| Midlake – he tried to escape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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With gkaram and amestheamazings corrections: he tried to escape once in a balloon he tried to escape once in a balloon on the foggiest day he decided not to stay the ground below held his wife not long ago and through the fog the ground it disappeared he felt he had made it and starts to come down a crowd of people that followed were cheering loud and then something went wrong and he couldn't get back in the air and when he landed just inside the gates the monocle men carried him away |
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| Midlake – The Jungler Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The booklet says (though 'amestheamazing' is generally correct): oh it must be over there see in the tall weeds with his head leaned by an ant hill by some water with a trumpet lightly sleeps the jungler but i'm not too sure that we'd go out like that so when we're older maybe sooner we'll take the fumes from factories to love us half important not important not unless you go for gusto maybe we could overtake him with a trumpet lightly sleeps the jungler wakes up and there goes with the gold but not all the gold safety waits in this place and when it's clear i'll get our gold i'll get our gold when we're older we will thank the jungler for all the gold that comes out our pockets |
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| Midlake – some of them were superstitious Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The booklet says: some of them were superstitious sitting with their backs facing the orchard all of them with mittens on their hands and feet were waiting there for winter thousands on the freezerail i could never join them there for them we dare not bother but couldn't help but holler yeah there's no use in hiding the joy from the bright of sun i could wait for winter better if it never comes some of them were superstitious watching them parade around the town square some of them were praising monicle (monocle) men simply cause they don't know better someone to protect them someone to keep track of them no i don't believe them i would rather holler yeah there's no use in hiding the joy from the bright of sun now you say you're leaving but leaving will just bring you down can you operate machines like that miles a day on tough terrain and grass i'm not sure if we will meet again i guess it depends on which company you're in when you're gone you're gone so soon so soon so long life it works for someone and you're someone |
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| Midlake – kingfish pies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The booklet says: the particle separation room was made without windows they say it's because someone might break in and take whatever they chose and making kingfish pies takes much longer now without any windows the particle separation room was made without tables and chairs they say it's because they don't fit in here we don't need tables and chairs and making kingfish pies takes much longer now without any tables the particle separation room was made with lots of big machinery sometimes they need us to work much faster much faster then they turn up the machines and i just can't hold on and once my hand got caught and making kingfish pies takes much longer now with my only one hand |
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| Midlake – balloon maker Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The booklet says: he was a great balloon maker the balloons were never known for speed there's no way to get speed he asked me to waste some time come out to see the sun you're all we've got but i said i think there's more of them like us and he said you might be right we'll find them in time somewhere and i had agreed yeah he was a great balloon maker then they outlawed all balloons he packed up and put his things away he asked me to waste some time chorus x2 |
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