1. |
Smoke Him Out
03:43
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He was so sure and I was less
When we was more, I would guess
that I was wrong
I didn't trust myself
so I gave my strength to someone else
for too long
It went on too long
Went on and on and on
It went wrong too long
Went on two times too long
I've got to clear him out, though he's gone
I feel him everywhere
I find
I need to burn herb, to smoke him out
I've got to clear this air
It's high time
High time, my time
High time to wave goodbye
This time, my time
This time I know what's mine
Went on too long
and now I know
if he's still hanging around here
how to make him go
Smoke him out, smoke him out of me
Smoke him out, smoke him out of me
Smoke him out of me, smoke him out
He's not the one that I'm having hanging about
Smoke him out of me, smoke him out
He's not the one that I'm going to worry about
Bring me the bunch of sage
I need the sage to cleanse
Bring me the bunch of sage
Or bring me frankincense
I need to breathe the herb
Breathe the smoke and hold it in
I need a real refurb
That's how I'm getting rid of him
I need to breathe the smoke
Roll it, hold it, smoke it right
I need to take a toke
Does anybody have a light?
I need to smoke him out
Roll it, hold it, smoke him right out of here
I need to smoke him out
I'm over letting him hang around here
Smoke him out, smoke him out
Smoke him out, smoke him out of me
Smoke him out of me, smoke him out
He's not the one that I'm having hanging about
Smoke him out of me, smoke him out
He's not the one that I'm going to worry about
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2. |
You Tell Me
04:18
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I followed after your voice
while friends were telling me
I was making the wrong choice
well, I feel differently
I find you at the crossroads
I ask you for the way
You ask me if I’m ready
well, what is there to say?
I’ll open my fist and you can tell me what you see
the creases I’ve always been carrying
I'll give you my hand and you can say where each road leads
and know if I mean it, honey, you tell me
You better keep me guessing
Don’t stop making me sweat
Do I know my demons?
Don’t I know them yet
Am I burning in the moonlight
or standing in your shade?
Have I paid the full price?
Come close if you who can say
I’ll open my fist and you can tell me what you see
The old age in my hand, I carry
I’ll open my fist and you can tell me what will be
and know if I mean it, well honey, you tell me
I’ll open my fist and you can tell me what you see
The old age I’ve always been carrying
If I thought that I was too late
Or I had come too soon
It never tells me one time
When I ask the moon
She isn’t only present
as light is in the day
she shines with tomorrow
or sun from yesterday
I’ll open my fist and you can tell me what you see
The old age I’ve always been carrying
I’ll give, I’ll give you my fist
from the old age that it carries, tell me...
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3. |
Drop
04:32
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Let’s get together and go where we need to
Let’s gather there, let’s gather just us two
My weight and your weight
are too hard to stand
I can hardly wait
to hold each other in our hands and
drop
and slide
You’re inside, I’m out, we slip and slide
You’re inside, I’m out, let's take each other's side
I can’t tell the side
you’re on, I’m on
but as we’re both outside
we’d better move along and
drop and slip
and slide and drip
Let me feel everyone you feel inside of me
I want everyone that you become in me
We make no mistake, we’re always in excess,
whatever else we make, we'll always make a mess
Now we’re in the hall
we’re nowhere else
I can’t count us all
we stand beside ourselves and
drop and slip
and slide and drip
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4. |
Spin
02:13
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With a kiss you can give it to me
Just a bit and we spin, we're spinning
With a kiss you can hold me in the air
Oh can't you hear me buzz?
I'm high, I'm high, I'm high
from your love
but you know I can't fly
Come on up and catch me with a thread
Spin this kiss into a web
Roll around to make a bed
Oh I'm high, I'm high, I'm high, I'm high
Pull me tight and tight and tight
Tying knots in our spit
Mix ourselves with our kiss
Oh we kiss, we kiss, we kiss, we kiss
Mm we mix, we mix, we mix, we mix
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5. |
Under Sheets
03:07
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The tap is tapping
the sink is sinking down
The face of night
the flash of cat's eyes
bring me around
I have to be up soon
I stay up late
Every little bad move
is mine to make
In the screen light, lit up in the phone light
Under sheets, making every night a late night
Stay up just to lay around, get up just to lie down
See the new ground open as the tide's out
Crack the screen and the light comes out
Light runs out, the light seeps out out-loud
Crack the screen and the light comes out
We fill the room, I watch us move
giffing hard against the walls
Under sheets, let whatever from the day come in and out
I can see what happened and what could have been now
Get up just to lie down, stay up just to lay around
Under sheets to make my childhood proud
As slow as sleeping, when sleeping takes a hold
As fast as dreaming, as the dream unfolds
As slow as dripping, dripping from the tap
As fast as falling and no going back
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6. |
Went
04:24
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Tonight is never too late
Over at your corner I see you’re not on either side
Starting to find the trace of your ways in this place you left, I’m right behind
Oh what’ve you got me doing?!
