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Wedding Song
06:05
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We swore to love each other
And sang underneath the stars
When I could not find the words to say to you
All night I’d play you my guitar
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And now I am at your wedding
Your husband to be was my friend
He asked me to play while you danced and drank
You vowed to love until the end
.. ..
Bound to one another
Until death wills you apart
I cannot find a word to say to you
All night I play you my guitar
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Fists
05:46
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I can only hope to die when I see her lips
I hope that I die when I touch her hips
No I insist!
That you hurt me with your fists
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She begs me but I insist
I just slide my face closer to her fist
I wait only for her to hit
It’s all I ask, it would hurt not to admit
I couldn’t take another kiss
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The Trial
05:19
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The Warm Side
06:29
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Drooling out my emptiness
I dream on the pillow of your tenderness
It is the covers of your memory
That keep me warm but have a hold on me
I sit and watch the TV it is haunting me
The ghost of our love is right next to me on the seat
.. ..
Everybody respects the dead
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Shapes that I … recognise
Just shadows in the corner of my eye
Everywhere I look
The back of her head!
It makes me wish…I was lying in your bed
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Everybody respects the dead
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6. |
The Hitchhiker
04:22
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I was a hitchhiker
I tried and I tried
In the middle of nowhere
Looking for a ride
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I was left broken
Mud in my eyes
But my trust was not broken
Trust in human kind
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I thought you were beautiful
It was so sweet of you to let me ride
Once I saw
But I went blind
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I had faith
In humankind
I was left bound and gagged
And full of STI’s
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Now I keep to myself
I stay inside
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But loneliness can get you blind
When my body is sore and my eyes are tired
When my hands pull the wheel over to the side
I wouldn’t want to be looking for a ride
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I was a hitchhiker but now I drive
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8. |
The Miner
07:05
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When I started digging for riches
It was just what I knew best
With the dark my eyes continue to adjust
My body takes no rest
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I climbed down without a ladder
I dug deep with no rope
Rumours of hidden treasures
Golden glimmers of hope
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This hole was to make me rich
Now I fear its becoming my tomb
I miss you I miss you I miss you
On beaches where the sun shone bright
I miss you I miss you I miss you
Oh I could see the stars at night
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If this shaft were to ever collapse
I want you to know
You were my dearest treasure
Never forgotten, never sold
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You know I could have loved you
You know I could have stayed
You know a miner will keep digging
And I dug myself into a grave
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Reflector
04:21
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Leaving the city I looked on down
Mirrored by the water were flowers and clouds
But beneath the perfect surface, the sharks attack
Like your smile makes me nervous, a Venus flytrap
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A well-bred beggar in tailored rags
A reflection, a reflector
A needle in the sand
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I saw you shudder when you held my hand
You are a crooked mirror
You are not like I am
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Nikko Brisbane, Australia
"Hovering between melancholic barroom balladry and thunderous post-rock, Nikko inhabit a niche in the Brisbane music scene
all of their own, a Gothic Western sound that lays the atmospherics on thick and never lets the tension slip… a force to be reckoned with."
– Brendan Telford, Time Off Magazine
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