rain’s seeping in
Down the end of the line
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10. |
Slow Tempo Song
03:00
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Come on feeble day
Don’t fail to descend
Your mind’s getting restless
Like you’ve never been here
Despite every rope
That’s been thrown at your line
You don’t see how you’ll last
Till the end of the year
And the world carries on
And the town carries on
And the dog keeps on chasing the chicks
And the bills never fail to arrive at the door
We asked you to be patient
And to watch what you eat
We told you to live
For the sake of your peers
We asked you to hope
And to clean up your act
And somehow or other
You would choose to stay
And the light’s turning grey
And the noise dies away
And the angels put on their shiny shoes
And the band starts to play a slow tempo song
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Boat Nation UK
Boat Nation is a solo project of Simon Aeschbacher, do-it-all-yourself instrumentalist and former member of Halma Bravo, Mixed Coin and the Alankomaats. He spent a good part of 2012 writing and recording songs at his home in North West London. The result is Cliff, an album that is slower and has a more contemplative mood than previous productions. ... more
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