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I Have Often
04:00
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I have often wondered by myself
Keep it quiet, keep it to myself
and it's only in a song that I can pour it out in time for the decline
He will often race the rolling hills
Keeping steady, holding back the thrill
but it’s only at the top when the energy rolls in then nothing
You’re fighting against the walls
and finding a place to fall
While you’re lost in a dream, the world will keep on turning us all
I wish I could take it at the source
Feel the wind change and predict it’s course
But it’s only when it’s too late, when the time has gone and I have compromised
You’re fighting against the walls
and finding a place to fall
While you’re lost in a dream the world will keep on turning us all
Because you’re my best friend and my enemy after all
you’re my best friend and my enemy after all
and I’m fighting against the walls
and finding a place to fall
While I’m lost in a dream, the world will keep on turning us all
because I’m my best friend and my enemy after all
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2. |
Read My Mind
04:21
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I’m so alone in this room
There’s a being right by me with nothing to do as I cry, cry, cry
Let me explain it to you
It’s like talking to a crowd that just stares straight on through
and I try and I try and I try, but we fight and we fight and we fight.
I need you now, can’t you see?
Just close your eyes, count to three
I thought you might try to read my mind
The situation is new
Abandoned by a lover and left to consume
the fear, the worry, the hate
Sadness and confusion of fate
The sorry little clues that I give
seem obvious to me but to you don’t exist
so I lie and I lie and I lie despite of the light in my eyes
I need you now, can’t you see
This is the craziest that I’ve ever been
I thought you might try to read my mind
I need you now, can’t you see?
Just close your eyes, count to three
I thought you might try
I need you now, can’t you see
This is the craziest that I’ve ever been
Oh I thought you might try to read my mind and see that I
I need you tonight.
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3. |
Money Man
04:10
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Oh no, there’s a money man at my door
Close the entrance to my tired mind
Oh my, I can see the evil glint in his eyes
Don’t let them find their way into mine
All it takes is a moment misconstrued
All it takes is a comment overlooked
All it takes is a money man to lose
Oh why, when somebody that we love leaves our side,
do we become an empty shell?
Oh and when did the writings of my heart become something to lend?
You’ve used up all your soul, now you’re spending mine
All it takes is a moment misconstrued
All it takes is a comment overlooked
All it takes is a money man to lose
The truth, any truth
I’m talking to an empty shell, and the only one I want to tell
is you, is you
All it takes is a moment misconstrued
All it takes is a comment overlooked
All it takes is a money man to lose
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4. |
The Odds We've Been Set
05:07
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When will you be gone?
You’ve outstayed your welcome
I didn’t see the part where we were meant to be falling apart
Under your reckless spell
Now who decided we can’t be well
The phone rings
Panic sets in,
preparing my ears for the words
When will we be free?
I love you but I hate to see
you in pain, if I could take it away I would, I would
Now who decided we can’t be well?
Let’s show em all, all the ones that think they can tell
They think they know, but we must show
that we can get over this
Let’s show em all what we know
Let’s go against the odds we’ve been set
They haven’t beaten us yet
But when will we be free?
I love you but I hate to see
you in pain, if I could take it away I would, I would, I would, I would
When will we be free?
I love you and I hate to see
you in pain, if I could take it away I would, I would, I would, I would
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Mechanism
03:05
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I stand here alone
Singing songs about somebody I don’t know
Though the music moves right through my lips, there’s nothing in my soul
Is this the way I’ll go
I sit here alone singing songs about a future unknown
Though there’s blood that’s running through my veins, my heart’s an empty shell
Is this the way I’ll go
Now I’m lost, and all I have is a head that’s filled with grief and worry
I’m lost, there’s no way that I can let you in
Now I’m lost, and all I am is a mechanism to keep coping
There’s no way I’ll let you in
I lie here, alone
Dreaming dreams about somebody that I know
Even though she isn’t here in life, I feel her in my bones
Bones, show me where to go
Cause now I’m lost, and all I am is a head that’s filled with grief and worry
I’m lost, there’s no way that I can let you in
Now I’m lost and all I am is a mechanism to keep coping
There’s no way I’ll let you in
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Hattie Whitehead London, UK
Hattie Whitehead does not pull her punches. Raised on folk and jazz greats of the sixties and seventies, her smart lyrics
and powerful, outspoken female voice blend folk sensibilities with an undeniably modern sound inspired by her discovery of artists like Kurt Vile, Angel Olson and Wolf Alice.
Her new EP Mechanism is out now.
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