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Time Machine
04:22
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Somebody find me a time machine
Went to the end and I can't get back
Somebody find me a time machine
Got myself trapped on the wrong wrong track
Must be a way to get myself home
Somewhere somebody wants me to be
Must be a way to get back to the start
Just throw a switch and I'm in the trees
Could I get over her
Could she get over me
Till time betrays us both
Till we're crushed like a stone beneath the sea
Could I break lines of time
Till all who lived are alive
Would my own judgement day
Send my ego into overdrive
Somebody find me a time machine
Went to the end and I can't get back
Somebody find me a time machine
Got myself trapped on the wrong wrong track
Somebody find me a time machine
Got a few things that I need to fix
Somebody find me a time machine
Memory's playing the cruellest tricks
When I rewrite myself
There'll be no idle time
No shame no guilt no tears
I'll be true to myself and in my prime When history's improved
We'll all be peaceful souls
And only happy endings
And everyone has a starring role
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Here Comes Trouble
04:00
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Here it comes, trouble in a heartbeat
Here's another siren song to avoid
Better prepare yourself
For the storm that's coming ashore
Dry land's going out of fashion
Everywhere a sea of trouble for us
Whether to climb that peak
Or just dive in deep I dunno
Here I come tripping over teardrops
Living every awkward moment for you
Waving a handkerchief in the face of grief
And I don't buy this laughter for a moment
Cause nothing ever can be funny again
As long as the clowns are running the show I'm staying in bed
I'm diving under cover now
I'm hiding in the dark I won't come out
I'm diving under cover now
I'm hiding though I know I will be found I know
Oh the world will find me out
Here they come, better find a safe place
Cause there'll be no-one left to stand up for you
When they have finished with the poor souls at the front of the queue
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Didn't See It Coming
04:10
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Round here all the wasters rule the game
Setting all the dreams in motion
While they watch us fighting in vain
Well I've had my fill of every day
I'm getting the hell away
Oh it surprises me as well
How we find ourselves defining
Where on earth is heaven or hell
Well I don't give a damn anymore It could be either or
Well I never
Didn't see it coming did you
Didn't see it coming till it was all over the news
Didn't see it coming did you
Didn't see it coming till I had nothing left to lose
You made the right decisions again
Carving up your realm to suit you
While we're down here taking the strain
Well I've had enough of all your shit
I'm getting away from it
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Dream Eye Open
04:22
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Dream eye open, is your dream eye open
Is your dream eye open to it all
All these apparitions here want you to see If there's a meaning undefined
You might fail you might fall
What can you see before you
Henry had a dream in mind
All instead, all of the ghosts around him said
Dramatised what survived
Keeping him dreadfully alive
Posing the question is your dream eye open
You don't need the desert to be in tune
You need the stillness in the room
All the blue passing through
Making the sparks inside you
Here it happened all for me
Turning into whatever language used to be
Meaning waves breaking through
Washing the walls inside me down
So now I ask you is your dream eye open
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Safe
02:21
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So here I am and fate is on loan again
Time has lost all meaning for you and me What could be safe to say
On these long days
Where could be safe to stay?
Well I made a mountain of work for myself
And now I'm taking control of it
No excuse to be lazy anymore
No excuse to delay
So on on outside all inside
Until you've served every purpose and
Don't be scared what you say
On these long days
Don't be scared where you stay
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Oh Hello Oblivion
02:38
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The things that you see when you're sat at the bar
Will make you wonder where the hell you are
The things that you say when you've drained every drop
Will make you wish just for once you could stop
Oh hello oblivion
I see you to smile and wave hello
I don't ask how you are cause I don't want to know
I'm keeping my head down as long as I can
Freezing the world out sounds like a plan
The things you read when you follow the crowd
Will make you wish for a head in the clouds
The things you see when you come face to face
With yourself in disgrace
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Golden Bough
02:02
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No more orders, do what you want from now
I won't guide you, rules are deceiving you
Sparks of daylight creeping around you brow
Dreams of freedom haunt you I think it's true
The golden bough was a bible for you I recall
Still belief is a reason to fall
Troubled world oh tell me one thing that's new
New is where we go when the water's high
We're still burning ribbons of warming blue
I just want to live once before I die
This book told you to do this in honour of me
You didn't notice your mind was still free
The golden bough was a bible for you I recall
Still belief is a reason to fall
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Harmony
02:55
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The essence of all things
Is in this ever elusive sound
You cannot place your hand
Upon or over behind or round
I will just make these things yet never understand
The fleeting ghost that flies straight from my voice and hand
I can but hope one day harmony will be the only way
A language never known
An air to breathe for the life inside
A dark creation soul
The makes me want to go out and hide
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Embers
02:49
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Autumn owns you, you slide into her arms
Through the grey trees you walk away from calm
Twilight curls round the smoke as you succumb
To every fire that burns inside you
Creepers twine round your feet as you strive on
The oldest oak knows your story's not begun
Embers fade till you're older than the sun
And every fire has burned inside you
Winter finds you the pines are looming low
Broken trails take you where you should not go
"Please come back now" says everyone you know
But every fire has burned inside you
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If Only If Only
03:25
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What was the question again? I'm miles away
Not in my own head
I saw a face on the stairs, haunting me hard
Showing my half life
I found myself in your house
Summoned alone, what was the reason?
In between states of alive
I saw through time, rewrote my story
If only if only I could be where
The turmoil is all over ever more
If only if only I could be sure
Where you'll be when the curtains will close
The cursed day ends, the sun never rose
For you're who I chose
I felt your hand in the night
Reaching for calm, finding confusion
Burned hot and cold by your flame
'm wide awake, spinning in silence
I found myself in your life
Been here for years, no explanation
Just like a movie I'd seen
Or did I see, a story I'd been
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Please Note
02:55
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Please note, please note, your time with me is temporary
Please note, please note, the world is everything that is
Please note, please note, this all will end eventually
Please note, pleas note, this all will fall
Never saw myself taking a stand like this
Who am I fooling though? Is this changing anything?
Thought you'd see the circus for just what it is
Instead of another clown
Distracting us from all that's plain as day
This thinking that will steal your soul away
You're lost to me for now it's sad to say
Signed my name a thousand times then vaporised
Into the ether where I can get some peace of mind
Have to get away from where you're coming from
All of the daily lies
The rivers of pollution sweeping through
The remnant of a conscience left in you
Till disconnection is all I can do
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Steer Me To The Kerb
03:29
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Steer me to the kerb I need to pull over
Take a little break from what you said
Can't believe you'd burden me with your secret
Can't you find another fool instead?
I'm walking alone from now on I know
Free from any weight dragging me below
Please don't let me hear poison from your game
Please don't let me be someone you could blame
Pines sweeten the dark, I see back in time
Freedom with the fear, I could dare to find
Stars only remind how little I have seen
Still further from you is keeping my heart clean
Still using the lake the requisite motif
I'm still not at ease, shaking like a leaf
Hit me all at once - is this still my grief?
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13. |
Raindust
01:19
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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" –
anotherlatenight.biz
"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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