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Instantly, insanely catchy, with feverish rhythms.
THE SONGS
COMPARE SCARS
LYRICS
So my life’s where you lead
Though I’m lost in ways words can’t explain,
Still I know where I should be
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
I know it’s hard when they’re calling your name
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
On this road next to you
And they’ll hand you a rope and slyly smile
It’s in our hands how we swing, we swing
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
I know it’s hard when they’re calling your name
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
With every glance well you do, you do
And your eyes a blade and will carve up this scene
Slice our way through this room, this room
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
I know it’s hard when they’re calling your name
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
Some are deep and some are dear
Compare scars of love and war
Some are ugly and some are features
Compare scars of love and war
Some are deep and some are dear
Compare scars of love and war
Some are ugly and some are worth it
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
I know it’s hard when they’re calling your name
But keep your head straight, keep your head straight
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
LOVE IS NOT CONTROL
LYRICS
Seldom place each word getting shape but
What remains like a holy grail
Joys embrace, parked on braiding
Feel it in and the fact it’s saved
Torn and tide and the room contain
But the rules we set are the rules we break
So I don’t know love no, I don’t know love at all
But oh, if we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together then
Stood old drunken and leaning gently
To all aboard when the boat is saved
The world ain’t safe when you’re playing safely
Feeling now in your very next step
Walk your walk as you break your neck
And you’re feeling proud, feeling down
So I don’t know love no, I don’t know love at all
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together then
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
So let go
Your eyes on gold and your heart’s on gold
And your mind’s on poking is all control
In the little lives where the story ain’t broken
You tripped her in, you clipped her wings
Forced her sing and the gage that brings
No love, no joy, no can, no soul
So I don’t know love no, I don’t know love at all
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together apart
If we’ve fallen together then
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
So let go
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Who’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Who’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Who’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Who’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Who’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard, know it’s hard
(Who take, who take, who take, who take)
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
Love is not control and love’s not control
So let go
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
OH MY LOVE
LYRICS
Penny for your thoughts
I’m saving up to buy them all
I’m saving up to buy a boat
Big enough to sail us home
Oh my love
We’re destined to demise
And there’s nothing I can do
No there’s nothing you can say
But it don’t matter
What matters is now
Penny for your thoughts
One day I’ll own them all
One day I’ll know what makes you tick
And explode the way you did
Line ’em up and set ’em loose
Incarcerated red balloons
Watch them fly
And in the moment when they die
Fall in crimson youth
Oh my love
We’re destined to demise
And there’s nothing I can do
No there’s nothing you can say
But it don’t matter
What matters is now
Oh my love
One day they’re gonna put me in the ground
And there’s nothing I can do
No deal we can make
It don’t matter
What matters is now
Oh love, come take my hand
See it does not shake
Always stays the same and
Oh love, come take my han
See it does not shake
Always stays the same
Oh my love
We’re destined to demise
And there’s nothing I can do
No deal we can make
It don’t matter
What matters is now
Oh my love
We’re destined to demise
And there’s nothing I can do
No there’s nothing you can say
But it don’t matter
What matters is now
Oh my love
One day they’re gonna put me in the ground
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
FRIENDS
LYRICS
I wake from deep nightmares
The rocks not walls surround me
The weight of all decisions
I’ll count the ones who love me
Hey hey hey let them know
Hey hey hey let them know
If you love them let them know
No good will come from being silent, you know
Oh, I can take a nails
Scratch a word into my palm
Take all the love we’ve got
And call it a friend
I wake upon the ocean
I get my doubts to drown me
All waves of all emotion
I’ll call the ones to save me
Hey hey hey let them know
Hey hey hey let them know
If you love them let them know
No good will come from being silent, you know
Oh, I can take a nail
Scratch a word into my palm
Take all the love we’ve got
And call it a friend
If you love them let them know
No good will come from being silent, you know
Oh, how I feel now
Shaking up and down my spine
And we’ll take all the love we found
And call it our friend
I’m on the phone to fall asleep
I’m on the phone to fall asleep
I’m on the phone to fall asleep, indeed
I’m on the phone to fall asleep, indeed
If you love them let them know
No good will come from being silent, you know
Oh I can take a nail
Scratch a word into my palm
Take all the love we’ve got
And call it a friend
If you love them let them know
No good will come from being silent, you know
Oh how I’m feeling now
Shaking up and down my spine
And we’ll take all the love we find
And call it our friend
I’m on the phone to fall asleep
I’m on the phone to fall asleep, indeed
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
THE CHANCER
LYRICS
When I do I’d like to think it’s with you
Lend me oh a mirror for my soul
Hold it up to see the good you do
Life’s endless drum
Monkeys on my back again, it’s true
Making me a beast of burden
And my legs are good for glue
Like old friends
Through their back and forth,
I see glimpses of the real you
I’m sure there’s some,
I wrote to say what to do
Crawling back against the breaking wind
To find a place
I’m sure I know needs me
Life’s endless drum
Monkeys on my back again, it’s true
Making me a beast of burden
And my legs are good for glue
Angels and demons stood on my shoulders
Like old friends
Through their back and forth,
I see glimpses of the real you
Life’s endless drum
Making me a beast of burden
