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Mates Of State - Sleep the Clock Around (Belle & Sebastian Cover)

This track marks a pivotal moment of painful clarity, set to a deep, resigned Blues rhythm featuring a melancholic harmonica. The protagonist realizes he was not a partner but an "Emergency Option" – a resource for his partner's loneliness, available only when everyone else was gone. The lyrical focus is on the bitter logic of this discovery, which, while deeply painful, is the truth that finally begins to free him from the cycle of manipulation and self-betrayal.

Emergency Option

Lyrics based on a segment of Tasos Leivaditis poetic work "This star is for all of us".

[Verse 1]
Look there, my darling, right there on the corner,
See how the spring is rising in the light.
See those young men walking with their harvest on their shoulders,
And the girls behind them shining like the sun so bright.

[Verse 2]
They look at us, my love, they always look at us—
Whisperin’ “Good morning” as they pass along the way.
And out there on the horizon, climbing up a cloud of milk and sunlight,
Maybe they’re building somethin’ holy for our dead tonight.

[Chorus]
Good mornin’, good mornin’,
Good mornin’, my far-away brothers.
Come meet the woman that I love—
Tell me, isn’t she a wonder?
Like life and like a song, my brothers,
I love her more than thunder.

[Verse 3]
And far away, deep in the distance,
Look at that old woman sittin’ quiet on Asian soil.
You know what she’s makin’, darlin’?
She’s knittin’ socks for our daughter, for tomorrow’s little joys.

[Verse 4]
Good morning skies, good morning sunlight,
Good morning spring, you’re breakin’ through.
Come closer now, my brothers, gather ‘round me—
Let me introduce the woman my heart always knew.

[Bridge]
Tell me, isn’t she beautiful?
Tell me you can feel it too—
That kind of love that keeps the fire warm,
That kind of love that pulls the world in two.

[Chorus]
Good mornin’, good mornin’,
Good mornin’, my wandering brothers.
Come meet the woman that I love—
Tell me, isn’t she a wonder?
Like breath and like a prayer, my brothers,
I love her more and more.

[Outro]
So good morning love, good morning future,
Good morning life I’m walkin’ through.
Come on, come on, gather ‘round me—
Let me introduce my happiness to you.

Good morning...

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new DESSA 
album CHIME
in stores 2.23.18
pre-order: http://smarturl.it/DessaChime

Lyrics and vocals by Dessa
Music by Andy Thompson
Additional production by Lazerbeak

LYRICS

I’ve been Wendy
living with the Lost Boys
youth spent as a deckhand on the convoy
moved every night to prove we were something
got confused if it was from or to that we were running. 
I've seen Gibraltar
I’ve seen the Taj Mahal
Soweto, Hagia Sophia 
Chefchaouen paints their walls blue
I’ve played to full rooms
I’ve played the fool too 
burning through the bottoms of a pair of new boots
Cut my hair
tape my tits down 
A woman on her own must be from out of town
funny, you don’t know the concessions that you’re making until you catalog em
and by then they’re many and you’re battle-hardened. 
Heat makes liquid of the asphalt 
keepsakes and parking tickets on the dashboard 
I'm here to file my report as the vixen of the wolf pack; 
tell Patient Zero, he can have his rib back. 

Chorus
You can count my ribs
Wanna know what class I’m in—
Count my,
You can count my ribs. 

You can’t be too broke to break
as a woman
Always something left to take 
so you shouldn't  
try to stay too late or talk to strangers
look too long, go too far out of range cause
angels can’t watch everybody all the time
stay close, hems low, safe inside;
that formula works if you can live it 
but it works by putting half the world off limits. 

Chorus

We don’t say, Go out and be brave
nah, we say Be careful, stay safe 
in any given instance, that don't hurt
but it sinks in like stilettos in soft earth,
like the big win is a day without an incident 
I beg to differ with it
I think a woman’s worth
I think that she deserves 
a better line of work 
than motherfucking vigilance.
Don’t give me vigilance
by definition 
you can’t make a difference 
if the big ambition 
is simply standing sentry to your innocence  
that’s not a way to live 
that can’t be what a woman is
that gives her nothing to aspire to.
What that is—
what that is
is just a life of running fire drills. 

We’re runnin fire drills.

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