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Actual Facsimiles EP

Facsimile Town

​cold feet wake me up
and make me miss the way it used to be
the way you and me had the world
limitless and free
 
in this heaven we had built
we saw we had the world on a string
doesn't mean a thing
when the fire
around is burning, ooh
 
is the roof open
or on its way down?
the walls are not to lean on
in this facsimile town
 
ooh
 
lie awake and listen to the earthquake
shake me down to the core
I still wanted more than the world
offered me before
 
jealous rain beat down and raise a flood
to take me higher than I've been
the world has ever seen
but I'm scared of
what it all could mean, ooh
 
is the roof open,
am I on my way down?
the walls are not to lean on
in this facsimile...
 
is the roof open
am I on my way down?
the walls are not to lean on
in this facsimile town

Miserere


have you ever been wounded by the ones you trust
who say it’s out of love?
their words cut close enough
no way to call bluff
stand all the way up
deals already struck
oh, how to come unstuck

miserere (come find me)
miserere
find me

have you ever been woken by a thudding rain
and reminiscent pain?
perturbed while still laying
sure it’s here to stay
ties that just won’t break
if only there was a way...
​

miserere (come find me)
miserere
find me



Be With You


a friendly face to count on
is all I want, is all I want now
I’m tired of everything going wrong
going wrong, going wrong now
I’ll find a place to call my own
call my own, call my home
I’ll clear a space to fall down on
to fall on, on and on now

it’s strange the hole that’s left here now
left here now, left here now
they say it comes and goes around
what goes around comes around now
I miss you though I couldn’t tell
I couldn’t tell, could never tell
we didn’t treat each other well
I couldn’t tell, could never tell now

all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you
all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you

it took so long to get here
to get here, to get here
you don’t know how I need you dear
I need you here, just need you near
I framed the times we never had
we never had and will never have now
things to throw away but none to add
​none to add, none to add now

all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you
​all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you

all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you
all I want, all I want
all I want is to be with you 


Somehow


Verse 1:
Thunder rolling down the valley view
I’m sitting congruent and next to you
The softest touch brushes between our feet
I’m a weeping lamppost on a rainy street


Somehow you’ve come to mean Everything
Everything that’s good in the world to me
Somehow you’ve opened up
Everything
Everything that’s good in me


Lightning strikes right in
In the space that we have left between
Lighting up flashes from scenes
Throwing precious limelight on what it all means


Somehow you’ve come to mean Everything
Everything that’s good in the world to me Somehow you’ve opened up
Everything
Everything that’s good in me 


Into Your Arms


oh, those eyes
the fullest moons penetrate my soul
burn me with pure light

twigs and leaves they fall
see the branches sway
stare into the dark
as I make my way

into your arms
at any cost
and I am found
as well as lost

I closed the door
I hid my soul
now is the time now is the time


into your arms
at any cost
and I am found
as well as lost

into your arms
at any cost
and I am found
​as well as lost 


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How Many Times -Single Release

How many times

We push the limits
How many times
We quit the physics


Well, it’s too much trouble just to run with it
So, all the more reason just to part with it
And you can’t light a fire with failing flint
As you know


How many times
They stole the power
How many times
They trumped the tower


Well, it’s too much trouble just to run with it
So, all the more reason just to part with it
And you can’t light a fire with a failing flint
As you know


Martyrdom is viewed as a currency
You escape blame and blur responsibility
And the innocent will pay for the calamity
This we know


How many times
They trumped the tower

Everything Needs to Breathe - Debut Album

Forest Floor

we’d better get over ourselves
forget this twisting up
and listen
talk about your dreams

water babbling on a warm day
looks so beautiful
but, where I come from
the trees are a different kind of funky green and grey

you’re a beautiful soul
my secret toe-dance-lady
not so secret anymore

and the soil I miss
is hidden in your kiss
your love is the forest floor

so, I get easily sidetracked
with my beehive-state-of-mind
but, well, listen again
I’m falling on the forest floor

and the soil I miss
is hidden in your kiss
your love is the forest floor
your love is the forest floor
I want to lay down
on your forest floor



