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Fingerprint

by Merlin Ball

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Fingerprint 02:42
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Every single person here has a different fingerprint and Every single person here has a bellyful of sin and Every single person here is a singularity Every single person here has a bruised and damaged heart and Every single person here was doomed to fuck up from the start and Every single person here is a peculiarity Every single person here has a secret they wanna tell and Every single person here will or had to go to hell and Every single person here wants to feel high Every single person here is gonna bite the apple and Every single person here has no idea what’s happening and Every single person here wants to touch the light
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Talk To You 03:44
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A is for apple B is for the bite C the cacophony that sprang into the light D was the first chord begetting E and F and G growling on my guitar Oh yes H has aspirations I is stuck with me J is out there jockeying for lejitimacy K the silent knowledge of L, M and N A lullaby humming in beginning to end It all makes up the lexicon of all I think and do It all comes out as gibberish when I try to talk to you O is a just circle P includes the pen Q and R the same design with tails tacked on their ends S has those sexy curves breaking all the rules T is stark and holy but it’s all about U V is for vanish a fate we all must share W is for what and who and when and why and where X is for nothing Y I dunno Z or Z: we can’t agree Here we go down a road Does it stop nobody knows A descent into nothing An ascent that goes and goes Potato or potato, tomato or tomato Let’s call the whole thing off
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Everything To Me 03:45
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Now I know what people mean when they say you are everything to me Now I know what the singer mean when he sing you are everything to me I can’t believe it took so long to see you are everything to me Don’t know why you wait so long for me you are everything to me You are everything
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Rocker Fish 02:34
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Belly up to the amp Alone in your corner Your eyes are full of tears Watching all the lights A fishbowl full of tears You don’t even have to blink Belly up to the buzz The beats are in your body Oh rocker fish It’s not about the girls It’s not about the drugs It’s not even about telling stories It’s about being rocker fish Oh rocker fish It’s a beautiful sight It’s a beautiful sound It’s a beautiful feeling Through your frame It’s a beautiful sight It’s a beautiful sound And it’s going Going through your brain It’s a beautiful sight It’s a beautiful sound And it’s going Going through your frame It’s a beautiful sight It’s a beautiful sound Oh rocker fish You rocker fish
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Fade To Grey 03:48
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I have to close my eyes And force myself to remember Funny: for so long I could never forget Blonde hair, green eyes, blue jeans Black gloves and jacket and boots All fading to grey She sat under a tree Cuz she just wanted time alone And I held my ground feeding the ducks When she was ready She came back That luminous hand in mine The thrill still lingers I see your face The bright colours are fading away I see your face Everyday I see your face The bright colours are fading to grey She was waiting for me Beside the statue of Molly Malone I was alive Alive alive-oh We spent that weekend just Kicking around that fair old town I took her to the far side
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Put It Together 03:42
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Taking stock of what is Against what should have been Ain’t no two ways about it Just a feeling Just a feeling that won’t let go, no I got two in one hand I got two in the other Thought the sum of it all is Supposed to be better So why the suspicion that I’m coming up short (When you put it together) You should get four (When you put it together) You should get four or more (When you put it together) You should get four So why am I short? Must have made a mistake Somewhere in the books I gotta go back Take another look When expectations became liabilities Taking stock of what is Against what could have been Ain’t no two ways about it Just a feeling And it won’t let go When you put it together
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Sweet Lemon 04:16
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Let’s sit in the sun Let’s sit in the sun Half in the shade of a Jacaranda glade Sipping sweet lemon Gonna reach across the table Gonna reach across the table Gonna take your hand Hope you understand Admire your pretty nails Oh girl Oh my darling This love is as free as ice mint tea This love is as cool as a Bedouin pool This love is as hot as a coffee pot This love is green as a jungle scream Let’s dance together in the desert Let’s dance together in the desert Look at me down your haughty frown Standing arms akimbo And then your features soften And then your features soften You smile at me As I fall to my knees I will give you everything Oh girl Oh my darling This love is as free as ice mint tea This love is as cool as a Bedouin pool This love is as hot as a coffee pot This love is green as a jungle scream But this love This love is the thrum of a drum-skin hum
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Crumbs 04:21
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When I was a young boy I used to say my prayers To the close and holy darkness How I believed A smiling, black-haired deity Patiently attended to me Church on Sunday mornings When the other kids were playing Initiation to the Holy Mysteries A new vocabulary Of how I was unworthy To gather up the crumbs beneath this table Devils and angels Are squabbling, squabbling Snapping at the crumbs that Have fallen from above When I was a young man I tried to separate The crumbs from the ashes and the pulp So many righteous palates And too many braying mouths The crumbs were paper on my tongue Now I am older And my hair is turning grey From all the things I have done and left undone And the taste of this crumb This bit between my teeth Ashes or manna: I cannot tell
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Denmark 03:06
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Here comes that feeling … again I touched your body … you cringed Oh oh oh, there’s something wrong in Denmark Two hours later … or so You tried to touch me, I know Oh oh oh, here we go again One of us is gonna have to fix this And I swear it isn’t gonna be me This time around I’m always the repairman, well not now I want someone’s flesh And I want it now I want it now, I’m in a hurry I want it down and deep and dark and dirty Oh oh oh, if you push me away Then I’ll go Kiss me, and make your body mean it Kiss me, and make your body mean it Ah, I’m sick of messing around I’m sick of feeling down and out Feeling I am missing out On all the fun The night is over … finally The gaps of silence are widening Oh oh oh, is this the way it’s gonna be? I know you’re sorry … me too What to say? What to do? I know you well enough to know That you are waiting One of us is gonna have to fix this And I guess it’s gonna have to be me Again
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Paint The Rain 03:22
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If I wanted to paint your picture What colours would I use Yellow for your hair Cream for your skin And something for the blues A splash a dash of Passion dark and Deep down in the base A source of light from somewhere Inside highlighting your face How do you paint the rain One eye looking dead ahead A South Pacific blue The other one looking in another world The one where I met you A small tune playing On the pink of your lips And a stroke of brown on your brow The furrowed attention On your forehead When you think no one’s around This is a job for Braque or Picasso I’m in way over my head
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There's Two 02:35
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There’s two Where there was just the one of us Lying in the gloom On a Sunday afternoon Alone in my room Listening to tunes Now there’s you That makes two You came out of the blue Me and You Where there was just the one of us There’s two
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Big Hill City 04:10
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Got these Big Hill City blues Slowly disconnecting Pulling up the roots Looking high and low For something new The sky here is defined By shapes we make The ground coated with concrete Like icing on a cake I’m all alone staring at this view And I sit here by the window Thinking of a tune Yeah I sit here by the window I don’t know what it is about The days that brings me down I got what I wanted Pulled my feet out of the ground Now I’m free-floating and my head’s Stuck in the clouds I sit here by the window Thinking of you Sometimes a fanciful flight Pulls me back across the sea Where everything feels right The earth is rich and dark The sky is bright I’m pulled back to the window Got these Big Hill City blues Slowly disconnecting Pulling hair out at the roots All alone thinking of a tune About you

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A collection of songs from the Osaka days.

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released February 14, 2010

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Merlin Ball draws on many musical atmospheres to create a singular space and mood. Net result: indie-driven stuff that blazes along under sombre skies and brilliant sunrises. How do you talk to someone 10,000 years away? This is Merlin Ball's attempt.

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