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Gates
00:42
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2. |
What You Say
04:26
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For the thoughts, for the breach
I forgot to say I need this.
For the others, for when they preach,
I forgot the way he haunts me.
Keeping this from what you said when you read to me,
we’re flying kites in thunderstorms.
Holding on to streetlights forming shadows on the backseat driving almost finding places we’ll never meet.
What you say? Do you want more?
What you say drives me away.
All the things I took along
All the ones I strung along
Space needs time to move across
Time needs space for moving clocks
Gates are locked I know, but I don’t think you lost the keys.
It opens up for some.
Galaxies arrive like supernovas in the milky skies
We feel alive.
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3. |
Reason
03:45
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Feel my finger on the trigger once more
I was slipping on the tiles in your corridor.
Stop the thunder, stop the lighting in my head
I was more than what you said.
I was wrong to fall in love with you now
All you see and all you saw
in black and white, was it worth it after all?
Don’t you fight reason; it'll pass you by
It was a season, now let it die.
Drove through summer, drove the answers to Chapman’s peak.
Cold wind blowing, silence growing, but I heard him speak.
Count the frames, count the blessings in my life
but I was falling before ‘goodbye’
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4. |
Falling Through Love
03:35
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Keep me warm tonight,
‘cause you wear your soul so tight.
Keep me warm tonight,
it’s not a question of wrong and right.
We are who we are
we are falling through love again.
Answer silence with silence,
answer love with love.
Your answers are wrought with violence.
Violence cuts through love
You sold your soul today,
what a price to pay.
You sold your soul today.
Send your lover on his way.
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5. |
Six Feet
03:14
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I promised you a love song, well, here it is.
You left me bent and broken
and longing for your kiss.
But now you’ve said goodbye
and you’ve dealt your last lie.
it’s time to put your cards on the table
say “I love you” for the last time.
Where were you? Where was I?
When were we together?
I’m holding on, you’re letting go
Leaving me six feet below.
As you fly away across the sea,
I hoped you’d not leave some kind of hidden trace
that would lead you back to me.
To be the only thing that I can think of when I’m alone
means you left a trace.
It was a footprint through my heart.
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6. |
Aleppo
04:45
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Falling into pieces
fall into the sea.
White horses are galloping in front of me.
We pause here for a moment to let them see
what happened when Aleppo fell, fell into the sea
Dreams may feel forlorn
as a cold wind rushes over the storm.
I fear no end in sight.
Ambiguous, what might seem right.
All I thought was love
turned out to be something else.
If what you feel is love,
then don’t let it turn into something else.
I saw it in a photo, I saw it on TV.
Ninety-thousand dead this year, I couldn't even breathe.
It shouldn’t even matter now, the world would not believe.
What happened when Aleppo fell, fell into the sea.
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Gareth Smit Cape Town, South Africa
Gareth Smit ,23, sings and switches between playing acoustic piano, guitar and electric guitar. His songs straddle a variety of musical genres with a strong contemporary folk-pop feel. Gareth hails from Cape Town, South Africa. His lyrics touch on contemporary issues drawing on his studies in History and Philosophy and work as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. ... more
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