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Mountain
06:26
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foolish me, I thought you’d gone finally
by the lake, I hear you say my name
as a mountain holds an echo deep inside of it
that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget
understand, my heart is mine again
emptied out of every ‘I love you’, we said aloud
as a mountain, holds an echo deep inside of it
that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget
I cant forget
I won’t forget
as a mountain, holds an echo deep inside of it
that’s how I hold your voice, like a song I can’t forget
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I Can't Sleep
03:54
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I can’t sleep, I’m thinking about you
I’ve done everything that you’re supposed to
but you’re there like the stars, like the Spring
you’re the sky, you cover everything
counting sheep for hours, writing it all down
letters I won’t send
just have to get it out
get it out of me
how to get it out?
get it out of me
I talk to the dark, she swallows the words quickly
I need someone else to make sure that I’m real
but the bed opens out like a field
I miss all the ways you made me feel
counting sheep for hours, writing it all down
letters I won’t send
just have to
git out of me
get it out of me
at least the madness comes as quickly as it leaves
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Tight Lips
03:43
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Tight lips, holding in secrets, the sounds and the stories that i’d like to know
I wish i could be restrained like you, hold in the thought that you’re the source
you’re the source of the river in me
big hands, hands to move mountains, could I lay my head on them, would they keep me safe
I wish you were open like I am, then I would tell you, you’re the sea
You’re the sea that is rising in me
steady eyes, eyes that can hold mine, don’t look away yet, what do you see
do you see the ocean behind them, the ocean that’s carrying moving me
You’re the ocean that’s carrying me
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Garden
05:12
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I wish i could talk to you like this every day
hear those waves they're crashing down like every word we say
I put your smoke to my lips, think how close i’ve been to yours
every crack and every curve, I have known them, I have known them
you have changed yet you’re still the same, I can feel that string
tied round my waist into you, cause you know everything, everything
but this is what you needed, so i will cut down every shoot
that i have held in my arms to keep a garden just for you, just for you
look at all the flowers in bloom
look how long I held on to you
look at all the flowers in bloom
look how long i held on to you
all those days
into one
all those years
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Swallowed The Stars
04:00
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I don’t know you anymore
I used to think you had swallowed the stars
may my heart always be open to little birds, that are the secrets of living
even though i see you standing there beside her, I know I was real too. I know I was real too
may my heart always be open
may my heart always be open
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The Hospital
02:46
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I know the worst of you, i’ve seen you in your darkest hour
staring down the black dogs, standing in a hall of mirrors
what do you see there now? Is that a man you could be proud of?
Is that a heart full of love? Is that a heart full of love?
The hospital made us put the flowers, out in the hallway after dark
I think they thought the pollen of spring would make you sick
And I stayed awake all night, fearing irrationally that you would die
from something they missed inside
And the birds fly up from the roof
singing none of this can be true
none of this can be true
none of this can be true
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I Know What You Are
04:01
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I know what you are you’re not the tide, you’re the wind
blowing me about, tearing me limb from limb
I thought we were safe, I thought you’d carry me always
you pull up the earth, you toss the ground in my face
but you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now
you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now
chewing up the dirt something has died in my chest
something I held for you, buried deep in my breast
you take what you want then talk as if it was nothing
as if you didn’t know my heart was in your hands burning
but you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now
you can’t hurt me now you can’t hurt me now
you can love whoever you like
I no longer think of you as mine
you can love whoever you like
I no longer think of you as mine
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Carry It Slowly
02:18
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If you give me your heart
I’ll carry it slowly
I won’t spill any of the love
that you’ve been holding
time is on our side, so don't you try to fight me
if you give me your thoughts
I’ll chew over them so slowly
won’t let any of them go
on the wind that we’ve been blowing
time is on our side, so don’t you try to fight me
so come pick me up
tell me how you have been feeling and I
promise you that I will listen to anything
time is on our side, so don’t you try to fight me
If you give me your heart
I’ll carry it so slowly
won’t spill any of the love
that you’ve been holding
time is on our side, so don't you try to fight me
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Genevieve Dawson London, UK
Genevieve Dawson is a songwriter whose music thrums with jazz-inflected rhythms of her adopted South-East London home, and a
directness and warmth brought from her upbringing singing folk songs in Scotland.
described by BBC Radio London as ‘incredibly beautiful music’ and loved by Radio 6 Music, featured by Gideon Coe and Tom Robinson on the BBC Introducing Mixtape.
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