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The Biggest Hurdle
03:55
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It’s a difficult life
And the harder I try
To ignore my stubborn mind
It’s of so little help
From every corner it seems
Little voices that scream
There’s a breath of a chance
And there’s hope of romance
If I just keep on trying
But it’s all in my mind
The Biggest Hurdle to Climb
Is simply to resign
And give up on it now
It’s not there
Just forget what you’ve done
It might hurt
But it could be worse
I’m like a ball on a string
I throw myself out again
Only to be hurled back in
To the palm of a ghost
That I invented myself
And imposed upon her words
Head down as my eyes
Bounce from centre to sides
Searching for the line
A single magic divide
Between the months that I’ve tried
And where I should finally cease
And give up on it now
It’s not there
Just forget what you’ve done
It might hurt
But it could be worse
When you’ve tried so hard
When you’ve built so much
When you’ve tried so hard
Just give up
I built it up with my hands
The most ambitious of plans
But it fails and falls again
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Filling the Hole
04:20
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He is the reason, if any, I cut you some slack
Such a weighty straw
Dropped from high and with force on our backs
You rarely demanded such a high standard of man
And still I just don’t know
If you are a God to look up to
When so many cried with their adieu:
“He was the one our lord worked through”
You took all the credit he gave you
So you were the one that I blamed
If only a culprit, if only a person to find
Guilty of some crime
A target for all our vindictive minds
But nature has trumped us like currents that drag us beneath
The surface of some stream
When air as the answer escapes us
We point fingers in unknown directions
Like limbs that will flail out so desperate
In water where struggle is useless
Proving we’ve learnt not a thing
From the man whose good praises we sing
The past is containers of sand with our hands we sift through
Between our fingers spill
Grains from handfuls of moments he gave
We try so hard to hold all of them but some manage still to escape
In a windy dusty swirl
That dances on streets so empty and wide
Like the void that was left in our own lives
Sunlit but empty on the inside
With the shadows of thousands who’ll still try
To shovel in tons of that stuff
But in the back of their minds
They know that there’ll never be enough
To fill it up
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The Damage Has Been Done
04:21
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Eastern Shores
04:03
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5. |
Ton of Nothing
05:42
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Sleeping on the floor
Woken by the call
It could have been a mistake
After all, we’re so far away
From home and the morning
His voice shakes in the glow
On his faced pressed to the phone
I swear the midnight traffic sighs
On the street, through the window, outside
I’m unable to cry
Wondering if his heart was like mine
Rapid in rhythm and
Time just as he died
Oh lord, where was I?
London town, in a bed
Fingers locked at the back of my head
As I wait for time
To bring a feeling that just won’t arrive
Sleeping on the plane
As workers in my brain
Shun the truth, an embrace
That could burn up and cripple my faith
As I search for this
Discipline, like fathers to their sons
Please force my eyes
To stare into this mess; this loss of life
First Signs that you’re gone
Come like symptoms from colds take too long
‘Cause at first you never know
When something is wrong
The guards inside me
Still refuse to allow me to see
So it hits me like a ton
Of nothing I feel
With all my powers,
All my strength; it’s just no match for this
Safety Switch
It makes no sense for I have wept for so much less
I was stuck in the traffic in Rome
Feeling helpless and longing for home
But they told me I couldn’t go
I was emotional
I was 21 but like a child
I got mad and I cried
So why can’t I feel like that now
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James Parry Melbourne, Australia
James Parry lives in Melbourne, Australia and writes independent pop songs.
Originally from
Tasmania, James has performed at premier Tasmanian festivals including Falls, Taste of Tasmania, Party in the Paddock and Cygnet Folk Festival and supported such quality Australian acts as Alex Lloyd and The Gin Club.
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