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Anne Marie, Ghost of the Sea

by monkeyheaven

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1.
Lights 01:11
2.
I tried to catch her eye at work today To tell her something I've no words to say But all the rest of them got in the way And I put my head back down again I only wanted to convey to her A genius that's vanishingly rare But I was forced to the conclusion that The world isn't ready for me It simply lacks the understanding The subtlety and the commanding wit and grace I'm better than this place Best quit and leave no trace For this world isn't ready for me I'm slowly suffocating in the grey Among the commonplace and everyday I need to blaze a trail, to find a way Like Jimi did at Monterey I must describe a sharply upward curve To give her everything that she deserves She's better than the fools she deigns to serve But I am better still, my love It's all so undemanding For an artist of future standing Like myself It's playing havoc with my health To spend a lifetime on this shelf Because the world isn't ready for me I might undergo rebranding And come back even more outstanding than before I may be absent from this shore Until I'm something she can't ignore Can't do other than adore When the world becomes ready for me But the world isn't ready for me
3.
Suicide 05:23
I am just a shadow playing Brechtian routines One night all the lights will fade and... [Fold this scene] It's peaceful and uncomplicated Floating back upstream On the night you only wake to walk Into a dream Suicide
4.
Tell Me 02:45
Tell me again How sweet it is To be with me Tell me again How much you'll miss My company Even though I know you are a liar I don't care I don't care Not one little bit Your thoughts are unimportant Cause I'm caught up in the moment And the words just fit So tell me again How sweet it is Tell me just tell me Just tell me again Tell me again You've longed for this Tell me just tell me Again Tell me again how much you'd give To sleep with me Tell me again I want to live This dangerously Even though you know I am a liar You don't care you don't care not one little bit Your thoughts are not important When they're swallowed in the moment And the rest Just Fits So tell me again How sweet it is Tell me just tell me just Tell me again Tell me again And again
5.
Come on You got one wrong It's not the end of the world You're such a sensitive girl In the dreams You were dreaming In the longest night of your life In the bed you shared with his wife Earlier In the hotel Now the darkness laps at the edge Of the waterlogged windowledge Where you perch Quietly alone Above a town you've never known And you see the lights As the stars ignite Can you see the lights Can you see On the streets the lights Are at sea tonight Can you see the lights Anne Marie See the lights Can you see the lights Can you see the lights Anne Marie Anne Marie the lights On the sea tonight Can you see the lights Anne Marie Anne Marie the lights Those sad satellites Can you just sit tight Wait for me Anne Marie Can you see the lights You're at sea tonight Will you be alright Anne Marie Anne Marie
6.
Anne Marie 04:08
Oh come on We can do what we've never done We could freeze out in the sun So come on Anne Marie The best you'll ever be As cold as you can be You're the one So come on So come on A hundred men are on the run A hundred stars whose time has come And I'm one You can't just sit and wait for fun You got to give it to someone So come on Anne Marie A kingdom by the sea I don't mean literally But come on Anne Marie The last I'll ever see There's only you and me So come on We could run We could run So come on
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Iceland 02:32
Come to me My sinner sent away Cross continents An unfamiliar way To Iceland To Iceland They sent you to Iceland Velkommin in Iceland But just not today
9.
Wintertown 03:17
Going down Into the wintertown You'll wear the gown Your wore when you last were found And you thought you'd never get there But you'll get there in the end How I wish we'd never met there Now there's no time left to spend Just going down Into the wintertown You come in to say that you won't but you will but you... Oh you lied You say it's a bore but it's really a thrill No but Yes you might It's always the same when you're dressing to kill in the Dying light And even though you might go missing Out of sound and out of sight To the world you'll never listen For permission in the night Going down Into the wintertown
10.
Ooh La La 03:29
I've seen it all before You and he Clambered your way ashore On TV Always leave wanting more Or is that me? Can't say I ever saw The irony Oh You shit You went and did it On the rug On my La la la la la la la la I saw you on the floor You and he Reflected on Aznavour On TV Something about l'amour Without me Always leave wanting more Didn't he? Oh my LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA Ooh la la La la
11.
Forsake Me 04:42
Christ you're all I ever had And Christ you're all So grim The things you hid Were very bad The things you did With him Forsake me Never my darling Forsake me Never mind love From behind your caravette I watched you walk in sillhouette With him With him Just before your minuet I saw you light a cigarette For him For him Forsake me Never my darling Forsake me Never mind love Forsake me Never my darling Forsake me
12.
(Twenty years had passed since that grey spring morning) Somehow We're meant to be Only we Somehow Are not quite real How d'you feel Sometimes I don't think this Ludicrous Precipice Is frightening And all the seals Will dance a reel  While falling (Each was perfectly normal but together they formed a monster)
13.
I don't understand the meaning Of the indiscreet thoughts and indelicate feelings I get When you pirouette And though I've never Met such a group Of talentless people in one sorry troupe I'm a brute Who kinda thinks it's cute To pick forbidden fruit I've never in my life Considered you for my wife I've only ever seen Those pictures of you on the men you tattoo In vermillion and aquamarine And yet I'll regret The lack of the colour I only could get In my life (Indiscipline was rife) When you were someone else's wife Ever on his arm Though sometimes you'd slip from it only to charm The wolves out from the trees But only as far as the faraway bar Where you always went weak at the knees And oh have you heard Of something so foolish grotesque and absurd Yet it's true Through all the red and blue I think I fell in love with you Yes it's true Though this is not your sole virtue ... Well I guess I fell in love with you
14.
Stay 04:30
Stay there And live With one Who can give All that All that if Only You forgive The stars for being bright The moon For being out tonight Too soon If you stay there Stay there and be All there is to me Stay there and live No need to forgive To forgive the wine for being red The bed For being where you'd rest your head If you Stayed there If you'd Stayed there If you'd Stay there If you'd stayed there If you'd stayed If you'd stayed If you stay
15.
Reprendre 01:18
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So Out at sea This could be The forgotten history Of you and me Shapes in lee The form remains A mystery A boy Without a face A girl who's there But is always Out of place The shadow she Came to be Is our forgotten History Recall every place Just remember it's December There's no trace Of anything You meant to me In the Spring of 83 Oh have you seen the state of me Just an old man and the sea Hide Behind the past Because the present Incandescence Cannot last Take sanctuary You and me In the fog's security We will be Swept out to sea A forgotten history

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released March 29, 2013

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