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My Love
04:46
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He falls to his knees by the side of the road
Hard sun biting dusty claws at his toes
The day goes on but his bird has nearly flown home
A small boy’s eyes light up with delight and surprise
Tabwerani dalo, tisangalala ndi moyo
Poti tili amodzi, tisangalala ndi moyo
(Come my love, we’re happy with life
Because we are one, we’re happy with life)
First light filters through lashes of trees
Together they rise from the earth as they please
The rules of life roll on and around and astride
Everybody knows you won’t fight it, just let go
Two ends come meet at a point near to home
Full circle with timing and harmony grown
A friend of old returns reminding be bold
But new days lie awaiting at your door
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2. |
What We Lost
03:53
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We parted, way back then
And I felt I could never live without you
Wanted you round, spellbound
We parted, way back then
And I leapt from my daze, left that cage
And climbed right out of my mind to get over you
We were proud, I was breaking
Our love it soured, it quavered
But from that cloud, now I’m soaring
Our golden age played out
What we had is lost, what we’ve lost is gone
We parted, way back then
I still wonder how this blissful love stole my thunder
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3. |
Follow
04:39
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These days are singing
These days are dancing
These days, follow
These days are shouting
These days are stomping
These days, follow
Rising, riding so high
Here I am, so strong
These days are sanguine
These days are seeking
These days, seeding art
Each day, journeying
Each day, becoming more and more of heart
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4. |
Alice
04:27
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She sat at the water seeing her day roll by
One by one counting eagles glide
The world outside, window her eyes
Days and numbers a state of mind
Beneath stars, by gentle waves
These lucid moments and Alice play
Complexity shows its face, she witnesses its simple ways
Alice in wonderland sang so sweetly
Alice sang but too shyly
So she ran, she fell, she found
There’s so much happening underground
Misty haze obscures her view
Of the opposite shore and this glittering blue
Reflections of light cloud her sight, the mirrors lie
I heard somebody say that what you see in the world is you
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5. |
Alien
04:00
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An alien came to this place
They said "Oh, the ways of the world embraced!
Lose borders, for those there’s no need
They only disrupt voyagers
Sailors and neighbours, lusting and fear
Breathe our journeys over this space locked sphere.”
An alien came to this place
They said “Oh, the ways of the world of grace!
Governance, you won’t catch me
With your black hole nonsense
Feasting on rules, lavish and lawless
Freedoms vanish one at a time before our eyes.”
You’ll have strong ties, you’ll grow deep roots and
You’ll step light on through open doors
For this whole world is yours
An alien came to this place
They said “Oh, the ways of the world reclaimed!
This ownership, such a blind miser
He’s a grand illusionist
Homes of the ancients, buried in sorrow
All that limbo, all those dollars won’t solve.”
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6. |
3 Days
03:49
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I never knew I’d break so hard
Shattered like a pane of glass
I never thought we’d fall apart
Then you tossed a brick through my heart
Thank you, you dealt that final blow
Thank you, you tripped my ego
Countless songs and movies fed me ideas of
The romance I thought I sought
The way I believed love be
I never dreamed you’d fade so far
Being as one as we were
Now you’re gone I remember
I don’t believe in forever
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7. |
Endless
03:10
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A curious smile behind closed eyes
Remarkable hidden things there shine
A home in the west and one in the east
The most exquisite pirates' feast
Skills required to converse with beasts
There's always something more
There's always something more to endlessly explore
Under the surface, between these lines
Desires burrow and build their hives
Muscles up to here and breasts out to there
A ride on the shiniest pony at the fair
Birds to Jupiter's moons
There's always something more
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Sister
03:58
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Hey midnight, mischief feign
Moon weighs heavy on the rise
Waters rage, swirl reflection
Seas weave ever rolling waves
Inside in as without
I dove with my sisters far below the river’s skin
Platypus swam with us, omen
We have sovereignty, sisters let’s begin
Here I stand in this mirror, knee deep
Side by side with these women I keep close to my heart
You keep me standing
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She's So Heavy
04:01
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She’s so heavy, she knows how to move with the ocean
She’s so steady, she knows how to navigate motion
Her melon moon slice rises high over oceans, so high
Everything is most likely going to be okay
She’s so heady, she’s bundled us up in her wonders
Her voices at night hold brightly the fire under life
She’s so ready, she’s not taking no shit from no one
Her anger will roar, how greedily we’ve bored
How blindly we’ve waged our wars
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10. |
His Tale
04:00
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I look at my two shoes (of mine)
"Hey, let's grow old together (you and I)
You carry me so softly (so quiet)
Carry me until the sun falls (to night).”
My shoes carry me on, rain or shine
We love company, so fine
Stay a while and leave in good time
I won't deny - the road inspires me
My musing I'll share with a bright honey
That's what we do, move
He'd be the evolving kind
Man enough to truly find
Real respect for womankind
Beyond history's disguise
His tale of privilege, revise
This equation, redesign
For I cannot comply with rusty generalized lies
That's what we do, move
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11. |
Easy
05:34
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Miles and miles on secondary highways
So many moments of elation
Our voices have wings
Be easy, be inside, be easy
Years, in years, this I'll treasure dearly
Revel in our legacy
My soul's fingers unfurled
Fiery fingers unfurled
Be easy, be inside be easy
See easy, see inside, see easy
Sing easy, sing inside, sing easy
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Anni M Fables NSW, Australia
Inspired by beauty, grit and oddity, Tasmanian freak-folk artist Anni M Fables draws on the work of figures such as Salvador
Dalí and Tim Burton, as well as artists CocoRosie, The National, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Timber Timbre.
Based in the Byron Shire of NSW, Fables weaves her rich experience as a traveling songwriter, delivering tales of imagination and alchemy.
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