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misty history (2014 10 track album)

by Redvers Bailey

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1.
Long Time Secret Lover 04:24
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Long Time Secret Lover Constance says she's not ashamed it's just easier this way This relationship's on the rocks cus we're always wrecked It takes more than one great night to write a classic story We weren't always strangers, in your last life you were Juliette I was jealous of the sins accumulated with him Turned out I got a sister, I wished for a brother You're my best friend's long time secret lover My finger's on the pulse of the death of society Dylan's so well read these days he just plays Trivial Pursuit There's whispers going round all of China what we did last night Climbing through my window, pulling down my curtains with your boots We're making love, the sex police appear outside Please hide outside the back door in the snow in your birthday suit The tyrant tried himself as an old man for his war crimes You can tell so much about a person by the way they leave you You are creeping by the moon To each other's rooms But we all know where you are In our house of pornagraphic cards Love's the only force can make an enemy a friend You went out with Aaron and brought home Caleb instead Turned out it was your fate to relate to another You're my best friend's long time secret lover Your other words for love were easy and convenient I felt I didn't fit in, I was from outer space I thought I could adjust to polygamy, well I can't I'm a fully paid up functioning member of the human race We were drinking to my health Not knowing my kidneys had failed I was talking, I didn't think What the listener would think No one berated me until they discovered You're my best friend's long time secret lover
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Tender High Fives 03:31
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Tender High Fives We both looked back at 12 paces Because love it is a duel Episodes begin and end Something new is pulled into a vacuum What do I desire? Now is a perfect time to write a new bucket list of things to do Once a gun appears In the story it must be fired Only a fool would bring a gun To a knife fight Since I’m spending all this time travelling I am multinational a bit irrational Maybe the less you have The more you are required to boast Do you have a heart of ice? It’s why you wont take off your coat No tender high fives Now is a perfect time to write a new bucket list of things to do Will this boy fall in love again? Dancing in the dark He must have had some other girl Printed in his heart No tender high fives Now is a perfect time to write a new bucket list of things to do I’m sitting in an empty lot Thankful for what I’ve got Start again Begin again When you arrive at the end
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I Broke Up The Band 02:56
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I Broke up the Band You and I went back years Shoulder to shoulder we grew 10 years older Our favourite muse inspired our tunes Amazing a girlfriend could end both band and best friends Our guitars on the back seat Blood soaked song sheets and bed sheets I hated you We broke up the band She broke up the band You broke up the band I broke up the band I always thought another chance Would come find us one day We’d sing like the old days But you moved on I moved away We’re 20 years away the day we met in science It’s history that shaped me I miss you mate it’s a shame I loved you We broke up the band She broke up the band You broke up the band I broke up the band You and I went back years But boys and guitars aren't indestructible We broke up the band She broke up the band You broke up the band I broke up the band
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Hounded By Ghosts 04:33
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Hounded By Ghosts What's going on with my cigarette? What's going on with all the regret? Cigarettes, regrets hand in hand I'll draw you a diagram in the sand Of hands held so tight that you wake in the night wIth tears on eyelids Like drops of colour on a silver minnow I sometimes walk past your window You play Nintendo on your own Sat on my throne You don't comb your hair like that no more Who would you comb it for? My mind takes photographs I wonder as I wander from the path I'm hounded by ghosts? Ghosts I look away from it as it looms before me like a whale in a sailor's story I'd sell a soul to keep to kill my idol I'd run away but I'm too bone idle Stand and embrace instead of fight Things that go bang, that go bump in the night And may nightmares end with the softest pillow I sometimes walk past your window It's weird it's not a sin though You play Nintendo sat on my throne On your own You don't comb your hair like that no more Who would you comb it for? My mind takes photographs I wonder as I wander from the path I'm hounded by ghosts? Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts I'm hounded by ghosts, ghosts I'm hounded by a ghost
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Carry Me Round In Your Head 02:35
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Carry Me Round In Your Head Everything is quiet All on our own until we meet At arrivals or on Skype It’s lovely to see you on my screen It will feel like it’s all a dream ‘til you're standing next to me If you sing along to this song When I'm gone or not there You can carry me round in your head And when I look at the sky on a Monday night I can see you face in my mind’s eye It’s not the same But it keeps me sane until Wednesday It is nice to have some time to spend by yourself But not all the time If you sing along to this song When I'm gone or not there You can carry me round in your head
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All Of Your Words 03:15
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All of Your Words When I was young I was younger then I shone like the moon But danced like a bear With both of your hands like feet Running through my hair I’m feeling your pain But don't be concerned I will always treasure all of your words You opened your mouth A diamond dropped out You showed me your rings One started to shout With all of your words Washing out my mouth I’m feeling your pain But don't be concerned I will always treasure all of your words Going to write a book one day With all of the notes that I took Going to take on board All the speeches you read With your beautiful curves Hanging off that frame I’m feeling your pain But don't be concerned I will always treasure all of your words You stole me the files On Pandora’s affairs You stole me her locket, hope And a lock of her hair With all of my crimes Looking oh so fair I’m feeling your pain But don't be concerned I will always treasure all of your words When I was young I was younger then I shone like the moon But danced like a bear With both of your hands like feet Running through my hair I’m feeling your pain But don't be concerned I will always treasure all of your words
