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Before the Sharks

by Cow Parade Cow

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1.
Koryak 03:53
Cut our tethers, change forever You're the third pathetic bird to nest outside the giver, Long cool machines from new Orleans swim up and down the river Holding me down Mincing round the violent ground These drugs are pure Others hiss, too young to miss Minus one this christmas Come downstairs and make me move Make me move My friend, you're not dead You're nothing, you're nothing Cut our tethers, change forever
2.
God bless this morning, God bless this chance i've blown She blew smoke in my hair She blew smoke into my nose Can't move from the seaside Can't leave her barely clothed Sunburnt and soft and wild Full-lipped and fully grown We won't go gently To a resoundingly dull dawn Bathe me in sun, sunshine Barefoot on white hot walls Bright eyes and your bed hair To mask your mind i'll moan it God bless perfection Full-lipped you're fully grown Coming down with your mouth open Feels good to be alive
3.
It would be so easy to leave it all behind It would be so easy to leave it all behind We don't have trams like this where I come from Fill the endless summer, unburden my heart Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling Standing on this sidewalk cause this house is a lie Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling Words sound familiar but too sentimental Heard you lost the passion, so please fall be gentle Freckle faced lover and dead motels in control I got plans, I got plans, big plans to be sold And I got a feeling it's gonna be this time Sit in a harbour until dawn Waiting to turn the camera on Feeling strong Fill the endless summer, unburden my heart Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling Standing on this sidewalk cause this house is a lie Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling Breathe billboards with lifestyles and formulas for time Echo beach posers form kodachrome straight lines Sandwich board man alone waiting to be told Lease the sunset and make sure the coast is sold I got a feeling it's gonna be this time Does it feel better Fighting the things that keep you warm Well it's a start Fill the endless summer, unburden my heart Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling Standing on this sidewalk cause this house is a lie Come down, we're building an asteroid We're building a larger thing, darling
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I'm here to tell you that if I gave you love i'll take it back All the nights of dancing to the knife An extra-ordinary life In a morning dress, never took comfort in happiness Just watched the pretty girls go riding by And mocked the ordinary life I'm gonna take time to take it slow I'm gonna make you mine, i'll make it slow Got the backbone but i'm scared Got my lover, she's standing over there But she's a cold bitch Told me she never really liked music She just fucks the boys that make it It's a little easier to be A beagle personality I'm gonna take time to take it slow I'm gonna make you mine, i'll make it slow Got the backbone but i'm scared Got my lover, she's standing over there I'll live with desire and learn how to be fun A shadow we'll turn turn toward the sun Because everyone's lost and forgotten it's true But someday I think i'd like to be forgotten next to you Next to you In an ordinary life In an ordinary life That's all
6.
Dive 04:15
Top of the big town, I beat the brain down Couldn't care if you call I'm a lover now, I'm a lover now So hard to remember a harder November Lying in wait for the fall I'm a lover now, i'm a lover now You make it hard to be gentle, you make it hard to be loved this way You make it hard to be held close, you make it hard to be held at bay Make feeling seem so appealing I put a foot through the ceiling Ignore the wallpaper peeling I'm fucking sick of just feeling dead So get out of my head Top of the big town, I beat the brain down Couldn't care if you call I'm a lover now, I'm a lover now So hard to remember a harder November Lying in wait for the fall I'm a lover now, i'm a lover now Dive in it's warm You're meant to be suicidal, you're meant to break on this world somehow You're meant to say something worthwhile, cause they're all listening right now Make music seems so appealing, Rip a hole through that ceiling Ignore the exstacy reeling Bask in that vanity, feeling good I'm feeling good Now i'm Top of the big town, I beat the brain down Couldn't care if you call I'm a lover now, I'm a lover now So hard to remember a harder November Lying in wait for the fall I'm a lover now, i'm a lover now
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I don't want you in my life You've got a lot of nerve to be so wounded You've got a lot of nerve to be so hurt when I know it goes away with time So there's no need to shout it out It always goes away with time Running down a comedown hard Let it roll And take control You and I don't want you in my life I don't want you in my life It's hard to break silly words to fake There's no mistaking my mistakes When it all wears thin, give me lies to sing I'll miss nothing, i'll miss nothing You've got a lot of nerve to be lovely You've got a lot of nerve to talk so smooth when I know it goes away with love It always goes away with love But i'm on a comedown now Before it all gets back to war You and I I don't want you in my life I don't want you in my life It's hard to break silly words to fake There's no mistaking my mistakes When it all wears thin, give me lies to sing I'll miss nothing, i'll miss nothing
9.
Hope you had a nice time screaming and fighting it all Idols and egos alive staring just to ignore The shining through his eyes Never asking why Carried out in black-wrapped plastic, a bookend of sorts Breathing is nothing and nothing can ever be yours I'm real, i'm tangible Guess i'll love you all Sun, light up the street And get ready for the new me
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Dreamers Had 04:42
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Come out, baby come on out I know it's late but I need you to come out Thrown from my big sky Hurt and lost and tired Come on out Rip out the red dead season And forget Hollywood tonight If this madness eases We'll leave the freeway to the night Outside, the cities' alive Summer fights the northern lights, this freeway's alive Laughing's easy, warm and loved and free Come on out Rip out the red dead season And forget Hollywood tonight If this madness eases We'll leave the freeway to the night We'll leave the freeway to the night We'll leave the freeway to the night For the night
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Hazel 04:17
I was there I was chasing the hare when the pendulum swung When the ducks left their bread for the mountains instead Didn't hurt anyone We'll return to our tents and our dreams of comfort and victory Where we'll fuck all the time and drink so much wine I'll convince you it's me Meanwhile out on Bear street a cool indifference stays her hand I'm not looking for an answer now Only looking for a way to kill the cold I'm not trying to build an empire anymore Cause it'll only die when we grow old Are you looking for the real thing Or could you settle for me and a store bought love Now this world's a bigger place that I could give it credit for The more I look at you it seems the less the rest of it means The more I look at you it seems the less the rest of it means Meanwhile out on Bear street a cool indifference stays her hand I'm not looking for an answer now Only looking for a way to kill the cold I'm not trying to build an empire anymore Cause it'll only die when we grow old Are you looking for the real thing Or could you settle for me and a store bought love Now this world's a bigger place that I could give it credit for Hazel I'm sick of chasing fantasies I'm sick of taming melodies Out in the garden Hazel I'm sick
13.
Indian Blue 05:27
Somewhere out, past the part-time lovers and the leeches There's a feast, there's a festival waiting for me The sharks made sure it burns So hold me tomorrow when it turns Or just sit and stare in wonder for a little while Through the trees, a cannibal harbour just seethes And it breathes, as it crashes alone on the beach To the edge of the pier when the lightnings lighting up the defeated night See it might understand what you came here to do The indian blue The indian blue It's easy, the glassed mornings of summer and heat After the sharks've received their marching orders from the street The only way to own it is to love it when it hurts To sit and be scared and be lost as i'm thrown into The indian blue But i'm scared that you're over me I didn't take that so easily I'm the parade And you're all that I have now I'm the parade You're a parking lot star To see the miracle you are Now i'm hoping that my hope won't go away I'm the parade I'm the parade I'm the parade I'm the parade

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Third album from the bedroom recordings of Perth's Cow Parade Cow

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released June 22, 2013

All songs written, arranged and mixed by Mike Litton

Mastered by Simon Struthers at Forensic Audio, Leederville

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/ Perth via Melbourne // Bedroom recordings with friends // Cathartic Moist-Pop // 7 Year hiatus ending 2020 /

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