Dream We Had

dream we had
still beginning
in the air
still ringing

a change is in the wind
a soaring, turning thing
a rage of motion tearing at the trees

a wave is going to hit
take all along with it
and wreck the world
built for years and years

hope they had
still forgiving
in the end
still clinging

a change is in the wind
a soaring, turning thing
a rage of motion tearing at the trees

a wave is going to hit
take all along with it
and wreck the world
built for years and years



Everything Needs To Breathe

everything needs to breathe in this place

I’ve come across liars in my time
they took my place
steal my life for a dime
my breathing space

everything needs to breathe in this place

this place we all had such hopes for
we’re to leave for those who’ll follow
I fear these hopes they all depend
on how much pride we have to swallow

everything needs to breathe in this place

I’ve come across liars in my time
they took my place
steal my life for a dime
my breathing space

only the truth lights my fire
it lends its grace
so, don’t give me that shit you desire
because it leaves a trace

everything needs to...



Evening Sun

there’s that evening sun we love
for what it brings along
the gentlest breeze
it came to signify the day is done

no great plan ever formed
the moment for one has been and gone
the mornings are all the same
and tonight I’m feeling worn

could not believe the drop
I was unstoppable
til I was made to stop

here’s to morning sun
it glorifies all these comings on
I hope the evenings are not the same
cos I’m done with being worn

could not believe the drop
I was unstoppable
everybody heard the pin drop
I was unstoppable
til I was made to stop



Beautiful Being

beautiful being on the rocks
your perfect passenger
necessary frailty
means the world and more to me

glimmering water
so glad I caught her
here at the edge of the sea



Never Alone

just a thought or two
nothing less than safe simplicity
endeavour all the days in enigmatic plays
that seem to go on as before

just approaching the pinnacle of the pitiful
still, the cynical laugh
hold out a cup to fill it up, if just a mouthful
not joy, but a reason to live

if every second counts
what amount should be given?
what if we feel lost in the lives we’re living?
every step you take and every move you make
you’re never alone in this world



Lose Your Love

start our day. Get up show up
asleep, awake. No difference on a hazy day
don’t wanna grow up
run away, but time does run out

going on
worst foot forward
I do you wrong
run into a wall
I hate it when you’re right about me
especially when I’m wrong about you

if I lose your love I lose my world
if I lose your love I lose my world

colour me red and enraged
corner me when I’m on rampage
I say the words I know are most haunting
but afterwards it’s me they’re taunting

moving on all I want is
to hold you strong, far from all this
I hate it when I’m wrong about you
I love it when you’re right about me

if I harm your love I break my world
don’t wanna lose your love
it’s you I love. You’re my world



Not The Same

searching for a home
inside the house I live
wasted the hours granted me
this day will end differently

my world is not the same
your keepsakes remind me everyday
I lose my way trying to fight it
my world is not the same

a mind like a freeway junction
goes fast, will lose function
heavy rain flood the shoulder
hopes drenched under the torrent

my world is not the same
your keepsakes remind me everyday
I lose my way trying to fight it
my world is not the same

my world is not the same
your keepsakes remind me everyday
I lose my way trying to fight it
my world is not the same



Quota

words will come and go
occasionally, though
they might not easily flow
sometimes you know, sometimes you don’t


a rolling, deep and slow sound reverberating
through this concrete field of speedy paces
just past the worried faces

they haven’t got the time
haven’t got the time

glacial words flow
scrapingly go
at least they come and go
sometimes we know, this time we don’t


a poor and frost-bit soul won’t stand out
in this concrete field of speedy paces
it’s just another of the worried, this face is

we haven’t got the time
we haven’t got the time
we haven’t got the time
haven’t got the time

we haven’t got the time
we haven’t got the time
just quota no time
make quota, no life

we haven’t got the time
we haven’t got the time
make quota no time
make quota, no life

we haven’t got the time
I wanna stop the time

we haven’t got the time
we haven’t got the time



Alright

wanna rise with the sun
open eyes in wonder
many days they start
many clouds make it dark

gonna rise with the sun
these clouds it will open
many lives in upheaval
many crowds they wander

no matter how dark it gets
I’ll never give up the hope that
everything can still turn out alright

no matter how dark it gets
I’ll never give up the hope that
everything will still turn out alright

PART I – Teri Mantere & the Manta Rays

1. Innocent

Lost for words on a strange night
Everything's fine but something's lost
I want her, I need her, I fear her sometimes

Tug the cords, see which pieces move
To clear the locks from your mind, from your heart
I want her, I need her, I fear her sometimes
Looking at me with those innocent eyes

C'mon, smile free
C'mon, let go of me
Looking at me with those innocent eyes

Found the words, caught my soul alight
My body's on fire. I've got to say these words right
I want her, I need her, I fear her sometimes
Looking at me with those eyes

C'mon, smile free...


