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Distances Are Great

by Sleeping States

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I sat outside today Catching my face in sun Watching my breath escape Thinking of somewhere warm I saw you yesterday Now you are somewhere warm You thought these distances Were just a game to me See you in 19 days I heard you saying so But all these short goodbyes Aren't making sense themselves I'm going to set things out There's a sea change for me I've known for 19 days How things are going to be So I have one request Think of it as a game The space from you to me Now since I've thought it through I've finally figured out Where I would like to be Where you will find me now By the time you hear these notes I will have packed and gone I'm trailing river banks And climbing mountain tops And scraping desert sands And sailing clear blue seas No this is not goodbye I'll see you soon sometime
3.
Though I don't see you as much as I'd like I'm glad I've got what it takes To keep you in my sights As I think of older times with you And it won't always be Yes I will find my way To your house on the hill And you'll be saying how you miss me in your life And we'll talk of older times And you'll be talking to me And I'll be saying the things that I've wanted to say And it will always be Yeah I will find my way And you'll be waiting for me Or is that another pipe dream?
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You can't lie to me I saw you laughing there By my hands I did Last night I saw you walk Through the street Down the stair This morning I saw you at the kitchen table With a ribbon round your neck Next time you see me Say hello to me
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And you told me it would be fun I remembered it had been fun So on Sunday we took a map I didn't know where to go But you said Past the castle and through the park I know you feel slow But I hope you sleep to dream tonight As we passed through London Fields On our way to somewhere You said This isn't right It's not the same Is it though? Is it though But you'd been happy here before And we saw boys hitting out With the sticks they found When we left you whispered low This isn't fun You said This isn't fun Do you still think it wasn't fun? Well, I had fun
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I've got a question When you say you're living on roads How do you sleep at night? Which stars do you see? Climbing up hillsides To get your perfect picture right Makes me happy to know you and your strange ways
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Sing my love sing Sing my love Let me take you in my arms Take me sometime
9.
Warm my hand take it in yours And we'll wander at night through the streets Warm night time is a nice time To be walking farthest from the sea Think of times when you walked these roads By the Rec, the lock and the stream Show me some of your thoughts on what you have seen Take this letter I wrote you It's a promise to get you to smile About the times when we lived here And I know you'll talk about it for a while Here's a scene where you walked these roads By the Rec, the lock and the stream You gave me it as a gift but I forgot what it means Warm night time is a nice time To be walking farthest from the sea Though you're no longer here I hope you'll always come here back to me
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Next Time 01:40
And disaster strikes As we fail to talk about the subject And I've made a mess of it again I hope you want to sit down and talk it over But before you go, let me tell you about the situation Firstly, I've seen this before You're prone to come and go Over summer months I hope you Find a place to call home Next time there's a home You won't have to go And I'll see you throw back your head And laugh as before
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A Surprise 03:36
I see a night And it starts in my eyes Blankets my sight Take it from me I've watched you there Catching songs from the skies So if you see me look down Shake it from me And those words that you've spoken Have never been broken And I keep those words here with me now And I listen to them once in a while They keep me satisfied That you're out there doing well And I know I'll see you soon So I'll wait I've seen a light And it starts in your eyes Here's my surprise Take it from me
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Petite Soeur 03:59
Forget today, filled with rain Tomorrow's going to be a funny day I've thought now you're grown and you're gone Lost in your mind Do you ever really think of home? Forget today, filled with rain Tomorrow's going to be a funny day When you've got some time alone Remember I've got a line for you Yeah, love is not simply what you say or do It isn't simply what you say or do Yeah, love has a funny way of showing it You've got a funny way of showing it

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The first Sleeping States album.
Originally released on CD-R, September 2004.

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released September 1, 2004

Written and recorded by M Starkie, 2004, except track 6, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

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