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Sing Like Heroes 02:46
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Sing Like Heroes You know I think that last night we had a really good time This morning when I woke up I had laughter lines And all my smiles are made of bits and bobs we said This glass of water tastes sweet it's quenching my thirst Although my throat hurts I want to go to work I want to pay my way It brings a smile to my face I supposes this is just the way it goes It goes That I want to sing like Janis Joplin did Sing like Jeff Buckley did Sing it’s a beautiful thing It’s a beautiful thing that my heroes did That my heroes do Because they opened up my eyes to the ways of the wise And it's opened up my heart like a Kinder Surprise Who’d have thought it was wrapped in foil To stop it getting spoiled You know the pain has gone away, the love well it stayed And the amount you receive's the amount that you give The sum that you get paid's the number of souls you enslave But I suppose that is just the way it goes Hey it goes That I want to sing like Kurt Kobain did Sing like John Lennon did Sing it’s a beautiful thing It’s a beautiful thing that my heroes did My heroes do And my heroes change Change with my needs They nurture and feed They are here right now Wearing a thin disguise I don’t want to look like them I want to see through their eyes I want to sing like Robert Johnson did Want to sing like Alex Chilton did Sing like Elliott Smith Sing like my heroes do Sing sing sing I just want to sing
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Seven Year Heart 03:27
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Seven Year Heart Why can't their books cohabit that shelf Two lonely magnets don't attract they repel She killed his ego with martial arts He slept with her friend Desecrated her heart They're not in love They share a bed It’s been seven years There’s different cells in their heads Cells in their flesh And cells in their hearts They could have grown together But they grew apart They're strangers now they drifted apart She got quite lost No navigational chart When they make love he doesn’t look in her eye She’s sure his love shouldn't make her cry She’s scared to be single Doesn't see the danger Of sticking around having sex with her stranger They're not in love But they share a bed It’s been seven years There’s different cells in their heads Cells in their flesh And cells in their hearts They could have grown together But they grew apart Every seven years every molecule’s renewed They're stuck together with malignant glue He’s lost her now He wasn't so smart He slept with her friend Did a shit in her heart They're not in love They share a bed It’s been seven years There’s different cells in their heads Cells in their flesh And cells in their hearts They could have grown together But they grew apart
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Animals 04:00
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Animals We've refused to grow up with each other for years We are butterfly collectors Birth, death, love and tears We've a small ambition to take over the world But you look too pretty with my quilt, no clothes and your curls Can it breed? Time to feed? Will it hurt me? That's what we think when we meet We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animals We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animal Well I don't know a lot about anything But I know a little bit about almost everything We are magpies collecting shiny things And you are very shiny, very shiny when you sing Can it fuck it? Can I eat it? Will it hurt me? Is our programming? We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animals We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animal You can always trust me to say the wrong thing at the right time I can alway trust you to say the right thing at the wrong time We can trust each other to say the right thing To say the wrong thing at the wrong time, the right time Are you human? You're a killer; it is there in your eyes We just don't like admitting it, we are so civilised All the clocks are ticking here, verbs spilling everywhere No one really knows why we edit our behaviour We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animals We are all just animals Let's get on Be amicable We are animal We are animal We are animal
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Sixteens 05:19
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Sixteens Diana and mother Teresa died the same weekend Someone somewhere drank too much Was ejected with his friends from the Brunswick pool table He fell and grazed his chin Claimed the bouncers pushed him As lying is not a sin For someone who is injured by the shards of shattered dreams Reason to the unreasonable is as precious as life coaching from sweet sixteens We elected a new leader A teenage perfect storm Danced vintage soul Made mad love 'neath the stars We argued on your birthday Was the day that I left town Still my ghost is haunting our favourite places even now We could have cut the atmosphere had we had a laser beam We caught the same bus out that day I remember I was sulking like a sweet sixteen Adam repaired the glasshouse while Eve is with John Wayne Her children have grown up now The tables turned again I hear fathers everywhere talking to their sons Take a glimpse into the future Look at your girlfriends mum I'm supposed to be a man now Always acting mean I'm as soft as the first tears upon the faces of sweet sixteens A bad prime minister in a pop up tent camping VIP Invited vampires into artist entrance 3 They're drinking all the profits and voting with their feet But the votes don't win elections It's the counters decide the seats And when you left it changed me I learned some self esteem Went back in time and met you for the first time as a sweet sixteen I still adore my home town although she bellows that I've changed My childhood can remember the trees I carved my name Life's brilliant series of misunderstandings flies so fast To look at those old photographs is living in the past Now kids divorce their mothers while they're drunk on puberty You only get one childhood and I'm trapped now as an adult Still my soul Sweet sixteen The Biddle Brother's parrot called you my last date's name Danced endlessly into oblivion then walked the walk of shame I prayed you didn't notice but choked upon my drink And you just sang along to vampire weekend and wiped beer from my cheek There's nothing quite as tragic as an old man with a dream I'll hope that I'm inseparable from mine as lovers Sweet sixteens Redvers Bailey

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Redvers Bailey goes back to basics. No band, no studio trickery, only angelic singing, beautifully performed acoustic guitar and a focus on finely crafted joyful folk narratives woven from playful rhymes and contagious melodies.

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released February 1, 2014

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