2. Bet It All

You know the feeling that you can't contain
And you hope the circumstances don't change
Here's your chance to bet it all
Greater, still, to throw away
To mind your business in the innocence of growing old
And learn mistakes as they progress

To learn mistakes as they progress
Coercion until they confess
Diversion needing to digress
Decrease and overall depress

I'd rather not dwell
Cos favouritism stole the bill
The accolades of which
Strewn around at will

You know the feeling that you can't...
To learn mistakes as they progress
Like a kiss that leads to awkwardness
Your strength defeats your uselessness
That's when crying leads to happiness


3. Questions


Why take a stand
Why take a walk
Why think: "Gonna go"
Take time to talk
Why hide
Not tell, nor show

Why love, why lie
Why live, why die

Matter of fact
Try evidence
Matter for faith
Try providence
Why fight, why still
Why rage, kill

Why love, why...

Take alone
Or take tandem
Is there a reason
For this jealousy candid
Why none, why all
I'll climb, we'll fall

To chance trust
Is not to cower
And not to wilt
Is to flower

Why love...

All those sleeping beauties
Hit the spindle
They try the bottle
They try the needle

Why love...


4. Moleskine Melody


This moleskine melody
Is jumpin' around
And my head agrees with its sound

This moleskine melody
is bouncing around
The first of its kind that I think I've found

I travelled long
Not so far
To get the tone right
To start it of light

This moleskine melody
is what I sing
Sometimes it's so good to enjoy familiar things

I travelled long
Not so far
To get the tone right
To start it off lighter than usual

This moleskine melody
Echoes back
A sudden, unexpected, happiness attack

I travelled long...


5. A Thousand Times


Perfect moments slip away
Too much intended to be done today
So, I just sat and stared at walls
Scattered cubes, window rising tall
Just gonna draw paint brushes
I'm not gonna paint at all
I've climbed these stairs a thousand times
Lost count of the accumulated miles

Careful, almost lost your grip
Two: desperate and lonely
Now, that's a partnership!
Heaven hold you in its arms
Cos your nearest friends must have missed those alarms

We made a mess of what it is
Or what it could've been
Without all those witnesses
Cover up your teary eyes
I never could handle long drawn out goodbyes
I've heard that song a thousand time

​It always seems to bring a change
Just when you wish everything remains as it is
Heaven bring you back to me
Cos I can only seem to drag my feet

Songs For The Indecisive

Song For The Indecisive

I had good reasons for my reasons 
Taking them away is unreasonable
As influence like effluent
Alarming, the more affluent
An offer to which not to acquiesce

Before good meanings turn out fiendish
Whatever it means cannot mean this
As influence like...

Meaning what is said and
Saying what is meant, and
Living what is dreamt is
All we ever meant for, anyway

I had poor reasons for my reasons
​Taking them away is not unreasonable

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Waiting

Waiting, lay here waiting for the morning
To see the first time that you open your eyes
In the morning

Waiting, lay here waiting for the morning
To hear the first thing that you say
To hear the first thing that you whisper
In the morning
Love your mornings

I want to be the first thing in your world
​In the morning

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No Ghost

No Ghost


Losing Mind

I'm not afraid of losing my mind
My mind has lost me many times
Underneath such a typical sky
Waiting for more untypical times
We need less complex ways
To solve the emotional lackaday
Nothing can cause so much unrest
Like violent indifference at its very best

These careless times are at an end
No more chasing after the wind
It's time I cared for you, my friend
So, the careless times are at an end
An ankle full of mosquito bites
Will itch the whole damned night through
Let's say my heart is an ankle
​And it's been bitten by you


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