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Orange Host
02:33
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Start at the end of the book
It takes too long to work out who are the crooks
The host is a flame in the night
Guiding me away from the rocks and the tide
Start at the end of the line
In a station closed since the dawning of time
My face fallen into the sea
Shows itself again in a river downstream
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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New Miracles
05:01
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Lost in a box for 90 days
My soul has left the ground again
And should you need someone to blame
The world/birds look beautiful today
Flags are waving in the wind it's time to change my side again
Colour bleeds in kodachrome words will leave you all alone
And if I force a smile I'll keep the devil down
But I've lost more than I ever found
Chorus
Waiting for new miracles
To find their way home
Waiting for new miracles
That day the sentiment expired we threw it all into the fire
We lost the keepsakes and the phone
But worse we lost the way back home
And now the world is lit by light bulbs in the sky
I'll sit and count them all tonight
I smile just to keep the devil down
But I've lost more than I'll ever found
Repeat Chorus
Dropped like a coin into the sea
Darkness is closing in on me
Waiting for...
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Bodies In The Water
04:37
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There are bodies in the water there are souls upon the shore
But in houses of the future you won't find what you're looking for
There are bodies in the water upon the jawline of this coast
And if it wasn't for my missed fortune I'd be more than just your ghost
There are bodies in the water there is motion in your heart
But if you ever lose your way again you'll be dealing with the past
There are bodies in the water submerged just out of view
And as we dream of new horizons we'll find its us taht it happens to
There are bodies in the water and in the windows of your soul
The price for new technology?
Our identities got sold
Bodies...
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Low Cloud Revisits
04:21
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Low cloud revisits
Here I stand bearing platitudes
Nobody looks up anymore
And all I know will be washed away in good time
Slow down the minutes
How could you breathe at that altitude?
And when your bones they hit the ground
Did all you know get washed away forever?
Chorus
It's over now
Wood smoke delivers upon the land and into the sea
We're nothing more than visitors
And all we know will be washed away forever
Repeat Chorus
I never got the chance to tell you how I feel
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Sirens
05:09
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Throw your shoes into the sea
Show begins don't be late
Follow me big mistake
Words are blind they waste my time
Everyone stands alone
in their heart spider's go
Chorus
All this time wasted on your cloud nine
Learning to fall apart to the beat of your heart
You wear a smile that to the eye
Ran the race, came in first
But in truth did your worst
The world moved on and proved us wrong
So set sail go remote
Leave this land leave the boat...
Repeat Chorus
Warning signs those sirens that scream all night
Follow the old black line back to the start
(Four hundred day July appearing over night/If I can't change your mind well maybe I'll change mine)
I'm hearing voices I'm hearing sirens...
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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I was always so certain that I would make it back
I wasted more than these words on that
Another sainted dominion that we will never see
You wasted all of those years on me
Chorus
Lights go down, I'm still earthbound
Shaken by the passing of time
No second chance I'm in the dark
Searching for the keys to my mind
This is where the trail stops now
I can't make it back
I use to follow the North Star home
I think i started a landslide that left me on my own
Now i cant tread where the tree ghosts go
Repeat Chorus
The fuel-line split my heart got hit
Lying in the wreck of my life
Now all those things those might have beens
They've vanished for the rest of all time
Vanished...
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Fail safe, my hand shakes at the door you never should open
I returned to get burned by the last of the pale winter sun
Delete me, completely don't dance with the stationary idle
The ant king is basking in the last of the pale winter sun
His flight path is worn
Your bible got torn
Chorus
Time hold out its hand which snaps like a branch
We are unravelling
Days blur into one I have begun
Completely unravelling
A new dream to change team
And to feel something good has begun
A strange sight at first light
In the last of the pale winter sun
My memory is worn
Your patience got torn
Repeat Chorus
Time holds out its hand which snaps like a branch
We are unravelling
Days haunt like a ghost, but I'm going for broke
Curtail this unravelling...
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Telegraph Hill
02:59
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If I close my eyes they won't find us here
If I hold my breathe they will disappear
Everybody changed that day
Everybody moved away
I can't land this thing if it still on the ground
Even birdmen sing up on Telegraph Hill
Everybody changed that day
Everybody fades away
Everybody changed that day
Everybody moved away
Everybody changed that day
Everybody fades away
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Summer Is Dreaming
03:51
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(Taken from the 'Road To Nowhere' biography)
It was as if I hadn't really been there at all
I'm out there somewhere so find me
Summer is dreaming...
Things slowed down and we reacquainted with that familiar feeling of dread
All of the things that had once been on the horizon were now behind us
Despite the fact that some of the bits are almost certainly in the wrong place and others don't seem to fit at all
I wouldn't have wanted it any other way
Another human shape, I'm out there somewhere so find me
Someone is dreaming...
The sky was already burning red as we chose our hiding places
In the fading twilight waiting to be found
Everyone else is leaving now
I'm out there somewhere so find me
(Words & Music by Simon Parker)
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Damaged
04:47
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Ocean lay me down
My world run aground
Ocean lay me down
I'm not here today
I'm not here today
Daylight pass me through
My world torn in two
Daylight pass me through
My before and after
Your tears will bring disaster
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Harbouring
04:54
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Fortune smiles on me
Where the river meets the sea
On an elemental day
Crows fly south from here
There will be nothing more this year
So it's time to get alone
Walk the golden mile
Where I lit up for your smile
On illuminated wheels
Reflected in a lake
Was a half forgotten face
A clue t what I'd lost
And from that moment it was clear
All the doubts they disappeared
You must become what you love
All these things we've yet to see
They are here bathed in silver light
All those things we've yet to see
They are here tonight they are harbouring
And every chord will just play at once
As the darkness falls take my curtain call
We close our eyes as the years roll past
Now I am slowing down we're not built to last
And the only thing that makes sense to me
Is to leave this path let the moment be
Morning will come
Morning will call
All those things we've yet to see
They are here tonight they are harbouring
I gave my all
I gave my everything
(Words & Music Simon Parker)
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Villareal are based in Brighton, UK. Together with sister band Lightning Dept they occasionally make albums for people to
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On 31/5/14, lead singer Simon Parker had his first book published. To celebrate, a FREE 19-Track album was launched.This serves as a listening companion to the biog. It includes fragments of songs from school days onwards...
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