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OLYMPIANS BOOK CLUB

by Olympians

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A home stop for the travellers Who need a little bit of home on tap You'll keep safe and sound here, safe and standard Running out of beds so quick Struggling to get to work on time Seems the world is your greatest friend While it's drinking your wine Talking about their lives, like it's a novel that they passionately wrote Novel that we accidentally... Stumbling from one face to the next A mirror to the world You offer me nothing but my reflection What's horrible - it works And if my hands could mould the shape of my face And re-fire in the kiln I'll turn each contour to your specification and wait on you Talking about their lives...
2.
If there be a penny left that I could borrow A lender and a borrower I may be The engine never stops, it never breaks down Hope the same applies to me
3.
I read the Dictionary and mistook It for a poem about everything I ever knew With careful training your eyes can perceive anything I saw three ships sail in on New Year's Day and tried my best to turn and look the other way We all were born young hungry mouths to feed, no end of gruesomeness withholding Holding and waiting out... Should we pass each in the street I had a violence that I saved up just for this
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Shell 02:41
She said boy, are you alright? And I said put your hand down onto my chest And hear me tick Even when I'm not around You know where I am if you put your hand To your ear And hear the sea You can take it with you when you go
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After we fixed them up the words came down and we welcomed them on like rain till the lightning struck and crushed the bow and broke us apart in two It was words that sunk our ship
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New year's eve won't be hard to remember You may not see the point but I belonged there Where the well-wishers disperse it's kind of heartbreaking Tired of making sails bellow with one man's breath One's company and two's a crowd When your heart's a vessel under permanent attack Disgusted by your very touch Each smile I contract I dare not discuss Terrified I left the kitchen light on And burned the house entirely to the ground Drunk on cheap bourbon cheap gin or something And the worst of it, I'd do it all again
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What you call her that name? Manners are so easily learned But you're always on her wrong side, yet She's hanging round at your front door What's a boy like me to do? When I speak in half-truths? It's different that way, It's easier for me now When I speak in half-truths and alone You look uncomfortable just asking It's fair enough that you'd want to know if everything's amazing, why's everyone miserable? Why do all my friends seem crushed by the embarrassingly boring lives they lead? Bedazzled by the show A life undocumented is the greatest one I know Salty cheeks Half-empty words Won't endear your heart to me You stay inside where nothing can hurt But it's more than a game to me
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Nova Scotia 06:03
Let's all go to Nova Scotia I don't mind if it's cold I just want to visit my mother Even though she's getting old We'll sit around and eat salmon with ice wine Even though they don't go We'll sit in our hut on sticks Surrounded by immutable snow Pack up let's go Where the air is clear And the water is milk And there are always cakes on the table You can wear your new pinstripe suit if you want to I don't think that's the kind of thing they wear out there You'd be much better suited to something that could withstand attack by bears Pack up let's go Where the air is clear And the water is milk And there are maps and maps and maps Of all the lakes and pine forests And there is always snow So we can fight if we want to And there are always cakes And there are always cakes And there are always cakes On the table..... I know where it is... By the waters edge...

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released February 13, 2012

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Hi. We're a band that lives in the South East of London. These are the songs that we have made.

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