Longer Than the Fire

by Sam Riley

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1.
Fire (Prologue) 02:37
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2.
Coffee on the Seine 02:50
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(open on a coffee shop by the Seine) Coffee on the Seine Amsterdam ahead of Paris hopped into a plane flying back and back but there is no tablecloth wrapped round your finger quite as well as me ticket stubs from all we'll never see (into memory) Ohhhhhhhh.... Floating on the Ganges Amsterdam has blocked the rapids little white boats carry me you held them in your hand... Mmmmmmmmm... (out of memory, a justification) Coffee on the Seine left you on the dockhead screaming calling out my name the only way to leave was leaving
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Red Velvet 03:27
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(the justification ends) I made you complicit in all of my crimes (I know that you can't complain) So hand me a light and I'll tell you again (About the smoke on the windowpane) I'll chase a Garden far over my head (You can join if you want) All of the questions you'll ask me instead Are over before they can start On the way to Versailles I stepped over your head Was that only a sad coincidence? Did you offer the wrong kind of cake to the people again? Crossing the channel is some kind of feat (The tunnel does not allow) Changing the channel leaves you incomplete (While the Normandy winters howl) And the philosophers all agree (That the age of the Sun is dead) On all the insignias left in the hall The velvet is flowing red If I light up a bowl would you lay by my side To look up one more time at the opulence Will you hide all the paintings before they are over the fence I only wanted to stand my my crown (I didn't know they'd be mad) Fourteen other people have worn it around Just look at the gold that they had On their fingers and toes Sewing into their clothes All the portraits and statues look on in shock When I'm paraded into the streets can I hope to talk? Can I hope to talk? Can I hope to talk... (back into a dream) Late last night I saw your face I didn't know it was commonplace To guard your words and fire On anything you see Holding up your chin abroad Would you yet believe That we were once the victors On our golden fields Hold fast To the way things used to be Hooooollllldddd faaaaaaassssst To meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (out of the dream. the world is crumbling) Starting the ride out and we have left All of the guard behind All the king's horses are eating their hay Never again will they find On the way to Versailles My head and your head Locked in battle above the parapet As we offer the wrong kind of cake To the people again Red Velvet is violent means to violent ends
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My Brother, My Angel 02:49
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(a prayer. absolution.) My brother, my angel you left before I could say hello you came back this morning with eyes on your shoulders though My brother, my angel your legs are like maples in the room my brother I know you will have to leave soon (an offering) My brother, my angel what was it all for? Don't hand me affliction and call it a cure My brother, my angel a moth on the wire... The smoke always lasts so much longer than the fire (in conclusion...) My brother, my angel you're caught up in light and I couldn't be prouder of you tonight
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Garden of Eden 04:38
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(a return to where it all began. the Garden is burned) Garden of Eden, what have you said? I laid some colder sheets down on my bed all of your shadows held me til dawn from up on the wall Trees and the flowers an ocean apart all that is left are the stones in my heart tilling the earth with my bare-knuckled fist Had we once kissed? Dew in the morning the shadow the mist... I have been wasted on someone as callous and great as thou art Hold me aloft, I'll never feel death your tongue's in my mouth, invading my breath and I could have sworn that you'd planned it all... Hold me aloft, I never will fall Mmmmmmmmmm (memory) I did not know you were there on your phone as I counted trees in the garden alone carving up branches of cedar and oak on the cutting room floor Sure as the dawn breaks over the pines the fork in my face makes me covered in lines set your own fires and start your own wars Sword in the door... Archangel Gabriel, hangover cure... I am beholden to all of my lonely and selfish designs (out of memory) Hold me aloft, I'll never feel death your tongue's in my mouth invading my breath and I could have sworn that you'd planned it all... (my brother, my angel) Hold me aloft, I never will fall Mmmmmmmmmm (a retreat. the Garden will never be seen again)
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You Are All I Can See 04:09
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(is this what acceptance feels like?) I found you in the dark of the woods I was hiding in a tree... All the leaves were red and brown you told me to come back down (a mix between breakdown and elation) I found you in the dark of the woods I was hiding in a tree... All the leaves were red and brown you told me to come back down I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home weary at the end Would you believe I was born right here? On the bones of some great spear in the lamplight secret jackknife on the lake Counting breaths and counting fire would you count out my desire? On your fingers on the barbed wire on the gate... I am not a victim busy in the system putting yet another toe into the door Were you once a mystic sacred and sadistic carving out another heart down on the floor All of my convictions soon become addictions tracing out the colored leaves upon the tree You are all I can see You are all I can see You are all I can see You're all I can see You are all I can see You're all I can see You are all I can see You're all I can see (complete breakdown) Heeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy (no, this is what acceptance feels like) I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home, I will come home, I will come home weary at the end I will come home weary at the end
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Smoke (Epilogue) 04:08
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released July 29, 2017

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