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Moral Colour
03:59
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Wait for the curtain to fall, the answer to spill out
You're on your last breath before you choke on your words
The glory fades before it shines
Here's the last letter from my weather mind
Before we stay, let's move sometime
Get back home before we die
You want to feel safe? Don't you feel you empty?
You want to feel safe? Cut the threads and give up
Our moral colour dictates where we are
Our words and meetings will reveal our scars
We're in our corner of the world, so far removed
It amplifies the lonely trait of having something to prove
Crack the ice, make the Earth move
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Fairweather
04:00
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Let me feel safe
Wait for my beaten lungs to inflate
Let me feel safe
There's only so much you can take
Think of what we could have had
If you weren't there to hold me back
My head is gone, my time is up
I'm just waiting to erupt
Fair weather friend until the bitter end
Until we sink into the deep end
Contract yourself
Spread so thin, so close to death
Let me see faith
Can't get out with no bones left to break
Stay
In my veins, don't ever fall away
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3. |
Bitter Hands
02:54
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There's a black hole with no grasp of reality
That can't change anything on the outside
It sits at the back of my mind
Biting at my blackened insides
And truth be told, I'd never tell a soul
If I thought that this would never happen
And truth be told, I'd never tell a soul
Because I know
I know you feel it too
I'm on my back to watch the world collapse with you
I'm not gonna get a release
I'll be perfect when it's dead to me
We don't exist in a vacuum reality
But we can't take influence from the outside
It swells at the back of my mind
Tearing at my blackened insides
They'd say our compromise contradicts who we are
But with our bitter hands, bitter hands
We're not that far apart
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4. |
Paper Roots
02:44
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Can't stomach the wasteland, output with no return
I'm wasting, wasting, breaking
What's the distance out there?
Shout into a black hole
I'll write you a letter that will stain my hand
And you're waiting for the bright lights
But it takes scars for the stars to ignite
And you'll maintain that you didn't know
But when you're bruised your heart's on show
(2nd time – But when you're down the truth is shown)
Can you read this to me? Read this back to me
We'll only tear ourselves apart in the modern way
And it's fair to say that if we don't look
We won't see the light for shade
I'll write you a letter
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5. |
Glass House
04:20
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Freshen up
Don't rewrite history, just heal the cuts
If you live your life
With yourself on the outside in full view, you won't need anything to hide behind
Show off the cracks in the panes
And empty their mouths
Live in a shattered glass house
Oh-oh
There's nothing left to hold onto
Slip beneath your skin
There's nothing left to hold onto
Slip beneath your
Rebuild now
Don't let these walls define you, if they're easy to tear down
You look so tired
You can't hold all the doors open when you're just trying to survive
Live in a shattered glass house
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Tired Nightlife
04:46
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This street has been here for years
Making stars of the streetlight hearts that ingest their pride
And savour sickness we save just for the night
This street will be here a while
Where is our crippling doubt
That we can't go outside, can't go outside without
I couldn't find you at the end of the night
But you said you were my way out of the tired nightlife
The back of a taxi on a dark night
Has seen more prayers than the walls of a church
And the hundreds and hundreds of warnings
Have seen you playing with water but you still got burnt
Where is your shame you said
You can't leave behind, can't leave home without it
Tired nightlife
It leaves me behind
I don't need any more volunteers with heart
Or servants of style that say they will when they can't
I need a structure, disaster relief
Say your prayers before you bury me
I don't need any more suggestions of heart
I need the cold hard facts pinned squarely to the mark
“So we beat on, boats against the current
Borne ceaselessly into the past”
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Repeater, Repeater
03:00
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I've missed it, it's been a while
I can smell it on your skin
It's behind your smile
And that's where it draws me in
When everything fades
Your rotten roots will come out
And Repeater, you'll be forcing them down
We're lined up in the backstreets
Force-fed a bitter vaccine
Repeater, Repeater
Another crashed car
Your acid tongue melts
What you've waited for
And anything I could say
Would be bent out of shape
And by moonlight you had
Reduced me to ash
And with my trembling hands
I held all the venom back
You take everything I have
You paint it black
Repeater, Repeater
“A pretty bird in a cage”
Repeater
You're my cage
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8. |
Dearest On Show
04:19
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Spark the bloodflow
Pull till there's nothing more
My view of your face sends me home
It brings me home
Every day stays that way
That backlit face
Lights me up
Nothing changes when
I need you this much
There's nothing that could keep us too far apart
Only you move the blood in my heart
I'll never let you go
You're my dearest, on show
I wake up next to you
Less in body than mind
Open access to yours
But you won't take mine
Yeah we won't be separated
Not when I've got you on-screen
I'll keep writing you letters
That you'll never see
Yeah I know we can make it
I've got the structures in place
All that's left to arrange
Is meeting you face to face
You're frozen in time
Not just for my eyes
I'll never let you go
You're my dearest, on show
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9. |
Head Full of Static
03:16
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Take what you are
Get some life in your winter heart
We'll take a car
We need to get outside ourselves
We're set to explode
We're bigger than what's left at home
I believe in you
We're set, when she said
“Blood isn't thicker than water, but it stains our bones all the same”
Swallow it down, taste defeat
There's nothing else for you to eat
You can't delay the inevitable
Live here, rot here without
The spark to light this grey house
Your doubts will follow you home
Put your hands to the sky
Pray with a head full of static, head full of static
It'll never rain
I'll wait with a head full of static, head full of static
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10. |
The Roman Way
03:08
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Unwound
Settled down
Get a read on where our
Stars are found
And the action will come, but for now I'm stuck
So lay me to rest where I want to wake up
Oh, so long
There's only so many things I'll get wrong
I'll see my ghost from a few years back to tell me where I came from
Oh, so long
We'll just keep on keeping on
I'll see my ghost from a few years back to tell me where I came from
Breathe out
Spun around
Sing a new song just to
Hold it down
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Stars & Flights Neath, UK
We are STARS & FLIGHTS, from Neath, South Wales.
We released debut album ‘Dropping
Anchors’ in 2012 and the 'Ruin EP' in June 2013. Our next full-length, 'Moral Colour', recorded with Chris Coulter (Arcane Roots, Empire) is set for release on June 16th through Ghoulish Records.
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