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Good Or Bad Or Worse
02:15
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Push ghost buttons and ride fake fades
Draw fine lines on the sound grenades
Find the highs you can make them whine
Good or bad this time
Are you in control of anything?
Sunset field your arena closed
No-one listening and no-one knows
Take to heart all that’s said to you
Good or bad or true
Have you an idea of what to do?
Those unskilled in the subtle things
Storm about and behave like kings
Try to help but it’s thankless still
Good or bad or worse
Would you like to go into reverse?
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Spirit
02:50
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Oh no, oh no, there goes another one
The spirit in him
Can’t define
The space in sound
The beauty pains
The aura profound
Oh no, oh no, there goes another one
The spirit in him
Charm the air
Life unlearned
Harmony
Never so burned
Oh soul unchained
Unknown
Unexplained
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Lifting The Veil
03:13
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Burnt wood trails unwind
And I’m at home when all at sea
And I’m searching for the fires
In the forest that blaze inside of me
Signs lead underground
Where you’re alive in a new way
And a missing puzzle piece is
The simple thing you are trying to say
Lifting the veil
The beyond is a secret no more
Lifting the veil
The beyond is an opening door
Don’t we all want this
To know the light deep in the trees
Is a mystery revealing at last
To a world that’s on its knees
One more sleep and then
We will have conquered fantasy
And relax in simple living
Where knowledge again will make you free
Lifting the veil
The beyond is a secret no more
Lifting the veil
The beyond is an opening door
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On Repeat
03:24
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I could think of you all day
I lay down before you I’m so obedient
You’re the focus of my mind
I’m in the zone and I am reeling and hypnotised
So much better when I
Thought it a second time
Played it over in the film of my mind
Oh what a film played in my eyes
How you sound I can’t define
Such a strange array of voices in you combined
You’re from everywhere at once
And so real that I can hear you in everyone
So much better when I heard it a second time
On repeat the radio of my heart
I played you then back to the start
You’re an image that won’t die
You will burn into the deepest of all mind’s eyes
So much better when I
Thought it a second time
Played it over in the film of my mind
Oh what a film played in my eyes
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High Hideaway
03:32
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How do I always find myself
Deep in the belly of the beast?
Making small fortunes at such cost
To those who stand to gain the least
Ever to return to a the high hideaway
Never to evolve any higher new state
Ever to return to eternal return
Did no-one ever listen hard
To what the thinkers had to say?
They must be tearing out their hair
And wringing their hands in dismay
Ever to return to a the high hideaway
Never to evolve any higher new state
Ever to return to eternal return
I have only your memories
I tried to keep them in one place
They fall through fingers blow away
All I can keep now is your face
Ever to return to a the high hideaway
Never to evolve any higher new state
Ever to return to eternal return
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Step Back
04:50
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With every step onto the ledge
You’re marking out your time and space
You’re bringing everything to bear
On what it means and what you face
All you need to do right now
Is take a step back please and stop the race
Oh please step back please
Cause I cannot take more days like these
With every word upon the fire
You’re making every moment worse
You’ve built a shrine to infamy
And made religion from a curse
All I ask of you right now
Is snuff the flame out please and hit reverse
Oh please step back please
Cause I cannot take more words like these
With every gaze into the blue
You’re draining out your inner light
Till there’ll be nothing left of you
But broken shells of wrong and right
All I beg of you right now
Is flick the switch and bid the world good night
Oh please step back please
Cause I cannot take more nights like these
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Here We Go Somewhere
03:40
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These silences are adding up, we’ll be silent all day long
Wear black just in case, hold your head low, avoid all gaze
We never get the story told, we’re just told to move along
So what happened there, doesn’t someone know, doesn’t someone care?
One question of authority and I’m made to feel the fear
Is this going well, this grand scheme of yours, this heroic cause?
Well let me answer for you now, it’s not going well at all
‘cause the brakes have failed, it’s oblivion, we’re beyond the pale
So here we go, somewhere
Here we go, the end of the line
Here we go, somewhere, somewhere
They paid a lot to tell you lies, and you swallowed every one
Now you’ve sold us all down the drain with you, can’t you see we’re through?
Whatever world you had in mind, in your mind is where it stays
Best increase your dose of reality, till you start to see
So here we go, somewhere
Here we go, the end of the line
Here we go, somewhere, somewhere
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I Am Human
03:45
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I’ve got nothing more to say on this theme to you
We’re just going round in circles of hell here
You don’t wanna hear the words that might break you
Let’s just leave it now before everything turns sour
And into fear
Cause I am human and I’m tired of views like yours for
You’ll bring everything that’s pure
All crashing down for good
How d’you come to be the ruler of all of us
Now you’re spreading like a virus in every mind
This entitlement you feel to offend us all
Has you passing all acceptable boundaries
Well leave it please
Cause I am human and I’m tired of views like yours for
You’ll bring everything that’s pure
All crashing down for good
Now the genie’s out the bottle god help us all
I see no turnaround too soon from this lunacy
Churn the earth up for these pieces of paper so
You can be the most important fool on the scene
Who’s ever been
But I am human and I’m tired of views like yours for
You’ll bring everything that’s pure
All crashing down for good
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Looking Glass
03:32
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So now all the parasites scoundrels and thieves
Got the run of the place they can do as they please
And I’m just trying to make it to the end of the week
Cause they sold us the future and things sure look bleak
You can’t help the feeling we’ve come to the point
Where nothing can work now we’re so out of joint
Cause everyone’s dead and alive nowadays
The apocalypse moves in mysterious ways
The shining facsimile of your own face
Is beamed to the nowhere and everywhere place
And the scariest thing about the way that you feel
Is there’s no way to tell if one second is real
I’m sure we’ve already gone way past the day
That the ancients all feared when they fruitlessly prayed
We’re right off the edge of the world we once knew
There’s nothing but looking glass now and we’re through
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Overthinking
04:23
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Here’s a note to your future self
When you come around again
When you see you’re sailing by so free
Just a shimmering moment
Light as a bird way out to sea
Never seen again nor heard nor known
Here’s a message for all you
Watching the carousel revolve
Are you scared of climbing on or off?
Do you think it will take you further
Than here but later on?
Is there something you are waiting for?
For while you’re overthinking everything
You are in and of the air, you belong, you are
Simply are that’s all
And while you’re writing lines you’re scared to say
You are in and of the air
Here’s a lesson to learn or not, let us see how this turns out
For that seeing is itself the flaw
When d’you think you might start, take hold
Of this machine that’s driving you
And take action in this burst of light?
Here’s a vision to toy with while
Stars are burning inside out
This is happening to you it seems
So you may as well play along
Take the starring role the lead
You can burn onto the fading screen
For while you’re overthinking everything
You are in and of the air, you belong, you are
Simply are that’s all
And while you’re writing lines you’re scared to say
You are in and of the air
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Jeff Jepson Isle of Man
"'Artful Empires' has all of the qualities of an undiscovered classic" - Gallery
Magazine
"this man has an ear for a memorable song" –
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"mighty fine" – merseymusic.org.uk
"truly magnificent" – bbc radio merseyside
"why Jeff Jepson isn’t a fixture of daytime radio airplay by now i simply can’t understand." - isle of man today
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Delicate fingerpicking, whisper-soft delivery, unconventional, haunting songs that keep coming back.
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