And my legs are good for glue
Like old friends
Through their back and forth,
I see glimpses of the real you
Life’s endless drum
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
SCHOOL YARD RUMOURS
LYRICS
Let the past stay in the past and go
I’ve seen wise men stoop and shudder
From the cold breast they’re thrown
And the cardinal weeps as the devil sleeps
On the curve above his earlobe
And you don’t go to church anymore
And I know it’s not fair,
Yeah I know it’s not fair
We searched high and we searched low
But there were no witnesses there
And the mothers flutter as the fathers stutter
“And there is no smoke without fire” line
And you don’t go to school anymore
And I know it’s not fair,
Yeah I know it’s not fair
Arm your boy to the teeth
[x2]
And no one picks up the phone
Jut till the fog of rumours thin
And the witches hunt is an insatiable cunt
Designed to drag men down whole
And you don’t go outside anymore
And I know it’s not fair,
Yeah I know it’s not fair
Oh I know it’s not fair
Oh I know it’s not fair
Arm your boy to the teeth
[x2]
Arm your boy to the teeth
[x4]
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
GOOD TIMES (A RAKE'S PROGRESS)
LYRICS
Want to rack up my bones and consume me
I know the good times are killing me
But I don’t know how the conversation ends
There’s a high roller getting sober sitting on the fence
He’s lost you can see in some fine memory
Until you finally stipulate the revelry must end
Want to take me by the hand and show me
I know the good times are killing me
But I don’t know how the conversation ends
There’s an orange princess telling me the things I should have bought
She’s fine in her mind, she likes a sensible guy
Crawling down the window till your hand misses mine
Want to rack up my bones and consume me
I know the good times are killing me
But I don’t know how the conversation ends
Heart of gold
Searching for that easy route
Heart of gold
Blind follow blind, Follow blind they go
Heart of gold
Searching for that easy fix
Want to rack up my bones and consume me
I know the good times are killing me
But I don’t know how the conversation
All the women in my life want to know me
I know the good times are killing me
But I don’t know how the conversation ends
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
MUSICIANS LIKE GAMBLERS LIKE DRUNKS LIKE ME
LYRICS
Hope, drip fed into your blood
Just enough to keep you going
To keep your head in the games we play
Like its all for fun
When it’s all to be won
Forgetting it’s all for keeps
And pain, some of your loses against your gain
You add them up, they’re about the same
Just enough to roll the dice again
For another day lay down all the tears
Though the house always wins
And you should be
Somewhere else you see
I’m dying, a dying breed
And you should be
Somewhere else you see
I’m dying, a dying breed
And love
The curve ball caught by us
The perfect mystery not to solve
The puppet strings that hold us up
To stand, to go to work
Find a desk to sit behind and all that shit
And you should be
Somewhere else you see
I’m dying, a dying breed
And you should be
Somewhere else you see
I’m dying, a dying breed
And you
Should be, somewhere else you see
But you won’t
You’re stubborn like me
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
GRACE AT A PARTY
LYRICS
You carved her name into your chest
We move on, we move on
And kindly mention that his heart is in his mouth
So back down, you kindly fool
Squeezed into this room two hearts explode
We joke, we joke
All the while with painted smiles
While inside you’re saying “you can sit and swivel love”
Reciting lines of hope
I guess I must of read them somewhere
Muttering like a mantra
Running sweaty hands through my hair
Show me grace against this fire
You’re fine, you’re fine
Keep saying you’re fine
We frayed our friends on which side to choose
We move on, we move on
Peering through the hazy room
And everybody’s moving
Like they never heard music before
And I’m dusting off my coat
I guess I must of fallen down somewhere
Still muttering lines of hope
Like some coked up, doped up fiend
Show me grace against this fire
You’re fine, you’re fine
Keep saying you’re fine
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
WORLD JOY (A LIST OF THINGS TO DO)
LYRICS
Who’s worshipers can be found wherever you are
With a fresh gym card and a bear claw in each hand
Raise up your glass to the saint of lost causes
He’s had His eye on me since I started walking
He gave me my first title which said: I’m free to a good home
As miserable apart as they were as one
Oh, my God and your God they don’t get along
Chasing each other like the moon chase the sun
The moment I do, well she won’t come again
But a roll of the dice could mean a change in all our stars
Throw a penny in the jar to my old bout with death
Welcomed by some, terrifies all the rest
But a couple of whiskies in, you see, he’s a right proper gent
As miserable apart as they were as one
Oh, my God and your God they don’t get along
Chasing each other like the moon chase the sun
My God and your God they’re one and the same
Just hurting themselves to see if the other feels the pain
My God and your God, oh things will never change
Chasing each other to the end of our days
Wash away regret, hold their won’ts in again
I must admit to myself I find the constant quite appealing
Give one day a week to the God of song and drink
If one’s not enough then give more if you can
‘Cause this world’s kinda rough and we could all use a soul vacation
As miserable apart as they were as one
Oh, my God and your God they don’t get along
Chasing each other like the moon chase the sun
My God and your God they’re one and the same
Just hurting themselves to see if the other feels the pain
My God and your God, oh things will never change
Chasing each other till the end of our days
Bring temples to the ground to see the other not win
I said, my God and your God were once in love
So disfigured, just look what they’ve become
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
TODAY
LYRICS
I threw my phone away
A cathartic gesture,
A toothless threat
My soul lie panting in the shade
I’ll buy a new one come Monday
Lets laugh like it was worship
Smile like its a prayer
Put our worries behind a fridge
And think
My heart was saved
From sinking in the stupid things
The hurt that life can bring
My mouth must praise
I’m reminded its not the cards
You’re dealt
But only just the way they’re held
I threw my phone away
I’ll buy a new one come Monday
CREDITS
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
This is not a Kismet release.
Released via Xtra Mile Recordings.
Songwriters: Ralph Pelleymounter / Benjamin Jackson / Joshua Platman / Jonathan Willoughby / Ian Dudfield