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Sweet Like a Wave
02:46
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Today I could fall in love with everyone I meet
But he’s standing here before me
I’m head over heels
Not before, not now, but somehow
You know how this feels
All possibilities coming together
My imagination’s running away with me
I don’t care I ache with a smile as wide as the sea
There are words that could tell this story
All that’s old is new
Not before, but now, somehow
You know it is true
So sensual
Sweet like a wave as it curls at the tip like a fern
Sweet like a wave as it curls at the tip
As it curls at the tip like a fern.
© MA 2007
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An empty road
The curve of the river
As the body unlatches
Release her.
Air pressure-sky is black with thunderclap
Feet leave the pedals and muscles contract.
Starting to roll, starting to sway and creak
Hip scattering like glass on the concrete.
In the middle of the road, succumbing
This sensation is building, hips moving
We’re almost there.
No time, neither fast nor slow.
She wants release - floodgates open.
The ground becomes a stream.
Almost unbearable, this vibration
Serotonin flowing down, opening
We’re almost there
The body goes into a kind of shock
Shaking gently, sailing, and rolls to a stop.
© MA 2007
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I don't wanna feel like this anymore
I don't wanna feel so bad
And it's not right that you should leave me
With so much love in my heart.
I have to pick myself and go on.
I don't wanna feel like this anymore
I'm tired of the ache and the broken heart
And it's not right and it's not ok and it's not ok
It's not ok.
So you want me to love again
You want me to move on
You want it to be alright but I'll have you know
I don't wanna feel like this anymore.
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4. |
Light Summer Dress
03:17
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One by one
The clouds have gone away
And all I need to think about is
What to wear today
It's a cool and bright day
I might wear a light summer dress
(The one with the fallen hem)
And I can see from my bed
My room is a mess
But it’s not going anywhere
I just have to dress
For the cool and bright day
I might take a walk by myself
In the nice warm sunshine
Every day it's something else
Every minute something else
Every second something else
Something else, something
It's a cool and bright day
I might take a walk in the park
By myself, by myself
Cause it's a cool and bright day
I might take a walk by myself
One by one
The clouds have gone away
And all I need to think about is
Today.
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5. |
Japanese Bones
04:01
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I know I’m ungrateful. Ungracious.
I could always spend my life elsewhere
A metallic taste in my mouth
And a smouldering ache in my chest
Spreading through the lobes of my brain
Like a disease
Flooding my system with the message
It’s time to leave
Between deep, deep water
And tall, tall buildings
Homes are on fire.
Ignorance is bliss
I’m married to my cigarettes,
And I don’t pay my bills on time.
Spreading through the lobes of my brain
Like a disease
Flooding my system with the message
It’s time to leave
After the second or third Gin and tonic
Some things are better left unsaid
Some things are better left alone
Sitting forgotten like Japanese bones
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And so I declined
04:22
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I am romantic
But I’ve still got the ring of sugar around my lips
From the last time
And once I taste the acid
My stomach makes a jump for it
And so I must decline
Pathetic, self-possessed and rude
My good intentions are misconstrued
I could get lost in your kiss
But my face is white and cold
I’m not ready for this…
I don’t think I’m in a good place for you right now
I’ve been here before
And braced myself for the sky to open
And the world to end
Run for cover
I can’t get involved with such a good person
You’ve come to close
She screams “Off with his head! Off with his head!”
See, this is how it always ends
I don’t think I’m in a good place for you right now
I don’t think I’m a good thing for you right now
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7. |
Sonar Message
04:40
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My heart song
Can you hear it?
My heart song
I can barely contain it,
Words elude me,
Confuse me,
And let me down
But the music comes
Lonesome lullaby (sails by the moon)
Across a king tide of concrete (deliver my heart true)
Calling in, calling out (to the one that I love
Calling in, calling out (to the one that I love)
My heart song
Can you hear it?
My heart song
I can barely contain it,
Words elude me,
Confuse me,
And let me down
But the music comes
Not conscious of the gravity of my heart song
Sending out a sonar message
Across the city into your room
You’ll know my heart by this song
My heart longs for you
You’ll know my heart by this song
My heart song
My heart song
Can you feel it?
My heart song
I can barely contain it,
Just me, the moon and the city
Humming along
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8. |
Me & Vivienne Leigh
06:00
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You don’t know me
But I’ve heard who you are
Scarlett O’Hara
Blanche DuBois
On my grandmother’s side
A sadness
A miscarriage
A wreck of a marriage
And madness
The women in my family have big hands
The women in my family always had big plans
Drinking and fucking
Dulls the pain
In the park
All night
in the rain
He turned a blind eye
Violence
A passion
A grief unimagined
And silence
The women in my family have big dreams
The women in my family have never ever come clean
Standing in the kitchen at King’s Ave
She said, “You don’t know who you are
You think you do
But you don’t know who you are
You can’t
You haven’t lived
You’ve barely begun to live”
At fifteen she told me
“Girl, you don’t know who you are
You think you do
But you don’t know who you are
You can’t
You haven’t lived
You’ve barely begun to live”
And I was sure that I could tell her something
I knew it all
At least I thought I did.
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9. |
Breathing
03:11
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There’s nothing like breathing in the air at midnight
But it’s the hours that will cut you down in the end
Down to size, down to sleep, down to sleep
There’s nothing like tomorrow
There’s nothing like today
There’s nothing like this moment
Yet I forget this every day
The years slip by so carelessly like pay cheques
Feel like we’re living in a B-grade matinee
Playing the fool, playing it cool, playing a part
Trying to learn it off by heart
There’s nothing like tomorrow
There’s nothing like today
There’s nothing like this moment
Yet I forget this every day
I forget this everyday
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10. |
It's a Small Word
05:10
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It’s a small word
And overused
But bigger
Than any other word
It is everywhere
It is everything
It is the atom
The molecule
The gene that says yes
The Infinite
Forever
Forever
Waiting
It is everywhere
It is everything
It is the atom
The molecule
The cell that says yes
The Infinite
Forever
Forever
Waiting
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MA Sydney, Australia
MA is singer Victoria White & composer Drew Crawford, a Sydney pop duo once described as "Bjork meets Hall & Oates". They’ve
been writing songs together since 2000, forming MA in 2005.
Victoria’s voice is her signature whilst Drew’s music is timeless and beautifully crafted. Together they make you believe in pop all over again - it's music that loves you back!
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