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Habitually Ambitionless
04:59
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Another brother
Looking for a keeper
And lucky for him,
The guru seeks a seeker too
They're a perfect fit
Like a shark and suckerfish
Landlord and tenant
Now what's a shepherd without sheep?
Pleasure vendor
And you're sharing it around
But with every song
You're getting further from the sound
(With every one) Further from the sound
Used to be slow to suggest
And at best
Habitually ambitionless
And happily ambitionless
Now he's just another brother
Looking for a keeper
And unlucky for him
The guru seeks a seeker too
In you
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Oh Wheel
04:27
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You see it out the corner of your eye
Was it left or right?
Premonition or fright....
Well, it really doesn't matter anyway
When fate's a fierce toothless dog.
Cause when I jumped in the ocean that day
My bones knew that a shark was spearing my way
But when nothing came to break my little frame
Oh, I felt so betrayed
Oh wheel
Oh why
Conceal
Your line
I've been on the rim for long enough
To know the ups and downs
The round and rounds
But nothing can prepare you for the stillness
Of the middle ground
Oh wheel........
Don't you feel you've been here before
And everything up to this point
Was just staring at the door?
Oh wheel........
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One Is, The Other
03:32
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One is, the other Knows
One has Dreams, the other goals
One is apart, one feels alone
One lets be, the other wants control.
One Slowly, one like a gun
One sees the other like the Sun
One is a Ray, one feels the light
One moves on, the other fearful dies
One catches on, one holds on to
One just does, one tries to do
But two old dice don't get wise
When every day's a brand new try
One waits, the other too
But one says, 'everything is new'
One says, 'everything is new'
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Private Sunset
02:47
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Moving away
Swimming out into the grey
Sea Sky Horizon
Its all the same
On a day like today
And I watched you in your green swimming cap
I thought you were going away but you were going back
And I suppose it is what it is;
To each his own private sunset
The page is a cage
The pen is a knife
Lets go outside
Where we're alive
And we
Don't need
To try.
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The Wave
03:31
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Break the skin, the sea will let you in
Breathing out the bubbles in the sun
Now moving like the silence through the trees
Place your head upon the ocean floor
And feel the waves
Not with your eyes
Now letting go
Your body slowly rise
Feel the waves
Not with your eyes
Now letting go
Your body slowly rise
Feel the waves
Not with your eyes
Now letting go
Your body slowly rise
Feel the waves
Not with your eyes
Now letting go
Your body slowly rise
Break the skin, the sea will let you in.
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Dilemma
04:47
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I've heard that you have feet
Light as fallen leaves
And you have outrun almost every living thing
Leopard, horse and hare
And even your own guilt and shame
Then all thats left is the dilemma
The fear of life with too much shelter
No mountain or valley
Just desert, dry as flame
So you call upon a storm
From your bed too safe and warm
A year has gone by you hear the thunder and you know just what it is
Reflex, you start out from the blocks
Wings on your ankles shimmering
But as you tire
Hail pounding behind you
In front, a cliff
Sheer looking down, you're paralysed
With your bleach white breath
WIth your baited breath
You're dying to see whats next
There's no hedge for that bet
With your bleach white breath
bleach white breath
Dying to see whats next
Dying, to see what comes next
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Tom Cooney Brisbane, California
Brisbane’s Tom Cooney released his third LP Futureproof on digital and vinyl formats July '17.
Recorded &
produced by Lawrence Greenwood in a home studio set up on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Futureproof explores the full amplitude of life. Not just a breakup album, the record sees Tom collect a series of moments ranging from closeups to landscapes, personal to universal.
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Tom Cooney recommends:
Tous Les Jours - Ep
by Stéphane Milochevitch (ex-THOUSAND)
Great folk songs done different.
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