1. |
An Hour Per Day
03:37
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I thought I had it solved
A strategy, an overview
when I told myself
I need this face to be for real
Back then I didn’t know
this fantasy
Had baited me
in a darkening garden
it’s hard to tell
What’s left
and where it ends
Do you see the wall?
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2. |
Happy Sad (It's a Party)
03:20
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It came to me while driving
Slipped into the wrong lane
thinking how the distance
seemed smaller in the rain
You hadn’t noticed
Pretending not to care
That driving past this grassland
Left us feeling bare
Clearly you can’t feel it
all congealing in your chest
Knowing it’s supposed to be
a party and you left
Standing near a driveway
Not sure what to do next
There’s others who are waiting
to fill the space I had
Others who are willing
To pretend they don’t care
That living with a shadow
Is anything but fair
Clearly you can’t feel it
all congealing in your chest
Knowing it’s supposed to be
a party and you left
Clearly you can’t feel it
Slowly thicken in your chest
Knowing it’s supposed to be
a party and you left
Knowing it’s supposed to be
a party and you left
Knowing it’s supposed to be
a party but you left
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3. |
Departure
03:19
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The film is black and white
I sat in a chair
and watched you try
to write a better scene
Preoccupied with something new
So you travel to a sunlit place
But the light there is also strange
You tried to quit the news
Imagined dangers
in the darkest hours of the night
Wreak havoc on your mind
So you travel to a sunlit place
But your life there is still the same
So you travel to a distant shore
But your life will be like before
So you travel to a distant shore
But your life will be like before
So you travel to a sunlit place
But your life there is still the same
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4. |
The Daylight
03:47
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The daylight
Just like the moonlight
Trapped in a moment
Dreams of the morning
Feel like a new life
Feels like an odd sound
Feels like it all could be right
The daylight
Feels like the way out
Dream of the morning
just like the moonlight
Seems like it all could
Be right
I am in between
Still solidifying
Hoping there’s more
Seems there could be more
The daylight
Just like the moonlight
Trapped in a moment
Dreams of the morning
Feels like it all could be right
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5. |
Dog
03:09
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We see a dog in the garden
where it is shot in the opening scene
and you say you don’t need to see
what’s left of the movie
You walk out
try to drown out the sound
And you’ll know that feeling’s changed again,
somehow
Looking up from the sidewalk
at the neighbouring houses
are they also small inside?
Sometimes I wonder if you want
to be here at all
You walk out
Try to drown out the sound
you’ll know that feelings have changed again, somehow
it changed again, somehow
changed again, somehow
changed again
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6. |
Talybont-on-Usk
04:08
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I said: it’s done
Drive on
The bridge will take us in
Back to teal coloured hills
I want to see everything
But you are ahead of me
keeping me in the dark
There is a fence
stay safe by staying out
All signs say the same
But I know you’re going in
Make way
I want to see everything
But you are ahead of me
Holding us back
Leaving us both in the dark
In the dark
You know you’re going in
When the drop is deep
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7. |
Perspective
03:34
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The moment I’ve been longing for all day
to draw the blinds, undress and close my eyes
to slip into the deep end of the night
Where I am home again, alone again
Swaying like the blades within the deep
pulled in by an undertow to sleep
But I can’t give in
Thinking I’m not going to surrender
to dreams so true to life
I might forget how to feel
The moment I’ve been longing for all day
I’m on the floor, alone, unseen
And everything seems magnified from here
Except for me, I’m smaller than I used to be
But it’s just a matter of perspective
Oh maybe I’m not going to surrender
Oh thinking I’ve finally found the centre
Oh maybe I’m not going to surrender
I know it’s just a matter of perspective
Oh thinking I’ve finally found the centre
I know it’s just a matter of perspective
Oh thinking I’ve finally found the centre
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8. |
Game Sounds
03:26
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Waiting to go back inside
The room is small and plain
and I don’t want
to blend in with the background noise
Wilting like the ferns on the windowsill
I’ve been taking those pills like I should
But I’m still feeling exposed
Beneath the fluorescent glow
Ask me if it’s time again
I think I’m running late
trying to find a place where I can feel at home
with nothing but some thoughts I try to make my own
I’ve been taking those pills like I should
But I’m still feeling exposed
By the fluorescent glow
Light can be so cruel
But you already know
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9. |
Tree-lined Lanes
02:53
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There’s a cold wind
Rushing through the afternoon
Bedroom walls
I hear you clear the table
washing up
I know you’re trying to believe
there’s nothing wrong
When I’m off
in space
floating
away
Waiting
In a soft haze
For a family outing
a drive down tree-lined lanes
I know you’re trying to believe there’s nothing wrong
when I’m up in space
floating
away
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10. |
Something Is Moving
02:41
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Stay still
something is moving
And I know
it’s not us this time
Here goes
enjoy your own company
I’m sure you’ll find traces of me
But there’s no space to grow apart
secretly trying to hold it together
till I find you again and again and again
I’ve been trying to hold this pose
Be still, something is moving
very slowly, creeping up on us
Play dead, perhaps it won’t notice
our silent bodies in the bed
There’s no space to grow apart
secretly trying to hold it together
till I find you again and again and again
I’ve been trying to hold this pose for too long
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Robin Kester Rotterdam, Netherlands
Drifting between chamber pop, electronic music and psychedelic rock, Kester’s experimental pop exudes a hazy euphoria and dark tension.
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