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Swim or Sink

by Howling Home

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Dying lights in the dead of the night They're drifting off as my thoughts all do the same Like the dreams of a fever that scream in the dark All too far away, too far away to chase In the dead of night our heart starts to appear Heated by the hands we hold in our own Just the smallest glimpse of life far from here I won't let it disappear And time will melt away from here Tumbling snow by the road leads the way Rest your head and wait for another day Do you think you will miss it all? I'm missing it now Not as much as I've been missing every day In the dead of night our heart starts to appear Beating faster than we've ever heard before Just the smallest glimpse of life far from here I won't let it disappear And time will melt away from here Leave it all, Leave it all, Leave it all Take the fall, take the fall, take the fall Leave it all, Leave it all, Leave it all Take the fall, take the fall, take the fall In the dead of night our heart starts to appear Hearing nothing of the shit that we've been told Just the smallest glimpse of life far from here I won't let it disappear And time will melt away from here I won't let it disappear And time will melt away from here
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All the liars are filing into lines Just to show what they know Laughing, crying but you're carried to the bank What d'ya know? Way to go So who's the fool? When your fools rule, just Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to A cheap song, a cheap dance, a cheap life, a cheapskate's view Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to Just know that she won't dance like you think she should Queens of jungles, they tiptoe one by one It's the same old shit, but she sees through it Catching mirrors now, we're dropping from our branch And I can't get a grip, one more hypocrite So who's the fool? We're fools for you, now Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to A cheap song, a cheap dance, a cheap life, a cheapskate's view Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to Just know that she won't dance like you think she should Hey, you, you can swing from a tree, but can you dance for me? Hey, you, you can swing, from a tree, but can you dance? Hey, you, you can swing from a tree, but can you dance for me? Hey, you, you can swing, from a tree, but can you dance? Hey, you, you can swing from a tree, but can you dance for me? Hey, you, you can swing, from a tree, but can you dance? Hey, you, you can swing from a tree, but can you dance for me? Hey, you, you can swing, from a tree, and Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to A cheap song, a cheap dance, a cheap life, a cheapskate's view Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to Just know that she won't dance like you think she should, yeah Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to The primal urge of something stuck in you, so Shake, shake, shake on the floor if you really want to Just know that she won't dance like you think she should, yeah Know that she won't dance like you want her to
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Take all that you see, the sea is calling me Buy yourself a drink, I'll get mine when I sink Don't wait for goodbyes, it's not worth it anymore Don't try call me back, I'm lost far from shore You're not all I've got But I've not got much You're not all I've got But I've not got much Waves catch my feet, dragging until they bleed The gulls screech, they know I'll go down to the depths below So get out of my mind, it's not working anymore Get out of my heart, I can't tread anymore You're not all I've got But I've not got much You're not all I've got But I've not got much I can't catch a breath, I'm still not myself No I can't a breath, I'm still not myself So I'll be an arm, you'll be a chest We'll never fall in love, we'll just be like this 'cause an arm doesn't hurt, and a chest only beats We'll keep our own hearts, and we'll never bleed We'll never bleed We'll never bleed We'll never bleed
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Lost 05:35
Take your call from earth and come down just to see yourself land Speak the words that only you know and I won't understand 'cause this is hard enough as it is without you acting like you care I have walked this path but I wasn't really there Well tonight we'll fight our way through the beating of a drum I left my head in the sea but my heart's in the sun Don't look for me, I'm lost but I will find myself Don't look for you, these words they are for someone else Don't look for me, I'm lost but I will find myself Don't look for you, these words they are for someone else I am just a spinning wheel on a trailer of glass So cough me up and spit me out and leave me like you leave the past Well tonight we'll fight our way through the beating of a drum I can't find my feet but i can sure as hell run Don't look for me, I'm lost but I will find myself Don't look for you, these words they are for someone else Don't look for me, I'm lost but I will find myself Don't look for you, these words they are for someone else
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Sleepy Eyes 03:56
Im heading back Across the river to The American dream Of T.V lies and radio din I do believe I'll fit right in And I'm climbing every hill I see Just looking for some poetry But the wind it gets so strong up there Blows all my words into thin air It's getting dark out here I've nowhere to go Maybe this is the place I call home Yoohoo, sleepy eyes Yoohoo, time to rise Yoohoo, sleepy eyes Time to rise Rise and shine I'm floating down the river stream I slip into that same old dream The one where I am still a child Just let me close my eyes a while And I'm flicking through maps in my brain Old ink seeps through the thinning page And marks a map on somewhere new I'm leaving now but not with you Yoohoo, sleepy eyes Yoohoo, time to rise Yoohoo, sleepy eyes Time to rise Rise and shine I'm heading back Across the river to The American Dream Of vacant eyes and practised grins Of cheap disguise and plastic skin Computer spies and broadcast sin Suits and ties tabloid spin We're getting high and getting thin And I do believe I'll fit right in
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I found you on the ground, you made no sound And I had to keep my head from spinning, spinning, spinning all around Threw a fraying blanket, wrapped around you, a pillow stone to help you sleep But it feels nothing like a human touch and nothing like a chest to beat Darling, flick the light The dark is outside The dark is outside Well you found me and I've nothing you should expect 'Cause finding me and sleeping here's like swimming, swimming, swimming to a wreck Tried to leave a scrawl of sentiment but the ink ran out So uselessly I'll sit beside you, uselessly I'll watch you breathe Darling, flick the light The dark is outside The dark is outside It's all that I can do The dark is outside The dark is outside Half a heart's enough to break, I've seen those eyes in mirrors from the past And half a life's enough to know your clawing grip is too stretched out to last Spent the best part of a year steeped in adholescent doubt Which sticks and soon rots away any sense of self you once held on to But now no one's coming in And the dark is outside The dark is outside So, darling, rest your eyes The dark is outside The dark is outside But you're falling under, falling under now You're falling under, falling under now You're falling under, falling under now You're falling under, falling under now They won't stop pushing you out So hold this helpless hand They won't stop pushing you out Until you're gone They won't stop pushing you out So hold this helpless hand They won't stop pushing you out Until you're gone
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The Mud 04:16
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released November 4, 2016

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Howling Home Glasgow, UK

Howling Home are an Alt Indie Rock band from Glasgow. They play small songs and big songs written from the depths of uncertainty and, sometimes, hope.
They've headlined the likes of King Tut's and supported other upcoming indie artists like Flight Brigade and Chris Staples.
Their most recent work is a self-produced album 'Swim or Sink'.
Influences include The National, Frightened Rabbit
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