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Orchid Man
04:52
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The orchid man rode up to me
Flowers blooming out of the back of his boat
He said to me, 'if you buy my seeds
You can grow some flowers that are just like these'
You are a sham you damn orchid man
But you gotta make a penny and I guess I understand
You are a sham you damn orchid man
But you gotta make some money so you made it from me
He started high, I said 'I cannot buy'
And I took my oars, ready to leave
I'd turned them through the water twice
When he asked for an even bigger price
As he pulled a thousand blossoms back
To reveal a single orchid black
The subtlest flower that he had
Was the one and only orchid
I could mouth no but my eyes said yes
And he saw it all too clearly
So I dug into my pockets
And I paid the salesman dearly
He asked me are you happy
And I had to disagree
He said you will be smiling when you see
The black orchid
So I flew home to plant the seeds
All drunken from the blossoms
Oh light, water, water, light
Watch it grow all day and night
Nothing grows, I'm not surprised
And I bet the flower salesman smiles
As he rows around the market
With his one and only black orchid
Oh you are a sham you damn orchid man
But you gotta make a penny and I guess I understand
You are a sham you damn orchid man
But you gotta make some money so you made it from me
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2. |
Stampy Song
03:52
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How did you draw this out of me
How did you take up so much space in me
Where we have come nothing is free
I don't know how we arrived here so easily
Oh you could live on this
Yet you persist to breathe
This is perfect bliss
But for the thirst that your body insists
Swill it around in your glass
Feel the shock on your teeth as you put it back
I will lie down in your water and wait
Dry you out like the mud cracks where it's been baked
Oh you could live on this
Yet you persist to breathe
This is perfect bliss
But for the thirst that your body insists
I've got to trace back where you have been
Through my insides where you've sown yourself in
Learn how you flew so close to me
I don't feel hungry nor am I free
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3. |
Shoe Song
03:55
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I walked through a thunderstorm last night
With a hole in my shoe and a lace untied
The rain seeped in and soaked my feet
The road was like a river
And it never ends, you'd have to be naive
To think the story closes with the resting of your feet
My own good lady turned aside
At the hole in my shoe and the lace untied
How long were you gone she cried
'The road was like a river' I appealed
Asking her what was right
All that she could do was make a parable of my life
Water filled the valley
I waded with wet knees
When I closed my eyes
I was a creature of the sea
Floating free, stretching my neck high
Over the grey water, shoes long cast aside
My lady said, 'I'll top myself
If nothing comes of this
You have sang all night
About the shoes you'll never fix'
And it never ends, you'd have to be naive
To think the story closes with the resting of your feet
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4. |
Anxious Medley
06:12
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I found a world within
The world I'd woken in
Held my ear to a shell
For all that I could tell it was breathing
I'm haunted by the shell
For all that I could tell it was breathing
If I am not careful I'll become the dust upon the mantle
Crouching in the darkness, only ever asking for an echo
If something shakes the dust up, I will feel my heart beat louder than a drum
But will it come, will it come, will it come
Dust caught in your throat but you don't know enough to cough it up
It settles on your tongue to gather at the bottom of your lungs
If something shakes you up, you will feel your heart beat louder than a drum
But will it come, will it come, will it come
If we are not careful we'll become the dust upon the mantle
Crouching in the darkness, only ever asking for an echo
You will shake the dust up, I will feel my heart beat louder than a drum
And we will run, we will run we will run
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5. |
Spiders
04:14
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I've got spiders making their webs
On my tuning pegs
And I've held on for so long
It will turn me into an old, old woman
I am afraid that meaning has already been,
Stayed for tea and passed like a dream;
All of the lives in the back of your eyes
Play the best of the scenes
I've got spiders making their webs
On my tuning pegs
And I've held on for so long
It will turn me into an old, old woman
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The Knights Project Brighton, UK
Intricate, precise and mysterious twin guitar folk from coastal England.
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