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Safety School
04:56
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Tom used to say it's not a day unless you pass the water tower
But we've both since moved away
There is no new landmark from which to gauge
There is no new landmark from which to gauge
Come autumn, you'll go to your safety school
Riding back from a one pound buy-in
I've been trying to stop you
Suitcase in hand, yet to pick up your key
No excuse not to follow me
Window-shopped at the furniture store
Imagined how you'd fill your floor
Come autumn, you'll go to your safety school
Come autumn, you'll go to your safety school
Was I mistaken or mislaid
In your secret summer masquerade
And I fell open, without sound
Kicked me as my ribs unwound
Hat weather's out, cap weather's in
There's much less hair, so much more skin
Spent a hundred summers on the couch
Foetal, in the lion's mouth
Home life does not prepare you for
Come autumn, you'll go to your safety school
Come autumn, you'll go to your safety school
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Absentees
04:46
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Wood burns and birds crawl out of holes
The outer layer sticks to the in
Someone's stirring, I can see a shadow move on the door
As we swing for a torch that hangs above our heads
Our hands are slowly bruising our legs
And the book we desecrated is out there, getting wet
No one sleeps in the cars tonight
'Cause we've ripped the seats out, punched off all the lights
Shrouded under collapsed marquees
We're rolling blind, we're absentees
And if it's caught on film
You gotta know it exists
Unmapped reservoirs, a phantom margin
Took by the wind, the swell of the ground
Swimming in accounted abyss
You motion for a cyclone to take you out of this
No one sleeps in the cars tonight
'Cause we've ripped the seats out, punched off all the lights
Shrouded under collapsed marquees
We're rolling blind, we're absentees
We pan across faces
Walking over roots in the wind
It's a single shot at a widow and it happens all the time
Slip into the dark, free fall
Novel sirens in a foreign light
You're struggling with something you've used all your life
And if it's caught on film
You gotta know it exists
Unmapped reservoirs, a phantom margin
Took by the wind, the swell of the ground
Swimming in accounted abyss
You motion for a cyclone to take you out of this
No one sleeps in the cars tonight
'Cause we've ripped the seats out, punched off all the lights
Shrouded under collapsed marquees
We're rolling blind, we're absentees
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Empty Pools Bristol, UK
Empty Pools formed in the halcyon days of fading summer 2011. They artfully combine elements of noise-rock with teen dream melodies, late ’70s CBGB's angularity and the jazzy, world-pop sophistication of the Thrill Jockey set.
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