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Oh it’s you
My malevolent friend
Cutting away
Through flesh to the bone
I know you're here
You work in the shadows
Opening seams
To hollow me out
And chase all dreams away
It comes in waves
Plays a game
With darkness
I feel the weight
Hold me below the surface
It comes in waves
Plays a game
With darkness
I feel the weight
Hold me below the surface
Or is it me?
Hiding in shadow
Scraping away
My every thought and word
And all I feel
And all I know
Lost inside, lost inside
With nowhere left to go
It’s how I I feel
It’s all I know
Locked inside, locked inside
With nowhere left to go
It comes in waves
It plays a game
With darkness
I feel the weight
Hold me below the surface
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2. |
Closer
03:20
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I can feel you take control
Though I hide away
Hide away from you
No one else has got this close
Oh it’s true
Breathing into me
Now I'm alive
Your silence brings me out
And it's closer now
Than it's ever been
You say you won’t waste your time
Without a list of things that I should do
All the time trying to please
Be the drug you say you need
Run away
All the way
Run away
All the way
Under cover in the darkness
And I know the race is run
All the fucking, and the fighting
It’s over, and over again
When it comes to life
It’s better loved than lost
Every minute, every second one thought in my mind
When it comes to you
I, not love, was blind
Now I see
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Eastern Sky
03:34
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I found my dress on the floor
Are those my shoes behind the door?
Another bruise, I’ve been here before
These empty streets are my disguise
The night it slips away
Under eastern sky
I love this place
I love the strange
Metallic taste
That runs through its veins
The midnight crush
That I can’t explain
I take what I want, not what I deserve
You know the lines but I’ll ask first
So take me home
Where the river flows
These empty streets are my disguise
The night it slips away
Under eastern sky
I greet the day through eyes half blind
Newly born as a child
Under eastern sky
The night it slips away
Under eastern sky
I greet the day through eyes half blind
Newly born as a child
Under eastern sky
Under eastern sky
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4. |
Lay My Body Down
04:14
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Something is driving me
Nothing can hide it seems
Oh, from passion and disgrace
All the whispered things
You’d never say out loud to me
Always, it's what you say
Always, it's what you say
Oh, as you crawl…..across the bed
Don't think you can lay me down
Place your hands on me
And do what you want
Don't think you can lay my body down
And leave a trace on me
Take what you please
You’ll never learn the secret word
That makes it safe with me
I will not pretend that you won't pay
Every second every day
All ways, in every way
Don't think you can lay me down
And leave your trace on me
Do what you please
I’ll break you, tie your body down
Leave my mark on you
Oh, you belong to me
Always in every way
Just do what I say
Take the pain
Take the pain
Just take it away
Always in every way
Just do what I say
Take the pain
Take the pain
Take it away
Always
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5. |
Easy For Me
03:38
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You think you hold the only key
To the door for me
There’s always more
The closer you think you get
The further away I step
I hold you safe
At my arms’ length
You think it’s easy
Easy to please me - it is
It’s easy for me, easy for me
I’ll steal your heart
Pin it to my sleeve
And peel it off
When I leave
You say that you’ve never ever done this before,
It's easy for me to see what you are
Thought you knew how this ends from the start
But it's easy for me, I know what you are
It's easy for me, I know what you are
It's easy for me, I know what you are
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6. |
All The Little Things
04:15
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I can feel you watching
Watching me
What a man could never know
Is what that does to me
Oh my, oh my
Oh I try to hide
All the little things inside
Don't you want to find
All the little things inside
I need to, show you
All these little things
Can’t seem to hide from you
All the little things inside my mind
Close your eyes when you're with her
Just think of this
I don’t think I could want you more
On the tip of my tongue
I can taste the words
On your lips
Oh my, oh my
Oh my, oh my
Though I try to hide
All the little things inside
Don't you want to find
All the little things inside
I need to, show you
All these little things
Can’t seem to hide from you
All the little things inside my mind
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I Want You To Know
03:50
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I can trace in every line
The story of your life
Framed in technicolor light
Fading out in passing time
It’s a film we can’t remake
A dream we can’t rewind
Don’t fade away
Just not today
All the sacrifice you made
It was worth it
When you take the final breath
I want you to know
It was worth it
Three days you had to wait
To hold me in your arms
I was nothing at the start
You made me who I am
Fever breaks and fever bends
You turn and turn again
Don’t fade away
Just not today
I can stop the pain
Please turn back again
All the sacrifice you made
It was worth it
When you take the final breath
I want you to know
It was worth it
All the sacrifice you made
It was worth it
When you take the final breath
I want you to know
It was worth it
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Waiting For A Name
03:44
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Lying in the dark of the evening light
Waiting for a name
For my life
And I know, and I know, I know
Things might not change
But I’m waiting anyway
For my life
Then at last I found the page
I matched the place, I matched the name
Call today or late tonight
Or call you now
I can’t wait
To hear your voice
To hear you say
You and I were once the same
I shake, I can’t hide
I need to have you near
And I know, and I know, I know
I just might break
But I’m going anyway
To my life
Then at last I found the page
I matched the place, I matched the name
Call today or late tonight
Or call you now
I can’t wait, to hear your voice
I can’t wait, to hear you say
You and I were once the same
You gave me up forever
So I could live again
Standing outside in the fading light
Holding on so tight
And I know, and I know, I know
It’s not too late
Now everything can change
In our lives
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9. |
Follow You Down
03:09
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Keep me hungry keep me weak
Keep me silent scared to speak
I close my eyes and it’s too late
it’s too late
it’s my fate
To follow you down
They need blood, they need proof
She holds my hand and it's over soon
It’s hard to speak with her in the room
So I only tell them half the truth
I’m the proof
That the games you played
Still follow me now
I’m the proof
That the games you played
Still dragging me down
it’s too late
Oh it’s my fate
As a little girl
To follow you down
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10. |
Sunshine
04:54
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A crystal day through half closed eyes
Bathed in light
I can taste the air
The burning leaves
Left behind
Pull my hand to lead
Through the trees
Like a plane in blue sky you leave a trace
Sunshine
Bury my face in my sleeve
Nine, ten, ready or not
You already know the way
You hide, I seek
In the corner of my eye
Something’s telling me
We will both be found
Sunshine
You mean the world to me
Now I see where you are
So keep quiet
Make me wait
I need this moment to last all day
When I find you
And you smile
All the ice melts away for a while
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Nokomis UK
"Anna Nokomis wrote her debut album "In Waves" in collaboration with producers and songwriters Mike Marlin and Danny Monk. Anna is both defiant and vulnerable as she sings heartbreaking and beautiful songs on life, love and loss."
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