Oh what’ve you got me into?
In the sky are the plane trails
On the ground are the tracks of snails
On the wall the signs you’ve left are lines: a knot, a cross, a kiss
Now I remember how you bent and moved and stood when you went to write like this
Oh what’ve you got me doing?!
Oh what’ve you got me into?
What have you got me in to?
Oh I miss you yes I do
You would
you’d stop
you’d cross
below
not lost
cross road
soft stuff
tied up
like Peirrot
in position at the spot-lit cue
To match
your signs
do I fit
your kiss?
Your lines
flick wrist,
stop stiff
Like this
reach mine
Like this
this
You went like this
I miss you
You went...
You went like...
You'd go...
You'd go like...
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7. |
Didn't I?
02:51
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Didn’t I want to stretch?
Didn’t I want to hold my breath and float up higher?
Didn’t I want the depth?
Didn’t I want to hold my breath and gounderwater?
I roll round in dry dirt
Stand straight and my back hurts
on the land
But didn’t I just want
to turn around and hold my tongue
in your hands?
Didn’t I?
Didn’t want to?
Could I?
Could I have wanted to?
Didn’t I want to leave?
Didn’t I want the leaves, the trail that leads me?
Didn’t I want the peak?
Didn’t I want the birds that speak to teach me?
I roll round in dry dirt
Stand straight and my back hurts
on the land
But didn’t I just want
to bend 'round and hold my tongue
in your hands?
Oh mm....
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8. |
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Did you notice that the blue hour’s beginning?
When day and night pass
We could walk out as the night flowers are opening
They open like the first stars
I know you’re busy
I know, I know you have your work
But put that down, come around and pick me up
It may always feel hard to balance
There may never be time enough
but I don’t believe the choice between you or us
Don’t you have tonight?
Not some night
Not one night down the line
But this one for two
for me and you
to make a little time into the blue
All the stories say it’s your work or it’s our love
that one’s sacrificed
That’s the kind of shit I might believe in today
But I never will tonight
This light tells other stories
other ones that could be true
That don’t pit our time together against what we each do
If we want to tell another story
That isn’t gain at the other’s loss
Then at each turn we just have to keep making it up
Don’t you have tonight?
Not some night
Not one night down the line
But this one for two
for me and you
to waste a little time into the blue
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9. |
Meet
04:20
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We make a deal, we set the dare,
and see what comes from what we share
You know I learned when we met
how to be frank, like Juliet
If my dreams can take everything away,
returning me to servitude again,
they can believe that nothing’s safe
as we meet again when I wake
And if my dreams don’t believe you
I only know I don’t need to
because we met, and we meet
We move close and we open,
to be close is to never end
We get closer as we feel
the strangers we are still:
who we are that we don’t know
Just remember that is how,
how we met, and how we’ll meet
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10. |
Stick Around
04:28
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Every night or so I came to lie down at your side to rest
and only speak in whispers to each other, just to taste your breath
As we appeared within each other's eye, we steamed them up
I thought the sighs that gave us sight were the size of us
Then you came for touch and talk when I was sad and didn't want to meet
I thought that I would see myself too closely in your company
And if the wind changed when I was down, would I be stuck?
You said the wind would change again and we should just meet up
Hold the mirror, hold me now
I will let you see whoever's there
I would always go by now
but instead I feel down and I'm not going anywhere
Every night or so I came to lie down at your side to rest
and only speak in whispers to each other, just to taste your breath
As we appeared within each other's eyes, you saw me down
I saw myself as clear and loud and I stuck around
Hold the mirror, hold me now
I will let you see whoever's there
I would always go by now
but instead I feel down and I'm not going anywhere
If we stick around
if we push our luck
If you see me now
then you hold me up
If we mix our mouths
and we push our luck
If we stick around
Come on let's both stick around and not get stuck
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Personnel London, UK
Personnel is a song writing studio started by Robbie Defacto in 2020.
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