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Dear Larisa
02:56
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My dear Larisa,
The bombs began to fall today
Inside the screaming of the city
The air itself began to tear
Today.
My dear Larisa,
An officer shot three men today.
He said he caught them running,
Only one of them had a name
But not today.
And I couldn't for the worthless life of me tell you the friends I came here with,
Buried beneath the rubble, those faceless wasted kids.
I'm not even sure why I'm fighting in this hell of melting skin,
Because I can't tell where the Motherland ends and you begin.
My dear Larisa,
The bombs began to fall today
We've our backs to the water,
Give my love to our daughter
I know I'll hold her in my arms one day.
For I can't for the worthless life of me picture the shining of her eyes,
The blood and smoke have bleached all of the beauty from my mind
Please forgive me for my words, they'll soon be ashes to the wind
For I can't tell where the Motherland ends and you begin.
Oh my dear Larisa,
Ran out of luck today.
I know this won't reach you
And now I'm running of out things
To say.
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Disquiet
02:33
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If my ears don't hurt and my eyes still see
Then what's the fun in hanging out with me?
If I like to go to bed at six and wake up at three
Then what's the fun in going out with me?
If I dig for hidden flowers under the dirt,
And scratch with my nails until they start to hurt
If the walls around me faded I don't know if I'd revert
Or if I'd keep on scratching till I can't feel the hurt.
The time for someone's music is when they've passed away
Silent empty echoes through a dusty window frame
Disquiet comes to steal me, and bury me in clay,
And leave me there until I start forgetting my own name.
When the blood starts to thud in the veins in my head
And a rainbow in disguise arrives to turn me into lead
The dew settles down and then soaks me instead
And in the stillness of the moonlight we lay there and bled.
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Carnation's Fire
03:28
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I would live if you asked me to
But I'd wilt on your command
I'd build a friendship out of charcoal,
And burn it down again.
If I could walk to the end of time
I know I'd need you walking too
Your head is spinning up between the stars,
You've stopped thinking like you used to.
But the carnations fire
Comes a dark word from your mouth
The carnations fire
You're swelling up with doubt
It's hard to resist such a salt-rose
It's hard to imagine the thorns
Ignorant of that, the wind still blows
Across the blanket that the sky adorns.
Perhaps I'll take a long walk
Down a trail that has no end
Listen to the silver mist talk,
And watch the silver silence bend.
The carnations fire
Comes a dark word from your mouth
The carnations fire
I'm breaking up with doubt
The carnations fire
You're better off without
The carnations fire
You didn't tell me about.
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Finn Pearson Fremantle, Australia
Finn Pearson is a singer-songwriter and folk-rock artist Western Australia.
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