1. |
The Perfect Storm
03:59
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You know this country has a problem with racism
The question is, which one?
Loathsome labels
I really hate them
I can't help that
I wake up in this skin
What's your problem?
Is our presence too modern?
Well guess what?
BAME, get lost
We shall not budge
European
Laboratory
Same old same old
Story
The perfect storm
You should be worried
We shall not budge
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2. |
Soaring To The Sun
03:00
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Soaring Through The Sun
Caught Up In The Updraft
I Need To Feel At One
Birds Strangling
On Floating Labels
Plastics Disguised As Rainbows
And I Will Not Break
And The Bird Shudders In The Wind
The Biting Cold
The Gale & Garbage
Tumble & Tumble & Tumble & Tumble...
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John's Tribute
02:41
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Dear John this is a song in your style
Done in tribute to you
All the lives you've created beside
Live on in tribute to you
So John this folksy song
Is powered by the Spirit of you
And the lives that create on
Create in tribute to you
Although I'm not a great media director
Or brilliant actor like you
Thank you for being so open with a creative Spirit
That's not a regimented business
But an artist that's true
So we create on in tribute to you
and Thank You
Dear John this is a song in your style
Done in tribute to you
All the lives you've created beside
Live on in tribute to you
So we create on, in tribute to you
and Thank You
Thank You
Thank You for being You
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5. |
Pavilion
03:39
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Walking By The Pavilion
Everything Is So Familiar
Walking By The Pavilion
All of This Is So Familiar
You've Lost Your Ability To Talk
Attached To a Bed
What Wisdom Have You Got to Share?
While You're Immobilised
For You Cannot Move Or Express
What Wisdom Have You Got To Share?
A Single Tear Streams From Your Eyes
The Wisdom You've Got To Share
& I Shall Hold Onto That Wisdom
In Our Short Lives
An Icon of The Country Passed To Heaven
Because You Were Truly Wise
Everything Is So Familiar
But I'm Not The Same Now That You're Gone
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6. |
Bashir's Song
01:38
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Pencerahan Pertama
04:33
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Om Joni Lives In a House
In The Deepest Part of The Jungle
Far Away From Any Big City
In a Land Filled
With a lotta Fauna
A Lotta Flora
A Lotta Language
A Lotta Music
A Lotta Food
& A Lotta Prayer
One Day Joni & I Were Sitting Opposite Each Other
Trying To Watch Indonesian News
& Joni Asks Me 'Smai, Do You Know Why People Pray?'
I Thought About It I Gave Some Very Vague
Western Scientific Answer
So Joni Tells Me About The People
That Are Starving
The People That Are Struck By Tropical Disease
The People That Encounter The Language of Loss
Which Is All of Us
There Was a Man In The Village
Who Wore a Fruit Basket on His Head
& One Day He Ran Into Me
& He Was Speaking Frantically
I thought he was speaking the local Bahasa
A language I didn't understand
It turns out the man had lost his only son
& It wasn't a language that was written down
It wasn't an official language
They were ramblings
Yet
This language of loss
Is one that we all understand
& Though you be depressed
& Though things might be difficult
It's always worth being grateful
& Doing the best for others
To ease that language of loss
As best we can
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8. |
Simple Days
03:00
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You Were Born Gifted
With A Skill Unmatched
Something Few Others Have
You Could Draw The World Like a Photograph
And Yet You Aren't The Future
Driving Around The Neighbourhood
Booing The Ethnics On The Tv
Fighting The Equality
You're Still The Finest Artist
Who Treated It Like a Pest
& Now You Spend Simple Days
Driving Your Gifts Away
There's Artists Drawing For Countless Days
Trying To Perfect a Simple Shape
Yet You Can Walk In and Outdraw Them All
But They'll Accomplish What You Won't
Don't Be Disheartened If You Believe
Your Dream To Be Your Destiny
For Talent Really Is Just The Start
It's All About Having The Heart
Using Your Brain and Being Your Soul
& Being Completely Brave & Giving It Your All
Otherwise You'll Spend Simple Days
Driving Who You Are
Away...
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9. |
Fuji Gunung (侘寂)
03:21
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Give it time yeah give it time
I'm so broken
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10. |
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We will never create stars
As beautiful as the ones we shroud
The lost view of their home in our marvellous sky
There is not daylight, without that one. special. star...
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